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Aurora Express Mods ([personal profile] trainmasters) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2019-02-15 09:27 pm

Unlock! (1)

Who: Everyone
When: Day 12, evening into night
Where: the Aurora

[As evening approaches, you hear the jingle associated with an official message from your Chain. It's the same balloons and confetti animation as the last time newbies arrived, and the same message as well:]
WELCOME NEW HEROES

[As anticipated, some newbies are waking up in their rooms, in the usual nondescript undies or team pyjamas.

Just after this, however, something much more startling happens...

Outisde, the bell tone gets all the louder, a beautiful resonating sound that fills the air. Then, suddenly, a flood of strange square-shaped sparkles appear, floating around like magical fireflies, bringing with them a pleasant warmth. They increase in size and volume until the air itself whites out with a bright but pleasant light. While you can't see, you can hear the bell, and the distant rumbling of stone.

Abruptly, the sound stops, and the bright light fades to reveal a sky painted in sunset hues. Where there was once a dark and hostile jungle with cracks in the ground, there's now a colourful rainforest environment and a floor thick with bright moss. The sounds of birds and insects and regular wildlife rise over the previous silence, and the aggressive plantlife is replaced by large flowers and succulent fruits. In one direction, a dirt path winds through the trees, and in the opposite, the brush gives way to a stone formation with a flat top and an opening flanked in carvings of water and plants.

If one were to enter the new cave entrance, they'd find the previous moon crystals replaced by rainbow ones that reflect sparkling light onto the floor, and feel soothingly warm to the touch. Further into the caves, there's a carved stone path that leads to the beach you initially arrived on. There stands the Prism: a large floating cube in the center of gyproscope-like concentric rings. Where it had been glowing black, it's now a royal purple, and the light and energy from it are significantly less malicious than before -- though still far from pure. The beach itself is now covered in fine white sand, and the sea no longer tries to pull you in -- provided you don't go out too far.

Because not all is well on this Star just yet. While the nearby water contains a reef of colourful fish, 100 meters or so out to sea the water turns black again. While under water in the safe area, you can occasionally see the shadows of great and terrible monsters deep in the dark.

Likewise, should you choose to follow the first path, after ~1km you'll find the forest fades back into the previous dense, dark jungle. At the edge of the darkness, there's something new -- the remains of what looks like a modern town. It's all overgrown, cottages twisted into ruins and streets covered in vines and prowled by tiger monsters and a new threat: towering reptilian creatures that climb the crumbling shells of apartment buildings and the empty City Hall, like geckos increased to dinosaur size. They're fast, and if they catch you they'll swallow you whole. On the one side, that makes it easier for someone to save you -- they could cut you out. On the other, those unable to be rescued will find their skin and muscles becoming slowly more transparent and stiff, the colour and feeling leaving them until their minds are trapped in a useless shell. Those found in that condition later must be saved via the healing pods -- but they'll remember their stay in their glass bodies, with their blood running and heart pumping like a living anatomical model of their organs.

On the Aurora, however, you're welcome to enjoy the first sight of the sun in 12 days. As the brilliant sunset moves into a night reigned over by a gentle moon, the Heartbeat Festival remains in full swing. So celebrate your victory with a glass of shimmery alcohol and a kiss, because you've done it -- your love has purified a part of this Star!]

[[OOC NOTES: CONGRATULATIONS on your first Prism purification, guys! There is a toplevel for ICly suggesting train upgrades here, so check it out! Next week we'll post a poll, and the week after the upgrade will be implemented.

The updates to the Setting page to reflect this post will be made soon, so keep an eye out!]]
voreaciously: (196)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-02-16 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
You have been kidnapped, but I was not the one to do it.
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[personal profile] spectacularluck 2019-02-16 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
And all I have to go on is your word.
voreaciously: (83)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-02-16 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
You are under the erroneous impression that I care what you believe. You will discover the truth of the situation, one way or another.
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[personal profile] spectacularluck 2019-02-16 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm-mm.

You said I'm part of a team.
voreaciously: (5)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-02-16 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.

[oh did you want her to elaborate?]
spectacularluck: (pic#12635942)

[personal profile] spectacularluck 2019-02-16 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ actually, yeah ]

I don't like you.
voreaciously: (161)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-02-16 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
That is par for the course, so you are catching along quickly.

[suffer :D]
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[personal profile] spectacularluck 2019-02-16 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
This has got to be just a bad dream.
voreaciously: (120)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-02-16 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I could punch you, if you'd like.

[ah...isn't it supposed to be "pinch"?]
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[personal profile] spectacularluck 2019-02-16 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Forget it. I'll just figure this whole thing out myself.

Thanks for the clothes and all that, miss.
voreaciously: (161)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-02-16 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
That is not going to happen. You can talk to Randy, but ah, do take care not to make him angry.
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[personal profile] spectacularluck 2019-02-17 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
If I make him angry it's his own damn problem, not mine.
voreaciously: (89)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-02-17 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Hoh? Aren't you a little firecracker.
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[personal profile] spectacularluck 2019-02-17 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
Right, maybe that can be my name since I still don't know it.
voreaciously: (39)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-02-17 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
You will remember as long as you are not impeded, which is a very likely possibility on this team. At any rate, on the matter of your name, you are free to choose something to act in place.
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[personal profile] spectacularluck 2019-02-17 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you mean "is a very likely possibility on this team"?
voreaciously: (52)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-02-18 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
Nevermind. Forget I said anything.
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[personal profile] spectacularluck 2019-02-18 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Look, you and I? I think we are having some serious communication issues.

Don't say something like that if you're not gonna elaborate. Come on. You're already halfway there, might as well come out with it.
voreaciously: (65)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-02-18 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Halfway? Believe me. I have not even scratched the surface. I have changed my mind because it is a lot to tackle and complicated. One thing at a time, sir.
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[personal profile] spectacularluck 2019-02-18 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
So you're not going to tell me.
voreaciously: (52)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-02-18 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I have said so twice now.
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[personal profile] spectacularluck 2019-02-18 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Fine, fine, I get it. I'll leave you on your own now. No promises on being quiet.
voreaciously: (91)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-02-18 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and if you are ever grievously injured, it is able to be remedied.
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[personal profile] spectacularluck 2019-02-18 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Wait. What ]

Okay.

It's a good thing, but why am I at risk of getting grievously injured, exactly?
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[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-02-18 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
We are here to save the universe, did you think that would not come without risks and dangers? [She raises a perfect brow slightly.]

At any rate, we must continuously prove our worth and mettle and so forth during trials which very often entail possible bodily injury.

[it is very, very faint but it sounds like

One way or another.

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