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Island Adventure 2 (2020) [NOT CANON]
Brown, Nova, Splats, and Ernst join a reboot of Island Adventure 1, where they mysteriously wake up stranded on some beach, with no memory of how they got there.
In a similar fashion, they find their abilities debuffed, with their only weapons for defense found in the wreckage of the boat they shipwrecked from. Once they get their bearings, Splats attacks the first thing she sees, which is a crab. The crab alerts a swarm of crabs, all in a hivemind to form a giant crab. Brown climbs a cliff to get on top of the giant crab and defeat it, pulling out a golden crab controlling everything.
They barely recover from this fight, having sustained crucial damage and already low on supplies, right when another boss fight initiates, taking the form of a giant sandcastle that traps them within and assaults them with a volley of sand archers.
(The campaign ends here, due to player disinterest and scheduling conflicts.)
The Interrogation RPs (Summer 2020) [NOT CANON]
Splats instigates a fight with Pearl and Carrie in the shopping district, which is caught on CCTV and reported to the Guard force by a store clerk. Charlie and Claude (as a passerby) arrive on the scene and pin the girls down to take them into questioning. Claude spectates from a distance and calls in Ernst to help Charlie. All three girls make the situation worse by instigating more violence and resisting arrest. In holding, Charlie interrogates Splats first. She claims Carrie threatened and assaulted them first with a knife. She doesn’t like the idea of Pearl getting in trouble, though tells them to give her and Carrie what they deserve.
Skyber appears later that night to advise the guards not to go too hard on Pearl; Splats has been in this situation numerous times, but this is Pearl’s first time and is emotionally unstable.
Pearl’s side of the story is that she invited Carrie but Splats crashed the party, and only let her stay because she’s exciting to be around. However, Pearl admits to losing her nerve with the context that Splats openly cheated on her prior to their encounter. She asks the guards not to go hard on Carrie, but to give Splats what she deserves.
On Carrie’s turn, she argues that Splats insulted and instigated Pearl, and that she was only trying to help break up the fight. However, Charlie susses out that Carrie only behaved violently even after everyone was safely detained, and makes vague threats against Splats as he and Claude wrap up questioning.
Splats is seen talking with Skyber about the case about Carrie and Pearl. Skyber notes that Pearl does not act this erratically, leading her and Splats to believe Carrie might be influencing her. Charlie informs Splats she has the right to press charges, and she requests a restraining order, or at least a dorm change, from Carrie.
Oliver finds Pearl crying in the interrogation room, ordered to escort her to a holding cell. Being the most violent of the three in the fight, Pearl’s only regret is the fear of losing her friends over this.
Skyber’s BBQ Cookout (Summer 2020)
Skyber and Brown organize a barbecue cookout, where Skyber will cook steaks on the public grill while Brown invites everyone, bringing a cooler of drinks. Nova, Leaf, Abigail, and Lucas (meta-aware, self-prescribed hobo) all arrive.
Abigail brings a bunch of skinned rabbits, which Skyber throws on the grill.
Nova assaults people with pop culture references and shapeshifts into different animals for fun.
Skyber taunts Abigail that she can’t hold her beer after seeing her insult Brown for drinking one. Abigail takes this as a challenge, getting a can for her and Leaf.
Leaf immediately gets shit-faced, and Abigail starts shooting random beer cans with her revolver. Skyber looks away from the grill for one second and burns all the steaks into lumps of charcoal.
Lucas quietly removes himself from the scene. Nova falls asleep like this is normal for them, which it probably is. Leaf starts trying to eat Nova. Skyber takes the gun away and puts on ribs instead. Brown is done with everyone’s bullshit and judges all of them silently.
Jesse arrives to drag her mom away in a drunken stupor, apologizing on her behalf, though asking for her mom’s gun back. Skyber refuses, giving it to Nova for safe keeping and promising they’ll return it when everyone is sober again. Leaf passes out on the table. Everyone else leaves.
Rubber Ducks RP (Summer 2020)
Pearl gets the idea to prank Brown, and Nova plays along by suggesting they send something to his dorm. She settles on ordering 10,000 rubber ducks over Amazon, which wasn’t quite what Nova meant.
When Brown and Saki come back from class, they are met with their entire room filled to bursting with rubber ducks, and are forced to pick them all up themselves.
Saki is convinced that Brown was the one who puts the ducks there, and refuses to help, blaming him. Hugo helps (though not really), while Ernst ridicules from afar and Splats bullies them to their face.
(After this, the RP becomes unintelligible and non-canon with retconned characters, thus incompatible with the lore.
- Like seriously. Are we really supposed to believe Saki has an evil shadow clone named Gekido living inside him with the potential to destroy the entire school just because the bitch who dumped him made fun of him? Be so for real.)
Corn Maze (Halloween 2020)
Clyde sets up another scam not sponsored by ERA, this time in the outdoor gardens with his very own corn maze, with a $10 entry fee and a “$200” jackpot prize at the end. Lucas, Fraise, and Knowledge (now called Kay), are his first victims.
Through the maze, they begin to see and hear things, initially thinking it to be a clever trick. Eventually, they reach the end and find a glass jar on a pedestal, with only a piece of paper reading, “Gotcha!” written in blood. The students don’t really buy it, up until the part when the crazy chainsaw man jumps through the corn and begins chasing the group. Lily also appears as a ghost, with maggots bursting from her chest. As a last ditch effort to either escape or meet their doom, the three pick the secret, third option (violence) and tackle the chainsaw man. The illusion breaks, and the chainsaw, spiders (they came with the chainsaw), and the maggot ghost, all disappear.
The culprit in question, a small girl calling herself a witch, reveals herself and her illusion ability, apologizing for freaking everyone out so badly. The $200 turns out to be real, disguised as post-it notes, which Kay pockets without a second thought. The boys chase after Kay while SOL (plus the witch girl) shakes their heads.
Ping-Pong Championship (Fall 2020)
Brown and Kai help Ernst move a giant machine into his dorm while Splats watches to mock them, only for all of them to suddenly be knocked out and kidnapped by an unknown party. When they (minus Ernst) come to, several random ERA delinquents challenge them to a game of ping-pong for their lives (presumably, their true motives are never known). Brown, Kai, and Splats have no choice but to accept.
Kai goes first against a rather easy opponent, beating him almost effortlessly.
Brown goes second against a cheater who uses cheap tactics like moving the table and throwing sand in his eyes to win. Brown starts haggling points on technicalities, only for the cheater to cheat harder, forcing him to stoop down to his level and play even dirtier.
Splats goes third, against a seemingly unbeatable hulk of a man. She refuses to play, instead opting to just start beating them up. Brown and Kai join in the fight with no other option but to oblige in Splats’ senseless beating, and barely escape by the skin of their teeth. Charlie and Claude arrive on the scene an hour later, utterly confused.
Claude’s Mind – NON CANON (Fall 2020)
Ernst finally completes his new machine Brown and Kai recently moved in for him, which is able to project up to four people’s consciousnesses into the mind of the subject, and broadcast each persons’ POV from a computer screen. Brown, Kai, Pearl (his official new assistant)
Clunk, Claude’s youngest and stupidest clone, comes upon the machine and spontaneously volunteers to be the first subject. Ernst explains to the party that to get him out, they need to travel through his mind and fix what’s wrong.
Valentines Event (Winter 2021)
Splats decides now is the best time to dump Brown and also confess she’d been cheating on him with countless unnamed individuals this whole time. Brown, at this point, couldn’t care less, considering he never thought Splats was a good girlfriend to begin with.
Also around this time, Saki breaks up with Pearl, deeming her as “too crazy” to handle. Heartbroken, Pearl goes to Kay for counsel, only to end up in another relationship with her before she even leaves the room. Kay is just about confused at this as we are.
Professor Goldman, sensing his students bitter over relationships, sets up an extra credit socialization event for his students on Valentines Day, to which Phoenix advises he pairs them into dates to get them better acquainted. They hire SOL for their services, who turn their entire dorm into a restaurant, using their living room as a dining area, equipped with a piano and karaoke machine, and their kitchen as… a kitchen. Of which Lily is the cook.
The dates are scheduled, and the participating students are paired randomly:
- Kai x Pearl, with Clyde as the waiter. They have a genuinely good time with each other’s company and catch each other up on recent events. Pearl is still bummed about her breakup.
- Nova x Fraise, with “Alex” (Lucas in a mustache) as waiter. Nova gets existential with Fraise, which absolutely terrorizes him when they take him on a psychedelic trip into their mindscape.
- Brown x Nikki, with Phoenix as waiter. Brown notices the karaoke machine and invites Nikki to sing, but contradictory to her pop idol persona refuses on account of stage fright, leaving Brown to humiliate himself by singing and dancing alone, just to entertain her. Halfway through, Nikki stands him up and leaves the date.
- Ernst x Kay, with Charlie as waiter. Seeing things like a cardboard box, a PS4, and an Intel-i5 processor on the menu, Ernst and Kay order literally everything Clyde had in their kitchen just to call their bluff. They end up planning to use the items for spare machine parts and clothing designs anyway. Charlie eventually stops trying to tell them they can’t use any of the items because they’re all “cooked,” and quits when the guests start shouting at him about poor customer service and assaulting Lily, their chef.
- Jesse x Lucas, with Artemis as waiter. They eat a literal rock Lily made edible with her ability and get sick off it.
- Skyber x Carrie, with Sybil as waiter. Despite their long and “complicated” (one sided) rivalry, Carrie clams up around the dragon, and the conversation gets awkwardly quiet soon enough.
- Splats x Saki, Phoenix reprising his waiter role. Saki tries to get Splats to talk about her breakup, who continues to blame it all on him. Saki accuses her of sacrificing genuine relationships for cheap attention whoring, while Splats fires back that he’s so scared of commitment he’d rather neglect his partners (Pearl included) and drink and smoke his problems away. Eventually they apologize while crying.
- Leaf x Hugo, Sybil reprising her role as waiter. Leaf goes through the motions, being the only person to actually order real food, while Hugo commits to a rather uncomfortable bit of ordering a doggy chew toy and talking and barking like a dog too. The date ends abruptly when Leaf brings up his sister in conversation, and Hugo suddenly trauma dumps about his own sister abandoning the family to go to Florida.
Goldman collects his research with lukewarm feedback, still writing off the event as an overall success.
(There might have been one more date planned, but the event ended with players losing interest)
Gyssabel Mini-Arc (Spring 2021)
Joan is given a document by Charlie, listing an unknown teenage Electi intruder who had just been captured and sent to the holding cells. They find the intruder and question her, who introduces herself as Gyssabel, a witch from the British Isles.
- She had appeared on campus the Halloween prior, though had mostly stayed hidden aside from befriending the occasional student (Kay) and helping out SOL terrorize students for a corn maze scheme, using her illusion ability.
The guards get Oliver to talk to her, in hopes of better luck than cryptic comments about corn. After Gyssabel makes fun of him for being British, she reveals she “lived on a hill” but was abandoned and forced to leave for unknown reasons. Joan comes back and startles her, but plays it off and undermines Oliver’s sympathy, making him believe she was faking it to begin with. Gyssabel walls herself off again, pretending she doesn’t know what America is.
Charlie tries another attempt, this time bringing in Kay. After questioning her about the corn maze and last year’s Halloween event, he believes she’s their best bet to try relating to Gyssabel. When Kay is sent in, Charlie pulls Joan aside to discuss her wand, which Forensics had confiscated upon her arrest to examine. Seeing as it’s just wood, they decide to use it as leverage, figuring it’s the only thing she’s got left of home.
Though instead of a ransom, Charlie goes in and simply gives the wand to her as a sign of respect, dumbfounding Joan. Gyssabel uses her wand to impress Kay, and starts projecting her house in Scotland with her illusion ability, on a scale which she was previously unable to without the wand in her hand. She and Kay begin to relate to each other’s backstories, as they are very similar.
Joan, overhearing with Charlie from outside the holding cell, is disappointed they have no place for a child at ERA, and they’ll have to send her away again. However, Charlie decides to adopt her and take her in himself, despite the fact that Administration would never allow it.
Clyde then intervenes at that moment, hearing about Gyssabel’s return. Knowing that Administration will back down from SOL as the most dangerous individuals on campus, he proposes to veto their policies against keeping Gys, on the grounds that the guards will hold up the responsibility of raising her. They accept, and form a loose agreement to protect Gys despite their differences.
Charlie, Joan, and Oliver eventually sign adoption papers and give Gyssabel a refurbished broom closet to sleep in in the guard barracks. She also becomes good friends with SOL, occasionally shadowing them and their schemes.
Four-Scaled Clover Casino (Spring-Summer 2021)
Skyber finds Splats in the Underground, a network of tunnels, sewers, utility lines, and other chambers connecting underneath ERA. Splats has become an early ringleader of the emerging Black Market, a decentralized organization of student delinquents who smuggle items and contraband not allowed on campus. Skyber proposes she helps her on a new venture of building a casino under ERA’s nose. Splats accepts at first, though is wary that Skyber will just give the market unneeded attention.
Pearl, Lucas, and Leaf stumble upon Skyber at a local cafe and are hired by her to secure a spare fuse from the abandoned building for her power system. The prize money is however much the fuse is worth, plus a $100 service premium. Gyssabel crashes the party, getting to the fusebox first and tormenting everyone inside the building for the fun of it. When Gyssabel returns, she finds Skyber acquainting herself with Merla, who is short on music funds due to budget cuts. When the other three make it back empty handed, they demand Gyssabel give one of them the prize money, though she has already given it all to Merla, believing she needed it the most.
After six months of construction in secret, the casino is completed, and Brown and Lucas are the first invitees. Skyber disguises herself, changing form into a fake woman named Clementine, and leads them both through the shopping district, down an alley into a maintenance tunnel and hitting an auspicious brick in the wall. She requests both of them to recruit new employees to put under payroll, with real money instead of credits, hoping to fill out some work contracts she’s been compiling soon enough.
Lucas loses interest in the place fast, though not before getting Fraise involved because he simply lived the next door over. Brown fetches Kai and Leaf, thinking they would make dependable employees, given Kai’s tenacity and Leaf’s established relationship with her.
Pearl joins independently, recruiting herself as a card dealer, having known about the place this whole time, since she and Skyber were roommates (obviously).
Sometime during all of this, Sybil is invited to work as a bartender.
Lake Bob RP (Summer 2021)
SOL hosts another scheme for a quick buck, this time charging students $40 admission each out to a lake just outside campus grounds for an afternoon excursion to cool off. Clyde successfully invites Brown, Hugo, Leaf, Kay, squid-masked cultist Carrie, emo thug Kai, and absentminded slacker Lucas across the heavily guarded fence, where they are met by Bob and Lily just relaxing, with no hidden agendas for once. Nikki is also invited but refuses to join.
Brown goes fishing, but Carrie beefs with him over the ethics of it considering her “religion,” and Kai backs Brown up. Leaf and Kay sunbathe. Hugo, Carrie, and Lucas go swimming, and think they see a shark in the water only to find a half-fish Therian, Sybil.
Clyde finds an abandoned fishing cabin and decides to investigate, using Brown as a “meatshield for booby traps.” They find a golden fish taxidermied on the wall, and Clyde attempts to steal it, only to activate a hidden mechanism in the lake, launching a human-sized fish net that captures Sybil. While Hugo, Carrie, and Lucas try to get her out as Leaf and Kay watch from afar, Brown and Kai start beefing with Clyde over his blatant greed and disregard for others in the face of danger, Brown using the rock candy incident as evidence.
During their scuffle, they accidentally activate another hidden mechanism, an alarm system. They all decide not to investigate further and leave before the guards arrive.
The Room of You – Soft Canon (Spring-Summer 2021)
Kay and Pearl notice that their friend Hugo has been gone for a worrying amount of time and go to check up on him. When they get to Hugo’s dorm room, it is dark, molding and in complete disarray. Eventually they find his body, passed out and wilting away in the closet.
Hugo’s stalker named Kiyoki is also in the room, and tells the girls he has seen with his ability that Hugo’s mind has been infested with literal inner demons, withering his soul away.
Pearl and Kay take Hugo’s unconscious body to Ernst’s Dream Machine to delve into Hugo’s mind, known as “The Room.” Throughout their travels across the Room, they see cryptic imagery of Hugo’s thoughts and dreams, and run into several corrupted versions of themselves and their friends, Carrie, Fraise, and even Hugo’s parents, who have turned into monsters and demons by Hugo’s mind, due to fabricated traumas of minor inconveniences or inconsequential events his mind had blown out of proportion.
When they come across the Kay demon, Pearl gets the idea to kiss Kay unexpectedly, using the power of Love™ (as in, Kay’s flustered, panicked spike of non-consensual emotions) to overpower her gem eye and defeat the demon.
Already having had enough of this realm, they find a way to skip past a major section of the “final boss” tower that would have held them up with innumerable unnecessary trials and tribulations, by just levitating upward with Kay’s ability.
They find the real Hugo at the top of the tower, but also find a false, “evil” Hugo keeping him hostage. They have what is essentially a battle of the bands against the evil “Hugo” and with the power of Kay’s mom’s lute, Pearl’s ukulele, and Hugo’s guitar, they defeat him.
Hugo has a one-on-one talk with himself instead of killing this “evil” part of him, and mutually settling their differences. Kay, Hugo, and Pearl all make it out of the dream machine and leave for burgers.
Well into the future (Wildcard Emissary), Kay and Pearl realize the whole reason Hugo was mentally eating himself alive was triggered by Kay, his crush at the time, rejecting him for Pearl, who were dating at the time.
Ernst’s Whirlpool Machine (Summer 2021)
After their last misadventure making trips to Lake Bob too dangerous, Clyde settles for less and fulfills a promise to take Gyssabel swimming at the packed and crowded indoor pool. There, they meet Ernst, who is wading the pool looking for keys to power his “circulatory enabler” machine that would theoretically create infinite, eco-friendly energy out of water whirlpools.
Clyde gets an idea to set up a deal where he will help Ernst set up the machine and clear everyone out himself, seemingly free of charge. As Ernst gladly accepts the offer and leaves to retrieve his things, Gyssabel steals the keys with illusory sleight-of-hand and gives them to Clyde, effectively leaving the pool entirely to themselves while Ernst runs on a wild goose chase.
Ernst arrives the next morning, having Bob bring in the machine while SOL and Gyssabel enjoy the pool. Charlie watches from a distance.
Lily raises her concern about Ernst setting up the machine already, though Clyde assures her without his keys, Ernst’s efforts are futile.
Gyssabel starts to feel bad lying to the doctor for this long, and Clyde is starting to feel convinced the machine may actually work. Just to humor him, they return his keys, and Ernst excitedly turns it on.
It actually works. It works too well. It works so well, in fact, Gyssabel mistakes Ernst for that of a Norse God able to control water at his whim, and develops a strong fear of him while the whirlpool spins out of control. Ernst goes to turn it off, but the key is stuck inside the machine and cannot be pulled out.
Ernst almost falls inside the vortex, only to be saved by Charlie. He orders Bob to rip out the key and Clyde and Lily to clog the tubes making it pump water. To stop the whirlpool, Charlie throws himself in the pool to freeze over the water, then to evaporate it all away.
Collectively, Ernst and SOL rush to remove the core from the machine, only to find it has reached a critical meltdown and is doomed to blow. Bob takes the brunt of the blast for everyone, though Clyde is also injured. Charlie stops the whirlpool albeit almost drowning in the process. Gyssabel runs away. Charlie leads Ernst in for questioning while SOL goes to the infirmary for medical attention.