DAY 0 - Morning

[islandiastaff]

[Good morning, contestants!

One moment, you were receiving a mysterious envelope marked "Greetings from Islandia". The next moment, you're waking up on a beach.

Twenty-four people are scattered across the sands of a beautiful tropical beach, all somewhere in the middle of waking up. To your right, a sunrise over a gentle sea. To your left, dense, vibrant jungle.

There are two signs of civilization here! One is a shipwreck, about half of a good-sized ship emerging morosely from the waves. The other is a wooden sign at the edge of the jungle, showing simply an arrow pointing deeper into the island. Looking a bit closer, there is a narrow but well-maintained path into the jungle.

Welcome to Islandia!]

Comments

[wildrhythm]

[Waking up? NAH.

Hibiki is just sprawled out on the beach like she owns the place, snoring softly. Being magically transported to a mysterious beach is NOT going to convince her to wake up at sunrise.]

[sweetssuite]

[What the what. For being no stranger to strange things, Kanade Minamino is very, very confused at the moment. Picking herself up, dusting off her dress, she peers around quizzically.

She scrunches up her nose, shaking her head. First thing's first: Cure Module, check. Fairy Tones--] Re! Fa! [--also check, which leaves...]

...

[Snoring. Familiar snoring, that her eyes slowly track towards and-]

Hibiki Houjou! Are you serious?!

[wildrhythm]

[Hibiki rolls over and pulls her blanket a piece of kelp over her head.]

Five more minutes...

[sweetssuite]

[...she swears, sometimes it's tempting just to kick this girl.

Somehow, mercifully (to Hibiki) she refrains, and just gently nudges her friend in the side with her foot.]

Hibiki. [It's dry, at first, but the sound of her voice progressively raises higher and higher as she goes.] Hibiki, you're not in bed. This is not a dream. We've been sent to some random beach, who knows where?

1/3

[wildrhythm]

[Grumble grumble FINE she's up she's up.]

Why do you want to go to the beach, Kanade? It's the middle of winter, you can't go swimming at all...

2/3

[wildrhythm]

[Gradually, bits of stimuli are starting to filter into Hibiki's brain.]

Eh?

3/3

[wildrhythm]

[And now she's up and she's shouting at the ocean.]

EEEEEEEHHHHHH?!

[sweetssuite]

Welcome [She leans over, hands on her hips.] to the land of the living. Enjoy your nap?

[wildrhythm]

What the heck is this? Are we in Okinawa? Does Okinawa even have shipwrecks?!

[sweetssuite]

I don't know, I don't know, and any shoreline technically could have ship wrecks...

[She reaches a hand out.] Come on Hibiki, off the dirt.

[wildrhythm]

[Hibiki takes Kanade's hand, gets up, brushes herself off, and looks around.]

I was getting a "mysterious abandoned island" feeling from this place, but there's actually a lot of people around, huh.

[sweetssuite]

Well, that doesn't mean you're wrong.

[Coming from Kanade, that may be a high compliment!]

No one else looks like they have anymore clue than we do, honestly.

[wildrhythm]

But who would just grab a bunch of people and drop them on a deserted island with no explanation?

I mean, Falsetto probably would, but we already defeated him...

[sweetssuite]

[A suffering sigh.] There's no telling, really. We might have beaten Falsetto and Noise, but... There could always be something else out there.

[She looks around a bit shiftily, before leaning in.] Do you have your Module? Fairy Tones?

[wildrhythm]

[That would have been a good thing to think about before this exact second, huh. Time to check.]

...Yeah, they're here. What about you?

[sweetssuite]

[In response, Fari sticks his yellow head up behind her shoulder grinning. She sighs and shoves him back away, nodding.] Got them.

[She looks back out at the gathered people, scrunching her nose.] I don't see Ellen or Ako anywhere, though...

[wildrhythm]

Well, we solved all sorts of problems before they joined the team, so hopefully it'll be okay with just us.

[sweetssuite]

[Well... that gives her a little bit of confidence, at least.] You're right, I guess I'd just feel a bit better if we had the back up. Still... it could be worse, I could have wound up here alone.