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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!]]
ewestmarch: (Default)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2019-02-16 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
E: I would choose to upgrade our hospital car. Magic is fine, but not everyone kept theirs.
bowtiedbones: (27)

Re: UPGRADE SUGGESTIONS

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-02-16 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Eliza: I think a gym car would be great!
desirestruth: (And fell into Hell)

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-02-16 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[A: For Senna

So, there's a strange pale woman in your train car. She is in the pajamas because she is very uncertain about the fashion options presented to you, and she is inspecting the car top to bottom. Probably walking into bedrooms without knocking. Poking at the lockers. Being kind of distressed by the idea of a communal bathroom.]

[B: Open to All.

Or, otherwise, Naeva's wandering through the train, inspecting other cars. She is similarly just opening doors to look at stuff and doesn't say anything unless addressed so uh, enjoy being stared at by a pale lady in senna colors?

She's also eyeing the drinks provided by the Heartbeat Festival, and has absconded with an entire tray of them. She may just hand one to someone who stares back at her too long. Hello!]
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; In Thought (12909621)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-16 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ A. For Licorice.

So there's this guy wandering around the train car in his pajamas. Who is he? You don't know and neither does he. It's fine. Actually, it looks like he's heading for the exit. You know, still in his pajamas. As you do. He stops when he sees someone though, raising his hand in greeting.
]

Hey! Love what you've done with the place, it's got a real sense of.... something! Just one question.

Where am I?

[ B. For Everyone.

He did get dressed before he left after all. So there's that! Mostly he seems to be walking around and getting his bearings more than anything else.
]
ewestmarch: (stare)

B

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2019-02-16 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Also pale, staring back, looking at her drinks.]

I wouldn't drink that.
desirestruth: (Mother--Mother)

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-02-16 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
...Are they serving us unsafe things?

[She's pausing to stare at one of the glasses. It doesn't smell poisoned. But then she can't smell hardly anything now.]
ewestmarch: (Default)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2019-02-16 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
The last time I drank one, I changed colors. They're probably enchanted.
ewestmarch: (Default)

A

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2019-02-16 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Just kind of watching this guy wander around.]

It's not mine. Everyone's dead, you got rescued. Same thing happened to all of us.

Re: A

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-16 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ He holds up a hand. ]

Whoa hey, let's back up a moment and start with.... what's this about everyone being dead?
desirestruth: (I wonder which one is better)

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-02-16 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[She considers this. And the glass.]

That's not as bad as I thought.
ewestmarch: (Default)

A

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2019-02-16 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
You remember people from before you woke up?
ewestmarch: (stare)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2019-02-16 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
It wasn't that bad. But I don't think he'll do the same thing twice, and I don't know what it is now. You trust it if you want, but I don't.

Hi.
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Serious (12909877)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-16 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ He stares at her for a moment before responding. ]

What kind of non-answer is that?
Edited 2019-02-16 04:56 (UTC)
ewestmarch: (stare)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2019-02-16 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
I'm getting to the answer, come on. Do you have amnesia, or do you remember people from before?
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Neutral; Body Language; Shrug (12921264)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-16 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Why's amnesia an automatic go-to in the first place?

[ He shrugs though, an easy grin appearing on his face. ]

Guess it doesn't matter. I don't remember anything.
desirestruth: (Mother--Mother)

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-02-16 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
That's fair.

[She takes a moment to sniff at the tray--and looks vaguely irritated by how little she can smell--before sighing and setting it down.]

...Hello.
ewestmarch: (stare)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2019-02-16 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Because most of the team already has it. You're here because where you came from has been destroyed, that's what I meant.
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[personal profile] ewestmarch 2019-02-16 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
I'm Emilia, I'm from purple team.
wontforbidtherain: A side-view drawing of a bony dark-haired white woman looking down; folds in her neck suggest gills. (Default)

[personal profile] wontforbidtherain 2019-02-16 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
A. Thyme
[She did manage to get dressed, in Thyme's button-down shirt, skirt, leggings and socks. Now she's wandering through the car, looking for people.]

Hello? Is anyone else here?

B. Open
[Well,after having established the basics, she's moving through the communal spaces, trying to figure out what basic knowledge she remembers, by picking up objects and studying them.]
desirestruth: (I wonder which one is better)

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-02-16 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Naeva dos Martos.

[She bows formally, because when you're drilled in manners for a century, these things stick.]

I'm on...orange, it appears?
desirestruth: (Ran away on it's own)

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-02-16 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Hello rin I am coming for youuuu--

I mean. Here's a pale chick who was similarly exploring. She's paused to stare at him. Actually, specifically at his hair???

Feel free to misinterpret her reasons.]
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Neutral; Body Language; Hand Behind Head (12920319)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-16 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Huh! Didn't know amnesia was contagious.

[ He reaches behind his head to rub idly, considering the rest of what she said. ]

Okay, next question! How did it get destroyed and how's that tie into the whole "rescue" thing?
Edited 2019-02-16 05:26 (UTC)
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Smile; Flirt; Conversational (12909618)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-02-16 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ He pauses when he notices her noticing him and flashes a grin. ]

Well, hello to you too.
desirestruth: (Diseases make me weak)

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-02-16 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
[She does smile, very faintly back. But close-mouthed. Not putting the Chompers on display here.]

...Hello. I take it you are also freshly arrived?

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