EVENT: The Sound of Summer

[trainmasters]

Who: darers, newbies, and everyone else!
When: Day 40, dawn
Where: around the train

[After several hours of Kiss or Dare, the bar lights go off and you're let out into the grey pre-dawn. The Cat isn't one for ceremony, so there's no closing fanfare -- but in the sky are new stars in cobalt, pink, & violet. Congratulations to the winners!

You could go home and get some sleep, but you might have a rough time with that. As the sun appears in the sky, there's a horrible ruckus -- the sound of what seems like a million cicadas suddenly springing to life. They're staying in the canopy, not causing particular problems with buzzing around, but they are deafening.

Occasionally, you may hear one particularly low-pitched cicada noise. If you do, cover your ears, else you become hypnotized, overcome by a destructive urge. Those effected will find themselves compelled to act out violence on inanimate objects -- it's only property destruction, but the longer you're effected the more likely you are to lash out at anyone trying to stop you.

Good thing the hypnosis is broken by hugs, because this will be lasting for awhile.

Maybe it's the noise or maybe it's just bad timing, but the arrival of the cicadas is accompanied by the arrival of some new teammates! As always, the notifcation will appear on everyone's Chains:

WELCOME NEW HEROES

[[NOTES: Announcements and placements are up over here. You're welcome to make team posts if you like, or intro directly into this mingle. The cicadas will be here until next month's placements, so please feel free to interact with them in your own posts throughout the month. If you have questions, please comment to the announcements post. Thank you!]]

Comments

[schrodingerscockroach]

[First weird friends which seems legit AND THEN THAT.]

....wow.

Fuck that guy. [RYUJI IS A VERY LEGIT PERSON TO PUNCH THAT DUDE.]

[survivaltricks]

[. . . and his mouth twitches, the smile hidden by his mug of coffee]

What guy? Kamoshida?

[or Ryuji's dad? either way, word to both, it seems]

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yeah.

And the father.

But at least your friend got to hit one of them.

[survivaltricks]

[. . .]

I'd like to say that's a good thing, but. . .

[it sounds like the punch wasn't satisfying due to the fallout from same]

Assholes like that Kamoshida guy will use any excuse to ruin people. The moment my friend threw that punch, he fell headfirst into that asshole's trap.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Its a bit of a mixed bag, to be sure.

But assholes like that only get stopped if people stand up to him. And the fact one person has picked up his game makes it a lot more likely others will too and that punch becomes a paper trail. He's working to piss off a lot of people as is.

[survivaltricks]

[Twilight totally doesn't know it yet but he'll remember that he is one of those people. . . one day]

Mmm.

[. . . but for now, he just quietly sips at the coffee in his mug]

[schrodingerscockroach]

Corruption happens, unfortunately. That's why people like your friend are important.

Even if they get in trouble, its people like him who get people like that asshole gone. Fact he's not given up says a lot about what he might do himself.

Especially since you're fighting in another world?

1/2

[survivaltricks]

[. . . quietly, but earnestly, with no doubting the conviction in his voice]

You're right. He is.

[and then he lifts his mug to his lips again]

[survivaltricks]

[-- and then freezing when Dusk asks that last question]

Ah.

[HM]

[AND HE JUST. . . SHRUGS]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He smiles at that conviction. YES GOOD, BELIEVE IN YOUR FRIEND.] Looks like you have a good friend.

[....Twilight]

Might explain why you have a talking cat.

Alien cat.

[survivaltricks]

[he grins a little bit, both at the comment about Ryuji being a good friend (he thinks that's probably true) and his alien cat]

Maybe I was abducted as a kid. Spent most of my life growing up on the planet of Lyria H6Y.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Your other friend is kind of weird, but Ryuji is legit.]

And you randomly bring you new friends home to test their mettle?

[survivaltricks]

[HIS OTHER FRIEND IS LEGIT TOO DON'T BE MEAN B(]

Or to introduce them to the joys of Earth cuisine.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[WEIRD IS NOT BAD, weird is very good, he just understand Ryuji in his soul.]

[Being court martialed for punching out his CO who wanted his squad to go on a suicide mission. Very similar, really.]

You do seem to have a way in the kitchen.

So you have no idea on what's up with the weird yet?

[survivaltricks]

[extremely similar!!]

[his expression slackens, and he shakes his head]

No. . . I don't. I'm not in a rush to figure it out, though. Those memories will come back to me in time.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He nods.]

....well, you got good, if kind of weird, friends, and a talking cat in the deal. Can't be too bad.

[survivaltricks]

[ha]

I kind of thought that, too.

[his mouth twitches with amusement and a slight bit of fondness for both Ryuji and Yusuke]

For now, I'm okay with just being a totally normal high school kid, though.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Hearing that, it really makes him think of Faito. She's still too young to be as scarred as she is.]

[At least Twilight seems in better condition. Whatever he's doing, it can't be too terrible, right?]

Does seem like you guys are having a lot of fun. Anguish and all.

[survivaltricks]

[laughtrack don't speak too soon, Dusk]

I think that clergyman just couldn't appreciate my friend's deep and passionate vision for art.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[LISTEN]

[His bar for terrible is stupidly high]

[That's the real terrible]

No one can understand true art. But at least it means one day, his anguish will let him find the inspiration he needs. [Melodramatic delivery and all.]

[survivaltricks]

[lifts a hand, huffing a laugh against his knuckles]

I have faith in him. He seems like an unstoppable force to me.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Certainly determined. Though I would suggest not stripping in public for his art.

[survivaltricks]

Seemed like a good idea at the time.

[HE SAYS WITH A STRAIGHT FACE]

[aka he knew it was a bad idea he was just shitposting with his mouth]

[schrodingerscockroach]

Uh huh, I'm sure it was.

[And then there's a meow from his hoody pocket.]

[survivaltricks]

[. . . ?]

Hm. . .? What was that?