May Adventure: I Want to Go Where Everyone Goes

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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?

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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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Comments

[catpiper]

[It doesn't sound right at all. Her friend, that wanders different islands trying to map out places with their floaty buddy, to be some kind of battle hardened warrior. It doesn't fit what she knows, even if she saw it with her own two eyes.

But she does know what soldiers are and what they were for. She heard about her world being ripe with battles before Glass Cage.]

For a war?

[hyperlit]

yes

[It is what they were made for. But they do not...bringing up the fact that they were synthesized at all, built in a strangled mess of pipes and wirework and fluid and fabricated life, it is not something they prefer to think about. At all, if they can help it.]

[And yet, it is where they came from. Like it or no.]

[catpiper]

[It makes their situations a bit similar-they were both created because of wars. They were supposed to fight in it and she was supposed to keep any future ones from happening.

Still, she's glad their personality has become more peaceful, for whatever reason.]

I'm happy you aren't scary anymore. You're very kind now.

[hyperlit]

[They do not wish to be that again, it's true. But what if the island, again, robs them of that choice?]

should it happen again
run
do not stay
do not speak

run

[catpiper]

I'll always say 'Hey, Drifter' when I see you, but-

[They look so similar. Nothing about them has aged, outside of the unsteady way they hold themselves at times due to their illness. They were lacking that quality while they tried to cut her down before.]

I'll run very fast if you're like that again. I promise.

[hyperlit]

good

[They're fast. They're faster than her, than any human, but...but maybe, if this should happen again, they will be less likely to consider her an opponent. If she runs.]

thank you

[catpiper]

[Not that she ever says you're welcome, but it definitely doesn't seem fitting for this situation. It's bad. And she hopes it never comes to pass again, but-

She offers them the honeystick again, now that the air has been partially cleared between them.]

[hyperlit]

[She doesn't seem to want to leave it, even if she should. Telling her to keep it can only take them so far, and they've a feeling...]

[She's persistent, only in a different sense than the Drifter.]

[So they take it, gingerly, careful not to let their fingers so much as brush hers. They haven't earned that.]

thank you

[catpiper]

Can I help you map? I know where some treasures are.

[It's been awhile-both since she's accompanied them anywhere and since she's seen them as the friend she's known. Deviating from the game she's been absorbed in for the last few hours would be well worth it if she could.]

[hyperlit]

[Well. There's no reason why they can't. Even if they think their progress, with Ren, will be considerably less efficient. Most things with her tend to be. They cannot fault her there; she is a child, and children ought to have the time to enjoy things.]

ok

[Lead the way, Ren. Even if it takes the rest of the dang day.]

[catpiper]

[Lead the way she does. All with a bright, beaming smile across her whole face when they say ok. She raises her honeystick in the air, does a little twirl on the ball of her foot, and heads off to honeycomb lands unknown. All the while pointing out things are a definitely not treasures, but heck, it might help their map somehow. Look at these dank shiny rocks.]