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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

[staymods]

[Yeah, he definitely can't see out that far at night, not without a good source of light. All he can see right now is the dark shoreline and a light amount of waves breaking at each sea net as the wind blows gently across the lake.

Still, both of them will get the feeling that something is out there on the opposite shoreline, even if they can't see it.]

[battling]

Already made it all the way out here... It'd be real uncool if we couldn't confirm how many of 'em are out there, yeah?

[He holds his rifle up and aims it out into the water, looking through the sight.]

Adnopotensum.

[Around his feet, a green magic circle begins to glow, along with his gun. A spell meant to enhance his eyesight enough see whatever is out there.]

[suddenlybees]

Eh?

[ Kano startles a little at the glow of light, scrambling away from it and making to grab Bradley's wrist to pull him out of it too because what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck-- ]

[staymods]

[Kano sure is about to try and interrupt Bradley, but in that moment before he does, Bradley will see...a lot of trees! And bushes!

And some blood smeared around the ground just in front of said bushes, with bloody drag marks leading into the forest.]

[battling]

[He's disgruntled, but it's not like the spell has worn off just because he's been jostled. It's hard to actually pull him unless he wants to move.

The glowing magic circle remains.]

The hell, kid?

Listen, there's blood on the ground on that other shore. Drag marks into the forest.

[suddenlybees]

[ It's fine, if he can't pull, he can cling to Bradley's arm and hang off it. ]

"The hell" is what I should be saying to you!

[ He gestures with his foot at the glowing circle, his hands being preoccupied, but blood? drag marks?? uh ]

...how much blood? Like a wounded animal, or a gutted one?

[ What are they dealing with here... AAAAAAAA either something hunting or something being hunted and neither are fun, but at least there's ocean between them. ]

[staymods]

[It is definitely more like a wounded animal than "something was murdered here".]

[battling]

I said my rifle was my magical tool. 'm a wizard.

[He looks back through the sights. He knows that answer. He wants to be doubly sure there isn't anything else he's currently missing on that shore.]

Looked way more like a wounded animal.

[suddenlybees]

[ Sounds fake, is what Kano wants to say, but he doesn't know enough to refute and he can't see anything squinting out across the water to be able to verify anything either.

Something (someone?) getting away is at least a little hopeful, he thinks. ]

As long as whatever's hunting it stays over there...

[staymods]

[It does seem to be staying over there, whatever it is! There's nothing in the water, at least, and there's nothing else visible right now.]

[battling]

Fer now, anyway.

[The magic circle disappears as he lets go of the spell.]

Seems like there's more they didn't tell us.