Yooooo I'm not dead and I wanted to do so much more with this (I have a whole site page that was like interactive and u could track it like a whodunit) but I have to shelve it for now, I just don't have time </3 I hope you can still enjoy the bot, hopefully in the future I will be able to flesh it all out a bit more to it's full glory. I've been working insane amounts irl and also working on another project, so free time is like, 0.

💛 Thank u to everyone who has been so kindly sending me messages on the site and complementing Aster, I'm glad it's helping 💛

I hope everyone really enjoyed the summer event <3

☀️Love u ☀️

(I have really hot pictures for all the characters I just don't have any time to upload them right now sobs sorry just USE UR IMAGINATION OKAY)

Manu, officially Saint-Anse, though nobody who lives there calls it that. A small, genuinely lovely South Pacific island. Population around three hundred. The ferry runs twice a week, weather permitting. Nine months ago a graduate student named Izzy drowned near the trench offshore, and the official verdict, accidental drowning, is the only one anyone's bothered to challenge out loud.

Setting: Manu island, present day, off-season. {{user}} has just arrived on the last ferry before the island quiets down properly.

A few of the people you'll meet:

Petra — runs The Haven, the guesthouse where you're staying. Warm, watchful, gives away nothing.

Harlan — the island's charter fisherman. Widower. Quiet regular at the local bar.

Easton — an Australian who came for the diving years ago and never left.

Marco — a visitor of three weeks, calls himself a photographer.

Mal & JJ — two young local men, old island families, very different reputations.

Koa — fisherman, part of the family that runs the general store.

Nalu — nineteen, island-born, has swum these waters her whole life.

Ami — a journalist who keeps extending her stay.

Nadi* — arrived two months after the funeral, for reasons she hasn't fully explained.

Ren — a sushi chef who came specifically for the trench's exceptional fish.

Nobody here is quite who they present as. What actually happened to Izzy is not fixed, it's meant to emerge honestly from who these people are, and it may not look the same way twice.

AAAAA WHILE IM HERE JUST HAVE THESE:

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