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2nd Event: Choices We Make
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Not all characters (known as Wickie, singular or Wickies, plural) arrive at the same time, surprisingly enough! That’s life for you. Some Wickies find their way to the island at a pivotal (or very mundane) point in their life, or even after or during their death.
Wickies who were standing or walking often find themselves entering the town South Sister, located on Lighthouse Isle, through an open doorway. Those that were laying down, or sleeping, tend to be found lying prone in beds, bathtubs, showers, couches, and similar places within the cottages on Cottage Row. There’s no rhyme or reason to it all! To Wickies familiar with the era, they will realize that everything looks as if it’s come from the ‘90s.
The house which a Wickie finds themselves within could already be occupied. This includes walking into a fellow Wicke, waking up in the same location, or accidentally scaring a room full of people with their sudden appearance.
Oops.
C-C-Changes
Thankfully the fog has gone down to what it was before, a slow creeping crawl over the ground. And too, the monsters of before are gone, leaving the town much like it was before. Well...close to what it was before.
For now the season's have changed, from a lingering summer to a cooler fall.
There’s new foods to try, even if some things like lattes cause people to slip into warm boots and tie up their hair, and soups make people curl up under blankets on the couch. And it also means decorations of all sorts, made of the leaves from the forest, orange, yellow and red things and...we can not forget...
Pumpkin overflow
Pumpkins! They're everywhere. Wickies will find pumpkins infused into all sorts of things, like coffee, ice cream, even spaghetti options! It's wild.
There’s also many jack o'lanterns. They have been placed everywhere in town, outside homes, and even small ones have been made into table decorations. The Jack o lanterns have very cheerful faces, and seem to watch Wickies every single move.
That is, until a Wickie bashes or otherwise abuses a pumpkin. That's when it changes- there seem to be more of them. Their expressions change to that of anger, sadness and disgust. None of them attack- yet. But their faces become more and more horrifying, as they follow the Wickie more and more- outside of the bathroom perhaps, or found on top of them as the Wickie wakes up in the middle of the night.
It shouldn't matter right? They're only pumpkins.
What a ride
Funny enough, with the pumpkin invasion, there also comes a dull colored horse wandering about the island. Its head is drooped, and it looks depressed and lonely. The horse is tame on approach and will accept pats and treats, even from those who are obviously not human.
But it also wants something, for all that it seems to be begging for attention. It wants someone to ride them, seems to even be begging for it with its big eyes. The horse will help Wickies to figure out how to mount; it will even stand beside the Town Center benches, rocks, or even go down in order to make it possible for the Wickie to get onto the horse’s back.
That’s when it changes. The Wickie is immediately wrapped in chains from their barrel to the Wickie’s waist. The horse turns a coal black and the Wickie’s clothing changes into that of a soldier's uniform, with a hand either holding a whip modeled after a human spine, or a jack o'lantern.
The Wickie cannot get off the horse on their own, no matter how much they struggle. As the horse moves throughout the town, they will go anywhere from a walk to a full canter, seemingly impervious to any magic or physical attacks. The same cannot be said for their unfortunate rider.
If the rider is hit, or simply in pain, the Wickie will feel an impulse that grows and grows until they scream a name of someone in town, someone they know.
And the named will drop, paralyzed. Paralyzed wickie are likely to die within minutes, more so if they are too close to horse and rider. The horse will happily trample anyone on the ground to death.
Even without the impulse, should the Wickie rider use anyone’s name, that person will drop, paralyzed, and unable to breathe.
There is only one way to possibly save the rider: scatter golden objects in their path. The horse will shriek, and promptly buck the rider off, before running away. Just make sure to catch the rider, or at least cushion their fall: they have no way of saving themselves until they hit the ground.
Heart game: confession
Current residents of the island may remember this particular beeping alert, and how it doesn’t go away, no matter what they do! That is, unless they open up the Heart Game, and answer the question.
Welcome back everyone! It’s so good to see you again! Now let’s play that game, Confession! And the question isssssss…
How do you celebrate the changing seasons! Don't be shy!
Rhys Strongfork | Borderlands
[ Rhys wakes in a bathtub and his first thought is "oh god, do I still have all my organs?" but after a moment of initial panic and pulling at his shirt to make sure he's relieved to find no evidence of such a thing. No pain, not blood, no stitches. All good signs.
His next thought is about the weird dream he just had, probably due to the last thing he remembers; being pistol whipped across the face by some masked asshole.
And thirdly, and what should have probably been his second thought, is "Where the hell am I?"
There's a lot of bad things about the current situation he's in, but as he lifts himself from the tub to try and get up and figure out where he's ended up his most pressing concern is that he is absolutely soaked. What kind of asshole just dumps a well dressed man into a full tub? Don't they know that this kind of material damages easily??? (At least they had the decency to leave his cybernetic arm hanging out the side, but still!)
So. First order of business? Drying off. Then he can work out how to get out of here and back to his business. Only one small problem, it sounds like he's not alone in this house. ]
Ch-Ch-Changes
[ This can't be Pandora, can it? Sure, he hasn't explored the entire planet or anything, but the place definitely has a certain (terrible) aesthetic that permeates every settlement. This place is far too quaint with the various inhabitants he's seen looking way too civilized to be a Pandoran native.
After some aimless wandering, he'll eventually stop someone. ]
Hey, you know like you look the place. What planet am I on? Star system?
Changes
Of course, those labels aren't strictly referring to the clothing.
Connor #313 248 317-60's LED spins solid blue as he narrows his eyes at the human accosting him. Another one?]
That's a popular question.
Re: Changes
Yeah, I'm not surprised. Let me guess, the next most popular question is "where's the nearest rocket pad to get out of here?"
no subject
Not in those words.
[His eyes shift to the cybernetic hand—and then up, head tilting as he runs a scan. If Rhys' ECHO eye is functioning, he'll likely feel the brush of another networked system detecting his own—at the same time as the ring of light at Connor's temple flickers briefly yellow.
Interesting.]
You're human.
[It's not quite a question.]
no subject
Uh, yeah? What gave it away?
[ His voice is thick with sarcasm like, what a weird and unhelpful observation? ]
changes
[So honestly... she never really... thought of it being anywhere other than Earth.]
All signs point to Earth but who the fuck actually knows.
no subject
[ Of all the places he could have been dragged to, he never would have expected it to be this one, he wasn't sure if it even still existed or had been turned into dust by a sun exploding or something. ]
Which version?
no subject
[BRUH.]
no subject
[ And on and on. But listen, give him a break? He's all pent up and annoyed and still wet from waking up in a strange, probably mold ridden bathtub and he has places he needs to be and get back to. Whoever took him here is going to pay, soon as he figures out where "here" is and how to get away from it. ]
no subject
[That other shit? She has no idea.]
no subject
Not person, company. Come Pa Nee.
[ He sighs again. ]
Whatever. Just point me in the direction of the nearest place I can catch a shuttle back to Pandora.
no subject
[Not that... Rustons has existed for years back where she's from but... whatever. It sounded like a good comeback.]
Go to the edge of the island and wait. Maybe something will show up.
[It won't but. It'll be funny if he waits.]
no subject
[ God, it's going to take so long to get back home as it is. He just wants to get out of here and back to work. ]
Actually, forget it. I'll just do it myself.
[ As usual!
He brings up his robo-hand, activating the palm hologram to check for a map, but all that comes up is static. ]
Huh. That's....weird.
[ No connection? ]
no subject
[SMUG. Mean smug bitch over here!]
no subject
[ He bangs his left, metal arm with the heel of his right hands palm a couple times even though he knows it will do nothing except hurt his hand. Ow. He shakes his right hand out. ]
A planet I still don't know the full name of, by the way. You never answered which iteration of earth this was. What was the last one...25? I think that's when they finally started naming planets other things.