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Train Questionnaire

Thanks for participating but to protect my sanity, no more questionnaires will be accepted.

Welcome to the Voidtrecker. This is, for better or worse, a new world for all of us and we’re stuck here. In order to detect patterns in these abductions, get important safety information, and other important details for living in this community I’m conducting a survey. Please answer everything to the best of your ability. If you have any questions about the form please consult whoever is standing next to you other than me, because you should be intelligent enough to answer these very straight forward questions.

All information presented here will be kept strictly confidential and the purpose is to collect data.
Please fill it out and deliver it to me, Tony Stark. You'll most likely find me in my lab (aka, the quiet room that has a lock, a 'keep out' sign, and glass painted).

[ooc: Just fyi, Tony *will* comment on something about your answers when you hand in your answers IC. I've checked with the mod and these can count toward bonus threads, etc. Also, it's very common that people lie on these forms. Fill them out as your character would IC please.]

*** Update *** I've recruited a few more people to help with these so you all can get a response faster and spare my sanity. If you have a preference between Tony, Feanor, Ignis, and Gladio. This group might be referenced to as the Welcome Committee before too long.

Chronology: 
 
 What’s your name? 
 What species are you? 
 What’s your birthday/ years you’ve been alive? 
 How many years is the average lifespan of your particular species? 
 Year you’re from: 
 How many months in your world’s calendar? 
 How many days in the months?
What age is considered 'adult' in your culture?
 
 
 
Technology: 
 
 What is the most advanced technological device in your world? 
 Is this train something new or are there trains like this in your world? One that goes through the Void? 
 What is a common piece of technology you use regularly? 
 Are you skilled/ comfortable with using technology?
 Have you identified any objects here on the train you need or would like a tutorial on? 
 
 Magic/ Spiritual: 
 
 Does your world use magic? 
 Do you use magic?
 Is your magic based on a device/ talisman/ lineage/ race? 
 Was magic common place or required to be kept secret?
 Are there gods worshiped or recognized where you are from?
 Are these gods beings of great power that one could meet or are they purely spiritual/ faith based?
 Is there anything that could be provided to you to assist in your religious practices on board?

Inventory: 
 
 What items were in your rucksack upon waking? Specifically, did anything come with you from your home world? If so, what was it? Disclaimer: I will not attempt to take your item away.

Medical
 
 Do you have any medical conditions or issues that are being treated by a doctor?
 Do you have any known allergies or special dietary needs?
 
Companions/World Events
 
 Is there anyone from your world here? Were they here before you got here or arrived at the same time?
 Has there been a war recently? Were you involved in it?
 Are there known threats to your city, country, world, galaxy, etc?
 What was happening when you were taken from your time and woke up on the train platform? 
 What were some of the recent big events that have occurred before you woke? 
 If you had not been taken at that point in time, would you still be alive?

Skills
 
 What special skills do you have, particularly fighting or military skills?
 Do you know first aid or have healing abilities?

Everything Else
 
 Are there any chores on the list you'd be willing to do if someone else finds their assigned chores particularly disdainful? Or can you be bribed to do both?
 Do we need to warn your roommates about anything? I.e. You're a nude sleepwalker, you sleep while screaming like a banshee, etc.
 Are you a moron? Y/N
 If Y, do you understand that leadership won't take you too seriously, you dumbass?

Question for subsequent months [OOC: If you do this one, just reply to your own 
questionnaire and I'll see it.]
 
 Did anyone from your universe turn up at the train station this time? If so, who?

Do you have any questions for me?

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[Well this was odd. Was it dangerous to give the web more information about him? Or did it already know all it needed to know? Hmmmm.... There had to be some way to have fun with this.... Early on, he figured out how...]

Chronology:

What’s your name? Khary
What species are you? Blood
What’s your birthday/ years you’ve been alive? I'm in my 20s, why?
How many years is the average lifespan of your particular species? Oh now you are jut getting personal.
Year you’re from: This one.
How many months in your world’s calendar? All of them
How many days in the months? Again, all of therm.
How many hours? Minutes? Seconds? Wow, there a reason for all of this?
What was happening when you were taken from your time and woke up on the train platform? The web caught me while horseback riding.
What were some of the recent big events that have occurred before you woke? Besides the war ending and my friends getting married?
If you had not been taken at that point in time, would you still be alive? Unless you know something I don't about my simple trail ride, yeah. Not exactly fragile.

Technology:

What is the most advanced technological device in your world? Craft.
Is this train something new or are there trains like this in your world? No, this is an odd illusion to be sure.
Do you have trains, but not ones that go through the Void? No, we have Webs for traveling the void. And the Dark Alters, of course.
What is a common piece of technology you use regularly? Craft.

Magic:

Does your world use magic? Do you use magic? Is your magic based on a device/ talisman/ lineage/ race? The blood use Jewels, of course.

Inventory:

What items were in your rucksack upon waking? Specifically, did anything come with you from your home world? If so, what was it? Yeah, not sure why I should tell you that.

Medical

Do you have any medical conditions or issues that are being treated by a doctor? Besides being caught in a Tangled Web?
Do you have any known allergies or special dietary needs? Like Yabrah? No, I'm still alive.

Companions

Is there anyone from your world here? Were they here before/ after you got here or arrived at the same time? If there were, you'd all be in deep trouble.

Skills

What special skills do you have, particularly fighting or military skills? I was trained by the Demon Prince and Yasi as well as the Arcanians. Also I make a mean wildwood stew, and the best laced coffees in Kaleer. I have been trained to serve in the first circle of a Court and serve in the Dark Court as well as serving my Queen and being the Warlord of Maghre.
Are there any chores on the list you'd be willing to do if someone else finds their assigned chores particularly disdainful? Or can you be bribed to do both? I can cook. I can serve drinks. That's about it. Willing to earn money doing that to hire someone to do my other chores.

Question for subsequent months

Did anyone from your universe turn up at the train station this time? If so, who? Nope.

[He sighed and gave Khary a look.]

You people aren't nearly as funny as you think you are.

[Yes, you are.]

But you, you've been here a while. Haven't you figured out yet why I'm doing this crap?

[Yes, yes he was. And worse, he knew it.]

"Frankly? I'm still not a hundred percent who here is real and trapped in here with me and who isn't. But presuming you are real? My guess is you're a Steward," [he said with a shrug.] "And I'm past ready to see the Queen," [he said with a grin. ]

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You're not sure if we're real? If this was some kind of hallucination, don't you think it would've faded by now?

[He sighs and sits back in the booth he's taken over with his work.]

So what's your story? Why has it taken this long for you to decide to do my questionnaire?

"A web can last as long as it needs to be," he said with a shrug. But he helped himself easily to a seat across from him. He lounged back, as if on his own sofa talking to an old friend. "I will admit that I am surprised that I have to keep explaining Tangled Webs to people, really. "

"What exactly are you smoking?" Tony asked, not hiding at all that he thinks the man across from him is a complete loon. "You have to explain it because no one here is from your world. I'd ask what that is, but I'm afraid the answer will be too trippy for me. Can you get a mental contact high?"

He chuckled and shook his head. "I think Yasi would kick our ***es if we started smoking. And if he didn't my Healer would." He grinned a bit at that. "Alright, so the brief basics." which would be anything but, by most standards.

"Black Widows are a powerful Caste of witches. Setting aside their deadly poison, they are dangerous because of their Tangled Webs. Generally Black Widows can weave one of two kinds of Tangled Webs. One kind lets them see the future. They know when that future can be changed and when it is immutable. The other kind of webs are complex illusions. And I assure you illusions can kill. They can have physical and tangible manifestations." Making the word illusion questionable. "What most people when they think about the Tangled Webs though is the Webs tangling up minds. Trapping them. Someone caught in a Tangled Web can't tell reality from illusion. There is no way to tell from within how much time is passing outside. And most people wouldn't think to wonder. Black Widows aren't the most common caste of witches, even though it is the only Caste someone can join even if they were not born to it. How that is possible is a secret the Hourglass keeps well. And Black Widows can be secretive, and frankly," he laughed, "off putting. Not everyone can handle the tartness that seems tied to the personalities of those born to the Hourglass. I'd say I blame the venom, but last time I did, Karla nearly knocked my head off." A small wistful smile, mischief twinkling in his blue eyes.

"Now, the way I see it, there are two strong possibilities. One is that I was caught in a trap Web - and why has its own list of possibilities - and everyone here is a creation of the web. The other possibility is that this is a stronger web than I could have envisioned myself and it is actually catching minds from realms I've never even heard of. Meaning that some or all of you are actually real, and trying to rationalize the illusion though your own framework. I am leaning towards the second for a number of reasons. One is the sheer imagination it would take to create so many different worlds and histories and back stories. The next is that so much of what is core and fundamental to the Blood seems to be missing. Things that I don't think anyone would even consider enough to leave out. Then there is the fact that the strongest Black Widows in history are family, or close to it. Unless the time I have been here is less than a few hours in reality, I would have been found by now. Which means that this Tangled Web is too strong for them to safely remove all the minds they care about. And if Jaenelle had any sense that there were other innocent minds here? She wouldn't risk anything until she knew she could save us all. And of course, the most pressing reason I think that at least some of you are real..." he said, grinning impishly, "Is that it is more interesting and fun if that is the case. And since my belief in here has no bearing on getting me free, there is no harm in letting myself believe that until proven otherwise. Besides, it is the safer way to bet."

He rubbed his face with a slight groan. The man was a complete lunatic. He didn't even know where to start with this.

"Okay.. so if you're unsure of anything being real and you know illusions can cause harm, there's no way for us to prove we're not part of your dumbass reality." He thought for another moment. "How do you view these missions we go on? Are you taking them seriously and actively helping out your team?"

"Of course. There is no way to be sure right now who and what is and is not real. So the best thing to do is stay alert, be cautious, and treat things as real until I know for sure otherwise," he said with a shrug and a grin. As for these so-called missions, apparently I missed a number of them in some odd sort of time skip that landed me in, of all things, a large box." Which made so little sense it was just more proof to his mind that this was an elaborate Tangled Web/

"Good," Tony answered, with a grin. If Khary was believing they were all illusions that was fine with him- so long as he was helping out and not putting anyone in danger around him. So, the man might be crazy, but Tony could work with that kind of crazy.

"Well if you need anything let me know. Otherwise.. enjoy the web."

"Well, a way out might be nice," he said with a grin. "Failing that.... when I first got here, I asked a question, no one seemed to have an answer to, maybe you do. This currency they give us here when we do chores or whatever, can we pay other people with it? Could I actually provide a service, sell my skills, and then use that money to pay someone else to do the chores I can't?"

He's willing to work, he's willing to do his share. But there are some chores that he does not know how to do and has no interest in learning. Plus he missed having a staff.

"It would be nice if we could do that but no. Sadly a no to both. The only thing we can do is an IOU or barter system. I haven't discovered any way for the points to be transferable. If you provide a service, the payment would have to be something someone could buy or return as another service."

Tony is in a similar situation where he'd rather not do chores when he has better things to do and so many people here didn't. "For instance, if you go get me more coffee I'll end this interview."

"Laced or black?" he asked with a smirk. Oh come on, someone asked Khary for Coffee, and they weren't first thing in the morning grumpy. Of course he was going to have fun with it. Especially since he needed the chance to process what to do without marks. He had no problem working, of course, but there were tasks to which he was suited and those to which he was not. Could they introduce a paper economy?

"Surprise me," Tony joked back. He gave the young man an appreciative smile. They could probably use a few more positive-minded crackpots on the train.

He grinned and a pair of mugs appeared alongside a thermos. He poured them each out a boozy coffee. He was known around his friend group for the drinks he mixed. Him and Jaenelle. This was one of the better brews he'd made since arriving. He slid one across to Tony, using Craft to keep it from tipping or spilling, stopping it short just in the right place to be easily grabbed... but with the handle pointed the wrong way. He had a small amused smirk.

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Wrap?

Up to you, Kharry is happy to continue the conversation.