DAY 1 - Morning

[islandiastaff]

GOOD MORNING, CONTESTANTS! Everyone, out of the lodge! I've got some important announcements to make!

[The remnants of yesterday's feast are all gone, but in its place are some leaflets containing the profiles filled out from each player's questionnaire results. M.C is waiting outside. As soon as everyone it outside, he pushes a button on some sort of handheld device, and the lodge explodes, harmlessly but spectacularly.]

Welcome to Day 1 of the Islandia Games! Things are about to start heating up!

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

[islandiastaff]

Before we get to today's challenges, I'd like to announce our very first elimination! That's right, the spy network are already hard at work, and have voted to take Maou Sadao out of the game! Sorry, hope your wish wasn't too important!

[Maou's body glows for a moment, and he is suddenly catapulted into the sky like some kind of rocket. Rather than falling back down afterwards, he disappears off towards what appears to be a single star in the sky, except that it's slowly orbiting the island.]

Maou was an ordinary villager. All special roles are still in the game!

For the twenty-three players remaining, your objective for today is to reach lounge number two! Since this is the first day, we've kept it nice and simple - there's a bonfire lit outside the camp, so all you have to do is follow the smoke and find your way through the wilderness to your destination! Oh, and by the way - your food supplies are whatever you can scrounge up for yourselves along the way!

I'll be waiting for you at lounge two. Goooood luck!

Re: ANNOUNCEMENTS

[part_time_overlord]

Hey wai-WHOOOOAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH...

[And he's gone.]

[poetryandclarinet]

[First of all, the nice, safe lodge explodes and then people are getting shot into space? When he learned about people being eliminated, he wasn't expecting something like this. And frankly, he's not even sure if that actually happened.

He just sits there in silence, staring up at the sky where Maou was sent to, before throwing his arms into the air exasperatedly.]

...what. What in the world just happened?

[punchestumors]

I... uh.... [Yeah, he's got nothing.]

Either this show has all its budget in special effects, or we just found out how they transport people.

[collateraltsunage]

[She's staring at the sight in horror, but not for the reasons you may think]

I.... I'm not sure....

[fullonbraced]

WHOOOA!!

[Watching him blast off...]

Is... is he gonna be okay?

[skyentist]

Scientifically speaking... I don't know. I hope so.

[life_is_megas_wonderful]

Yeow! Geez, they don't mess arounds, do they?

[s2g]

[ what the shit ]

THE TRAIL

[islandiastaff]

[Got a lot of ground to cover today. Pick a prompt or make up your own!

A - Navigation! Which way is it to the next lodge? Will someone have to climb a tree to get a better look around? Which path will lead there without drowning in underbrush? Is that quicksand?

B - Trailblazing! The jungle is not an easy trek! Depending on your route, cutting through the underbrush, rock climbing, logs balanced precariously over ravines and more await you on your path from here to there. Happy hiking.

C - Foraging! What will you scrounge up to eat during your hike? Along the more watery bits of the trail, one might find some lotus or water lily. A bit closer to Lodge 2, a more obvious food source in the form of a grove of banana trees. Plenty of other things grow in this jungle if you're crafty enough to find them.

D - Resting! You're not just going to trudge through the jungle all day, are you? Good to rest your legs for a bit every now and then, dig into your food supplies, and talk. Remember to link your private conversations!]

Trailblazing/Foraging

[teethteethteeth]

[Guess who's combining the two? Sugar is. To be more specific, she's pulling random branches and undergrowth out of her way and eating what she manages to break free. If only she had been wearing something more suited to this than a cute pink dress.]

[life_is_megas_wonderful]

Heyooooo up there! Is the fruit tasty?

[If she's concerned about Sugar's dignity, she's not saying anything about it.]

Navigation

[zerotodoro]

Hold on - let's take a look to see what's ahead. It might not be as simple as walking from A to B.

[While he could no longer teleport or simply walk up trees, he can still climb and jump easily. Dororo disappears into the foliage, which then rattles as his head pops up, his small hand shielding his eyes as he scans the horizon]

[synchrownization]

[Hans looks up, watching Dororo go.]

See anything good?

Trailblazing

[candyrocks]

[Well. Somewhat. Greg is trying to help blaze the trail. He has his frog on top of his teakettle hat and is running ahead and off the trail, hitting bushes and trees with a stick, and pretending it's a sword to chop through the jungle with. Every so often, if no one stops him, he'll dart out away from the trail and vanish for a good fifteen minutes.

Maybe someone wants to make sure the tiny child doesn't fall off a cliff? Or else just help him pretend to clear brush.]

[collateraltsunage]

[Yeah, Meryl's not about to let a tiny child wander off into the jungle alone, she's definitely going to make sure the tiny child doesn't fall off a cliff]

Hello. Are you exploring?

[teethteethteeth]

It's fun, isn't it?

[She'll just provide some adult supervision while she's at it.]

[life_is_megas_wonderful]

[Tsuruya can help! She's good with small children!]

You're being megas useful today, ain't ya Greg? Wants some help?

[wildrhythm]

All right! Show those bushes who's boss!

[Not especially helping or anything, Hibiki's just along for the ride here.]

[carptricks]

[. . . yes, making sure tiny child doesn't run off of cliffs is a good idea]

Whoa, whoa--! Where are you heading?

pick your own adventure!

[livefreely]

A. NAVIGATION

[Although Iori herself can't do anything amazing like climbing trees, she's making absolutely certain that she doesn't accidentally set off any booby traps or anything like that. She will warn the others if necessary, however.]

C'mon, you guys, hurry up! And be careful, too, you don't want to accidentally get left behind, do you?

C. FORAGING

[Iori's looking pretty excited as she wanders around, but since lunch is getting closer and closer. . . It looks like it's high time to just search for some food! Which is exactly what Iori's doing as she squats down, staring at the flowers.

And possibly the trees, too.]

I wonder if I can just kick some fruit off...

D. RESTING

[This isn't her first time actually doing such a thing, but she's a rather normal person, so she does get exhausted after a while, so she's going to take a breather for a bit and dig into what food she managed to get - that includes the papayas that they got yesterday, looking rather pleased with herself.

If anybody has anything to say to her, either in public or private, now's your chance. Plus, she might share if she's feeling generous.]

shows up 1 day late oops // Trailblazing

[unitymind]

Don't worry, guys! Finding the next lodge will be a piece of cake! I mean it'd be easier if I had my navigator with me but even still.

[Annnd there she goes, faster than a speeding bullet into the jungle. Manami can't be stopped once she's going,so someone might have to stop her before she does something stupid.]

Trailblazing

[fullonbraced]

[Robin was the kind of person that bravely dashed forward no matter what was in the way, because that was the MANLY thing to do!

Of course that means that Robin is now stuck in a bush.

Help Y/N?]

Foraging!

[carptricks]

[If there was one thing Kaito was good at (and in reality, there were several things he was good at), it was climbing trees]

[Which is how he discovers some fairly ripe bananas tucked into the branches of one of those banana trees! Anyone who also stopped to check out the banana tree grove might. . . find a piece of fruit seemingly FALLING FORM THE SKY and conking them right on top of the head]

. . . oops! Slippery pieces of fruit, aren't they?

[Kaito apologies from his spot within the banana tree branches]

D; resting (because he's lazy trash)

[s2g]

[ squatting precariously in the barest patch of jungle floor he could find, Wolfwood's on his second-to-last cigarette. yes, already. since first moving on from the smoking remains of their lodge, he has been steadily losing layers and is now down to a barely-buttoned white shirt, blazer slung over his shoulder, and because he came from the kind of hellish place where it was all sand and no... anything else, gracefully handling a muggy climate was just not in his cards. every inch of him is shiny with sweat, sticking his shirt to him in long translucent patches.

it's trashy as hell.

he also seems to be having trouble catching his breath with all this rigorous hiking. or maybe he's playing that part up. it is a mystery. ]

Lord, what am I doin'...