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Persona ~ Alone at Sea (PERSONA WITH A BOAT 𓊝)

Fifth post is up. Post requirements are to get over to Verity + the guys and try to get some coconuts open. There are precisely 8 coconuts.

Persona ~ Alone at Sea (PERSONA WITH A BOAT 𓊝)

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Sofia's can-do attitude quickly melted the moment Imogen turned her fury onto her.

"I-I ah..." she stammered. "I didn't..."

She backed off, then looked around and saw Victoria and Frankie, looking slightly less shaken than before. She pointed into the trees. "Um, guys, I think I saw the boys find coconuts. Just... head over there, without screaming or anything, haha..."

There was still the matter of Maive and Imogen. Sofia knelt down slightly beside Imogen, head lowered.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. I'm just... trying to make sure everyone is okay." She looked over at Maive and touched a hand to her shoulder. "Hey, Maive, it's okay. Um. Let's try not to cry too much, okay? Your body needs those fluids. Maybe a coconut would help...?"

Persona ~ Alone at Sea (PERSONA WITH A BOAT 𓊝)

Fourth update is up. No post requirements. Whether your character listens to Sofia is up to you!

Persona ~ Alone at Sea (PERSONA WITH A BOAT 𓊝)

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Sofia sat up with a gasp, slamming her forehead into Daniel's face and leaving a rather noticeable bruise on her forehead.

"Aaaaaah! Okay! Okay. Everyone remain calm!" She hopped to her feet. This was her time to shine as group leader. How to Win Friends and Influence People said to get people doing something in times of crisis. "First, uh, let's get some water. We can't drink the ocean water, so maybe going inland a bit and looking for a stream would be the right choice. Um. Victor! Veri- oh, she's already... Okay. Victor! Daniel... and, uh, Orlando! Can you go with Verity? Just make sure she doesn't get attacked by... whatever the hell might be out there."

Sofia looked over and saw Frankie and Victoria… well, they didn’t look too great. And was that Imogen yelling at Maive? She had to step in!

“Hey! Imogen! Let’s, uh, maybe calm down a little, haha! No good to get our emotions all pumped up when we’ve got survival on our minds!” Sofia said in a sickeningly sweet tone. She had no idea what she was inviting onto herself.

星空 不朽 | Hoshizora Everlasting: Vae Victis

Don’t worry about it! Thanks for the honesty!

星空 不朽 | Hoshizora Everlasting: Vae Victis

interested!

Persona ~ Alone at Sea (PERSONA WITH A BOAT 𓊝)

Third update is up. No post requirements. You probably don't wanna go swimming, though.

Persona ~ Alone at Sea (PERSONA WITH A BOAT 𓊝)

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It was an island. A humid, hot, tropical island, complete with seagulls, coconut trees, and a bright, blue ocean to boot. The group had washed up on the sandy beach. They were wearing what they’d fallen in (or in one person’s case, jumped) with, except they were completely dry.

It wasn’t a very large island. One could almost make out the opposite shore through the trees. In fact, it looked almost as if one of those cartoon deserted islands had been placed right in the real world. There was no sign of the cold, grey English shore.

Something was definitely up with the ocean, though. Every time you looked at it, you could feel the start of a headache coming on. And if you were to swim at it for an extended period of time, well… You felt, in your soul, that it would be a very bad idea.

Sofia screamed and dropped to her knees, then promptly fainted.

Persona ~ Alone at Sea (PERSONA WITH A BOAT 𓊝)

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Whirls of blue and silver echoed through your mind’s darkness. It was cold, a sort of deep, aching cold, that permeated your bones and made you feel very very small. You didn’t know who you were.

Suddenly, the darkness disappeared, wiped away like raindrops on a windshield. You were flying over an endless sea, though fog surrounded you, restricting your sight. It was still cold.

You passed over something. A small, wooden life raft on the waves. On it was a man, hunched over at a desk, which seemed to be fixed in place, never sliding as the waves tossed the raft about. You couldn’t make out his face, looking down from above. He was dressed in black, and seemed to be examining a small object.

To the man’s right was another man, dressed in blue. He looked rather like a valet. He stood stock-still, just like the desk, never moving or sliding as the raft crested wave after wave.

You stopped flying. You fell towards the ocean, wind whirling past your ears. Just before your head hit the surface, the man in blue turned and made eye contact. He had one brown eye, and one golden one. You’d never thought the color of gold could be described as “icy” before, and yet this man’s golden eye seemed even colder than the ocean floor.

You hit the water, though you didn’t feel wet at all. Instead the darkness returned. The cold remained.

A haze descended upon your thinking…. You felt a warm presence, heating you up like a new winter coat. You felt your hands reaching out, grasping, but unable to hold onto the ethereal feeling.

Who are you? You asked.

I am thou… The presence replied.

The warmth increased, heating your heart, your soul up, more, more, more and more, until the heat was unbearable. You opened your mouth to scream, but the sound never left your lips.

Rather, you jolted awake to scream, and were instead greeted by a mouthful of sand.

Persona ~ Alone at Sea (PERSONA WITH A BOAT 𓊝)

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Whether by some twisted intervention of fate, or just sheer chance, each and every member of Sofia’s Icebreaker group ended up in the sea.

All the willing students stood at the edge of the dock. Verity prepared a relaxed stance atop the dockhouse. Then, seeing the tides shift towards actually doing what their group leader suggested, Victoria and Frankie rather let themselves be guided into position purely by social pressure.

Only Imogen remained in her opposition, not least of all because she hadn't come in any sort of swimwear.

"No pressure!" Maive said. "The only want-to-be after the first step is wet."

While her words didn’t do much to assuage Imogen’s worry, it was the heart that mattered. But good intentions can only do so much.

It may be worthwhile to examine what, exactly, the group was standing on. Words like “dock” or “pier” get thrown around in times like these, but the mental imagery they conjure up may not be accurate. It’s more accurate to describe the dock as a “floating piece-assembled rowing dock,” constructed of forty interlocking 1m² plastic panels that floated on the surface, allowing them to rise and fall with the tides. None of the students on the dock knew this, of course, but a few certainly did know something else: the dock was extremely slippery.

Maive knew this. It was part of her nature, the sort that observes every little detail in people and places, the kind that one develops after watching 7 young, energetic family members. What she hadn’t thought about, however, is how, by no fault of her own, her shoe soles had been worn smooth from years of use–courtesy of her background. And as Maive moved between Victor and Imogen, her shoes failed to find proper purchase on the sea-washed plastic.

And so she slipped. She slipped, and as one is wont to do while slipping, immediately reached out and grabbed for any handhold within reach. Which, of course, happened to be Victor and Imogen—who, in turn, slipped as well, all three crashing down onto their bums. Their combined fall, unfortunately, unbalanced the dock, canting it to one side, sending them into the water.

The chain reaction wasn’t finished yet, of course. Sofia, Frankie, and Victoria, surprised by the sudden shift, fell face forward into the ocean only moments after. Orlando teetered on the edge, his martial arts training serving him well, but only for a moment. He slipped backwards into the water, throwing a hand out—to Daniel, who had maintained his balance, only for the swimmer boy to grab it purely by instinct—thus yanking him into the water as well.

When all was said and done, only Verity remained dry. She’d watched the entire sequence play out to completion with great amusement, like a human Rube Goldberg machine. Then she, too, jumped into the water.

And as each student’s head passed below the surface, their thoughts slowed, their bodies relaxed, and their minds drifted off to sea…