EVENT: ~*~Heat Wave~*~

[trainmasters]

Who: Heroes! Old ones, new ones...!
When: Day 42, afternoon
Where: Around the train

[ Good news, everyone! Those pesky cicadas are gone at last! You might have even had a chance to relax, except....

Except for the heat wave.

It's like the worst parts of the last dregs of summer come to torture you with excrutiating heat. It's heat so bad you could swear that you've started melting yourself the second you step outside. It's terrible. At least with the cold you can add more layers on, how are you supposed to deal with heat?? You can't just walk around naked??

(That's not a suggestion.)

Here's the thing about the heat, though: It's bad enough that it's causing mirages-- mirages of people you may even recognize, people who are lost in the dark. People who will try to lead you into danger, people who don't want what's best for you after all....

That aside, you may or may not have noticed that there's some new teammates on the train! The notification appears cheerfully on everyone's Chains:

WELCOME NEW HEROES

And you may find yourself wearing a label you can't seem to remove until you've spoken to at least one other person: "Hi, I'm ______! Talk to me about ______!"

There's a mischievous giggle in the wind that you may recognize as the same one that ran the plants and secrets game. ]

[[ NOTES: You're welcome to make team posts if you like, or intro directly into this mingle if you haven't already. Until next month's placements, the heat wave will persist. Characters stand the risk of seeing castmates not in the game until that point, mirages from the heat. Enjoy! ]]

Comments

[desirestruth]

Of course not.

[bad_crowmance]

Glad we cleared that up.

[ The pettings are still continuing, btw. ]

[desirestruth]

[Which is why she's become a complete puddle at this point. She's about to--yeah, there it goes, she rolled over.

Crow, you ever feel like you've been granted entirely too much power?]

[bad_crowmance]

[ This is the guy who instantly answered "yes" when Rean declared "DOST THOU DESIRE THE POWER" to everyone. Of course he doesn't feel like he's been granted too much power.

That being said, she is now getting belly skritches. And noting how undignified she is and how effective a tool this might be in the future. ]

[desirestruth]

[So fun fact: She in fact does do the leg kicky.

She's gonna kill him later.]

[bad_crowmance]

[ She does the leg kicky, this is the best thing ever.

And it's not his fault, he's just being obliging! It isn't nice to murder people who are just giving you want you want, Naeva. ]

[desirestruth]

[Yes but she knows you'll use this to embarrass her later and there's only one way to shut you up!

...That she's going to engage in!

Anyway she's started also make happy little whiny noises and the tailwags, girl just goes full doggo sometimes, huh?]

[bad_crowmance]

[ The other way would be much more fun but he wouldn't do that with her, either.

She really has gone full doggo, it's amazing and the belly skritches will continue until Naeva is fully cognizant of her shredded dignity. ]

[desirestruth]

[It'll take a little bit, but eventually her brain kicks back on and she just.

Freezes.]

...What am I doing.

[bad_crowmance]

Enjoying yourself from the looks of it.

[ Crow's grinning as he speaks. Welcome to never living this down. ]

[desirestruth]

...I have done nothing to deserve this bullying in my life.

[You've done maybe a couple things, Naeva.]

[bad_crowmance]

That's a lie and you know it.

[ Take your bullying like a woman, Naeva! ]

[desirestruth]

[But she's not used to people other than Lucien bullying her this much it's weiiiirrddd--!]

I have to cling on to something, Crow.

[bad_crowmance]

Find something better to cling to.

[desirestruth]

Lucien's not awake yet.

[AYYYY.]

[bad_crowmance]

Sounds like a personal problem.

[desirestruth]

You could stand to be more sympathetic for the monogamous among us, Crow, we can't all be living freely and generating sparks left and right that way.

[bad_crowmance]

See, and that's why me and monogamy would never work out. It's too limiting!

[ That and the commitment issues but shhh. ]

[desirestruth]

You mean, you're far too hard up to keep it in your pants for one person?

[Well when you put it like that, Naeva...]

[bad_crowmance]

50,000 sparks aren't going to generate themselves, Naeva.

[desirestruth]

...The hell do you need fifty thousand sparks for? Are you buying an entire train car?

[bad_crowmance]

Nope! I'm buying Ordine.

[ That's not an answer and he knows it. ]

[desirestruth]

Who and what is an Ordine.

[bad_crowmance]

Ordine's my other Divine Knight.

[ That's only slightly more of an answer. ]

[desirestruth]

...Another Rean...

[She's kind of just. Contemplating that for a while. Not sure if want?]