auroraexpress | INTROS + MONTHLIES

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INTROS + MONTHLIES

Who: Everyone
When: Day 60, evening
Where: the Aurora

[The Candy Hearts are gone-- or at least, they're no longer all over the place. If you kept a few for your own purposes then well, feel free to enjoy yourself. Live your best life!

Though you may have just got out of a Trial recently, there is the sound of an announcement on your Chain: ]

WELCOME NEW HEROES

[And indeed, there is another round of newbies 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.

"Someone" has seen to bring refreshments to greet the newbies. It's sparkling water, refreshingly cool and surprisngly sugar-free considering the surroundings. If you choose to drink it, you will find yourself instantly refreshed, almost as if you'd gotten a full day's rest. You will also find that the very next thing you say to someone is a mildly inconvenient truth. It cannot and will not compel you to tell someone your deep, dark secrets but it MIGHT compel you to admit you forgot to brush your teeth this morning....

Have fun and enjoy meeting your new people! ]

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

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[He's happy to know they share an understanding on the superiority of sweets.]

I don't believe so, no. [Fire spells definitely didn't seem like something he would do.]

[He beams.]

Illusions, huh? I'll look into it. [Another thing he isn't certain he can do, but magic still feels right in some ways.]

Ooooh, that's what that is. I see. [He nods.] How does the fire stay in the sky like that, anyway?

[Ponies are all about sweets, it's true.]

Illusions are very handy. They're good for conveying information, disguise work, and just plain messing with people. [Listen. She knows there's chaos in this boy and seeing people pranked is still funny.]

....that is entirely dependent on how your universe's laws of physics work.

I know two and they are very different and not terribly compatible. In one, it's gravity and momentum, the other, a living god moves it. About the only way they might mesh is if the laws of physics were broken by Discord and Celestia is just making up for what's been lost now.

[His grin becomes conspiratorial.] Sounds like loads of fun.

So it changes depending on the world? That's neat. I wonder how it worked in my world. I don't really remember seeing the sun, but I'm sure there was one somewhere.

Oh, I'm sure of it.

At least in my experience. Some people do have the gravity kind, but I couldn't say how it works in yours, and I'm not sure if that's how stars work here for either.

There's so much to learn and see and experience. I think it would be a waste if we didn't take the chance to figure it all out, or at least see new things. Maybe that's why I'm not too upset about my memories. Until I get them back, I can just make more.

[Moving forward just seems that simple to him.]

Are we at the garden yet? I'm still not used to how this train is laid out. It's so big, and there's more to see outside, right?

I just don't like what's mine being taken from me. [And she's not entirely convinced it was Malice that did it. Prince is dumb enough to maybe be honest, but he can be used.] Plus I want to know why I'm stuck in a human body. That's annoying.

There is, but outside is fairly dangerous right now. We just purified a star a bit ago, so there's little that's safe outside. The garden car should be this next car.

I hadn't thought of it that way. [Maybe he should be angrier. He just can't feel all that connected with what he doesn't remember.]

For what it's worth, I like the way you look either way. You have hair that's so amazing, I've never seen anything like it before! Or at least, I'm fairly certain I've never seen something so vibrant as that. [It's really quite gorgeous. He already let slip she was pretty, so there's no really going back on that.]

That's what we're here to actually do, right? Purify the star and save the world? Be heroes? I kind of like the idea of being a hero....

[By then they had reached the stylized door. The patterns on it were pretty but he was more curious as to what he would see inside.]

Well, it's a pretty raw deal. Having to work to earn back what you already had.

To be fair, it seems most worlds aren't as vibrant as mine. Everyone has just variant shades of like two colors here for skin. Hair is a little better, but still, a lot is dull. Equestria and the Earth I've been too, there was all the colors of the rainbow. [It's WEIRD.] But yes, I am quite pretty. [She's proud of that, okay.]

Yes, that's the deal. We use bonds to help fuel purifying magic to take back some of the world, and when the corruption is thinned out enough, we may go explore key places where the corruption started and seek out totems.

Strangely, that feels familiar. [He frowns, because he's not sure how that works, but there's something familiar about the sentiment at least.]

[He looks down at his own hands, blue with sharp black nails.] I wonder if it was the same for me... It feels like I have never seen someone as pretty as you, but I cannot be certain. Until I get some memories back, at least.

What is a totem? How long does it take for the corruption to ebb?

....I feel for what you're going to remember then.

It could be you're around cooler colors more? Like genetics do usually means similar colors stay in a family so if it's a small community or the like, you might not have had a lot of reds or yellows?

Though we can get to work on you getting back some memories if you're cool with the bonding thing.

The totem is basically what acts as an 'anchor' for the corruption. Now what a totem is can vary, though the last star had at least two people. A girl and the soul of a boy who suffered tragedy before the corruption took hold completely.

Some weeks. I believe the first time around was about two moons time wise.

Perhaps. [All he knows is that his hands look normal to him. He shrugs.]

You'll have to teach me about how it works, so I can do it properly. [He's still not quite sure how it works, but doing things seems much simpler than listening about them.]

But it's not always people? I wonder how we'll know what they are...

[He tilts his head.] So some... weeks is two moons? [He bites his lip.] I... don't believe I know what a "moon" is. How many bells would that be?

I can do that. I might not have been the most social sort, but I do have friends. Very....very huggy friends.

They're usually at the center of a bunch of defenses that messes without our emotions and sense of self. I had to contend with evil mirror me. Having back up is pretty essential, Chiharu had to help me keep my sense of self.

....hum. It depends how long is a bell. Do you know what a second is? Like...

One. Two. Three.

That's about three seconds.

That must be nice. [He wasn't sure what he felt about friendship in general. Without memories, he just felt a strange twist of conflicted feelings. He would definitely need guidance in this.]

How awful. That must have been difficult. [Although he says it there isn't much in the way of sympathy in his tone. It's hard to say if he doesn't actual care or if it's just due to his lack of awareness on the matter.]

Um... Sorry. I don't believe I'm well versed in this. And I cannot at all recall how a bell is measured. [He pouts.] I'm starting to realize just how having no memories is a bad thing.

...it...is, actually. [She seems surprised a moment. Because she hasn't given it A Ton of thought.]

....it was. And enlightening in others.

Actually, that might be a bit more dire. It seems like societal matters stick, it's more the personal things that don't. Or newer things. Skills seem to stick. Like I can remember magic, but I couldn't tell you when I was born.

But in basic math terms.

Sixty seconds is a minute.

Sixty minutes is an hour.

A day is twenty-four hours.

A moon is...

[There is a pause.] Okay, that's about when I'm getting two different times. Sorry, human things and pony things can end up mixed up when I start thinking about them.

A moon is somewhere between twenty-four days to a little over thirty.

[He smiles at her, unable to come up with anything to say to her thought-provoked expression.]

That does seem correct. I feel like I know magic, but how did I, or do, do it? What kind of magic is it, I couldn't say. Or maybe I just knew of it but didn't actually do it myself? [Now he was starting to talk in circles.]

[Well now, that was a conundrum. Klarion covered his mouth with his fist and thought very hard about it.]

... I may need some time to think this over. May I get back to you on this? We can at least presume that removing corruption will take quite a while.

It is possible. Earth ponies and Pegasus could study unicorn spells, but without a horn, could not do unicorn spells themselves.

That's fair. Time is a tricky thing like that. At least days here seem to be about the twenty-four cycle.

So the horn works in a way to cast spells rather than using components?

Perhaps it is better if I don't remember how time worked for me before. If it is different here, I should adapt as quickly as I can.

Correct. That's why rituals are usually a big deal. Horns just means you need to understand how the magic works and have the raw power for it.

That is a fair point. I guess the big question is what your sleep cycle is.

[At that, he reaches up and feels his forehead. No horn there. But his hair kind of sticks up like horns. He's pretty sure they aren't magical, though.]

Well, I'm not sure. I could try sleeping when everyone else sleeps and waking when everyone else wakes. That shouldn't be too hard.

[She nods.] So we can see what happens then.

And this is the garden car.

[And opening the door and welcome to SO MANY PLANTS.]

[Glad to have that subject put to rest for the time being, Klarion followed her on through... and immediately his jaw dropped and eyes went WIDE.]

[He had never. Never. Seen so much green in one place. And that was no exaggeration. Even without his memories he felt distinctly blown over by how brilliantly green everything was. Sure, there were other colors, but that one seemed to reign above all others. It was also very bright. He wasn't crying, but his eyes did begin to water from the sight. He couldn't keep them open wide for long, needing to squint against the light.]

Oh, this is heavenly! Everything is just so... beautiful! And delicate! And it all smells so... unique!

[That is quite the reaction.]

[...so he definitely lived in a cave. While still being able to handle light without seeming to be in pain. Eyes are sensitive, but he's not screeching at the light.]

[That....probably says something.]

Most perfumes do come from plants because of that. [Walking inside.] Want me to tell you what I know about the plants?

[It definitely hurts but not to a debilitating amount. He'll probably get used to it. Eventually. For now, he's going to happily fall down into the nearest bed of flowers and look at them all as closely as possibly, feeling the grass and the leaves and twigs scattered about, taking in all he can see, smell and touch.]

Oh, yes please! I want to know all about it! All of it!

[He's beaming at her again.]

[Will plop down in the grass beside him.]

Well, I feel I should say not all these plants might be edible for you. Some even I shouldn't eat and I'm a herbivore. You've got canine teeth which usually means you're a bit more limitde on what plants you can eat.

Which is a bit of a shame. Daisies are delicious. But human me's stomach didn't take to them well.

These right here are flowers. Flower is a wide variety of plants, the most varied in flower and most fragrant.

That is a certainly upsetting. I definitely would have wanted to try them if they were safe. But maybe there are some I can still try without dying. [He's curious enough to take a risk. Or two. Or five.]

Which one in particular is a daisies? [There are so many, but he likes the look of these flowers. So much variety and so bright.]

They do smell nice! [He takes a big whiff and immediately sneezes.] Oh! [Then he laughs, almost a little too much, but he definitely didn't expect that.]

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