[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

[p_mortem]

[ Why are the betas such a mess. Minato doesn't want to be the responsible adult in this situation, making sure people don't die, that's not the side of the conversation he's usually on. ]

I didn't fling myself off.

[ What if Minato pockets his watch and walks over to John so he can get an arm over his shoulder to be dragged back to Dave and Rose before Dave freaks out about more dead friends. ]

I went to see the underside of the world, and fell.

[parodeity]

[ haha yeah dave's not letting go of rose? she definitely knocked him over even with as steady a stance as he could manage, but he does haul himself - and rose - to his feet. his expression is remarkably calm all things considered but his heart is racing and she's close enough to tell. ]

Can we maybe make a rule no one else flings themselves off of shit? Thanks?

[ give him a few minutes to ascertain rose is fine.

he will just kind of hug her in irritation. ]

[grimdeity]

[ sorry john?? sorry dave?? sorry you're the adult minato?? ]

Did you catch a glimpse of the underside? I was couldn't see much.

[ the fall was not as graceful as she'd planned, they may have heard a scream of AH FUCK during the fling back. she lets dave haul her up, though she sort of just wants to lay on the sand for a minute. that was unpleasant. ]

I think now that we all know the outcome, we at least should be spared further flinging attempts. For now, at any rate. We may want to re-test our flight capabilities at some point.

[windeity]

[Sorry you're definitely the adult, Minato. But John's up and even when he's up he shoots Minato an embarrassed sort of smile before he draws into himself and focuses on walking back to his friends, waiting for Minato to follow him back away from the edge. He stops in front of the other two, narrowing his eyes briefly.]

You are not flinging yourself over the edge again. [A glance to Dave.] And you're not either? Both of you are staying on the sand while we figure stuff out. [And then back into the sand he goes to sit, though he shifts his gaze to Minato.]

But that is a good question. Did you see anything on the underside?

[p_mortem]

[ He would rather John be the adult, doing a fine job of laying down the ground rules with a certain decisiveness Minato appreciates. ]

Rock. Sand. Space.

[ He shrugs; nothing of note to report. It was as if the earth were flat, and falling off it one way meant little more than having everything be turned upside down and having gravity haul him back over to the proper side. ]

Flying would make things simpler though. Can you?

[parodeity]

Not currently. And if we test that shit, we won't do it by jumpin' off things, sister dearest. The team leader just said so, and we all know we never completely ignore his words.

[ they like ignore john's directives half of the time like a pair of cats? this is a blatant lie? ]

[grimdeity]

I meant off a small building or boulder, not the edge of the island again. Also, we always ignore his words. Don't lie, Dave.

[ worst cats. ]

Interesting. I wonder if this island was merely cut from a planet or shaped as just a piece of floating land. [ it's kinda weird? ] We usually can fly, but here? Not so far. Our powers have been turned off or rather replaced with these new abilities.

[windeity]

[Haha you know what, fuck you both. From his place in the sand he's reaching up to grab a hand on each Strilonde and yank them down into the sand. Once they're sitting he's rearranging his shambling corpse-self so his head is back in Dave's lap and Rose gets his feet to pin them both down. He's also moving to grab Dave's hand to put back on his head. Back to the way things should be, thanks.]

Neither of you. Are jumping. Off of anything. [Just calm as hell.] But they are right. Usually all of us can fly but everything we can usually do has been capped here. But if there is a weird gravitational pull or whatever that could also explain that part aside from our powers being replaced. If it is just rock and sand a break sounds right, too.

[p_mortem]

[ No, but consider this: ] What if you could fall with enough force to break the gravitational pull. Leave the planet. Fly and come back.

[parodeity]

[ oh my god. okay, dave is yanked back to the sand because john is actually physically stronger than him - and easily moreso than rose - and while he's rather offended by being yanked around he doesn't fight it.

after a second he will start rubbing john's temples again, fine. ]

What if we saved that idea for like, if we ever can fly again, which we can't currently? All y'all settle down.

[grimdeity]

[ wow ok is just. yanked to the ground??? really uncalled for, john. wow. she smacks his knees. gently. ]

Actually, I believe he's suggesting we fall hard enough to break through the proposed gravitational pull theory that we would perhaps regain our power of flight. Or at the least break through whatever magical thing is keeping us from accessing our innate abilities. Which is an... interesting thought.

[ that someone else can try but rose does look curious. ]

[windeity]

[Wow don't smack him? He's ill and dying. But he does smirk a little because he can feel it and he does start to relax into Dave's hand again.]

It's not a bad idea, I guess, but at the same time if we don't have our god tier powers we could just sort of fall forever and that does not sound like a great idea. What about making a rocketpack? We could try that.

[He's shifting to glance at Minato again.] Do you know anyone else who can fly?

[p_mortem]

[ Minato looks up at the sky. There's an idea, bursting through the sky on a rocketpack to escape gravity and regain whatever OP god powers John is talking about, and his gaze shifts to Dave for maybe drawing their ticket out of here. ]

I could... maybe. If I had my powers back. [ Maybe? He'd never tried flying on her Personas, but if they're solid enough to hurt in battle, they're probably solid enough to ride on. But that's neither here or now, so he thinks a bit harder. ] ...It's not exactly flying, but I know somebody whose new power is levitating objects. Maybe it could work on clothes.

[parodeity]

You know, all that aside...if you did get out there and could fly, it wouldn't do much good if you couldn't also breathe in space.

[ like

right? ]

[grimdeity]

We usually can, but I don't know if it's a common ability for flight-bound peoples.

[ no one ever talks about superman breathing in space do they ]

I do wonder if your somebody who can levitate objects could levitate people? Is it merely telekinesis, or?

[windeity]

I never even thought of that. [Breathing in space is one of those things you don't really think about? But that's not important.]

Better question. Who is it? Did you get a name?

[p_mortem]

[ Breathing aside, there's also the lack of heat that could kill a person, etc. etc. They'll cross that hurdle if/when they get there. ]

His name is Heine. He could levitate my beads, but I didn't ask about people. Would any of your powers help? Like drawing a jetpack, or...

[ He looks to Rose and John in particular, not knowing what their newfound powers are. ]

[parodeity]

Enchantments and combinations.

[grimdeity]

[ shoots dave a Look. ]

I could mayhaps knit a flying scarf, but it would probably fly away. [ pause ] Actually, now I wonder if I could make a flying magic carpet.

[windeity]

I haven't met Heine, but a flying carpet would be cool, Rose. [He doesn't answer about his powers since Dave answered for him.] But we could maybe figure something out. Maybe something to enhance Heine's levitation powers?

[...wait.] What beads?

[p_mortem]

A magic carpet sounds cool... unless it goes rogue and tosses you off.

[ Not that he lacks faith in Rose's magic, but if there's a possibility, it's best to get that out in the open right away. In either case, all three of their magics sound more useful than Minato's, so he demonstrates without fanfare. Having taken Dave's advice to separate his inventory based off utility, he shakes the orange bag out of his pockets— edibles— and removes a small glass bead to return to normal. He doesn't have a lot of these, so he imagines it's some sort of bread or canned drink or

a 5 lb bag of cat food falls to the ground at Minato's feet. ]

[parodeity]

Like a magic carpet with a personality? Shit, we're gettin' Disney all up in here.

[ and dave already knew about minato's powers at this point so he just takes it in stride -

wait what. ]

...Where the fuck did you get cat food. Why do you have cat food. Do we have cats?

[grimdeity]

No enchantment of mine would be so bold, but I will put safety belts on just in case.

[ and she looks impressed by mianto's power, that's pretty need? it's like a sylladex but more of a pain in the ass?? ]

I hope we have cats. We are in a coven.

[windeity]

Rose usually knows what she's doing. [He helpfully supplies, but. Okay. He's watching this and suddenly there's cat food and he blinks slowly like he can't process what he's seeing.]

Stop talking about cats for a sec. But if your power is only to summon pet food that sounds pretty bad. [You can't live off of cat food, Minato.]