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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!]]
purrtagonist: become part tree (Fill the wound with sawdust)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2019-02-20 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
That was a thing. You get sparks for creating bonds with people. My team’s bonds are jokes, so I tell a few every now and then.

I’m not sorry.
crimeboy: (98)

[personal profile] crimeboy 2019-02-20 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
You should be a little sorry. I was really worried about you.

[Kind of???]
purrtagonist: (They’re NOT frog boys!)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2019-02-20 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, be— because I told a joke?

[?????]
crimeboy: (g13)

[personal profile] crimeboy 2019-02-20 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Because you told a really BAD joke! A real stinker!
purrtagonist: (How many gallons of water are in a Weird)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2019-02-20 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[a pause]

Nope. Sill not sorry. I feel not a single ounce of regret.
crimeboy: (89)

[personal profile] crimeboy 2019-02-20 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
You will feel regret one day! Mark my words, unicorn-boy!
purrtagonist: our six horrible children (Away from the murder snowballs)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2019-02-20 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[wow you’re cute]

[POINTS AT EYES, THEN POINTS AT KIRYUU. his glasses flash opaque]

Got a name, Imp Man?
crimeboy: (u10)

[personal profile] crimeboy 2019-02-20 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[WAGGLES HIS TAIL A LITTLE. Mostly because he's having a good time, don't worry about it.]

Kiryuu! Uuuhhh. I forgot my first name, but that will work well enough!
purrtagonist: (So can I nonlethally decapitate him)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2019-02-20 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Kiryuu-san, then.

[a small smile. he's friendly!1]

Where'd you get that name if you don't remember yours?
crimeboy: (g13)

[personal profile] crimeboy 2019-02-22 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[SHRUGS.]

I dunno. I just like it. Kiryuu, like "ryu". You know...? Like a dragon! Pretty cool, right?
purrtagonist: (8 children equals one dragon it’s simple)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2019-02-22 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
I'm withholding judgement until I see you breathe fire.
crimeboy: (m018)

[personal profile] crimeboy 2019-02-22 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Kiryuu stops and thinks, a finger on his chin.

If he were able to breathe fire... how would he go about doing that? Eh, fuck it. He's just going to try his best and believe in himself, so he sucks in a breath and then lets it out...

...and a big puff of flame actually comes out!

But only for a second because Kiryuu yells right after and nearly fuckin runs away from his own fire breath.]


AAAHHH WHAT THE HELL???

I WAS JUST JOKING!

WH- HOW? WHAT?
purrtagonist: (Can Holy Fire be used for arson?)

1/2

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2019-02-22 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[-- oh my god?? HE HAD BEEN KIDDING]
crimeboy: (059)

[personal profile] crimeboy 2019-02-23 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
[He's still trying to calm himself down, there.]

Shit maybe I'm a dragon.
purrtagonist: in a different colored sweater (And out of each box runs a chicken)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2019-02-23 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[r-reaches out to pat his shoulder]

Isn't that something to be proud of?
crimeboy: (058)

[personal profile] crimeboy 2019-02-24 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Pats himself on the chest a little before finally settling down.]

I mean yeah it's pretty cool, but here I was thinking I was like an imp or something, now I've gotta reassess my whole deal!
purrtagonist: (Does a child count as a thrown weapon?)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2019-02-24 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Or you could just roll with ti until you get back more memories. Semantics don't matter, do they?
crimeboy: (g26)

[personal profile] crimeboy 2019-02-24 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
I mean YEAH. It's just real weird to have to write "can breathe fire" into my worldview. You know what I mean? Like I don't know anything except whoops! I can just dragon breath out here.

But yeah I mean.

I'll roll with it.
purrtagonist: (My corpse is worth at least three of you)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2019-02-24 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
I wish I could breathe fire.

[. . . . . . . this jealousy is not real jealousy]
crimeboy: (m017)

[personal profile] crimeboy 2019-02-25 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[That is fair though. Whether it is real or not.]

Well.

Have you tried lately?
purrtagonist: (is the frozen pigeon still on fire?)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2019-02-25 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
No, and that's a valid point. I can't breathe fire if I don't at least try.
crimeboy: (128)

[personal profile] crimeboy 2019-02-25 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
[NODS ENTHUSIASTICALLY!]

That's right! You always miss 100% of the shots you don't take and all that jazz.
purrtagonist: now let's get this party started (the orcs are greased)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2019-02-25 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
You should work for an inspirational poster company.

[nodnod]
crimeboy: (g13)

[personal profile] crimeboy 2019-02-25 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
EEEEH! That's the only one I got, and I'm pretty sure I stole it from somewhere.

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