there's always a lighthouse. there's always a beach party.

[wheremst]

[ Welcome to... a very nice beach, actually! It's very pleasant here. Carmen has set up a couple bonfires, there's some barbecues with meat to cook... and a lot of beach to hang out on! ]

Welcome to California's Pigeon Point Light Station State Park! Between Santa Cruz and San Francisco, just south of Pescadero, this lighthouse gets it's name from the Carrier Pigeon, a ship that wrecked here in 1853! ... Sorry, old habit. Go party. We have the whole place to ourselves. Most everyone here's been through something like this, or knows someone who has. And... the vending machine's bringing in some friends of yours, too.

[ It's a warm late summer night - not too hot for bonfires, but not too chilly that you need to stick by them to survive.

You've made it to the end. There are fellow survivors to meet and commiserate with, friends to meet or catch up with, and... it's over. For those of you returning, it's been about a year since the end of Round 2, and Carmen's gotten the word out to as many people as she can between trying to help this round and tracking down Round 0. If you'd like to play a hostage from the first motive, just know that they will remember it, but it's up to the player in the main round if time has passed since then or not so... it may have been a day or two ago or it may have been months! And hell with it, if you want to play a Round 0 character you suggested back in r1, come talk to us. Why not?

EDIT: Asher has gone to the trouble of making a toplevel directory for anyone intimidated by the number of pages!

Enjoy the last log of Unknown Seas! You've earned it. Love meme will come later tonight in the ooc comm. ]

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[dullshooter]

[Why walk when you can not? He’s been using his alt mode for every other step, anyway.]

Depends - how big does a mansion have to get before it stops being a mansion?

[dullshooter]

It’s…underwater…?

[This is the best he’s got.]

[consfound]

...We don't have aquatic alt-modes.

[Well, slag.]

Can we snag a submarine from these people?

[kninja]

[She covers a giggle.]

Every time.

[Smiling ear to ear, Obi puts his hands on his hips and shakes his head.]

Now, now. For that, you'd hafta be up to no good in the first place, My Lady. [To Misfire, he explains:] She's an herbalist. What she does is make medicines from plants and things. About all she ever gets up to is good.

[He screens one side of his mouth with his hand, though he's still speaking loud enough for both of them to hear.]

She's one of those gentle people I was telling you about.

[Flustered:] Obi!

[kninja]

Aw, really? That's sweet. I didn't get to spend as much time with him as I'da liked.

[Obi offers a handshake.]

You're his brother, right? He was real worried about you.

[pimpplan]

That doesn't mean I don't have common sense though – !

[pimpplan]

Why, do you want to?

[ Nah, Therion knows better. ]

[redmedies]

Yes. We're here to look after them now.

[Ain't no one messing with her MFin' crew while she's here to say anything about it.]

Is Jonathan hurt? I have medicines with me this time. Obi said everyone was all right, but...

[Obi has a tendency to try to protect her from these things.]

[inaclearing]

Oh, god, Kathy.

[Constantly at the center of search efforts, isn't she? Poor woman. Brett had been so looking forward to Luca meeting everyone from Whitetail. They've shared so much of their lives with him; he'd wanted to finally share something in return. Let them meet his family - like they were all real friends, and not just an interviewer and his subjects. He'd just never wanted it to happen like that.

He leans in to kiss Luca on the mouth. It's salty with tears. He kisses hi again, then presses their foreheads together. One hand drops to twine his fingers with Luca's.]

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, I - I meant to be there.

[What future was that, where he'd have gone off to work with Fontaine willingly? How was that even possible?]

[daimakaicho]

And given how quickly it manifests, I assume there's not much of a reaction time to be able to counter it, anyway.

[ She hums. ]

Guess you really are as gifted as you claim to be, hm?

[ She's teasing. ]

[inaclearing]

Mmm. Yeah, I don't think I really understood it until seeing it now.

[The forms thing, that is.]

...I think he had a harder time than he let on. I'm not sure how you couldn't.

[redmedies]

[She's lived with Obi for years. She's used to it.]

It is, isn't it? I'm glad you're all right, Jade.

[Obi stirs slightly, but she strokes his hair carefully and he settles back into sleep.]

Did you find your brother?

[mansbrain]

[Mina hesitates. She shouldn’t be the one to be telling her this. But she’s also not going to lie to Shirayuki.

Did—- did she just shoot a glare at sleeping Obi in between her smile and her face falling? She did.]

He’s—- he’s okay now. But he told me something horrid. He… said he died.

[kninja]

Really? I'd have loved to see that! I'm always working when he trains with the knights, so I've never seen him teach.

Ehhh, I'm not very good at it, My Lady.

[But he turns that smile towards Brett.]

I'll have to pick up some tips from the circle instructors before I drop by for the next lesson.

[redmedies]

[plz Miss Mina he's so tired, he wasn't ready to drop that bomb on his girl :(((

Shirayuki, in the meantime, blanches.]

What? But... he's okay? How can that be?

[bolderfell]

Think I saw one couple getting married back that way.

[Congratulations to the Harkers.]

[bolderfell]

I'd rather jump off a cliff.

[STONE COLD.]

I'm not generally interested in people, you know. You're barking up the wrong tree. [Still, he glances back at the crowd and considers.] Whoever cast that one spell was impressive. The one that made everything heavy.

[kninja]

Wouldn't consider turning over a new leaf, would you?

[Obi's not exactly going to come join her on the sand, here, but he offers her a kebab as an olive branch.]

[guffawsungraciously]

What, you could not find a fourth Jasper? I suppose I will take one win, though.

[mansbrain]

I don't know. If it were anyone but my Jonathan who told me, I'd never believe him, but he is not the type for jokes-- and-- the despair with which he told me was sincere. [She shakes her head.]

He tried to tell me something about slugs? I don't know. But... he does not seem to be injured, presently. It's a miracle.

[specialyellthing]

Anything you want. [Once she and Nandor are done being disgusting? Zinda drops into the sand beside Penelope, and kicks off her boots.]

Ugh, shoulda done that hours ago-- heels in sand, bad plan. That's not the point, though. The point... is you can do whatever the hell you want now.

Told ya I wouldn't let you stay in hell forever.

[specialyellthing]

The famous Lady herself! [And Zinda's going-- straight in for the big hug, with this poor girl she's never met before.]

Was no trouble at all-- he was a regular Fish in the water!

[mansbrain]

Oh! A photo! Jonathan, we must-- [Mina's smile is bright as she looks in Luca's direction, still firmly rooted at Jonathan's side.]

-- We just got married, after all! And we never get the chance to take our photograph taken!

[inaclearing]

Oh - no, don't even worry about it. I don't exactly need it now.

[he'll be lucky if peregrine doesn't put him through some kind of grueling training regimen probably]

[redmedies]

Slugs...?

[Even Shirayuki has nothing useful to say about the medicinal or miraculous properties of slugs. Primarily, they're garden pests, an enemy to herbalists everywhere. Also, what the hell do they have to do with anything?]

I can't say I understand it, either, but I'll ask Obi about it when he wakes up. [Her eyebrows draw down a little.] That's just like him, asking me what he's missed while he's been trapped here before telling me anything...