[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

[enflame]

a;

( At this point during the day, Emil knows he has magic that would be of some use, but it's not something he's ready to accept. It's impossible for him to simply be okay with suddenly being magical, especially when he's got something of a "negative" opinion of mage stuff back home, even now.

...Too bad that his magic is based on emotion, and the emotion he's currently feeling is hunger. This may or may not explain why he's staring at a crab carcass on fire with a rather despondent look on his face.

Damn it, he didn't mean to do that. )

d;

( Well, he's somewhat used to the whole telepathy thing, but the text in the middle of his vision is new. Time to ask a stupid question...or two. )

Hello? Who are you?

( If that was his voice, it'd be rather shaky. Reveal yourself, writing demon!! )

e;

( The first thing Emil snagged from the buckets was a jacket, but after that...his choices were pretty limited. Most of the objects seemed to be useless or ill-suited, so he simply grabbed whatever he could just to max out his limit.

As of now, he doesn't fully realize what he's fiddling with. He keeps pressing a button on the side repeatedly (for the volume) and....it doesn't seem to do anything. )

I don't get it. Why would you make a plate so thick and useless? ( What would you even eat on this? Please help?? )

f;

( There's a heaviness that keeps Emil from really wanting to sleep -- he's sure if he tries it won't exactly be a sound sleep at all. He's about to give up, considering just how dark it's gotten.

Sadly, he makes this determination about five minutes too late. As he's getting up from the beach, dusting himself off from the sand. Out of the darkness, a male boar lurks towards Emil, slowly approaching with his tusks out. He only notices the movement at first before double-taking to lock eyes with the aggressive mammal.

The boar looks at Emil. Emil looks at the boar. The boar charges.

...and with a jump and a high pitched shrieking sound, the boar is suddenly aflame. His high pitched pain squealing is ear-piercing and Emil is freaking the fuck out because he just set a living animal on fire on accident, but he's also too panicked to put it out. Holy shit!!! )

I'm sorry...again! ( Just in case this happened to be a boar involved in his first act of destruction. Pretty sure setting animals on fire is a sociopathy classification. )

F

[lunala]

[Oh, gosh, something is screaming. Oh, gosh, it looks like something's on fire. Oh, gosh, it's one of those not Pokemon. Moon flails her arms around in the air a few times before she manages to get any water at all out of her attempts, but eventually the boar is soaked and no longer on fire.]

Is everyone okay...?

[enflame]

( Bless this tiny champion. Despite her best efforts, the boar is very obviously hurt and smells a little charred, and Emil looks completely freaked. )

No...? No! I'm not okay; I just set that weird pig on fire! ( HE'S A FREAK, A VIOLENT FREAK!! )

[lunala]

[That poor boar, it did not ask for this life. She's pretty sure it will just attack her or run away if she tries to approach it, but it's clear she wants to do something about its situation. Of course, there's Emil, too.] It was an accident, right? And it's not on fire anymore!

[enflame]

Accident or not, that's absolute insanity! What good is having magic if you can't control it?

( Usually he's a little bit better with handling kids, but his mind is in full panic mode, right now. The pained grunts of the boar shuffling around, stunning, aren't helping his brain chill out.

About the not being on fire thing, he'll say thank you when he's not hyperventilating. )

[lunala]

You can learn to control it! [Probably? They wouldn't get magic they couldn't learn to control, right?] And until then... You can carry around water?

E

[teratias]

[Waver had lucked out slightly with the supplies. Having a bag with a multitude of compartments was practical, and he was not about to question his luck on the matter. He was all set to walk away when he noticed someone fiddling with something Waver himself didn't recognize.]

What makes you think that's a plate?

[enflame]

I don't know. It's flat, and about the right size. Not a very functional design, though.

( He won't cry if it's not a plate because whatever it is, it's probably useless. Emil flicks the glass with a gloved finger. ) I will admit I've never seen a plate with buttons, but they don't work, so I don't think it means much of anything... The glass is a bit mirror-like, but it's useless for that as well.

( It'd be just his luck to pick something useless and cheap. )

[teratias]

Buttons? Okay, then it can't be a plate.

[Waver stops outright from demanding he be handed over the not-a-plate, but he does extend a hand.]

Can I take a look?

[enflame]

( With a shrug, Emil hands it over. It's not like it's some valuable object, so what's the harm. )

Suit yourself. I think they're buttons. Don't know what else they could be, even if they don't do anything. ( He's not tech-savvy enough to think to hold one of them down..... )

[teratias]

[Waver is from the 1990s, so the tablet is yet to happen. But he does know what a button is, so he experiments with holding them down in turn. Volume, volume, something else, power...

...Let there be light! Waver blinks in surprise when a screen pops up, the background of it looking like some grand natural feature on another planet entirely. He grins, satisfied, and hands Emil the tablet back.]

See? Not a plate.

d

[oneandmikleonly]

[he's mostly been keeping back from people today, as best as he can, and not eating -- but the fire is kind of eye-catching, especially when it's paired up with such a gloomy look.]

Er -- cooking mishap? Or did it do that on its own?

[he...doesn't know that much about crabs.]

[enflame]

( Neither does Emil, but he thinks quickly -- if it set itself on fire somehow, that'd be a pretty big coincidence. Probably unlikely, only furthering his melancholy. )

I'm pretty sure I did that! Without trying to cook it, either. ( He has had it up to here with this magic...it might be cool if he knew how it was happening and didn't just set random shit on fire. )

[oneandmikleonly]

[that was supposed to be prompt a i was very tired]

You're having trouble with these new powers too, huh. Well--at least you get dinner out of it? A bit better than some other people on the island can say right now.

[he hasn't even tried to activate whatever his own power is yet -- it's not as volatile as Emil's to start with, fortunately -- but he's caused enough messes with his own magic growing up to sympathize.]

[enflame]

( Emil just continues to stare at the dead crab smoldering in front of him. It's complicated...on one hand, he'd rather have fire-related powers than something stupid. But...it also wouldn't bother him if he didn't have any magic at all. )

I'd rather make dinner the old fashioned way. With fire that didn't come from...me. Somehow. ( The crab does smell good though...as good as dead, burnt crab can smell. ) Mage things should be left to actual mages.

[oneandmikleonly]

It looks like everyone's being counted as 'actual mages' now. So far as I know no one's managed to hurt another person yet, which is a minor miracle, considering.

...you could cook some of the boar regularly to even it out, perhaps. What's the term that one bar used...'surf and turf'?

e

[actus]

[ .... as a kid of the modern technology era, akira is more than used to technology. while his parents aren't rich and haven't given him the coolest new gadgets, he at least knows what a tablet and phone look like. especially when someone is bringing attention to it. and -- ]

Ah. Yes. That magical plate.

[ sorry, emil..... ]

[enflame]

( Magic? Fuck he's had it up to here with magic. Still, that might mean it's useful. Akira seems to know. )

It's magical? What kind of magic? ( Even if it's garbage magic, he might be able to trade it.......please bring him luck, Magical Plate-chan. )

[actus]

The magic of the future.

[ it's deadpan, but he tilts his head to get a better look at the thing, stepping closer. why isn't it just working? the guy seemed to have been partaking in one of akira's favorite pastimes; button-mashing. so why... ]

Ah, you're pressing the wrong button.

[enflame]

The future...? ( That doesn't mean much to him for a myriad of reasons, but consider him somewhat intrigued. Especially when there may be a promise of figuring out its value. ) There's more of them? Oh...

( He looks around the device again...oh! There is a button he didn't see earlier. He presses it hard since it's more flesh with the outside of the object.

It takes a second, but soon it turns on and quickly glows with a white light. Shit, fuck, shit. )

What is it doing? Is it a light? It's glowing! ( HE ACTIVATED THE MAGIC, HELP HIM )

[actus]

[ JESUS CHRIST HAVE YOU NOT SEEN LIGHT BEFORE - ]

[ akira raises a curled fist to hide a laugh behind it, eyes brightening in utter amusement. this guy. even coffee-dad knew how to use this sort of thing. geez. ]

Yes, the Holy Light of [ he peeks at it a bit closer ] Verizon, the God of Technology, bitter rivals with the fallen Angel Sprint.

a

[puddingemote]

[Tamaki has never seen someone look quite so despondent about a crab being on fire in his life, but then, he's also never really seen anyone set a crab on fire, especially somehow magically. He can't help but comment on it, sitting nearby where he has been tasked by someone to shell the crabs.

(He's not very good at it.)]

I don't think it'll taste very good if you burn it...

[At least turn it over or something.]

[enflame]

( It's okay, they can be not very good at things together. )

I'm not very hungry anyway. ( The smell of burning crab is making his stomach turn at this point. ) You can have it if you want it. If you can put it out, anyway.

( Since..........he doesn't know he can do that, yet. )

[puddingemote]

You don't know how?

[Lacking in any tact, he'll just go ahead and call that out. Regardless, he stands by what he said about it not tasting very good.]

Mm... I think I'll wait until someone else cooks it...

[enflame]

I know how to put out a fire. ( Doesn't everyone?? ) It's not like I have any water on hand, and dumping sand on it will just make it gritty.

( Emil may change his mind about eating it, so he's keeping his options open...it would certainly be useful to have the ability to get rid of fire instead of just being able to spontaneously combust shit. )

But suit yourself. There are a ton of other gross, little-legged creatures in that forsaken bathhouse if this one's too crispy for you.