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[staymods]

Nightly Visitor

It hasn't been that long since your arrival to this island, and everything is still new. Each day brings new surprises and more questions than answers, and there seems to be no easy way to find out anything about this world. What little outside contact you get from the radio or your Friday visitors certainly isn't helpful in any meaningful way.

Unfortunately, the questions will only continue to pile up. Because eventually, after a week or so of being on the island, anyone who stays out late will start to hear strange sounds outside. They're almost animalistic, in a way, but they will not resemble the cries of any animal that you might be familiar with. This is Something Else.

They're not close to the Town Hall though, and the sounds seem to be coming from the North, but that is about all you can get without further investigation. And investigation may be necessary, as the noises will return night after night, starting right at sunset and tapering off as the sun starts to rise. Whatever is out there, it's nocturnal. And it sounds desperate.

What will you do? Will you talk to others and make a plan? Will you try to search for the source of the strange noises? Will you look at day, or during the night? Or will you use the radio to call for advice?

You can also use this space to play out any prompt from the test drive meme, or anything else you may want to do.

Everyone can do a search and get some plot information once per character. This can be done either solo or in pairs, so there can be some overlap to make sure everyone gets a shot at getting plot information. If A and B form a search party at night, then that will count as both A and B's searching. A could then help C make a radio call and get some information that way, but B and C could not then subsequently do another search (as B and C would have been involved in a search somehow already).

This post will be open to investigating until May 24th, 2021. At that point, no further mod responses will be given. Even characters who app in after game start can come in and investigate, so long as it is before May 24th.

Comments

[notquitedracula]

More or less, yes. We'll need a tree for the central beam, but the rest is basically just enough planks to build an earthen wall against. We could do one big enough for everyone here now pretty easy, and it should be simple enough to add onto later.

[Considering where and when Soma is from, it's a wonder he knows as much about this as he does. Well, it would be without Dracula's memories, anyway.]

[aono]

We could, but why would we build a longhouse for everyone if we already have that one building we're all staying in?

[Soma, man from the past~]

[notquitedracula]

Two reasons. One, it's not very secure. A demon could rip through those walls like it was shredding paper. Two, we don't know if there are going to be more people arriving, and overcrowding is no fun for anyone except the lice and mice. We have to think about the future, not just the present, and we have to make do with what materials we have access to.

[aono]

[The second point is very valid, but that's not what Rin focuses on right away.]

Why would a demon even attack us, there's nothing they could want here, except for maybe some food.

[notquitedracula]

Fair. Call them night creatures, or trolls, or whatever the local terminology is, then. The restless dead. Their reasons can be as simple as hunger to as complex as hatred of that which still has what they lost.

[Soma leans back against the doorframe, sighing.] There is indisputably something out there, according to our hosts, and I for one don't trust a couple layers of fishing net to keep us safe.

[aono]

[Soma is right to consider all of this, but that doesn't mean Rin has to like it. He worries, not for himself but for the others here. Rin knows he can take care of himself, but most of the people here aren't overpowered half-demons.]

They probably had weapons too, yeah? So like, the nets are more to slow them down.