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Aurora Express Mods ([personal profile] trainmasters) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2020-01-16 02:14 am

INTROS + MONTHLIES

Who: newbies + everyone
When: Day 56, late morning
Where: The Aurora and surrounding area

[Yet again this morning, you get an announcement on your Chain:
WELCOME NEW HEROES
Newbies are waking up in their rooms, in pyjamas or in nondescript team-coloured underwear. As usual they get the basic welcome message, as well as a prompt to view the IC guide.

When you're done welcoming them, or while you're at it, you'll notice that while clocks say it's late morning, the sun has still not risen. As it was on the first Star, the sky remains dark and empty and the air somewhat cold. Not cold enough for the frost you see on the windows, though...

From a distance, the frost looks like a typical wintery pattern of ice, beautiful and delicate. But on inspection it's not frost at all -- it's a sugary mold climbing up the sides of the train and, outside the immediate clearing, growing in thick fuzzy patches on the trees and bushes.

Touching or inhaling this mold will cause your skin to start to crystallize painfully into sugar. Physical affection will heal you, but it'll also give you a psychic link to the person you touched. For a few hours you can sense eachothers emotions, and in some cases even share thoughts or memories.

The mold will last for the remainder of the OOC month, but who knows what else tomorrow will bring!]
shintaiprotagonist: (neutral fondness)

[personal profile] shintaiprotagonist 2020-01-31 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
To gain familiarity with the soul fragments?
bowtiedbones: (1)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2020-01-31 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
And to better enable them to inhabit the body. And to actually move the body! I can't just put a soul in a skeleton and expect it to slither around all by itself. A viper doesn't have the magic for holding its bones together.
shintaiprotagonist: (neutral fondness)

[personal profile] shintaiprotagonist 2020-01-31 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, so the soul simply controls the animating energies.
bowtiedbones: (79)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2020-02-01 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's the consciousness.
shintaiprotagonist: (neutral fondness)

[personal profile] shintaiprotagonist 2020-02-01 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
[thoughtful]

To me, that statement seems both correct and not. The higher soul as the seat of consciousness, yes; the lower soul as the seat of instinct. It seems your world does not make that distinction.
bowtiedbones: (32)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2020-02-01 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
We only have the one soul.
shintaiprotagonist: (neutral fondness)

[personal profile] shintaiprotagonist 2020-02-01 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
From what the memory I have left tells me, humans at least have...two separate souls is incorrect, as they are both linked entities, but we refer to them as two souls. Beasts and creatures without reason have only the lower soul; I know not whether beings with only the higher soul exists, save ghosts.