[OPENING] island hub - day 1

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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

[p_mortem]

[ Hmm. No. Minato looks more confused now at agi, then disappointed, then disinterest as he turns his attention back to the boar. ]

I like zio. Shock increases critical hit chance.

[ Agi sucks, there's no status change. ]

[actus]

[ wow, rude. akira can't help the tiny grin that tugs on his lips. ]

Ah... status ailments are good. It's easier to get them all down.

[ he's far too intrigued now. ]

Bufu sucks, honestly. [ sorry yusuke. he doesn't like the cold. ]

[p_mortem]

[ Amusement shows in the way Minato's shoulders lift in silent laughter. Bufu is the poor man's zio, never freezing as often as he'd like and not even guaranteeing the criticals he relies on, but in the end, it all comes down to weaknesses. He wonders whether a full 24 hours has even passed yet since he was saved from squaring off against Death. Death has no weaknesses.

He sighs, resting his hands on his knees and arching his back until it pops. ]

I'd take bufu over nothing, though. What were you doing? That wasn't agi.

[actus]

[ the urge to ask how this guy knows any of this is insanely strong, but akira bites his tongue for the time-being. instead of asking, he flicks his gaze back to his hands and then nods dutifully. ]

New power, I guess. Maybe I gained a new skill or awakened to my true form.

[ what a joke -- ! ... and his fingertips are on fire again. ]

[p_mortem]

[ oh my god

I had a tag written that was basically Minato looking very affronted at Akira for making him listen to that with his own two ears, thankful for telepathy because he can stare Akira right in the face and go
> 2010
but it's 2010 and Minato probably doesn't even know what that means so he just

stares

at the fire. Swipes his finger through the flames to see if it's real fire and it's real fire. ]

[actus]

[ minato. minato. minato.

you have so much to learn about the world you left behind. on a more serious note,

..... did he just. akira blinks and then quickly waves his hands to try and make the fire go out. it does. eventually. ]

Sorry. That - ah - keeps happening.

[ and please don't willingly burn yourself. ]

[p_mortem]

[ If he knew this is the guy he's leaving the world to, maybe he would have tried harder not to die.

Also, it's fine... if you swipe your finger through a flame fast enough, it doesn't have enough time to burn. That said, it was a lazy swipe on Minato's part, forgetting he can't just switch Personas in for immunity, so he withdraws his hand and squeezes his fist tight in his pocket to wait for the stinging to stop. ]

Can't control it yet?

[actus]

[ listen, they had a buffer of souji. ]

Not yet.

[ a slight nod as tosses minato an almost sympathetic look. burns suck even if they're minor. he feels for you, persona-ancestor. ]

This is all because I had Byakko last. [ he murmurs it to himself, almost with a dramatic sigh, as his now put-out fingers comb back through his messy hair. ]

[p_mortem]

[ Souji held on for so long... let him rest...

Minato does that squinting thing at Akira again, because he also has Byakko; Byakko is great for right before he's about to die and he can endure death once while choking down muscle drinks or whatever he can get his hands on. ]

Fire weakness?

[actus]

Yeah.

[ he nods. ]

... I also had Horus, which isn't great against that, either.

[ is there a correlation? is this why he keeps burning himself and catching on fire. it doesn't explain why he's making fire, seemingly casting it like a spell, but maybe this place is backwards. who knows. ]

[p_mortem]

[ Squints so much!!!!! Finding new Persona users is weird, overlapping Personas even more -so, but this joker doesn't even know what he's talking about. ]

No...? Horus' weakness is darkness.

[actus]

[ WRONG.

but he'll ignore that in favor of staring back at him. wait, what? ]

...How do you know that?

[ while queen and futaba and morgana were really good at keeping track of what shadows were strong and weak against certain things, he was certain they wouldn't be able to have that kind of recall so quickly. it was more of a palace-based knowledge. ]

[p_mortem]

[ Because he wasted so many plumes bringing himself back to life and learned not to equip Horus until he has Shadows analyzed that's why, it was a learning experience for everybody. ]

"I was born of thee, and I shall walk by thy side" ...is what he said. Horus is one of mine. So is Byakko.

[actus]

[ .... oh. akira cocks his head even further to the side, letting it all sink in. ]

That's... [ he begins, and then lightly chuckles, pushing up his glasses. ] Really?

[ there's almost relief in his voice. he sets down the boar-leg now. eating is not nearly as interesting. ]

[ there's an itching of a question, and he can't help but ask - ]

So you know them. That guy.

[p_mortem]

That guy, [ Minato confirms, touching finger tip to nose and drawing a line straight out to point at Akira. He opens his mouth to say something more— if Akira were another wildcard, where was he? SEES could have used the help— but the fact is that he wasn't there, had no reason to be and no responsibility to help.

Instead, he lets out a sigh, hands dropping to his sides and finding his pockets. ]

Can you talk to him at all? Can't get to that room in my dreams.

[actus]

Here? No. Back home it was easier.

[ sometimes in dreams, sometimes in the back alley of shibuya when he felt so inclined to go visit igor and his favorite twins. ]

... He kind of creeped me out, to be honest.

[p_mortem]

...That's just how he is.

[ Creepy... Yeah. YEAH. Everything from his impossible nose to those eyes that stare straight into his soul, but at the same time, Minato looked to his guidance and he wouldn't have survived as long as he did without Igor's help. ]

But he was a good help. Elizabeth too.

[actus]

Elizabeth?

[ ah, there's a name he hasn't heard before. he tilts his head even more, glancing up and to the left to try and recall the fuzzy memories of that place. ]

She wasn't there. He had twins with him. They liked smacking the bars with their batons.

[ a shiver. ]

[p_mortem]

...That sounds dangerous.

[ The room is an elevator hurtling towards the sky, please don't smack the grates that's keeping everything safely contained.

Minato falls silent for a moment, staring past the ground with uncharacteristic intensity— interrupted by a short grunt of pain that he squeezes his eyes shut against, piercing headache stabbing through his head as he blasts Akira with the image of a whole lot of blue.

Painful, but not as much as finding all the words he needs to explain. ]

[actus]

[ the image makes him start. his entire body tenses up and both the sense of nostalgia and complete confusion wrap around him. it's engulfing, really, and when the assault on his senses lets up, he looks back at minato with a weak, half-assed smile. ]

It ... didn't look like that. Not for me.

[ a frown. ]

I was -- in a cell. I think. Chained up.

[p_mortem]

[ A cell? Why...? It never occurred to Minato that the room might look different to somebody else, or that the Velvet Room might be more than one room— maybe that's why there were so many doors lining the sides of his room. ]

Weren't you also a "guest"...? Could you show me?

[actus]

Guest is a funny word for inmate.

[ but he'll nod nonetheless. he still hasn't worked out the kinks of the telepathy here, but he's trying. he's never backed down from a challenge before, and much like the twins impressed on him, he needed to keep working towards his rehabilitation. whatever that means. he manages to finally get it to work. ]

[p_mortem]

[ It's a funny word because that's not what he said, and he doesn't understand what Akira means by it until the image hits him. There's familiarity in the room that he clings to even as the image fades, but it's all wrong. For all their dancing around the topic of Personas, he'd never gotten Akira's name. Could it be...? ]

You're not Pharos?

[ Striped prison garb, messy black hair sticking up every which way. suspicious. ]

[actus]

[ listen, would pharos be plagued with a bad pun magic ability - maybe. ]

Who?

[ akira laughs, albeit weakly, rubbing the back of his neck. he shakes his head for good measure, too. this is all so weird. meeting someone that knows of that man, that place. ]

No. Akira Kurusu. [ just, making that clear. ]

[p_mortem]

[ maybe ]

...Never mind. You feel familiar, like somebody I know. But maybe it's just the Persona thing.

[ He taps himself once on the chest, just barely missing the signet. ]

Minato Arisato.