WEEK 5

[killerwaves]

WEEK FIVE

21 Vacationers

The weekend sure was something, wasn't it? Tempers flared, explosions burst, and some were treated to an immersive sand bath experience. Come Monday at least, things seem quieter though not in the unnatural still way—the distortions on the islands have receded sometime in the night (with some impressive firework-like booms that may have stirred your sleep, at that; and the waves seem a little higher this morning) and the various amenities on the island have been made orderly again. Though, as always, some traces remain in the landscape; the waterfall looks like it has seen better days, though it's no longer in danger of coughing up debris on your head if looked at wrong.

This week like the rest brings new locations for you to explore, on Kakapo's Nest though it seems like only one of them really fits the vacation vibe. Hope you like snow!

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WEATHER ALERT:

Bulletin:
Starting Monday morning and continuing throughout the week, pollen counts will be elevated. This is expected to last until late Thursday

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TASKS:

Breathe Freely:
Enjoy the great outdoors with a fellow vacationer! It's never too late to appreciate nature.
(REWARD: RARE!)

(( Yes, only one task this week which is memshare with someone else. Have fun!
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, which is the last week of standard murder, week 6 being endgame!!

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

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THURSDAY

[killerwaves]

meeting

[chosenwang]

[ Thursday morning, there will be a message on the network! ]

It's a little late, but we should all meet up.
We have a couple of things we need to share with all of you.
Meet up at the bar at [XX:XX]
Bring snacks!

[ Wang Lu couldn't prepare for the meeting properly and the reason is his left arm being in a sling. Hello. ]

If anyone wants to play any games, I would suggest waiting until after we share our news. [ Then it's a free country. ]

discussion

[chosenwang]

[necrotiem]

[Waltaquin still looks a little worked over but is otherwise her usual self as she shares the lowdown.]

Our opponent yesterday was nothing, I believe, like the beast encountered at the waterfall. It was Xiao, the woman who wielded fire. We came upon her in a transformed state, ransacking the planetarium. She was like a dragon. [Quin pauses for an appreciative little chuckle... in all honesty Xiao's true form had been quite striking.] I suspect the power she displayed was more in line with what she possessed before arriving on these islands, if not more so.

When she died, she returned to how she had been. Based on a small bruise located on her arm, likely she was drugged. She had bled considerably from the nose and mouth, and acting on my suspicions I checked inside.

Her tongue was blackened.

[plunges]

[ There's something strange about this, aside from the all-too-familiar symptoms. Perhaps it hadn't occurred to him that someone as mighty and firm in her convictions could die so tragically. Maybe it's that he wishes he knew more about the one who watched over him during the first few weeks of their stay.

Ah, well. Forgive him for how unusually shaken he looks. Either way, it's back to business. ]

...Just like Wei Wuxian.

[ Who almost fell, too. ]

[passetemps]

[ nods... he's standing back against a wall somewhere nearby with his arms crossed. ]

Unfortunately, she was unable to speak in a way that any of us could understand, so we were unable to glean any definitive information about her circumstances beyond what was visible to us.

[microtransactions]

[ oh. ]

So... what.

There's a drug somewhere here that boosts abilities to the point where they go out of control?

[chosenwang]

We heard the birdkin- Ho-oh on the loudspeaker. He said that it wasn't another lab accident but he'll count it under the same umbrella. He also made a remark about hoping it won't contribute to anything like last week.

cw needles

[townmusician]

[Adding in to Waltaquin's commentary, because haha this is bad.]

I saw Xiao-san [apparently] at the planetarium with everyone, but I saw a trail leading to the snow room. It looked like it had been wrecked a bit, probably by Xiao-san... being a dragon and everything.

There were two sets of footprints in the snow, and they both looked like they belonged to people taller then me? I think one might have been Xiao-san's, because it looked about right, and the other was even bigger.

[He scratches his cheek.]

But I think the most important thing we found was a used syringe. It was totally empty, so I don't know what was in it, but it didn't look like any that I saw before at the lab or anywhere else. [It was a very nice syringe, apparently.] It was labeled, though, with that word "KRATOS" again. I don't... want to jump to conclusions, but...

[It does seem like someone got jabbed and things didn't go well!!]

fla-mingle

[chosenwang]

[microtransactions]

Honestly, couldn't they have left the planetarium alone...?

[ look who's here at the bar and sighing.

and also keeping an eye out for any stray Weird Animals, almost warily. ]

mem time

[chosenwang]

[ for all your interrupting the meeting with a memory needs ]

[dupiety]

[Here's Temenos talking about the power of sheep.]

[passetemps]

[ just. this to 3:09, out of context and completely inappropriate in tone for this meeting. ]

[immortalpoet]

[Wow, this is sudden - here's an abrupt memory of Vergilius being made to...play Santa? Huh.]

[microtransactions]

[ why does no one have the team kirby clash dialogue exchanges on youtube

"happy sunday, Kirby— or Magolor Day, as i like to call it! what's so special about today, you ask? if you buy gem apples... i'll give you extra! look at me! what a nice guy i am, right?"
sundays are now property of magolor, completely unrelated to this meeting. except the executions, he doesn't claim the executions. ]

[mysticpowerbroker]

[ People will get to see Merlin getting his ass jumped and then beat by Fou in the middle of a forest while some other folks are standing around. No, I'm not kidding. ]

[dancing_flames]

[Hey who wants to see Shuda's girlfriend--

It's time for a memshareception!]

[gluttoning]

[In which Beelzebub is a secret fifth Toucan and is also not meeting the vibes of the meeting]

[chosenwang]

[ Thanks to another company having the rights to stream his canon and netflix, most of the videos were taken down or locked.

SO have a sketchy site link and go to 21:30 and stop at 25:00 for The Heart Boys memory. And yes, Wang Lu is singing for the pair dancing. ]

[passetemps]

[ me running in here at almost 8 pm on thursday to dump my memshares, don't look at me

ANYWAY

for much of the day after the meeting zelkov will be in the (grape-free) lab, reading through a pile of chemistry books earlier on, and later, working on... some kind of sticky looking concoction.

at another point, he'll be at the bar mixing up a very different kind of experiment as he tests out some variations on and additions to the current DD refresher recipe. feel free to make suggestions, which he... may or may not take, but will certainly evaluate!

otherwise, you might find yourself experiencing any of the memories listed in the comment that will be posted below this one — feel free to experience any of them, either in his presence or otherwise! ]

memshares

[passetemps]

SUPPORT SCENES

kagetsu A (elusia crew being wholesome)
• link; to 15:41

yunaka B (being called out for his killer vibes)
• link; to 25:20

yunaka A (moving on from dark pasts)
• link; to 28:01

amber A (future alpaca hamlet goals)
• link; to 33:30

jean A (a kid writes a birthday letter to his mother)
• link; to 39:26

louis A (being reminded of his brother)
• link; to 54:50

boucheron (the forest sage)
• link, to 50:11.
this should technically be three memories but i feel like you need the whole thing all together.
one of my favorite supports, it's just goofy and cute.

alear B (look at this stuff, isn't it neat)
• link; to 3:16

alear A (divine dragon being a divine dork)
• link; to 5:47

PLOT SCENES

battle at the brodian border
king hyacinth leaves princess ivy to fight a losing battle.
• link; to 2:21:03. (can ignore the bit between the cutscene and when it goes over to ivy's side, sorry jade.)


joining the divine dragon
defecting against elusia and joining the divine dragon.
• link; to 2:56:43. (i'm sorry for all the goofy emblem summoning in the middle of this.)

Bar + Yunaka A

[dancing_flames]

[Shuda's been largely absent from the cabana this week, and even more reticent than usual when he's been there. Not that he suspects this has bothered his cabanamates in the slightest when they're all the "keep to themselves" sort, but it's still enough to be noticeable.

He's not exactly chatty when he shows up at the bar, either; he just takes a seat and watches Zelkov working his magic with the refreshers rather than asking for anything for himself. Until he gets interrupted by what he quickly realizes are some of Zelkov's memories, that is, and his eye opens slightly as he watches them play out in his mind. Even though this isn't the first time this week this has happened, it's still a bit of a disconcerting thing to experience, and it takes him a moment to gather his own thoughts once it's over.

At last, he breaks the silence.]

Do you regret any of it?

alear B

[divector]

[ One part of this is certainly pinging him, but let's focus on something else. ]

Hmm, did you ever figure out why you collected balls of lint?

!!!!!

[killerwaves]

[Yet another week is slowly beginning to come to a close -- a tumultuous one, to be sure, full of surprises both good and bad... though perhaps not quite as tumultuous as last week in some ways -- and the skies and the sea are surprisingly peaceful this bright Thursday. Even the birds seem to be enjoying their early morning song when the sun rises.

For a little while, you may be able to tell yourself that this perhaps is the week where the islands' distortions will give it a rest. You've already laid one of yours to an eternal rest, after all, sending her off in a manner much more dignified than the last creature that stormed the beaches.

Right around afternoon, though, as though on cue; right about after lunch (so at least you might have had a good one) the familiar hush seeps back in. It's hard to detect at first, with everyone awake and rowdy, but it's there in the background from a moment to the next. It muffles everything for the encroaching storm.

There's that familiar low-pitched rumble once the sun has dipped towards the horizon, working itself up in pitch and frequency. Those on Kakapo's Nest may notice that the quality is a little different than usual -- by the time the stars are out, it's easy to see the shimmer across the water by the island's shores, a vast veil that looks just like marine fog. But that's not where the sound is coming from. Three large whirlpools have formed not far from where the island meets the sea, dark maelstroms that seem to swallow the stars. Moreover, something almost like cries emanates out of them -- like the discordant laments of a thousand sirens in a blender, maybe? Something like that. Good thing you'll be able to sleep through that tonight, right?

Meanwhile, a more sedate state of the warp has settled over Seagull's Playground, crouched over the go-karts as though knowingly. Is it protecting them from further harm? Or daring those who will be out and about tonight to come closer, ever closer? Some karts get knocked out of their spaces and go skidding into the track like bumper cars, but it isn't quite as grand a scale as Kakapo's little showing.

Dodo's Outlook, meanwhile, isn't spared by virtue of having had a dragon trample all over it yesterday. Unfortunately. Winding fingers of the distortion creep up from the shore to wrap themselves around the theater like a mantle -- there may be cracks appearing in the columns here. Best to keep an eye on it.]