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

[ 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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[Hold it. If Anna's here...

Yep. If you're quick enough to spot him, it looks like her self-selected illegal guardian in Orsterra is, too. Unsurprisingly, Therion isn't going out of his way to greet anyone he doesn't know. Instead, he drifts along the beach like all things windblown and, uh.

Casually inspects any unattended belongings he finds.

There wasn't anything good to steal last year. That doesn't mean he's given up hope on party favors this time.]

Really? I'd suspect they've already harvested what they could from whatever miserable structure they found themselves in. I know you would have.

Sure. But things are bound to get lost in all this excitement.

[Lost, stolen, potato, potahto.]

Of course, with you about. Looking for those diamonds from the prize machine, I take it? You were always partial to them.

Wouldn't turn a blind eye if I found one, anyway.

It's in your nature, after all. Have you found anything else worth seeing? Aside from Zelos's dramatics when one deflates his ego. That's in no short supply.

Think I saw one couple getting married back that way.

[Congratulations to the Harkers.]

Are you serious? Have these people no impulse control?

Did most of us?

[Does Anna in particular have any room to talk?]

[Does she ever?]

...perhaps it's a requirement, but none of us had any major life ceremonies or sacraments five minutes after escaping.

We could've, with all the church types. Does Zelos count?

What, do you want him to officiate anything?

[ dont mind him sparkling in the background. look at him. ]

Only if it makes him stop doing that. What's the point if he doesn't squirm.

He practically never stops doing that. I think he draws life from being a nuisance.

Like some kind of annoyance vampire?

Oh, I'm sure that does exist somewhere. Everything else seems to.

No kidding.

[As Jobu Tupaki would confirm, both with her words and with her highly improbable yet metaphysically inevitable existence.]

What about you? Stumble across anything of interest?

Some of the people seem interesting. I spoke with the man who decided to show off how easily he could kill everyone with that meteor shower spell. Irritatingly smug [check the mirror, Anna] but I must admit, having that much power within oneself rather than having to draw it from the magic in the area is intriguing.

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[ Wherever Therion is poking around, he'll suddenly have an arm around his shoulders and an annoying redhead practically hanging off of him. ]

Find anything good yet?

[Therion gives Zelos a very long, very pointed look.]

Not a one.

Really? I'm sure that's incredibly disappointing.

[ He doesn't really sound that sympathetic, and Very Clearly Is Ignoring His Look. ]

What about any of the newbies? Anybody catch your eye outta this crop?

Are you trying to get me to talk about women with you.

[Zelos could just be making conversation, you purple brat.]

Why, do you want to?

[ Nah, Therion knows better. ]

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.