auroraexpress | Origin Star Finale: Session 1

Who: explorers
When: Day 54, morning
Where: The Final Island

[As promised, two hours after the initial announcement, the train shudders slightly as if in preparation for a Trial. On your Chain is a short message:

If you want to deal with this problem, come on out.

Step out of the lounge car and you'll find a cozy but sturdy-looking airship hovering a few inches above the ground. Its only occupant is Thyme himself -- a small young man with many white, feathery wings sprouting from his back and head. He's familiar to some and new to others, but regardless he looks like he's feeling a bit awkward to be here, and rather concerned about the situation in general.]

Before we start, get the idea of slaying the demon out of your head. This is Malice. You're going in to purify. That said, we're detecting three sources of corruption on the small island, so we'll be doing this in three steps. They're likely totems deliberately set by someone, so you'll need to find and deactivate one each trip.

You're probably going to be up against a lot of creatures, but you need to fight them with your feelings more than your weapons. When you find the totem, throw your positivity at it.

Got it? Let's go.

[Board the airship and it'll take off with lightning speed, though somehow the ride is quite smooth. The ship darts over the ocean and around the back of the island, where you get a breathtaking view of the ancient ruin that takes up a large part of it. The airship stops at a small outcrop, dominated by one large stone door, slightly ajar.]

Here you go. Try not to get killed.

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[ that only serves to make the situation worse, perhaps? at least, from how it tightens more, unfazed by her shapeshifting, becoming a tighter prison around her ]

[OKAY BUT I'M STILL TRYING TO CLIMB YOU]

[ climbed . . .

it starts to tremble, perhaps angered by the idea that it cannot be as cool as a dragon, and becomes amorphous - rather than a snake, it shifts back into a slime, only

this time

meridian is absorbed entirely into it. oops! ]

[ FUCK U BUDDY ]

[ hilariously since it's pretty transparent meridian can see everyone else now, just through a green layer of goop.

perhaps less hilariously the green goop is definitely not breathable. fuck u too buddy ]

Meri!

[Plunging his hand into the slime to try and drag her out, furious and determined to reach her.]

Meri!

[I mean, him too.]

[GOTTA SAVE DRAGON]

[ it's fine ]

it's fine it's fine, it will be fine because she believes in her friends ]

[ she believes in Dusk, her teammate, who always does his very best to help, even if he's kind of an idiot! She believes in Mao — it doesn't matter that she barely remembers him, he's hers and he's so cool and she can't wait to get to know him better! She believes in Eliza, smart and beautiful and fun, and Felix … ]

[ They'll definitely save her! ]

[ both dusk's and mao's hands both manage to plunge into the slime - perhaps entirely too easily. that might be due to the absolute faith that meridian has in her friends; they're able to pull her out just as the blob melts away, leaving all three of them covered in viscous goo but also on the ground, able to breathe, completely safe and sound.

they definitely saved her! ]