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[hot_mess_express]

Who: Heroes
When: Day 36 night
Where: Back outside the train

[Well. You’re all in some kind of. State. A rather chagrined voice mutters on the wind;]

That isn’t quite how I envisioned it going…

[At any rate! There are new stars in the sky in ginger goldenrod, thyme apple and senna terracotta.

Well how are you all doing?]

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[bluediligence]

[ Faito’s just going to lay here on the ground with her new clockwork arm and leg, staring dazedly into the sky, her face flushed with fever ]

What the ffffuck, I can’t dickpunch the wind ...

[schrodingerscockroach]

If only.

[Well]

[At least it's just your limbs.]

[He's. He's got a clockwork heart.]

[awakenerd]

[Uh. New stars. Well fuck he's racing back and...]

Faito?? What the hell happened to you?

[nihilmancy]

[Nearby in a borrowed coat from Senna, looking sick herself and anxious.]

I think there's magic for that.

[crimeson]

[TERRIBLY, THANKS!!

that is to say, he has a nice new steampunky automail arm which he's using to cover half his face, and he's kind of. shaking and panicky. looking for escape routes like a trapped animal.]

[voreaciously]

Ah, what happened?

[this looks like a disaster.]

[bowtiedbones]

[sounds like eliza, in apple green like eliza, but. big green lizard rearing up and flicking its long tongue at your knee--the max height she can reach.]

Randy? Are you okay??

[awakenerd]

[Two out of two of my awakeners are in deep distress what the fuck did I miss. Approaching fast until he sees/feels Randy's state and stopping....]

What happened?

[desirestruth]

...Randy?

[She's. Learned not to get too close, this time! Get shot once, Shame on Crow. Get shot twice...]

[schrodingerscockroach]

....Randy?

[fisherofmen]

[ are you outside still eventually once you have calmed down ]

[bad_crowmance]

[ Well, Crow was curled up on the ground but he picks himself up fairly quickly and looks around pretty wild-eyed for a moment before he pulls out his orbal guns from ?somewhere? and just starts fucking shooting at anyone who gets near him. ]

[desirestruth]

[Well she was approaching to try and figure out what was going on

and then he fucking shot her.

Luckily for them both, she used a power token just before this. So the wound starts to regenerate immediately--

Naeva, however, is less than amused.]

--FOR FUCK'S SAKE, CROW.

[clerically]

[Morning is crylaughing and hysterical, but she's managed to fashion her clockwork heart to her shirt sleeve and-]

Funny, right?

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yeah. Real hysterical.

[Are we still hugging? Might still be doing that.]

[fuckyew]

[Wanting to eat human flesh really badly was not on his list of things-to-do today. Neither was having his heart turn into a metal clock around his neck or being really cold or turning transparent at a much more alarming rate due to the extreme hunger.

Oh there's a truth compulsion effect, too.

Either way Noon has seen better days probably! He's just gonna. Lie here, hunched over. Just gotta willpower over the flesh desire for a second, especially since it's everywhere around him now.]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[It's the worst thing to be on the to do list today.]

Hey....hey, you still with us?

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Hey, got a clockwork heart and all sorts of tense and my left hand has bruised knuckles, BUT OTHERWISE]

[Keeping it together]

[Not like he wasn't a kind of lich before or anything]

[awakenerd]

Dusk?

[What the holy fuck did I miss man. You're the only guy who looks together right now.]

[bowtiedbones]

[I'M JUST A BIG LIZARD I'M NOT EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH THIS]

[if you, anyone, look remotely sober for half a second she's going to try and climb your leg, please get me off the ground]

[desirestruth]

[I am so glad my pants are leather.]

H-hello?

[survivaltricks]

[WELL. . . here is unicorn guy, and he looks. . . uh. super pale and suuuuper out of it. but his gaze sweeps across the field, taking in the various states of various people, and for a moment?]

[he allows himself to look pained and uncertain, before he scrubs at his eyes with one hand and sucks in a sharp, steadying breath]

H— hey.

[oh he is talking to you]

Are you okay?

[voreaciously]

[this lady here is absolutely fine, just trying to help out where she might, honestly.]

Of all the times to be absent--

[wellhanged]

[clockwork eye

clockwork heart

... he finally got untied and is rubbing feeling back into his wrists.]

What a miserable place.

[bondkeeper]

How's that for a nice, gentle first time?

[bondkeeper]

[ honestly looks fine, unless you're close enough to hear the line of quiet, mechanized staccato with each shift of her back as she turns her head this way and that to take everything in ]

Whoa, what a mess.

[voreaciously]

Breeze-han!

[this is a MESS WHAT IS GOING ON]

Are you alright? What is wrong? What happened?

[fisherofmen]

[ with one eye that's brighter than the other - certainly mechanical - and looking particularly small, though not younger than normal. just. small.

after some struggling, he is getting back up onto a high place. on top of the train or in a tree, to watch the stars.

this is his home now. ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

....hey.

[You don't look to be doing well.]

[voreaciously]

[80H has thankfully missed this trial. "thankfully" Instead, she either rushes or waits, eyeing anyone who looks in need of aid.

And that seems to be everyone.]

Please tell me what happened to you, if you are able to do so.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Is surgery part of your healer thing?

[Hello, I have a clockwork heart and I have murdered my emotions.]

[unrepairable]

[ ... well. Kashuu doesn't look particularly worse for wear. but when he wanders back towards the train with everyone else... well it's not with everyone else. he's very noticeably keeping his distance from the crowd, just watching... well. everything. his hand gripping the sword at his side so tightly his knuckles are white.

quite frankly, he looks like he might bolt... or attack at the slightest provocation ]

What is going on....

[desirestruth]

Kashuu?

[Yeah this'll go well. At least she's learned not to immediately get too close to spooked people with weapons?]

[rolebreaker]

[ stum... bling his way to the ocean.

with his heart in his hand.

no literally, his heart has been turned into a mechanical locket and it's just beating-- ticking-- in his hand.

this is fine. he definitely looks like he's in his right mind right now. absolutely. ]

[fisherofmen]

[ actually

standing, in his way ]

Where are you going?

[nihilmancy]

[Hlasoh is lying on the ground, curled up in pain, her eyes squeezed shut, and her hands around her ears. She's feverish, groaning from discomfort from the parasite and the poison but not moving.

Even with her eyes and ears blocked off, the hallucinations don't cease, flashbacks to three long years of torture, visions of her friends cursing her, asking why she killed them, calling her a monster. Of the few people she met after those incidents spurning and cursing her. All of these in rapid succession, a barely coherent waking nightmare, more impressions than anything- but they're making her go into the numb place where she tunes it all out.]

[desirestruth]

...Hlasoh.

[OH WON'T THIS BE FUN...]

[ruinatings]

[So Rufus is here, looking pretty okay... aside from the fact that he's been shrunk to about a foot high. A tiny doll Rufus.

In truth his heart and lungs have turned to clockwork, but he's ignoring that despite the discomfort. Complaining feels weak and he's kinda mad at himself for not being able to breeze through this kind of trial.

Sadly he's already tried an anti-status effect Art and it's not worked, so he's not offering healing to anyone else either.]

Are they not done with this kind of nonsense yet?

[awakenerd]

[Oh. Ooh no. You're so small.

Don't say he's so small unless you never want him to talk to you again Rean.]

What did I miss?