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. ]

Comments

[emberserker]

Oh, that's the least ridiculous thing about this entire disaster. Encompassing the two disasters before it, of course.

[roserules]

Yes, the... murder game, as it were. That- it's completely monstrous, and for what end?

( can you feel his judgement towards... all the masterminds, actually? because it is dripping.

it's all ridiculous. and horrible. that level of cruelty is unfathomable to him, which... is what makes it so hard to comprehend. )

... A friend of mine was in the most recent one.

[emberserker]

I see. They really do grab all sorts, don't they?

[roserules]

( considering he's seen like, a big furry blue man, a robot and a transparent ghost? )

They really do. Perhaps to try and breed mistrust? People prefer the familiar, after all.

[emberserker]

I'll agree to that much. My name is Anna Fugo, I doubt you've heard of me. Or any of us, for that matter, but we've come from the previous iterations of this mess.

[roserules]

Riddle Rosehearts. A pleasure to meet you, Anna.

[emberserker]

I don't suppose they had inane requirements for who they kidnapped this time around? We had something to do with rocks, for some reason.

[roserules]

Not entirely, but... They were supposed to inherit the city theirs took place in, apparently. To become the new founders and leaders. I'm afraid I don't understand it myself.

[emberserker]

How on earth does someone come to that conclusion and then decide to make their picks go through this nonsense instead? I don't understand one bit.

[roserules]

Nor do I. The entire situation feels like a cocktail of cruelty and delusions of the highest order. I'm just glad that from the looks of it, it's over.

[emberserker]

You've got that right. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised with whatever they say about what went on here. Ours was a deranged recruitment exercise for a criminal organization, "recruitment" meaning "brainwashing."

[roserules]

... But of course. What, were they trying to break you with misery first?

[emberserker]

Something of the like, combined with a virtual environment that was supposed to delete our consciousness upon death, only stopped by the assistant going behind the mastermind's back. And then the other group before this one was a ridiculously specific ritual.

[roserules]

... That is incredibly convoluted. On both parts. Rituals are rarely worth the effort, honestly.

[emberserker]

I certainly wouldn't go that far. What, have you had a bad time with them?

[roserules]

I attend an academy for magic. Part of magical history is... well, rituals gone wrong, so to speak. Time limits, a poor understanding of the stated outcome... The Witch in the Tower was able to prolong her death for centuries only for it to hit her all at once in seconds, according to the books.

Perhaps more personally, I prefer to put in my own effort, I suppose.

[emberserker]

Perhaps. Though there's plenty of reward to be had, as long as it's fair. [not bitter]

[roserules]

( sus )

Do you speak from experience yourself?

[emberserker]

I've got a bit of a disagreement with the force behind the ritual tournament I devoted my life to, considering it decided to stack the entire thing in the favour of an ungrateful usurper. Leave it at that.

[roserules]

( yeah, he's not sure he sees the appeal of rituals still. but he's going to be polite and not show or say that. )

I see. I imagine that sort of situation would drive a mage to overblot. ... I'm sorry that it happened to you. No one deserves that.

[emberserker]

...Well. It's done with, or at least I've rid myself of it, in any event. And it's got nothing to do with the situation at hand.