Night One

[diejoubu]

Night One After an excited day, night falls on the island. The beach is surprisingly bright at night thanks to the full moon above. As it was during the day, the island is very quiet at night and sounds consist of calming waves, soothing wind, chirping insects, and birds in the forest. Status Weather: Cool with clear skies and a light breeze. Electronics: Overall, electronics function normally. Unlike during the day, Nations will be completely unable to catch any signals. Sorry, you'll have to update your F*cebook another time. Things of note: Hong Kong's MP3 player will freeze when he tries to listen to it. Turning it off and then back on will correct the issue. The batteries in Cuba and Latvia's flashlights will die despite the fact they had new batteries in them. They will have to replace the batteries to get the flashlights to work again. Contrary to everyone else's wireless troubles, Iceland will be the only nation with any sort of signal on his cell phone. He will not have any problems with his phone. Magic: Magic is very effective tonight, some times too effective. It must be the work of the full moon. Animals: Pets will stay close to their owners but otherwise act normally. ???: No unusual activity(?) Lithuania visits the spring at night. Despite his experience, anyone who visits the spring after this will notice nothing out of the ordinary. A voice speaks to Italy. Iceland and Hong Kong go to the mansion but are unable to explore further. The United Nations is notified and sends a reminder out. Iceland is the only one able to receive it. Germany, China, Netherlands, Seychelles, and Japan hear things in the middle of the night. Day One | Night One Day 2 will go up on 4 June.

Comments

[longwhitecloud]

[The moment wasn't exaggerated, Iceland will have his phone back in less than a minute.]

They're all well.

[A short pause in which the older nation is getting a quick observing glance.] Iceland, right?

[volcanoes]

[Oh, that's nice. Iceland is more used to moments turning into at least ten minutes. And yay, more recognition.]

Yeah. You're New Zealand?

[longwhitecloud]

Your place is almost as good as mine for hiking, bungee jumping, paragliding and those things. Though the hot springs are great.

[because unlike the advertisement industry, Kiwi actually checks the alternatives out before calling something the best. Not that that changes the result, most of the times, but.

A short pause, then, in Icelandic, though with a horrible pronounciation and grammar:] I tried to learn a bit of the language, but I guess that failed.

[volcanoes]

[O-oh, someone trying to learn his language. Oh... Iceland can't hide how pleased he is even if he is trying to.] I-it's not that bad for someone just starting out. I mean most people never even bother so you're smarter than they are.

...I'll come visit you sometime. [When he has money to go visit people again.]

[longwhitecloud]

[Kiwi is used to England amounts of tsun, so that sounds like "wow you are the greatest this is awesome" to the Oceanian's ears, which makes it hard to keep the smile unchanging. Even if both of them are rather minor nations, it is nice to leave some kind of lasting impression. Making friends even, maybe

maybe this trip wasn't that bad an idea after all. Even when they had to leave their pets behind.]

You can always stay at my house. [Concentration, and then there is a second try at Icelandic, which only turns out to have immaculate grammar because it is ripped directly from a phrase book. Doesn't fix the pronounciation, though.] I'll show you around my home.

[volcanoes]

[Iceland only looks even more pleased; even if that sounds like something out of a phrasebook, it means New Zealand actually took the time to actually remember something out of said phrasebook.] ...Maybe I could spare some time over the summer, then. If nothing comes up at home.

[longwhitecloud]

I hope you like sheep and birds? [Or at least, don't dislike them. Because that would be troublesome, considering that a. one each lives in Kiwi's house and b. there are just a lot of both in the country in general.

[volcanoes]

Yeah. [Sheep and birds are pretty much what Iceland has too, really. He gestures to puffin, perched close nearby. He's been sticking very close today in general...] Nothing's more annoying than him anyway.

[longwhitecloud]

Can he fly?

[Not getting to close, because a healthy respect for the danger of animals is a prerogative for surviving in certain parts of the world. And considering the pets that Australia keeps, "pet" does not equal "harmless".]

[volcanoes]

[Puffin answers before Iceland can:] 'Course I can! I can swim, too, I'm twice as good as a penguin and four times as cute!

[Iceland grabs him by the beak; Puffin he is trying to make friends.] Emergency food rations. [He gets smacked with a wing for that.]

[longwhitecloud]

[Kiwi blinks in surprise at first and then grins and nods in greeting towards the bird.] My apologies, of course.

[And then green eyes wander back to Iceland, still smiling.] That is always a good thing to have.