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At one point, Alder wanted to start humming to block out all the noises from the other passengers. There seemed to be a heated tussle - and he could hear someone getting hit - and the others talking about the park and what could possibly be housed on such an island. An investing nightmare, was all he could think of, and a headache for him to inspect. This was going to be terrible.

But a small island finally started to appear on the horizon, growing larger as the boat continued its path. Thank the lord. Wait, what the ... was that, his eyes narrowed seeing the beast in the sky and he visibly lurched when something came out of the ocean.

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And he had to give up his iPad and phone, the audacity, what did they expect him to work with to properly assess this place? He had physical paperwork sure, but electronic was so much faster (it was really one of the few modern marvels he embraced). But, he accepted the demand, along with the notepad and made his way off the boat with wabbly legs.

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Steve felt a little dumb at that sec. " oh my bad must not of caught that part sorry about that." As Mira's attention sailed off so did his. He was looking off into the distance at the island and the flying thing above it, and almost fell over when he saw the tentacle in the water. "What the..." he had no words for what he just saw, he wasn't sure wheather it was the sickness from the boat or if he really did just see that. Still staring at the island " Ya sure if Let's see some monsters means we get off this boat then I'm good for that.....I guess"

He glanced over towards Chikako as she answered the question, only half-listening since he was already rather familiar with Fukui Corp's investments. He grinned when she finished, turning to regard both of them with a light shrug of his shoulders. "Truthfully, my father sent me here to scope for a similar reason...though as you assumed, the biggest reason as to why I'm here at all is indeed simply because we received an invitation." It had sounded pretty intriguing, and--

--and then someone suddenly spoke up. Turning to face the woman with curious eyes, Ciaran's gaze swept over her to take in her appearance before he offered a polite smile and a small nod of his head. "Hello. Part of our group then, are you? My name is Ciaran." He offered his hand, and then his gaze flickered past her and towards the approaching body of land.

"Ah," He murmured suddenly, distracted as he realized that they were nearing the island that was to be their destination, "It seems like we don't have to wait much longer to see what all the fuss is about."

And though Ciaran liked to think himself level-headed and rational, he couldn't help but perk up in interest as something--a...a horse?--flew past overhead. Brows furrowing, he continued to stare upwards, lips pulling into a frown. Interesting...was that a hologram, perhaps? Certainly a fairly impressive one to be sure, but...

Well, they were here. He was sure they'd see a lot more from where that came from.

[Exit]

Walking to exit the boat. "Mr. Wimple, I'm sure we have all come here to work just as hard as you have," stops and turn to Mr. Wimple and straightens his toupee for him. " But I would like to have a little fun in the process. After all it is a Wonder Park." Takes a deep breath and exits the boat.

Back the boat up past the shore and onto dry land. Was he actually interested in what she was talking about???

Lydia sat there with her mouth partially agape, fingers toying with the necklace she had been showing off moments before. This man was not like any other she had ever met. Sure she had talked to people about her profession before, but mostly other cryptozoologists like herself, or documentary filmers, or interviewers for various magazines (and many of those printed very unflattering articles). Wait, hadn't he said he was an author of some kind? What if he was one of those, that pretended to be nice and asked her questions, only to write something absolutely horrible and false about her work?

Stop thinking about it so much! Just answer the man!

An almost strangled escaped from Lydia's throat, just before Daniel E Whorl interuppted them, and Lydia cast squinting eyes towards the blurred shore that was rapidly approaching.

They had arrived.

Unfortunatly for the thirty-something woman, without her glasses on she really couldn't make out any of the fantastical things flying around in the sky. And so she stumbled clumsily to her feet, hefted her canvas bag, and got ready to depart from the boat. At the mention of electronics to be confiscated, she stopped just long enough to open up her bag, which from out of wafted the strong scent of garlic and something else....something that smelt alarmingly similar to urin, and reached inside to retrieve a battered old cellular device which appeared to be at least ten years outdated, the sound of glasses clinking together from within unmistakable.

"I think I've seen this movie." She said to Algie, once she had handed over her phone and they made their way off of the boat.

She planned on staying as close to her new mate as possible through this entire adventure.

((Exiting to Docks~))

Blind date convention, did they really have those types of things? Antonio blinked softly watching Tooly with a tired expression and he wasn't even the one chattering so much. Even if the woman seemed to talk a lot she was pleasant enough at least and for that he was thankful. Smiling he nods his head, "ah..yes that's fine, Tony, Tonio it doesn't really bother me." And it didn't people had shortened his name basically all his life, it was normal. The writer frowned softly as the makeup artist admitted to not having enough time to read, "such a shame..." Chuckling he turned his gaze out over the water as Cora was questioned, glad for the escape.

As he glanced out from the boat in the distance, an island came into view. Was this where they were heading? Antonio shifted to turn sideways, watching as they approached and the island became larger. Noticing the flying shadow above the island he craned his head up for a better look, eyes going wide in shock as the creature landed. His mouth opened but instead of words all that came out was a small gasp when a massive tentacle burst from the water to lazily wave at the ship.

Did that. Shaking his head the man rubbed furiously at his eyes. He was hallucination, it had to be the new anxiety pills right? RIGHT!? Turning back to watch the tentacle disappear he felt a heave in his chest, snapping his head around to Tooly and Cora, their expressions no better than his own.

Whorl's laughter broke his panic and the writer snapped his head to look at the eccentric man. There were... creatures of myth all around them and he was laughing as if it was amusing? Antonio for the moment wasn't thinking of this in the slightest as a great opportunity now he was more thinking about his own life and that of his companions, you know like someone who wasn't mad. Then of course the idea of robotics hit him, these were fake right?

Wonder Park. A huge fantasy attraction, of robotics ...right?

As the ship reached the docking area his panic attack was calming down allowing him to see things a little differently even if he was still very much on edge, he now had to find out what exactly these things were. Seeing the staff he followed Tooly's lead and moved from his seat as she wiggled past him, smiling to Cora weakly, "..welcome to wonder park." A bitter almost laugh sounded as the man moved past here, work mode clicking in.

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Cora felt her cheeks turning red as she tries not to react to the question. Her eyes glance towards Tonio, almost wishing he help her out. Coughing into her hand, she attempts to cleat her throat before her eyes wend wide over the creature that just flown overhead.

Wait.....that was....

She thought these types of creatures were only in the fantasy book. Turning her eyes towards the island, she couldn't honestly believe what she was seeing. Something just waved at them, from underwater?!?!?

Swallowing, she lifts her hand to her mouth before stepping aside to allow the other teammate to slip pass them. A small frown forming across her lips as she heard what they had to give up. She was find with her cell being given up, but did she really have to give up her camera. With a small sigh, she looks to Tonio as she heard his weak laugh, knowing full well he wasn't too happy at the moment.

Not that she could blame him.

All of a sudden everything they thought was fake, was suddenly very real. This was very hard to take in. Shaking her head, she holds tightly onto her camera as she follows Tonio off the boat and onto the docks.

Wonder park indeed....she was only worried what Wonder it had in store for them.

{Exit}