theafflicted | 06.50 - week six, saturday

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.

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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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There's no telling how long the storm will last. Will we need other supplies...?

( oh god she has never done a survival in her life. tools? absolutely not. what can she do to help... )

Well, the more you can find, the better a chance you have at not dying miserably when this storm destroys everything around you.

[Helpful, Owen.]

If you have any ideas as to what we need, I'm certainly open to suggestions.

( WERE SHE LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE THIS WOULD BE SO PETTY )

I've never done anything like this before, so I'm afraid I don't know where to begin.

Well, what do humans need to survive?

[Is he being condescending or not, who knows.]

Food, water, air, and shelter. We can breathe here, so that's one thing off the list.

( honestly if he IS she's straight up not registering it. why are they so funny... )

Hm... I won't be of any help with the building, so I suppose that settles it.

( once again, shizuku will be providing food. ... no noodles this time, sadly. )

At least you know what your weaknesses are.

[At least she's not... aware... Help,]

It's important for self-improvement... and to ensure that we can get through this smoothly, seeing as that's a bit more pressing.

( i'm crying i'm just throwing so much oblivious sincerity his way

anyways she knows she'd do no good with building or carrying wood, so... yeah. )

[On the inside, he is cat no banana.

On the outside he manages to keep his expression neutral.]

You won't ever improve if you keep doing things you're already good at, though, so can you really use that as an excuse?

There's a time to focus on improvement- inconveniencing the rest of us to try and make a point feels... Self-sabotaging.

( the opposite of what they want. unless owen wants the hut to collapse on them. )

What, do you really think they're going to risk us dying because one or two of us are tying to improve ourselves? That's what this entire thing is for. This is what they want.

[Maybe he wants that! It'd be funny to get to blame Shizuku for it!]

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[ casually walks into here... ]

Why not go collect some fruit or help gather some water for everyone, Shizuku? It's a good place to start as any.

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Mhm!

( just ^^ to be honest. )

I'll keep an eye out for anything else, too.

[ nothing wrong with being honest!! ]

Good plan. I'm sure there might be some interesting stuff out there.

Oh, I hadn't considered that... but you're right. Hopefully this goes smoothly!

Me too. It might be a little rough at times but hopefully nothing catastrophically bad.

( looks at every 'survive the storm' game challenge on youtube.

looks away. knocks on so much wood.

anyways! )

Mmhm. I have a first aid kit, if you need it at all.

[ smiles??

also ignores the note miach found and shizuku read. ]

Oh, that'd be useful. If anything serious happens, I'll keep that in mind.

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Maybe! But don't worry, I definitely don't think that we'll die, like a lot of stranded people do.

If we did, I think I'd have to haunt Camellia forever.

( she'd be a very!!! rude!!! ghost!!!

no she wouldn't but BOY SHE'D BE MIFFED. )

Huh, you'd probably just haunt this place, though.

Oh, true... ghosts often can't leave where they died.

That's right...but maybe you could lure them in?

[ he taps his chin, considering the options. ]

If you do that, then you can possess something they have, or something like that. Imagine! You could become something like a cursed cellphone!

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I could pass on my technology curse....!

( you know i expect this from my goth witch but shizuku? can't say this is a talk i thought she'd have. )

[ flat tilts his head ]

You have a technology curse?

Ehehe, maybe I'm being a little dramatic... but I'm just no good with technology! Sometimes, all I have to do is touch something and it'll break though. I'm not allowed to handle my group's filming equipment for this reason.

( it's. it's really bad. somehow she managed to break her phone just by touching it once... )

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