Event: Worldhop #1

[trainmasters]

Who: E V E R Y O N E
When: Day 54 all-day
Where: E V E R Y W H E R E

This morning, just after dawn, you're awoken by a wail so deep and loud it makes your chest rumble. An eerie noise that feels supernaturally wrong, it's like a roar and a screech intertwined, multiple voices lashing out in anger and pain all at once. The sound last several long seconds, before facing into a distant hum.

Should you follow the noise towards the beach, you'll see that the corrupted island across the water is surrounded in a black miasma, floating into a sky that appears to be stained with bruise-like purple. For a little while it remains contained, but after a few minutes, there's a heart-beat like pulse.

Once

Twice

Thrice...

And the darkness rolls across the sky, bringing with it air filled with black dust motes that smell of mildew. The jungle is quiet, its wildlife in hiding from the Malice encroaching upon it, but you swear you can hear whispers out there. They're too quiet to understand, but you just know they're temping you:

Just let go. You don't need anyone but yourself. Everyone else should just go away.

Fortunately, as long as you stay inside the Aurora, the whispers won't actually cause you to act differently. They'll just be unsettling. Head outside, however, and you'll find yourself growing slowly more irritable and likely to say something nasty.

It takes a few minutes, but eventually everyone receives a message on their Chain, from The Construct. The same message is also aired in a robotic voice over the intercom.

Systems have detected imminent danger. Due to progression of purification, it appears the primary source of Malice on this Star has become enraged. This creature must be purified in order to complete Prism restoration.

Heroes willing to venture into the creature's lair, please make preparations and assemble in the lounge in two hours. A guide will be sent to transport you to your target location and aid your search. Please do not attempt to approach on your own.

Be aware, there is an increased likelihood of malicious creatures approaching at this time. It is advised that you remain inside the train as much as possible.

And remember: Stay Positive! The fate of the universe depends on your healthy bonds.

The announcement will prove quite true: periodically throughout the day, monsters common in corrupted areas of this Star may appear around the Aurora. They will appear one at a time and may be driven off -- it seems the overall purification of the jungle has made them weaker than they were before, but they're still dangerous!

It's time to wrap things up in this part of the universe -- good luck!

[NOTES: Please use this post to mingle freely, make IC plans, and general deal with the overall day of the event! To go and purify the island, there will be three sessions of mod-guided exploradora: 3pm PST & 7pm PST on Saturday, and 6pm PST on Sunday! Sessions happen sequentially ICly, so you can go to as few or as many as you like. If you intend to play, please to go sign up in this toplevel just so the mods have a rough idea of numbers. You can play even if you don't sign up, though!

Also, please check out this toplevel to leave your submissions for your new team bond! Submissions must be in by 6pm on the 6th, or the mods will pick a second bond for you. Thank you very much!]

Comments

cw: BONE DESCRIPTIONS

[voreaciously]

[She is faintly pink. YOU CAN'T JUST SAY THAT, GOSH!!

Ahem! She activates her eyes and kneels primly by his leg. Water surrounds her hands and she begins to touch his skin with her encompassed hands.

As usual, it feels cool, calming, serene. Pain fades and will not return as she works.

But this is messy, not at all a clean break. There are bone fragments where they should not be, and she has to move them back. It is not difficult, really--the pieces will return to each other like magnets and a puzzle fitting itself together, but it will take a bit of time to get them all where they need to be and ensure they are all there.

Her eyes come in extremely handy for that.]

Was it a trap?

[bad_crowmance]

[ He can say that! He did say that. He regrets nothing.

With the pain gone, he manages to let a little of the tension bleed out of him. He did a good enough job of operating with the pain of a crushed leg but that was a combination of adrenaline and determination. He lets out a long, slow breath and lets 80H work her magic. Literally magic.

He lets his eyes slide shut and doesn't bother to open them as he speaks up. ]

Yeah. Managed to dodge it.... mostly.

[voreaciously]

That is good to hear. [Better his leg gets smashed than his EVERYTHING.

Not only would that suck for like, getting smashed--in a way that's not pleasant--reasons, she's pretty sure he'd get mad for others.]

You are quite willful when you wish to be.

[bad_crowmance]

[ He would be very annoyed if he were smashed into paste. 0/10, does not recommend. ]

I like to think it's part of my charm.

[voreaciously]

Is there anything not part of your manifold charm?

[bad_crowmance]

Hmmm.... Give me a minute to think about that.

[voreaciously]

[she is literally

going to countdown from a minute without telling him.]

Very well. I am waiting.

[bad_crowmance]

[ The real answer is that there is plenty about himself that he realizes isn't even the slightest bit charming. He doesn't hate himself but that doesn't mean he thinks he's a good person either. No... he knows better than to hold those kind of delusions.

But that would be way too serious an answer to give and he'd rather keep this at lighthearted banter. So after his moment of consideration, he shakes his head and grins. ]

Nope! I can't think of a single non-charming aspect.

[voreaciously]

I would flick you if I were not busy fixing you, right now.

[bad_crowmance]

I can't help it if I'm very charming. It's my burden!

[voreaciously]

[Her voice grows flat:]

Alas, poor Crow-han. So selfless that the rest of us might not suffer.

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow snorts at that. ]

I thought we were talking about my charms. Selflessness is not a quality I possess.

[voreaciously]

Mm?

[She looks up briefly--can afford the distraction--Oh, he actually believes that. Interesting.

She would not say Crow is a paragon of virtue, but his own estimation of qualities or lack thereof can leave something to be desired, sometimes.

POT MEET FUCKING KETTLE

The question is, does she want to push it.

Her tone is gave.]

Now now, do not be so hard on yourself, that's hardly a fair assessment. [A beat.] You are when it comes to the bedroom.

[bad_crowmance]

[ Hey did you choke on that mental hypocrisy, 80H?

Crow doesn't bother to move but he does open his eyes again at last, looking over at her. ]

Nah, that's not selflessness. I get plenty out of sex and I wouldn't leave the bedroom without being satisfied.

[voreaciously]

[No, because that would involve SELF-AWARENESS.

And even if she is trying to be better she is fucking STUPID.

However, she thinks about this further and she wants to ask What about the Instructor? but she knows he loves him, worse, he knows that SHE knows he loves him, so that is probably? A can of worms? That she is going to stare at, but not open. Not even to win an argument.

Probably

Her tone is still light, but she does consider what he's said.]

That is fair, but there are ways to get plenty without giving back at all. The lines can be philosophically blurry.

I think you could be if suitably motivated. You're incredibly driven.

[bad_crowmance]

[ It's definitely a can of worms and it's probably a wise idea not to bring up Rean, even if she's definitely right. Then again, he's still got the recent cannibalism trial on his mind and immediately calling on Rean to get eaten by his team...

....No. He doesn't think of himself as selfless at all. ]

There's definitely ways of taking without giving back, but the fact I don't do that doesn't make me selfless-- it just means I'm not an asshole.

[ He shrugs loosely. ]

I could probably find a reason to act that way if I really wanted to, I'll give you that.

[voreaciously]

[Hah, point to 80H.]

I am glad you agree, and I will, in turn, concede the point of basic decency, I suppose.

[she doesn't always know what that looks like, even now, so.]

I have something for you, later.

[bad_crowmance]

Oooh, you've definitely got my attention!

[voreaciously]

Later, I said. Honestly,

[She says this exasperatedly, but in a way that is clearly good-natured.]

You are like a child.

[bad_crowmance]

Rude! I can wait.

[voreaciously]

Yes, how terrible of me to wait until I have finished treating you first. Truly cruel and unusual punishment.

[She's almost done tho.]

[bad_crowmance]

That's not what I was saying and you know it, you brat.

[voreaciously]

Do I? I am not so certain.

[She sounds so innocent!]

[bad_crowmance]

Yeah yeah, I don't believe you.

[voreaciously]

I am hurt, truly.

[She lets some time pass by before she lifts her hands and the water dissipates.]

Treatment complete, it is good as new. I apologise for the wait.