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July Adventure: Where the Weeds are Now Growing Free

NEW ISLAND: UMUI

Who: Everyone!
What: Umui appears, and a new adventure begins
When: July 10th and onward
Where: Umui
Warnings: Tag as you go!

'Cause the Dirt is Up to My Eyes
As of July 10th, the mana pools on Ensō and its islets will now allow for travel to the new island of Umui.

Travelers will arrive on a mana pool situated on the C1 square. The thick crops of flowers spring freely across the lush, grassy landscape, clustered in dense knots. The variety behind these growths seems profoundly limited: it is as though each flower has only sprouted around others of its kind, mingling solely at the edges. A large building looms in the corner of the region, a twisting, unfurling mass of piping and a half-crumbled metallic shine.

Whatever lays inside, or beyond the island's limits, is for you to discover for yourself.

Welcome to the new island of Umui! As the island is now accessible, feel free to begin preparations and explorations in this log, or create new ones of your own! For further information in regards to the island, or plotting, the following links may prove handy:

[ ♆ ] OOC info and introductory post
[ ♆ ] Optional future event sign-up
[ ♆ ] Umui on the Locations page
[ ♆ ] Search Requests page

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"Um... That is a good question." Admittedly, she didn't what to expect from this island. And... it's already lowered her expectations. A whole lot of nothing, as far as she could see.

"Well, it looks like there's nothing immediately going to attack us." She wades out further, coming across one of the spots where a group of flowers, all the same color, sprouted from the ground. She bends down to sniff one.

"At least it's beautiful here. There's so many pretty flowers."

"Oleander is also beautiful, but when ingested will kill you in a rather ugly way," he said in a far too casual tone before walking out, carefully stepping between plants. "As for interesting... well, I want to say you'll know it when you see it. But what I mean is when we find something out of place, or, exciting. Something worth considering, then usually something bad will happen."

What's oleander? Kaworu doesn't ask.

He gives Komaeda a brief look, but he's thinking about what he said. It's a really long-winded way to say that... but it makes sense. If you find nothing, then nothing can happen... but they're here to find something, so that rules out that.

There are a lot of flowers... though much like the ambient sounds of nature, the ambient sight of it is alien to him. 'Pretty'... that's important to them? He doesn't really get it. But that's fine.

This seems pretty easy, if what he's looking for is that ill-defined.

"There's also the ocean." Maybe there are turtles, or fish... is that 'interesting' enough?

She looks up as Komaeda passes, nose scrunched in instinctive concern when she looks back at the flowers. "I'm not about to eat them...!" But as an idea struck her, she'll pick one of the flowers and move on. There seems to be plenty of time to check out other spots, other flowers. Nari would love these for the house, no doubt.

"Hmm?" Kaworu is still floating. Odd. Odder still is his statement. She turned her gaze to the sea, which was pretty close, since they were still on the coast of the island. It was still as well, matched the land perfectly.

"It is, but we're here to investigate this island. Anything on it could be use-ful!"

Oh, there she goes, tripping over something, it sends her rolling down a hill, right into another patch of flowers.

Komaeda glances towards where Pyrrha's voice was, and her tumbling sound. Where a different person might call after her and ask if she was ok, or run down the hill to help her out and see if she was hurt or not, he simply looked down at what she tripped over. Seeing an object there buried under the roots he goes to look closer and finds a box.

"Oh! Lucky!" he pulled the box out to investigate the insides. "Ah... now this is interesting."

Kaworu hesitates, confused. Several things happen in rapid succession, and following them isn't a problem, but reacting? He doesn't know what he's supposed to do--

Is he expected to pay attention to Pyrrha, who goes down--and then continues down, all the way down the hill with no warning or even a sound? Is the box more important? He isn't required to obey SEELE's objectives, but he's still pretending to be something human like. What's the human thing to do?

Well, Komaeda isn't doing anything about Pyrrha... so he guesses he won't either.

Which is great because he didn't know what to do about that.

"What's 'lucky?'" he asks, floating closer out of curiosity.

"Ow! Oof! Ah-!"

Stick the landing, stick the landing. Roll with your head tucked down, use your hands to maneuver- Oh god, a rock.

Down she goes, Pyrrha just can't seem to find a good chance to roll out of her fall today. So, she at least manages to roll all the way down to the end of the slope, which isn't that far to begin with.

Dizzy, acutely aware of a pain in her ankle, Pyrrha needs a moment to reorient herself.

"I'm... okay! I guess...?" She calls, somewhat concerned that no one came to her aid, or seems to care at all. But that's not the only thing. "Did you two find something?"

"Lucky is when something good happens to you, like finding a treasure!" he pried the box open to look closer at the bottles. Curious. Pulling out the one with the lavel he examined it before opening it to smell it. Hmmm....

"We found some sort of liquid!" he bottled it up again placing it in the box before getting up to go down the hill to see if Pyrrha was okay. He wasn't completely oblivious.

"Hopefully it wasn't such a find that you're too badly hurt."

Kaworu looks over the hill at Pyrrha with the same curiosity he peered over Komaeda's shoulder at the crate's contents. He smiles back brightly at her, like that should reassure her about whatever fall she just took.

Kaworu is not superb at taking social cues, sorry Pyrrha.

"He found something, but it's in bottles."

Your attempt is.... well, it's something, Kaworu. She can't help but feel like she's being a bit ignored, though.

She makes sure to gather the flower she dropped up, as well as another of a different color, from the spot she landed in.

"Bottles...?" Pyrrha starts the slow, and somewhat sore, climb back up, prepared to meet Komaeda halfway if she can. "What are bottles of liquid doing in a box, half-buried in the ground?"

"Who knows?" he offers a hand to help her the rest of the way. "Are you alright?" he was genuinely concerned, though he'll still move on all the same.

"One of them says Fluro, they smell a bit like ammonia," which wasn't that helpful.

Kaworu really, truly has nothing to add to any of this. He lingers behind Komaeda, watching him help Pyrrha up and staring down at the bottles without much change in expression.

This is not something he was taught to deal with, and it's absolutely nothing he has an innate ability (or desire) to learn. Honestly, he doesn't see what the excitement is. Some jugs in a box? What's so 'lucky' about that?

Pyrrha eyes the hand, looking up at Komaeda, then even further to Kaworu. Both of them people she hadn't known very well at all, right before they joined together on this search. Her hand lingers for just a moment, before she accepts the hand, and the help back up.

"Please, it's alright. I've taken far worse falls, back home." There was that pleasant spirit. Even if she comes out of it with a bruise or two, it's nothing she can't handle. And there's more important things at hand.

"You said ammonia?" Once they're both to the top again, she gets to work, taking one of the jugs to inspect for herself. Uncorking one, taking a sniff, and closing it again. "Strange, but it could be a cleaning product. Ammonia is used in many kinds."

Komaeda isn't that helpful in support or help sadly, but he made an effort and that was what was important. If he were stronger or had more stamina he might have been more helpful.

"Still, I feel a little at fault."

Once back up at the top he nods at her observation.

"True, though it's vary faint and a strange colour," he pulled out the jar he had looked at before, opening it up again to look inside. "At least it's not like any cleaning supplies I'm familiar with," he then poured a bit on the ground, as if to get a better look at it. He didn't think much of it until the plants started withering away and dying. "My... that's a rather quick reaction."

Kaworu probably would have been more useful, but as with many things, helping Pyrrha just didn't occur to him. It still hasn't, actually. Did Komaeda help her because he felt 'at fault'--he's irrationally assumed some measure of responsibility for her fall. That's a little ridiculous. But humans are sort of ridiculous. He's just better off not saying anything about it.

Watching them pass the bottle around, smell their contents, and pour it on the ground is all very strange, but interesting in a similar way.

It's not until the plants begin to wither that he realises there was actually a purpose to emptying some of it out.

Resourceful. Clever. Humans!

"What are you going to do with it?"

"Really, you shouldn't worry. My Aura took any damage."

Pyrrha found that every little bit of helpfulness, well... helped. Case in point, Komaeda offering a hand up. Pyrrha would always appreciate the little things like that. After all, aren't they all in this together? Helping each other was important.

Before there's any word of what he's doing, suddenly, we're pouring the contents of a bottle onto the ground? "What are you...?" But quickly enough, they begin to see the result, and Pyrrha crouches down to look closer. Her brow knits together.

"Well, we know it's... quite strong now. Or at least effective against plants?"

"Perhaps, but, luck tends to act rather... against those around me," but, he didn't feel like things were going particularly good, so everything should be fine.

"As for this, I'm going to keep it. If anything it would be useful for keeping the garden clean. But, it might have other interesting properties and uses," but was it simply a weed killer?

"There are four, so you if you want to split it, you can both take two." This is Kaworu's not exactly subtle way of saying he doesn't want or need any weird chemicals in bottles. But just in case it wasn't clear (humans can be... difficult, sometimes), he decides to outright state it.

"I don't have any use for anything like that."

He isn't being modest. He really doesn't, and wouldn't under any circumstance. Chemistry, creativity, that sort of thing... it's really not his... well, thing.

He is thinking about it, though, enough to offer a suggestion.

"We should keep looking. Maybe there's more."

"There could be. If we found this crate here, then it's probable that there are other crates like this nearby." At least that's how Pyrrha's drawing her conclusion. "I guess we should keep looking around, just to make sure of it."

Just what else was this island keeping from them?

She looks to Kaworu, gently nodding. "If you don't want them, I'll be glad to split it with Komaeda. I actually have a garden I could use it on too."

"I would be careful before using it in such a way," it seemed very potent and might kill what was wanted as well as what wasn't. "But I don't mind splitting it, I feel it's a good find and will prove useful," he wanted to show it to Hinata when he had a chance. It was such a curious thing.

"And since we did find something, looking around more is a good idea. Who knows what else might surface!"

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Sorry for the wait! Real life, etc.

I know that feeling...

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