beach episode, round 2 (the free for all version)

[hoasen]

Who: Everyone in this game!! It's an open mingle log!
When: Maybe like, the first three days of August.
Where: Caissa's Beach and Water Garden.
What: Just for the sake of having a Beach Episode, we're totally pretending that a bunch of NPCs (fantasy college students?!) decided to have a party.
Rating: None right now! Or maybe PG, I added some thugs just because.


[If you were walking around Caissa lately (or even just saw a few fliers around) there seems to be a Beach Party organised by a few unnamed beings, possibly a bunch of young adults who just want to party up. Their reason is, it's nearly the end of summer, so they're going to have a summer party. And everyone's invited! But what will happen?

Basically, it's just a get together with many people gathering around to party on a beach. Here's a few things you can do!

Pre-party: Choose swimwear, maybe together. Or yukata (as I have been informed to add too)

1. Build a sandcastle (or become a sand mermaid). What if there's a contest?
2. Join in on a barbeque done by random citizens that may be pretty tasty...or can just suck, so maybe you should give them a hand.
3. SWIM. SPLASH WATER. IT'S THE BEACH. If not, maybe check out those watergardens? It seems to be quieter there.
4. Competitive sports. You will be challenged to various types of beach sports, on the sand or in the water. OR, you'll be challenge to smash a watermelon while blindfolded.
5. Sun bathe. Why not, really.
6. At night, there's a bit of dancing around a bonfire and also some small fireworks and sparklers.
7. Whatever the heck you want, really.

But watch out! Since this is a gathering open to everyone, you may find yourselves in the presence of some local troublemakers. But don't worry, Heroes, you're strong, pretty sure you can protect the people. Just make sure it's nothing that will land you into trouble, that is all (I'm sure hand slapping will be okay. Or maybe challenge them to the equivalent of racing on the beach).

Either way, get your summer on. Also a random excuse you can use to get to this party can be "My Carrier smelled the food and headed here".]

Comments

[suzinkazan]

[It's notable that in all of these, she's wearing a black bikini with white polka dots. It's not especially small - it covers her bits pretty well. A very basic garnment, all things said.]

2

[Susan wouldn't call herself a chef. Being from...well, a rich, hoity-toity family, she almost never cooked for herself, even eating out when she began to live on her own rather than suffer the drudgery of basic survival abilities. But she would call herself a chemist, and one taste of the sauce is enough to make her shove everyone out of the way and begin adjusting it herself.]

Honestly...the ratios are all totally off...

[Of course, by the time somebody finds her, her hands and collar and chin are covered in sauce. But at least she's fairly confident in what she produced to help.

...And if she thinks nobody is looking, she may be leaning down to lick the sauce off her collar and fingers.]

4

I don't get this at all.

[Those words come from a blind-folded Susan, swinging a stick around. The watermelon is at least three steps behind her. Various NPCs are wisely giving her a wide berth, as she homeruns wings that stick all around, looking for the totally-other-direction target.

Please do not get in her way.]

5

[Finally, something Susan likes doing, when outside.

Absolutely nothing. Which is why she's laying on a towel under an umbrella - she isn't even actually sunbathing, content to laze in the shade. She stretches out her leg. She lets out a sigh of total relaxation.

This is clearly unacceptable, someone absolutely needs to disturb her rest.]

5

[femmefailtale]

[Relaxing?]

[Well, what if her leg has some sand pushed on it.]

Hey. Hold on there, roomie. I'm gonna' bury you, okay?

Re: 5

[suzinkazan]

...

No you aren't.

[Slowly pulling her leg away.

PARTY POOPER STATUS: MAX]

[femmefailtale]

[MAXIMUM FROWN.]

Aw, come on Susan! Lemme have some fun! I could bury you in sand, and then like. Sculpt a super muscle bod in the sand to make you look like a weightlifter.

[suzinkazan]

I feel letting you immobilize me in any way would be a mistake...

[femmefailtale]

Hey now... there's no need to be rude. You don't know that I can't be trusted yet!

[suzinkazan]

You radiate debauchery.

I feel like letting you immobilize me would be akin to wearing a suit of steaks and leaping into a wolf's den.

[femmefailtale]

Well gee. Thanks.

I think your swimsuit looks great on you, too.

[suzinkazan]

Oh, don't get offended.

You should be happy I understand you so well.

And you look nice as well. [She has to at least return the compliment.]

[femmefailtale]

Well... I guess it is nice to be understood.

So... people just do this on your world?

Hang out at the ocean wearing nothing? I could get used to it. [If not for the paranoia, anyways.]

[suzinkazan]

...

Does your world not have beaches?

[femmefailtale]

Our islands float. We don't exactly want to go anywhere near the ocean... for a couple of reasons.

We swim, sure, but not in stuff like this. The thought's that if you go over, you're probably not expecting it and you really need to be ready to swim in your usual clothes.

[suzinkazan]

....So you don't swim recreationally?

[She stretches a little.]

5

[path_to_the_world]

[That call for disruption can definitely be answered! Of course Tyrnen had no intention of bothering anyone at all. But when one is at the beach, with so much water, it only makes sense to experiment and practice using it. It was an infinite supply, and a huge magical boost.

So of course considering all of this, and casting a huge spell using it all, it was inevitable that it would go sideways, and not do quite what he had intended. He really didn't mean to cause a huge wave come at him, or towards that girl minding her own business....]

Ah....

AH!

Miss...!

MISS!

PLEASE RUN!

Re: 5

[suzinkazan]

[Surely that couldn't be directed to her.

Surely.

But just in case, she opened her eyes.]

Run frOH MY G-

[And then she was washed over. The wave totally swallowed her, rising up pretty high up the pole of her umbrella. Luckily she didn't actually get swept out to see, instead, as the wave retreated, left upside down, with a piece of seaweed on her face.

She spits out a bit of water. and looks highly displeased.]

[path_to_the_world]

I'm sorry! I didn't mean that to happen. I thought perhaps I could control it better....

[suzinkazan]

ED, WHY WOULD YOU PRACTICE THAT WHERE OTHER P-

Wait.

You aren't Ed.

[She seems unbelievably baffled by this fact, pulling herself from the heap she was in.]

[path_to_the_world]

Sorry, no, I'm not him. And the reason is that the ocean is a good source... water magic is stronger with the presence of water. Yet the method to control it in a satisfactory way is still illusive to me. This world's magic is just limited in that way.

[ He might not stop talking. ]

But there must be a way to do larger spells and properly manipulate them as Nor has shown advanced magical prowess. So I thought perhaps experimenting with the ocean would be a good first step, I was trying to make an ice wall.... since one needs to try and think of defensive measures when they have no defense skill....

[suzinkazan]

[You are exactly the same as him, she thinks.]

...You know, typically you would wait until I was definitely not going to pummel you, before going on a tangent like that.

[path_to_the_world]

[Awkward magic nerds seemed to come in similar styles.]

Ah, sorry....

Wait you were going to potentially attack me!?

[suzinkazan]

Well, if you were Ed, I likely would have thumped your head, yes. [Only him, though.]

But since you aren't, I'm granting clemency. I was really just saying that when you drench someone, your first concern probably shouldn't be going off into a magical tangent.

[path_to_the_world]

I thought perhaps I should explain myself and that... seemed... the best way....

Um...

Are you alright?

[suzinkazan]

Well, despite my relaxation being so callously disturbed, I believe I'll survive.

[She stands up to wring her towel out.]

and I can hardly criticize someone for trying to hone their magic.

[path_to_the_world]

Still....

[Trying to be a little helpful he encouraged the water in the towel to move away.]

You're right, I should have considered the people nearby....

[suzinkazan]

I would chastise you more, but I'm far too used to this sort of thing.

[She's shaking the towel out now.]