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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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devilstongue: (🔮 115)

[personal profile] devilstongue 2019-06-01 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Molly splutters again, trying to slip under water to avoid Jester-spit, and all he can do to save the joint is to throw it in Beau's direction and pray her monk moves will save it.

(They ate poison ivy looking for drugs, Jester you narc! Let the idiots have their weed victory!)

He gives Yasha a mock-wounded look even as he coils his tail around her ankle. It was a good move, he has to admit that. Smirking, Molly takes back the wine and wiggles it dramatically.

"Traitors get no wine, love."

They get clerics on top of them, apparently.
barberian: (well done)

yw >:T

[personal profile] barberian 2019-06-08 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't want your wine."

She's been drinking wine politely ever since she got here, it's all anybody will offer her. Where is the piss-water beer, is what Yasha wants to know. Jester is clambering up her like she's a tree; she lifts an arm to help her up to sit on her shoulders, and now she is the tallest in the bath.

Drugs are fine to have, in the bath, but not before you make two of your friends wrestle up on top of your shoulders first. That just seems like a given. "Molly, let Beau be on your shoulders. We can make them fight."
Edited (some how an f got in there) 2019-06-08 01:26 (UTC)
lesbeau: (« [Hah] good job you funky little lesbia)

gays

[personal profile] lesbeau 2019-06-12 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Thankfully for everyone interested in drugs, Beau got a 19 on joint-catching, so the weed is safe and not drenched for another day. It's also thankfully still lit, so she's going to use the time that Jester is being a little monkey to take a drawn-out hit, sinking into the water almost over her shoulders. "Yeeeah, that's the shit. About fuckin time." This is way better than shoving poison ivy in their mouths, for sure. Just because she doesn't need drugs to have fun doesn't mean she doesn't want drugs to have fun. It's like, science or something.

Regardless, Yasha starts providing the best idea ever, and Beau shoves the non-burned end of the pot cig into her topknot as if it will be safe there or something. "Fuck yes! Molly hold me up, come on, you have to have some strength in you. We gotta be weed team!"

And just like that she's already clambering over there. C'mon Molly, aren't you excited to be around a bunch of naked women?

Shame it's these naked women, though.
technicallytechnically: (and i dont want your pity)

[personal profile] technicallytechnically 2019-06-15 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Please guys, tell Jester about the time you ate poison ivy. She needs to know these things. For science.

"Weed team versus the strongest team!" Like, y'all can't even contest that moniker, Yasha and Jester are quantifiably the srongest here. Jester flips off the other two with a devilish grin.

"You're gonna be coughing up bathwater for weeks, bitches!" We're talking trash now, as is customary every time a competition is introduced. Oh yes, there will be blood.
devilstongue: (🔮 42)

[personal profile] devilstongue 2019-06-15 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Molly sets the wine down and mourns what will either be the joint or Beau's hair before he's descended upon by way too much monk.

"Fuck, ow, don't grab the horns!" It's fun in the bedroom, but not when someone tries to pull themselves up on him by them.

...he's still helping her get up, though. Who could ignore trash talk like that, after all? It's a bit unsteady with Beau on him since he's not the strongest of people with a measly 10, and now they were matched up against the two most jacked Neins.

"Strong versus dextrous, let's be stupid!"
barberian: (teen girl squad)

[personal profile] barberian 2019-06-24 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
"You don't need to be dexterous in a bath, you know."

Jester is squeezing her head a bit which is a little uncomfortable but sometimes sacrifices have to be made in order to have the best fighting team. Yasha has to sink into the water a little more to make the fighters even in their height, and she dutifully holds Jester's legs as she dips in closer to Molly so that she can reach Beau.

This is very, very stupid.

"If we win, I get the weed." Since Jester doesn't smoke. It seems fair.
lesbeau: (« [Yell] BEAU RUSHES IN)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2019-06-27 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Of course this is stupid, that's exactly why they're doing it. Beau hollers out a laugh as she gets onto his shoulders, giving him a little pat on the head once she's settled.

"C'mon Molls, don't count us out-- you just gotta get some jukes in there, alright? Show 'em our moves." It's probably not the best for close combat, especially if she doesn't get to use her own legs, but she sure as hell isn't going down without a fight. Also like, Jester is basically naked across from her and might body tackle her into a pool. That sounds like a win no matter what happens from here.

"And hey, if you knock me in the water, it's gone! So think about that, huh!" It wasn't her original intention, but now it feels like a good bargaining chip and way to cheat. "So better be careful!"

She finishes it off by cracking her knuckles and pointing defiantly towards them both. Come at her, scrubs! She's ripped!!!
technicallytechnically: (the world would never allow)

[personal profile] technicallytechnically 2019-07-23 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
"YASHA'S GONNA GET ALL THE WEED!!!" Yasha uses her barbarian speed to... gently move Jester closer to her targets, as Jester just flails and laughs maniacally.

But also Jester's only horse in this race at this point is getting to naked wrestle with Molly and Beau, so like, she's already won her prize here. So she goes right for it, not caring one bit about Beau's threat against the joint, and starts grabbing Beau by the shoulders to try and push her over.

Or, well, it starts on the shoulders. And at some point may upgrade to the face.
devilstongue: (🔮 123)

[personal profile] devilstongue 2019-07-31 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Get her!"

Molly isn't quite as gentle as Yasha is, but he also has a trash person on his shoulders and not a precious blueberry. He lunges forward to grab Yasha ins the most useless chest bump, steadying himself against her so the top fighters can duke it out.

"Hello, love. Come here often?"

He winks at his best friend, definitely not planning to trip her with his tail if Beau looks like she's losing.
Edited 2019-07-31 16:58 (UTC)
barberian: (ta daa)

[personal profile] barberian 2019-08-09 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Jester is going to win me all of the weed."

She's not entirely sure what's going on up there because it's hard to look and also because she's kind of aware that Beau is naked up there on Molly's shoulders but she's trying not to think too hard about it-

"Hello."

Molly has chest bumped her, right on cue. Yasha lets go of Jester's legs to grapple him by his shoulders, but lovingly so. She smiles. "If you trip me with your tail, I will drag you under by the horns."
lesbeau: (« [Hah] good job you funky little lesbia)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2019-08-15 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course it's gonna upgrade to the face. On one hand, Beau has a lot of wiggle power- it's hard to unsteady her, even on another person's shoulders. On the other, she absolutely doesn't have the raw power that Jester does to push back. So she focuses on slapping away Jester's wrists, wrapping her hands around and redirecting the force back at her. She's basically entirely forgotten if there was any point to this, because it's so much more fun to just try and win.

"You're gonna have to do better than that, huh!" Man, sure hope Molly can handle all her movements on his shoulders. Go ahead Molly, take another one for the team and hold it together, huh?
technicallytechnically: (no you know it aint easy)

how many times will i drop links in one thread

[personal profile] technicallytechnically 2019-08-24 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately for Team Strong Girls, Beau is at an advantage in a slapfight and Jester may have been relying a little too much on Yasha keeping her steady while she goes ham with her entire upper torso. She's about to try to shoulder check Beau after she's realized her wrists are being easily deflected by the person who actually does fight with her hands for a living.

So the shoulder check, being delivered with an excess of gusto and a lot of forward flailing, mostly ends with Jester stumbling straight into Beau's entire self with her entire self. There's naked flailing involved, and not the fun kind. Well, maybe the fun kind.

At least Jester is sturdy enough for a full body flail to like, be somewhat effective, probably. The horns might also help.

Also the wordless, ecstatic yelling might throw the other team off their rhythm. Jester clearly has the upper hand here.