🏝️ 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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[hearthwarming]

[ One nature magic, coming right up!

The Patron seems to be barely standing on his feet by this point. He's keeled over and clutching at the wounds on his body, and you know in that moment what you must do. An impossibly warm, glowing light begins to coalesce in the palm of your hand, as if you were conjuring sunlight, and then that arm reaches out. A radiant beam of sunlight shoots out towards the Patron as he screams in pain - until suddenly, there's no sound.

Your sunbeam spell fades, and in its wake is... Nothing. Your friends stand, stunned. The protective bubble around Sian fades and they fall limp to the ground. Dae and Aerie rush to their side immediately.

"What just..." Colin says, "No. Wait. I don't think we killed him. He just disappeared.

An unsettling feeling brews in the pit of your stomach. Sian's confrontation with their patron isn't quite resolved, but for now... the battle is over. All around you are the corpses of the dead cultist monks, now the Cultist Leader amongst them.

...You're so tired. But you did it. You saved Valphi, you found the missing Princess Alyria, and now... the Death Diamond is within reach. You know that your long quest may soon be coming to an end...

The memory feels as if it's at an impasse... but it could surely go on, for Ori's memories don't stop here. Sian may need your help - and so could your sister. Then there's the matter of the Death Diamond. What would you like to do, intrepid adventurer...? ]

[framestory]

[ Success!! It feels great when the Patron escaped, though it would have been nice if he was eliminated thoroughly. Can't have his cake and eat it too. Damn.

Let someone else handle the Death Diamond if they can. If Ori is the only one, then he'll go. Otherwise, go to Sian. See how they're doing. ]

[hearthwarming]

[ You cross over to the room along with the statuesque Aerie, who immediately winds her arms around Sian to pull them in. They are unconscious. Aerie looks up to you with a pleading, worried expression - you've never seen Aerie look that way before.

"Ori... Can you help them?"

You nod, and kneel beside the elven woman cradling the changeling in her arms. Your hand passes over their face before your fingers gently take hold of the mask that covers their face and pulls it of. What you see is a face that almost looks like a blank slate, alabaster skin and lips and white eyelashes rimming closed eyes, framed by wisps of white hair. They are unconscious. You brush some of Sian's white hair away from their face and rest your hand against their cheek before you cast a healing spell.

They do not stir.

You could ask for the others' help, or perhaps try a different way of trying to wake them up, or... ]

[framestory]

[ Hm.

They're alive though, and should come around eventually. If they were dying, that would be a different story altogether and Ellis would have suggested jump starting their heart.

Let's give them a moment. ]

[hearthwarming]

[ You know how everything has felt so dramatic and awful so far? Yeah...

You and Aerie watch Sian's unconscious visage solemnly. Colin, meanwhile, crosses over and kneels next to you to rest a hand on your shoulder, squeezing it reassuringly.

...And then Dae comes back with a rather purposeful gait, and squats down before he simply starts slapping Sian on the cheek a couple of times.

"Sian! Si-an! Sian Sian Sian Sian - come on now, there's still work to be done! Don't worry, your Patron disappeared into thin air! Siiiiiaaaaan—"

The changeling's eyes flutter open before long. "Wh... Wha—Stop slapping me!? Gods!"

You can't help it, but you chuckle. As much as the villains like to target you and call you the "heart of the party" for whatever reason, you know that without your friends, there would be no party, or a heart.

Dae relents at last, but this time it's Aerie who grabs Sian by the cheeks. "How are you feeling?"

"Like crap."

"Sian," says Colin, "Your magic. Can you still use it?"

"...No."

But you had a feeling this would happen. Sian so fully opposed their Patron in this confrontation, it would make sense for him to take their magic away. It all came from him, in the first place. Yet still... You know this was the right move, for your friend. You're proud of them.

The Death Diamond still awaits, and so does your sister. What would you like to do? ]

[framestory]

[ Power doesn't mean anything if you're dead. Nothing means anything if you're dead, so really. Good for Sian. Ellis is glad that they seem fine.

Go see the sister! ]