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!

Comments

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?

[candyrocks]

We're blazing the trail!

[Smacking a rock with his tree branch.]

[collateraltsunage]

I've never blazed a trail before. [This is not a lie] Can you teach me?

[candyrocks]

Sure! You just have to hit bushes to show you're serious!

[teethteethteeth]

It's fun, isn't it?

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

[candyrocks]

Uh-huh! Don't worry, we'll make it out of these woods!

[teethteethteeth]

That's right, we will! Why don't you lead the way?

[She's using this as an excuse to keep an eye on him.]

[candyrocks]

Mmhm! That's what me and Tapioca were doing!

[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?

[candyrocks]

Sure! You can help by looking over there to see if there's a way around these rocks! I'm going to look at how to cross that valley!

[Pointing at a gorge.]

[life_is_megas_wonderful]

Okay, but be reeeeeeal careful, okay? Wouldn't want ya tumbling off a cliff or anything!

[wildrhythm]

All right! Show those bushes who's boss!

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

[candyrocks]

Haha, yeah! They can't stop us from finding a way out of here!

[carptricks]

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

Whoa, whoa--! Where are you heading?

[candyrocks]

[About to scramble up a rock face.]

We gotta see if the trail goes this way!

[carptricks]

[trotting after him. tbf climbing rock faces sounds pretty cool]

Make sure you take someone with you, yeah? It's no fun to go hiking alone.

[fullonbraced]

[...W-wait! Careful where you're swinging that sti-]

OW!

[Too late. In a few seconds, Robin popped out of the bush, looking rather pained.]

Ow... what's the big idea, man?

[candyrocks]

Oh no! Sorry!

[Greg may be trying to cut through jungle, but he has no intention of hitting anyone.]

Are you okay? You're blazing ahead too fast!

[poetryandclarinet]

[While Greg is off, doing his own thing, Wirt is having his own little fight with nature. Getting bushes stuck to his cape, tripping on roots and having branches smack himself in the face or knock his hat off. He's... not really good at traversing through jungles, like this. Woods, sure, they're pretty clean and usually have a set path with not much in the way, and he expected this to be just as simple as the woods, but of course he was very wrong.

Anyway, while he's busy just trying to follow the group, he doesn't notice Greg being gone for a good while. And when he finally does, his first instinct is to let him run off and return whenever, like usual, but then he remembers that he made a promise to himself and to Greg that he'd keep a better eye on him. So, he sets off away from the group to look for him, all while still attempting to not get attacked by every kind of plant in existence.]

Greg? Greeeg?

[candyrocks]

[You can find Greg climbing up a tree! He's pretty high up now, sitting in a nest of branches and waving.]

Oh, hi, Wirt!

[poetryandclarinet]

Greg? [Looking around to find where his voice was coming from and- oh. He's in a tree. Pretty... pretty high up in a tree.]

How- how did you get up there? [Yikes that looks dangerous.]

[livefreely]

[It's not 4:20, so she can't blaze it, but! She's not the type of person to just simply leave someone hanging like that. . .]

Heeeey, watch out, there might be quicksand over there.

[candyrocks]

Quicksand? Really?

[This is way too excited a reaction.]

[livefreely]

Yeah.

[Iori nods in response to his question.]

So make sure you be careful, okay?