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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You're all so weird...

It was practical for a power outage!

Putting things on the counters?

Not everything that you keep in a fridge has to be in there. Like mustard! I took stuff out so we wouldn't have to open it so much and lose the cold for the important things.

What's the point of a refrigerator if it doesn't work when there's no power? Why not just use an icebox?

Edited 2018-11-26 06:26 (UTC)

Losing power doesn't happen that often. You can go years sometimes without losing power for long enough to matter. That's way less often than you would need to keep restocking ice.

Restocking ice is easy, though. Especially if you have an icehouse. It's not really that much of a problem unless you live in a desert or something? But then they'd probably have an ice factory nearby, I'd think. Or, you know, a god that makes it hail when it's most needed.

I guess you're from somewhere where electricity is actually reliable, though? And not dangerous? Why's everyone else way cooler than me.

Refridgerators can make ice, too. There's no middleman.

I do't think I get cooler cred for my time period, though? I didn't build the electric grid or wire my hangar, I just pay a bill to use it.

Some people are cool just for existing.

It doesn't feel like a high bar though.

Never said it was! Some of us have to take what we can get, so if anyone ever complimented me on my time period I'd accept it just as enthusiastically as I'd accept 'your skull looks cool'.