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Last Resort Mods 🌊 ([personal profile] killerwaves) wrote in [community profile] guiltrip2023-05-20 12:20 am

WEEK ONE, SATURDAY

INVESTIGATION(?)



Exciting night, no? Were you able to get to sleep, or did you stay up into the wee hours, seeing that far-off shimmer near the gazebos and listening to the rising rumble of whatever-that-is and wondering when it would come for you?

At least, when dawn finally comes and the shimmer is overcome by the rising light of the sun, it seems that last night wasn't the end. For you.

Instead, once it's morning proper, there's a shift -- like the breeze and the smell after a bout of sudden summer thunderstorm without the storm: the pressure and the oppressive atmosphere of yesterday is gone, just like that. But also: accompanying it a few seconds later is a clean whipcrack of sound, like giant hands clapping together. And a moment after that, you'll feel something pass overhead -- you won't be able to see anything, but anyone outside at the time will find themselves staggered by what seems to be a small shockwave spreading throughout the island.

That's not the only change that awaits you this morning, however.

You might want to get out of bed, if you haven't already, and take a proper look around.

(( OOC: Welcome to our peace week Saturday event, islanders! Please note that this will be run similarly to a normal investigation, but will not be a full investigation. As such, everyone is welcome to explore for the first part of the event, and then we will take a limited amount of people for the second half, investigation-style. ))

immortalpoet: (cardinal)

[personal profile] immortalpoet 2023-05-20 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
And what was the statement, exactly?
idologue: (073 smile)

[personal profile] idologue 2023-05-20 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
We were talking about video games. Rapt0r said he'd prefer playing them with me to telling me about them, but 'that island you're on has nothing'.

He himself is playing, of course. We've heard him talk about it numerous times.
dupiety: (🌟 sigh)

[personal profile] dupiety 2023-05-20 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
If this is true, their lives aren't even at stake here. This is literally to keep the island afloat.

[He sounds very, very annoyed.]
idologue: (007 serious; sad)

[personal profile] idologue 2023-05-20 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I assume there is something on this island or about this island that they still need, regardless of their physical location.

They are stuck here as well, after all. If not on this island, then in this world.
finalmix: (12)

[personal profile] finalmix 2023-05-20 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
At least they're not the ones dealing with the immediate fallout of the island collapsing.

[ deadpan. ]

Unless that you're saying that Merlin's death was altruism on their part.
idologue: (110 serious; angry)

[personal profile] idologue 2023-05-21 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be a very cynical thing to say.
finalmix: (13)

[personal profile] finalmix 2023-05-21 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I am admittedly not a glass half-full kind of person.

[ that's an understatement. ]
Edited (I MISSED OUT A WORD) 2023-05-21 15:02 (UTC)
immortalpoet: (Default)

[personal profile] immortalpoet 2023-05-21 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
When you say they're playing, does this mean they can also be targets?
idologue: (028 other)

[personal profile] idologue 2023-05-21 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
... oh.

Oh no, my goodness! I meant video games! He has those available.
immortalpoet: (wine)

[personal profile] immortalpoet 2023-05-23 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[ugh]

He needs to spend less time playing games and more time taking things seriously. Typical NEET things.

[HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT NEET IT]