INTROS + MONTHLIES

[trainmasters]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 59, morning
Where: the Aurora

[It's morning, though you might not know it from the darkness that remains outside. But there is an annoouncement on your Chain to brighten up the day regardless:]

WELCOME NEW HEROES

[This round's newbies are waking up in their rooms, in the usual nondescript undies or team pyjamas. They'll get their basic welcome message and a prompt to view the IC Guide.

As you go out to greet them, you might find that the entire train has been decorated! By whom is not readily apparent, but there's streamers and heart-shaped balloons adorning all the hallways and many of the additional cars besides which. It's festive!

You know what else is festive? The candy hearts sitting in bowls around the place. They all have generic, cute messages on them like "I ♥ You," "Be Mine," "Text Me," "Forever," etc. Try one out! Though you might find they carry some effects when you try one out....

♥ Pink Hearts These hearts will cause an empathetic bond! For the next few minutes/hours/rest of the thread, you'll find yourself connected with the nearest person in arguably the most intimate of ways....

♡ White Hearts You just can't help it after you chomp down on one of these hearts-- you've got a song on your lips bursting to come out! You may even feel up for dancing. Go forth and be your best, most musical sellf!

♥ Green Hearts You know what that person you're talking to RIGHT NOW needs? A hug!!! At least, that's the urge you'll get the moment you pop a green heart into your mouth. Although handholding also seems to get rid of the compulsion, so hey, there's options!

♡ Blue Hearts The very next thing you say after you eat one of these bad boys comes out in poem form! It doesn't have to be good poetry, mind you. Limericks, haikus, anything goes! At least it's mercifully brief?

And so it goes. Enjoy your icebreaker and make that fresh meat feel welcome!]

[[OOC NOTES: As the monthly prompt, the candy hearts will continue until next month's placements. If you have any questions, please ping the mods via the q&a. Thank you!]]

Comments

[misinforms]

[Waking, there is a sense of emptiness. An unnatural, uneasy feeling. As she blinks up at the unfamiliar ceiling it sinks in that she does not know where this is, but neither does she know where it is she should be or who she is.

Logically, if she was sleeping here, this should be her room. There is nothing to say otherwise, but to say that to herself, it doesn’t feel quite right. But even with this haze hanging about her, she still manages to go through the welcome message she was given, change out of the pajamas that were given to her and venture out into the train proper.

She looks as lost as she feels, a strange cloudy quality in her eyes as she observes the party.]

Is... this for me...?

[She plays with one of the pink hearts idly.]

[bestbrotherever]

[Have a god with a not-entirely-friendly smile on his face.]

I should hope not. If you are then I may have to hold you responsible for what these things have done.

[misinforms]

Oh? Did this little heart made of sugar offend you in some way?

[If anything she seems amused by the idea, twiddling it between her fingers curiously.]

[bestbrotherever]

It is the spell on them that I disagree with.

Do you favor enchanting seemingly innocuous foodstuffs to induce... unwanted behavior in those who consume them?

[misinforms]

...

[That certainly gets her to look at them in a whole new manner. However, it's an expression that's difficult to read.]

I don't know. If I've ever encountered such a thing before, I can't remember. However... I suppose it depends on the nature of the spell.

[terribletwos]

I think they're for everyone. I don't get the point of it though.

[ He has never actually experienced a party... Or has any idea how they work. ]

[misinforms]

There is a single time of year where these kinds of things are usually quite popular.

[While she doesn't sound like a big fan, she doesn't seem to hate them either. Or really-- she doesn't know exactly how to feel about them.]

[terribletwos]

Why does the time of year matter?

[misinforms]

Because it's a holiday-- the kind of thing you only celebrate during one specific time of the year.

[terribletwos]

Oh. What are they celebrating?

[misinforms]

It was originally a day for feasting, celebrating Saint Valentine. However, today it is typically known as a romantic celebration. That's why the hearts have these little messages on them.

[terribletwos]

Romantic celebration?

[ You are talking to someone who had to ask what love is.

He studies the hearts again, picking up another few. ]

So it has to do with... love?

[misinforms]

That's right. For Valentine's Day, girls will typically gift chocolates to the people they like. Of course it's supposed to be about romance, but some people will still give them to friends and family too. There is more than one kind of love after all.

[terribletwos]

More than one kind...

[ Maybe that's what Axel meant when he said it wasn't about steps. ]

So we're supposed to give them to someone here?

[ But all the people important to him aren't even here... ]