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

[bad_crowmance]

[ It's an extremist's view and that's what Crow was. He doesn't remember the bigger picture, that's certainly true, but he knows that it's not something to be proud of-- and he knows he didn't regret what he was doing. That it had felt-- not right, but necessary.

And it's understanding this point of view that makes him firm in his stance against Rean's belief that he's somehow a sweet person. Because he knows the things he's capable of without regret.

He stares back at her steadily, not really speaking. His arms are crossed and his stances is loose. He isn't smirking or smiling, he isn't trying to play it off as some kind of joke. It was never a joke. ]

[daydreamshimmer]

[There was that. He wasn't....wasn't treating it like a joke. Like the old figures she could still remember. The chaos of Discord. The demented malice of Sombra. Though one was incredibly powerful and the other a King. It was all just demented joy for them.]

[And she does feel sure of that conclusion, hand uncurling to fidget with her necklace mindlessly.]

[But still. It was not something she could wrap her head around. Why are humans like this, why is she stuck as one, why why why.]

[She scoffs.] Why am I....? [She mutters and shakes her head. She just needs to fix herself, she can figure out how much she has to deal with humans then.] Okay then. Thanks, I guess.

[And then going to turn to walk away. With 'Hi, I'm ????! Talk to me about my fear of being useless!' on her back because she would have just ditched her clothes if she knew it was on her. Pony sense of modesty.]

[bad_crowmance]

Just so you know, you've got a nametag on your back.

[ He's helping. ]

[daydreamshimmer]

[Stops]

[Why is it-of course its there-]

What's the name?

[bad_crowmance]

Just a bunch of question marks. I'm guessing you've got memory problems, too.

[daydreamshimmer]

[Scoffs again.]

So I just get to have a cheesy label and no helpful information. [So yes.]

[bad_crowmance]

It says you have a fear of being useless.... So yeah, it's pretty unhelpful.

[daydreamshimmer]

[Was it possible for her to be more tense?]

[Apparently because she froze up like a statue.]

What does a nametag know anyway? [And that is a lot more hostility in her tone.]

[bad_crowmance]

Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it. Seems like they're designed to try and bother people. I'd bet you anything mine wanted me to be uncomfortable. Unfortunately, they're dealing with me.

[daydreamshimmer]

Not one make uncomfortable easily? [Is feeling along her back for the tag. With the back of her hand, keeping it in a closed fist again.]

[Doing her best to seem casual about it all.]

[bad_crowmance]

[ He notices the closed fist thing and even wonders what's up with it, but in the end decides not to call her out on it easily. ]

I've been told I'm pretty shameless and I haven't found anything yet that disagrees with that idea.

[daydreamshimmer]

Seems like that's a common thing.

Except when it comes to clothes. [Which is still weird.]

[And can't quite reach the tag and UGH, it was a pain getting the dress on in the first place, really don't want to be in a tangle in front of someone. Maybe she could just floof her mane?]

[bad_crowmance]

Wait. Who else have you been talking to that's shameless? Most of the people here are kinda prudish.

[ LIKE. HE'S JUST SAYING. ]

[daydreamshimmer]

None of our topics have had anything to do with being prudish.

Shameless in....being distressingly blunt.

[Mussing up her hair to get it to spread and cover her back more to partially obscure the tag.]

[bad_crowmance]

I think you and I have very different definitions of "shameless' here.

[ He sounds amused. ]

And yeah, I think most people figure blunt's the best way to do it. Hell, I don't disagree.

[daydreamshimmer]

I still don't know how you jumped to that definition from anything we've said in this conversation.

If you mean about the supposed multiverse thing, I don't mean that.

[bad_crowmance]

Then what do you mean?

[daydreamshimmer]

The casual way humans treat violent tendencies, like it's norma-

[She started, frustration and distress entering her voice even as she tries to bite it back, but she also started to turn at the same time]

[And tripped over her own feet and stumbled, catching herself on the wall and growls.]

And why are such small hooves in the way all the time!?

[bad_crowmance]

You're not used to looking like this, are you?

[ He says it out loud in a thoughtful tone. ]

Dunno what it's like where you are, but violence is all too normal where I'm from. People going after each other, full of spite and anger-- or worse yet, for no reason other than money. Selfish, greedy people who want nothing but what's best for themselves and don't care who they have to step on to get it.

[daydreamshimmer]

Humans don't even exist on Equestria! I can list off plenty of species name, sentient and not, but humans aren't a thing! You don't have tails or claws or fur or scales and it's weird!

Griffins are selfish, dragons are violent, and there are species that are just monstrous, but magic means behaving in Equestria if you want to stay there. None of this....fear tactics or looking ready to eat somepony. How can a species not go mad like that?

1/2

[bad_crowmance]

Haha!

[ He slips back into the lighter, more amused tone and smiles. ]

Who says we haven't?

[bad_crowmance]

[ He's still smiling as he keeps speaking. ]

...But there's good people, too. Kind ones. They're the ones that make you wanna have hope for humanity. ....Just don't look to me for that and you'll be fine.

[daydreamshimmer]

Yeah, I've yet to meet anyone whose presence has even been a little comforting. Either there's something terrifying about them, or they're an amnesiac which means automatic gamble on how that goes. And supposedly I'm supposed to work and live with someone who I'm pretty sure would sell me for a corn chip if it was convenient for her.

So real hard to even give that a benefit of a doubt at this rate.

[bad_crowmance]

Wait, you're Senna right? You've got Naeva there, she's generally pretty good with people.

[daydreamshimmer]

Only people I've met on Senna is the other amnesiac and the white haired lady who'd sell me for a corn chip and I'm still not convinced she wasn't ready to eat me.

[Naeva made]

[The WORST impression.]

Don't know who the other four are. [There were seven doors, so making an assumption.