auroraexpress | EVENT: The Sound of Summer

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!]]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Until you ice over everything and send wild animals injured and distressed towards the train if you don't go for it yourself eventually.

The sooner you're pacified, the better overall. Distance could have meant unchecked until you got tired. Which you might not?

Don't know if you'll lose it again if I get distance. Hoping you'll at least see the logic of a check before I test it.

[it's not that he's wrong in this instance but she is too busy thinking about how he could stab her in the back figuratively or literally if he's allowed to get too close.

Distance is better.]

I am fine so it hardly matters.

[Wow, rude, that is literally the one evil thing he'd never do.]

Did you know a hug woukd counter the destruction impulses?

Beforehand? No.

So you don't know how it works so its better to err on the side of caution, isn't it?

...

[stop making sense she doesn't like it.]

We both know I'm right.

That does not mean you have to remain seated upon my person, does it?

No, this was to get you to at least admit it to yourself I'm right so I can call you out rightfully if you pretend assistance might not be a necessity.