[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

[liveinskin]

A.

[If you need crabs, F.F. is your girl. She figures she may as well take one of the harder tasks since she doesn't mind getting fucked up to accomplish a goal. And if she feeds people, they will definitely like her! This is good.

However, she doesn't quite get her limits yet. Her abilities have been heavily dulled and she thought it wouldn't matter much. Well she has a bunch of crabs clutched in her arms for the boiling... and they are all still alive and pinching at her hands and forearm trying to escape.]

Ahah, these suckers. Not so tough are you-- ow, hey rude! [And then she takes that offending crab and chucks it in a random direction. Probably right toward some innocent bystander, aka you. WHOOPS.] Look out!

B (warning for gross...)

[Ok that crab is not agreeing with this body. Damn. Expelling it out of her system would be easy if she had access to her plankton, but it's no good. Something is blocking her from using them. She walks out toward the beach water and begins using the new power she was granted: healing with water. She has no physical scars, but the cooling power of her healing at least makes her feel better. But it's not enough. She needs to get rid of the crab meat right now.

...And then she takes clutches her hands, stretches out her arms and punches in her stomach, forcibly causing her to throw up bits of the crab into the ocean. Uh, hope no one needs water out of that right now...]

G

[Is the worm thing weird? Yes. But the vapor mist feels goddamn great, and F.F. is just soaking it all in as it comes her way. ...However she definitely takes in too much, wobbles and falls over on her back to he ground. Oops, someone got a little too calmed out by the mist.]

Wildcard

[feel free to pm if you want to plot something, or make your own shit up and i'll respond.]

b (also gross)

[billionboy]

[ When he sees someone just kind of wander away from everyone (a lot of who are already sick), he does get a little worried. Sure, it's probably none of his business, but it also feels a little bad to leave someone to do that all by themselves.

Besides, he'd rather step away from a lot of the people that are getting sick. It's starting to make him feel a little sick, too. His color is getting a bit pale. She's probably also trying to get some fresh air by the ocean.

Huh, what's she doing? Okuyasu walks a little closer to get a better look at the water-magic, before seeing her punch herself in the stomach. Oy-- His hand is already out to try to stop her before puke splatters all over it and into the ocean. His color drops as he turns to vomit in turn.

Really hope no one needs the water. ]

[liveinskin]

Uuugh...

[She wipes off a bit of liquid from her mouth and turns around, immediately greeted by the sight of Okuyasu puking into the ocean with her. Oh geez.]

Did you also eat the crab? [She mutters weakly, still holding onto her stomach.] You gonna be okay?

[billionboy]

[ A very weak cough. ]

No, no... not at all. [ He shakes his head weakly. ] It's everyone bein' sick, but uh, that's not really good to say to someone who is sick, huh? Are you okay?

[liveinskin]

Oh, aha... you threw up because you saw me? Sorry about that - I moved away from the crowds so no one would see, but guess it was no good! [She takes a few panting breaths, trying to regain her strength. This wouldn't be happening if she could just use the damn plankton inside her to get rid of the meat.] I'm ok. I needed to expel the bad meat from my body... now that it's gone I should be able to recover.

[billionboy]

Well... everyone was walking around sick. [ He was bound to see it sometime with how things were going. ] But uh... yer voice sounds kind of familiar. [ Okuyasu, probably not the time. ]

But... yer still in a bit of pain, yeah? I actually have some magic that'll help a bit with that, I guess.

[liveinskin]

...Yours voice does too actually, but I don't recognize you. [She was mostly in the women's side of Green Dolphin Street, so she doesn't think he's a prisoner she would have passed by. He does look like a prisoner though...] I tried to use my magic to help, but I don't think it did much at all. What power do you have?

a

[secrowtary]

[Hibiki's been minding his own business when he notices a crab thrown in his direction, no less, and her warning reaches his ears just a while later. He dodges by taking a step to the side and picks the crab up from the ground.]

You have to be more careful with them.

[The moment he finishes saying this, the crab pinches him. What a perfect timing—Hibiki grits his teeth, fighting off the urge to get rid of the unruly crab as soon as possible.]

[liveinskin]

Sorry, sorry! That sucker got me good and I just reacted without thinking. [Instinct is what she's wired to act on. If something attacks, she either needs to defend or get away. The other crabs are wriggling around in her arms, but for the moment are not able to do much.] Don't worry. We're gonna be boiling it as revenge soon enough.

[secrowtary]

I understand.

[The crab he's holding isn't going without a fight, apparently. Could it be that it knows its fate?]

I'll hold onto it, just in case. I was meaning to join the cooking group anyway. It'll be quite rewarding to watch it boil.

[Another pinch...but this time he couldn't withstand it and throws the crab up high in the air, oops.]

[liveinskin]

[She just cackles out a small laugh when he tosses it up, taking a couple steps back to make sure it won't land anywhere near her at the same time.]

Whoosh. That crab is just getting what it deserves!

[secrowtary]

[He tried so hard and got so far.]

It was an accident. [Totally.] Is it...actually trying to run?

[What is this crab, honestly.]

[liveinskin]

...Maybe it knows we're going to be boiling it alive? If I was that crab, and I knew the fate that awaited me, I'd run too.

G to even things out, and I'm just using this icon because it amuses me

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

[Jotaro had been sprawled out in front of his hut, still a little too uncomfortable from the crabs earlier to sleep, when the worms arrived. Now he feels great, totally relaxed despite all his earlier apprehensions, so he goes wandering again and sees--oh! Someone from earlier! It's the marsh girl with the book problem! That's too long, though, and he never actually got her name, so he ambles over to where she fell and gives her a perfectly good name by way of greeting.]

Marsha!

dont judge jotes

[liveinskin]

Marsha? [She blinks, recognizing the man who scorned her for tossing books. Well, right now he's a bit upside-down with her view from the ground.] My name isn't Marsha! Not even close. Where'd you even get that name from?

judges harder

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

You're Marsha because you come from a marsh and it's shorter than "hey, you! Girl from the marsh!" [Which he supposes he could use if she really prefers, but "Marsha" is way better.

Man, she's really far away right now. Was Jotaro always this tall? He must be taller.]

[liveinskin]

[Yeah you're tall as hell Jotaro, and it's especially noticeable as F.F. lazily picks herself up from the ground and she's 5'4.]

Hm, I guess we never did give out our names. [She puts her hands on her hips and smiles.] Foo Fighters. Or "F.F." for short. See, Marsha wasn't close at all.

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

[In a perfect world, Jotaro would hear this name and wonder what the hell F.F.'s parents were thinking. This isn't a perfect world, though, and so even though Jotaro's feeling pretty good about life in general, he glares at the tiny green-haired woman before him and thinks Stand user.]

I guess it's not. My name's Jotaro Kujo. [If she's another of Dio's assassins or servants, he figures, maybe she's too good an actress to react noticeably, but he's gonna watch her face anyway.]

[liveinskin]

[Well Jotaro is in luck, because F.F. is actually the opposite of a good actress. She downright stinks. Her face visibly slackens in shock, his name completely unmistakable to her. If she had a proper heartbeat, it would be racing a mile a minute. If her body was capable of getting chills, she'd feel them right now.]

No way... [she mutters, and takes a step toward him.] How the hell are you so young?

[She's never asked Jolyne about her father, knowing the topic to be utterly sensitive to the woman, but this "Jotaro Kujo" standing in front of her can't possibly be old enough to have a 19 year old daughter.]

a.

[mapsio]

[Don't mind her high pitched noise of surprise. She does not manage to duck and dodge the crab in time so she is stuck with well....getting struck with a crab and for that crab to make a new home in her hair.

Well, worse things have happened.]

Hey! Watch where you're throwing that thing!

[It sounds a little angry, but, it quickly dies down once she realizes who threw it.]

Oh, it's you! F.F. right?

[liveinskin]

Oh crap! [She rushes over, realizing what she's done.] Sorry Haru, I didn't even see you there. Ah... ok, this is fine, I'll help you get the crab out.

[The crab sure does like being in Haru's hair though, pinching its claws through the strands and trying to adjust its body.]

[mapsio]

I think it's trying to stay.

[She almost sounds resigned to this fate, a crustacean crown firmly attaching itself to her curls.]

It's fine though, I'm not upset.... I promise!

[liveinskin]

Don't worry. I won't let it make a home in your hair! ...This might hurt.

[As if she has not caused enough pain in Haru's life, she's going to grab the crab by its backside and start trying to tug it out. It definitely doesn't want to get out easy though.]

Argh, nasty thing.

[mapsio]

Ow, ow, ow! Gentle!

[She's trying not to let the angry crab rip her hair out. Sure her hair might look like a well put together nest, but that didn't mean to crab could take advantage of that!]

Certainly! Please pull a little less harshly.

[liveinskin]

Sorry! [She lets go of the crab, realizing it won't really work being so forceful. Hm.] Ok different idea. It'll involve getting your hair wet, but I think it could work.