Fhloston, Sunday, February 25, 2024 [afternoon into evening]

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The trip from Portalocity Fandom was surprisingly smooth--no layovers in worlds without shrimp, nothing where everyone was trapped in Endless Toledo...Anakin was suspicious already. But never mind that!

Welcome to Springtime Winds Island, private island and beautiful tropical paradise! While the Springtime Winds Hotel is at the heart, the entire island is owned by the resort. A shuttle leaves every twenty minutes, bringing guests to the island's model beach town, full of charming little bistros, trendy boutiques, and delicious restaurants. The last shuttle returns to the hotel at 10 PM to give the employees in town time to clean up and catch the ferry back to their own island homes away from tourists.

There's plenty to keep you entertained and occupied for the entire week you're here, so settle in and get a head start on all that relaxing and fun you're going to have!

Fhloston, Sunday, February 25, 2024 [late Sunday night]

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Whatever the Fandom folks might have been expecting when they escaped a hotel that had finished its foundation-shaking trembling and had, instead, started listing to one side like a ship taking on water was probably not what they were greeted with when they made it outside.

The hotel and its grounds were in absolute shambles - okay that part was probably expected - with giant hunks of twisted metal and melted debris littering the area, palm trees lying bent or even broken, the gravity-defying rocks from the Floating Rock Zone toppled over by one of the water slides, now damming up that section of waterway. However, what had caused all this chaos and destruction was not any kind of natural disaster. No, what they saw when they came pouring out of the hotel was a...flying amusement park?

Well, more specifically, the series of interconnected flying spaceships painted in garish colors that resembled some kind of futuristic-yet-oddly-retro outer space carnival. Calliope music was pumping through speakers, along with cheerful voices exhorting people to "hold on and have fun!" as well as reminding them that bringing squirrels, gremlins, rats, or beebles into the park was "an intergalactic felony punishable by no fewer than two (2) hours of listening to Captain Nebula talk about himself" and that Elesh Norn's Flawless Machine had been damaged in the crash and would be closed for repairs just as soon as "all the current riders have been rescued or fully completed." Above them floated what might have been taken for some kind of asteroid field, save for the smell. It was, in fact, an orbiting trash belt and apparently most of what had slammed into the island of Springtime Winds.