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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!]

Comments

[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?

[voreaciously]

Yes, my dear knight? Oh, my my, how you look fetching, if I do say so myself! You will be the envy of everyone and be sure to win the hands of the prince and princess.

[yeah she sure did say AND.]

[awakenerd]

Uh... I'll what?

[voreaciously]

Win their hands, silly. Honestly, I think you may have taken one too many hits to the head during your quest--Ser Randy might have been watching the wrong part of your back too much.

[she gets in closer and whispers conspiratorily.]

Or the right part.

[ayyyyy]

[awakenerd]

80h!

[Help??]

[voreaciously]

[SHRUGS SHAMELESSLY]

That is indeed my name!

[fufufu]

At any rate, you bested the...[she tilts her head in a "how do i put this delicately" way with a tone to match] sliiiiightly misguided Dragon King Rufus.

[she puts her thumb and little finger close together. like just a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle bit misguided]

It is a tale they'll tell for a thousand years! Longer! Poor Princess Eliza and Prince Crow have been beset by him near their entire lives. It is tragic, really. Or was.

[awakenerd]

Is that what happened.

[Incredible.]

And now I'm supposed to woo them both? At once?

[voreaciously]

Yes, but honestly, in that outfit, I will be surprised if you do not end up wooing everyone.

3

[bad_crowmance]

Oh yeah?

[ Crow sounds amused. ]

And what do you plan to do with it?

[voreaciously]

Assistant! You're late. [she sighs like this is just a thing he does because he do and also.]

Very well, we will go over Operation Candyland once more.

[she stretches out a pointer and taps the whiteboard to command his attention.]

Using the raygun I have constructed and a number of satellite relays, I will transmogrify the continent into various rare and irresistibly delicious confections.

[yep]

There is also a three-step plan in which we will control the world's economy, but I shan't bore you with the details. Ah, not to worry, I have also not forgotten your casino country, naturally. Even if your uniform concepts are...ahem. After all is said and done, I plan to settle down in a nice cottage with a harem of individuals who will naturally fall for my scintillating wit and intellect. I will certainly put the chocolate to excellent effect.

[Her expression is a little lewd for a moment before it darkens.]

We need only stop that dastardly Rean Schwarzer.

[bad_crowmance]

[ This is amazing. ]

Of course! But how do we stop someone of Rean's... caliber?

1/2

[voreaciously]

[she starts to pace]

Yes...he has been quite a thorn in my side...escaping my traps and destroying my precious, darling dolls. [she pauses and frowns sheepishly]

Certainly, I had a lengthy speech on one occasion, b-but that was one time! I quite liked it too, I thought we had him.

[But she has to think...outside the box.]

2/2

[voreaciously]

Assistant! You are quite an attractive man!

[bad_crowmance]

I'm so glad you noticed.

[ His tone is dry. He knows where she's going but he wants to hear her say it. ]

[voreaciously]

[she doesn't notice the dryness too caught up in her ABSOLUTELY AWESOME PLAN, THANKS.]

You must seduce him. It should be an easy task, no? [she rubs her hands, excited for this turn of events.]

After that, perhaps he can be made more sympathetic to our cause, or at last we can be rid of him! Yes! I am brilliant, a veritable genius!

[bad_crowmance]

Seduce Rean, huh? Sure, I'm willing to give it a shot.

1/2

[voreaciously]

Splendid, splendid! I will be certain to make it worth your while if you do not fail me.

Good...that Schwarzer will not know what hit him. [A beat.]

Or I suppose he might.

[ayyyyyy]

Fufufufufu.

A

[malignstar]

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

I think you dropped something.

[voreaciously]

[her lips part a moment before she all but snatches the book out of his hands.]

Did you see?

[malignstar]

[ Blinks at how fast she takes the paper ]

Should I go with no?

[voreaciously]

Forget you saw anything.

[malignstar]

So no questions?

[voreaciously]

What could you possibly have to ask?

[malignstar]

Who the people in the picture are.