06.50 - week six, saturday

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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.

FULL NAV

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Comments

HUT

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[ There's not much to "gather" here, but if you'd like to try your hand at fixing the radio or figure out how to start a fire, or even do things like figure out how to fortify the base more, here's the place to do it. Please let us know if you'll be trying to fix the radio! It is not something that will require super technical expertise or very specific tools. ]

[selfconcept]

[ Hien stays back at the hut, trying to see how efficiently he can fortify the hut with the materials here. ]

It'll be a lot... but if there are more helping hands than expected, it should go relatively fine.

[exofractured]

Do you need plans for anything? I know you're already experienced in construction, but...

[No one should expect good results from turning Phantom loose in the jungle, probably, so here he is.]

[selfconcept]

[ Phantom... first off, he gets out something similar to a short vine. ]

Let's tie your hair back first.

[exofractured]

[He's doing his best and that's probably terrible. He'll take the improvised hair tie, though.]

Ah, right. I suppose that will be in the way.

[A lot like Phantom tbh]

[selfconcept]

[ Poor Phantom... ]

I feel like you have construction experience... or at least, planning it.

[ gestures to billboard for the past several weeks, blanket fort delight, and the blueprint ]

[exofractured]

[At least now he's ponytail-enabled Phantom!]

Planning and design, primarily. At least without my magic to materialize things. It's not what I'd usually work on, but the principles should still apply.

[selfconcept]

Good, that's all I wanted to know.

[ Hien looks back at the hut. It's made of wooden planks. It also has a floor. Not very sturdy... ]

We have a foundation, so that's already a load off our shoulders. We can fortify the walls with the wood they bring and connect it to the flooring too, so that it'll be sturdier. Absolutely no windows. It would be great if we had a tarp for the roof, but we can use moss instead. What do you think?

[exofractured]

[Phantom takes that in with a nod, seeming to settle a little now that he has a concrete task to focus on.]

I think the roof is going to be the biggest problem, depending on the amount of wind. We could maybe use something like large leaves as well to get something together faster, and the moss to insulate. Sturdier would be better, of course, but...

[He'll start sketching some things, he feels a little better already.]

[escardos]

[ flat will be trying to fix the radio! even if technical expertise isn't required he actually does have that expertise. ]

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[ Well, since Flat does have the expertise (!!), he'll notice that the radio sounds fuzzy and very muffled. There's some noise coming out from it but it's hard to discern what it is, other than that it sounds like someone talking. What action will he take exactly? ]

[escardos]

[ sighs in my own lack of circuitry knowledge.

can he look at the back of it? is it possible to open the back and take a look at the circuits? any loose cables? ]

[afflictionmods]

[ Good news is that there aren't any loose cables, but it looks like it's just. Dusty and dirty, which might be clogging up some stuff in there.

Also, the station indicator dial seems to be stuck in place! (Hopefully that makes things easier.) ]

[escardos]

[ did anyone bring some canned gas--

okay, fine, this isn't the worst that he's worked with. he'll try to blow off some of the excess sand that's in the radio and use the screwdriver to work out whatever stuck bits there are, trying to be delicate enough to not fuck up the circuits.

as for the knob, can he see from the inside what might be holding it in place? is he unable to move it forwards or backwards or just in one direction? ]

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[ Sounds good, Flat! After he cleans it and checks the knob, it looks like there's more grime keeping it in place. He can move it forward a little, and the sounds from the transmission seem to be improving in that he can maybe make out random words like "sun" and "sky". ]

[escardos]

[ if that's the case, then he's going to repeat the action with the screwdriver on the knob, gently working out the grime stuck on it and then try to move it again.

actually, now that we're at it, how does this radio look in general? are there any identifiable features about it? ]

[totalcatastrophe]

[ Alright, so we'll pretend the part of that other post still happened since everyone else seems to have the outside covered. Luci is in here slacking. There anything for him to notice if he snoops around?

If not, is he stuck here until the next stage or can Mae drag him off to get fruit if he turns up nothing? ]

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[ There's not much else to notice in here, so he can definitely get dragged with Mae to help with the fruit! ]

AN EVENT.

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[ So. This is actually a mixed back, because there seems to be some sort of little flying drone that seems to be dropping off a bag of...stuff! Kind of like a supply drop in video games. But it's taking a little while to fully descend, and there's something else that seems to be eyeing it.

Another giant crab seems to be waddling its way towards it. The supply drop is behind the hut. ]

[selfconcept]

[ Crab.

Hien just thinks of food. This 8 feet crab definitely has FOOD POTENTIAL. So Hien tries to sneak up on the crab with his knife and attempts to stab the ganglia from its underside. He's cooked crabs before, so may death be swift. ]

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[Time for crab.

And it seems like luck is on Hien's side, because the crab absolutely botched it's perception check and doesn't notice his approach and he succeeds in stabbing the crab's soft(er) underbelly. Damaging its ganglia does stop it's forward march to the hut as it finds it can't use it's legs anymore, but it still has it's pincers and it's not going to go down without trying to snap at Hien.]

[selfconcept]

[ It's always time for crab when it's MEALTIME for the glutton.

Hien immediately backs up and tries to climb the crab from behind to whack its frontal nerve center with a hammer. He's trying to give you a painless death, crabby... ]

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[Well.

A for effort, but it's hard to get his footing on the crab's shell and Hien just... slips off and lands on his back. He might be dazed for a moment or two, but at least he just landed on sand.

And at least his first strike hitting somewhere so vulnerable means it's going to be very hard for the crab to actually hit him. This is actually a great window if someone just wants to grab the supply drop, because it's almost hit the ground.]

[superstructure]

[ And that's what Julius'll do! If things get worse for Hien he's absolutely ready to turn back around and help fuck this thing up, but at least it's in a spot where he can grab try going for it.

So, he flexes his hand a few times and books it after the supply drop. ]

[selfconcept]

[ He shakes himself out of it, which definitely lasted several seconds. Hien still has the hammer in his hand, so he attempts to chuck it where he intended to the crab initially.

Also thank God for Julius so that Hien doesnt have to worry about the package right now. Also his arm/stomach hurts a little. The heck is Fai doing... ]