Jusis Albarea ([personal profile] saddleclub) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2019-01-12 10:33 pm

welcome to the jungle we've got fun and games

Who: Y'all
When: Day 8 noonish
Where: THE JUNGLE

[So there is a mostly unexplored jungle out there.

It seems like a good day to explore it, eh?

Please look out for:

Venomous snakes, the smaller ones will leave you fevered and nauseas, the larger may stop your heart.

Spores, inhaling them can leave you with mild to severe continuing hallucinations

Pollen, it may make you sneeze.

Dark shadows in the undergrowth, that seem to whisper as you pass. In familiar voices...? Or that's just the wind.

Vicious monsters. They want to eat you.

And look out, if you go exploring, because halfway through your adventure the sky seems to open up and pour on you, try to find a safe shelter--if that exists in the jungle.

For those of you not inclined to explore well, you may see lights in the jungle, little wisps, of light in the growth, or maybe it's your team colors you see? The more you look the more you feel practically compelled to follow those lights and flashes of something familiar....

Maybe you get caught by the jungle's dangers, trapped in a cave by the downpour, or maybe you make it to an odd break around a still pond, the surface so smooth it's almost like a mirror. If you look in, your reflection looks back. And it smiles at you.

And if you make it this far, if you look deep into your reflection and let it stare back, you might find yourself leaning down, towards it--hopefully you have a companion to pull you back before pale arms reach to pull you in and drown you.

Even if you're pulled back from the glass pool, a strange dread lingers with you for a while. And the urge to be near others is incredibly strong. Be it their presence or their touch you crave, you need reassurance.

((OOC: Explore, use this an excuse for wet huddling together in a cave while hallucinating, get cool new scars from fighting beasts, encounter the glassy pool, or whatever! Grab a buddy, have a good(?) time.))]
crimeson: (the sun can't shine)

[personal profile] crimeson 2019-01-13 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
[well now that the game is over, Randy has exactly zero impetus to not get wasted! he has purchased booze and is also making Rufus get drunk with him. he's willing to share a bit, maybe, at least within the train.

BUT NOW! there are shiny lights. very pretty. he is gonna wander thattaway, and absolutely get caught up in that cave, super transfixed by the pond.]
ghostfromthemachine: (leaves you trembling)

[personal profile] ghostfromthemachine 2019-01-13 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ here's someone who is not inclined to explore, or to stare at mysterious lights that are absolutely up to no good. she's more genre savvy than that!! nice try!!!

she is, however, absolutely inclined to go outside at the sound of the rain starting to come down, because while she is genre savvy she never claimed to have common sense. besides, playing in the rain is fun! ...or would be if, you know. senna's default uniform didn't involve a white blouse. so. there's a bright blue wet rat huddled up somewhere with her knees drawn up to her chest in an attempt to preserve her modesty, all but vibrating in embarrassment. ]



iii've made a mistaaaaaake

[personal profile] dragonblooming 2019-01-13 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ good thing hazel's uniform has the good shit ]

Um - do you want to borrow... my... sweater...?
Edited 2019-01-13 06:59 (UTC)
ghostfromthemachine: (I'm crawling on your shores)

[personal profile] ghostfromthemachine 2019-01-13 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...that's enormous. she would swim in that. which makes it 100% ideal ]

yes please
cawnflict: (pic#12808117)

[personal profile] cawnflict 2019-01-13 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ "Explore the dungeon after exploring a mansion," seems like a fantastic idea.

Not.

Instead, he's gone out for a breather. However, it's not easy to fly in a jungle, so he's hardly actually done any flying; only enough to flit his way up into a lower branch to perch on. And watch everyone suffer with the vicious creatures. ]


You should reconsider that direction.

[ Well okay, he'll b... helpful. ]
dragonblooming: (pic#7073077)

[personal profile] dragonblooming 2019-01-13 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's SO ideal. pulling it off and handing it over and. politely turning around ]
ruinatings: (013)

[personal profile] ruinatings 2019-01-13 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Rufus is not usually the getting drunk type, but Randy convinced him so here we are. Drunk and following Randy while he follows the lights.]

I have a feeling this is going to get dangerous.
crimeson: (on the both of us)

[personal profile] crimeson 2019-01-13 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
Probably~ Well, we can handle ourselves. We're big boys.
ghostfromthemachine: (of the sun's hard rays)

[personal profile] ghostfromthemachine 2019-01-13 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
Thank youmff—

[ muffled by mouthful of fleece as she wiggles into it IMMEDIATELY ]

I'm— you can look now, sorry...
ruinatings: (064)

[personal profile] ruinatings 2019-01-13 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
[So post-game, Randy was sad and dragged Rufus into drinking with him. And now Rufus is three sheets to the wind, sitting on a downed tree not too far into the jungle and rubbing his face as the rain starts to come down.

He was following lights but he tripped so now he's muddy and covered in a weird slightly sticky pollen that's making his face itch.

As you approach, a snake drops from a branch down beside him. But he doesn't notice, because he's going into a sneezing fit.]
crimeson: (if you can stay one more hour)

[personal profile] crimeson 2019-01-13 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
[wanna fuckin' bet

wolf whistling though, totally helpful, also uh, Jasmine has a nice white shirt that is, in fact, totally soaked through now. very attractive.]
Edited 2019-01-13 07:23 (UTC)
howlsitgoin: (015)

[personal profile] howlsitgoin 2019-01-13 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
--What's that way?

[Says a wet dog climbing through the underbrush on an exploration mission. He's using his Chain to take a lot of photos for later mapping purposes.]
ruinatings: (007)

[personal profile] ruinatings 2019-01-13 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yes. Large and intoxicated. What difficult prey.

[HUFFS and sits down beside him.]
ruinatings: (044)

[personal profile] ruinatings 2019-01-13 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
[HOLY SHIT Jusis! Rufus is way too drunk for this, so rather than being so perfectly aware of his surroundings he's just aware someone is coming at him suddenly with a sword.

Which, if he also had a sword, he'd try to meet. But he doesn't and he's wasted so instead he jumps, startled, and tries to get up to get out of the way.... which just results in his heels sliding in the mud, so he ends up tipping backwards off the frankly quite slimy log and right into a pile of dead leaves.]

--What are you doing?!
dragonblooming: (pic#7073435)

[personal profile] dragonblooming 2019-01-13 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's also warm ]

No problem. I think I'm a bit better equipped for the jungle, overall, in terms of the clothes they gave me, so...
crimeson: (no these days i tend to lie)

[personal profile] crimeson 2019-01-13 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Large and drunk and also strong! Don't forget that.

[taking off his shirt to wring it out a bit, very hot]

[personal profile] crimeson 2019-01-13 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
[HE'S SO HOT JUSIS

he's also definitely veering toward the pond oddly]
ghostfromthemachine: (I went to the mountains)

[personal profile] ghostfromthemachine 2019-01-13 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
I would like to! Really! However I would also like not to flash the entire train on the way back.

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