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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[onefuture]

[Listen, Aela is entirely valid. You fuck that shit up girl, he is going to stick to lighter stuff but you enjoy it!!

That being said, Lif doesn't even bat an eye when Aela joins him. He never does, nowadays; having her at his side is second nature, even when she elects to rib him as she does now. And to that, he laughs.]

Come now, not even I'm that much of a stick in the mud. I have elected to fraternize with the living.

[...]

Some of them are certainly more interesting than others, I will grant that. But even I must stick to some old habits of mine. Surely, you understand.

[It's light, though; joking, even. A far cry from how severe and serious Lif can be.]

[shieldsister]

...You've come a long way.

[He smile is bright, proud even.]

It feels like a lifetime ago when we stood here after our experiences. And now look at you - willing to socialize.

[onefuture]

[Oh, that's...

Lif can't help but let his gaze soften at that. He's really come this far, huh, in a year? After countless years of being miserable and anti-social...]

Hah. Don't expect it of me all the time--I'm only making an exception because of this, you know.

[...He chuckles after he says that, though.]

...I never thought I would become social in any regard. I long thought Hel robbed that of me, so to know that...it means much to me. Though you have to take some of the credit for that, you realize?

[shieldsister]

[It gets a wry smile from her and she laughs.]

Of course. I can't deny that I've had a hand in it, though that may be mostly because I gave you little choice in dealing with my shield-siblings.

[Aela has always been sink or swim, and poor Lif got thrown in the deep end with them. He's had to deal with so much socializing...]

[onefuture]

[He sure fucking did. So much socializing and fighting...]

They certainly were much to deal with at first; this is true. One can only tolerate getting drunk under the table so many times.

[...]

I do not regret it; it is something I have missed, deeply. That sense of unity. I might even daresay I enjoy it; don't tell the others, though. They'll let it get to their heads.

[he can hear varkas now.......]

But come now--I certainly hope you've found interesting company among these, yourself...?

[shieldsister]

[It gets a bark of laughter from Aela, but she waves a hand once that's out there.]

Your secrets remain ever safe with me, Lif.

[The question earns a smile as she glances back out over them.]

It would be hard not to. Aside from those that are obviously physically different, [misfire and aiba, not to mention all the other nonhumans wandering around] there are plenty that lead such interesting lives. While I cannot say their experiences in their respective "games" were quite like ours, I imagine they have been shaped by them in interesting ways as well.

[But then again, her perspective's always been a bit weird, given she was the first victim.]

[onefuture]

[thanks bestie]

As do I. [...] Many seem disinclined to speak the details of their games, but we all come out of them in our own ways. Some carry their heads high, letting the experience make them stronger; some seem to have been traumatized beyond belief. But they have all managed to survive and win, and that takes a strength all it's own.

The mental fortitude these people possess...I wager they'd be even stronger than the forces of Askr.

...It's unfortunate that they had to gain it through such a twisted means.

[shieldsister]

The toughest trials breed the fiercest warriors... but they can also end with the highest body count. It is amazing that so many have been able to walk away from these games at all, though there is no shame in being unable to bear the burden of such a thing.

[Murdergames aren't exactly proper trials, anyway. Maybe if you could just challenge the mastermind to the death, but sadly...]