Event: A Prelude

[trainmasters]

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 8, evening
Where: around

[It's a beautiful evening in the jungle tonight. It's warmer than usual, and some new plants have appeared, black vines that climb up the trees near the Aurora, opening hundreds of tiny white flowers that glow in the darkness. They let of a sweet smell that's soothing like a chamomile tea, and are filled with a dew that, if consumed, leaves characters feeling relaxed and just a little more likely to act on positive impulses.

However, the vines of this plant aren't so harmless. When broken they drip a milky white substance which irritates the skin, leaving red welts that burn and last anywhere from an hour to a full day, depending on how long the substance is in contact. Eating this won't kill you but it'll give you really intense heartburn and nausea for a few hours.

Additionally, if you're walking around in the nearby jungle, you might trip over one of the small cracks that have appeared in the forest floor. Mostly they're not visible underneath the grass and underbrush, but the bigger ones have caused a slight unevenness in the ground that can catch careless toes. There doesn't seem to be any particular pattern or origin to the cracks, nor do they have any other affect on their surroundings. They're just there, suddenly, in a roughly 100-foot radius from the train.

But there's plenty of reason to ignore these natural phenomenon, because there are some new teammates waking up in your carriages! In response to this new wave of arrivals, existing players will hear a cute jingling ringtone come from their Chain. Upon checking, the screen displays... a silly animation of balloons and confetti and the words "WELCOME NEW HEROES", which goes away on its own after a few seconds or when characters tap it. The same display is shown on the big screen in the lounge, in which trays full of colourful drinks have mysteriously appeared. The drinks taste like Kool-Aid and change some part of you the corresponding colour -- pink hair, blue skin, purple eyes, or maybe just a literal green thumb!]

[[OOC NOTE: Newbies can review the arrival scenario on the navigation page if necessary. The drinks in the lounge come in any colour you want, and cause colour shift in whatever and however large an area you want. It could just be a strand of hair or it could be your entire body, whatever you feel like playing with.]]

Comments

[lapofluxury]

[Jasmine]

[wanders out of bedroom in pajamas, squinting and rubbing at his eyes in confusion]

Hmm...?

[All]

[staring at his hands, which have turned blue after he took a drink from the lounge]

The fuck.

[bowtiedbones]

[currently rocking pink hair from the drinks]

Wow, yikes! It does skin too??

[lapofluxury]

Sure does. I'm guessing hair is also involved?

[bowtiedbones]

Yeah, normally I'm blonde.

[lapofluxury]

I guess they thought this would be funny or something? I have no clue.

[acts_her_age]

[sup fellow Jasmine one of your teammates is tiny and looking in your direction with muted interest]

Well, then.

[lapofluxury]

[hello, small child. his brow furrows, and he opens and closes his mouth once in confusion. he 100% read that phone message while half asleep and assumed it was weird spam oops]

...Oops, I seem to be in the wrong house. Pardon me.

[gently backsteps towards the bedroom he walked out of as CASUALLY AS POSSIBLE]

[acts_her_age]

Oh, of course.

[motions him back to his room]

[you'll figure it out]

[lapofluxury]

[sure enough, a little while later after actually reading what was on the phone that was apparently his now, his head pops back out of the door, looking around for her]

Wait, what. Is this serious.

[crimeson]

[flopped on a couch in Jasmine, though he sits up when he notices Aria]

Oh, hey. New guy?

[lapofluxury]

[squints... he hadn't taken the phone message very seriously while half asleep, but things were starting to make less and less sense...]

...Aaaaapparently?

[crimeson]

Well then, welcome to Jasmine!

[lapofluxury]

...Thanks.

[he doesn't understand why he of all people would be tasked with saving the universe, but like. whatever floats this prince's boat. maybe he needed someone to be a dirty nasty criminal?]

Sooo. What can you tell me about this whole thing?

[gonna slide up on next to this dude, still rockin' his pjs]

jasmine

[voreaciously]

[She waits. Searches, too. She needs to keep an eye out for Katsuki in case he ever returns. If not to Jasmine then perhaps somewhere else, but she will wait.

That said, someone else emerges from their quarters and she eyes them, veiling her disappointment entirely. It's not their fault they aren't who she wants them to be.

Still. She is marginally curious.

Her face is quite calm as she considers the newcomer.]

Good day.

[lapofluxury]

[stops dead in his tracks, confused. shit, did someone catch him in their house? his mind flashes briefly to the weird message he'd read before rolling over and going back to sleep, because it wasn't even his phone anyways, but...]

...Oh. Hiiiii there.

[voreaciously]

Do you realise the situation you're in or are you simply that casual about it?

[lapofluxury]

[he was 100% more prepared to believe he broke into someone's house than he got... kidnapped...???]

...Was that a real message. Like, actually factual.

[thereisnowhy]

[While passing through the lounge-]

Did the drink taste funny?

[lapofluxury]

It tasted like kool-aid, but.

[holds up his hands to show off the blue, which happens to match his outfit perfectly, but that's BESIDES THE POINT!]

[thereisnowhy]

Mm~? Mister is blue all over? It is a nice color~

[lapofluxury]

It's not a bad color, I guess...

[he doesn't want to have blue hands, though!!]

Don't drink anything they're offering unless you want to get blue hands, too.

[nihilmancy]

[Despite the icons, she currently has bright red eyes.]

So, you have discovered this oddity as well. An amusing diversion.

[lapofluxury]

It better not be permanent. I super won't find that funny.

[nihilmancy]

These things rarely are.

[lapofluxury]

Do they normally like to play pranks on the people that are supposed to be saving the worlds or whatever?