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

[malignstar]

I also liked your pet robot. Though I'm curious who installs Spanish in a giant robot.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Red and Blue team.

That's the second one. Lopez is one who isn't trying to murder us. Probbly.

[malignstar]

I think I saw him. Dos Two Point O?

[schrodingerscockroach]

No, that's the second one.

Lopez was the ground armored guy following Tucker right at the end there.

[malignstar]

There were a lot of guys to keep track of. At least you were mostly color-coordinated.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Well, it helps I've seen them all in other memories. We had to get Lopez out of the trash shortly after that.

[malignstar]

Your people end up in some weird situations. How did the wall thing happen?

[schrodingerscockroach]

...considering we weren't on the same side at the time.

Might have been Maine. Meta. He's real strong.

[malignstar]

You mean he threw him into the wall?

[schrodingerscockroach]

This is a very real possibility.

[malignstar]

That's both horrifying and badass.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Oh definitely. Maine's a badass. According to York, he was able to fight after he got shot in the throat.

[malignstar]

Is Maine human?

[schrodingerscockroach]

Oh yeah. I mean, part of it is the augmentation, but to be fair, Project Freelancer agents do seem to be that brand of crazy driven.

[malignstar]

Project Freelancer?

[schrodingerscockroach]

The special ops group I was a part of.

[malignstar]

All of you are augmented?

[schrodingerscockroach]

I believe so.

The power armor is good, but the thing is, we're still human inside of it. Something that small can only have so much kinetic cancellation materials and enhance so much physical ability. Even if we trained up our bodies to keep up with the speed the armor can provide without it breaking our bones, our organs are certainly going to feel things like getting hit by vehicles.

So you need to reinforce the human to take full advantage of the power and protection.

[malignstar]

Huh, so you have to be enhanced to take full advantage of your tech. Interesting.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Exactly. But since it is just kind of reinforcing things, variations between people.

And Maine is a beast.

[malignstar]

Sure sounds like it.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yeah.

And full of sass. Silent, silent sass.

[malignstar]

Silent sass is the best kind.

[schrodingerscockroach]

It is pretty great. Especially when the subject doesn't even know it's happening behind them.

[York got SO MUCH shit.]