INTROS + MONTHLIES

[trainmasters]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 51, evening
Where: the Aurora

[It's evening, and as the stars come out you get that text again:]

WELCOME NEW HEROES

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

Outside, the fog is gone. In its place is a pleasant evening, its beauty enhanced by tiny, softly-glowing flowers along the jungle paths. Unfortunately, should you peer closer toy may notice these flowers have blackened, curled leaves -- and the scent that wafts up when you step on them will either heighten or dull one of your senses.

But hey, why go in the jungle when you could eat questionable snacks in the lounge again? This time there are towers of round chocolates in varying colours, and sparkle blue and white snowflake decor on the walls and hanging from the ceiling. In typical Star Prince and Knights fashion there is a lot of glitter, and the chocolates definitely have a magical side-effect: in this case, transformation.

☆ Blue-wrapped chocolates cause your character to shift in age. They may get older or younger, and this transformation may be purely physical or may include mental shifting as well.

☆ Silver-wrapped chocolates cause your character to gain animal features -- anything from cat ears to fully becoming a cat is acceptable, and any animal real or mythical is game. It won't change you to a size that doesn't fit in the train, though.

☆ White-wrapped chocolates cause a transformation to a different physical sex.

☆ Black-wrapped chocolates cause you to take on the form of another person -- someone on the train or someone you remember from elsewhere. It won't turn you into anyone you don't personally know, however.

These effects wear off within a few hours, and you can combine more than one. Enjoy your icebreaker and make that fresh meat feel welcome!]

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

Comments

[malignstar]

[ What happens when a possessed Thyme ends up eating a blue-wrapped chocolate because of someone's taste for them? A very young Felix is what. A very young Felix who is now watching around him guardedly. ]

Where did all these people come from?

[ Is he talking to you or just himself? ]

[wontforbidtherain]

[Cat isn't in the mood to deal with people and is uncertain if she wants to push her luck with 'everyone okay with the tall fish-headed lady', but that sure is a child in their colors.]

[First -- is this new person or another victim of the chocolates.]

We live here. Did you wake up just now?

[malignstar]

[ You probably should have expected this horrified scream ]

[wontforbidtherain]

{Wince]

It's okay! I'm a friend! I just look different than you.

[malignstar]

[ Pointing wildly at her ]

Y-Your head! It's a fish!

[wontforbidtherain]

It's just a different sort of head. My people have a tie to the ocean. We look like this when we get older.

[malignstar]

[ He's also missing his scar ]

... are you like a type of mermaid?

[wontforbidtherain]

[you know, close enough]

Something like that, yes. Do you know how frogs lay their eggs in water, but become land animals later? My people do the opposite.

[malignstar]

You start out as human and become a fish?

[wontforbidtherain]

We're always human. But we become less like your sort of human, and more aquatic.

[malignstar]

My sort of human? There's more than one sort?

[wontforbidtherain]

I remember three sorts: people of the air, people of the water, and people of the rock. Though I don't think I've ever met the people of the rock.

[malignstar]

What do people of the air look like? Birds?

[schrodingerscockroach]

[SO MANY KIDS.]

That is a kind of complicated, stupid story.

[malignstar]

What's stupid about it?

[schrodingerscockroach]

Someone with magic powers is playing pranks.

[malignstar]

Magic's not real.

[schrodingerscockroach]

...what.

[YOU HAVE A LITERAL DEMON IN YOUR HEAD????]

[malignstar]

Everyone knows that.

[schrodingerscockroach]

....

[He sighs.]

No, it's real.

[And to demonstrate, he'll hold out and make a cream colored magical shield.]

[malignstar]

WHOA! How did you do that?

[schrodingerscockroach]

Magic.

[Even does jazz hands.]

[malignstar]

Do some more!

[schrodingerscockroach]

Most of them aren't particularly flashy.

Though I guess...oh, I know! [Will pull out an apple and he'll toss it up into the air.]

[And cast another spell and stops it mid-air.]

[malignstar]

It stopped!

[ Grabs for apple to check it out! ]