WEEK 3

[pleasureislanders]

[When you wake up the following morning, the doors to the Adventurers Club are open. It only took you a horrible murder to get into the outside of the club, but finally you get some fresh air! Now that you’re outside, the gentle seaside feeling of the island seems to almost instantly soothe any anxieties you had about the previous days. And when night arrives, the island comes alive with music and lights and the island parties until dawn.

One odd thing everyone will notice, however, is that instead of humans or animals inhabiting the island, it seems to be entirely populated by sentient mannequins. They seem friendly enough, but they’re definitely creepy to look at for longer than a few minutes.

However it seems only a portion of the island is available right now. As you make your way deeper into the island, are large, impassable construction walls blocking your way. With cute little “pardon our pixie dust” signs! If you peer from the windows of the Adventurers Club, you might be able to spot the ocean....

Enjoy the sunshine and warm breeze if you can. Despite the new scenery, you're still not any closer to getting home than you were last week.]

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[As a reminder, please submit your Week 2 activity check before July 8th, 1 PM EST! Dead characters just have to check in.]

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MONDAY

[pleasureislanders]

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ X-23 spent most of Sunday wandering around and exploring what's now open to them, and now on Monday she's going to spend a lot of time in the morning just walking up and down the beach, trying to see if there's literally anything either on the horizon or elsewhere on the island she can see from any angle. Or occasionally just kind of... flopping down onto the sand and staring up at the sky.

When that probably doesn't get her much of anything, she swipes a souvenir shirt and shorts from the Depot and wades out into the sea! She seems... not sure what to do, but almost happy? Almost. So close.

Later on, though, she can be caught at Videopolis, still damp from the ocean and covered in a not insignificant amount of sand, listening to the band just really go at it on a cover of... something, I'll pick a track when you reply or you can pick one. Regardless, she's looking at it with just kind of... fascination? This place is the wildest introduction to the concept of Music.

Or, much later on, she's changed back into her normal clothes and is in the library, looking through... some kind of file folder? She very clearly doesn't like it! This might be most strongly indicated by how she crumples each sheet up as she finishes with it. ]

Sea

[tadaishi]

[X-23 might find that when she wades out, there's already someone else hanging out in the water. He's missed the ocean and while he feels like he should be trying to scavenge boat materials, that can happen later.]

Nice, isn't it?

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ oh hey what up, closest relative to her canon? ]

Yeah. I've never been to a beach before.

library

[bornforit]

[Leia has already completed a quick tour of the outside, finding it...less than satisfying, considering she still has no idea how to get off this damned island. There's nothing even remotely suggesting the availability of a ship, either nautical or aeronautical. So when she comes into the library, she's...not in a great mood? But then again, neither is X-23, by the looks of it.

Leia's brow furrows in concern.]

Do I even want to ask? It isn't more threatening photos, is it?

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ Maybe you should try running around on the beach for a while, Leia, that part's neat.

X-23 shakes her head, Grumpy Attitude not lightening. ]

No, it's... something the mask shouldn't have had. Doofenshmirtz had it, but he gave it back to me.

MEET ME IN THE PIT

[madmadam]

[Today there's an extra walrus in the walrus pit.

It's suspiciously purple, and everyone can understand it when it talks.]

C'mon! Share the cheese puffs! I know you've got more of 'em!

[halloteen]

[peers in]

Sorry, I only have carrots today!

[madmadam]

[She blanches as that.]

We're already trapped in here! Don't have to make us suffer more!

[bottlerockets]

[Oh my god, a walrus that isn't speaking gibberish...

... but then Chicken Little looks down at the head of lettuce he had brought with him today.]

Uh, I only have lettuce with me... but um, I can run and go get cheese puffs really quick?

[madmadam]

Yes, yes! Be a good little boy and bring us the good stuff!

[kuzcospoison]

Sorry, ma'am... 'fraid I can't do that, on account of you being an obligate carnivore.

[Kronk then promptly dunks his whole hand into a big bag of unappetizingly gray shrimp that he's lovingly slung in one arm like an oversized baby full of raw prawns, rustling around to get a good handful for the walruses.]

[madmadam]

[Well, hey, food is food, even if she was in the mood for something deep fried and over processed.]

Surprised you know a word that long!

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[Well hmm. What to do here?]

Pretty sure walruses don't eat cheese puffs!

[madmadam]

Of course we do, dear. We're opportunistic like that!

[prodigalhairess]

[Okay, enough moping around! Rapunzel's finally gotten herself back together after a day or two of shock at witnessing such a bloody execution - and being covered in all that blood, yuck. Time to explore!

When she comes downstairs from the dormitory area, the others might notice that Rapunzel is dressed... quite differently. Which is understandable, considering her dress was caked in blood and bits of gore from Bill's execution, but it's not just the knee-length shorts she's now clad in. She's wearing a deep green tunic that absolutely belongs to a certain other person who was definitely wearing it the day before. The tunic is unbuttoned down the front and Rapunzel is wearing a loose shirt under it, so she doesn't seem to need it, but... hm.

Anyway!

As soon as she notices the front doors are open, Rapunzel wastes no time in rushing outside to the beach. The smile on her face as she makes it to the shore and dips her feet in the surf is like the sun; shining bright, lighting up her entire face as she laughs.]

Ohhhh wow, I didn't realize how much I missed fresh air! And the feeling of the sun, and the water! This is amazing...

[Confinement is just... not good with her anymore.

She spends most of her day at the beach, enjoying the sun and the water and just the feeling of being outside, but as the sun begins to set, Rapunzel decides to do a bit more exploring. Eventually she ends up in front of the movie theater, standing in front of the poster for Idolizing Colonialists, her head tilted to one side.]

What's a... movie?

beach

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ hey raps it's getting late in the day and ur small gremlin friend is also here on the beach being, as can be seen in her toplevel, Real Gremliny - she is currently chilling in the ocean it's great

she waves in... her best attempt at a friendly greeting? she doesn't smile but again she gets close!!

and then she is immediately slammed by a wave and immediately reduced to Drowned Rat status. rip. ]

[prodigalhairess]

[Aww, she looks like she's having fu- OH WELL THEN. Rapunel was in the middle of raising her hand to wave back, a bright smile on her face, but that smile immediately drops into a look of shock, and she immediately dashes forward.]

H-Hey, are you okay???

movie theater

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Don't know. Must be some kind of play.

[Hey, Raps. You've been wearing Cass's tunic all day, leaving her in her undershirt. Which isn't that bad, all things - especially this island weather - considered. It's Terapi island, all over again.]

And the 'people' around here aren't going to help explain.

[prodigalhairess]

[Honestly, Rapunzel wishes they were on Terapi Island instead. Sure, the Lorbs' magic artifacts were dangerous in so many ways, but it was never this bad. And the lorbs themselves weren't bad folk at all! It'd be much better than their current situation.]

A play, huh... [She giggles.] Y'know, i all the places on this island are staffed by those mannequins... do you think they're the actors too? That would be pretty funny to watch!

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[The doors were finally open, revealing that they were well and truly trapped on an island in the ocean. So much for hoping that was a lie. Not that Cassandra was really prepared to do anything about it yesterday, beyond coming to terms with everything that she'd witnessed the day prior.

It's a new day! Nobody's died in the last couple days. Cass could hope that streak would continue, right? Right!!

She's up and ready to face the day, coming down in the morning for breakfast in the saloon. Her attire is... noticeably different today. No longer is she wearing the deep green tunic she arrived in, opting instead for just a tan undershirt while she goes rooting around for any leftover pancakes.

After breakfast, Cass wastes no time in heading outside. It's an immediate improvement after being cooped up indoors for a couple weeks. Not everything she wanted, but a start.

She spends the day wandering outside, giving just about everywhere at least a glance, including the theater. She stops there to inspect the posters indicating what's being shown... and to try and ask a working mannequin just what a "movie" is supposed to be anyway. It's a conversation that's really not getting anywhere for obvious reasons.

Which takes us into the evening, when the doors of the Adventurer's Club burst open, and Cassandra comes barreling out. She's making a mad dash for the beach, and not stopping for anyone that gets in her way. Which probably has something to do with the flaming jack-o-lantern she's got.

Once she's to the water's edge, she hurls the head into the drink, letting herself just... stand there, panting slowly as she watched the sizzling pumpkin disappear under the waves.]

Well... that was something.

beach

[primafacie]

[Sugarplum's here on the beach and looking up at the stars, because she's never seen real ones before, but Cassandra startles her. The flaming pumpkin even more so.]

Are you alright, Miss Cassandra? [Are you burned? Hurt? Humans get hurt so easily!] Where did that come from?

the theater

[bottlerockets]

[Chicken Little overhears her asking a mannequin about movies, and for once, he actually has an answer to this.]

Oh, I can tell you what a movie is! It's a story that's been like... acted out by other people telling it? And then they used a camera to record it so that you can watch the story being told without the actors having to keep performing the same thing over and over again. And then that recording can be shared with many other people who weren't there in person when they acted it out.

Anyway, we used to have a movie theater like this back home, and it played movies like Indiana Jones... though, um, sometimes you get bad movies that you don't like too. You just don't know until you see it.

theater

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ Hey, Cass! X-23 is here, covered in sand and water because... that's just her life today, she's basically a stray dog who's just discovered the beach for the first time, it's fine. ]

Just so you know, Rapunzel has your shirt.

Beach

[prodigalhairess]

[So like. Rapunzel knows that she doesn't really have to worry about Cass. Cass is a big girl and can take care of herself; Cass has taken care of Rapunzel more times than she can count! So there's no fear in her eyes as Cass runs past with a flaming pumpkin, just... very startled confusion.]

Uhhhhh.... Cass? What in the world was that about?