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staysilent2021-05-08 12:57 pm
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GAME START!
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?
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.
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[Is this not her first time ending up in a different world? But he's not here to chat about other worlds.]
In any case, it's getting dark. If you're not going back, then at least stay close. It could just be an animal native to this world, though.
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[She hovers behind him (not literally, for now) and starts to scan the area.]
I can try and see something out there.
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They will notice a rather pretty blue flower blooming on most of the graves, though. It looks like some kind of wildflower that has spread into the graveyard in recent years, and given the robust plant life found there, it's possible they were just kept to make the area look nice.
There is a large marker in one section of the graveyard, a large monolith that stands tall among the flat gravestones. It has a name written on it- Linnansaari- as well as a date range of 2-79. Right around that large marker are several dozen graves, all with a death date of '79'.]
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[But that's not the main reason he's here tonight. It's getting dark; in theory the cries should start any time now.]
Is that one of your powers?
[Unless she just means using her normal human vision to go looking.]
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[She carefully walks over to the grave and starts looking around the area, frowning at the graves.]
Linnansaari... It's probably a family, huh? Their house.
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Also, the cries will start up just after sunset, sounding distant and animalistic in nature. The sound is coming from across the waters, and is likely from a point on the mainland. Whatever it is, it sounds like it's in pain.]
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I don't know about that. This marker dwarfs the rest, and all the stones close to it show the same date of death... it could be the name of the town itself.
[Which raises more questions than it answers... but when he hears the cries start up, he looks toward the water. It still sounds distant, but clearly it's close enough to be heard from the island.]
There it is. Let's go.
[He starts following the sounds. He may have preferred to do this alone, but if he has to have a companion, he's going to make sure to keep an eye on her.]
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It's injured. Maybe it's an animal?
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There's something over there... not an animal, though.
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[She approaches the car and carefully looks in; if she can't see anything, she'll pull her wristband over her hand (no use getting tetanus) and try to open the door.]
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Just a sec, I'll see if there's anything in there!
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If there was anything in the car at one point it's unfortunately long gone. It looks like it has gone through decades of weathering and rusting. Roots have started growing through it, and it looks like the car has actually been lifted off the ground an inch or two just by tree growth. Yeah, this thing has been here for a while.]
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[...There she goes. Okay then. The ability to fly isn't unusual, though doing it without a broom is a little unorthodox. But just jumping in head-first like that, especially if her powers are limited at all...]
How incredibly reckless... what a pain. Satillquinart Mullcreed.
[With some magical glowy effects he summons his broom and flies across to join her. That feeling of being watched that creeps up on him on the way sure isn't ideal. All the more reason for him to follow her.]
[Upon landing he takes note of how overgrown and decayed the unfamiliar contraption is, but he also takes a moment to lecture her.]
Why did you just fly off like that? They must have put us on those islands surrounded by nets for a reason, it could be dangerous out here.
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But for now, there's only one interesting thing left to see here: the registration tags on the car's license plate indicate that it was last registered in 2013.
Also, that feeling of 'being watched' is still there. It might be a good idea to get back to the safety of the island.]
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[She takes one last look around and heads back, slow enough that he can follow along.]
It's kinda creepy. Do you think it's those monsters they keep warning about, the zombies?
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