auroraexpress | EVENT: ~*~Heat Wave~*~

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! ]]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Sounds like a personal problem.

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.

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

[ That and the commitment issues but shhh. ]

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...]

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

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

Nope! I'm buying Ordine.

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

Who and what is an Ordine.

Ordine's my other Divine Knight.

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

...Another Rean...

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

[ Crow grins at that. ]

As tempting as that thought is, Ordine's a little different from Rean.

Probably for the best, the implication of buying people is a bit...

[Handwaggle.]

Are you going to explain what Ordine is, at any point, then?

Did you really think I could or would buy a person?

[ LIKE. HONESTLY?? ]

Not really, no. I'd believe you'd pay that many sparks to make a Rean sandwich, though.

[Just. Going to give him time to chew on that one.]

See, the flaw in that idea is I could never get Rean to agree to a Rean sandwich.

[ Do you really think Rean has the self-esteem to fuck his double? Crow, on the other hand... ]

That's why you'd be in the middle, isn't it?

[Naeva has a worrying amount of understanding of why this would work.]

...Then again, he really is lacking the confidence for that kind of thing.