Event: Power Returns

[trainmasters]

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!]]

Comments

[nihilmancy]

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

[unperturbed]

...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]

[nihilmancy]

[#existentialcrisis]

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

[unperturbed]

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

[nihilmancy]

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

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

[unperturbed]

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

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

[nihilmancy]

Something about it seems suspicious. I can't deny, though, that the amenities are rather impressive, even with nothing to compare it to.

[unperturbed]

You're not the only one who thinks so. [several others have been expressing the same sentiment, just from what he knows. he'd like to give the benefit of doubt, but it's hard not to have any suspicion at all when one's head is empty of other things to occupy it in this situation.] But I suppose we'll just have to take advantage of their hospitality until we know more about the situation.