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The Mods of LifeAftr ([personal profile] lifeaftr_mods) wrote in [community profile] lifeaftr2019-05-09 08:57 pm

May Adventure: I Want to Go Where Everyone Goes

NEW ISLAND: IO
Who: Everyone!
What: Io appears!
When: May 10th and onward
Where: Io
Warnings: The possibility of drug use and alcohol may come up. Otherwise, tag as you go!


Things Are Shaping Up to Be Pretty Odd
As of May 10th, the mana pools on Ensō and its islets will now allow for travel to Io. Though you could always opt for sailing, if you wanted. As we mentioned on the island's introductory post, no exploration is necessary! The island is small enough and easily traversed, and with a minimum of dangers, you have plenty of time to visit each of Io's six draws.

The temple is the easiest place to get in touch with the local avatar, though you can contact them just as easily by striking up a conversation with just about any honeybee you see in the vicinity. The lazy drone of them can be heard all over the island, though they're quite complacent, and not at all prone to disturbing adventurers. The temple itself is twined with grapevines and smothered with inlays of rubies, proud and sparkling. Inside, it smells of honey and wine, and seems to exhibit a naturally contented glow. Just outside, numerous fruit trees sprout all about the temple's courtyard, to be sampled at your leisure.

The bathhouses are located just south of the temple, and are prime locations for some rest and relaxation. Bathe, swim, take a spa day! There are innumerable rooms to do exactly that, and more space than be reasonably filled by some sixty-or-seventy people.
Or maybe you're interested in getting absolutely sloshed instead. The vineyard is perfect for that, located to Io's northeast on one of its long, tapering peninsulas. Rows upon rows of grapevines lead up to the crown jewel of the region: a proud winery with enough goods to satisfy even the most parched.

For those less keen on mind-altering substances, the tea gardens are a far safer bet. They practically emanate tranquility, with their soft paper lanterns, thickets of tea trees, and a tea room with a seemingly endless supply of every supplement to your drink that you could ask for. And if none of the teabags or tea leaves in there suit your preference, you're free to wander about the gardens yourself and sample whatever you like.

The Honeycomb at the island's heart is much more akin to a play structure or jungle gym than anything else, but its interlocking passageways and erratic, hexagonal architecture aren't for nothing. It's an ideal spot for play or exercise, if you're into that kind of thing - or for getting positively sick on honey sticks.

The campsites ensure that you don't truly have to depart from Io, if you don't want to. Tents full of chairs and cushions and blankets make it a wonderful place to spend the night if you're so inclined, and the lockers full of food and drink are assurances that you won't go hungry. And with all these massive bonfires and firework cannons, why would you ever want to leave?



Welcome to the island of Io! Please, enjoy your stay and make full use of this island's many faculties! For further information in regards to the island, or plotting, the following links may prove handy:
[ ♆ ] OOC info and introductory post
[ ♆ ] Io on the Locations page

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forwearemany: (socute)

Honeycomb

[personal profile] forwearemany 2019-05-11 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
(They do not benefit from exercise as organics do, but that does not mean that there is no temptation for them in the strange and interlocking architecture of the Honeycomb.

They're sitting, somewhere, in a particularly twisty, turny, convoluted tunnel area, and when she suddenly appears, they don't seem even remotely surprised.

...They probably heard her coming from a mile away.)


Ren.
catpiper: (shoujo professional sparkles)

[personal profile] catpiper 2019-05-12 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[You know who is surprised? It's Ren.

But their random appearance saves her from having to hunt them down and drag them into the playground. She can check them off her mental list and move onto the most important part.
]

Do you want to play too? There's a fun slide-it's that way, that way.
forwearemany: (Cute)

[personal profile] forwearemany 2019-05-12 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
(They ponder this for a moment, headflaps rippling.)

We were already intending to play videogames, but we are amenable to the suggested change in activity.

(Mostly because playing with people usually beats playing alone.)
catpiper: (pic#13117577)

[personal profile] catpiper 2019-05-17 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Videogames?

[The two words, separately, ring a bell and have a meaning-it's the mushed way they said them now that confuses her.]

What kind of game is that?
forwearemany: (socute)

[personal profile] forwearemany 2019-05-20 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
(After a moment of consideration, they bring out their console, swapping the Grim Terminus Alliance cartridge for the more kid appropriate Pac-Man one.

They turn it on and offer it to her.)


Character actions are manipulated via pressing buttons.
catpiper: (bribe a gnome for their bones)

[personal profile] catpiper 2019-05-21 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[This is weird?? A lot more complicated than the toys she was given as a kid, though it doesn't seem too hard?

Still. Maybe this is best left to the pros until she understands.
]

Do you want to play? I'll watch you.
forwearemany: (doingathing)

[personal profile] forwearemany 2019-05-22 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
(Their headflaps ripple.)

Affirmative.

(And they'll take the console and sit down to play some Pac-Man.

...They probably make the game look easier than it actually is. Like with many games, they're very good.)
catpiper: (well here I am now talking at my phone)

[personal profile] catpiper 2019-06-07 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[PacMan is a game with good ghost logic and she catches on incredibly quick, since she does that in reality. It scans. Run and hide and eat-that's all you really have to do.]

You have to eat faster!
forwearemany: (Stare)

[personal profile] forwearemany 2019-06-11 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Error: eating faster not possible.

(They eat one of the big circles and start chasing ghosts.)
Edited 2019-06-11 02:40 (UTC)
catpiper: (bribe a gnome for their bones)

[personal profile] catpiper 2019-06-14 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It is if you run faster.

[A pause, then-]

Or chew faster.

[Make the video game work with child logic, Legion!!]
forwearemany: (Cute)

[personal profile] forwearemany 2019-06-17 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
(...

Perhaps experience will illuminate.)


Do you wish to play?
catpiper: (first tie gran skeeter hot type mutsu to)

[personal profile] catpiper 2019-06-17 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Now that she's seen what buttons they've pressed-yeah. Maybe she can figure out how to make It Go Fast.]

Okay!
forwearemany: (standing)

[personal profile] forwearemany 2019-06-17 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
(Good luck with that, Ren!)

Acknowledged.

(They restart the game and hand it to her.)
catpiper: (pic#13117576)

[personal profile] catpiper 2019-06-21 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oddly enough, it was one thing to be over someone's shoulder and watching the liveplay. It's another entirely to have the life of this little pacman in her hands. It whomp, whomp, whomps towards all the food, though she looks terrified every time an enemy comes closer-

and closer-

and closer-

and closer-

and-

She pushes it facedown against the ground. PacMan is Spooky.
]

Okay, now they're hiding.
forwearemany: (socute)

[personal profile] forwearemany 2019-06-22 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
(Their headfleps fan out, with a stream of chatter. After a moment, they reach down and turn off the console, before picking it up.)

You dislike it?
catpiper: (pic#13117561)

[personal profile] catpiper 2019-06-22 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
The ghosts got very close and it was scary.

[The game itself was fun though. It's the stress of trying to save pacman that took her down.]
forwearemany: (Headtilt)

[personal profile] forwearemany 2019-06-23 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Acknowledged. Is Ren-Pumpkin still willing to show us the aforementioned slide?

(Not their idea of fun, but maybe that's better than letting her get scared and possibly damage their console.)
catpiper: (if i was one with the earth)

[personal profile] catpiper 2019-06-29 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[That immediately perks her up and with her eye on that prize, she starts heading towards the direction of the slide.]

Yeah, yeah! Come on!
forwearemany: (running)

[personal profile] forwearemany 2019-07-07 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Acknowledged.

(They get up and follow.)