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JULY EVENT: RIDING THE WAVE

Who: Everyone!
What: The Jormun reappear to allow some transformative fun...and potentially some underwater exploration as well
When: July 10th and onward
Where: Ensō and the ocean floor around it
Warnings: Potential (and fully optional) body/transformation horror may arise when undergoing shifts from land-based to sea-based shapes, and vice versa. Otherwise, tag as you go!

I'll See You on the Other Side
The Jormun resurfaced to greet their old allies on July 8th, bringing with them the offer to explore the ocean floor alongside them. They're not the only old friend that's made a return, however. The kaleidoshells, placid, rainbow-tinted creatures reminiscent of sea turtles, have also made their way to Ensō's shores for their nesting season. For much of the month of July, you'll have to tread carefully around mounds of sand hiding delicate heaps of kaleidoshell eggs.

Those of you uninterested in sea exploration can remain on the surface, if you like - the kaleidoshells can make for a stunning sight if you're glimpsing them for the first time as their shells throw off vibrant rainbow swirls of light reflected into the ocean waters.

Predators are always keen to feast on easy prey, and kaleidoshell eggs are no exception. If you feel like protecting them from any hungry slypers or pterax, you'll find that some of the Jormun are happy to stick on the surface with you and assist. They'll even lend you a schlacknorkcvic, which is the Jormun equivalent of a simple driftwood training staff, to help keep any thieving creatures away from the nests of kaleidoshell eggs - though they recommend that you do so peacefully, if possible.

Get Carried Away
Or you can brave the sea waters with the Jormun, instead. With the help of the sne'akleriad pendant, your new, aquatic shape will allow you to navigate the waters just as easily as they. Whether you intend to make use of this new skill to go roaming about and explore some of Ensō's uncharted ocean squares, take a look at that underwater structure that's been sighted before, or just have a joyous time beneath the waves with your new scaly, tentacled, flippered, or be-gilled form, the choice is yours.

In the meantime, the following links may prove handy:

[ ♆ ] OOC Event Info and Plotting Post
[ ♆ ] Underwater City Exploration Page
[ ♆ ] Jormun NPC Information
[ ♆ ] Ensō's Locations Page

Event Timeline

[ ♆ ] July 8th: The Jormun and the kaleidoshells return to Ensō's shores
[ ♆ ] July 10th: Underwater exploration begins
[ ♆ ] July 17th: Part Two of our second year anniversary Test Drive Meme goes up
[ ♆ ] July 20th: Monthly Storytelling occurs
[ ♆ ] July 22nd: The final island in this voting round appears
[ ♆ ] July 25th: The Jormun return to their home beneath the waves

LOGS ● OOC ● STORIES ● MAIN NAVIGATION

( CODED BY BOOTYCALL )

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As weird as it is seeing this guy again in daylight, he's at least still recognizable - though the change of silhouette brought on by him being, she guesses, naked does give her a moment's pause.

It's also a little harder now to assume he's a human in a mask. Well, she guesses that clears that up.

"Hey, it's you!" Yes she knows that's a rude as hell way to address someone, no it doesn't matter. She makes her way over to him over the sand, rubbing her fingers over her own pendant in one hand. "You thinking of trying it out?"

There are certainly robots who might protest and well I never at being addressed so. But Horatio is an aging hermit who quite frankly lives in a wasteland of garbage, and therefore he has no real expectation of anyone having manners fancier than 'hopefully not shooting strangers on sight.' So fortunately it all works out!

"Huh?" He blinks, looks around - ah. "Oh, yeah. Yeah. Maybe. They say it works on everyone, and maybe it would be worth it. There's nothing like this where I've come from, though. Not this-" and here he holds up the pendant, "-or that."

And there, with a tilt of his head, he indicates the sea.

"Ehh, might as well test it out. Worst that could-- shit, never mind, forget I almost said that." Talking about the 'worst that could happen' with regards to a body-changing magic pendant seems like a bad plan, so: "Haven't heard of 'em causing any catastrophes so far."

She raises her eyebrows, following where he gestures to look out over the sea. "Y'didn't have the ocean? Wild. I mean, it wasn't, like... close to where I lived back home, but it was out there."

He lets out a faint (and faintly amused) hmph at the quick correction. He may not know his way around the actual workings of enchanted objects, but it's cursed to utter any form of 'what's the worst that could happen' is universal. Cross-universal, even.

"If there is one, it'd have to be...I don't know how far away. Everything's just sand, and rainwater disappears pretty fast if it can't pool somewhere underground." He shakes his head. "And I sure don't know any underground space with enough room for all this. Almost seems more unreal than magic."

"Shit, man. You were just out in a damn desert before this? In that case, I guess an island might be an upgrade, depending on how you look at it."

Depending very strongly on how you look at it, given that said island seems to be magically isolated from everything else, and also stuff living on and around it keeps fucking with them.

But it's not a desert.

"In some ways, yes," he says quietly, and that's as much of an extreme understatement as the words that follow. "There are a lot of things here that you'd never see in the Dunes...and the rain's not even acidic, so that's nice."

That last bit's a little wry.

"There are deserts where you came from, though? I thought - I don't know what I thought. Maybe places with with organic life would all look more like this."

"Y'know-- yeah, that for sure sounds like a plus." Fucking acid rain, dear god.

Erika raises her eyebrows. "Yyyyes? Yeah, man, we had deserts. And I think some, uh... organic human-type people did live in 'em. Not a lot, but they were out there. Most people just lived in cities 'n stuff."

"Huh." It's a thoughtful sound; he knows that he is still wildly ignorant of what an undamaged world might look like in its entirety, and easily takes her word on the matter. "I really don't know the first thing about a world like that, I guess."

"I've seen a city, though. Lots of brick and asphalt and old metal. Some glass. Mostly broken glass. It wasn't well maintained. I'm sure your cities are better."

"Probably, if there's nobody living in yours. Though... some parts of working cities can still be pretty busted, depending on where you go."

She scuffs a foot back and forth thoughtfully in the sand, and immediately regrets it. Now there's sand all on her legs, great. "I guess if you're here you're bound to start piecing together stuff about how other worlds might look - I mean, shit, you can barely walk five feet here without runnin' into someone from some other weird place."

Though there are still people in that city - not people like her, but those like himself, all metal and wiring and code - he decides against correcting her on that point. Metropol is too ugly a road to go down any further than that. He simply can't.

"That's true. Maybe even weirder places than this one, though that's hard enough to imagine. I wouldn't say no to being able to see some of them though. Even if we can't go there, you know? Just...seeing it might be nice."

"I... guess it could." She guesses. She hasn't really thought about it, and that probably shows in her voice.

But now she seems to be considering it. "I guess some of 'em might be pretty interesting? Depending on how different they look at a glance from... anywhere else." She pauses for a moment before adding, "You might appreciate that more than me, from the sound of it."

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