[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

[witchofwishes]

Oh! That's a good idea. [She'd been looking at the jewelry so woops... Her bad. But in the end she didn't end up taking anything so it wouldn't have mattered in the end.]

I'm sure someone was wise enough to grab a star gazing instrument. [Probably, right?] If not, it's a dazzling mystery, at least for now.

What was this called for you back home? We called ours the aurora borealis~ Or the Northern Lights to keep it simple and straight to the point.

[teratias]

I didn't think to get anything so practical. Or see one, come to think of it. [Waver assumes that it must have been taken by someone else. Quietly, his gaze returns skyward, and he extends a hand like that will be enough to figure out all of these mysteries.

When Waver withdraws it, brings it back down, he notices the remains of the mist gathered on his skin.]

Those are the same names used. But this is new.

[He uses one hand to indicate the moisture on the other.]

[witchofwishes]

Oh?

[She peers at the liquid and then reaches out to feel for herself. It's a mist of sorts. It feels like it should but... There's an interesting sweet smell to it. Is all the rain from the sky like this? What would cause such a phenomena?]

Interesting. [She's tempted to taste it but that seems like an unwise idea. Especially since there's been enough illness due to some kind of meat or the very water in general.

And something else that's rather curious... she's already rather calm, she usually is. But she even finds that prickling curiosity about this mystery slowly ebbing away. As if it's not all that big a deal.]

I wonder if there is a chemical in this water. An opium of sorts...

[teratias]

[Waver withdraws his hand, pausing to wipe it dry with the front of his sweater. It is not a very elegant move, but he thinks that he has proven his point that the air is just a little bit stranger than it ought to be.

The mention of opium causes him to perk though. Sure, he was calm right now, but Waver had figured that was due to being dumbstruck rather than an atmospheric effect. Under any circumstances he'd snap and immediately complain about not only being kidnapped but now drugged, but the effects of the mist muted that instinct entirely. Instead, the curious side wins out.

This witch seemed to prompt that effect, if the earlier telepathy was anything to go by.]

What's your theory?

[witchofwishes]

My theory... [She looks back up to the sky, peering at the swirling colors and the mist that is pouring down on them. Well...]

Without knowing anything about this world and the chemicals that make it up... I guess I would say it has to be similar to my world. Light on the atmosphere creates these kinds of lights. To have them in so many vivid colors and here, assuming we're not at the northernmost point of this world, means that light, from somewhere, is shining on the atmosphere full of different chemicals than the ones from my home. Thus explaining the different colors.

And this mist... [No clouds. Just a clear beautiful sky of swirling color.] Maybe... the atmosphere itself? If it's made up of different chemicals then maybe this scenerio where it falls upon us is likely... It would explain the smell too. Though not the reaction, I suppose.

Knowing nothing else, this is my best guess. It doesn't seem too farfetched, I don't think~.

[teratias]

I hadn't noticed the smell. [Perhaps because it had drifted into his little room slowly, acclimating before Waver could truly register. He takes a sniff, and now it is an obvious environmental factor. There's a moment's flush of red in admitting his failure to account for all senses, but he moves past it.]

If we're at the northmost point though, it should presumably be colder than it is. Unless there's weird space physics in play I mean. [Entirely possible.]

Maybe the movement is the key?

[witchofwishes]

[This is very true.] You're right. The north pole back home doesn't really get over freezing. And even if you're in a place where you can see the northern lights, it doesn't get close to being this kind of weather.

I have another theory then. The atmosphere keeps us warm. It may be thinner where the sun can warm the planet much more efficiently. Or I guess it's more accurate to say a thinner Ozone layer. That provides some other scientific challenges but...

[She's only been here a day. These are just guesses. For all she knows she could (and is) be very off about how this all works.

Also she's a witch not a scientist!]