Day Two

[diejoubu]

Day Two The sun begins to rise and cool morning comes. Early in the morning, there is a low mist coming from the forest but it isn't anything strange considering the environment. However, combined with how quiet it is. . . it does look kind of creepy. Fortunately, as the day goes on, it gets warmer and brighter. The mist dissipates and the birds begin to call out. The first few people to wake up might notice some things have moved around while they were asleep. The pots and pans that were left outside have been moved several feet away. Several bottles of water are missing from the cases and can be found scattered around the sand. The spring is calm and peaceful. It is quiet but not too quiet like it was last night. Status Weather: Sunny, clear, and very warm with a light breeze. Electronics: It is impossible to get any sort of reception on the beach. Any nation will a cell phone will wake up to find a message from the United Nations. Some nations might receive the same message more than once. It looks like someone tried to send the message multiple times to make sure it went through. Message: "do not make him angry again" Magic: Magic is not always effective today. For every five times you cast a spell, it might not work once. Otherwise, everything is normal. Animals: Normal on the beach. Any pets that go into the woods will stay close to their owners. Pets will become upset around the spring and staying around too long will result in the pets leaving for the beach. ???: Several bottles of water are missing from camp. They can be found scattered in the sand. The entrance to Tent Four was left open over night. The pans and pots have been moved. Day Two | Night Two Day 3 will go up 6 June

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[diejoubu]

( Mr. Puffin will eventually take off and head down the left path.

Meanwhile,

Exhale

Inhale

Breathing in

Breathe out

Smelling

Something will lick the back of Hong Kong's hand. )

[volcanoes]

[Iceland is now distracted from the map by Mr. Puffin's exit.]

H-hey! Puffin! Hey!

[This isn't a good sign at all. He's shoving the map haphazardly back into his pack.]

[bauhinia]

[ And Hong Kong is distracted from everything ever by the fact that something just licked him. He wheels around, as if looking for whatever it was.

He may have also just sworn in Chinese. ]

[diejoubu]

( Nothing is there.

But ever get the feeling you were being watched. . . ?

From the woods, several birds suddenly take off, also heading down the left path. )

[volcanoes]

[Iceland whirls around. He doesn't see anything, but...

He hears the birds take off. His voice drops to a whisper, suddenly.]

Left path. That's where the birds are going. [It's where Puffin went.] What's wrong?

[bauhinia]

[ Hong Kong straightens up when Iceland speaks, trying to regain his composure. He's fine. Everything's cool. An invisible who knows what just tasted his hand, that's all. ]

Nothing, it's fine. I just thought I felt something. You said left?

[volcanoes]

Yeah. We have to catch up with Puffin anyway.

[Down the left path! Well, once Iceland is sure Hong Kong is going with him.]

[bauhinia]

Oh yeah. He seriously flew off like that? [ Self-consciously wiping his hand on his shirt. He's coming! ]

[diejoubu]

( In the woods around them, they will hear twigs snapping. Something is running in the woods behind them.

The forest thins out, whatever was chasing them stops.

Iceland and Hong Kong will eventually find themselves back on the beach. From the looks of it, no time has passed at all.

Puffin will eventually return to Iceland though he is obviously not pleased at all with his owner. )

[volcanoes]

[He watches Hong Kong wipe his hand off with a bit of confusion.] Yeah--

[Iceland's throat closes as soon as he hears the twigs snapping, the sound of something approaching rapidly making any thought of having a normal conversation vanish.]

C-come on! [When Iceland ends up back at the beach he's going to be completely baffled, but for the moment he's just going to collapse on the sand.]

[bauhinia]

[ Hong Kong is ready to follow, but he still has his camera ready. If you come back, evil mysterious licking creature, he will get a picture of you.

In fact, when they reach the beach again, he almost seems disappointed. He looks behind at the forest for a second before he even acknowledges that Iceland's fallen over. ]

Hey, are you okay? [ He sinks to his knees opposite Iceland, camera in hand. His other hand digs around in his bag for his water bottle, which he holds out to Iceland. ] Here.

[volcanoes]

[Swallowing hard and grabbing the water, drinking some.] I-I'm okay. What was that? Did you see it? [There's a pause.] Where's Mr. Puffin?

[bauhinia]

[ He sits down properly, shaking his head. ] I didn't see it, but it was close. [ He's not keen to say how close. ]

He had to've been ahead of us, right?

[volcanoes]

Yeah, we were following him... Puffin! Puffin!

[He's rewarded for his worry with flapping wings and some stern pecking on the head. At least everyone is present and accounted for now.]

[bauhinia]

[ Hong Kong is secretly relieved to see Puffin too, but he doesn't show it. Besides, there are other things to address too. ]

That was definitely not normal.

[volcanoes]

Definitely not. There's something going on. [He looks out at everyone else, still sleeping and going through their morning routines. It's like they weren't gone at all.] ...How long were we gone?

[bauhinia]

[ Pulling out his phone, Hong Kong checks the time. ]

It's like we never left. [ Yeah, this is a Mystery all right. ]

[volcanoes]

We definitely did... [He looks back at the forest, suddenly uncertain.] We did, right?

[bauhinia]

Yeah. We definitely did. [ He pulls out his camera again. ] Hang on, I'll check the timestamps on my pictures. ]

[volcanoes]

[Iceland leans in a bit to get a look at the photos.] What should we do?

[bauhinia]

You want my honest opinion? [ He scrolls past the ones from last night, which show the dark shadow in the last few. ]

[volcanoes]

[That shadow seems more ominous now.] That's why I asked.

[bauhinia]

We have to get to the bottom of this. [ He's made it to today's pictures. Everything seems normal at first, until... some of them have the same weird distortions as before. ] Look at that.

[volcanoes]

Whoa. [He examines the picture and then notices the timestamp.] ...1565. [Iceland is pretty sure the photo wasn't taken in that year?]

[bauhinia]

Right, so either we traveled back in time or something's seriously wrong here.

And it's not my camera, this thing worked fine before I got here. [ He keeps scrolling. More of the same. ] Look, 1786. And this one's just a buncha zeroes.