08-24-2023, 02:54:54 AM
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.
Stupid doomed timeline...