[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

[parodeity]

i. hell's kitchen

[ dave actually had like, a few mouthfuls of food earlier so he doesn't seem that interested in the activity in terms of a personal i'm going to eat sort of way so much as he drifts over to the hubbub out of a sense of curiosity and a vague desire to be near all the activity.

granted, he equally isn't sure he wants to be, but for the most part dave stations himself somewhat near the cooking fire on the sand, though he ends up sprawled on his back and looking upwards at the stars.

his shades are on; they're not his, but he won't take them off for anything now. ]

If you make up a constellation and a story about it, I'll draw you somethin'.

[ it's his magic, not just a terrible trade offer. ]

ii. random telepathy matchup

[ he ignores the hello for a while, but then, in irritation: ]

ok yes fine hello
can we stop with the Hello. now
what even is that
if youre gonna introduce yourself to a guy you have to add some pizzazz
otherwise what impetus do i have to keep talking to you
like
you have to set the scene let me know your personality
possibly threaten to troll me for the rest of my life i dont know
thats happened a lot
well
a few times
which is kind of weird?
but anyway hi now stop sending Hello. at me and let my eyelids close onto nothing thanks
failing that answer the following:
if we switch tabs on our browser does a gif still loop

[ the cadence to the text is strange and rapidfire, and there's an after-sense of a texan twang even though he doesn't write it out. weird. ]

iii. music

[ dave's a simple soul. he immediately fishes out an mp3 player and headphones, and will sit there absently scrolling through the playlist on it, headphones clipped over his ears. they're kind of oldschool, but he finds that comforting.

he's not so distracted he won't look up when approached, though. ]

iv. space worms

[ ...kind of. dave's always up late so when the worms are a thing he peers up at the sky - and then immediately makes a face, opens his cabin door, and steps inside. ]

Nope. [ he has had enough of eldritch horrors, pretty or no? you're welcome to bother him about why he's up so late or whatever but he's about to close the door on this Everything. ]

i... i

[p_mortem]

hello




[ If Dave doesn't recognize the voice in his head, there's also a face to match, Minato's looking down at him from where he lies on the ground. ]

Any constellation is fine?

[parodeity]

[ ah, telepathy...dave makes a face but it fades into what could, maybe, be called a smile. if a very small lip corner upturn counts? ]

Well, they ain't ones we can chart, so...time to make a whole new set, you dig? Creativity may be better rewarded, though.

[p_mortem]

[ Already, Dave shoots down his idea of connecting two stars in the sky and spouting some nonsense about the simple beauty of the constellation called The Line. Creativity will take a little more out of Minato, so he sinks down beside Dave, eyes to the sky, and then he lifts his hand and vaguely moves his finger around. ]

...It's a tiger.

[ There are a bunch of stars in the sky; Dave's imagination can fill in the rest. ]

i

[rebells]

Don't tell me your power is magical drawings.

[He says it half-jokingly, not necessarily expecting that to be the case. It seems a little . . . twee.]

[parodeity]

I can make whatever I draw a real thing, so.

[ YEP. YOU GOT IT, JAY! ]

[rebells]

Really? That's incredible.

[It's not entirely clear whether he means that in the sense of 'astonishing' or 'ridiculous.' At any rate, he sits down near Dave and looks up at the sky, considering.]

A constellation, hmm?

i

[gymconquering]

Make one up?

[Astronomy has really never been her thing. Thick forest cover blocking the stars above, eyes watching the ground below more often than not, and you just don't get the opportunity to pick out individual shapes in the sky.]

Hmmm. [She mumbles, tracing over the stars with her eyes, and wondering why someone would wear sunglasses when it's dark out.] Lotsa triangles. [She points up at one cluster of stars, but pointing is hard enough to follow when it's at things that are just a few feet away, so...] How 'bout that one? Ain't it kinda shaped like a [and she just flat trails off because she's going for the word "Swellow" and tries to come up with a non-Pokemon word and there's just nothing. It takes her three full seconds to backtrack up the taxonomic tree to something that she sincerely hopes exists in other worlds.] ...biiiird...?

[parodeity]

What kinda bird?

[ haha sorry poor pokemon character... ]

I mean, what's the story to go with it? I can see the bird, though.

[gymconquering]

A Swellow. It's got a tail like [gestures with two fingers] there, an' thin wings like [gestures] between those other stars.

[Sapphire flops back to think, kicking a leg restlessly in the air.] It got stuck up there 'cause...it was lookin' for a bug. A bug told it the bugs up in the sky are tastier than the ones on the ground, so it kept flyin' till it got stuck?

i

[puddingemote]

[Isn't it hard to see the stars while wearing shades? Not to mention the threat of walking into something in the dark...

Tamaki is contemplating this fashion choice when the kid suddenly speaks up and, well, he likes stars and constellations, so...

He looks up at the night sky, and then traces out as close to a circular shape as he can get with stars.]

It's King's Pudding.

[parodeity]

...I am assumin' that ain't a type of pudding cup?

[puddingemote]

It's the mascot.

[He looks at Dave like he's the weird one here.]

Have you had it?

ii

[needmetoo]

[She's so surprised that the first bit comes out in voice, rather than text.]

I-I'm sorry?

[a beat]

I don't know what a gif is. Sorry.

[parodeity]

oh shit
ok
do you know what the internet is

[needmetoo]

[She pauses.]

No, I don't think so.

[If he'd mentioned computers she would have recognized that, but... not the Internet, no.]

ii

[introspects]

A gif? Do you mean a gift? Well, I guess the ribbons on a gift loop, don't they? So...yes!

[parodeity]

i mean i could have meant that but like
i meant moving pictures on the internet technically

[introspects]

Oh, is that what they're called? Gifs?
Do you think we can send pictures through telepathy too?

i.

[lunala]

(OOC: Are we keeping the TDM thread as canon?)

[Moon stares at the sky for a moment before connecting the dots in the air between a group of stars as best she can.] It's a Pikachu! A boy Pikachu. He wanted to go have an adventure so he traveled all over the world. But even when he'd been everywhere he still wanted to explore, so now he's exploring space!

[parodeity]

[ ooc: i'm fine with that! ]

Where's he gonna go when he's had his fill of space?

i

[tropism]

Oh? You better be one hell of an artist, then. I'm picky and can be a snob.

[ giorno thinks about it for a bit, then launches into story mode, pointing to the stars up ahead: ]

Five points, looks like a sine wave. Longitudinal, if you want to be specific. It's called .... let's say it's called something cool, like Guero or something. An assassin fires six shots into the edge of a building, turning the bullets into vines, which then turns into a tree hanging on the edge of the concrete. The barrel of the gun has six chambers; no number 4. It's bad luck.

All six bullets may or may not look like gremlins. The tree may or may not be safe. [ he glances at him with a sly smile. ] Did you get all that?

[parodeity]

I like math, so yeah, I got those parts and the other parts. The number four thing is Japanese, right?

[ also that is a really fucking weird story but it qualifies as "creative" without any need to prevaricate. ]

So, what do you want me to draw? For the record, I meant with magic, since I can make whatever I draw into an actual thing.

iii

[lalliho]

[Lalli doesn't approach right away, but he doesn't watch Dave for as long as he normally would a stranger. He's got one of those headband thingies. Headphones. Headphones mean a radio, and a radio means communication. Communication means help.

He could...get help.

He needed to get help.

Lalli approaches swiftly, finger extended to gesture meaningfully at the MP3 player.]

I need that.

[parodeity]

[ wow? dave pulls back the player, a little protective. ]

Why? It's mostly got pop music on it, for the record.