MarinaNova Asylum

[So, it turns out that the museum has a gift shop!]

[And it is full of the cacophony of vibrating devices turned on high and set free to wander throughout the shop.]

[Cain just happens to be in Sector 5 at the same time. He's walking along with the air of perfect nonchalance, accompanied only by his dog.]

[Who now has a vibrating chew toy.]

[ Terezi's voice is very serious. ]

Dearest inmates of the underwater prison-resort known as Marina Nova!

It has recently come to my attention that no one has done a formal investigation of the dome. As a legislacerator, this is something that I simply cannot allow to pass. If you think I am suggesting a full blown investigation, you just might be onto something.

In particular I would like to highlight the forbidden sector. The possibilities for what is inside are endless.

[ And now you can hear her grin. ]

It could be some poor child's lusus locked up all alone, a ticking time bomb, a fantastic wonderland made of candy! Who the fuck knows. It is extremely important that we find this extremely important fact out.

I will be leading and directing the investigation. If you would like to join in, show up at sector 0, by the request kiosk. I'm a troll, something different than most of you squishy humans, so I should stick out.

[ ooc: Action thread for investigation (if anyone is interested) is right here! ]

[ It was rare, but sometimes Ventus was struck with large pangs of homesickness. He woke up, staring at the ceiling, wishing he was back at the Land of Departure, that Eraqus would be waiting for him outside to start training and Terra would be yelling at him to get up while Aqua scolded him in her quiet way. He missed all of that. Especially since he knew it wasn't going to be that way if he ever went back. They had moved so far beyond that...

So he got up, heading out, and went to the beach of all places. He plopped himself down in the sand.... and began making a sand castle.

Yeah, a sand castle.

He was trying to replicate The Land of Departure, with its high hills and little springs and bridges, with its architecture that would boggle the mind of really anyone else. He wasn't doing a wonderful job of it (it tended to look more like an oddly spiked lump than anything), but he was getting the basic idea. Yeah it might seem silly and childish, but sometimes even teenagers have to do these things to work through the pain of loneliness.

He had to smile though, as he carved out three stars to the side.

He was never really alone, just far away....]

Oh come on!

[He frowned as a sudden wave knocked down the east half of the small world and sighed, scuttling around to begin building the cliffs once more.]

[ This house arrest thing is actually starting to get on Dirk's nerves. Sure, it's qualitatively not that different from how he'd lived prior to arriving in Marina. Just with fewer robots to tinker with. And fewer friends to talk to. And with a sinister plot to unravel that he can't even begin to get at while he's locked up in this little apartment.

So... okay, it's actually pretty different.

At least the food's better.

And he's always got the headset to harass people with. ]

Scheduling a display on fucking vibrators while I'm locked up inside? It's like you know just how to break a guy's heart, wardens.

[ Private to PM ]

Were you serious about that offer to come by? I don't have much around here to entertain guests with, and if you're busy I don't want to inconvenience you, but if you did want to I'm not gonna say no.

[ Because he's just not going to admit that it would actually be nice to see someone in person. He... actually hasn't talked to anyone face to face since he's arrived. ]