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Aurora Express Mods ([personal profile] trainmasters) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2019-06-15 10:02 pm

Let's Play 20 Questions

Who: Everyone
When: Day 30, afternoon
Where: the Aurora

[Though the sun should be high in the air, just after noon the sky clouds over, and a steady drizzle begins. While gloomy, it's not particularly harsh, and the warm weather means you might even enjoy being out in it! In fact, the relatively thin and patchy clouds mean you may seem rainbows here and there. It's quite nice, really -- except, that is, that there are now tiny frogs everywhere. Near the train they're safe, but closer to the corrupt areas they're toxic.

At the same time, you hear the jingle associated with an official message from your Chain -- the usual "newbie time" balloon animation and text:]
WELCOME NEW HEROES

[This round's new blood are waking up in their rooms, in the usual nondescript undies or team pyjamas.

For the first hour or so, it seems that'll all that'll happen today. But then there's that all too familiar Trial feeling...

...Aaaand a flashy pink convertible has arrived in the clearing. It's followed up by another message:]
Hello, everyone. Your ever-grateful Prince speaking. It's been awhile and we've got some new faces, so I'm here to answer a few questions.

Buut to spare myself a little, I'm limiting it to one question per hero. I'll tell the truth, no matter what you ask, as long as it's at all reasonable! After that though, I reserve the right to cut you off -- but I won't, probably, if you play nice.

Sooo, how about you come outside and see me?

[Message sent, Cardamom gets out of his car and unfurls a big, incredibly sparkly silver umbrella. It looks like the most intensely holographic nail polish you can buy, and the raindrops only make it worse.]

[[OOC NOTES: As the monthly prompts, the rain and frogs will continue until next month's placements. You can find more info on them in the announcements over here!

If you want to tag Cardamom, there's a toplevel here. If you have any questions, please ping the mods via the q&a. Thank you!]]
acts_her_age: :) (It's a quarthex!)

[personal profile] acts_her_age 2019-06-16 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
That's right.

[tilts her head consideringly]

Those are pretty names.
bondkeeper: (76)

[personal profile] bondkeeper 2019-06-16 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Coral's pretty nice too.
acts_her_age: (22)

[personal profile] acts_her_age 2019-06-16 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
Those of us with memory loss decided to embrace the aquatic theme. "Breeze" could almost be argued to fit as well in some ways.
bondkeeper: (90)

[personal profile] bondkeeper 2019-06-16 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
Hahah... Yeah, a sea breeze probably fits best anyway.
acts_her_age: (we replaced it with ebola.)

[personal profile] acts_her_age 2019-06-16 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder if that's an auspicious sign for our team.

Do you have any questions?
bondkeeper: (19)

[personal profile] bondkeeper 2019-06-17 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Uh, maybe. I read pretty slow, so wanna just give me the summary? I got the “fighting the Malice or something” part at least.
acts_her_age: (woof.)

[personal profile] acts_her_age 2019-06-19 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
[bobs her head in a kind of wolf shrug]

According to the Prince, the rest of the universe has been destroyed by the Malice with the exception of himself, a few of his friends, and those of us that he was able to salvage from the Malice. We're meant to fight it off through the power of our bonds with each other and positive emotions, so of course, some of his friends have decided that the best way to foster this is to force us to play violent games that pit our ideals against each other and our senses of self-preservation.

Some of the games are less interesting, though. We raised a child, once. And there's been a lot of social bingo. We also get money when we participate in "bonding" activities.
bondkeeper: (78)

[personal profile] bondkeeper 2019-06-22 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
... Bonding, huh...

... raised a kid... huh...
acts_her_age: (28)

[personal profile] acts_her_age 2019-06-22 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[dryly:]

Oh, yes. One big happy family.
bondkeeper: (39)

[personal profile] bondkeeper 2019-06-25 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ sighs and scrubs at the back of her head ]

I'll give it my best shot. Sorry, though, I'm kind of a basketcase.
acts_her_age: (zzzrk.)

[personal profile] acts_her_age 2019-06-25 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
We've muddled through well enough so far.