auroraexpress | Event: Power Returns

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 2, evening
Where: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Well, uh, that red dolphin seems to have been successfully fended off! Good job everyone, you are truly terrifying.

A five minute warning is issued by the pleasant robotic voice from last time: the six hour wait is over. Right as the countdown is finishing up, the power flickers on in the remaining powerless cars, with the startling sound of every single mechanical door in the train closing at once. So those are working now.

Similarly, your previously nonfunctional Chains are coming to life, displaying a helpful little welcome message:

Welcome aboard the Aurora!

You have been selected by the Star Prince as a potential hero, tasked with saving the universe from Malice. As a passenger I, your Construct and Conductor, will attempt to provide you with quality lodgings and safety. In return, we ask that you join your fellows in making bonds and doing your utmost to bring joy back to the Stars.

Due to the process of restoring your body, you may find some things are missing. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to return them to you as soon as possible. Thank you for your cooperation.

You are also now able to access and fill out your profiles.

With that, the train shudders into motion. Except rather than moving strictly horizontally, it's slanting up after it's moved only a few feet, picking itself up off the hazardous beach car by car and snaking through thin air. Here's hoping you got the message to hold onto something during takeoff when the cars started tilting.

The trip only lasts a few short minutes before the train shudders again, worryingly, and descends abruptly into the jungle below. It's less of a crash-landing than the one that presumably woke you up in the first place, but it's not the smoothest, either, what with all the plant life the train is crashing into. Do try not to hit your heads, everyone.]

[[OOC NOTE: The train has moved into the jungle. The power is on in every carriage! This means food is now in the fridges, the doors all actually work, and characters now have access to the sparks shop.

This is an event post, so you can take 300 points for participating!]]

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[he was a cat first!! but sure, he'll take that off the name list.]

Ah, is there? I haven't gotten around to speaking with every team yet...

We have a theme. Meow.

[

This person................... is cute.

Reaches out to give her a headpat, slowly enough for her to back away if she'd rather not.]

[oops my magical grip slipped somehow]

[whoops guess he's back on the ground, then. fortunately he manages to regain his balance instead of tripping over himself a second time. whew. honestly he's a bit glad to be free of the... weird magic thing?]

Oh- pardon me, I thought that was an appropriate greeting for a cat.

D-Don't patronize me.

[he's obviously making fun of her.]

[ah... it's finally happened... he's finally offended someone with these weird slips... at least he didn't call her "dear" this time, thank goodness.]

...I apologize, that wasn't my intention.

[uhh still no skirt, so he just bows his head instead.]

[What are these things that she is feeling. Feeling things are confusing. And embarrassing.]

Um, nevermind. It's fine. Looks like you can walk now.

[amnesia is hard. Tomorrow straightens up and. also smooths out his clothes a little, now that the tripping and magical manhandling is over.]

Yes, thank you, it seems the worst of that shaking is past.

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[Fidgeting awkwardly with her hands. Whyyyyy is talking to people so hard why does she act like this.]

Right.

[??]

I hope I didn't interrupt you in the middle of something?

[do. do u need to leave.]

Ah, er, I don't know.

[She made the worst possible impression and she hates it. This is probably how it's going to be, isn't it.]

I suppose that just now was rather distracting...?

[come to think of it, what was he going to do before all this...]

Perhaps. I fell too.

Oh dear, did you? Are you alright?

[looks her up and down to make sure she's not obviously bleeding or anything.]

I'm fine. I didn't land too hard.

[Her frilly dress hides any obvious injuries, but she does seem to be favoring her left leg.]

Good. [hmm.] ...There's a carriage with medical supplies available, I believe, in case something begins to hurt later.

[jfyi]

It really is provisioned for us to stay here in the long term.

So it seems. I suppose it's good of them to make sure we're well accommodated, though I was hoping our stay wouldn't be so long...

I... don't exactly have anything to compare this life to. Perhaps the lodging is superior to our previous lives.

...I wouldn't know, either. Perhaps it is.

[maybe it IS better. maybe he wouldn't want to leave if he had his memories. #unsettling things to think about with amnesia]

[#existentialcrisis]

...Better to stay focused on the present. If the information is true, we should start recovering memories soon.

Ah... yes, that's true, we'll be finding out soon enough. And it's not as though we can leave, either way.

Peculiar how adamant the Construct is about positive emotions and bonds.

[Tabby has her doubts that she'll be very good at either.]

I'm reserving judgement until I know whether it's really peculiar or not...

[but his tone says yeah that's a lil weird]

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