[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

[liveinskin]

[Yeah you're tall as hell Jotaro, and it's especially noticeable as F.F. lazily picks herself up from the ground and she's 5'4.]

Hm, I guess we never did give out our names. [She puts her hands on her hips and smiles.] Foo Fighters. Or "F.F." for short. See, Marsha wasn't close at all.

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

[In a perfect world, Jotaro would hear this name and wonder what the hell F.F.'s parents were thinking. This isn't a perfect world, though, and so even though Jotaro's feeling pretty good about life in general, he glares at the tiny green-haired woman before him and thinks Stand user.]

I guess it's not. My name's Jotaro Kujo. [If she's another of Dio's assassins or servants, he figures, maybe she's too good an actress to react noticeably, but he's gonna watch her face anyway.]

[liveinskin]

[Well Jotaro is in luck, because F.F. is actually the opposite of a good actress. She downright stinks. Her face visibly slackens in shock, his name completely unmistakable to her. If she had a proper heartbeat, it would be racing a mile a minute. If her body was capable of getting chills, she'd feel them right now.]

No way... [she mutters, and takes a step toward him.] How the hell are you so young?

[She's never asked Jolyne about her father, knowing the topic to be utterly sensitive to the woman, but this "Jotaro Kujo" standing in front of her can't possibly be old enough to have a 19 year old daughter.]

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

[Okay, that's... not the reaction he was expecting. Jotaro stands his ground, still glaring, but now more than any time all day he's regretting the absence of Star Platinum.]

It's 1988, I'm supposed to be this age. How do you know me? [Because this is sounding like the wrong end of some sort of Back to the Future bullshit, and Jotaro is pretty sure he's not here to be anybody's George McFly.]

[liveinskin]

1988... [as jolyne would say:] what a pain.

[It's early 2012 at the time she came to this world. In that case, this Jotaro Kujo is over 20 years too young. No way Jolyne could have been born yet. How the hell does she even explain something so bizarre?]

There's... you and I share a mutual acquaintance. Well, it's more than that, but that's how I know your name. The year is 2012 where I come from. Judging from your appearance though, you're definitely not a forty year old man!

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

[2012? What the fuck. He wants to pick F.F.'s claim apart, but the weird shit in the air is making his thought processes slow. He's kind of hung up on the George McFly thing now, so he bends down to try and get a better look at her.]

Who are you supposed to be, my weird future marsh kid?

[He's looking for a family resemblance. Spoiler alert: F.F. is way too short and otherwise not at all like a woman of the Joestar line, but for all Jotaro knows that shit all turns recessive with no more Dio in the world to fight.]

[liveinskin]

What-- no! [jesus no. she just takes a big step back, dont lean down toward her space.] Though you're kind of close... sort of. Your future child is a friend of mine.

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

[Oh, so personal space she knows but not to take care of books? Absolute weirdo. He lets her put the space between them, though, because he's really not sure what to do with this information. Except...] An actual friend, or the kind of friend you plan to murder?

[liveinskin]

[...]

Well, you see, I tried to murder her but then we became friends because she took mercy on me! So I kind of already tried that out and I find being her friend is a much more rewarding experience.

[at least she is honest......]

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

[And just like that, Jotaro relaxes again. Maybe in the future it's known among enemies how he became friends with Kakyoin and Polnareff, but F.F.'s answer resonates with him too strongly to be ignored. He's gonna have a merciful daughter someday, someone who makes friends out of enemies, and that's... it's really cool.]

Okay. Are you a Stand user, or do you guys have some other power in the future?

[liveinskin]

[Well... hahah...]

I'm a Stand user. Not that it matters when I can't summon it at all. [Some things she is just going to keep to herself for a while. He isn't threatening death onto her, so that's a good thing, and she thinks it might be hard to explain that she's a sentient Stand.] Well at least they gave us replacement powers to cover for it.

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

[It's good to know, anyway, if only to reassure him that some things will remain consistent in the next few decades and to know he has someone to whine with when he inevitably breaks something because he forgets Star Platinum isn't there to catch everything. Like, a bone maybe.

Except then F.F. goes and mentions their replacement powers, and Jotaro sort of visibly grimaces.] They should've given us better replacements. All I've been able to do since I got here is-- [It's too embarrassing to say out loud, so he just reaches for it and starts sparkling. Little stars appear in the air around them both, too faint to be seen in full daylight but bright enough for night. That's it, that's his power here.]

[liveinskin]

Oooh. [She watches the sparkles with wide eyes, enraptured completely. ...For about ten seconds, before she realizes nothing else is happening. That gets a flat:] Oh.

[Yeah that is definitely lame.]

Well, think about it like this: your Stand's name is Star Platinum right? Maybe that's why you have this power! ...I got a similar power to my Stand, so it's a theory.

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

[Yeah, "oh". He stops sparkling as soon as she gets the picture, and if it's still jarring when she mentions Star Platinum (it is), he at least doesn't show it.]

What kind of power have you got? [If there is some weird poetry to their current powers' relations to their Stands, he wants to build evidence early.]

[liveinskin]

My magic lets me heal using water, and my Stand power also lets me heal people. That's why I think it might be similar. [It's just a theory and may not apply to everyone. Poor Jotaro got stuck with a pretty useless power, despite having the most powerful Stand.] Well you may not have a great magic ability, but you can still punch people! That's something.