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epidemiology2016-04-30 09:07 pm
futurologists) wrote in epidemiology2016-04-30 09:07 pm
Entry tags:
- ! alastair npc,
- ! event log,
- ashraf salib (original),
- daenerys targaryen (asoiaf),
- dick gumshoe (ace attorney),
- evan friave-goodlace (original),
- gilgamesh (fate/),
- gintoki sakata (gintama),
- graham humbert (once upon a time),
- isabella charming (jekyll & hyde),
- jason todd (dc comics),
- meallan lavellan (dragon age),
- papyrus (undertale),
- pearl (steven universe),
- rhys (borderlands),
- rick sanchez (rick & morty),
- saber (fate/),
- sieglinde sullivan (black butler)
EVENT ★ GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
 MAROONED Three days after the eruptions wrecked their havoc, a storm begins. It's not so different from the storm the recruits first encountered upon arrival, but this storm seems oddly and peculiarly driven. In some places of the islands it's nothing but pattering rain, but in other places it's strong enough to lift a fully grown human off his or her feet. And that's just what it does. It sweeps up recruits here and there -- not all of them, and there is no apparent method to who it takes and who it leaves. Some stay on the Nalawi islands, some are simply swept up into the sky. Here and there the storm grabs a Nalawi as well, but these victims are always dropped again. Sometimes out over the water, sometimes crashing down into land. They do not generally survive this. The recruits stolen by the storm aren't aloft for long. They emerge eventually from the tumbling, buffeting, blinding winds, spewed out onto the beach of a strange new island. This island, to anyone paying any attention to their surroundings, is a recent addition to the surface of the ocean. In fact, flying in the face of physics and statistical likelihood (much in the way the storm had), it seems to have recently been on the seafloor. This island was clearly once inhabited, although it's been a long, long time since then. Uniform structures can be found arranged in streets and avenues, now all thoroughly caked in barnacles, coral, seaweed, and other assorted debris of the sea. Here and there can even be found dead fish, suffocated when the water began to drain away and turn to open air. Most of them are horrifying, the things that tend to keep to the dark depths of the water. Toward the center of this empty, silent, sea-claimed city a giant sea serpent threads around and through several buildings. It's just as dead as the rest of them, its huge, pale eyes staring at nothing. There are a few things here that aren't quite dead, though. Sometimes something armored, dull red, and hungry crawls out of some dark place. These creatures can't really be compared to anything on the surface, but they are each about the length of a human, with three sets of sharpened limbs held up off the ground, used for stabbing forward to pierce its prey, and one set of pinchers below that. The pinchers might anchor prey in place for easier stabbing, but they also create a tiny sonic boom when clacked. Standing too close to this can leave you dazed and momentarily helpless. These creatures aren't fazed by the lack of water around them, they're just hungry and ready to feed on anything nearby -- even each other. The danger they present to recruits is at least slightly mitigated by an unknown force, though. If a recruit finds themselves unable to handle one of the creatures or overwhelmed by it, the storm itself will lash out at the thing. This isn't a very precise defense, but it is generally enough to pick up one or both of the contestants and separate them. Nothing here looks anything like what can be found on the Nalawi islands, except perhaps the flora. It's difficult to tell. What trees have been left are waterlogged, petrified mockeries, it's unclear what they may have looked like while this island still lived. The buildings are all very inorganic, made of processed material and with the obvious aid of machinery. Whoever lived here was actually very proficient with machinery, it seems. Within the buildings, some residential and some commercial, can be found the rusted, now-useless remains of a technologically advanced society. Personal belongings can also be found, waterlogged and largely ruined, and all in an upset as if they had gone through frequent and destructive earthquakes. Still, they can tell the story of mundane, day-to-day lives here for anyone who cares to look. Food is going to be a little tricky to come by unless you're a fan of seafood; fishing will be possible for anyone who opts to brave the edge of the storm, and of course there are the bizarre delicacies so thoughtfully raised up from the seafloor, dead among the streets and buildings. Recruits would do well to be careful with those, though. There is a particular kind of seaweed that, while it looks perfectly innocuous, will cause vivid hallucinations an hour after ingesting, for 10 minutes to three hours, depending on how much was ingested. Above all else, though, is the eerie silence. The storm rages on, but although it completely surrounds the island, it keeps to the perimeter. Even the rain stays off of the island, though the sun is obscured by the heavy, ominous clouds. Thunder rumbles now and then, punctuated by lightning flashes, but there isn't a single sound on this gray, dreary, dead island that wasn't made by an ALASTAIR recruit. OOC INFO Recruits will ICly be here for one week, and OOCly the log will last for two. The storm will prevent any travel off of the island. Should anyone feel brave enough to try risking a trip into it, they will find it still possesses that ability to literally sweep recruits off their feet. It might also be due to this mysterious storm that no one on the island can seem to reach out to anyone on the Nalawi islands via jewelry network, nor to any of the NPC recruits they'd met at Oska. Players who signed up for plot slots will be receiving additional information, which we ask they share with the rest of the characters. You may sign up here for information that can be found while exploring the island, as well. Please direct any questions to the OOC write up. |
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[he doesn't appreciate self-depreciation humor it seems.]
A checklist... what a "good" idea!
But how will I know if I've met everyone if I don't know who I'm missing?
[Sometimes, he,can be smart. Sometimes.]
Also! I have no pens.
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[ She hasn't really tried. She shrugs, not too torn up over it one way or another. This particular joke doesn't seem worth running into the ground, not at the expense of realizing just how marooned they are, and how long it could take them to get back to anything resembling civilization... if they ever do. She's not looking forward to dying again, least of all not on some strange island in the middle of an even stranger sea. ]
By any chance, are there any other skeletons in your list of acquaintances? Just curious, is all.
[ ...is that racist to ask? ]
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And yes, there are! At least, one more. My brother, Sans! I assume you've met him, then.
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[ Is that a hint of sarcasm? Absolutely. But she's amused anyway, because it's not the most useless utilization of technology she's ever witnessed. ]
Oh, yes! I have met him! He's quite talented, but I never would have guessed that you are related. [ They look like they could very well have been completely different species, had they ever been alive. ] Does that mean you're made of magic, too?
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...You really think he's talented?
[ He sounds genuinely surprised, because... no one's ever used exactly that word to describe him. She must mean the joking, but... ]
...
[ It does make him a little happy, that someone would think that of Sans. Enough so to even say it out loud. ]
You're right! He is pretty talented, when he wants to be! And yes, I am made of magic! Or, I... was? I technically shouldn't be alive without it! But I ... don't feel it at all, right now.
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[ He has powers! Like her! That's pretty neat in her book. Being a magic talking skeleton, also very impressive. She's down for all of that. ]
I think most of us are feeling very... not-magical right now, but I don't know what that means for someone made of magic. It's better than disappearing yourself though, isn't it?
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[Seriously. How is he not a pile of dust? It's kind of weird. Like it could happen at any moment, really.]
Irregardless! I'm fine for now, so I think maybe I will continue to be fine! Are you made of magic too?
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No, I'm not made of magic exactly, but I have quite a lot that I didn't realize I would miss so much once it was gone. It does make me wonder how the rest of our team is faring after that storm, though. Some of them might not know what it's like, to not be invincible, or invulnerable, or whatever else they might have been.
I wonder if we should go check on them...
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