The Island of Castaways // Mixed Universe Survival // O&A

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The Island of Castaways  

~ A Mixed Universe Survival RP ~  

In a faraway land, there lies a strange island full of magic and mystery. The populace of this strange place is very diverse - it is made up of creatures from different worlds and time periods. Almost no one knows about it except for its inhabitants. For the inhabitants, they arrive suddenly and abruptly. Every now and then, someone will randomly appear here. It can happen anytime - while sleeping or while just going about a casual day. Once an inhabitant arrives, they are stuck. So far, nobody has discovered anyway to leave the island. Due to its nature, residents have come to call this place the Island of Castaways.  

Will you survive?  

About the Island  

The Island of Castaways is a place full of diverse life. If any creature that isn't a castaway is found, that creature will almost always be some type of odd hybrid (ex. A cross between a cat, a snake, and a horse). These creatures usually possess magical abilities that range in potency. Some are not very harmful while others are dangerous. If killed, castaways can eat them. Plants are another source of food for castaways. However, plants are not always safe to eat. While some do no harm, others can cause something to happen (ex. Causing the one who consumed the plant to turn invisible for a day) or make whoever ate them sick. Sentient plants exist on the Island of Castaways, though they are very rare.  

The island is mostly made up of forested terrain, with a combination of coniferous and deciduous trees. In the center of the island, there is a small mountain range known as the Mist Peaks. In the northwest corner, there is a large lake. Certain fish can be caught in the lake. 
 
Map Key: Blue = Water, Light Green = Deciduous Forest, Dark Green = Coniferous Forest, Points = Mountains

The Island of Castaways is said to be a universe in itself. Creatures from different worlds and time periods are thrown onto this place. However, the same character cannot appear twice at the same time.  

No matter how long you are there, castaways do not grow older on the island. Even so, you can get hungry and tired. It is also possible for you to be hurt or even killed. There is also no seasonal cycle. The Island of Castaways seems to be stuck in an eternal summer. However, the weather will change and the temperature will go up and down. Along with this, days and nights pass.  

If a castaway can teleport or fly, they will still be unable to leave. If they try, they will find themself in a random place on the island. However, castaways can fly or teleport around the Island of Castaways. 

No matter what language characters speak in their original worlds, everyone on the Island of Castaways can understand one another. 

Rules  

- Follow all forum rules.  

- Creatures can be from anything, whether it be a movie, video game, book, or TV show. OCs are also allowed. Characters don't have to be human! You can roleplay cats, dragons, or any other creature you want to! 

- As part of the above, make sure that your character’s abilities aren’t overpowered. Diluting abilities/powers is fine. If you are unsure whether about your character is acceptable, don’t be afraid to ask me!  

- Keep everything child-friendly. If things get too violent, use skip or take it to PM.  

- No perfect characters/mary-sues. Make sure that your characters have at least one flaw. If you are unsure if your character is a mary-sue, don’t be afraid to ask me!  

- No god-modding.  

- Please try to stay active. If you don’t post here for a few weeks, your characters will be considered ‘missing’.  

- If you plan to hurt or kill another person’s character, please ask them if it is okay before doing so.  

- There is no limit to how many characters you can have, though only RP as many as you can handle.  

- Don’t steal this RP.  

- Last but not least, have fun!  

Joining  

If you want to join, please fill out the form on the joining page. Once you post your form(s), you are free to start role-playing.
Link to Joining Page

Weather In RP
[x] Sunny
[] Mostly Sunny
[] Partly Cloudy
[] Overcast
[] Foggy
[] Light Rain
[] Medium Rain
[] Heavy Rain
[] Thunderstorm
[] Snow (Extremely Rare)

Time of Day
[] Dawn
[x] Early Morning
[] Late Morning
[] Noon
[] Early Afternoon
[] Late Afternoon
[] Evening
[] Midnight
[] Late Night
[] Foredawn

It is currently around 50 degrees fahrenheit. It is expected to get to 65 degrees by mid-afternoon.

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(86 - Tagging you since you showed interest in this.)

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(I'm going to post starters to get everything going.)

Shade awoke the sound of birds chirping. "Sure is a nice morning, isn't it, Cyl?" he stated, giving a yawn as he lifted his head. It was quite an odd thing to hear birdsong inside of the cave, especially with the chatter of other dragons. Shade himself was an early riser, though some of the others were awake even before him. However, the usual conversations were not present this morning.
The Dark Myst Pygmy opened his eyes to look towards the area where Cyl usually slept. However, the Copper Dragon wasn't there. Plus, Shade found that he wasn't even in the cave. Instead, he was in some type of forest. "Not those Misfits again," Shade said to himself, rolling his eyes. He assumed that this was just another prank that the Misfit Pygmies were playing on him. He had been pranked by them multiple times before.

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Thorn woke up to the glare of morning sunlight. They got to their paws, letting out a yawn as they stretched their legs. Planning to due to the usual morning check, they went to look into their inventory. However, it was missing! A few moments later, the spotted cat noticed that they were not in their den. Instead, they were in the middle of a clearing in a pine forest.
What in the name of the Forest Guardian is going on? Thorn thought, continuing to observe their surroundings in disbelief. They tried to use their Warp Home skill, though it wasn't working. It was extremely peculiar, as it hadn't been on cooldown.
Letting out a quiet sigh, Thorn decided to start walking through the forest. Possibly they could find a mouse to snack on for breakfast.

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Cynthia woke up to find herself laying on a small beach next to a lake. As she sat up, she noticed that there was some type of forest surrounding her. Her first thought was that this was some type of training exercise, though she had been in her room when she went to sleep. Have they gotten even more ridiculous? she wondered, letting out a loud sigh.
Getting to her feet, the young woman realized that she was covered in sand. Cynthia spent a few minutes brushing off some sand tha had stuck to her clothes. Even so, she was pretty certain that she hadn't gotten all of it out. Looks like I'll have to take a shower once this is over, she mentally noted. Placing her hands on her hips, the young woman let out another sigh.

[Cinder]

(Welcome to the RP, Aaiknn!)

[Shortee]

North opened her eyes to a sunny morning. She was laying down in the grass, surrounded by trees. That's when reality hit. She didn't live in a place filled with trees! Her kingdom was in a land of snow, her den being underground to avoid the cold. Her blue gaze traveled around her, wide and uncertain. Where was she? She looked down and saw her boots, once again confused as to why she was in her human form when she fell asleep as a wolf. She stood up quickly and wiped off the dust from her dress. As she took a few steps forward, she materialized into a white wolf. It wasn't great for camouflage, but she felt safer this way. She walked around the area, nearly silent as she took gentle paw steps. Who else lives here? And why would they live here? It's too hot!

[Aaiknn]

Eleanor’s large head lifted up as she awoke from a night’s sleep, then took a deep breath to refresh herself. “Hmm? The air smells a bit odd? It feels cooler than my cave?” she wondered and stayed still to listen for the usual sounds of dripping water and echoes of bat cries deep in her cave, but instead, she got a continuous rustling sound and a few abrupt chirps. The dragon then realised with shock, she was not in her home, or even a cave, but a foreign place with trees around. “Where am I? I live near a prairie!” she gasped and jolted up onto her wings and legs, bumping into and breaking a tree branch on top of her the whole time. The green wvyvern moved away from her spot and gave her head a shake while mumbling.

(Thanks, Storm)

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Deciding to take the usual morning routine, Shade got up and began to fly through the forest. Possibly, he would stumble across his lair with the other dragons. Either way, it was good to have a stretch of the wings.
As he was flying, the Pygmy noticed something white beneath him. Alighting on a tree branch, he decided to take a closer look. From this angle, he realized that the creature beneath him was a wolf! "Strange. I thought those only lived in the Alpine," Shade said to himself.

[Shortee]

North looked up up when she felt a gaze on her back. She turned around sharply, expecting to face another wolf, but was greeted by a winged creature. Her blue eyes widened in shock. She had never seen such a thing before! Quickly, her expression turned neutral. Immediately, her mind turned to that of her normal power-hungry approach. It has no idea of my powers, take advantage of this. "Hello there. Who and what might you be?" It would be good to have it on my side, even if it's not that big.

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Out of surprise, Shade hid his head behind the leaves of the tree when the wolf spoke to him. After a moment, he cautiously peeked out again. "My name i-is Shade, and I a-am a Dark M-Myst Pygmy. Where in Valkemare are we?" he asked, stuttering every now and then. He was shy when it came to meeting new dragons, but a talking wolf? This would definitely take a while to get used to.

[Shortee]

North eyed the thing curiously. "A Dark Myst Pygmy? I've never heard such a thing." She was a little surprised when the creature didn't ask her name, so she decided not to say it. "I woke up here, and I'm guessing you did too." She started to walk away, clearly meaning business. "Stick with me, Shade. We'll be safer together than apart." 

[Aaiknn]

After a quick sweep with echolocation and her tail, Eleanor concluded her whereabouts was a forest with vegetation sparse enough to walk without having the need to make a sound every step or have her tail rubbed swollen. "I wonder if I dream-flied, then maybe instincts will tell me the way home," the large reptile decided and began travelling to wherever her gut told her to, with a few reference to sounds most alike to ones near her home.

The wyvern walked a path that twisted back and forth like vines that shifted towards the north, that unfolds to twice or even thrice the actual distance she had gone. She felt exhausted and worried if she was treading further away from her cave, but caught new sounds, something that seemed telligible and not the chirping of birds or other animals. "Is there someone?" the dragon wondered, "And would that be friend or foe?" Eleanor flicked her dark tongue in thought, she would prefer spending time alone, but perhaps asking someone for directions would be good. "Maybe I should get closer to investigate, then I'll decide."

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"Yes, I woke up here as well," Shade stated. Apparently he wasn't the only one. Does that mean the Misfits didn't cause this? Does that mean I'm not in Valkemare? Where am I? What happened? Thoughts of wonder began to swirl in his mind. If he was not in Valkemare, how would he get back home? Surely the other dragons would start worrying about him.
Either way, Shade had to figure out something to do for now. After a few moments of thought, the pygmy finally decided to fly out of the tree and follow the wolf.

[Aaiknn]

The large dragoness heard a swish in front from above that was louder than normal, like a sudden gush of wind disturbing the slow air, "But there is no wind." Or when a bird takes flight and rattles the branch it perched on. Eleanor waited for the voices to come again but heard none, she started to suspect it had only been the wind playing tricks on her or a figment of her imagination. "My ears can't be wrong, and I'm definetly not feeling lonely right now. What could it be?"

[Cinder]

(Welcome to the RP, DragonForest!)

[86]

Zinnia awoke in a patch of grass sheltered by trees, with dapples of sunlight shining in through the branches. She sat up, leaning against the trunk of a tree, and rubbed her head. What the heck? What was the place? One moment she was in the middle of an intesne rainmaker match, the other team in the lead but her team slowly catching up, but the next she was here.

She looked around, her eyes adjusting to the forest's lighting. Wahetever place this was, it definitely wasn't a part of Inkopolis. Nevermind that, she needed to find something to defend herself with in case she wasn't alone here. Looking around, her gaze flitted to the trees. Aha, the branch of one would make an okay makeshift weapon.

She found a low-hanging branch, and used all the strength within her little noodle arms to snap the branch off of the tree. Alrighty, she thought to herself. It's not even close to being great, but it'll have to do until I find something better, like a gun or something. And with that, the green-eyed squid kid set off to go find something useful to do.

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Hurricane awoke at the base of the mountains. It was yet another day in this strange place, another day where he didn't get to return home. Wonderful.

Hurricane had been here for a week or so, and had in the meantime set up a small camp. The cat had dug himself a burrow in the ground with a nest of moss to sleep on. He stepped out of this burrow, and emerged aboveground to his small area.

He had a small pile of dead animals he had hunted in the forest, such as mice, birds, etcetera. Nearby he had a pile of sticks surrounded by a circle of stone, which he would occasionally ignite into a fire on cold nights. He had also traced a line in the ground around the perimeter of the place, where he would maybe build a wall of bracken and thorns once he had enough materials to keep intruders out.

The cat walked over to the animal pile, and chose a mouse from it. He quickly gulped it down, and then set off into the forest to scout for anything interesting, as well as any other individual beings.