Event: Mirror Image

[trainmasters]

Who: everyone!
When: Day 19 evening and on
Where: outside

[As darkness falls in the jungle, an unusually chill breeze rustles through the trees. In its wake is silence, the purified fauna going quiet as if in dread.

Is it just you, or is the night darker tonight?

You may find the cause if you leave the train. Those who are caught alone outside will see the shadows grow suddenly long. The darkness coalesces into a vaguely human form, vague and faceless but radiating cold.

Before you can react the shadows surround you. Deep within, your most bitter, unpleasant feelings rise up in your chest. It's overwhelming, threatening to consume you, but just before it can it suddenly stops. The shadows recoil, dissipating into the jungle.

You're safe, but those negative feelings might be closer to the surface than usual.

Good luck, especially if you're one of the newbies just waking up.]

[NOTES: This event will OOCly end on Wednesday, but feel free to ICly push time forward as much as you like. There will be a followup post at that time, and you can schedule player-run trials any time after.

The emotional effect of this event can be as severe as you want. Your character could just be a bit grumpy, or they could find their emotions totally out of control. The effect lasts a couple of hours or until the character counters it with happier feelings.]

Comments

[playerkiller]

Then he's a useless person.

[saddleclub]

You certainly aren't wrong, but I'll only allow you to say so since we share this team.

[playerkiller]

[ oh. hold on. ]

You are companions?

[saddleclub]

As are you. The three of us make up the team known as "Clover."

[playerkiller]

[ people keep doing this... deciding he's on their team... well it's better than "kim dokja's company"... ]

Since when?

[saddleclub]

Since your arrival. It's not like you have a say in it, but it's not like I have a say either. If you have complaints, you can yell them to the wind, because I don't care nor can I change anything.

[playerkiller]

[ wow not the answer he wanted. ]

I'll kill the person who decided this, then.

[saddleclub]

Are you some kind of brute whose only answer to any situation is violence? How annoying.

[playerkiller]

That's not my problem.

[ his companions got used to it.

and the rest are just as brutal as him, it's fine. ]

Or yours. Just stay out of my way.

[saddleclub]

If you're going to be some out of control violent hooligan I will stop you. So try to behave like a civilized person because that sounds like so much effort I don't want to bother with.

[Good reasons to be a reasonable person? Not to give Jusis a headache obviously.]

[playerkiller]

[ squints ]

Young people have no manners.

[ says...............the murderer. ]

[saddleclub]

I see no reason to treat you with manners if you're going to be thug and a brute.

[He wouldn't treat him with manners anyway though.]

[playerkiller]

So you're not always like this?

[saddleclub]

I get along fine with people I like.

[That's not a yes or no.]

[playerkiller]

[ ........ ]

Well, you haven't been killed yet...

[saddleclub]

You realize murder is not an acceptable response to most social situations, right? Please tell me you realize that much.

[playerkiller]

It's a good way to get rid of a problem.

[saddleclub]

Are you a psychopath?

[playerkiller]

[ just the tiniest smile ever. even though i don't have a smiling icon because he smiles like twice ever. ]

I am Yoo Jonghyuk.

[saddleclub]

...

I'm calling you Lait.

[playerkiller]

You are calling me Yoo Jonghyuk.

[ Late?? is that an English joke?? ]

[saddleclub]

It's a weirder name than mine.

[playerkiller]

[ this time, he's looking at Jusis like he's grown a second, uglier head.

that's it. just this absurd, slightly offended look, like he's not sure whether to bring up the frying pan again. ]

[saddleclub]

In the first place calling you Yoo would get confusing.

[playerkiller]

...it's Korean. You wouldn't call me just that.

[ apparently something like Lait is better than just his family name?? man why can't you use honorifics for him, huh. ]