[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

[introspects]

[ ooc: TDM threads are canon unless i've played out orihime making normal food with you! she'll only be able to create weird combinations of food now, so threads that did not include orihime's magic can be considered canon! ]

B
[ orihime's familiar with her new magic power: to create odd food combinations if she thinks hard enough about it, but she's only realized now that her power is limited; these foods actually taste really strange, almost as if there's something...different about them? even she thinks they taste bad, and she's made some of her favorite dishes this way. so...because they taste so bad, she's left with eating the crab meat.

you'd think that a girl who eats strange foods would be able to stomach this crab meat pretty well, but apparently not; she's starting to burn up, cheeks turning red and tiny beads of sweat forming on her face. ]

Oh... I...feel dizzy...

D
Oh, hello!
Am I so sick that I'm hallucinating words...? Or is somebody talking to me?
Well, hello out there! I'm Orihime. What's your name?

E
[ orihime gets something completely useless from her starter kit: a remote control.

and yet, she seems somewhat fascinated by it. she's not staring at it as if it's a precious treasure, per se, but she's definitely giving it more than a once-over. however, the language is entirely foreign to her, and it's unrecognizable; it looks like a series of symbols, hieroglyphs, maybe, even though there's no reason to have it. ] Ehh...I wonder where the tv is...

[ the other item she gets is a flower crown made out of daisies! now this, she seems a lot more pleased with. she even decides to wear it on her head, and despite having a fever? orihime looks rather happy about it! ]

Ahaha~ It's cute!

WILDCARD
[ don't see something you like? hmu with anything! ]

[he_smol]

A... tv?

[ He's never heard of such a thing. But this girl does seem to be more familiar with it and that strange device she's got. ]

It seems we've been given a myriad of strange objects...

[introspects]

Oh, yes, a tv! Aha, I'm only mumbling to myself, but...do you know where one might be?

[ she hasn't realized that he doesn't know what a tv is, exactly. ]

The daisy chain isn't so bad! I think I could wear this everywhere, hehe; what did you get?

[he_smol]

I would be happy to tell you if I have... if I knew what I was looking for to begin with.

[ That giant bin of electronics, curious as they were, wasn't something he wanted to rifle through. No sense in picking up something he couldn't use... ]

As for what I'd received... [ He holds up a pen and notebook he'd taken. ] I wanted to have something to record our experience here with in hopes that it might come in useful sometime in the future. Our benefactors seem to be rather generous with our supplies.

[introspects]

Oh! You...don't know what a television is?

[ she's sort of surprised? he smol, but is he from a different era or something? ]

A pen and a notebook seems like it'd come in handy here! It's good to take notes while we're on a foreign planet like this one, and keep track of clues too!

[he_smol]

No... I'm afraid not. Was it something native to your world?

[ That's the 1800s for you. Not a single tv - and you'd think the royal palace would have one if it existed. ]

Given what we've been told, I wanted to have something to refer to about everything there is to know about this place. Hopefully this can bring us closer to fulfilling this request made of us.

[introspects]

Ah, really?! Um, well...how do I say this... [ thinking, thinking ] It's a giant box, about this big! [ she uses her hands to trace an outline. it's pretty accurate. ] And it plays different kinds of shows! Like comedies, dramas, variety shows... They're all kind of like plays, if you know what those are?

Oh, that's a good idea! We can go looking for clues together, right? [ she is definitely excited at the prospect! ] My name is Inoue Orihime, by the way.

[he_smol]

[ A box... that contains entertainment. Fascinating... ]

Of course. While I've seen several plays, I simply can't fathom how one would be able to view them through boxes of the size you've indicated.

[ But he does nod back. ]

Your assistance will be appreciated, Frau Orihime. My name is Heine Wittgenstein. A pleasure to make your acquaintance despite the circumstances.

[introspects]

Well, they're recorded through a camera! Aha, I don't know how else to explain it...it's really cool when you think about it though...

[ it really is hard to explain to someone who's never heard of these things before. ]

Witt-gen-stein! Wittgenstein-san, it's nice to meet you too! Let me know how I can help!

d

[soulcomet]

Hello, Orihime-san! I'm Madoka.

Do you need any help?

[introspects]

Hello, Madoka-san! It's nice to meet you.

I think I'm okay for now. I'm just getting used to our new circumstances for now, since we'll be here for a while, I think!

How about you?

[soulcomet]

It is tough, isn't it? There are a lot of really nice people here, though, so I think that'll make everything much better to deal with.

And, I'm all right! I was feeling really lousy earlier, but someone stopped by and was able to help me.

[introspects]

Yes! Everyone here has been really nice so far,
so I think we'll all be able to get out safely!

Oh! I'm sorry to hear that. Did you get sick, too?

[soulcomet]

I did, but it wasn't nearly as bad as some of the others. I only had a little bit of the crab.

There are a lot of people here who have been able to help, too! Everyone has such amazing magic.

[introspects]

Oh, lucky you! I think I had too much, so I had a fever, ahaha. But, I'm feeling a bit better now.

What's your magic, Madoka-san?

[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.

[introspects]

Oh! Madoka-san is a healer?

I used to be able to heal, before I got here! If you need any help learning about it, don't hesitate to ask, okay?

[soulcomet]

[Orihime, you pretty much just made Madoka's day.]

Really? That would mean the world to me, thank you! This is so much trickier than what I'm used to back home.

[introspects]

You're welcome! I'm happy to help; just send me a message whenever you're ready, okay?

[soulcomet]

I will, thank you!

What's your power, Orihime-san?

[introspects]

I think it has something to do with making food!
I just have to think really hard about what I want and it appears.
It's really convenient and we'll never have to go hungry with it!

[soulcomet]

That's amazing!

Does it have to be something you've had before, or can it be anything?

[introspects]

I've thought up of things I've never had before!
It's a convenient power, definitely!

E

[enflame]

( Emil's own picks from the item bins were pretty boring -- some useless technology and a jacket -- but the flower crown pulls his attention. They were a seasonal fashion statement back home, though rare due to minimal workable land for flowers. )

Oh...that is cute. ( Maybe it's the stress of the day, but for some reason he doesn't have the filter to keep this in his brain. )

[introspects]

Isn't it? I figured I might as well accessorize while I'm here, so..

[ but...you know, she doesn't actually need it. orihime can be practical, and she's already looking alright in her sweater and maxi skirt, so! ]

Um...actually, if you really like it? You can have it!