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

[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.

[bad_crowmance]

Damn, Naeva made a hell of a bad impression.

[ Honestly, he's impressed. ]

Try some of the other teams. There's a guy on Ginger who's pretty easy to get along with, he likes most people.

[daydreamshimmer]

So that's her name.

Pretty sure it's not an impression. Made it real clear where her priorities were. Could be wrong on the eating, not wrong on the corn chip.

And what's his name?

[bad_crowmance]

Nah, Naeva's a brat but she does care about people. And she definitely doesn't eat 'em.

[ She drinks her boytoy's blood but somehow that doesn't feel like the right thing to say right now. ]

The guy on Ginger? His name's Rean.

[daydreamshimmer]

[It would be a terrible thing to say right now. Especially when Sunset scoffs in disbelief.]

Uh huh, yeah. Sure. Real caring. I'll believe it when I see it and I seriously doubt I'm ever going to see it. At the very least if you're going to demand something of someone, you should at least let them pursue something important to them, not tell them to forget it because it might be a little hard. There's being selfish and then there's being cruel.

I guess I can at least talk to him. I can't just read the entire library the whole time I'm here.

[bad_crowmance]

I'll... leave that to you two to figure out.

[ As a general policy, Crow doesn't get involved in a fight between two women, especially when one of them could probably kick his ass. And it's not the small amber-yellow one in front of him. ]

You could, but that depends on your taste in books. You'd probably end up bored sooner or later either way.

[daydreamshimmer]

[Not right now she can't.]

[But with humans who know how to channel magic out of a human body, well....]

[Still, venting a little did help some of her nerves. Feeling less on the edge of a panic attack.]

Research is something I jump to, so I can probably read a while.

[bad_crowmance]

Well, I more meant that I'm pretty sure a decent chunk of the books in there are romance. So unless you wanna look into human mating rituals....

[ Crow shrugs. ]

[daydreamshimmer]

[The look of horror on her face]

Why are there so many romances on an interdimensional train?

[bad_crowmance]

Wait until you meet the prince, it'll all become clear.

[daydreamshimmer]

Doesn't he have better things to be doing?!

[bad_crowmance]

Yeah but you can blame the guy for having a little fun.

[ He winks at Sunset. ]

[daydreamshimmer]

Then he can keep the romances to himself!

[bad_crowmance]

You don't have to read them if you don't want. It's at least pretty obvious to figure 'em out by the cover-- most romances have scantily-clad people clinging dramatically to each other.

[daydreamshimmer]

Scantily-clad?

[Listen, when your race defaults to naked, all clothes is over dressed.]

[bad_crowmance]

Okay, you see what I'm wearing right now?

[ He gestures at his clothing. ]

This is a pretty normal amount of clothes when it's unbearably hot like it is right now. Scantily-clad is like... [ He gesture from about his waist to barely below his butt. ] ...about this much. With some strips of fabric over the chest as well if the person's a lady. Maybe a little more, but only if the fabric's sheer and those are the areas getting fully covered.

[daydreamshimmer]

Ah. Dramatically dressed then.

....why do only women have fabric over their chests?

[bad_crowmance]

Societal rules. Most human cultures-- at least the ones where I come from-- think women's breasts are scandalous and need to be kept covered unless she's feeding a baby or.... participating in mating rituals.

[ Crow is not up for explaining sex to a non-human, even if she does look like she's in her late teens. ]