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affliction mods ([personal profile] afflictionmods) wrote in [community profile] theafflicted2022-07-02 04:47 am

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.



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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[personal profile] mirrite 2022-07-02 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, this sure is happening, and Marcus doesn't like it one bit. Is this what it was like for the people of Bifrost all that time...? He doesn't want to think about it too hard. It wasn't as though he was directly responsible for that, after all... at least, that's what he's telling himself, though it's not exactly effective.

But there are more immediate concerns, which is that he's paired with a very squishy mage who DOES have memories of causing the Voidstorm, and as the hail intensifies and Phantom looks more and more uneasy, there's only one thing in Marcus' mind to do, and that's pull him in and just sort of shield Phantom with his own body just in case.

Anyone who looks at him funny right now will get a glare right back. He doesn't like this situation either! But he is a mirrite - partially Phantom's mirrite, whether either of them like it or not - and a mirrite's job is to protect their master. He's going to do his job and that is that.]
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[personal profile] selfconcept 2022-07-02 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ You know what, Marcus. Here's a thumbs up for already getting into defensive formation. ]
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[personal profile] exofractured 2022-07-02 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's probably a very clear sign of just how unsettled Phantom is feeling that he doesn't really have anything sharp to say about this at all. He huddles himself a little closer to Marcus's side, trying to will his breathing to even out to force himself calmer with it.

It's much too much like the Voidstorm. Phil's memories of that, his own of the assistance he'd given extracting souls from the Void...]


The storm is supposed to pass through quickly enough.

[It's not the thing that has his every nerve on edge and Marcus definitely knows it. But if he says it, he can try to focus his attention on that instead.]
Edited 2022-07-04 06:07 (UTC)