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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!]]
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; In Thought (12909621)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-19 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
I was planning on looking around the rest of this place.... I'll be sure to find someone.
nihilmancy: (Neutral 2)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-02-19 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
You should change out of your pajamas first. And have something to eat. I can make something.
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Neutral; Body Language; Hand Behind Head (12921235)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-19 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
So uh...

[ He reaches back to scratch idly at the back of his head. ]

Where do I get clothes? The room I woke up in?
nihilmancy: (Neutral)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-02-19 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, they should be somewhere in there.
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Neutral; Conversational (12921263)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-19 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Alright, guess I'll be back in a few then.

[ And with that, he turns back in the direction he came from. ]
nihilmancy: (Neutral)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-02-19 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Finishes her meal in the meantime.]

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-19 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ He comes back wearing this but he sure doesn't look happy about it. ]

Are you... sure we don't have ridiculous clothes?
nihilmancy: (Smile)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-02-19 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
[bitch i'm goth af, don't you dare dis this aesthetic]

I like it. Maybe the lace is excessive, though.
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Sigh (12921232)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-19 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ Look, his aesthetic is a lot simpler okay. ]

Maybe just a little bit.
nihilmancy: (Smile)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-02-19 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
[yeah dude, thigh-belts are rad]

I'll be leaving the car soon because there's free liquor in the lounge and I'm trying to forget that a slime monster ate my eyes the other day, you're free to join me.

Oh right, I should have told you, that apparently dangerous things happen here sometimes. But we can't die, so it's fine. Absolutely. Fine.
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Neutral; Conversational (12921263)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-19 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ They're totally rad! ]

....I'm going to ignore that second part and skip straight to the free booze.
nihilmancy: (Curious)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-02-19 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Great. They'll make you do things like hold people's hands though.
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Sigh (12920650)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-19 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
....Actually, I think I'll skip the booze after all.
nihilmancy: (Broken Smile)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-02-19 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
Understandable. You can buy some with Sparks anyway.
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Neutral; Body Language; Hand Behind Head (12921235)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-19 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
How much does regular booze cost?
nihilmancy: (Neutral 2)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-02-19 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
100 per bottle.
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Smile; Conversational (12909620)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-19 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
Guess I know what my first purchase is gonna be!

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-02-19 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
Well. Have fun.

You should be able to find the store information on your Chain.
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Smile; Confident; Conversational (12911531)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-19 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
Alright! All I've gotta do is earn some sparks and I'm set.
Edited 2019-02-19 06:55 (UTC)
nihilmancy: (A Look)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-02-19 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
The Chain will also have guidelines on that. Be careful though, a lot of it is... feelings oriented.
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Smile; Jerkbird (12911532)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-19 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ugh WHY. ]

....Well! I'll figure something out, anyway.
nihilmancy: (Neutral 2)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-02-19 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't mind splitting a bottle with you, some time.
bad_crowmance: Hajimari/Reverie; Body Language; Finger Point (12921327)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-19 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm up for it any time you are.
nihilmancy: (Blush)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-02-19 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[I did it, I did a flirt with an attractive person!]

Y-Yes! Um, I'll look forward to it. I think I'm a passable cook as well, but that ability may have been taken from me.
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Smile; Jerkbird; Conversational (12911533)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-19 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh~? Well I'm willing to be a guinea pig if you want to try it out.

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