[OPENING] island hub - day 1

[spellbindmods]

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

[potentite]

[A]
[Gathering crabs seems like a fine idea. So he'll just be stealing one of the pots to do that with, one which you seemed interested in.]

Oh, um, were you— Did you want this one? I'm sorry.


[E]
[Jake did not pick his electronic device for convenience or because it was smart. He picked something to distract himself with. So now he's sitting somewhere off to the side and playing with a remote control car of some sort.

The car is doing its best but Jake is not really good at this, so he keeps accidentally ramming it into things.

Like possibly your foot, whoops. He looks so upset now.]

Sorry! So sorry!


[G]
[Despite being tired, Jake refuses to go back to the huts at the moment. He'd much rather stay here since at least there aren't as many people. He also rather likes the light show. He's never seen an aurora in person and this is a good substitute.

The fact that he is relaxing so much is not something he associates with worm vapour, so he doesn't think much of it. Maybe the lights are just making him calmer. He flops onto his back to keep watching the lights.]

So glad today is over. [Don't let the idiot fall asleep out here with the boars and worms.]


[Wildcard]
[Feel free to hit me up for anything! You can just make a starter or ping me at astronomia! TDM threads can be kept!]

E

[liveinskin]

Whoa!

[That car definitely slams right into her foot, causing her to hop back and wave the injured body part to shake off the discomfort. It didn't hurt too bad, but now she's just focused on how tiny that car is. Then she hears Jake's apology.]

Hey, is this yours? Who's driving it?

[From what she knows of cars, they are driven by people. So she's picking it up to check to see if tiny people are inside. There are none.]

[potentite]

[Jake gets up to come over to her, holding out the remote control.]

Oh, no one is driving it. Unfortunate, I know. A tiny mouse dreaming of becoming a race car driver would be cute. But no it's just the remote here.

[liveinskin]

Oh. Yeah that's not nearly as interesting as tiny people driving tiny cars.

[She smiles and puts the car gently down, not wanting to carelessly break it.]

I don't think mice dream of being race car drivers. They usually just want cheese, or to escape mazes that scientists trap them in.

E

[5kotai]

Eep!

[ That is the sound of a kid who ended up totally spooked by an rc car hitting his foot. To Jake's credit, it was lightly! But it's kind of like when you drive one into an unsuspecting cat. Maybe. [

Is... that a toy?

[ He's peering from the top of the crate he hopped onto, watching it with curiosity and less fear. You know how those cars make a cute little whirring noise as it drives around? Yeah. ]

[potentite]

[Oh no, poor kid. But at least he seems more interested than scared or hurt.]

Oh, yes! It's a toy, yes. It's modeled after a race car, I think.

[5kotai]

[ He'll be fine! Jake doesn't seem like he did it on purpose. He's probably bored? ]

A race car... They're the kind that speed around on a track, right? The go round and round and you try to get first!

[ He looks around. Jumping off the storage crate, he kneels by the toy. ]

Maybe we can make a track here! Or find an open place with less feet.

a!

[mapsio]

Oh, no, you can have that one! I was just going to gather more water.

[....and then when she realizes who it is, she smiles.]

Would you like to walk together?

[potentite]

[Oh! One of the few people he actually feels kind of comfortable with.]

Oh, certainly, miss. Um, I mean, Haru. [It's a little shy but he thinks it's okay to call her that.] I was just thinking of gathering crabs for everyone.

[mapsio]

[She gathers up another pot. Nodding.]

How about we help each other do that? I'll get some water, and I can help you gather some of the crabs. [She seems pleased with her suggestion.]

Are you doing okay?

e

[imsorey]

[the car was more startling than anything else, and Sorey makes sure to check it for damages before trying to nudge it back in Jake's direction.]

Don't worry about it. That thing is pretty cool! How'd you get it to move like that?

[potentite]

[Oh it's Sorey again. He smiles a bit as he comes over.]

The remote here! [He holds out the controller.] It's... fairly intuitive? The little sticks move it in those directions. So the left one goes up and down and the other goes right and left. It's just getting the coordination together to make it work.

[imsorey]

[he examines all of the buttons and sticks with fascination]

--Wow, that's amazing! But it looks like it takes a bit of practice to control, even if it is intuitive to figure out. That's what practice is for, right?

G

[gymconquering]

[Sapphire is pretty keenly aware that Something Is Up. She doesn't need Phado rattling his Pokeball to tell her that, with the unusual scent on the air, but the faint noise does keep it at the front of her mind as she criss-crosses the camp and the area around it.

Still, it's hard to really be concerned about it.]

How d'ya think there's even days here? There ain't a planet to go around a sun.

[She almost plunks herself down on the spot, but Chic chirps from behind her, reminding her of their patrol so she just sways from foot to foot instead. The Blaziken seems faintly lethargic, but far more alert than either of the humans near her - bursts of hot air have kept a lot of the vapor off of her, and out of her lungs.]

[potentite]

[Whoa, those look super cool. He blinks at them, eyes wide, but he doesn't actually ask yet. It feels rude when she asked him somehow first.]

Oh, good question. I didn't even think of that. If this is space, um, then unless a moon or planet blocks out the sun in front of us, we should still receive daylight. Like space stations.

[gymconquering]

Yeah, 'xactly! [She crosses her arms and sighs in thought, squinting off across the place where an ocean really should be. Her voice gets a bit mumbly as she goes on, trailing quieter.] But if it's happenin' it's happenin'. So somethin's goin' around the island lightin' everything up.

E because I'm good at remembering prompt labels

[probablynoteren]

[Actually, he barely felt that, given he has military-issue boots on thanks to his job and it was more of a startling thud than anything else. Lenka's been walking around totally distracted by his own device, so it's debatable whether the car hit him or whether he kicked the car; it might be both.

He blinks and then smiles down at the tiny little thing whirring around his ankles. There's a Polaroid camera in his hands, and he ends up snapping a picture, because he's in the middle of experimenting with it anyway. Collision immortalized!]

It's okay. I hope it wasn't damaged.

[He picks it up with his free hand to check on the spinning little wheels... they seem to be turning okay, even if he isn't an expert.]

[potentite]

[Oh, a camera! Cool. Jake gets up and comes closer.]

Oh, it should be, I think. Even if it broke a bit, I could probably fix it. [Wait no he couldn't he doesn't have tools here. Oh well.] But it looks okay! Sorry about that. At least you got a picture out of it.

[probablynoteren]

It's yours? Or did you get it from the... [actually, it's really hard to describe the caravan, the thing is just way too elaborate; he ends up waving his hand vaguely] From the girl with the red hair. She was giving out a lot.

[And actually, this is way more than he expected to wind up with after arriving here with only the clothes on his back and his armlet. Given that he doesn't have a JRPG inventory anymore, it's actually getting a little challenging to juggle everything. So instead of keeping the developed picture, he hands it to Jake once he gets close enough along with the little car.]

Oh... here. I can't keep all the pictures.

G

[yokunaru]

[Yuuri had stayed out here for the same reason, savoring the smaller crowd of people that had lingered behind. Though he's not completely sure what's going on yet, he's realized that the less people there are around, the less his head hurts. He's...not sure what to make of that yet, but he'll figure it out tomorrow. Maybe. For now, watching the aurora is giving him a sense of calm that he's been missing the whole day.]

We'll...we'll still be here tomorrow, though. If this isn't a dream. [Yuuri's voice is quiet as he tucks his chin down and draws his legs up to his chest. ]

[potentite]

[Oh. Well, that is a good point. Jake wonders about that one. For a long time, he's just been waiting to get in the game. And then, they were waiting for the others to show up. He's never really thought too much past that but he supposes he'll have to now.]

I don't think it's a flight of fancy. If it was a dream, it would be a memory. [Not that Yuuri will understand that but Jake is mostly saying it for himself.] And I don't think you dreamt me up, do you? I've got a whole lotta thoughts buzzing in my head and if you dreamt this, well, bravo I guess on worldbuilding.

e

[secrowtary]

[It was a noticeable poke, so Hibiki reaches for the toy car in order to examine it.]

Interesting—

[That's when the apologies reach his ears.]

It's alright, please don't apologize. Do you control it with your magic? And do you happen to know if there are motorcycles like this?

[potentite]

Oh, no, not with magic. With this controller here. [He gets up and shows the controller to him.] There may have been a motorcycle one back in the bin, though! Do you like motorcycles?

E

[windeity]

[He's still moving fairly slow and prying through piles to investigate, but he's easily distracted when he feels the car hit his foot. He looks up, eyes narrowed to look for the culprit but his expression lights up upon seeing Jake. He might be sick and shaky still but he appears to be in higher spirits as he crouches down to look at the car.]

Our first sign of real technology. I knew you'd find something.

[potentite]

[Oh, he flushes a bit from the praise but smiles.]

It wasn't a difficult feat! There's a bin of doodads down a ways. I saw other gadgets with more use but...

[It's neat? He's never seen one?]