[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

[imsorey]

[Sorey takes the ingedients as they're passed to him and gives them a smell test--both of them ultimately pass and he nods.]

Yeah, these will do just fine for now. We don't have to put it on all of them either, if people don't like it. This is a big help, thanks.

that icon is killing me sorey??

[probablynoteren]

No problem. I'm still practicing this too, so...

[A vague gesture at... all of the refrigerator and its sad state.

At least it was sacrificed for a good cause. Lenka carefully shuts the door after cleaning what he can off the sand; the refrigerator is left there for the moment, since he's done enough experimentation by now to know roughly how summons, their timing and their contents work. Mostly.]

Did you need any help with the meat?

[If they're all going to be eating like this for a while... he might as well get into practice with that, too.]

the wall is very important and worthy of sparkles, ok

[imsorey]

If you don't mind helping out, I wouldn't be opposed to an extra hand. I figured we might as well keep cutting it all up until everyone's hand enough to eat.

[there's enough people mulling around that it could be a while until everyone's gotten something to eat, too. Sorey offers Lenka a knife for slicing up meat, if his offer stands.]

"stroke stroke"......

[probablynoteren]

[Lenka accepts the knife obligingly -- he's not the greatest at handling fresh meat like this, he's not entirely sure what to do with it, but at least he doesn't have to skin it or anything -- and sets about trying to imitate whatever he'd seen Sorey doing up until now.

He may use a bit too much force, and the meat may bounce and fly a bit, but he keeps it... mostly in the right spot. At least getting it on the stick is a no brainer. His just look a bit more like Jenga than your average kebab.]

Yes. I think we're all hungry. I keep seeing new people, but I guess that makes sense.

[He doesn't actually have that bad of a memory for faces, so that's saying something. At least the meat is bringing all the mages to the yard.]

ruins are worth loveingly examining!!

[imsorey]

[all he's gotta do is just cut meat up into little square chunks and stick them onto a stick for kebabs--that's pretty much all Sorey is doing, though he also does know how to cut up the meat. he doesn't mind how it gets done or how it looks, as long as they get to eat it.]

I keep seeing new people too. It's more than I was expecting to be here, given the situation.

[seriously who has the time and energy to magically abduct this many people]

your love sure is a thing sorey

[probablynoteren]

[It's true, at this stage most of them are probably ready to eat the boars whole, whether out of hunger or spite (or likely both, in many cases). The smell of cooking meat is everywhere, which is making his chopping even more haphazard than it already is, but oh well.

Once he has a decent pile going, he motions quietly to the sauces they've collected: how do they want to season things? The hot sauce is more of an after, but he's still not sure what the mystery one is.]

I don't understand magic, but there must be a lot of it. To bring this many of us.

[That's not getting into what kind of venture would need quite this number or variety of people.]

[imsorey]

[he tries marinating some of the kebabs with a quick coat of the mystery sauce--just 2 or 3 of them before sticking them over a flame. if they taste bad he'll still eat them, so it's no loss to test it.]

This sort of magic isn't something I'm familiar with; what I have back home is different. And even then, there isn't anything of this scale that I can think of. I can't begin to imagine how they got enough power to manage this in the first place.

[probablynoteren]

Maybe this is normal for their magic.

[But if someone who actually understands anything about magic is saying that this is something huge, then it's unlikely something that can be explained away easily, even considering where they are.

He carefully stokes the fire a little.]

But they're prepared. Like this has been planned for a while.

[imsorey]

They certainly had all of these supplies ready for us. But it sounds like they knew they'd need more people to help.

[even if they didn't know exactly who was coming, they had been ready for the number of people. and the sheer number of people is more surprising to him than anything else.]

They're either desperate, or prepared to deal with a lot of unhappy people who want to go home.

[probablynoteren]

I can't see any way off this island right now.

[In his view, the second is more likely at this point -- desperate people don't prepare like this, do they? Even the island itself... he's not sure if he'd go so far as to say it's part of the preparations, but it's certainly convenient for the purposes of their captors, hosts, whatever.

And it sounds like there might be a way off. Just not one for them, at the moment.

He turns the problem over in his mind for a little while, lending a hand to the saucing where appropriate.]