🏝️ 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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[chronosynthesis]

[... Hm. What is the protocol if the apparent leader of the group you're supposed to stop is "part of history"? It means he definitely can't kill this guy, right?

Otegine's heart isn't in it, anyway, so maybe he can just keep him occupied while the rest of the team does... whatever they're supposed too. Presumably the captain is in charge here.

So, he tries to steel himself past Otegine's reservations to go straight for Hideyasu. He will hold back with his blows, being careful not to cause fatal wounds. He's just going to keep him busy, limit his ability to lead his army.]

[passthrough]

[Everyone, it seems, is hesitating. Tonbokiri looks about as distressed as you feel, panicked mutterings to Sengo whose expression has also paled. The army moves forward, and so does Hideyasu. At least for now, you all have to fight. You have to try to get to him, to see what's going on.

He doesn't let any of you close at first, despite your best efforts. Troops come flooding in from all sides, and just when you think you're close enough to him, four other soldiers fill in to take the spot and push you back.

As he raises his blade, the distorted wave strengthens, with the strange sensation of someone else. Kotegiri's voice chokes as he bats himself free from a soldier with a rip of his blade. "That's--- I know him! That's my brother!"

Though you don't know who, exactly, Kotegiri could be talking about, it explains the sensation immediately. The blade is controlling him. Possessing him. A tsukumogami without a body of its own has gone rogue. The spirit is using your master.

But then... what do you do????

Tsurumaru and Kotegiri pick off a path to Hideyasu, who throws them each back in turn without effort, parrying blades with strength he should not have. But with the way clear, you hear Tonbokiri's voice clearly yell for you.

"Otegine!! Come on!"

You grip your spear tighter, trying to knock off the enemy that hinders you and join your fellow spear. But your eyes meet Hideyasu, and too many feelings pour in, freezing you in place. This was the boy who first truly owned you, who USED you, who made you into a symbol worth any sort of recognition. You made one another great. If he falls here... what happens to history?

What happens to you?

"Otegine! Pull yourself together!!!"]

A-ah.... Ah!!! I... I'm coming! I'm ready!

[You don't feel ready. You feel your heart is about to rip from your chest. But you force yourself to Tonbokiri, force your weapon up, force yourself into a charge.

Your master meets you without hardly blinking, filled with rage. He screams at Tonbokiri, meeting the both of your blows with a mind that you know comes from a short but talented military life. Given the strength of a fellow tsukumogami, you both struggle to even make a blow.

His blade rips into the skin of your leg, your shoulder. Tonbokiri seems to have the same idea as you - maybe there's a way to stun him, to knock him to his senses... but you're both hesitating. You're both holding back, and blows that should leave him rattled do nothing to down him, sending the both of you tripping into one another. Tonbokiri easily helps you up each time.

As long as that sword is solid in his hand, you're going to be in trouble.]

[chronosynthesis]

[Syrlya stamps down that heartache as best he can. The battlefield isn't the place to hesitate. If it's the weapon that's the problem. then he needs to focus on disarming Hideyasu.

He grits his teeth as the blide strikes, twisting the spear and relying on Otegine's muscle memory to leverage it for defense. It isn't quite enough, not used to this body, but at least he hasn't been stabbed fatally.

He'll attempt to surge forward and get Hideyasu's attention again, trying to draw him to strike. If he can, he'll try to catch the blade in the thrust with the shaft of the spear and twist it to try and yank the sword out of his grip.]