WEEK 4

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WEEK FOUR

24 Vacationers

What started with a week promising relaxation turned into something else entirely. It might be nice to try to grab a quiet moment after the whirlwind of the weekend, but there's something to be said about keeping up the momentum too.The island open to you this week, Dodo's Outlook, seems to have that in mind, or at the very least, keeping your mind occupied. All damage to the island buildings has been fixed by Monday morning at least, but noticeably there are less palm trees than before where the damage was the heaviest. Explorers too will find that the area behind the waterfall has been completely sealed off with solid rock.

Whether you're the type to commune with the nature of marine life in the aquarium, the cosmos in the planetarium, or to spin your own tale in the theater, there's plenty to do and enjoy. As always there's task to complete too, and after all you've been through by now, what's a little more bonding in the pursuit of prizes?

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TASKS:

In the stars:
Compare your astrology sign with someone else, and find out if you're a match!
(REWARD: RARE!)

Say Cheese:
Take a selfie with someone else and share it with the network. Make it silly, romantic, zany, or however else you want to express yourself!
(REWARD: RARE!)

Encore!:
Everyone loves a performance. Give someone or several someones a performance however you like, music not required.
(Reward: Common)

(( REMINDER: Task submissions are due Friday by 9 PM EST/6 PM PST. ))

(( OOC: Murder proposals are due by Tuesday at 4 PM EST / 1 PM PST, for the current week's murder. Feel free to submit for later weeks too!

Also, as always, your admins can be contacted for a chat. ))

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[necrotiem]

...You may be forced to make a difficult romantic decision later in the day when Venus squares off with the Nodes of Fate.'

[Quin is polishing off the final sentence of a daily horoscope that she's plucked from the postings and been reading aloud, sitting primly on the couch and dangling a drink in her hand.]

My...doesn't that sound like a passionate clash? [She lifts her gaze from the reading to make eye contact, looking for confirmation.] It said a lot of natter about catching up with acquaintances as well, at the top. On social media...? But this is far social enough for me. What about yours? Any squaring off in your fortune?

[If the horoscopes don't suit your fancy, feel free to approach her otherwise! Get a selfie, compliment her, grill her about the food sources! She is being a good hostess and mingling when she isn't contributing to the proliferation of Xiao shirts across the building or redirecting alcohol from WWX.]

[plunges]

[ Huh. About that. ]

I have the same one as you.

[ He rolls his eyes. ]

It's nonsense, if you ask me.

[necrotiem]

Is that so? And here I thought we couldn't be more different in temperament, haha!

That would add credence to your theory that all of this is nonsense. I'd much prefer to take matters into my own hand...but if the stars are on my side, then I accept their support!

[dakicover]

What kind of horoscope is that?

[ curious, he takes a look to see which one of the zodiac signs that belongs to, and… ]

Aries?? [ um, ] Jeez, I don’t think I have time for romance right now. My plate’s full enough.

[necrotiem]

A sorely violent one, if a little lonely. I suppose people in some places live these U-PINION devices all the time.

[What's this? Does she taste some hesitation? Hoho.]

Crea, could it be that you take these horoscopes as serious doctrine?

[dakicover]

No way. I didn't even know what this sort of thing was before today.

[ he breathes out a huff, arms crossed against his chest. ]

And proof of that is that I don't have any sort of romantic decision to make in the first place.

[necrotiem]

Oh. [Her eyebrows lift with realization.] Then we must share the same designation! How delightful to have something in common. Is that supposed to be a good thing, do you think? Our similarities may repulse or attract one another.

[dakicover]

I mean, I definitely wouldn't say that we reject each other. I don't have any negative feelings like that towards you, miss Waltaquin.

[ attracted to her, though...well, that would also have to be probably be a no, actually. ]

Unless you secretly hate me, as to which, oops!

[necrotiem]

Do you think you've done anything to garner my hatred, Crea?

[She seems unbothered, even by the tacit implication that neither is really the case. The question shouldn't give him serious pause, though the way she smiles a little as she says it might.]

Shall we have a look at what the cards say regardless? I haven't behaved like a prize show animal enough for our watchful keepers this week.

[dakicover]

[ luckily for crea, he doesn't have to think long enough for that. he snorts, raising an eyebrow while glancing in walt's general direction. ]

Considering we keep talkin', no, I don't think I have.

[ as for the next question... ah, sure, why the hell not. he nods, followed by a quick shrug of the shoulders. ]

We might as well? Let's see if these cards will somehow reveal somethin' that we somehow don't know.

[necrotiem]

How else shall I continue to get your valuable input?

[She pulls up the Aries4Aries listing.] Ah, see here, These two are always competing, which can make for quite a challenging love match. How thrilling...but ultimately suffocating, don't you think? Knowing you can never be on top?

[He's welcome to keep browsing - it certainly sounds fiery but not like the worst compatibility.]

[dakicover]

What do you mean by that. Of course I can be on top sometimes!

[ he's not going to let himself lose so easily?! ]

we have another thread and yet

[microtransactions]

[ out of curiosity he snatches one of the appropriate horoscopes off the postings also and reads aloud: ]

"For a few months now, you've felt that things are accelerating in your professional life, Scorpio. Perhaps some projects have developed more quickly than you anticipated. They may have even gotten a bit out of control. Today you should let yourself distinguish more clearly what you've done so far. You may be in for a surprise."

Huh! No, nothing so dramatic as a passionate romance, it looks like! But wow, what kind of decision do you think you're even going to have to make?

GIVE ME MORE MORB.....MORB? shit that doesn't work

[necrotiem]

A few months? It sounds as if you should be anticipating the culmination of a great work. Do you have such an opus in motion, Magolor?

[To her, that sounds like a rather intense outcome as well! Would that we could all see such long-lived projects come to fruition.

Quin swirls her glass.] Well, what do you think? Is intense courtship on my mind at the moment?

[microtransactions]

Huh, I wasn't exactly in the middle of anything like that when we all ended up here...! I've had a couple thoughts about future projects, maybe, but really I was more or less still just in the collecting ideas and getting inspiration stage of things!

[ observing other examples, seeing what he can do better than them. you know, things like that. ]

Let's see .. if you are going through such a courtship, what possible decisions could you be pondering ... [ a small, mock gasp, eyes widening dramatically ] Could you be considering a breakup? Preparing yourself to stand against fate and say, 'I think we'd be better off going our own separate ways?'

[necrotiem]

Huh. Well, it's either all hogwash, or the news reached you perhaps a few months earlier than it should have. Either way, think of it as a chance to shape your own destiny.

[As for hers... Waltaquin bites the tip of her thumb, giving what looks like serious thought to his proposition.]

A separation, do you think? [She chuckles.] I have always enjoyed the lure of a bombastic goodbye... I have such a hard time letting go, though.

[microtransactions]

Either early or late, maybe... a good while ago I do remember things getting a bit ... hm, hectic.

But if it's the first thing, then good to know that whatever I decide to do next, it'll have to be something I approach with a clear plan in mind! Forewarned is forearmed, or however the saying goes, right?

[ projects that get out of control, huh... ]

Well, if you have trouble letting go! For you, could it be a bombastic proposal, then?

[stilllovesyou]

[Nona... has a very odd reaction to those words. No, just one word. Venus. She freezes up, like something is crawling down her spine, perhaps a reminder? Almost a memory?

And then it's gone and she stares at Waltaquin blankly.]

I'm the crab.

[necrotiem]

[Waltaquin looks up just to see the tail end of the freeze. She doesn't know what might have done it, and she's unfamiliar with some of the words in these horoscopes regardless. She's going to have to just keep observing.]

The crab? That suits you. [Nona loves the beach and the water, from what she's seen, but she's also like the crab in another way, the one Waltaquin really means: odd and ancient and strangely unchanged by the development of time.] Do you believe in these things?

[stilllovesyou]

I believe in stars, and I believe in crabs.

[She barely understands horoscopes. They were a thing back home, she's fairly sure, but she couldn't read so it never interested her.]

I don't know much about the rest...

[necrotiem]

I wonder if crabs believe in anything.

[It's an idle thought, and one she's pretty sure she knows the answer to. It's not one she thinks Nona would agree with.]

Has someone read yours for you yet? Your fortune.

[stilllovesyou]

The entity who shifts did.

[Moravia in this case, she thinks. Or Waters as she calls him in her mind.]

It said to make a to-do list but I don't like making to-do lists because I can't read them afterward.

[necrotiem]

[Because Quin has fellow certified weird girl energy, she might even be able to tell to whom Nona is referring - or at least has a bit of an inkling.]

Troubling. That's on them for assuming they were writing a horoscope for someone who could read.

I find a good to-do list useful, as long as I pick and choose what to do anyway.

[felame]

[ mmmm. as poetic as xiao is, this wanders away from poetic enlightenment and a little into prescripts territory, though not quite so deep into the yikes city flavor. ]

... Nothing so dramatic.

[ hers is quite tame, all things considered. which is funny, considering the circumstances, but perhaps also a little fitting. ]

Regardless, these read as quite vague... And if not vague, then obvious.

[ at least, hers does? "don't let anyone rush you"? she wouldn't anyway. ]

[necrotiem]

Ah, then I must have had the lucky draw today! Or it's indicative of my "sign's" bombastic nature, hehehe.

[She turns the fortune over like a particularly interesting artifact that has yet to reveal its actual secrets to her.]

Of course, if you're going to keep as many people on the line as possible, you can't go getting too specific. How else would you fool anyone?