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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[Gonna investigate!]

[As you're looking around, you stumble on a small stone box. It had a wooden lock once, but it's disintegrated now.

The lid is covered in mold.]

[she doesn't trust that fucking mold at all so shes going to try and open that box with a long, thin rod of ice.]

[Going to move closer, holding up a hand.]

[He's ready to throw up a magical shield in case Bad happens.]

You do not have to do that.

Better safe than sorry.

I mean, you do not have to be following me.

....you're smart and you have experience with fighting malice.

It'd be really dumb to not follow you? Especially when Eliza went the same way.

[sigh. that's sensible.]

Do as you please, then.

I mean, not that I wouldn't follow you for emotional reasons.

But right now I'm really just being logical. So, you know, we don't all die.

[ALSO SPORES. And blocking with shield, but it's just a wall.]

....can you freeze those?

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[When the lid is moved, the mold lets off a puff of spores! Breathe them in and you'll begin to feel dreadfully lonely.

Good thing you have friends with you! Physical contact will ease the feeling.

Inside the box is a pendant on a chain, shaped like the same stars on the wall carvings. It's very warm.]

[NOPE]

[Throwing up a shield to keep them away. Though it's not really a bubble, so stuff is gonna go around eventually.]

Cover your mouths!

[Keeping up his own sweatshirt up.]

[ducks behind him, already with her shirt over her mouth and nose]

I'm buying a cute dust mask when we get back.

Yeah.

Kind of missing my helmet now.

[she's got it.

she casts a bubble shield around dusk and eliza before going to retrieve that pendant.

she's fine she doesn't even need to breathe so she doesn't]

[Oh]

[Yes, that helps.]

[Still ready to MAGIC and there's a moment where he's worried she's just BREATHING IT IN]

[But she's not breathing it looks like]

[Well, if it works.]

....is that a pendant?