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TEST DRIVE!! and unlock. and new challenge. multitasking.
Who: everyone
Where: the swamp
Time: Day 3, morning through afternoon
[For some of you, this is just a new day in Idys's swamp-- gee, maybe we should work on a name for the place, huh?-- and for some of you, this is your first introduction to a lot of unsettling information and a brand new world. Setting TL;DR: you're living in a treehouse village in the middle of a mostly-isolated swamp! The Altar is on one big platform, ringed by the little huts that y'all are calling home right now, and on another big platform is a communal firepit, a bathing hut, a hut with magical fantasy swamp toilets, and an empty building for mysterious purposes. There's a second, lower level of platforms and walkways, but it's mostly empty right now. There is a pulley system to get down to the water if you want to chance a swim with the water monsters or, much more sensibly, build/buy something to float on! (Don't worry about which cabin you woke up in. It's fine. It's cool. It's whatever. It's a test drive.)]
[But even for those of you who have been around for a few days, there are still some new things about the day! First, there's some new flora and fauna about. Second, that background sense of purpose from the Altar? Today, it's changed-- no longer concerned with encouraging new activities or experiences, now, the Altar urges you to seek out COMPETITION.]
[Make a bet! See who can catch more fish! Who can climb furthest from tree to tree before they hit a dead end! Who can come up with the best insulting nickname for Idys! Play a special edition of Swamp Chopped with the limited natural ingredients available to you! Have a race across the Altar or, more daringly, the wooden walkways! Play lots and lots of Tic-Tac-Toe? To help out, on the Altar today you can find some small stone slates and pieces of lumpy chalk-- you can sense that these scoreboards are temporary, but hey, they're something.]
((TEST DRIVE! Current players are welcome to treat this post as semi-canon/carry over interactions with characters currently in the game or who app into the game later, and anyone who does end up apping in is also welcome to carry over taken-character interactions from this post! This IS the new challenge for April and the new unlock for this two-week period!!))
Where: the swamp
Time: Day 3, morning through afternoon
[For some of you, this is just a new day in Idys's swamp-- gee, maybe we should work on a name for the place, huh?-- and for some of you, this is your first introduction to a lot of unsettling information and a brand new world. Setting TL;DR: you're living in a treehouse village in the middle of a mostly-isolated swamp! The Altar is on one big platform, ringed by the little huts that y'all are calling home right now, and on another big platform is a communal firepit, a bathing hut, a hut with magical fantasy swamp toilets, and an empty building for mysterious purposes. There's a second, lower level of platforms and walkways, but it's mostly empty right now. There is a pulley system to get down to the water if you want to chance a swim with the water monsters or, much more sensibly, build/buy something to float on! (Don't worry about which cabin you woke up in. It's fine. It's cool. It's whatever. It's a test drive.)]
[But even for those of you who have been around for a few days, there are still some new things about the day! First, there's some new flora and fauna about. Second, that background sense of purpose from the Altar? Today, it's changed-- no longer concerned with encouraging new activities or experiences, now, the Altar urges you to seek out COMPETITION.]
[Make a bet! See who can catch more fish! Who can climb furthest from tree to tree before they hit a dead end! Who can come up with the best insulting nickname for Idys! Play a special edition of Swamp Chopped with the limited natural ingredients available to you! Have a race across the Altar or, more daringly, the wooden walkways! Play lots and lots of Tic-Tac-Toe? To help out, on the Altar today you can find some small stone slates and pieces of lumpy chalk-- you can sense that these scoreboards are temporary, but hey, they're something.]
((TEST DRIVE! Current players are welcome to treat this post as semi-canon/carry over interactions with characters currently in the game or who app into the game later, and anyone who does end up apping in is also welcome to carry over taken-character interactions from this post! This IS the new challenge for April and the new unlock for this two-week period!!))
UNLOCK
Next, if the sure-footed of you go exploring among the trees, there are some plump brown birds making their homes there now! They're fairly large for not, apparently, being birds of prey, and therefore a little bit easier to catch than something tiny and spry, but you might find a better use for them if you observe them over a period of several days: if one of their nests is robbed by one of the squirrel-monkey creatures (or by a person, perhaps), they lay a new clutch of eggs within three days. Convenient!
Finally, a handful of trees within the explorable area seem to have sprouted small white mushrooms along their trunks, both above and under the water line. Notably, the water almost seems to glow in the areas that these mushrooms are clustered, but those that are brave enough to climb down and investigate will see that it's actually just that the water near these mushrooms is somehow clean-- a little ring of clear water amongst the swamp muck. Drop one in a cup of water, or a few into the cooking pot, and you'll have clean water! Just be sure to remove the mushrooms before you drink that water or cook anything with it-- the mushrooms themselves are disgusting, and cooking them will release a foul liquid into the dish that will make you feel ill.]
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