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Aurora Express Mods ([personal profile] trainmasters) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2018-11-21 08:07 pm

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!]]

[personal profile] unperturbed 2018-11-22 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Gracefully faceplanting in a hallway somewhere. Or maybe Ginger's carriage.

In his defense, he's never ridden on anything bigger than a wagon before.]
s2g: (werk)

[personal profile] s2g 2018-11-22 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ this thing's basically a sand steamer minus the sand.

Wolfwood's ridden sand steamers before. not his favourite method of travel, but it beat walking, before he got himself Angelina.

does any of this stop him from pitching straight onto his face when it starts moving? no. does it stop him from pitching backwards and beaning his head on a light fixture in the carriage halls when it stops? also no.
]

God— damn— it!
voreaciously: (161)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2018-11-22 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
[yeah so there appear to be like large ass chunks? of red mutant suspended around in a sphere of water that is hovering a foot off the ground

this is definitely not dolphin-safe tuna.

When the train starts to move, she isn't bothered, taking hold of something to compensate for the angle. The water sphere does not adjust.]

I suppose we are off, then.
voreaciously: (140)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2018-11-22 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
Are you alright, Mister Wolfwood?

[Meanwhile, 80H is Totally Fine and also there's a very large sphere of water nearby with floating chunks of dolphin in it.]
heavenlyvisitor: (014)

[personal profile] heavenlyvisitor 2018-11-22 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
"Restoring your body" ... "some things are missing". I suppose this is the half-assed explanation we get for being robbed of ourselves.

[personal profile] unperturbed 2018-11-22 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Some things" feels like an understatement...

[at least the message seems friendly enough. perhaps they shouldn't be too harsh on it when it's trying to be so welcoming... also please pretend he didn't just stumble backwards a few steps.]
s2g: (i give exactly half a shit)

[personal profile] s2g 2018-11-22 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ as he painstakingly pulls himself to his feet, ] Feelin' just great, thanks.
s2g: (i hate everyone in this bar)

[personal profile] s2g 2018-11-22 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ]

The hell have you got there?

[ WATER DOESN'T DO THAT. ]
voreaciously: (188)

whoops didn't know this was a chain

[personal profile] voreaciously 2018-11-23 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
What...? [She isn't certain what he means for a second before she realises.]

Oh. I was not certain about our food situation, so I took it upon myself to collect some dolphin cuts after completing in the effort to kill it, just in case. It would be a shame if it went to waste.

[THAT'S WHAT HE MEANS RIGHT.]

[personal profile] ghostfromthemachine 2018-11-23 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ flopped ungracefully upside-down over something, having been tossed there by the rough takeoff and landing. despite that, she's deadeyeing her Chain— though her overall demeanor suggests that's really more of an extension of the deadeye that she would like to be giving everything else, too ]

"Some things are missing"... I suppose it's at least an explanation, but really? Really?
s2g: (yes!! .................wait)

my bad! i forgot to mark it

[personal profile] s2g 2018-11-23 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ that is. half what he meant ]

I mean the- the water!

[ feels almost like sacrilege to see it being thrown around like this, the way someone might throw around so much sand or booze on Gunsmoke. 'specially now that he knows what it was that'd been supplying them with the drink. ]
voreaciously: (134)

s'all good

[personal profile] voreaciously 2018-11-23 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Ah, are you not familiar with magic?
s2g: (well... damn.)

[personal profile] s2g 2018-11-23 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ could it be considered magic, that raw power that Vash and Knives both once contained? could what the Eye did to him be called magic? or what he could do after they got to him? is that what the Guns were?

he doesn't know.
]

I'm starting to be.
stakesthesame: (The Clash)

[personal profile] stakesthesame 2018-11-23 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ tiredly floating her way up into the lounge area to faceplant on a couch once all the other goth cats are accounted for

prolly a LITTLE beat up. honestly. ]

Wwwwwoof. Can this thing shake any worse, I don't think it's trying hard enough.
obsidien: (I'll never kneel and I'll never rest)

[personal profile] obsidien 2018-11-23 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[What she's flopped over is a large dragon-man's shoulder, having fallen down on his ass and slid against a wall from the entirely-too-bumpy train ride.]

You're not going to stay there, are you? [She's not heavy at all but... It's the principle of the thing.

And he's not comfortable, when his greatsword is between himself and the wall taking his entire weight and digging grooves into the parts of his back that don't have scales. That's going to leave unflattering patterns on his skin for a while, especially with the blue cloth robes he's wearing.]
ghostfromthemachine: (I'm trying to tell you something about m)

[personal profile] ghostfromthemachine 2018-11-23 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ not only is she not heavy, she weighs hardly anything. maybe as much as a particularly large cat? weird. ]

Mm—

[ oh. she... landed on a person? she's on a person. ...she should probably fix that, but...]

After all that, I don't think I can really be bothered to move at the moment. Sorry.
obsidien: (I'll never kneel and I'll never rest)

[personal profile] obsidien 2018-11-23 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
[That's a "no", then.]

Then I'll have to make you come off myself-- [Which, really, is easier done than said. Sidurgu reaches up and snatches the girl by her collar. He'll be able to raise her up easily, what with her weight-- so light, she's not even anything to him.

Really, making a man with his height and strength carry a person like her could be considered excessive.]
nihilmancy: (Neutral 2)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2018-11-23 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Tabby took a bit of a fall during the landing, and occasionally winces as she checks out her Chain. What if she doesn't want to fill out a profile.

Alternately, it's a little later, and the smell of cooking meat and aromatics fills the Licorice car as she prepares food for several people, without any prompting.]
nihilmancy: (Curious)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2018-11-23 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Making a round of the lounge car, floating a few inches off the ground with her magic. She pauses when she sees the familiar face - wanting to greet her, but also averse to approaching a near stranger when there isn't as much clear need to gather information.]

Hm.
nihilmancy: (Wistful)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2018-11-23 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nudging him with her foot in the hallway.]

Somebody could trip.

[personal profile] unperturbed 2018-11-24 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
My apologies...

[Pulls himself up so he's kneeling instead of lying flat on his face, though he doesn't try to stand just yet in case he falls right over again.]
nihilmancy: (A Look)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2018-11-24 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
This vehicle has chairs. You may find them more comfortable.

[personal profile] unperturbed 2018-11-24 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, thank you, I'll see if I can find one once I regain my balance.

[Puts a hand on the wall before he attempts getting back to his feet.]
nihilmancy: (Neutral)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2018-11-24 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Hold on.

[Tabby holds her hand out, and there is a feeling like several strong hands taking hold of Tomorrow and lifting him up - he can escape if he wants, but he's now levitating, with shimmering bands of force just barely visible around his torso.]

I'll take you. Somebody could trip.

[personal profile] unperturbed 2018-11-24 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[??????? well. okay. Tomorrow resists the urge to flail for the sake of his dignity.]

Ah- that's not necessary, but thank you, ma'am...?

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