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

[schrodingerscockroach]

Genkins destroyed time.

...but we were probably were involved if he's bothering to possess one of us to keep tabs and we do get jerked around a lot. Paradoxes probably aren't helping.

[time5kip]

Probably not. But I suppose that makes your guess regarding how you and your friend met somewhat more believable.

[schrodingerscockroach]

....god yeah, will need to tell her that. 'Hey, time travel is real and time got destroyed because we were probably dumbasses and some asshole named Genkins.' What kind of name even is that.

[time5kip]

[ He's just like. Making this face and looking up like there's something terribly terribly ironic about all of this ] You and I have an unfortunate amount of common points.

[schrodingerscockroach]

....yeah. Looks like.

[Into Clover and to the kitchen for coffee.] Sounded like Donut and I were even alone for a bit for it. Though he was probably first.

Maybe that's why pink makes me feel guilty. [Donut on a lonely and terrible time journey.]

[time5kip]

I'm surprised you weren't eliminated, actually.

[schrodingerscockroach]

That would be the easy answer to keep us out of the way.

Which means there's probably a reason he can't. [Pause.] Oh. Maybe he REALLY can't.

[time5kip]

Obviously if he has reasons to kill you and he hasn't yet, he can't. Makes me wonder why, though.

Far as I'm aware nobody likes people messing with the timeline.

[schrodingerscockroach]

He certainly wanted to. He told Sheila to fire until Caboose interfered. But if you possess a body, you use that to stealth kill, especially when the Reds and Blues are....unconventional as they are. So he can't, but someone else can and he can prompt. Maybe a loophole for a boss. Or a weird time travel rule.

It does seem like a bad idea, but Genkins also isn't human. Not like any of the aliens I remembered either.

[time5kip]

What about you then? Why didn't you kill the guy?

[schrodingerscockroach]

If I had the opportunity? No idea.

If he was possessing my men, well, that's fairly obvious. Though it may also be I can't. Church is....weird. Maybe a ghost? He's left his body and possessed people himself.

[time5kip]

Your world makes no sense whatsoever. That's annoying.

[schrodingerscockroach]

I almost want to say its the Reds and Blues fault somehow. Freelancer was action movie dramatics, sure, space special ops, but things just get suddenly weird and kinda dumb with them.

[time5kip]

And you remember absolutely nothing of value so far. There's that to consider as well.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Nothing for the time travel unless Church is like whatever Genkins is. Which might be sone clues.

[And pouring out coffee now. Will set out a cup for Five before getting cream and sugar for himself.]

[time5kip]

[ Between alcohol and coffee he already drank, like, way too much already here but that's not going to stop him from taking another cup regardless ]

Thanks.

[ He's not saying anything else, not yet, but he is staying there and waiting for Dusk, just in case there's something he wants to add ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He's going to drink some of his coffee and hopefully it helps his headache subside.]

....so. Time travel happens. Destroy time and space, which probably means where we are is in some kind of...I don't know, a bit like us? Existing, but not quite existing?

[time5kip]

Somewhere outside of time and space. I'm familiar with the concept.

[schrodingerscockroach]

But maybe not wholly separated. I wasn't....surprised at Tucker having an alien baby. [Which sure was. A thing. That happened.] Maybe hijacking things. Delta was York's AI, and he wasn't there from what I could see.