auroraexpress | Newbies + Monthly Prompts!

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!]]

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A little. It's not subtle, though? Same purple.

Well... not if you know what you're looking for, anyway.

Well, it's also not our first rodeo.

[ Welp. There's been a couple of things 80H has said once or twice that's made him... wonder. Put another point in that pile. ]

Haha, fair enough. Sounds like you remember everything from your life, then.

[ps link me those--]

Hah. Not really. Didn't get em all in the last place.

This one didn't take more away, though.

You weren't kidding about it not being your first rodeo, huh?

[ That's very, very interesting. ]

Yeah. Couldn't care less about the rest, to be honest.

Not even a little curious, huh?

[ He can't relate at all. ]

Well, that's fine honestly-- you'll probably get tokens as you gain sparks but it's your choice whether or not to use 'em.

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I'm curious, but also super dead. So.

[but nodding, to confirm they're at least listening.]

Haha, yoooou're not the only one.

[ He knows for a fact 80H is dead and as for himself-- well, that seems to be more complicated. ]

Tough break. 'Specially if this isn't that sort of place.

Not by nature. Some people are still very much alive, but it doesn't seem to matter whenever the prince does whatever the hell it is he does to scoop people out of the cosmic ether or whatever.

...Well. Sure don't know how to feel about that.

No kidding. I'd bet it's a nasty shock to anyone who sees someone they'd expect to be dead pop up, too.

At least with everyone dead you'd only get the "how dare you also have died" situations...

Oh man. That sounds like its own special kind of awkward.

Yeah, uh. Not fun!

I don't doubt it. Anyway, I haven't introduced myself. The name's Crow, Crow Armbrust. And you are...?

Morin Khuur. Currently, at least. More likely to be one or the other most times.

One or the other...?

[ He thinks about that for a moment. Not "our" first rodeo, huh...? ]

There's no bond here, so you can't feel it like Hemlock could. But there are two of us. Though right now it's kinda...

[folds hands together??]

Bond? Hemlock? But huh... two of you in there sounds kinda crowded.

We worked it out eventually.

Uhh, Hemlock was our previous team. And the bond was... a psychic connection between teammates?

A psychic connection, huh?

[ Having one with Rean is one thing-- Crow had signed onto that willingly. But an entire team of people with a direct connection, all entirely against his will? No thanks. ]

Well, if you guys worked it out then that's the important thing.

Yeah, it reaaally sucked before we did, so we're both pretty pleased with having done so.

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