Our Little Island

Jul 24, 2025 9:21 am
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Jul 24, 2025 1:43 pm
Parish adjusted his sailing cap and squeezed the Captain's pipe between his thin, froggy lips. "A fine day for sailing. We are ready to cast off our rizz and yeet our fine ship across the placid waters," he says, one webbed foot planted on the bow.
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Whoopsie: Try to be 'hip' and mess up in the process.
Jul 24, 2025 6:55 pm
Viv had been swimming around the inundated grounds of the B&B, at home in the newly underwater world. Her long hair flowed behind her as she examined the garden (where the Rabbits had all found little masks and snorkels to go with their little outfits), the soggy cardboard walls of Hey Kid Hotel (where the various Hey Kid clones were offering wet waffles to anybody who made it out there), and the newly reopened basketball court (where the balls all now bobbed about like buoys--she hadn't even had a chance to learn some sick b-ball skills from the newly arrived Bud Woodruff).

Lost in wonder as she looks down at the place now so like her lake home, she fails to look up in time to notice Parish's boat. Not until she bumps her head into the side of it! Oof! That wasn't there before!
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Whoopsie: Confuse "above" and "below" water.
Viv breaches the surface and looks up at the boat and its crew. "Are you guys, like, going sailing? Can I come? And bring my fishing rods?"
Jul 25, 2025 9:37 pm
Moon Prince's dark green wellies stepped onto Parish's boat. The person wearing them made some sort of military gesture... or at least what they thought that would look like. They were wearing a bright yellow rain jacket with one of those wide brimmed yellow hats.

In reality it looked nothing like how a sailor was supposed to stand to attention. "First mate, Prince, reporting for duty!" they said way too confidently and then instantly ruined the confidence by saying. "So, what's a first mate? Like a best friend, right?"
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Whoopsie: Embarrass myself with my own enthusiasm.
Jul 27, 2025 2:24 am
Amelie weighs the boat down as they board, tipping it considerably toward portside on the first step, then teetering it both ways on the next! "I do not mean to rock the boat," the maid-bot says apologetically.

Producing an extendable mop seemingly out of nowhere, the robo-maid volunteers themself for "swabbing the deck. What better way to set sail than in cleanliness?"
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WHOOPSIE! ⚡️ Refuse to diverge from my programming.
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Jul 29, 2025 5:59 am
"Permission to come aboard granted, Lady Niviana!" Parish says. "Or will you be sailing alongside us I wonder... Yes, a proper fleet we shall make!"

He turns to Moon Prince. "While I value our friendship more than any glittering pile of golden treasure, First Mate is a position that comes with great responsibility! You will ensure the safety of all aboard and assist in navigation, among other duties." He watches Amelie swab for a moment and then adds "And now that our poop deck is magnificently swabbed, we are ready to set sail! Raise the anchor! Man the focsle! Batten down the mizzen mast! Er... wait is that correct? It seems like an age since I last felt the spray of the sea in my face. But irregardless, full steam ahead!" He wobbles along the deck as it tilts precipitously (not from a raging sea) but from Amelie moving on it. "Now where did I leave that sextant..."
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Whoopsie: Bite off more than I can chew

Take a second token
Jul 29, 2025 12:39 pm
"Poop deck?"

Amelie vigorously swabs a little more.
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WHOOPSIE! ⚡️ Misunderstand ambiguity and nuance.
Jul 30, 2025 12:13 pm
Viv dives back down beneath the water, emerging again a few minutes later with her fishing rod and tackle box. She clambers onto the boat and smirks from behind her long, damp hair.

"So, uh... which way should we go?" she asks.

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Jul 30, 2025 3:56 pm
Amelie takes out a bottle of WD-41 and declares, "This is a good time to spin the bottle."

They spin the bottle.

The bottle points west, so Amelie’s answer to Viv is, "I suggest we go west."
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C2 is west of the center square, so I mean we go there.
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Rolls

1=E, 2=S, 3=W, 4=N - (1d4)

(3) = 3

Jul 31, 2025 12:18 pm
Assuming Parish agrees to the choice of direction, Viv nods. "Aye, aye, captain," she says, quietly tacking the sails to catch the wind and move the boat along. The sails flutter as the group departs the B&B.'
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Bingo: Quietly make things easier. Spending Viv's token.
Soon thereafter, the vessel arrives at a local landmark. The giant drive-in movie theater screen looms above the lapping waves that have overtaken Veilridge. Townsfolk have gathered in kayaks and rafts, munching on popcorn as they watch a B-movie marathon. On screen, Kevin Costner grimaces and glowers his way through a scene in the much-maligned film Waterworld.

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Jul 31, 2025 1:12 pm
Amelie glances at the unfamiliar movie and quickly gathers information for conversational purposes. "This is Waterworld, best known for its notoriously troubled and expensive production and on-set clashes between the director and star, both of whom bear the given name Kevin. The most surprising part of this film is—"

Heads on kayaks turn to the robo-maid, with narrowed eyes and contorted frowns.

⚠️SPOILER ALERT!

Fortunately, the multitude of vexed expressions triggers Amelie’s spoiler alert. They seamlessly finish their sentence with a tactical pivot: "—yet to be seen, but I am sure you will ooh and/or ahh at the great reveal. Please enjoy the show."

Aside from a couple lingering exasperated stares, heads turn back toward the screen.
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BINGO ⭐️ Anticipate and avert a potential mess.
Aug 1, 2025 5:47 am
During one of the dramatic action scenes, Parish gets quite excited and leaps onto a nearby raft. He grabs the paddle and dives into the water, ready to do battle.

"Sea monster!" he yells just before going under. He swims and thrashes beneath the surface, splashing several movie goers in the process as he swims about, thwacking drive-in speaker boxes.
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Whoopsie: Lose track of reality while caught up in a flight of fancy.
Aug 1, 2025 7:17 am
Moon Prince watches all of this going on. They are extremely interested in figuring out how humans like to spend their time. "A movie about something that scares you? Can we stay and watch?" They ask the other crewmembers.

However, it seems that one of the organizers of the event heard them. A woman with a neat looking outfit and a ticket-punch gadget arrives in a small dinghy. "Uhm, excuse me. I couldn't help hearing you'd like to stay for the movie? You'll have to pay the entrance fee then." She says, pointing to a sign stuck to the small boat which displays the price.

Moon Prince checks their pockets, which are of course empty. "Uhm... Well... You see..."
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Whoopsie: Forget about Earth money.
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Aug 1, 2025 3:29 pm
Amelie’s response to having to pay is, "This is a Drive-In, not a Drive-Through." For clarification purposes, they add, "We are -Through."
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WHOOPSIE! ⚡️ Get passive-aggressive about it.
From the ticket-lady’s awkward stare, the maid-bot sure hopes Parish keeps moving the boat..!
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Aug 2, 2025 5:11 am
Emerging back onto the boat, Parish flops a sack full of soggy rolls of quarters onto the deck.

"Perhaps this sunken booty will suffice to assuage yon upset usher and secure our spot so we might espy the finale of this intricately plotted masterpiece of waterlogged cinema?" he says as he grabs a handful of rolls and tosses them at the ticket punching organizer.
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Bingo: Rescue someone else from peril.
Aug 4, 2025 7:48 am
The ticket-lady counts the moist coins and finally nods. "Alright, you're in."

Viv seems disinterested in the film's conclusion, casually casting her line into the water hoping for a nibble, though none are forthcoming. Eventually, the film ends, and the audience breaks into tepid applause and a chorus of "meh"s!

"Where to next?" Viv asks.

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Aug 4, 2025 11:46 am
Amelie, who found herself engrossed in the movie, replies, "The map on Enola’s back points north." Being a robot, they self-correct, "Up.

"‘Up’ looks like ‘north,’"
she adds.
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B2. (I wonder if B2 happens to be dry land.)
Aug 5, 2025 5:01 am
"An astute observation, second mate! Now hoist the mainsail and bring her around to starboard! The high sea awaits us!"
Aug 5, 2025 8:31 am
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Somebody will have to do a Bingo to sail the ship to the next location. Once they do, you'll see the following:
Following Amelie's advice, you steer the ship north from the movie theater through the flooded town. Ahead, another large landmark looms: the bell tower of the Veilridge library, protruding from the water like a breadstick in an endless bowl of minestrone...

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Aug 5, 2025 9:24 am
Being the first mate, Moon Prince gets right to it! "Uhm.. This one is the main sail, right?" They say pointing to the big sail. "Right. I'll hoist while someone turns it the right way." They start to whistle a tune to make the work even more fun.

"You know what? I think I'll call it the moon sail from now on." They chuckle as they winch it up to catch the wind.
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Bingo: Make myself useful.
Aug 5, 2025 1:37 pm
Amelie marvels at the sight of the bell tower protruding from the water.

"Why do I not take a picture so it will last longer?"

Amelie uses her drone-cam to take photos from different angles.

"Say minestroneeeeeee…"

The drone-cam snaps a shot of the boat passing the bell.

"And now for a point-five—"

The drone cam moves toward the bell…

🔔BONG

"Whoopsie. Too close."
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BINGO! 📸 Look closely with your zoom lens.
Aug 6, 2025 10:26 am
As Amelie snaps pictures of the tower, Viv sits on the edge of the boat and casts her fishing line into the water. After a bit, the hook snags on something. "Oh! A bite?" she asks, eagerly reeling in her line. Once it clears the water, it quickly becomes apparent that she's snagged one of the library's books instead of a fish.

"Hmm... Is this quality literature? It seems a bit... immature... Though I do like all the sports it seems to feature."

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Whoopsie: Dredge up something best forgotten. In this case, a very dated "humorous" book from the mid-1990s.

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Aug 8, 2025 10:53 am
Amelie wonders if the sea breeze is a bit much for a prince whose castle always faces the sun. She uses her pyromancy for warmth.
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BINGO 🔥 Start a warm and comforting flame.
"Where to?" Amelie asks the captain and first mate.
Aug 8, 2025 3:36 pm
"Chart a course around yon tower. One of our quests may yet lie to the North" he calls out to the crew.

As they set about directing the boat, Parish flips through the book Viv fished out.

"Preposterous! Where is the chapter on courtly etiquette and honorable duelling?! And why is there so much minutiae on acceptable physical contact between men??"
Aug 8, 2025 6:19 pm
"Aye, aye, captain," Viv says as she quietly eases the sail boat's passage north.

You sail on, approaching the northern edges of Veilridge. Suddenly, a flotilla of ramshackle vessels approaches: an shopping cart lashed to inflatable pool toys, a pirate ship cobbled together from lawn furniture and duct tape, and a suspiciously buoyant fridge door serving as a boarding raft. At their helm stands a grinning, glitter-dusted fey rogue with a plastic trident and a crew of equally mischievous sprites, all armed with stolen Nerf guns and an alarming amount of craft store gemstones.

"Avast, landlubbers! Prepare to be mildly inconvenienced!" the fey pirate declares!
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A hazard appears! We each lose a token to navigate the danger. Amelie and Viv are out of tokens so they must do a Whoopsie about it instead.
Aug 8, 2025 6:28 pm
Amelie dives in front of the captain! She says, "No0O0o0O0o0O0o0O0o0O0o0O0o…" in a very deep voice while blasting her vacuum arm in reverse to keep herself afloat in the air as she passes Parish is slow motion.

Dozens of tiny chartreuse Nerf cylinders strike Amelie! Some bounce off the maid-bot; others cling to her by their neon-orange suction cups.

"Oh. You got me."

Amelie reaches for the sky, but doesn’t play dead so no one will be fooled by her acting (which Demi says is "not bad").
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BINGO ⭐️ Download a new skill via floppy disk.
Aug 8, 2025 7:08 pm
"Oh my moons!" The Moon Prince says when they see the approaching vessel. "You all have such amaaaaazing guns! I absolute LOVE that color." They are so enthralled by the glitter and cuteness of this ship that they don't even notice Amelie get riddled with darts.

"You have to tell me where you got those star stickers. And that sign post of a whale. I've never seen that before!" Hopefully the pirates will be nice people. "I come from the moon, you know. I have so much knowledge about the stars I can share with you guys."
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Whoopsie: Try way too hard to make someone else like me.
Aug 9, 2025 5:46 am
As Amelie goes down in a hail of foam darts and Moon Prince engages the fae pirates in diplomacy, Parish quickly pops below decks to emerge a short time later carrying a tray brimming with tall drinks of shimmering purple swirls, each with a bright green leaf on top!

"Would anyone like a drink? Sailing is thirsty work! I call this a Moonpetal Fizz. Moonpetal nectar, sparkling starlight water, blackberry dew, and a sprig of fresh mint. Please, take one!" he says, passing glasses around.

He winks at his crew and whispers to them, "Not to worry! They are non-alcoholic to keep this delightful detente civil."
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Bingo: Lift everyone's spirits with the perfect drink
Aug 11, 2025 6:42 am
Viv simply yelps and scurries away from the edge of the ship. She ducks down low and tries to make herself small, her long hair covering her face.
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Whoopsie: Hide behind my hair.
Aug 11, 2025 6:48 am
The fey pirates' aggressive demeanor quickly cools off as Parish offers them some tasty refreshments. They sip the drinks and chat amiably with the Moon Prince about all of their favorites shapes: hearts, stars, horseshoes, clovers, and blue moons.

"Hey, you guys are alright. Sorry about the darts," the lead pirate says to Amelie. "Perhaps we'll meet again on stranger tides..." They wave and gesture, and the makeshift fleet sails away!

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Aug 11, 2025 2:07 pm
Amelie replies to the fey, "It was all in good fun."

She takes a picture of the fey enjoying their drinks before they take off.
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BINGO!
📸 Look closely with your zoom lens.
Aug 11, 2025 4:43 pm
"Oh, Amelie, you are covered in darts!" Moon Prince comments, now suddenly seeing the result of the attack. They put aside their drink and head over to help. "Here, let me help you get rid of them."

A bunch of ooh's and ahh's and whoops' can be heard while they try to get Amelie back in tip top shape. After a few minutes the result is that both Amelie and Moon Prince are cover in about half of the darts each. "Sorry Amelie, I don't know what I did wrong. These things are REALLY sticky!"
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Whoopsie: Mess up something I thought I could handle.
Aug 12, 2025 4:35 am
"Enough sea monkeying around, stout shipmates! The open sea calls and I intend to answer. Let us make for the west! Erm, which way do I turn the wheel to go west... Ah yes, it's this way!" Parish says as he proceeds to grab the wheel and turn the ship to sail east instead!
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Whoopsie: Blunder headfirst into a terrible mistake
Aug 12, 2025 10:35 am
Viv wonders if she should tell Parish he's going the wrong way. Surely he would appreciate the help. But isn't it mutiny to countermand the captain's orders? Would Parish make her walk the plank? Does this ship even have a plank? And does it matter when she can swim and breathe underwater too?

Caught up in indecision, Viv simply says, "Aye, aye, captain," and helps ease the ship's passage again.
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Whoopsie to get a token and Bingo to move the ship.
Aug 12, 2025 10:38 am
As the sailboat moves east along Veilridge's borders, something floats by. It looks like a Wilson brand volleyball with a red handprint on it...

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Aug 13, 2025 11:15 am
Amelie exclaims, "A ball. What potentially wholesome fun."

She uses her vacuum arm to reel it in, and her sponge arm to make it shiny.

https://i.imgur.com/ikAFxvi.png"There, clean as a whistle," the maid-bot says of the now-faceless ball.
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WHOOPSIE! ⚡️ Sweep up something that needed to stay put.
"Cleaner, in fact. Whistles can never be germ- or odor-free after use. The only way to truly clean a whistle is to melt it down and start over."
Aug 13, 2025 5:32 pm
Moon Prince, still standing next to Amelie and still covered in dots, asks her a question. "Can I have that for a second?" They take the ball from the robot maid and turn in around, looking at every angle. "Wow! I reminds me of my home." They smile. "But it's so well made! Those lines just seem to work together perfectly. Who created such an engineering marvel?" They ask nobody in particular.

"I wonder if it has a moon bounce!" They say as they chuck the ball at the ground. Unfortunately, it hits a ledge and bounces off the side of the boat again. "Oh no! Quickly, Parish, Sail that way!" Moon Prince points south.
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Bingo: Question or Examine something earthlings take for granted.
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Aug 14, 2025 2:51 pm
As the bright, freshly whitened ball careens overboard, Parish turns the wheel hard to follow the ball South. But the prow of the boat surges water forward and pushes the ball forward as well. Unwilling to let the ball elude him, Parish grabs a BBQ fork and throws it at the ball like a harpoon, heedless of the danger of popping it!

"Avast! Full speed ahead, lest this white Wilson evade us and be forever the 'one that got away!'"
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Whoopsie: Refuse to let go
Aug 15, 2025 12:26 pm
You set sail after the volleyball, but a strong current quickly carries it away and out of reach. Perhaps you'll find it again...
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Whenever we leave a place with a "?" we put it face-down again and swap it with another face-down card, if any. Swapped it with the card to the right.
For now, though, you can see the B&B rising up in the distance ahead of you again. And between you and your home, an enigmatic obelisk looms large--the Ptisilith, last seen rocketing off into the sky in pursuit of fireflies! The strange rock seems inert, the runes adorning its surface dim, the hum it emits even lower than usual. Maybe it is sleeping. Or waiting...
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