🏝️ 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

[chronosynthesis]

[Well. That's embarrassing.

You manage to set off almost every trap. Braham cringes. Joko taunts and taunts you over his magic bone speakerphone that echoes through the statues around the fortress. There's a sense pulling at the edge of your conscious that this is not now this went, but it's how it's going now.

But you will, eventually, hit the end of the traps, and have to drag your bedraggled body through fighting off more Awakenend, the puzzling out more solutions to get to Joko's quarters.

You really could be in a better state once you reach them, so maybe it's no surprise that you don't catch the trap that freezes you in place, trapping you within a magic wall that doesn't let even your fingers twitch and you can't teleport out of.

You don't see Joko. But you hear him.]

"How disappointing. And honestly, unexpected; I thought you would present better. The Commander of the Pact. Hero of blah-blah-blah. Rendered useless by a glorified parlor trick."

[Braham snarls behind you, and then you feel a pressure on your back.] "Oh, no you don't! Give him one for me, Commander!"

[And Braham forcibly shoves you out of the trap--maybe too hard, given he's three times your size--and is left caught in the trap in your stead. Immobile.

The silence hangs for a moment.]

"That's your ace in the hole? Morons so besotted with you they're willing to sacrifice themselves? Haven't enough people already died for you?"

[That stings.]

[pactmarshal]

[ This is all around embarrassing.

And every trip into a trap, and every jeer that comes from Joko only serves to flame the anger that had already begun to smoulder in his chest. Seething from the entire situation, his own temper, eventually Trahearne stops talking altogether. His jaw is set, concentrating on moving forward, to finding Joko and taking him out.

Maybe concentrating too hard, because he misses the last trap that freezes him in place. His face is twisted in frustration, and he hates having to be suspended here, listening to more jeers.

But he doesn't exactly like how Braham takes his place either. ]

No! [ His head whips back to look at the norn, then back in the direction of Joko's voice.

It does sting. He wonders if this makes him a moron. ]

Silence, Joko! Where are you?!