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TRAIN-CRASHING NEAR YOU

Heya, bonjour, think of Bastille! This post will serve as the main plotting and Q&A hub for our recent event and test drive meme (TDM).

Feel free to make a plotting comment, if you want — and to flag if you're playing a TDM participant or an existing character in the comment title, to help with precious, beautiful organisation.

For any general questions, you have the following main threads for:

TEST DRIVE QUESTIONS

EXISTING CHARACTERS

THE COMMON TIMELINE

Thanks so much and enjoy!

Comments

TEST DRIVE QUESTIONS

[groundrules]

...no, you can't adopt the bear.

EXISTING CHARACTERS

[groundrules]

You guys definitely can't adopt the bear.

COMMON TIMELINE

[groundrules]

But what does it mean, metaphysically, to be a bear?

STOP THAT HORSECAR TRAIN THING

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...or, you know, don't.

TEMPLE RAID

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Come one, loot all.

TELL A GHOST, TELL A FRIEND

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Arha, we've got some bad news for you.

God to the rescue

[scrapgege]

Xie Lian is good people, so he will go and help rescue people from the train thing and like, lift wagons up or something.

[downswing]

I can offer one [1] exorcist to further infuriate the dead, because what's a little blasphemy between ghost friends?

Here, if anyone wants to... come along and party...

[bearshermark]

raises hand

[groundrules]

Wonderful! Most wonderful. How can this go poorly? It cannot.

Whom would Eleven try to 'fess up to, an infantry soldier, a group, Arha himself?

[bearshermark]

Arha himself bc well, if he's braving blood-curdling dread, may as well go the full height. pls go away be at peace, undead ghosts. ur fight is over

[groundrules]

O hoooooooooo! As the first person to attempt to break this fine piece of news to Arha, Eleven gets away relatively lightly: enjoy an entire day of shackled imprisonment in one of the caravan tents, closely supervised by four phantoms. No worries, though: the tar person Eleven gained as a dutiful stalker friend during his purification quest can come visit and keep him company :')

For the next few days, Eleven will find his interaction with the ghosts particularly coarse, with several of them refusing to answer him, throwing him hard glances, or sometimes shallowly compromising his work: if he is holding watch, his brazier will turn off the moment he turns his head. Some of his rations will go mysteriously missing. His favourite sword? Rusted for the day. His tent belongings? Scattered in the wind, when he's out on watch. Some of the ghosts will also make attempt to roughen him up a little in passing.

[bearshermark]

wow rude lmao. well could've been worse

What is the timeline on this? I know it's pretty loose, but the TDM is spread pretty far and I don't think the manifestations begin til this weekeeend? maybe next weekend for dropping this bad news for these shenanigans? or maybe I could be extra industrious and combine both into this weekend. unless that's rushing the plot too fast!

[groundrules]

If by manifestations you mean the tar creatures — they started taking shape as of 10 July :) Up to you whether you want Eleven to be pursued by one, of course!

I've purposefully avoided giving a concrete timeline so folks can back/forward date as they need, since there's a lot happening — take what measures you need, from that point of view! I admit I'd assumed you might want to top level a log starter, case in which that wouldn't be a problem :)))

[bearshermark]

okay! hm I'm tickled by this and the idea of a network post like 'uh hey so hypothetically, if there was a tar creature chilling next to you, what would you do also might be held captive by the undead rn someone pls keep hendrik from starting an incident'

[bearshermark]

oh! pertinent question: would Eleven know he's only being held captive for a day, or is that going to be worryingly unclear?

[groundrules]

I'm sad to say I don't think the ghosts would be kind enough to disclose the length of his captivity — they're getting quite rude, aren't they?

[groundrules]

That sounds like an excellent exercise in team bonding...

[bearshermark]

I uh, I'm already sorry...

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q-quite. weeps.

[consignation]

I'm not relogging because I'm in the middle of my toplevel but Mingyu is the kind of nerd who'd collect and get parchment pieces translated. Information is sort of his thing. Is there anything particularly useful he can do with this information?

[consignation]

WHY ARE WE FURTHER INFURIATING THE DEAD ISN'T THAT THE OPPOSITE OF OUR FUCKING JOB LAN WANGJI

[groundrules]

Of course! How many letter pieces were you thinking he'd get? I can give you some (very brief) summaries for each.

[downswing]

Do you know who your brother is?

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