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[mansionstaff]

Who: You!
What: The Island of the Ancients
When: August 19th Onward
Where: ADVENTURE ISLAND
Warnings: Who knows?

After several days of spitting out monsters, the remnants of the subspace explosion spit out something else entirely.



The island, which is easily accessible by pretty much anything or anyone that can fly, floats almost directly over the school. It's (of course) crawling with subspace monsters, but there are ruins to explore. The island even has a bunker system of its own, which can be reached through tunnel entrances on the surface.

And it's here, perhaps, where the answers can be found.

((Catch-all log for any and all island exploration, mystery solving, and (perhaps) closing the rift! Please refer to the event post for more details, and feel free to contact a mod if you have any questions.))

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EXPLORATION

[voltecpower]

Pulse, true to his word, had stowed himself inside ROB's memory drive for the duration of the trip, seeing fit to save on space and weight in a circumstance where the availability of both was unknown. Once he was certain that his ride had touched down on the island and was clear of the aircraft, he emerged, seemingly appearing out of nowhere in a beam of light next to ROB, crouched down on one knee. He remained in that position for a moment, regaining his bearings in the humid atmospheric environment of the world outside cyberspace, reestablishing his orientation with his sensitivity to the Earth's magnetic field. Once he was sure he wasn't going to succumb to dizziness, he got to his feet.

He wasn't certain what their plans were from there on out; he looked up inquisitively at the rather tall robot suit containing a person he wasn't very familiar with.

"What next, ma'am?"

[powersuit_aran]

[[Since there's another thread with ROB in here I'm going to set this up so it's as flexible as possible--let's say this is Samus and ROB's subsequent excursion to the island and Pulse's first time, with Samus suggesting they split up just to cover more ground in a Samus-Pulse type thread. I'm also open to a Samus-Pulse-ROB thread if Jeff feels like popping in either with ROB physically or via electronic communication since we're all tech-savvy types of characters here.]]

[voltecpower]

[[I was a bit confused originally on how this would work with a group of characters all doing the same thing, but I'm OK with this approach. Lead on!]]

[powersuit_aran]

[[YEAH ha ha, honestly I was thinking everyone would come together in one thread but I don't think that was ever explicitly planned out. I'm okay with how the threads have fallen into place anyway; the multiple-people threads can get a little unwieldy sometimes, and when one person stops tagging the whole thread dies. I can roll with anything.]]

[powersuit_aran]

Upon landing Samus took a moment to scan her surroundings. This was a new, unexplored side of the island for her, one that didn't look quite so heavily infested by enemies from the sky. On land, there would only be one way to find out.

"Professor Hector's research lab is of course a goal, but I'm personally curious about these ancient ruins." It would seem handy to take someone like Pulse along to record and help analyze mission data as it happened. She would be a poor example of a bounty hunter if she didn't at least keep tabs on who was coming and going in Smash Academy. She knew of Pulse but, that said, Samus was not the most social butterfly and was fine keeping her personal life at a distance. That went for other's personal lives too.

Despite a fondness of ROB and innate urge to BIG SISTER be protective of him, By now Samus knew ROB to be plenty capable of taking care of himself. If help was needed it would be only one burst transmission away.

"Let's split up. Pulse you come with me. We'll rendezvous back here at 16:00 hours."

Any objections, robots?

[voltecpower]

Protect the lady in the robot suit, or protect the robot? Pulse was the only one there without an exoskeleton made of good strong metal. Then again, there were a ton of things he wouldn't be able to do if he had such armor, so he needn't worry about it.

Perhaps he was more concerned for the lady in the suit. He didn't know much about her, but considering how she seemed to need that suit for this situation, it was likely she would be somewhat vulnerable without it. And Pulse, who destroyed robots for a living, knew how fragile they could be.

Not that he actually thought ROB was fragile or anything, though. Plus, ROB was on familiar territory, here to locate a lab belonging to his creator. Who knew what was inside those ruins, though?

He's sticking with the lady in the suit.

"Yes, ma'am."

He dipped his head in a quick nod.

[powersuit_aran]

Samus would highly contest the need for protection if she was privy to Pulse's meta thoughts and commentary, but I digress. She's a woman with a mission now.

Without much further word she lead the way, calmly cutting a swath through tall grass broken only by pokemon velociraptor tails cobbled stone and trees. Soon the trees became more and more dense until then went from grasslands to forest.

It was quiet. No monsters yet. Samus was quiet too, and not much of a conversationalist, alas, and only glancing behind her or to the side to make sure Pulse wasn't lagging behind. At least she seemed to know where she was going.

[voltecpower]

Pulse was following right behind, noticing the change in the landscape as they advanced into the wooded area. He kept a weather eye upwards, remembering his experiences with robot birds swooping down out of the canopy, and half-expecting there to be some similar hazards in this world as well.

However, there wasn't much around to trigger his electro-sensitivity outside of the circuitry in Samus's suit. Because of this, he preferred not to follow Samus too closely, attempting to keep enough distance where her suit wouldn't interfere with his senses, but not too much that he didn't lose sight of her in the dense forest.