The Fifth Trial

[hot_mess_express]

Who: ALL
When: Day 11, noon
Where: Outer Space

Come hither, Heroes. Prove thy worth.

[ That familiar silence befalls everything following the call, and just like before the third trial there’s a glittering void, points of light twinkling in the air. As you step into the space it expands, seeming to consume you, the Aurora, and all that exists in general. There’s a feeling of vertigo as this happens, frozen lights swirling all about you and once again it's all accompanied by obnoxious giggling.

This time, however, when the darkness fades, you're...

Back inside of the Aurora? No, this is actually an entirely different train. Outside the windows, you can only see wispy, dancing lights illuminating the surroundings, which you can't quite make out. The doors outside don't open. ]

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Comments

[lapofluxury]

[DEEP INHALE, keeping his voice down too]

She wanted to sacrifice herself and stay behind to fight the zombies alone. Randy shot her to subdue her and bring her back onto the train.

[fisherofmen]

. . .



. . . What?

[lapofluxury]

It's complicated. If she had tried to stay, others were going to stay, and it was just... a big shit show.

[fisherofmen]

No one wanted to stay to fight? I mean, that sounds gross, so . . . why did she even want to do that?

[lapofluxury]

Randy and her did, Randy got talked down, but when she wouldn't budge, everyone was threatening to go down with her.

And like. The powers that be were basically laughing at us, telling us we had to be heroic and sacrifice ourselves to win... people were getting mad at being toyed with and stuff.

I just-- ugh. As I said. It's complicated. I'm still kind of processing the whole thing.

[fisherofmen]

. . . Yeah, sorry.

[ trying to find his hand, carefully holding it ]

Sounds tough. Want to go back to our car?

[lapofluxury]

[--oh. well ok. he didn't mind that so much, actually.]

Yeah, I do.

[fisherofmen]

[ leading him back, then ]

I'm not really sure what you do to de-stress, but I've got two ears and a few sparks if you need 'em.

[lapofluxury]

[wow you're cute?? wtf]

Usually I'd do gratuitous amounts of shopping, but that's a little harder here.

[grumble grumble no atms grumble]

So I guess I'll have to settle on something else.

[fisherofmen]

What kind of shopping? We've got a shop, it just sucks, so I mean. . . we can still probably do something with that, right?

[lapofluxury]

Mostly anything? I like being able to look at things and try them on and stuff, though. Clothes are always fun for that reason... but maybe we should just, like, buy a bunch of food and eat it and then pass out for a few hours.

[fisherofmen]

[ taking out his chain ]

Food it is! Any preferences?

[lapofluxury]

Mmmmmmm. Salty snacks and soda.

...Do you know what soda is.

[fisherofmen]

I don't remember anything, so. . . no.

But I can read, so I can order soda.

[lapofluxury]

Oh, word? So you don't have a name or anything?

Also, get Coke, it's better than Pepsi.

[fisherofmen]

Okay, roger that.

[ ordering coke and some salty snacks, chips and beef jerky and crackers etc ]

I haven't really needed one yet! I mean, a name is what you use when you're talking to other people about someone else, right? If someone needs my attention they'll just say 'hey you' or something, and I can do the same, so I haven't really thought it was necessary.

Oh, I guess it's a little inconvenient for you guys, though.

[lapofluxury]

Yeah, it'd be nice to have something to call you.

Do you have any preferences? Otherwise I could come up with something... I guess...

[fisherofmen]

As long as it doesn't sound stupid, I don't really care? It's not like it's for my benefit or anything.

[lapofluxury]

god this is so much pressure uuuuuuuUUHHHH.

What about Cadence?

[music name buddies??]