The Island: Turn 233

[lingrem]

Writes gasps and falls backwards, she's that surprised.

"What just happened? Maglubiyet... listened and helped me? Oh Thank you Maglubiyet! I'm sorry if I was disrespectful!"

She looks at the other goblins. "Did you see that?... Maglubiyet spoke to me.. and healed Silver... I don't understand why Maglubiyet would help me... but I am so thankful that he did!"

[Arch Lich Burns]

"Uhh...that is what tellers do...they speak to Mags and get something out of him. Or something like that...I don't know too much myself. Sorry."

[gamecreator]

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I'll need a Name, Background & first actions from you before Friday's update.

Can I take Spreads as my character? I don't want to disrupt continuity.

[lingrem]

"But what's a Teller? I... haven't lived with other Goblins, aside from my mother...we were always really busy, but she taught me to always respect Maglubiyet. The rest of normal Goblin life, I, well, don't know anything about... and why would I be a Teller, whatever it is? I'm just a scribe...."

[Arch Lich Burns]

"Uh...Normally a teller....is ordained by another Teller...but....I guess in some situations Mags does it himself. Tellers are uh ...you know about clerics? They are like clerics, but they can see into the future, heal, they can help protect the clan....or hinder it. They uh....they know about goblins futures and make names based off of them typically, though in some cases they are cryptic and vague like mine and a goblin will eventually figure out what their destiny was supposed to be. I think mine was when I first saw Silver for the first time and I could not resist grabbing it...and after that it was affected by anything shiny or closely related to silver.... Uh...tellers tend to have a connection to Mags....and talk to him directly......"

[Theis2]

Holy crap on a crap stick! How did you do that writes? Actually I don't care as long as you can do it Again because that is neat!
I'm just gonna go to the weird blue plant again and test something.

Shackled walks to the west and grabs a couple of blue leaves.

[lingrem]

"Oh... that's... a lot to take in right now...." Writes says. Seeing as Silver is fine, she decides to go check out the cave that the others found earlier as she wants some time alone to think.

[Arch Lich Burns]

"...Did I say something wrong? ...Sorry..." Silver see Writes leave. "...Uh....wait for me....please?" Silver will follow writes as much as she can.

[WhirdCheese]

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I would like to join. I realize I'm kind of late.

[GathersIngredients]

"Goodness, me, you're talking to the gods themselves, Write! And not only that, but they talk back to you. You must be something special." Kin is honestly impressed.
After a little thinking, Kin adds: "Say, maybe you could ask Maglubiyet about the properties of the fauna and flora of this island? He might know what can harm us and what can heal us. This way, such things as just now with Silver might happen less likely....
Also, it might be a good idea to ask him, HOW exactly we can thank him for his help."

After that, Kin sits down (on the path, but not on/near the footnoms!) and gets to work with the second pair of boots, again, trying to safe most of the string. While she's doing that, (only if that doesn't distract her, lowering her chances of success!) she dreams about the things she could make out of the leather gained. Like shoes for goblins who don't watch where they are going...

Summary: Undo the seaming of the boots while trying to save as much string as possible (whole turn)
Free (and only do if it's free): imagine what could be made out of the parts won, and how many leather pieces those items would need. Maybe we could fashion new shoes out of the old ones. Cut the soles to fit and sew them back together.

Just in case Write doesn't want to ask such trivial stuff and/or ol Mags doesn't answer: Could someone please examine the dead footnom? Maybe it's edible and nourishing.


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[Theis2]

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I intended to grab it on the next turn and and maybe go grab a chest and take the items to camp to study them.

[thinkslogically]

@whirdcheese: not late at all, the draw wont be for another 10 hours or so anyway

[BadgeAddict]

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My wife and I are closing on our house that we're buying, so in case i get picked and I'm not online, here is my character

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Character Name: Dances in Storms
Background: Dances was a part of a rare sight on the great ocean, Goblin Pirates. He was one of the fiercest, meanest, craziest pirate to ever sail the world. In the midst of a battle to loot yet another merchant ship a storm broiled up from the west. The rain began to fall as the battle raged on. After a short time, as it always was, the fight was over and Dances and his crew was victorious once more. As Dances raised his sword in the pelting rain something ordinary happened. A lightning bolt arced down from the sky and struck his sword as he waved it proudly above his head. The result was catastrophic for poor Dances. Dances was thrown from the ship, which was lucky for him, because then the ship erupted into a inferno of fire. When Dances awoke, he sat up and found himself on a sandy beach. He had no idea how he had gotten there, but that's okay, because the only thing he remembers at all is his name.

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What he looks like(if possible) His right arm and right side are a little crispy (shades of black & grey) and he has no right ear. The rest of his body is his original color #FF8000

[Maiandra]

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[I'mBob]

Treasure inspects the green tentacles/plant thingy. Without touching it.

[thinkslogically]

Ok, so that's about enough time I think. Here we go:

The nominees:

jacon (+10)
gamecreator
BadgeAddict (+10; was Spartan)
whirdcheese

...and the rolls:

jacon: 36
gamecreator: 22
badgeaddict: 77
whirdcheese: 32

Congratulations to BadgeAddict! Welcome to the game!

You can consider goblin ESP to be something that all goblins have, so you know that the other PCs are on the island and they'll know you've arrived. You'll automagically have access to Spreads' inventory too, though since he's only got 2 apples on him, it shouldn't disrupt things too much I need actions from you for tomorrow's update if you can.

The rest of the RPing is up to you!

...I guess you do get a new island visitor on Day 0 after all

[BadgeAddict]

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One thing doesn't make sense, on the right of the area is a log sunken in what appears to be bog, but on the left spreads and the ants are walking on the surface of the bog?

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Character Name: Dances in Storms
Background: Dances was a part of a rare sight on the great ocean, Goblin Pirates. He was one of the fiercest, meanest, craziest pirate to ever sail the world. In the midst of a battle to loot yet another merchant ship a storm broiled up from the west. The rain began to fall as the battle raged on. After a short time, as it always was, the fight was over and Dances and his crew was victorious once more. As Dances raised his sword in the pelting rain something ordinary happened. A lightning bolt arced down from the sky and struck his sword as he waved it proudly above his head. The result was catastrophic for poor Dances. Dances was thrown from the ship, which was lucky for him, because then the ship erupted into a inferno of fire. When Dances awoke, he found himself in a small cage on a large ship. As he looked about his surroundings he found he was painted pink...strange. As a human walks by he calls out to him "hello". The sailor kicks out and scrawls "shut yer mouth spreads-the-word". Having forgotten everything about himself spreads realized that he had been given a name. Early the next morning, a violent storm came out of nowhere and began to toss the ship about. Later..much later, spreads opened his eyes to his new surroundings and started to explore. It wasn't until later when the ant attacked him and he hit his head as he fell backwards. A memory blossomed in spreads brain....your name is Dances-in-Storms. As the memories of his true name came flooding back he remembered something else, he had been painted pink. Dances started to rub vigorously at his skin and as he did, big blotches of pink paint begin to fall off of his body. When the pink paint finally settled to the ground, a new pilgrim stood where spreads once stood...Dances-in-Storms and he wasn't pink, he was orange. (crispy (Blacks & reds from when the lightning hit him) on his right side)

Dances will move south twice.

[thinkslogically]

So it's maybe not as clear as it could be, but the shades of green on either side of the path are different, so yeah - I'll let you decide what that means

[GathersIngredients]

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Welcome to the game, BadgeAddict!
Also, my guess would be that one side of the path is grass or something and the other side is probably some icky green swamp "water"/gunk. Something liquid in any case.

[Theis2]

Oh, writes/Lingrems lost connection to the internet, all across town it seems.

[thinkslogically]

Turn 17

The goblins (and especially Write) have a small freak-out over what just happened.

Holy crap on a crap stick! How did you do that writes? Actually I don't care as long as you can do it Again because that is neat!
I'm just gonna go to the weird blue plant again and test something.
"Goodness, me, you're talking to the gods themselves, Write! And not only that, but they talk back to you. You must be something special... Say, maybe you could ask Maglubiyet about the properties of the fauna and flora of this island? He might know what can harm us and what can heal us. This way, such things as just now with Silver might happen less likely....
Also, it might be a good idea to ask him, HOW exactly we can thank him for his help."
"Thank you. ...Teller? Okay....what are we going to do about the ant hill...guys?"
"What just happened? Maglubiyet... listened and helped me? Oh Thank you Maglubiyet! I'm sorry if I was disrespectful! Did you see that?... Maglubiyet spoke to me.. and healed Silver... I don't understand why Maglubiyet would help me... but I am so thankful that he did!"
"Uhh...that is what tellers do...they speak to Mags and get something out of him. Or something like that...I don't know too much myself. Sorry."
"But what's a Teller? I... haven't lived with other Goblins, aside from my mother...we were always really busy, but she taught me to always respect Maglubiyet. The rest of normal Goblin life, I, well, don't know anything about... and why would I be a Teller, whatever it is? I'm just a scribe...."
"Uh...Normally a teller....is ordained by another Teller...but....I guess in some situations Mags does it himself. Tellers are uh ...you know about clerics? They are like clerics, but they can see into the future, heal, they can help protect the clan....or hinder it. They uh....they know about goblins futures and make names based off of them typically, though in some cases they are cryptic and vague like mine and a goblin will eventually figure out what their destiny was supposed to be. I think mine was when I first saw Silver for the first time and I could not resist grabbing it...and after that it was affected by anything shiny or closely related to silver.... Uh...tellers tend to have a connection to Mags....and talk to him directly......"
"Oh... that's... a lot to take in right now...."
"...Did I say something wrong? ...Sorry......Uh....wait for me....please?"



Strangely, no-one seems to bat an eyelid as Spreads suddenly undergoes a total transformation and decides that he is actually Dances In Storms! Who is... well, actually he can't really remember much about that. But his name is definitely Dances.

Kin sits down and works on taking the other boot apart. Maybe it's just good fortune or maybe the boot was damaged by the sea water, but it just about falls apart in her hands! Kin now has more bits of leather and string to add to her collection of bric-a-brac. She daydreams while she works about all the things that she could make from the bits of leather, which is not a great deal probably... There's probably enough leather to make one medium-sized item (like a shirt) or two smaller items (like gloves or goblin-sized boots).

Treasure examines the green furry vines. They look like they're coated in some sort of gooey sap which clings to the hairs. As he watches, the vines twitch and lengthen...



Silver checks the plant* but can't tell much more about it than Shackled could. It's definitely a plant of some sort and she thinks it might smell a little sweet, but she's not sure... Once she's done, she follows after Write and reaches the top of the ladder. She notices a REALLY bad smell coming from the east... Gods that's horrible!



Write heads away towards the little cave to think things over. Shackled follows her with the intention of grabbing a blue leaf, but he's run out of actions. The ants are still clinging onto his stick.



Dances heads to the campsite.



"All hail and praise to Maglubiyet, whose steady guidance has lead us to victory once again!"

Swallows prods the chest open with her plank of wood, expecting the worst, but nothing happens... Inside, she finds a [Small Leather Pouch], a [Book**], and a small, unmarked [Vial] containing a dark, syrupy liquid. She drops the plank of wood and pockets them all.

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*I assume you meant the red/brown one? You never specified...
** I wasn't sure if Spreads could read or not. As far as I'm concerned, everyone can read simple common but Write can also write and has some extra knowledge. But it's up to you guys if that fits your characters.

[Small Leather Pouch]: Contains a small number of gemstones
[Book]: A small leatherbound book. It feels dry and it doesn't look like the ink has run.
[Vial]: Unmarked. Contains a dark, syrupy liquid.

[BadgeAddict]

"Did anyone ever check the other barrel on the beach?"
"I'm going to go get the sail., but if anyone needs any help, let me know."

Dances will double move south again to the beach. When he arrives he will look out over the ocean to see if there is anymore wreckage/debris floating out on the water beyond the beach. As he looks out over the ocean he will try to remember how he got here.

[Arch Lich Burns]

Silver goes to the caves and takes a look at the teal fern like plant."You okay writes?"

[Theis2]

Treasures or kin, do you plan on moving to the camp on of the following turns? if so could you bring the dead footnom?

Shackled grabs a couple of blue leaves and moves to the right hopefully still with his [stick with ants] rather than a [former stick of extremely aggressive ants]

[lingrem]

Writes sighs when she see she isn't alone, and goes inside the cave. Leaning against the wall of the cave, Writes sits down and looks up at the roof of the cave, and will ignore everyone else aside from waving at them to go away. She will spend the entire turn in silent contemplation/prayer as she thinks over what's whappened.

"Maglubiyet...I don't know why you've chosen me to serve you this way, but thank you. I wish I understood it, but I'll try my best to serve you. I am so sorry that I didn't understand until the other Goblins explained things! How can I best serve you? How can I ever thank you? It feels like saying thank you for the blessing is so very little, but I don't know what would please you the most. I have so many questions... Why me? Why now? Why not one of the other Goblins, who's at least lived with our kind? I know that I won't have answers to those, and I don't expect any...but they are all bouncing around in my head right now. What am I supposed to do? I'm just.. so sorry for the rudeness I showed by ignoring your voice. I thought I had hit my head when the ship was destroyed! How can I make it up to you? Thank you for healing Silver, what would you like me to do now? Oh I wish I understood these things!"

Major: Writes is thanking and apologizing to Mag. She wants to know how to show proper thanks for his help, and a bit of guidance as to what he would like her to do. The other quesions are just her insecurities and confusion.