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Aurora Express Mods ([personal profile] trainmasters) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2019-12-15 04:15 am

INTROS + MONTHLIES

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!]]
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[personal profile] malignstar 2019-12-16 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's also missing his scar ]

... are you like a type of mermaid?
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[personal profile] wontforbidtherain 2019-12-19 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[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.
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[personal profile] malignstar 2019-12-20 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
You start out as human and become a fish?
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[personal profile] wontforbidtherain 2019-12-30 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
We're always human. But we become less like your sort of human, and more aquatic.
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[personal profile] malignstar 2019-12-31 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
My sort of human? There's more than one sort?
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[personal profile] wontforbidtherain 2020-01-05 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] malignstar 2020-01-05 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
What do people of the air look like? Birds?
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[personal profile] wontforbidtherain 2020-01-05 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
No, like you. You live on the surface of the world, not beneath the water. Or within the earth, I suppose.
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[personal profile] malignstar 2020-01-05 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
I wish I had wings.
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[personal profile] wontforbidtherain 2020-01-05 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
I can't help you there, but if the weather improves, we could go swimming. It's the closest I can get to flying unless Eliza has any ideas.
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[personal profile] wontforbidtherain 2020-01-05 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Look for the woman in Thyme clothing who probably has one or more skeletal dragons following her.
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[personal profile] malignstar 2020-01-05 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I met her! Her dragons are really cool.

[ Though kind of scary. ]
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[personal profile] wontforbidtherain 2020-01-05 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Right. See if she has any ideas, though actual wings would probably be unwise.
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[personal profile] wontforbidtherain 2020-01-05 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
You wouldn't fit them through your shirt.

[deadpan]
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[personal profile] malignstar 2020-01-05 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
I can take it off.
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[personal profile] wontforbidtherain 2020-01-05 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
True, but wouldn't you be cold without it?
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[personal profile] malignstar 2020-01-05 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
It's not that cold.