lifeaftr | 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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Wow.

(Ren has put a lot of thought into this paradise. Yasha looks at the little pile of honeysticks. They are all gummed together almost completely.)

Thank you. Are you going to do that too?

Yes, if you lay down, I will too.

[And if she doesn't, Ren has other goblin tasks to take care of. Her reign of terror is far-reaching and she plans to take over more tents to her cause.

It's probably best if they just Take A Nap.]

Um...

(She's not really tired, but it seems like it would be rude not to indulge Ren, so Yasha glances behind her to make sure there's room and she's not going to pull any blankets over before she leans back on her elbows.)

Okay. I could lie down for a bit.

[Great! She earns [two] things for this action. A honey stick is shoved right on to her stomach as she lays down and Ren moves to put a pillow under where her head's going to be.

She's gonna tuck her IN.]

(Oh, that's so sticky. Yasha rescues the honey stick, and then glances back at the pillow, carefully placed.)

... Now?

(Yes, it appears that... this is happening now. She shifts a little, then slowly lowers herself back until her head is on the pillow. Her feet are maybe sticking out one side of the fort, but she can't help being long.

This feels weird.)

[This is a challenge she'll readily accept. Yasha's long body means her short blankets aren't enough to fully cover her, so she does her best pushing the fabric under her body until it's As Tight As Possible.

And then she just leaves. Deuces out of the entire fort so she can cover Yasha's feet with a pile of pillows. Incredible.]

Are you warm?

(Oh, no. She doesn't really like that. Yasha shifts a little as she's tucked in, sighing, closing her eyes. Honestly, if she's going to have a nap she'd prefer to be on the ground with the stars overhead, and with no blanket at all.)

Yes, (she says reluctantly, wriggling her toes inside of her boots.)

Thank you.

[Too bad, this is how life is now Yasha. She stepped foot into this cursed goblin temple and now the price must be paid. Blood must be shed. Or naps.

With that done, she tries to crawl back in.

Unfortunately, she miscalculated her blanket spread here and she just ends up under the 'floor' of the fort, moving under the fabric surface like some kind of blob as she tries to find an opening to come back through. She's beside Yasha in spirit, and also physically, but she can't escape this hell. It looks like she's trying to raise her hand, or her head, or something to point towards the direction of her stuffed Solgaleo plush. Hopefully. She can't tell.]

You can hold that pokemon too. It'll help you have good dreams.

(Yasha doesn't know what a pokemon is so it takes her a while to figure out what the lump in the blanket floor is supposed to be pointing at. Eventually she takes it, turning it over in both hands.)

... Thank you. Is it magic?

(You never know, with Ren. Perhaps it is charmed to help you have good dreams. Yasha likes the idea of that; she doesn't have nightmares with the same regularity as she used to. Most often she doesn't have dreams at all, and that weirds her out.)

I think so, but it's not the same kind of magic Uncle Taako uses.

[It's not charmed in the slightest. Not one bit, but she adores the creature all the same and the way it makes her heart feel warm-it must be magic in some way.]

It just makes you very happy.

(Well, that means nothing to her because she hasn't met 'Uncle Taako', but she does understand there being many different kinds of magic. She has some of her own, you know.

Actually, on that thought.

She casts Light, and channels the cantrip into the little toy so that it glows a soft, warm yellow. It's quite a nice effect, actually. She pats the little lump in the blankets where part of Ren is.)

Look.

[The small toy becomes a beacon and its soft light prompts her to finally push herself free of this blanket hell, pushing herself up, up, up until she pushes through two blankets to freedom. That's a weak point she'll have to deal with at a later time. Glue will fix that right away.

And she doesn't get that it's magic-not immediately. To her, it's-]

Look, look! You can see it's heart-can you feel it? It's very very happy.

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