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

[awakenerd]

...Do what?

[schrodingerscockroach]

The disappearing trick.

[awakenerd]

...My inventory? Don't you have one?

[schrodingerscockroach]

No. That's why I have the pockets. [Holding out the pants bottoms that have all the pockets.]

[Also did probably at least put on the hoody at some point during cocoa making.]

Even the armor you could see the stuff, it was all held on with like...magnets.

[awakenerd]

Huh. I just thought it was...A normal skill everyone has. You just... I don't know how to explain it really. You use your inventory and store or retrieve things. It's not infinite but it holds plenty.

[schrodingerscockroach]

....no, I don't think so. That's why people invented bags and pockets.

[awakenerd]

I mean those are also important and useful.

[schrodingerscockroach]

In case you overfill your inventory?

[awakenerd]

Faster to open a bag, too.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Oh? How long a delay is it for inventory?

[awakenerd]

Not that long but...

[Just a small pause and.... he retrieves the cocoa from nowhere.]

[schrodingerscockroach]

.....might depend on the bag.

....would that get cold overtime?

[awakenerd]

Not in my inventory.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[It's like a time stasis dimensional pocket.]

...so weird.

[awakenerd]

You realize that's the feeling I have that this isn't normal for you.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yeah, probably.

It does seem really cool though. And convenient. It'd make being prepared easier.

[awakenerd]

It definitely beats having to rely on what you can carry only.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yeah. Even with good carrying cases, it's still pretty easy to lose the stuff.

[awakenerd]

Yeah. I mean you can't carry a military shipment's worth in an inventory, you still need delivery people and stuff, but for convenience it can't be beat.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Just being able to carry another ten mags would be great.

[awakenerd]

Haha fair enough.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Your world is full of convenience things. Inventories, orbal guns...

[Opening the door to Clover and pink and pastels.]

[awakenerd]

No faster than light space travel though.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Which is weird because those inventories should already be bebding time and space. Usually things are big then get parsed down.

[To his bedroom.]

[awakenerd]

Well time and space are both higher elements... I'd probably classify an inventory as space related.

[To the bedroom! It's Dusk's domain so Rean hopes he'll be more comfortable there.]