🏝️ 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! )

Comments

[graftage]

Why what? Why do I think cities are lonely?

[framestory]

[ Ellis nods. ]

Cities usually have so many people.

[graftage]

Well...

[A long pause, as he thinks about it.]

There's lots of people, but those people are usually tied up with their lives. And on top of it, they stay in places of glass and steel, isolated from each other. Its all machinery and bright lights when it comes down to it. You don't have that connection with your fellow man like you do out in the wild, and you lose that connection with the world, too. Nature is warm. Cities aren't so warm, inside and out.

[framestory]

[ Huh.

Ellis tries to apply that to what he knows and he can see where Steinbeck is going with that. He's thinking a little more before nodding. ]

This place has been warm, so I think I understand that.

[ ... As warm as it can get with the current cast, anyway. There's a sort of appreciation that stirs in the bathwater for others to feel. ]

[graftage]

Haha. So you get it.

[Its nice, to see someone understand.]

Maybe this is the place for you, outside of...that story you come from.

[framestory]

I thought so too. I still think that way.

[ But he thinks about it for a while, the feelings swirling into a neutral wonder. ]

I know Gaku will want to return though, and probably bring me with him.

[graftage]

Gaku?

Is that your boyfriend? Where does he come from?

[framestory]

[ Sometimes Ellis has to remember not everyone is eager to hear things from the grapevine on the island, so he nods. He just assumed Steinbeck knew for some reason. ]

He comes from Japan and it seems safe for the most part. Definitely the city though. He's a performer.

[graftage]

[HE JUST ASSUMED BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE. EVERYONE IS TOGETHER IN SOME FASHION]

Oh, I've been to Japan! It's a nice place. I'm sure you'll love it there.

[framestory]

It's not as oppressive as you describe it?

[ Since that's sure what it sounded like. ]

[graftage]

Haha, no, I mean. I've been to the cities. But I've been to the countrysides, too. You should visit them while they're there.

[STILL NATURE ALL THE WAY]

[framestory]

[ Countryside... Ellis has never been there before. He wonders if it would be just as peaceful as Crescentview--for a relative value of peace.

So he nods. It looks like he found out what he wants to ask of him when they meet up later. Ellis looks at his own hands and his fingers are getting pruney for staying in the bath for too long... ]

[graftage]

...Come on, you need to get out. Else you'll turn into a raisin.

[And nobody wants to see Ellis be a dried up grape, even Steinbeck.]

[framestory]

[ And out Ellis goes... bath time is over! And so is the thread. \o/ ]