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

[bowtiedbones]

[frowns and reaches for his hand]

How are you feeling now?

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He flinches.]

[His hand jerked away instinctively. He looks down, frowning slightly before finally reaching out to take her hand.]

I'm.

[Another pause.]

Not great.

[bowtiedbones]

[something around her eyes tightens when he flinches, but-- it was half-expected.

squeezes his hand]

Come to my lab with me.

[schrodingerscockroach]

....okay.

[He will follow!]

[bowtiedbones]

[holding his hand all the way there]

It's quiet there and it's safe. I'll tell my dragons to haunt.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Quiet is....not necessarily the thing I need. Quiet and alone is bad.

That wasn't the heart. Just. Bad memories. Right before it.

[bowtiedbones]

Peaceful, then. It's my room, you're not going to be alone.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Okay.

[He thinks he should say more. But it's hard. A lot harder now. Maybe not as hard as it would have been just the other day.]

[But three years of keeping quiet is a hard thing to break.]

[bowtiedbones]

Is there anything you think you could need? I'll do what I can.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Other people is the biggest thing.

[He can never zone out completely with another person around. Keeps him present. Helps center his own emotions.]

[bowtiedbones]

I've got that covered!

[schrodingerscockroach]

[A tired kind of chuckle.]

[bowtiedbones]

I'm good at filling the air, too. If it gets too quiet and I run out of things to talk about, I have some presentations still memorized.

[schrodingerscockroach]

...you know, I am curious about those?

I probably won't get a lot, but magic stuff is still cool to learn about.

[bowtiedbones]

Do you want a magic-focused one? 'cause I can go into paleobiology too.

[schrodingerscockroach]

How about you surprise me?

[bowtiedbones]

Teratorns it is! Since that was my last project I was working before I came here.