[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

[windeity]

i am starting to notice that, yes. i still do not know who started this chain but at least we can maybe put a stop to it.
i'm john, by the way. i didn't start this conversation but it might help us to know who we are even talking to.

[teratias]

Maybe. I'm trying to figure out how to turn this off, and it is harder than I like.

Waver. Let's hope this conversation doesn't sprawl out to include more people.

[windeity]

nice to meet you. from what i can tell this part of the conversation is staying between you and me, but i guess if anyone walked by and saw the words in front of us they could read it, too.
if you do find a way to turn it off let me know. it might be useful for the future.

[teratias]

Nice to meet you too. And I guess that's good, I don't want more than that barging in right now. It'd be even harder to process.

Believe me, I will. How did you get the telepathy to stop the other time?

[windeity]

when everyone's words look exactly the same it is a lot harder to tell who's talking to who. that is definitely the one thing i don't like about this.

the other time it sort of just stopped on its own? like i stopped concentrating on talking to her and it faded away. this time it was like it wouldn't go away until i responded. was it like that for you, too?

[teratias]

Signing names could help, but that would require a lot of effort to make it so to begin with.

And yes, it was. Not urgent but shaking it off didn't happen. Maybe that's because this is a testing phase, so you can't ignore it?

[windeity]

as long as nobody shares a name we would be in great shape.

now that the testing is done we might have a better grip on controlling it? it's sort of weird to see words in front of me without physically doing anything. i am used to at least typing something.

this could be just another way of people tracking us though. like "hey if you can see the words you are definitely one of us!" or whatever.

[teratias]

So we use surnames or initials if need be. But only if need be.

Maybe? I am only used to reading printed text, all my assignments are by hand rather than typing on a typewriter or anything of the sort.

Could be. If it is, I can't say I like it.

[windeity]

meh. maybe.

typewriter? that is pretty old school. i cannot even think of the last time i really saw one of those.

i'm not sure i like it either but then the next step is finding a solution to turn it off if that is true. or at least another way to get rid of the words without answering. what about ignoring them? they could dissolve on their own.

[teratias]

For whatever it is worth, I am from the 90s, and my school doesn't have computers yet.

Ignoring might work. But then we'd need to test on each other, and that could just become "did you hang up yet?" going back and forth.

[windeity]

oh, ok. that makes more sense. electricity does not even seem to be a thing here so i guess computers are out of the question here, too.

it's not like we can test it on other people. what about face to face? maybe there is a distance thing with the words and if we are still far enough apart but close enough to see we can gauge it ourselves.

[teratias]

It looks like there were electronics with the supplies, which is more than a little confusing.

I suppose an experiment wouldn't be a bad idea. Where are you right now?

[windeity]

that makes even less sense, you're right.
i am down the beach toward some of the huts? if you find a blue one next to a purple one and two doors down from a red one, i am near there.

[teratias]

OK. I'm behind most of them, so give me a little bit of leeway walking over.

[Waver does make his way over, slowly.]

I'm the one in the tie, by the way.

[windeity]

that is fine, i am the one on the ground.

a tie. that should be easy enough. what were you doing before we all came here?

[He's just assuming that's the only reason a tie is even involved. Waver was pulled at another inconvenient time, just like everyone else.]

[teratias]

[Honestly, he just dressed like this for fun.]

Walking home with someone.

[After getting into a fight with King Arthur on a motorcycle.]

[windeity]

[Ah yes, as you do. Naturally John only knows what Waver says and there's a lingering pause. So. Not that inconvenient.]

it IS a little weird that they brought some of us here when we were doing very normal things, isn't it? like without us noticing. that is the one part that bugs me the most, i think.

[Regardless he's definitely keeping an eye out for anyone in a tie.]

[teratias]

Really? Why?

[Waver hopes that he's walked into the right area at this point. His eyes are here, there, everywhere, looking for his conversation partner, all while his loafers shuffle along the ground.]

[windeity]

[He looks up, keeping his eyes sharp and focused even as he thinks, perhaps, he spots Waver. He almost starts to call out before remembering that they are testing something and he focuses his thoughts on telepathy again.]

are you used to disappearing at random times and showing up on new planets with no memory of what happened?

[teratias]

No, but I'm more disturbed that there's a mechanism to make it happen.

[Waver pauses, then frowns.]

OK, where are you? Can you wave or something?

[windeity]

it's a thought i don't like much either.

i think i see you?

[As such, he's waving both of his arms over his head from his position on the ground. It's probably not too difficult to spot him parked in the space near a blue and a purple hut. The red one is on the other side of the purple, as said, too.]

[teratias]

[Waver does see both arms, and he makes his way over to the spot between the two huts. Once he's there, Waver pauses. This is an experiment, after all.]

Ok do you want to just try talking and seeing if the text cuts out or something else?

[windeity]

yea, i guess we can try that.

[Wait.]

Sorry, I think I got used to it? Which is weird since telepathy is not a thing I'm used to. [The spoken words, of course, don't display as text.]

[teratias]

I think used to only gets to be invoked after many weeks of this.

[Waver frowns. He doesn't want to get used to this.]

[windeity]

That's also implying we're really going to be here for many weeks. Is that a possibility you really want to entertain? [He sees that frown, Waver. This is definitely a struggle.]