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synodiporia_ooc2019-03-13 07:53 pm
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ADVENTURE ARCHIPELAGO: WALKABOUT INFO
a walkabout featuring a theme park gone horribly wrong
March 19 - April 28
Adventure Archipelago is an amusement park set up across a series of small islands that are unnaturally close to one another. These islands were all originally one singular island, but some billionaire came through and basically wrecked everything--they used their fortune to terraform the one large island into many little ones. The biggest problem with this absurd display of wealth was that they did not realize a very reclusive, very heavy napper of a wizard had been living on said large island, and the wizard essentially woke up from a deep sleep to find this mess in their now broken-up backyard.
The wizard is awake and cranky now, right as Adventure Archipelago is about to open to a select few for the first time. Shortly after the opening ceremonies, the wizard will strike, and everything will go haywire. Because Adventure Archipelago is so remote and because the billionaire is so secretive and eccentric (read: an idiot), and because no one even realized a wizard had been sleeping there for a hundred years, it will be quite some time before help arrives.
LOCATIONS
Center Island: Where everyone arrives, home to a luxury five star hotel, several shops and restaurants, and a majestic castle because of course a theme park has a majestic castle at the center. It's the hub through which all other islands can be easily accessed.
Future Island: The northwestern island. This one is themed to space and robots and ~the future~. Contains several roller coasters and an interactive laser tag experience with mindless robots. This becomes less fun when all the robots break free and the lasers are magically harmful lasers and not laser tag lasers. The robots are not waterproof, don't move well, don't think well, and basically can't get off this island.
Fairy Tale Island: The northeastern island. This island has another castle because of course it does, and it's home to a lot of kiddie rides and a petting zoo. Everything, including the animals in the petting zoo, becomes far less magical when it grows to monstrous proportions, leaving unwary guests at a comparatively small scale of 3" tall. Giant livestock will not return to normal size after leaving the boundaries of this island. How well can goats and llamas swim? We're about to find out!
Spooky Island: The southeastern island. This island is one big haunted house (with varying degrees of spook for the whole family to enjoy!) and is categorically the worst place to be during this mess. There are ghosts, there are monsters, there are chainsaw killers, it's a bad time. Even worse, the churros here have turned poisonous.
Monkey Island: The southwestern island. Everything is monkey-themed, for the billionaire really likes monkeys. There is a pirate ride with animatronic monkeys and apes. There is a monkey sanctuary with live monkeys! There is a monkey-themed roller coaster, Going Bananas. Unfortunately, all the monkeys, both real and animatronic, are now loose and running amok. The animatronic ones are definitely trying to kill you. (They will not, however, be able to identify anyone walking around in the monkey mascot suit as Not A Monkey.) The real ones...are just kind of doing their thing because the wizard feels that monkeys are inherently destructive enough on their own. Be warned, for several of the real ones seemed to have figured out how to operate a golf cart commandeered by security.
INFILTRATOR/INVESTIGATOR ROLES
The park needs a lot of help in order to run, and so staff is also on hand to take care of the day-to-day business that’s about to go horribly awry. Staff ranges from mechanics to engineers to livestock wranglers to chefs to custodians to the poor person stuck asking “how many in your party?” and then directing people into the rows of ride vehicles, praying park guests can follow simple directions.
Someone can play the eccentric billionaire if they wish.
If no one else volunteers, Jules will probably do it.The wizard will be played by a Familiar Face.SKILLS
Tourist Wardrobe: Hawaiian-print shirts. Overdone blobs of sunscreen on the nose. Sandals and socks.
Apocalyptic Survival Skills: Skills necessary for surviving the world going mad and trying to kill you--hiding, diverting pursuit, finding food, etc.
Giant Livestock: Tame giant livestock on Fairy Tale Island! Includes goats, pigs, cows, llamas, chickens, emus, ducks, etc.
Monkey Companion: The monkeys on Monkey Island aren’t all bad! Bring one home with you; they’re great at parties. They just don’t take direction from anyone or anything well.
Tacky Souvenirs: In all of the chaos, the gift shops are still well stocked with tchotchkes. Most of them are normal. Some of them may be mildly cursed.
CALENDAR
Second mingle - Things continue going horribly wrong! But perhaps rescue will arrive.
So as not to strand everyone on the Archipelago for too long, this walkabout will be run on a condensed time frame where a week OOC=a day IC.
PLAYER RESOURCES
TV Tropes' page on Theme Parks
TV Tropes' page on Jurassic Park
QUESTIONS
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... which would mean that the Future Island might just have a War of the Worlds ride. :D?
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And yes. Yes, it could!
(also do you want a really jittery computer guy on staff y/n)
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I also keep being reminded of a whole string of Disney creepypasta that I read once. I should dig that up.
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...and no one will care after the wizard comes anyway. 8D
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...and no one will probably care too much after everything goes wrong even then.
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Important question.
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Yes, he can.
Go, ride like the wind. (Most will be fairly uncooperative, but there should be a few that would be amiable to this!)
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Re: QUESTIONS
1) Are we on any version of Earth?
2) If so, Mamoru is the planetary guardian of Earth, so he should be able to sense some things like the condition of the world through touching the ground and the sort. What could he potentially feel on different islands, if that were the case?
3) Unrelated: will a baby goat remain giant after walkabout when you take it with you to liminal...
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2) The earth is really kind of stressed out about these islands--this breaking up and terraforming is going against the natural order of things and it's not that great--but it's healing, if given time.
3) YES IT WILL. 8D
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