Newbies + Monthly Prompts!

[trainmasters]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 47, morning
Where: the Aurora

[It's that time again: this morning, you're awoken by the jingle associated with an official message from your Chain -- the usual "newbie time" balloon animation and text:]

WELCOME NEW HEROES

[This round's newbies are waking up in their rooms, in the usual nondescript undies or team pyjamas.

Outside, the cold snap has broken. It's back to jungle warmth, though the sudden change in temperature appears to have caused a thick fog. So thick, in fact, that you can't see more than a few feet in front of you -- and it doesn't burn off with the daylight.

For the next few days, Origin Star will be lost in the mist, and should you venture too far, you may be too. Because out there in the humid dim are willow-the-wisps, faint lights in the fog that will lead you to perilous terrain or into the jaws of beasts.

Sometimes, you may also hear a voice -- a distant song from across the sea, in the direction of the corrupted island. If you get too close, long and spindly arms will reach out of the water and pull you down, for a kiss from a scaly human-like being that sucks all the emotion out of you and leaves you feeling hollow and lacking empathy for others. The cure is time -- you'll be better in a day or so, but you can speed it up by basking in the warm feelings of others.]

[[OOC NOTES: As the monthly prompts, the fog and mermaids will continue until next month's placements. If you have any questions, please ping the mods via the q&a. Thank you!]]

Comments

[schrodingerscockroach]

Good morning.

....need coffee?

[beeknighted]

Yes please.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Can do.

Want cheap stuff, or good stuff?

[beeknighted]

...

[I don't remember what either tastes like]

What would you recommend?

[schrodingerscockroach]

....good stuff.

Come on, we'll need to go to Clover.

[Gestures for him to follow.]

[beeknighted]

Alright, thank you.

[Following the strange man this seems fine.]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Strange man in pink and plenty of his own scars.]

[But oooooff to Clover.]

[Leading the way inside and it's just....it's like excited childproofing for a new baby really.]

Welcome to Clover, my team's car.

[beeknighted]

[Looking around at the car... it's so childish but where are the children?]

What a bright home.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yeah. It's certainly a...style.

I don't think anyone knows why it's like this.

[But we do have a nice kitchen now with nice appliances and a fancy coffee maker.] Take a seat.

[beeknighted]

[Taking a seat as he's told]

Do you not like it?

[schrodingerscockroach]

I don't hate it.

But it's definitely not what I'd have chosen.

[beeknighted]

I guess we don’t get much choice in the decor.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Not really, no.

[Pulling out stuff for coffee.]

[beeknighted]

If you wanted to change it, is there anywhere to get paint from?

[schrodingerscockroach]

That'd be the Spark store. But anytime we got new stuff, it'd be pink.

Did you grab your Chain before you left your car?

[featherbeaned]

[ CHIRP CHIRP ]

[ CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP ]

Dusk! Dusk, Dusk, Dusk!

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yes, Meri?

[featherbeaned]

He smells like me, Dusk!

[schrodingerscockroach]

He...does?

Like exactly like you or just around him a lot like you?

[featherbeaned]

Like pack-scent! Do humans know that? Your noses aren't good, right?

[schrodingerscockroach]

They're not good, no. We can get the meaning behind pack though. It's like a family.

So he's your pack?

[featherbeaned]

Maybe? He's something. [ Bounces some, like a quivery excited puppy. ] He's something.

Clover and Thyme needs to win so we can remember.

Bond

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He chuckles.] I can get that. Still haven't remembered who Faito is to me, though we're sure we're something.

Winning does help. So does this.

[SOMEONE IS NOW GETTING PETS.]

[featherbeaned]

[ pets ]

[ PETS ]

[ Trills happily, nuzzling into the pets. ]

Too bad we're not all one big team. Your Faito, my ... whatever his name is.

[schrodingerscockroach]

It would make it a lot easier.

Just means we might have to do double time.