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]

There's trials for it?!

[malignstar]

There's trials for everything.

[daydreamshimmer]

Ugh. So not only is it a highly suspicious operation, it's a perverted one.

[malignstar]

What's perverted about kissing?

[daydreamshimmer]

Making people kiss for someone's amusement is.

[malignstar]

You don't have to kiss. Just if you want the points. Depends how competitive you are.

[daydreamshimmer]

Whether or not that's the case doesn't matter.

There's still someone saying 'kiss for my amusement.'

[malignstar]

Yeah, I guess how that could get kind of squick.

[daydreamshimmer]

I'm pretty sure squick doesn't cover the creepy factor.

[malignstar]

Squick can mean creepy.

[daydreamshimmer]

Squick is like something that just bothers a select few. Creepy is creepy to anyone with some sense.

[malignstar]

I guess. I'm just saying it never seems like the people here mind that much. Even if we're doing it for some weird voyeuristic runners, we're still having fun with it. Or we don't do it.

Unless you're 80H. She's kinda masochistic when it comes to winning.

[daydreamshimmer]

That is nowhere near as reassuring as you think it is.

....yeah, sounds about right.

[malignstar]

I'm doing my best here.

[daydreamshimmer]

I'd change your tactics.

[malignstar]

Suggestions?

[daydreamshimmer]

At least admit the creepy thing is creepy.

[malignstar]

Okay, for you. It's creepy.

[daydreamshimmer]

...you really need to work on your sense of privacy.

[malignstar]

Point taken.

[daydreamshimmer]

Good.