:[VDAY 2016]: Paradise Landing

[EvilSilverDragon]

With a dusting of a blush on her cheeks, Harmonia smiled at her charming Champion. "Indeed, there is just something about the moonlight when the rest of the world is asleep." Or not asleep so to speak, this was a Venus day party after all. Few slept right away.

Following along, she graciously accepted the open door, "Thank you." Without a care in the world, the Deity of Harmony entered the hotel currently unconcerned with rule breaking occurring outside.

Tartara Seabreeze

 

[Teigra]

Solely focused on the yellow unicorn fauny and his thoughts already straying to what they might do while alone in the jungle, Himeros had let his attention lapse on the general surroundings. Not that there would have been much he could have done to defend against what happened. It was the jungle; he gave little thought to a sudden, sharp pain in his neck. Darn bugs! Must be some massive mosquitoes out here.

Then a second. And a third. And a fourth. By that point, he'd started to feel a bit woozy, like a nap sounded like a good idea. Maybe right here...on the ground. His free hand reached up to his neck to see if what had bit him had left a bump. His hand returned to his cone of vision with a short, pin-like reed that he stared at blankly for a moment in confusion. Eyes rolling back, Himeros stumbled and slowly fell to one knee...then both...then one hand...

He felt Lemon Hearts' hand pulled away just as everything went black.

*****

The god began to stir slowly, the odd groggy feeling lingering for some time. He normally didn't have such trouble waking...wait, why was he asleep? Memories flooded back slowly, the pain in his neck, the darts, the sudden drowsiness, then blacking out. He was awake now at least, but still lying on his side on the ground, it seemed. From what it felt like at least. He couldn't see much with something over his eyes. Hmm, moving was awkward as well.

A tested movement attempt led to the realization that his hands had been bound behind his back. Himeros mumbled to himself, "Well, I'm willing to try anything once," with a hint of amusement. Then, he registered the collection of voices around him. Either Lemon Hearts had a new side to her he'd yet to explore...or something else was going on here. Interesting.

Before he had time to think on this further, someone had grabbed him by the shoulders and was shaking him while shouting hysterically. Mildly perturbed by the screeching in his ear, especially with the way his head felt, Himeros dropped his aloof air for a moment, showing no effort in the way he easily shrugged his shoulders free of Pelagios' grasp. The blindfold had shifted in the exchange enough to have risen up over one eye. Said cobalt orb blinked open and surveyed his 'attacker' for a moment before recognizing his twin's crazed, lovelorn stalker. Then, the sparkle of playfulness returned to his demeanor and Himeros smirked, leaning back and pushing lightly at the other's shoulder with his foot to put some distance between them. "Woah there, sugar. Before we get to all that, the safe word is 'banana', mkay?"

With the nymph at some distance, he had room to look around a bit now, at least with one eye. Himeros rocked back a bit, resting comfortably and seeming relatively at ease despite his bound position. Had something wanted to make sure he didn't escape? Silly notion though... There were a lot of Pae here, most looking upset or even panicked, and beyond...some sort of wall? No...a cage. The jungle surrounded them on all sides beyond and over to one side, he noticed some sort of small creature standing outside with a huge mask. What in the...?

Well...this IS interesting.

DaemonGabrielle

Pelagios

Quote:

Aaaaaand everyone else in the cage. XD

 

[Fea Line]

Even more friends!

And not just inside the cage either! There were so many more outside carrying EVEN MORE FRIENDS! "This jungle is so funny fun fun extremely! So many new friends to play so many new games!" the fae squeaked, forever oblivious to the fact that she was potentially in actual danger here. Her hands glued around the bamboo bars as they all came closer and pointed funny little sticks at her an the others. "Taggy tag sticks!" she blinked, a perpetual biggrin face plastered on.

But then they all started to leave! Was this also part of the game?! "More hidey go peek a booboo?" Prisma questioned, tilting her head as she watched all but one disappear back into the bushes. Dropping to her knees, Prisma reached a finger through the bars and poked the little critter. "Boop Extremely!" she giggled and did it several more times before waving frantically at it. Her arms dropped to hug her knees as she rocked on her tip toes from a squatting position. "Hiey hi hi hi there little bitty bit bit! Are we gonna play more games?!"
 

[Fea Line]

Well... she didn't seem mad at him. Rather opposite infarct. She seemed...worried? "Aahh..hah.. sorry. It was a rough party..." he coughed a bit, trying to clear his throat of any awkwardness (as if that even worked.) Though now that she mentioned it, getting out of the sun seemed like a good idea. The bright lights were hurting his eyes. "Though, I think I'd like to get out of the sun...yeah." he nodded, doing his best to smile at her as she looped her arm through his.

He walked with her slowly, for a few moments in silence. What did he say? What could he say that wouldn't end up with him putting his foot in his mouth? "Are you doing alright?" he asked...then mentally facepalmed. Of course she was, look at her. She looked like she was fairing hell of a lot better than he was on a good day. Happily married, kids of her own, no curse. Yup. Definitely much better.

Wait, wasn't there more pae here than before? Blinking, Pothos looked around confused a moment, not sure if he was imagining things or not. "Hadn't..." he began, then stopped. Maybe they all just went inside...or too the beach or somewhere else having fun like normal mortals do. Yeah that had to be it. He didn't feel Eris around, so she definitely wasn't here...

...right?!?!!

Dementia Requiem Asumi

Abby~

 

[Wolfs Heart]

Dysmas eyes narrowed as it became suddenly dark. That was strange, maybe the sun had ducked behind a cloud and it was just super dark because of the thick jungle cover. He could barely see the two pae who were with him. He squinted at the glowing light as Caine spoke about splitting up. "I don't think we should split up." Dysmas spoke, thinking about how impossible it might be to find each other again when they could barely see each other.

As it was, the harpy had already left them, and the young goddess was about to leave them. He was admittedly disappointed, the decent sized group he thought he had was quickly breaking up. Splitting up was a bad idea. But which way should they go?

It was so incredibly dark, maybe the glow up ahead was from some sort of glowing flower or rock they could use to get back on the right path. If they lost the path though... They would never find Sweetie, and what if Serenity was right about the glow being some sort of dangerous trap. He hated his choices.

Dysmas looked at Caine, what he could see of him. They needed light or else they were likely to get lost. "Let's go check out this light source." He said decisively as he started towards the light. "I'm coming for you Sweetie," he said under his breath.

Dementia Requiem Asumi

Caine

Tartara Seabreeze

Serenity

FA Mysteries

Dysmas is investigating the light

 

[Fea Line]

"Aaahh..." a contended voice sighed somewhere at the beach. Resting on a towel, body oiled to perfection, sunglasses protecting his eyes, bright pink speedo once again adorning his body, was Adonis. The flexing god of desire had made his way down to the beach for a moment of relaxation and sunbathing. Every so often he rolled over into a new position, stretching and flexing as he did so to make sure the sun reached him evenly on all sides. Couldn't just let one side get bronzed now, he had to do it all!

Sitting up, Adonis lowered his shades a little to watch the pae milling about the beach. Not as many as he thought, strange. Where had they all gone? And where was his lovely Venus? She had been strangely absent this party and he was starting to wonder what might have happened. "Perhaps my services are needed..." he mused to himself, standing up and picking up his towel. He made his way back to the disembarking area and glanced around. A strange tiny mask? Foot prints leading into the jungle? Something really was going on here...

... and they were doing it without him! "Never fear, I am on my way!" he said to no one in particular and followed the foot prints into the jungle. Maybe there was another party waiting to be started!  

[Teigra]

The night before had left Nyra pondering some strange feelings the next day. She didn't like trying to decipher...feelings...but she couldn't explain her own actions. Why had she acted like that? First, going up to some strange bird and saying all those nice things about her. Then, being possessed by the urge to mash lips together. Why? She couldn't explain any of it; it confused her, which in turn made her angry.

Clearly, it was all this plush luxury and free food. She was losing her hunting edge, her warrior's instincts! It was with relief that Nyra heard they were stopping somewhere and could get off the ship for a while. Good. She needed to stretch her wings. Get out of here for a while and get away from the weird feelings and things.

The open air was as welcoming as a warm kill on a cool night and the monochromatic bird soared into the heights as swiftly as her powerful wings could take her. Up, up, ever up towards the bright sun, then she slowed her ascent, seemed to hover for a moment, then dove towards the earth again. The rush of adrenaline made her feel alert and alive, and Nyra grinned wildly as the wind rushed past her face and around her. The ground came closer and closer, and only at the last moment, she flared her wings to skim lightly over the top of the jungle canopy. Her hunting instincts were alert as well and focused in on some kind of disturbance down on the ground. Shouty Pae. It wasn't until the screech of another bird cut through the air that she really started paying attention, however.

Was there a problem? Something about animals in the jungle...she'd heard that before leaving. Couldn't be worse than dark forest beasts, she reasoned. She could handle any regular tree beasts. Was there something down there? Something to be hunted? She welcomed the challenge, and it would be good to get this break and feel something squirming between her talons.

She hadn't seen any sign of her boys yet. Were they in trouble? They had a knack for finding it. Something darkened in her gaze at the thought. No one touched her boys. Her demeanor lost the joy that had come from the flight, filled instead with dark thoughts of what she'd do to anyone who dared touch her boys.

Nyra's eyes flickered towards a slight movement below and she tucked her wings, diving through the canopy for a better look.
 

[Dementia Requiem Asumi]

Sweetie had wanted to react to the insane pae's hug, but it had been over so fast she wasn't sure what the heck had just happened. She blinked, seeing more pae added to the cage. And then their captors showed themselves. That... That wasn't a good sign.

With the strange blue pae freaking out on one of the new arrivals, Sweetie found herself fending off a headache. It wasn't until the blue nymph had finally backed off the tied up new guy that Sweetie stepped forward. "Hold still, I'll get you out of these ropes" She asked, loosening the bartender's blindfold.

"I guess Banana?" Safe words were... Strange to her.

Teigra

Sweetie Drops -> Himeros

Caged Peeps

 

[FA Mysteries]

Once the flowers were plucked, a flurry of birds took to the air. They screeched as they left the area, leaving Lillibeth alone again. They apparently hadn't liked that Lillibeth had taken the flowers, but when inspecting them they looked fine.

As she continued, voices began to fill the air. She would break through the jungle and find a cage with the missing Pae- Mayu right in the middle of it with them!

Her victory was short lived, though, when a net gathered her up and hung her high in the air. Someone must have been expecting her! Now she was tangled up and unable to help- just another captive.

EvilSilverDragon

 

[FA Mysteries]

Dysmas and Caine would find themselves in a small clearing once they followed the light to the end of the path. Lining the clearing were mushrooms giving off an eery green glow. This gave enough light to see a path on the other side of the clearing, and the same paw prints traveling down it. Sad thing was, it was just as dark as the way they just came from.

The mushrooms seem to give off a decent amount of light. Perhaps those would work to lead them further on? Then again, what was making them glow in the first place? Should they even touch them?

Dementia Requiem Asumi

Caine

Wolfs Heart

Dysmas

 

[FA Mysteries]

It didn't take Adora long before she found the prints in a scuttle. They went this way and that as if whoever had left them behind had gotten into a bit of a fight. The prints went in all different ways, not giving a clear signal of where she was suppose to go.

Ahead a squirrel stared at her from a path. Its tail twitched as it began heading down it away from her before pausing to look back at her. Was it waiting on her? On the opposite end, a babbling of a brook could be heard. If she got lost it could be smart to stick to a water source.

What would she decide?

Tartara Seabreeze

 

[EvilSilverDragon]

The birds didn't phase her one bit, they got a look and she was off. Flying quickly with her bait in her hands. The same tactic continued as before, scratching the branches as she went. If the one following her continued, there would be clues as to the path she took.

In a moment, all her searching was rewarded! Mayu came into view and she almost shouted. The others caught her off guard, what were they doing there? The momentary distraction didn't help when she started to call out, "May-"

The net caused a squawk to escape her mouth as the net caught her. There was all of a pause before a storm of anger. Kicking her clawed feet as she struggled, her talons were out to scratch furiously.

Glaring down at the creatures, she considered her options. The flowers still in her hands were held close as a plan B.

FA Mysteries

Struggling in the net attempting to use her claws to tear through. Bribe standing by

 

[FA Mysteries]

ALL CAPTURED PAE

The little masked Pae hissed at Pelagious when he attempted to talk to it. The little one apparently didn't want to be talked to, and instead waved it's spear around in his face before leaping and spinning around to a rainbow Fae. How dare this Pae touch it! Wait, was it touching it some more!? It growled at her, trying to look very intimidating, before its ears twitched.

It turned around when the gathering returned. A pair were squabbling, coming up to the guard and bonking him on the head. He screeched and yelled in return to them. It seemed like something was wrong. They were pointing and gesturing towards the harpy of the group, before one headed for the enterance.

He removed a key from his belt, entering the cage with a mass of other behind him, all brandishing spears. They began to corral the Pae away from the harpies, and back them into the corner. A couple others went to fetch Lillibeth down from her net. All of the harpies had their hands and wings tied, anything to keep them from flying off or harming the masked Pae. The curious thing, though, was how they were regarding the harpies. Some masked Pae took their hands and pet it in apology, others began to dust them off.

They began to lead them out, making sure the other pae remained before locking up again. They posted a few of their comrades in front of the cage's door and a few around the cage as lookouts. It seemed like things were starting to get serious with the arrival of Lillibeth. Others were looking for them!

((OCC: THEY HAVE KEYS! Roll a 1d100 to see if your Pae can nab one! Any double numbers is a grab! (11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, 99) Even if you grab it, doesn't mean you should go barreling out of the cage, though! Looks like a few of them stayed behind and could easily over take you... Better be smart with this possible escape!))

THE HARPIES

The group of Harpies were lead just a few steps through the jungle and into a village. There was small huts made with thatch roofs and a mess of nets and spears everywhere. It was very lived in apparently. They weaved their way through till they were brought to a large hut in the back. Instead of a cage they were now released into a beautiful hut filled with pillows, water, bits to eat, and dim candles. Kinda romantic... If they weren't still kinda kidnapped.  

[Tartara Seabreeze]

Finally, some adventure! She kept a careful eye on the tracks, following them diligently and- SQUIRREL!

Her head snapped to follow the rest of her eyes, glossing over the battle scene. She could hear the water, and knew that was smart to keep close to as it would lead her back to the beach.

But it was a fuzzy. Squirrel. "Hey little guy...you want me to follow you?" She reached down to grab a stone where she carefully marked a tree with it. "Okay, I'll follow."

So she started walking after it, occasionally marking her way in order to have a lead back.

FA Mysteries

 

[Dementia Requiem Asumi]

"Don't be sorry for a small fact of life." He smiled, kissing her forehead. And then she went a step further to change what they were going to do. "What I'd like to do hmm?" He made a show of it, not really changing their course. "I think I'd like a nice swim in the waterfall~" He nodded, looking at her with a smirk. A swim did feel amazing. And that sounded almost perfect at that moment in time.

Nicky grinned, swinging her leg off him. "Lets go then Hot Stuff" She was getting off their tiny bed to get up and grab whatever little luggage she had. They were seriously stalling. She wiggled her rump at him as she walked.

"I have our bags, I think, lets get our butts down to the hot springs, spend some quality time alone~"

Tartara Seabreeze

Nereus
Junior

Caine nodded, agreeing with Dysmas. Splitting up really was a bad idea. As they hit the glowing light, he saw it was... Mushrooms? By the Guardian's light, that was weird. "Well, at least there's some more prints here?" He offered, trying to be optimistic of their very strange situation.

They didn't look like dangerous mushrooms,but what did he know of anything fungus related? That was his dad, and even then they'd be lucky if he actually knew. "I guess I'm gonna pick one of these up... We could use the light" Caine stretched his claw out, trying to n** one of the weird glowy mushrooms off.

Wolfs Heart

Dysmas

FA Mysteries

Caine is going after a glowing mushroom before continuing after the paw prints