[OPENING] island hub - day 1

[spellbindmods]

Who: All Characters
Where: Main Hub
When: Day 1
Open/Closed: Open to All

TDM threads can be considered canon if you so choose, they contain the power that you apped with and both parties confer that the thread is canon.

For characters that were on the TDM and who were not accepted/didn't app, these characters will be considered dropped characters that were magicked away.

Night has fallen upon everyone. It's thus far been an eventful day -- you've met some new people, discovered some new aspects of yourself that weren't there before you appeared here (however that might have happened). The original inhabitants of the island have been working hard to prepare a few things. One activity might have been one you were a part of, but there's still time to get your hands dirty. A ▢ Brie has rolled out a large copper pot and created a pit on the beach. It's unrealistic to think everyone can subsist on the few foods she's collected from other words and boar jerky alone. She's got a few boar carcasses sitting on the beach that need attending to as well. Your characters can help feed themselves and others, and here's what needs to be done: Fire needs to be started for cooking the meat AND a large bonfire for light and warmth. The large copper bowl needs to be filled with water. Crabs need to be bravely collected from the bath house for boiling. The boar needs to be either cut up for kebabs or stuck through. Does your character know anything about spit-roasting? Any other helpful magical skills are welcome to help make food. Post feasting, there are dozens of crabs and a pile of roasted boar meet that are up for eating. Even if you didn't offer to help in making any of the food, they're open to eat it -- even if the true helpers may give you dirty looks. The boar is fine, if not a little bland and chewy, but it's probably better than the jerky. The crab is delicious, if not a little tasteless...there problem with the crab isn't exactly the taste, though. B ▢ The crab isn't a species that's immediately edible for most species, though your character will grow to get used to it eventually. For now, the meat isn't settling well within your character's system. Your character will experience sweats, a high fever, blurred vision, potential vomiting, hives...it's very obvious their body is rejecting the unfamiliar meat. This may also cause a bit of an issue with your character's powers. They're still getting physically and mentally acclimated to these new changes, so expect their telepathy and magic to go a little haywire.

It's almost completely dark outside when the next event of the evening happens. You're living your life when you see it out of the corner of your eye -- it's absolutely hard to miss. What you see is a large lit caravan, larger than even an army tank. It's bright white and shining, covered with golden, ornate details that emanate an even more dazzling sparkle. The entire thing is aglow, and it's quickly coming towards the large bonfire that's been made. It's not rolling across the sand, but instead it's floating, and so is a matching trunk that's sailing along next to a figure beside the caravan. C ▢ A tall, slender woman has also come along with the large caravan, quickly opening the trunk that eventually lands on the sand with a large thud. She's handing out sacks, very similar to the ones previously in the large lobster cage. These contain a parka, a type of candy of your choice, a bottle of water, a large shard from a broken mirror and a letter rolled up and bound with a roll of twine. There are two other thread options associated with this prompt: Genette's top level and her telepathy training post. Around the same time as Genette is handing out this new little goody bag, you suddenly receive a telepathic message. It might seem a little strange at first -- but on that note, what about tonight isn't strange? D ▢ The telepathic message your character will receive is a simple one: Hello. It shows up in text form across your character's line of vision and it doesn't go away until they respond back, though the message that's sent out won't go to the original telepath. Instead it will ping pong to a random person in the group. You've made a new friend! After you've met Genette, she's also got a few more supplies that she pulls out a small door in the base of the caravan. She's insistent that you only get two items, since there aren't exactly a lot of them to go around! E ▢ The last of the starter supplies are being handed out, and these are items that are more cumbersome or rare -- they may not be immediately useful for your character, but maybe you can make use of them somehow, whether eventually in another world or with your power. An electronic/technology: these can be as obvious as an MP3 player, as useless as a garage door motor or as scandalous as a Hitachi Magic Wand. If it can be powered by electricity or batteries, there's a tub of them. They're also partially charged if they don't need constant electricity to work. A fashion accessory: there are a lot of these, surprisingly. Flower crowns, belts, bras, shoes, earrings, other types of jewelry. Your character can look cute while suffering from crab vomiting. Books and stationary: maps of various worlds, books written in a myriad of languages (maybe even one you recognize!), writing paper, ink pens, gel pens, stickers. Any kind of stationary can be found here. Other household items: this can include cleaning supplies, furniture, and other miscellaneous goods. These won't be personal affects from your character's home, but they may be useful! Feel free to come up with unusual or alien items -- these have come from all over the universe, remember!

As the night winds down, it's recommended by Brie that you should probably go to be in your hut -- or at the very least get somewhere inside. There are a lot of people around the camp, however, so it's no surprise that there are a few people waiting around to get their fill of food and supplies before heading to bed. The noise of the new members and the light of the fire have attracted a very large pack of boars, who you'll later find make routine trips to the beach every night. Boar mating season has made the wild hogs rather testy, and the smell of food -- even if it's their own boar brethren -- have made them even more volatile. F ▢ If your character isn't quick to get inside tonight, they're likely to get a boar charging at them. The chances are doubled if they happen to be holding onto a food item. Female boars can leave a few bruises and trample you, but beware the males -- they've got tusks. However, it's not like staying up at night doesn't have its advantages. Once midnight hits, another species of animal makes its regular rounds across the base camp. In the sky, characters can see an Aurora Borealis-like sight. Instead of being dancing green and blue lights, however, the reality is that they are a massive species of space worm, and hundreds are wiggling past on their way to travel back home. They're shimmering and in every color imaginable, lighting up the sky with their magnificent hues. G ▢ The space worms operate outside the natural barrier of the hub, but they still are in close enough proximity to shed a film as they travel. If you're still awake, boars or no, you'll be in the middle of a shower. The film sheds from the worms and enters the atmosphere, creating multi-colored, sweet-smelling mists of worm water vapor. Worm water vapor is kind of weird, but it's also pretty cool. It's also calming, and that's a bonus. Inhale too much and you might become a little too calm.

Comments

[rebells]

And that's sufficient reason for you, is it . . . .

[rebells]

And whose power is to merge bizarre objects together?

[Though he has a suspicion.]

[cadventuretime]

Killjoy.

[soulcomet]

I'm glad to hear you're feeling better! Let me know if I can help you at all.

I can heal a little bit, but I'm really not very good at it! I have a lot more practicing to do.

[rebells]

It's not something you can learn through training, then?

[rebells]

Probably. We would need to have a baseline to measure deviation, at the very least. It was just a thought.

[cadventuretime]

Psh, that's because you come from a place where there were thousands of people all in one spot. [Anyone would be lost in a place like that.]

But sure, fine, you're boring. A total snoozefest. And there's absolutely noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo way that you could ever be anything but that. What with all this talk of magic powers, and other worlds, and everything else going on.

[The smirk gets wider, but she starts to gather up her stuff to move on.]

But if you ask me, it'd be more interesting if you stayed not interesting.

Well, until you became boring. Hehe.

what a cute egg...

[pussywhips]

[ Maybe she's still a little worked up over the crabs and their resistance to her (overwhelming) allure, but she turns on the newcomer with a thunderous expression. ]

Hey!

[ Those were her crabs! She was thisclose to charming the heck out of them—that one was totally about to swoon and now it's scuttling away! Okay, maybe not... seeing the smile on this guy's face just makes her sigh, her shoulders slumping in defeat. He was obviously just trying to help. ]

Sorry... I'm fine, I just can't get it to work! [ Explanation... not forthcoming. She just tugs on her pigtails and frowns at the crabs nipping at his ankles. ]

[pussywhips]

You're from the States?
I lived there for a little while when I was a kid, though it's been a long time.
Right now I go to school in Tokyo.

What is Texas like?
Do actual cowboys live there?

[splinten]

[It would be nice to see more of Dave's comics. Dirk hesitates, unsure whether or not that's a safe place to go, a safe thing to want or ask for. He feels like he exists on quicksand with Dave. He just doesn't know.

He can answer the other question more readily, but he's surprised to hear it. John must not have known.]

I watched them all, yeah. My Bro died four hundred years before my meteor landed. Same with Roxy's Mom. Me and Roxy arrived long after the party had ended.

[They never met their guardians. They never knew them. They never got to truly understand them. They were grew up in the detritus of a dead civilization, daydreaming that the front door would open to someone who was never going to come home.]

[pussywhips]

I think it's probably universe domination right now, right?
I mean, the letter said something about the fate of the universe and all...

I go to school at Shujin Academy!
This is so cool... we might've passed each other on the metro without even knowing it!

[ofthedemiurgescomposition]

"If you knew anything about me, well..." [It's not conscious that he does it. In fact, the moment he does it he stops, and so it only flashes in her vision for a brief moment. He is thinking about why it happened in the first place, but even so, it has happened anyways. Joshua vanishes, and there is someone else in his place, a different man.

[It was him, in his form as The Composer.

[And unconscious manipulation of her perception, brought on by his mind drifting. Even so, he finishes his statement anyways.] "Then I'm sure you would realize I'm just a normal human."

[cadventuretime]

[Now in all of her travels, Rotty has seen a lot of things. She had seen the return of the Pirate Lord, been a part of the zombie caravan, and even helped Hypno Baron summon the BEING OF UNIMAGINABLE HORROR, but even that made her ill-prepared to what... this was.]

[Truth be told, she was having difficulty just making this out. So, instead, she just sort of half-listens, mostly-focuses on making sense of the young guy that just wanted to clutch tightly to his flashy accessory.]

Uh-huh...

Just a normal human.

[ofthedemiurgescomposition]

[For a while, he just stares back. Not really blinking, not really have any sort of expression on his face. Eventually, he responds.]

"...Okay I can't play it off can I?" [He sighs, letting his arms drop to his sides. His eyes are closed, and there's silence once again. Then he bursts out laughing.] "Of course I can't. But then again, do you really want to know what you're dealing with?"

[windeity]

i do not think we really had time to think of a name.
there was sort of a lot going on back there.

[And if it had a name John really wasn't paying attention, whoops.]

aren't they crabtivating

[pussywhips]

[ Don't look at her like that, Akira... it's not even that they're well-trained—they just don't want to leave her side. Ever. It's going to get a little awkward once she starts throwing them into the pot of boiling water. Sorry, crab friends.

Still, it's nice to hear him laugh, especially in a place like this. It reminds her that they're not alone, and draws a small smile from her in spite of her impatience with this power of hers. ]

You think so? [ She's sure he meant it as a compliment, but... her smile fades a little. ] We kind of don't really have a choice, do we?

[parodeity]

It is a genre of music? Also I do not think my MP3 player can talk to people in Sweden. Firstly because it can't transcend space and time, but also secondly because all it does is, y'know, play music?

[parodeity]

A'ight, I can do that.

[ ...KIND OF. IT'S...SORT OF SIMPLE LOOKING? so it will be a somewhat accurate rendition of a pokedoll, but maybe a little lopsided...as soon as his marker finishes tracing the markings, the lopsided pokedoll is real and there. ]

[parodeity]

It's mostly a case of the world endin' when new people pop up.

[splinten]

[A frown hints itself in his brows.]

Evidence points to the contrary. That present you built for John was pretty damn impressive.

[parodeity]

yeah i am
whereabouts in the states did you live?

haha some do
im not a cowboy for the record though
all i got is an accent
im a pure city boy otherwise

[pussywhips]

Yeah, I got... charm.

[ She sounds pretty disappointed, her shoulders slumping in defeat. Why did she have to get such a useless power? Like, what is she going to do with it, charm people to death? She'd much rather have something that lets her blow stuff up or take any enemy out in one hit. Now that would be cool. ]

[splinten]

Anything that can fit in it. If I can make it work. The limitation would then be how many batteries we have.

[If he can't he is going to work out whether or not he can fully conceptualize 'low batteries' and destroy that with magic. It's rough, buddy.

He might be better off working that out eventually.]

[p_mortem]

[ THEY SURE ARE DOING THIS

Minato gives a short nod at the promise, not thinking to ask just how, exactly, Haru plans to be able to protect him from the boar in case something happens. He opens the door just a crack again, this time slipping his sword through and slicing upwards through the air for the boar to back off— it does, and Minato takes the chance to fling the door open the rest of the way, rushing past the boar to lead it away from the huts. ]

[dangerouslyinlove]

[Hmm... maybe he deserves it a bit, though.]

What about you? I guess you probably see it very differently than I do...