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[trainmasters]

Who: everyone
When: Day 35 morning
Where: the lounge car

[This morning, or whenever you wake up, you will find that there are delicious smells wafting from the lounge car. Upon investigation, one will discover a beautiful spread of hot cocoa and tea and coffee and many marshmallow animals, ideal for putting in your drinks or simply eating wholesale. It isn't just cats either, but many animals of a similar quality of marshmallow, whatever kinds you'd like. But you may find the warm fuzzies they impart might be a bit more than internal.

In a conspicuous place is a note in handwriting many of you may find quite familiar at this point:

Thanks for your help.

- Hazel

His signature isn't alone, either. There are a couple of others, though somehow they're far less readable? Some are definitely just little drawings. Weird.]

[[ooc notes: 10% furry event!! many marshmallows have no effect, but those that do will instill temporary animal parts up to a kemonomimi level! enjoy your ears and tails, folks. and your newbies.]]

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[bluediligence]

A. In Ginger:

[ Sometimes a fluffy-haired, scarred to all hell girl wakes up with no memories, in her underwear, takes one look down, and - ]

[ SHRIEKS IN ALARM ]

Kyaa-! Alien abduction?!

B. Later, in the Lounge:

[ Some time later, once she's had some time to Cool Her Jets and get a better idea of what's going on here, she pokes her head into the Lounge … and gasps! ]

Oh, wow! Wow! Look at those marshmallows, they're so cute! Is it really okay to eat them?

[schrodingerscockroach]

[If Wash drops something, he cleans up after himself. He's not a barbarian. So when his tailed knocked over a plate of marshmallows, he had to go about cleaning them up.]

[Gosh Aoko, that sure is a cat tail wagging idly around that table right over there.]

[bluediligence]

[ If there's one thing that can distract her from cute marshmallow animals, it's the thought of getting to pet an actual cute animal. ]

[ So when she spots that wiggling tail, of course she has to make a beeline. ]

Hi there, ki—yaaaa-! [ Which is to say, oops, guess who just tripped over the plate he dropped! She goes flying, arms windmilling in a desperate(ly dumb) attempt to catch herself. ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Sadly there is not a tiny cat who can easily get away, but instead a brickhouse of a dude with cat ears and that tail she saw.]

[And for all Wash is making nice with people, he's still incredibly on edge and those instincts are still ready so when there's a sudden loud noise, his head is snapping up, and he sees hands flailing and he reacts.]

[Grabbing at those wrists and twisting, trying to get the person pinned on the ground, but that hold isn't quite secure yet.]

[bluediligence]

[ Hands grabbing for her, oh no?? Oh no!! His fingers have barely touched her wrists before she's twisting away, doing her very best — if entirely unconscious — impression of a slippery eel. ]

[ And, sorry, that might be a knee in his gut- ]

Wah-! Wait, wait, waaaaaaait!

[schrodingerscockroach]

[His instincts are acting, but there are mental notes there. Her reaction time is quick, the moves feel familiar, same technique? Managed to break his grip before he had a decent hold.]

[There's a knee, a grunt even as he grabs her leg and pulls it to the side to try and force her off balance to the ground.]

[Threat neutralized then talk-]

[bluediligence]

[ But! No! No! All she'd wanted to do is pet a cute kitty and now she's grappling all over the floor, rolling with the man's momentum rather than letting him force her or even get a proper grip on her leg. ]

Stop! Stop it, I tripped, I don't want to fight?!

[ In fact, she might even manage to roll them far enough that she's temporarily on top. Very temporarily. The moment she's up, she dives forward into a handspring, just trying to get away from him - and maybe to grab a chair to use as a shield along the way! ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He]

[He's not fighting the momentum? He moves so easily, why]

[But he doesn't let her stop them, already moving to get her back under except then she's gone, and he changes tactics, moving into a crouch, grabbing a plate off a table (those poor marshmallows) and gets ready to throw it because surely she has protection by now because that's how one should react-]

[At the very least he stops at the end of the throw, not releasing the plate, staring at the girl and the chair because he doesn't]

[He doesn't feel threatened, but he was still going]

[What the fuck?]

[bluediligence]

[ It is weird, how easily they move together, flowing from one movement to the next as easy as breathing. Like it's a dance she's somehow memorised, despite not knowing any of the steps. ]

[ She's got the chair up, equally ready to block or yeet, but — ]

[ She doesn't. ]

[ She stares at him staring at her, taking in the plate and the scattered marshmallows, the cat ears and the tail and the bags under his eyes without really focusing on any one thing in particular. ]

[ Takes a breath, and: ]

I can't believe you just wasted all of those marshmallows!

[awakenerd]

[Well the screaming summons some random guy barging into the room. Feel free to like, throw the bed at his head he's obviously an abductor.]

--?!

[bluediligence]

[ OBVIOUSLY THIS IS THE EVIL ALIEN(?!) WHO KIDNAPPED AND TORTURED HER ]

No! Stay away from me, kidnapper!

[ She yeets the pillow first, with surprising strength and accuracy, and a hastily wadded bundle of blankets come flying at him directly after. ]

[ And then ]

[ The whole goddamn mattress ]

[awakenerd]

[Holy shit]

Wait--!

[It's all he gets out before he gets a pillow to the face and then blankets. The mattress he doesn't just let hit him, he actually catches but it still knocks him over because... it's an entire freaking mattress. ]

Wait a minute! Hold on! Time out!

[bluediligence]

[ She's in the process of picking up the bed itself when he calls timeout. Desperate times call for desperate measures, okay, sometimes you've just got to beat up an evildoer with a solid wooden bed frame. ]

… [ Peeks suspiciously out from behind the half-raised bed. ] I! … Fine-! You've got one minute, and don't think I'm afraid to use this…!

[ That sounds impressively intimidating, right? Right. ]

[awakenerd]

[He can't be hurt that easily but he's still intimidated!]

Don't throw the bed! I came in here because I heard you screaming! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you so much!

I'm not a kidnapper!

[bluediligence]

[ What? Oh - ]

[ Come to think of it, he does look kinda young to be an evil psycho kidnapper-slash-alien-abductor. Or could that just be a ruse; a nasty trick to take her off guard? Hrrrghh … ]

[ Lets out a breath, lowering the bed frame slightly. ]

… Promise? You're not a kidnapper, or some kind of, of evil alien scientist?

[awakenerd]

I am definitely not and of that! My name is Rean. I'm a Divine Knight, and your teammates it looks like.

I can get being disoriented though.

[bluediligence]

[ Divine Knight? Teammate? ]

[ Her immediate response is a very eloquent, wide-eyed, ] Huh? But, I - [ ... Am wearing nothing but underwear in front of a boy, who maybe actually isn't a threat she needs to beat up Right Now Immediately ... ]

H-Hold that thought! [ Yanks the bed frame up higher, if only to try to cover herself. ] Explanations later, clothes now!

[desirestruth]

Probably? They don't seem to have any harmful effects, and they're pretty sweet.

[So here's a regal-looking lady with...jackal...ears.

And a big fluffy-ass tail.

Hm.]

[bluediligence]

[ Fluffy?? ]

[ … And pretty, oh my gosh ]

But, that note ... if they're meant as a thank you, and I just got here, it might be rude of me to just take one!

[desirestruth]

I promise you, Hazel won't mind if we share.

[bluediligence]

Hazel? Who's that? Or is it one of the teams I've been hearing about?

[ Despite the barrage of questions, she's reassured enough to pick up a hecking adorable puppy-mallow. ]

[desirestruth]

Hazel was the one who wrote the note. One of the teams was named for him, but it's...not currently here.

[Just not going to dwell on that for very long la la la--]

In any case, he's the one who wrote this note, so I'm assuming he's also responsible for the marshmallows.

[bluediligence]

[ Not … here? Oh no, that sounds bad — ]

I'm sorry to hear that … [ It's pretty clear that the lady doesn't want to dwell though, so, ] W-Well! If you're sure he wouldn't mind me trying one … They're almost too cute to eat, though.

[ That said, she eats the whole thing in two bites. ]

Does he have anything to do with the "Star Prince" person I read about?

[desirestruth]

He's one of Cardamom's friends, I believe.

[her tail swishes a bit.] These friends run trials to help generate more sparks, but...mm. One of them was, until recently, infected with Malice, and ran a very damaging trial, among other things, so it'd be remiss of me to say the trials are completely harmless.

[bluediligence]

[ Cute, fluffy, twitchy tail, oh no she's tempted to pet it oh no that would be weird and rude, wouldn't it, oh no ]

[ The idea of a "damaging" trial, though … ]

Until recently? So there's a way to help free them.