[Hermit] ([personal profile] advisories) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2019-07-30 06:57 pm

The Sixteenth Trial

Who: trialgoers
When: Day 37, afternoon
Where: The Hermit's Tent

[With the usual jostle of the train, the Hermit’s tent appears in the clearing. His deep, cheerful voice rings out:]

That last Trial was a bit of a mess, wasn’t it? Well, rest assured our dear Vampire friend is very sorry about it.

Of course that doesn’t make you feel better, but how about a mood booster? “Come hither”, and let’s think positive!


[Upon entering the tent, you’ll find yourself on a round, black-tiled platform at the bottom of a clear glass elevator. Look outside and you'll spot the other two groups in their own elevators, facing you on the other walls of a triangular pit. You can't reach or hear them at the moment, but they look safe enough.

In your own elevator, you’ll find a podium with a speaker and a push-to-talk microphone. Taped next to them is a laminated paper containing the rules, titled:

Raise Eachother Up


Time for some cheer and positivity!]
desirestruth: (I wonder which one is better)

Re: GROUP 3: Senna, Jasmine

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-07-31 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
....Mngh. Let me think...If you have suggestions, that'd be helpful.
voreaciously: (120)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-07-31 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
No...this should be simple enough.

[still contemplating her death.]
desirestruth: (Mother mother--!)

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-07-31 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
If you could not get me killed in the process of excusing yourself from this trial, I'd take it as a favor.

[Yeah she. Sees that. And sighs a little.]

I don't really know Dusk, nor have I spoken to Duke Albarea more than a handful of times...

As far as Rean, he is tenacious, compassionate to a fault, generous and selfless. [She...doesn't make those sound like compliments.]

...Noon is quite entertaining and I find the sarcasm and wit deeply charming.

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-07-31 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
I would not be so sloppy.

[she's more upset that she'd get naeva caught in some sort of crossfire than anything else, honestly.



so yeah, not denying that she does not particularly want to be here.]


Dusk-han is relentless. So is the Instructor.
desirestruth: (And follow this song)

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-07-31 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
...[Thinking for a long moment.]

The Duke is one of the most beautiful people on this train. I have never seen hair so glorious.
voreaciously: (20)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-07-31 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
It is true.

[sage nod]

I do not have much to say about Noon-han, so I will leave you to that. I suppose he has...a rustic wit.
desirestruth: (And follow this song)

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-07-31 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
...

[Gonna go grab the microphone and murder a heroic spirit rq.]
fisherofmen: (and free)

Re: GROUP 3: Senna, Jasmine

[personal profile] fisherofmen 2019-07-31 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
. . .

[ suddenly. here. ]

. . .

Just say what you think of them.

[ duh ]
desirestruth: (Mother mother--!)

Re: GROUP 3: Senna, Jasmine

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-07-31 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
It's a game about giving compliments.

[Staring back at him.]

And I don't know them, really, so I don't think much of anything.
fisherofmen: (yours to seize)

Re: GROUP 3: Senna, Jasmine

[personal profile] fisherofmen 2019-07-31 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ considering for a moment ]

They have ears and eyes and a nose and a mouth, surely, with growths of hair that shape in appeasing ways, and limbs with which they carry themselves with.
desirestruth: (The end of the tunnel)

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-07-31 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
That. Is not a compliment so much as a description of a moving being, sir.
fisherofmen: (violence is familiar)

[personal profile] fisherofmen 2019-07-31 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ stares at her like





it occurs to him he doesn't know what a compliment is ]
desirestruth: (Mother mother--!)

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-07-31 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Why. Why does she have to deal with this--]

...A compliment is saying something positive about a person. Something you like, specifically, about them.
fisherofmen: (but the)

[personal profile] fisherofmen 2019-07-31 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
. . . Oh. I can't help, then. I don't have things I like.
desirestruth: (And fell into Hell)

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-07-31 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
...Do you have things you thing are objectively good traits?

[WHY

SHE'S NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG IN HER LIFE.]
fisherofmen: (stain will not be gone)

[personal profile] fisherofmen 2019-07-31 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. I can do that.
desirestruth: (Ran away on it's own)

[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-07-31 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Then, that will work.

[someone please save her.]

[personal profile] fisherofmen 2019-07-31 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's fine he thought about it more and actually had nice things to say in a "i like these traits" way even if he

didn't say them

like that. ]