🏝️ dulces sueños group excursion! 🏝️

[hearthwarming]

🏝️ who: intrepid adventurers (vacationers?) and more!
🏝️ what: ori organized (origanized?) a group trip to the resort! mass memshare ensues.
🏝️ when: fall 9-10
🏝️ where: dulces sueños resort
🏝️ warnings: threads will be marked as needed for memshares.

[ Hopefully everyone had fun on the Arco Lunar! The morning after the boat departs from the docks, a letter arrives to your mailbox: ]

Hello, intrepid adventurer!

I am excited to have you along for a group excursion to the mysterious new island! In two days' time, let us gather in the town square and set off from there! Please be prepared to stay the night. It will be so fulfilling and memorable for everyone to spend a night on an adventure together!

If you have any questions or concerns, please come find me at my flower shop in town or at the forest farm where I live!

Sincerely,
Oriphi

[ If she accidentally delivered it to a few wrong mailboxes, then... Oops!

On the promised day, once everyone (and likely a few surprise tag-alongs) has gathered or been gathered, Ori distributes little paper bags of snacks to everyone. Inside are cookies, oat snacks, and a freshly-picked apple from her and M-21's orchard. Do with them as you please... Just don't let her catch you throwing it into the sea or something. 🥺 ]

Alright. I think we should head out, then! Thanks for coming along, everyone! I hope it'll be a great time. Oh, and please don't forget to drink plenty of water and use this incredible ointment I discovered on this island! It's called "sunscreen!" Tieflings don't really get sunburnt, but you should use it!

[ And with that our intrepid adventurers set off to the mysterious, dangerous, unknowable... resort island! ]

( This is the ill-fated mass extinction memshare event. Please refer to the event for details on the resort and the plotting post for any specific details for characters' memshares! There are toplevels for each area of the resort (and for the memshare). Enjoy! )

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[bluminescence]

cw: eventual bloody and claustrophobic tunnel fighting / violence / death

[ With the sudden rush akin to waking after death within a dream, Otegine is greeted first by the low oxygen levels and the smell of wet stone and gunpowder. The hazy low lighting of the tunnel filters in as his eyes adjust to see as well as the Groscians around him. They don't seem to notice him bunched in their ranks. A sea of oblivious men glow below him, most only just making it over five feet tall. Except for the man that stands near the front, the tallest: Kaspar. He is around sixteen and baby faced despite his strong build.

Above Otegine is a single line of soft, organic lighting affixed into stone and casting blurry shadows that dance in the corner of glowing eyes. A line of men hug each wall, two by two, the glow of their skin an answer to the glow above. Their uniforms, weapons, and faces are too clean. None of them can pass for over twenty, and some of them look far too confident to have ever braved war before this moment.

Kaspar glows as softly as the company of men behind him, fist still raised until he shoulders his rifle into place. Aiming it into the dark, it becomes clear there is an ominous break in the overhead lights. A stretch of pitch black, extending far enough that the light in the distance is barely visible.

Somewhere beside Otegine, clipped Groscian he somehow understands slips out from under the breath of an annoyed soldier.

Why've we stopped?

Nearer the front, stand the eager and well armed squads bearing weapons almost as finely crafted as Kaspar's. The tension in the air thickens the farther back in the company, where the most simply armed men are also the most burdened with equipment and munitions for those without bloodletting weapons. The end of the company, hidden just behind the bend. A strategic nightmare in the making.

Beneath Otegine's feet, a subtle, hairline crack. No one has noticed. ]