Party To Treason 2: Valdragon's Coup

[PointMaid]

Valdragon is watching, but you're technically free to go. So what are you going to pack for your trip, and will you be sufficiently prepared to have all the fun you could ever want?

Mostly clothing. Clothing for nightclubs, several bikinis, a smashing resortwear suit in day-glo linen. Oh, and a black catsuit and night-vision goggles to move around undetected at night, plus scuba gear. And lots of sunscreen and expensive lotion and the rest of a proper skin routine, can never neglect one's skin.

The island is nice enough, and it's a great time! The lighthouse looks dangerous, the radio tower looks very dangerous, and there's skateboard marks that never got cleaned up on the bar at the Bar and Grille-with-an-e(tm), and you're going on the tour! Captain Keyes is showing off the forest of bones when you proceed to spot a sniper rifle lying on the ground, covered partially in leaves. It's filthy and has sunk partially into the ground, but it's still operational. What's the most fun thing you can do with a sniper rifle on the island?

Use the sniper scope as a telescope to check things out from afar, naturally! Like, ah, birds. Or that mysterious island or that old complex. And use the rifle itself to intimidate people, if needed... with its appearance, with the condition you found it in, it's unlikely you're going to be able to easily restore it to a fireable condition, isn't it? Even if it has bullets still in it, that could literally backfire. Although you could use it to whack someone over the head.

You may be servants of a highly authoritarian regime involved in a plot to overthrow it and replace it with most likely more of the same, and probably all have problems with corruption and graft, and a few of you definitely either got your positions through bribery or some form of nepotism, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun! You've been given access to several buckets, some sandcastle tools, and a shovel, and it's extremely unlikely you're being made to dig your own grave, so what's the sandcastle plan? (Feel free to use visual mediums if you want)

Ah! You're actually going to build a nice, tall catwalk from which to do a fashion show for Captain Keyes and anyone else around. Plus, it gives a great vantage point to look around.

And finally, you have some time to yourself. What else are you going to do at the Tropical Ski Resort? This is a freeform question.

Check out the resort shopping, chitchat with some cute folx at the Bar and Grille-with-an-e (tm) and flirt (and get a read on their loyalties if you need to go into hiding or root out the locals), go scuba diving and check out that mysterious inaccessible building while you take in some lovely coral...

[PointMaid]

Oh, Victoria also orders a Sex on the Beach at the Bar and Grille. The cocktail drink, not... anything else, just to put that out there. To drink as the sun goes down over the water. I need this, the way this whole coup operation is going, she mutters.

[Caret]

"A beach trip? SIGN ME UP! I love relaxin' and restin' and doing other beach thingies like... TREASURE HUNTING! And more restin'."

Wario Attempts People Smuggling

1. Valdragon is watching, but you're technically free to go. So what are you going to pack for your trip, and will you be sufficiently prepared to have all the fun you could ever want?
   
   "A vacation isn't complete without lots of GARLIC! Don't wanna run out of gas, huh? Oh, um,... I'll also bring money for more snacks! And my swimsuit! And more clothes! And all the stuff in those big boxes I just had shipped from home! Ignore the air holes! I'm definitely not smuggling my workers onto the island!"
   
   
   
2. The island is nice enough, and it's a great time! The lighthouse looks dangerous, the radio tower looks very dangerous, and there's skateboard marks that never got cleaned up on the bar at the Bar and Grille-with-an-e(tm), and you're going on the tour! Captain Keyes is showing off the forest of bones when you proceed to spot a sniper rifle lying on the ground, covered partially in leaves. It's filthy and has sunk partially into the ground, but it's still operational. What's the most fun thing you can do with a sniper rifle on the island?
   
   "Wow, what a gun! ...Eh! Wario doesn't need a gun to fight! I'll take it anyways because it makes me look like a scary badass! What are you looking at me for? Without those kids around (yet), I can say bad words whenever I want! Maybe I'll shoot up a few ducks along the way, because I could go for some garlic-seasoned duck roast right now!"
   
   
3. You may be servants of a highly authoritarian regime involved in a plot to overthrow it and replace it with most likely more of the same, and probably all have problems with corruption and graft, and a few of you definitely either got your positions through bribery or some form of nepotism, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun! You've been given access to several buckets, some sandcastle tools, and a shovel, and it's extremely unlikely you're being made to dig your own grave, so what's the sandcastle plan? (Feel free to use visual mediums if you want)
   
   "LEMME AT IT! I have an idea that will make you swoon in awe! CHECK THIS OUT, DUMMIES!"
   
   
   
   "Ain't I'm the looker! ADMIRE MY PERFECT BODY, DOLTS!  Also... Ppetend it's made of sand!"
   
   
4. And finally, you have some time to yourself. What else are you going to do at the Tropical Ski Resort? This is a freeform question.
   
   "With all the boring stuff out of the way, it's time for some REAL fun! Because Wario is the
   smartest personcitation needed
   in this rag-tag group of bandits, I have a back-up plan in case that Valdragon dude doesn't let me bring my um... packages!"
   
   PLAN A!
   
   "Wario has a big surprise waiting in those boxes! That's right! I brought my game crew... I mean jun-ior po-lit-ical officers to do some shenanigans! KAT, ANA! Use your kindergarten ninja skills to sneak into that mysterious building in the middle of the sea! IF YOU FIND ANY TREASURE, IT'S MINE! DR. CRYGOR, PENNY! Distract the other guys with your weird inventions and maybe do something with that big tower! JIMMY T! Try selling some of my patented Wario Spice to the bar chef, will ya? THE REST OF YOU! Do random beach things and pretend you're not involved with this coup! Thank me for this, because this vacation is being paid for with your paychecks! As for me, I'll be searching that spooky building in the woods for treasure! After that's said and done, I'll be in my cabana napping!"
   
   PLAN B!
   
   "Scratch everything I just said, except the part where I search the complex for the treasure! And maybe swim up to that mysterious building and break in myself! There's probably lot's of gold in there! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Kennifer]

Juniper's Vacation

• Valdragon is watching, but you're technically free to go. So what are you going to pack for your trip, and will you be sufficiently prepared to have all the fun you could ever want?
  
  
  Juniper packs a couple bikinis (one basic black, one metallic copper) and cover-ups (a floral-print sarong and an animal-print sheer robe), sandals, sunglasses, a sundress (red floral), and some sunblock as well as other basic essentials (like a toothbrush and underthings and shampoo and stuff) and money for refreshments. She's a bit suspicious of getting a beach vacation after yet another Loyalist operation passing, but she doesn't mention this.
  
  
• The island is nice enough, and it's a great time! The lighthouse looks dangerous, the radio tower looks very dangerous, and there's skateboard marks that never got cleaned up on the bar at the Bar and Grille-with-an-e(tm), and you're going on the tour! Captain Keyes is showing off the forest of bones when you proceed to spot a sniper rifle lying on the ground, covered partially in leaves. It's filthy and has sunk partially into the ground, but it's still operational. What's the most fun thing you can do with a sniper rifle on the island?
  
  
  The scope is probably going to be the most interesting part here, and Juniper plans to use it to get a good look at things in the distance. Especially the lighthouse and radio tower. Mostly out of curiosity and a bit out of worry that something nefarious might be going on up there. And probably some wildlife. And anything else potentially useful as long as she's spotting useful things. She'll take the whole thing though of course; she's not planning to actually fire it but if something nefarious is going on, better safe than sorry.
  
  
• You may be servants of a highly authoritarian regime involved in a plot to overthrow it and replace it with most likely more of the same, and probably all have problems with corruption and graft, and a few of you definitely either got your positions through bribery or some form of nepotism, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun! You've been given access to several buckets, some sandcastle tools, and a shovel, and it's extremely unlikely you're being made to dig your own grave, so what's the sandcastle plan? (Feel free to use visual mediums if you want)
  
  
  She'll find a spot enough away from the water to hopefully avoid high tide, then she will build some walls. Three of them, around a sunken pit, a staircase leading down into the pit/hole. Now she has a bunker, because bunkers are cool. Hopefully if she finds anything buried in the sand while digging it isn't someone's corpse or something.
  
  
• And finally, you have some time to yourself. What else are you going to do at the Tropical Ski Resort? This is a freeform question.
  
  
  A bit of sight-seeing in the places that are accessible and possibly less-dangerous. Have a drink and bite to eat at the bar-and-grille-with-an-e, take a nap in a cabana. Typical vacation type stuff. And find out a bit of the lore of this place (like where the skateboard tracks came from, why there's a forest of bones, what sorts of natural resources there are, that kind of thing.) Some relaxation before everything inevitably goes to hell.
  

[Whistle]

Barbecue

[*]Valdragon is watching, but you're technically free to go. So what are you going to pack for your trip, and will you be sufficiently prepared to have all the fun you could ever want?
[*]Pack all your identical outfits in case things get sandy. But otherwise why wear anything else. Of course, bring your cooking supplies if you can.

[*]The island is nice enough, and it's a great time! The lighthouse looks dangerous, the radio tower looks very dangerous, and there's skateboard marks that never got cleaned up on the bar at the Bar and Grille-with-an-e(tm), and you're going on the tour! Captain Keyes is showing off the forest of bones when you proceed to spot a sniper rifle lying on the ground, covered partially in leaves. It's filthy and has sunk partially into the ground, but it's still operational. What's the most fun thing you can do with a sniper rifle on the island?
[*]
Find some exotic birds to whip up for your latest meal... unless you find them too cute, in which case you can empty a magazine point-blank into some lost chickens. A little lead never hurt nobody.

[*]You may be servants of a highly authoritarian regime involved in a plot to overthrow it and replace it with most likely more of the same, and probably all have problems with corruption and graft, and a few of you definitely either got your positions through bribery or some form of nepotism, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun! You've been given access to several buckets, some sandcastle tools, and a shovel, and it's extremely unlikely you're being made to dig your own grave, so what's the sandcastle plan? (Feel free to use visual mediums if you want)

[*]Build the world's tallest burger, of course. Try to make sure it surmounts whatever the tallest building is... the lighthouse? Eh, if it falls over who cares, that thing's pretty old and sand probably won't hurt it too much.

[*]And finally, you have some time to yourself. What else are you going to do at the Tropical Ski Resort? This is a freeform question.

Try to mingle with the others as a waiter at whatever the pub is—sorry, gotta say goodbye to the hat—and try to see if I can sus out anyone who's trying to destroy us. If that happens, I have something in the works for them... don't worry, it's not poision, genuinely.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Valdragon is watching, but you're technically free to go. So what are you going to pack for your trip, and will you be sufficiently prepared to have all the fun you could ever want?

I'll take along a volleyball and get some sports action in. Good exercise after all. And during down times, I'll have my phone on me where I can follow my investments and stock plans. Watch as they all make me more money and I can celebrate with my fine Cuban cigars and wine. And shall I feel a bit of a recreational mood, perhaps I'll smoke some of the fine Colombia marijuana. Gives me a good high just when I think I can't go higher.

The island is nice enough, and it's a great time! The lighthouse looks dangerous, the radio tower looks very dangerous, and there's skateboard marks that never got cleaned up on the bar at the Bar and Grille-with-an-e(tm), and you're going on the tour! Captain Keyes is showing off the forest of bones when you proceed to spot a sniper rifle lying on the ground, covered partially in leaves. It's filthy and has sunk partially into the ground, but it's still operational. What's the most fun thing you can do with a sniper rifle on the island?

It's not my first experience I've ever had on the island. I attempted to run an island resort sometime ago. But it all got ruined by a group of filthy islanders who were all jealous of everything I've had. How I tried to make this island inhabitable and bring some real people. Not those filthy rug vermin that lived there. Especially their leader... Dawn. The one who went out of her way to ruin my resort. And I've hated her ever since. Seeing the sniper rifle has given me an idea. Perhaps I might get in some target practice. And all the while imagine they're all Dawn and her dishrag-wearing cretins. And if there happen to be any savages that live her without Alliance knowledge, nothing will stop me from blowing out their brains. They offer nothing. The island will be a better place without them.

You may be servants of a highly authoritarian regime involved in a plot to overthrow it and replace it with most likely more of the same, and probably all have problems with corruption and graft, and a few of you definitely either got your positions through bribery or some form of nepotism, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun! You've been given access to several buckets, some sandcastle tools, and a shovel, and it's extremely unlikely you're being made to dig your own grave, so what's the sandcastle plan? (Feel free to use visual mediums if you want)

I'm always thinking of ways to further my real estate plans. I'm a man who always likes to imagine what he'll want to develop in the future. I've dabbled in high-rise residential areas, tropical resorts, hotels, casinos, well, you see where I'm going. But I'm thinking big. Someday I'd like to work with some of the best architects out there and help develop a town. Using the sandcastle tools, I'd make the town I envision in my mind. One that consists of towering buildings, mansions and resorts. Ones that are well-designed and pleasing to the eye. And I'd make sure I make my sand town far away from the water so it doesn't get washed away by waves. My artistic visions don't deserve to be ruined by some pesky water.

And finally, you have some time to yourself. What else are you going to do at the Tropical Ski Resort? This is a freeform question.

I would browse around the whole island, inspect every building, look at the empty space. Perhaps if things work out in my favor, I would try to make a deal and take over the island. Improve some of the structure, expand the resort. Turn it into even more of a viable business, bring in all kinds of people. Make sure the Alliance and I would end up very wealthy. But until then, it all starts with looking at everything the island has to offer. There could be some untapped potential here.

[TenOfSwords13]

if it helps anyone with any decisions... i drew three low-priority, loyalist-aligned ops. do not blame blixbo at all for this. anyway, i'd like to hear from everyone else before chosing the next aide.

plan for fun!

1: what am i packing? i'm bringing my jet ski! why? why the frickin' heck not! there's so much sea, awesome sights, let's have some fun!

2:spy on the mysterious inaccessable building which is very mysterious and inaccessable, of course! there's secrets there, and maybe a window or two? the scope on the rifle should help... right?

3: something like... this?



4: honestly, this whole coup thing is very stressful, maybe just... a bit of relaxing? like... i've got the jet ski, there's ski slopes, i'll just act on impulse once i'm there, really.

[Florien]

Right, let's see your postcards.

Cat. Lucky's Aquatic Adventure

• Regulation Swimwear? Opaque and weirdly restrictive yet oddly vague definition thereof? Exactly the kind of thing the Alliance uses to come up with justifications for any detainment, and you're fully in compliance with regulations! The difference between Class 3 and Class 5 treats is unclear, but the Alliance generally frowns on theocracy (shh, the various agreements with the Stargazers of Avos are only because the protectorate could swoop in about it. Definitely not an ideological agreement about the societal risk of the Grounded. We promise.) So you're allowed to bring either. (You do.) And you set yourself up to be a very clean Captain indeed, ready to be presentable in any circumstance.
  
• It is a thematic red dot sight, rather than a normal infrared cross sight, luckily. Almost as if the weapon was intended for display combat rather than military use. The laser-pointer nature thereof is very exciting, and that is certainly a creative use of the scope.
  
• Lucky is Fortified in the sand. Crenellations are always classy. Everyone loves the walljaggies.
  
• Drinks and Sleeping are certainly something vacationy to do in the spare time.
  

Cpt. Frankenstein (MoL)'s Beachside Bonanza

• Nightclubs? On this island? Are you insulting the Tropical Ski Resort's Amenities? Do you really think we need a... Nightclub? My idea is without flaw, and it says we have none. Keyes is rifling through your luggage. I'm keeping these.
  
• You look around, using the scope as a telescope. You see many sights that might not have otherwise been seen, such as a decaying-in-the-sun motorboat sitting on the island with the mysterious building, old bloodstains on the cabana steps, a rare Brown Pelican, imported all the way from Earth... You also threaten some other guests while you're at it. You've got to keep up the strongarming practice.
  
• You build a catwalk out of sand. As it turns out, this is a lot of work. You do make a platform stable enough to be stood on, but Keyes prevents you from cutting down the trees you'd need to build a proper catwalk, so it's a fairly low Catwalk and you can't see much . You show off your fashion.
  

• You end up buying a stack of postcards, a snowglobe, a t-shirt, and wow Captain Keyes sure gets to import a lot of things from the outside she must be on very good terms with the leadership. Check out this big glass blob with a glass jellyfish inside! How'd they make that happen? The guests aren't very receptive to your chatting and flirting seeing as you were intimidating them earlier. You then scuba dive and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! You thereafter vow to never again enter water. You get your drink. You need it for more reasons now than ever before.
  

Cpt. Wario's Coastland Crimespree

• Excellent choices. Keyes looks skeptically at the air-holed boxes, but doesn't try to stop you bringing in your employees without tickets... you're lucky she's eccentric enough to allow this sort of thing.
  
• You look for ducks, but can't find any, on account of this not being the kind of place ducks can be found. You gun down some larger tropical birds of duck-size though, your high-caliber bullets ripping through them and scattering their remains across huge debris fields. It's quite gruesome, and Keyes takes the sniper rifle from you for getting bird innards everywhere.
  
• That's a very impressive sand sculpture! It's a bit top-heavy though, so you end up having to build it on the ground. It definitely didn't fall over immediately and crumble into a pile of wet sand and have to be rebuilt.
  
• You and your compatriots search for treasure, hawk your products, and do various distracting things. You find in the ruins of the old complex an exciting broken water cooler. You end up stripping some copper wires you find also. Your ninjas find an abandoned computer tower wearing a judge's wig in the mysterious building, which they smuggle back to you. Jimmy T fails to sell wario spice to the bar chef, because the bar already has Wario Spice. You certainly didn't sell it to them. The Alliance is UNDERCUTTING YOU! The bastards. Oh and your Doctor and Penny end up picking up a pirate radio station and Keyes immediately extorts them for all they're worth (which is not much because you don't pay them that well.) Ultimately you make a Net Zero profit as a group, and a very small profit for you personally.
  

Acting Cpt. Banks's Delightful Day Off

• Money and beach stuff. Basic, but all perfectly functional.
  
• Is anything nefarious going on? Doesn't look like it... until the lighthouse beam sweeps around and temporarily blinds you through the scope. Why is it so bright? Who uses an arc-lamp in this day and age?
  
• The bunker is very impressive and takes over a day of dedicated sandcastle work, but it's feasible at least. You find nothing too untoward beneath the sands, though the high water table at the beach does mean your bunker keeps flooding.
  
• You do normal vacation things, and also try to figure out what happened here with the skateboard tracks and the bone forest. The bone forest, you remember from the tour, was supposed to be a place to display the remains of traitors, but it filled up fast. The old complex that's destroyed was a headquarters of an early rebellion against Sendri's leadership, dealt with in brutal fashion. The skateboard marks... well, the story you get is confusing, but apparently there's a second floran named Sendri from the same general part of the universe who looks remarkably similar, except this one was a champion skateboarder and not our glorious leader, and that apparently they were here at some point? It's a very strange story and it's never made clear exactly WHY this other Sendri was here. They apparently live in the Protectorate now, or maybe they moved to somewhere more isolated? Supposedly they still participate in skateboarding championships and are rumored to have beaten an Alliance competitor in one to death with their skateboard, so whatever happened, they probably parted from the Alliance on bad terms.
  

Double Cpt. Beck's Exhilarating Excursion

• Identical Outfits? Well, no one's going to stop you, though Keyes does charge an additional fee to write "beachcloths" on one of your shirts, blatantly spelling the word incorrectly. She won't let you in without it. So yes, actually, someone's going to stop you.
  
• BIRD. You drive a population of large bird to extinction. (Well, you kill the one imported brown pelican) and invent an exciting new dish, Pelican on a plate. It's the talk of the culinary world!
  
• You build and build, but find that there just isn't enough stability in sand to rival the height of the lighthouse, much less the enormous radio tower which can be seen from anywhere on the island. You do however manage to set an intergalactic record for tallest free-standing sand pillar and biggest sand sculpture of a burger. Unfortunately for you, Guinness Intergalactic Records has already awarded those to Minister of Construction for the Miniknog Andebek Valdikov and Lethia Corporation respectively, and have no interest in awarding it to someone unable to pay them. Nonetheless, an impressive achievement.
  
• You cunningly disguise yourself as Waiter Beck, and try to get all kinds of information out of the other guests. You learn a lot of secrets, and easily make enough money from extorting them over their minor but not-really-severe-enough-to-deal-with-directly misdeeds to buy that Intergalactic Record, if you want. But nothing immediately lets you know about any plots against you that are definitely-not-poison worthy.
  

Cpt. Columbo's Fantastic Free Time

• No smoking on my island! You'll probably litter. Captain Keyes holds out her hand. Begrudgingly, you hand her the "look-the-other-way fee" to smuggle in your various smokable drugs. She also makes you pay a corking fee for your drinkable drugs. Annoying.
  
• You shoot at various target-looking things all over the island. The rifle is perfectly calibrated so that even an unskilled person could fire it accurately. Very expensive tech! You wonder how it got here as you idly terrorize the island's melon-sitting-on-a-table population and coconut-on-top-of-a-pyramid inhabitents.
  
• You build a complex sandcastle and mourn for your previously failed development ambitions. One day, one day you'll secure your victory and avenge what you've lost. It takes a while though because you have to dig deeper for wet sand than you otherwise would, so inland.
  
• There's clearly untapped potential, the tropical ski resort doesn't seem to have many ski courses. Also a tropical ski resort is possibly the single worst idea you've heard in the past few days, at minimum. Florida Keyes, unfortunately, is a visionary, and not interested in selling. Besides, you'd have to go through the development commission first, to have a shot at getting this island. Which they won't grant, Sendri's happy to finance this. They only called it a "horrifying money pit" four times, and "actually a clever idea" five times! That means they like it. Obviously. Who couldn't?
  

Maj. Harrier's Grand Gadabout Outing

• Jet ski! VvVvVvvvvVVvvVVvvvvvVVVvvv!!! Keyes charges you a "Non-Rental Safety Guarantee Fee" whatever that is though to bring your own Jet Ski.
  
• It's... surprisingly boring, really, Looks like a newish alliance building, there's a couple guard stations, and it's thoroughly disused. You manage to look in the window, and it looks like there'd be a clear shot at whoever's standing by this dust-covered table. Not that anyone is, and the only thing there is a broken... you think it was probably a popcorn machine, once. Maybe this was supposed to be some kind of movie theater?
  
• Mont-Saint-Michel is a very respectable Sandcastle Model. Captain Keyes even gives you a Sandcastle Award, and takes your picture with the Sandcastle to put in the brochures.
  
• JET SKI! VVVVvvvvvvVVvVVvvVV!!! Also you do normal skiing, the first person to do normal skiing at the tropical ski resort. Ironically, sliding down a mountain (well, it's on the border between mountain and hill, really) at full speed feels much safer than jet-skiing when you can see huge dark shapes in the water.
  

[LavenderDream]

Blixbo shivers when he hears the words, "noxious lava fumes". 
"Great, exactly what I needed more of."

Blixbo's Day Off

1. Simple, I'll pack a life jacket, a snow sled, a pair of drumsticks, some goggles, an extra non-formal pair of clothes, an animal translator, some sparklers, and a first aid kit. You never know what could happen.

2. Climb up to the lighthouse, shoot down four or five birds with the sniper rifle. Not only as target practice, they also know way more than they need to.

3. Ok, ok. Time to impress. Build a scaled-down version of Keyes's Tropical Ski Resort, with an almost lifelike (if it weren't for the sand) model of Captain Keyes himself. Place the sprinklers around the mock island for extra décor and possibly danger.

4. Go down to the beach part of the resort, and use the snow sled as a makeshift boat, with the drumsticks as oars. If I find any fish or other sea creatures, I'll use the animal translator to communicate. Just because I'm on break doesn't mean I can't forge new allies. When I'm done for the day, I'll go to the Bar and Grille-with-an-e (tm) for some food and a drink.

[noodlesnook]

Níl teideal agam, tá mé ar saoire // No title, I'm on vacation

Valdragon is watching, but you're technically free to go. So what are you going to pack for your trip, and will you be sufficiently prepared to have all the fun you could ever want?
“Clothes, of course. And considering where we'll be heading, I'll need some- eh, forget that, a lot of sunscreen! A complexion like mine burns easily, and I'd much rather be Fionn than An Dearg ( ba-dum crash ).”

The island is nice enough, and it's a great time! The lighthouse looks dangerous, the radio tower looks very dangerous, and there's skateboard marks that never got cleaned up on the bar at the Bar and Grille-with-an-e(tm), and you're going on the tour! Captain Keyes is showing off the forest of bones when you proceed to spot a sniper rifle lying on the ground, covered partially in leaves. It's filthy and has sunk partially into the ground, but it's still operational. What's the most fun thing you can do with a sniper rifle on the island?
“That's suspicious, but we aren't here for any of that. But if you insist, I suppose I'd just shoot down some jungle animals.” 

You may be servants of a highly authoritarian regime involved in a plot to overthrow it and replace it with most likely more of the same, and probably all have problems with corruption and graft, and a few of you definitely either got your positions through bribery or some form of nepotism, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun! You've been given access to several buckets, some sandcastle tools, and a shovel, and it's extremely unlikely you're being made to dig your own grave, so what's the sandcastle plan? (Feel free to use visual mediums if you want)
“Hm… Oh, I know, I'll ask the Salmon of- oh, right, the Salmon doesn't work here. In that case…”
He crouches down, focused on something on the ground below him. Some time later, you find that he has built a strange structure out of the sand, a hodgepodge of various architectural styles and features that measures, in total, about half his height. He seems ashamed of it. Oh, wait, no, the flushed look on his face is actually sunburn. He's actually pretty proud of it.

And finally, you have some time to yourself. What else are you going to do at the Tropical Ski Resort? This is a freeform question.
“That lighthouse is intriguing. Perhaps I should pay a visit.”

[Florien]

Double Cpt. Blixbo's Heartening Holiday

• What's this, an IED? Might as well be. You're not getting those in, you'll start a fire. She doesn't even ask for a bribe, she just takes your sparklers without further comment.
  
• Pew pew pew! You explode several birds. Keyes gives you a look as you proceed to stain the ground. She does, weirdly, buy your excuse that "the birds know too much" but she does charge you for the blood you got everywhere. A "Cleaning Fee" in this case.
  
• Keyes really likes your recursive sand sculpture, and she gives you a creativity award and a coupon for the bar and grille with an e. Obviously you can't put sparklers around it because she took them though.
  
• Your snow sled is immediately capsized by a huge beast of the waters. You can't communicate with it, as by the time you get your communicator out, it's dived back again... just as quickly it's chasing you. Reasoning with it isn't an option as it comes in for the kill. You desperately break for the shallows, hoping to get to a place where you won't be torn to shreds by hostile fish. You only narrowly make it. Good thing you brought the first aid kit. You eat of the food and drink of the drinks at 20% off and get a free shrimp cocktail.
  

Lt. Mac Cumhaill's Incredible Island Vacation

• An approximate Metric Assload (equivalent to roughly 1.4 Alliance Assloads) of sunscreen was probably wise (I was definitely going to burn you if you hadn't, having known irish tourists and their penchant for underestimating the power of a high-angled sun.)
  
• You gun down the island's wildlife, and a floran tourist takes a picture with you, praising you as an "okay hunter. Not great of coursse, not like floran. But good for a very tall meat-thing." Keyes disapproves and makes you retroactively buy a hunting license, groundbound wildlife is hard to get on these islands.
  
• Your weird but very tall sandcastle wins you an award from Keyes (just a coupon) It would be eligible for an intergalactic record for biggest sandcastle constructed by a single individual, except that record is actually truly vast and you didn't beat it. It's a very cool sandcastle though.
  
• You check out the lighthouse. As Sendri (No relation to the Director) found out before, the lamp is painfully bright, and when you turn it on, which is alarmingly easy to do, your shriek of agony echoes across the island, silhouetting you against the mountains. It's possible your eyes may never fully recover! You're blind forever! Wait no never mind you're fine. Mostly. It probably didn't burn a hole in your retina, though it takes a while for the spots to clear.
  

Well, I hope you all enjoyed wasting my time. Except you, Captain Beck, you'll have double voting power this round, because you actually managed to continue doing your job on the island, and also were able to extract quite a bit of cash, in addition to revolutionizing cuisine, which we can actually use. I can put you in charge of a catering company once I'm in charge, in addition to your current post.

Now, you can all talk with Major Harrier, who is in charge of deciding who my next Aide will be, to try to sway him... but ultimately it'll be his choice who the next aide is.

[Caret]

Wario is now proudly wearing the wig he recovered from his island heist.

"Call me Judge Wario now! There's an obvious choice for the office of aide, and that's ME! I'm the smartest, manliest, most awesome-ist politician in this room! If you don't choose me, then regardless of who you're gonna pick, the eye of justice, embodied by Yours Truly, is gonna pay very close attention to your decisions!"

[PointMaid]

The way things have gone, I'll be honest, I'm not sure I expect to have much influence. Possibly anybody who knows or can guess that I've been telling the truth, but I don't expect that to be very many people.

[TenOfSwords13]

hmm.... i'm kinda thinking... Columbo? Good Vibes Colubmo. any objectors, speak up now or hold your heckin' peace!

[wingedcatgirl]

Lucky looks confused, like he doesn't recognize that name.

[PointMaid]

...I know he wasn't the cause of the first operation being low-priority, that was because of the three loyalist operations we were given. But the odds mean I don't trust you much, Harrier. Maybe you really did get a bad shuffle, too. I don't know. I'm... well, I'm confused, is all.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

If Harrier wants to give me the permission, I'll take them. I will say when Ms. Frankenstein first got Aide, I couldn't succeed because they were both loyalist operations. Had no choice in the matter. But during my Aide time, I had two operations supporting Valdragon and one supporting Loyalist. I made sure I did away with the Loyalist one before passing off the operations to Blixbo. So no matter how you feel about Harrier, I make sure our cause will succeed.

[Florien]

And we're waiting for a decision...

I'm sure when Liwari shows up at the door and asks you whether you'd like to be boiled in a vat of acid or boiled in a vat of base, or just tortured for weeks before your head gets smashed in with a hammer, you'll be glad for your considerations.

[noodlesnook]

"I agree," Fionn says, turning to Victoria.
"Are you sure you have no other reason for your choice, Major Harrier?"

[Kennifer]

"I'm curious as well, although I also do not have a better alternative to offer up."

[TenOfSwords13]

eh, no other reasons, no real objections... i'm locking in the choice! congratulations, Mr. Columbo!

[Florien]

Very well, Captain Columbo. You're in charge of picking the Nominee for Liason. Don't screw this up, if you pick the mole as nominee and they get in, they'll get a message to Liwari, and the whole coup is blown, and we'll have to ship out before we're ready to have any hope of achieving anything, if the Alliance forces don't arrive first.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Very well. Despite the the fact we haven't exactly seen eye-to-eye, I have a good feeling about Fionn. One who seems passionate enough about the coup's success. With that, I think he can be trusted to be put in the drivers' seat.

[TenOfSwords13]

yeah i'll say aye to that. i trust you quite a bit, so i'll trust your decision.

[PointMaid]

I hate to say it, but I'm going to vote NAY. I nominated you in the first round, but we weren't acquainted then and I can't confirm or deny anything about you because of it given the circumstances, you had no choice. Then I don't trust Harrier, as I said. And MacCumhaill is on my watch list as of the last vote, giving an utterly fantastic vaporware reason to vote down Blixbo, who I know to be true. ...If they said it was because they didn't believe *me* to investigate the spider, I'd believe it more. So, if you're really for this coup, Mr. Columbo, my apologies. But if you're a secret loyalist, as I suspect now you might be, shame on you for making me think we were friends.

We have very little margin for error, as I'm sure you all see.