unknownseas | There's always a lighthouse

[ Blinking, bruised, but not defeated, you all stumble forward into the light. It's a quicker and easier trek downhill to the beach than it was up to the lighthouse by far - especially, perhaps, for those of you eager to see your previously fallen fellow passengers.

LeChuck comes with you, of course - not that he has much other choice, struck low by the Ultimate Insult as he is - and already on the beach or upon the ship they sailed from hell itself are the dead, ghostly but present. You can touch them, there's just a weird glow and you can kind of see their skeletons?

Jones, for his part, stands on the deck of the Dutchman, a plank lowered by his crew to the sand below for anyone who wants to speak with him. There will come a time to decide what to do next, but for now... focus on reuniting and figuring out what happens to that mean ol' LeChuck now.

Welcome to your Golden End. ]

(ooc: Congratulations, everyone! Feel free to mingle here to your hearts' content - tomorrow afternoon or evening, your ride home will be resolved, and that'll lead to an optional mingle with any Round 1 characters who wish to join and commiserate about the experience!)

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Jack's office, where else? I don't think we found the machine itself, not that it matters. If it was on the ship, it's long gone.

Yeah, it... it exploded. Which is just as well, probably.

[ She frowns. ]

But that's... weird. Someone from my world had the exact same plans.

[ She looks at Jack. ]

You want to shed a little light, here?

Oho, okay. Here comes Fedora the explorer 2: back in action.

[Jack is just standing here, wrapping his head around the ways in which this has become his life.]

Yeaaaaah, I don't know about whoever you've got running this little racket, but, uh... Well, I don't remember where I found those.

Hm. Alright.

[ There's a moment as she just. Looks at him. Turns to Lelouch. ]

Heads up... woman with black hair, probably at least one sword? Maybe don't let her near him. I... have to make some calls.

'At least one' sounds worrying, but I can manage that.

Wait, another woman with a sword? That doesn't sound too bad to me.

[Sneaking in here because hey guess who remembered that she has words for this man]

And do you recall where you obtained the bones of our ancestors for yours and LeChuck's nefarious dolls? I am particularly interested in which of my people you decided to further make a mockery of.

He what?

[ That's... huh. ]

It is a complicated story. And a wretched one.

Oh! Well, that's simple. Yeah.

Y'see, that portal machine can take you to any time and place in... frickin, anywhere.

Makes it pretty easy to learn things, and makes it easy to gather ingredients. But, uh, I just want to point out that I, personally, was not robbing any graves.

So even you do not know whose bone it was...?

[What the fuck how is she going to put this right, Sothis help her

In fact please give her a direct patch in line if this is yours, Grandma]

Ugh! Well, regardless, you are lucky you did not transform into a Demonic Beast in handling the bone within mine! [Because Jack should have a much worse fate than that!]