06.50 - week six, saturday

[afflictionmods]

W6 SATURDAY

It’s Saturday…and things seem a little more standard, this time, when Lorelei makes a quick announcement on the tablets again at 8am:

”Good morning, students. It’s time for your sixth…and final official lesson. Yes. What this means is that this is the final detected orb located here, and while this does not indicate the end of the course just yet, it is the final day for your evaluation. Florence will meet you in front of the grocery store at 8pm tonight. Please do not be late. You are also free to bring a self-defense weapon with you, and any pain-alleviating items you have received. Nothing else will be allowed.”

She seems to be her usual self this time, and this certainly seems a lot kinder than the "trust exercise" from last week.

—

With the memories of last week’s lesson still lingering, a bit of wariness would be understandable. Still, Florence did say that this week shouldn’t be nearly so bad - whether you believe them or not is up to you - and they’re there at the grocery store, ready for another lesson.

They do seem a bit distracted, as it takes them a moment before they address everyone.

“Hello. Today’s lesson will be focused purely on cooperation. It is another journey into an orb, so things may be unpredictable, but nothing so severe…”

They trail off, before nodding at nothing.

“There is a storm. You must prepare to survive it, and prepare for any other eventualities. As I said, it may be unpredictable. I will be around to help in any way I possibly can.”

With that, it’s off into another orb - and the lush island on the other side. Surely this won’t be too hard, right?

OOC NOTE

Welcome to Week 6 Saturday's event. As Lorelei stated above, this is the final orb lesson for the game. Characters will have to work together to survive on a deserted island through an oncoming storm. How this will work OOCly is simple:

There will be three phases. Planning, gathering, and constructing. Planning will be short and mostly designed to have everyone gather their bearings and figure out who's doing what. Gathering will be collecting materials to help with their survival. Constructing will involve fortifying your "home base" so to speak.

Gathering and Constructing will run for 2 hours each. At the 1 hour mark for both phases, however, random events will happen that may throw characters off-kilter. There may be other things in between depending on character actions, but you can expect them at the hour mark at the very least. Planning will only last for 30 minutes, unless an extension is needed.

These instructions are not IC. This is for OOC organizational purposes.

We also have a section for people to submit threads so we can track progress and determine the outcome of the event. Qualifying threads must have at least 5 comments from you; more details can be found on the top level below.

The storm will happen at 5pm EST.

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BEACH/OCEAN

[afflictionmods]

[ Good for fishing, water, etc. Your characters are also free to dig in the sand where there seem to be things buried in the ground. Please ping us if they are doing so! They may find something useful, something mundane, or something potentially harmful. ]

[sicklysweet]

[Has Owen ever had to catch a fish before? Absolutely not. It's not something he's ever had to do before, but that's not going to stop him from crouching at the waterline, frowning at the fish he can see beneath. He did grab a sharp stick to use as a spear that might look suspiciously like something that came from one of the hut's walls, but - surely that's not where it came from. Surely. He would never be a hindrance or destructive in any way.

Still.]

This would be easier if we made a net, but do we have have the time for that? Heh.

[Anyways.]

How are your reflexes?

[pr159]

[ meanwhile rideaux is just standing around doing nothing because all of this is miles away from his wheelhouse... ]

Great. Why?

[sicklysweet]

[Is he going to test this by through a shell at Rideaux? Yes.

At least it wasn't his spear...]

Someone needs to fish. We can't survive off fruit alone.

[undertakings]

They're fine.

[They're more than fine, honestly, but he doesn't think of it as anything special.]

You're planning on spear fishing?

[sicklysweet]

Are you trying to be humble?

[Get an ego like the rest of us, Shin.]

I was considering it, but I don't want to make a fool of myself if someone can do it better.

[And clearly that's it.]

[partymagician]

[ TIME FOR WATER!

Fai will be grabbing those three buckets and handing them over to whoever else decides to help out. Not Idia, though, since he's not lifting. ]

First things first, let's get some water!

[goodfaiths]

I'm here, I'm here!

[ He's gonna take one of those buckets, gladly. ]

We'll have to make it safe to drink, won't we?

[partymagician]

[ He nods, walking towards the shore. ]

We do! Idia said he's good at engineering, so I'm sure he'll be able to help fashion us something. We might need to dig around for extra material, in case two buckets don't provide enough cover for evaporation. We can't have all our water escaping on us!

[imitationsoul]

[ Is Miach contributing? Absolutely not. But a beach is a beach and that is fun enough, probably.

She's not so much digging for anything as building a sand castle though. ]

[afflictionmods]

[ Congrats on your free beach day, Miach.

Especially since she'll be finding a bottle that's got a cork on, with a piece of paper inside. ]

[imitationsoul]

[ That is presumably a much less sinister bottle than the gasoline one Miach is currently carrying... So she's going to check out the paper! What desperate messages might await...? ]

[undertakings]

[You know what, he has a fucking shovel so he's going to use it, damn it. It's not like it's the first time he's scavenged for supplies either, even if the beach thing is new. With that said, he'll most likely look for spots where things are poking out and dig out the area around them instead of poking the shovel in the sand at random, because that would be silly.]

[afflictionmods]

[ Shovel, the true MVP, digs up...a spare set of batteries! They're a pair, rectangular in nature. ]

[undertakings]

[...Yay?? Do these even fit the (currently non-functional) radio they have... Not that he would really expect them to still have power but assuming they're not leaking horribly or anything he'll take them and drop them off by the hut later.

Can he dig up more shit!!]

[ignihidden]

[Idia's trying to set up a way for their salt water to get converted into drinking water but there's one issue...]

[The complete and utter lack of resources?? For once in his life he wishes Kalim were around. No, wait, their magic doesn't work, he takes it back! Either way, he's sketched out the basic concept in the sand, he's just... there's a piece he needs to find something for...]

... a metal sheet... plastic wrap... duct tape??...

[siiiiigh]

... Do those big, convenient leaves really exist in the jungle? And, ideally, if we're trying to support all of us, we'd want a few of these but we only have three buckets...

[totaltrashfire]

[Mae is about to head into the jungle to look for FRUIT but when she hears Idia...]

What kind of leaf? Just a real big one? Like a banana leaf?

[ignihidden]

[oh! a errand runner friend]

It should be big and- [how does he describe this for a laycatperson...]

Waxy? I- It needs to have water drip down it.

[cheerfuldays]

( after FROOT QUEST, assuming things go smoothly, shizuku is going to help carry some water... but if she spots something burried, she'll give it a go... though, with some hesitation, given what miach found. )

[afflictionmods]

[ Shizuku finds...

...a fishing net! The big ones that you can toss and grab a ton of fish with. ]

[cheerfuldays]

( OH HELL YEAH! shizuku shakes it out a little to try and untangle any potential tangles before beaming at whoever's closeby: )

Look! This will make things so much easier, won't it?

AN EVENT.

[afflictionmods]

[ So, uh. Hope you guys have your self-defense weapons ready, because the ocean starts to stir. Something starts to emerge from the sea, its beady eyes looking at everyone in the area.

It's a large crab. Probably around 8 feet tall, and its claws start snipping menacingly. It's going to lock eyes with Fai first, but anyone is free to act on this. ]

[partymagician]

[ Fai grabs a piece of driftwood nearby, getting in front of anyone he needs to, just in case. While he holds that out in front of him, he reaches into his back pocket to take out one of his throwing darts.

He'll wait until right before he's about to get lunged at to throw one. ]

[ignihidden]

[ATTACK ITS WEAK POINT FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE, FAI!]

[sicklysweet]

What do you think a stick is going to do against a giant crab? It has a shell!

[yeah he's not getting close to this tho]