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[joybound]

Who: you??
When: Day 48, evening and night
Where: the library and beyond

[As sun sets today, everyone will receive a message on their Chain:

☆: Good Evening my precious, charming heroes!
☆: It's been awhile since we had a party, so I was thinking you guys could use a pick-me-up.
☆: If you're interested, come down to the library ♥

Should you take the suggestion, you'll find the library has been decked out in fairy lights, with pink glittery star-shaped decorations all around. In the hallway are tables with trays of fruit tarts and fizzy drinks, and there's cheerful electronic music playing over the intercom.

In the center of the library, there's a new hexagonal bookshelf, accessible from every angle. It spins, allowing passengers to browse without bumping eachother around, and on it are a new collection of books. Some you might recognize from home -- if you ever wrote a book yourself, or had one written about you, it's here. Everything from formal biographies to grade school story projects has been brought in, in a delightfully embarrassing celebration of the passengers.

And if that wasn't enough to make you blush, there's also a slew of new books about you... The trains Heroes have been written in to a variety of fairy tales. In one story, you may find yourself a knight on a white horse rescuing your teammate and riding off into the sunset. In another you're a fairy godmother. You may even be a witch or a dragon! Given enough time, you'll probably find a story that puts you in just about every role, in a cast with just about every other passenger, teammate or no.

Be careful, though -- at random chance, reading a story about yourself might make you feel like acting out that role in real life! Those effected by this will consider other characters from that story to be their roles as well -- if your teammate was your Prince Charming in the story, you'll think they are in real life! All in a harmless, bond-promoting way, of course. This effect will wear off after an hour or so, and one character can be afflicted multiple times.

Will you get lovingly teased by over-the-top fanfiction? Probably. Will the library be covered in glitter forever? Definitely. Is it worth it...?

Well. Prince Cardamom thinks so. He's also joined in for the night, and will gladly play out stories with you, or face your ire. Enjoy the party!]

[[OOC: There's a prince toplevel here, though as always threads are subject to mod energy levels. If you'd like to handwave your character asking questions/etc, please feel free to poke Cleo#9893 @ discord and I'll work out what kind of information you might get! Thank you!]

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THE PRINCE

[joybound]

[In all his shining, shimmering, splendid glory, the Prince, twinkling stars in his hair and eyes as always, is sitting in a chair in the library, eating a strawberry tart and getting crumbs all over where they definitely should not be.

He's here for you.]

[bowtiedbones]

[!!!]

Cardamom!

Re: THE PRINCE

[beeknighted]

Are you the star prince?

[voreaciously]

Your Highness.

[A regal curtsy and dip of her head.]

I've a request.

Re: THE PRINCE

[crimeson]

You're making a mess, dork.

Re: THE PRINCE

[awakenerd]

You look like you're having fun, Your Highness.

[bluediligence]

[ ohhhh wow ]

H ... Hi there! Are you the prince I read about-? Thank you for the tarts!

[ She's got a stack of them piled up in her arms. ]

Re: THE PRINCE

[bad_crowmance]

Having fun?

[malignstar]

Cardy! To what do we owe this visit?

Re: THE PRINCE

[learnedfool]

Didn't anyone ever tell you that there is no food around the books?

[ruinatings]

[Rufus is braving the glitter to check out the horrible stories. There's fanfiction of course, but as for things from home: you'll find a book full of newspaper clippings... At first they're pieces on the golden boy of the nobility, the charming and accomplished son of a Duke. Then they turn into bits about leading the nobility in a civil war. They only get worse from there, but Rufus is trying to find all copies and spirit them away, so.

There's also something else, though: those in modern worlds may recognize an idol-style photobook. Yep. An official book of nothing but professional photoshoots of Rufus in various tasteful but definitely sexy outfits. Somehow, this seems to be a thing that actually exists.

He's gathering that up too.]

How lovely.

[[Note: the newspaper book would involved spoilers for trails of cold steel 3 & 4 so please keep that in mind before addressing it!]]

[crimeson]

[mmm the newspaper clippings

Randy's gonna wait to drape himself over Rufus' shoulders until he's got the photobook in hand.]

Oh yeah, the fun kinda propaganda~

[voreaciously]

[80H comes across thins with Rufus on them and she tries not to look, but that idol book is catchy. My, that's a very good angle--ah. She shuts it.

Anyway.

She arrives in front of him with a small stack of items, her face its polite neutral.]

I believe these are yours.

[awakenerd]

....Is this... a photo book? Did you pise for this?

[bowtiedbones]

[skimming the titles]

Oh my gosh, is this my CV??

[crimeson]

...Is it?

[malignstar]

You have a CV?

[wontforbidtherain]

Does that count as a book?

[voreaciously]

A)

[80H is carrying the largest stack of books, articles, and papers. Like, you will not realise it is her unless you are looking at her from the side because it is much higher than she is tall.

Something thin slips off the top however and lands at your feet.

"My Family by Kawanokami Amane" There is a clearly childish, but surprisingly not that terrible drawing of five people on the cover. One woman, two men, and a pair of girls. The foremost and latter two all have blue hair and beauty marks in different places. They are all at the beach and the cover has very cute drawings of seashells, starfish, crabs, and octopuses.]


B)

[80H reads different fanfics so she knows what she must destroy move for safekeeping, but she gets affected by what she reads and Some Things start to happen.]

1.

[A scaly tail winds around your waist suddenly and spins you into her direction. 80H is sporting curved horns, wings, claws and very sharp teeth. And is the owner of that tail.

She stamps her foot for each word she says, punctuating it.]

Where. Have. You. Been?!

2.

[She flits about on butterfly wings and appears before you shaking her head quite passionately and tsking.]

No, no, no, this simply will not do at all, you cannot win their heart dressed like this. We must do something, post haste!

[With a wave of her magic wand, your outfit changes!]

Perhaps not this, either? Hm, what to do, what to do?

3.

OHOHOHOHOHOHO!

[80H laughs loud oddly melodically dressed in a stylish lab coat, thigh-high boots and monocle.

Over her blindfold.]

Soon, my ambitions shall be realised! The world will be mine!


C)

[Wildcard me!]

2

[awakenerd]

[????? Thanks for the corset??]

80H?

3

[bad_crowmance]

Oh yeah?

[ Crow sounds amused. ]

And what do you plan to do with it?

A

[malignstar]

[ Reaches down to retrieve the paper but not before smiling at the cute pictures ]

I think you dropped something.

[awakenerd]

[Someone has just woken from the longest nap. He's also in a corset thanks to fairy god 80H.

If you want there are some albums of newspaper articles about him that spoil canon but there's also some dusty old books of legends and even more newspaper articles that spoil his AU.

He's looking through an article about some young woman, the Ashen Chevalier, liberating a town from a tyrannical despot with the help of the Ashen Knight.]

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow can and will look at those newspaper articles but his immediate reaction is to let out a whistle. ]

Nice look, Rean!

[ It doesn't take a mindreader to get that Crow is into Rean's corseted look but Rean gets a front-row seat anyway. Spoilers: He's super into it. ]

[wontforbidtherain]

[Cat's hometown taught her to keep a diary. So guess who has several volumes pulled off the shelf and is reading them?]

[she hasn't decided if she wants to hide the other copies. Mostly it is talking about mundane things, like school and how much of a pain having a toddler little brother is.]