Train Questionnaire

[runs_on_batteries]

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.


<b>Chronology:</b> <br> <b>What’s your name?</b> <b>What species are you?</b> <b>What’s your birthday/ years you’ve been alive?</b> <b>How many years is the average lifespan of your particular species?</b> <b>Year you’re from:</b> <b>How many months in your world’s calendar?</b> <b>How many days in the months?</b> <b>What age is considered 'adult' in your culture?</b> <br> <b>Technology:</b> <br> <b>What is the most advanced technological device in your world?</b> <b> Is this train something new or are there trains like this in your world? One that goes through the Void?</b> <b>What is a common piece of technology you use regularly?</b> <b>Are you skilled/ comfortable with using technology?</b> <b>Have you identified any objects here on the train you need or would like a tutorial on?</b> <br> <b>Magic/ Spiritual:</b> <br> <b>Does your world use magic?</b> <b>Do you use magic?</b> <b>Is your magic based on a device/ talisman/ lineage/ race?</b> <b>Was magic common place or required to be kept secret?</b> <b>Are there gods worshiped or recognized where you are from?</b> <b>Are these gods beings of great power that one could meet or are they purely spiritual/ faith based?</b> <b>Is there anything that could be provided to you to assist in your religious practices on board?</b> <br> <b>Inventory:</b> <br> <b> 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.</b> <br> <b>Medical</b> <br> <b>Do you have any medical conditions or issues that are being treated by a doctor?</b> <b>Do you have any known allergies or special dietary needs?</b> <br> <b>Companions/World Events</b> <br> <b>Is there anyone from your world here? Were they here before you got here or arrived at the same time?</b> <b>Has there been a war recently? Were you involved in it?</b> <b>Are there known threats to your city, country, world, galaxy, etc?</b> <b>What was happening when you were taken from your time and woke up on the train platform?</b> <b>What were some of the recent big events that have occurred before you woke?</b> <b>If you had not been taken at that point in time, would you still be alive?</b> <br> <b>Skills</b> <br> <b>What special skills do you have, particularly fighting or military skills?</b> <b>Do you know first aid or have healing abilities?</b> <br> <b>Everything Else</b> <br> <b>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?</b> <b>Do we need to warn your roommates about anything? I.e. You're a nude sleepwalker, you sleep while screaming like a banshee, etc.</b> <b>Are you a moron? Y/N</b> <b>If Y, do you understand that leadership won't take you too seriously, you dumbass?</b> <br> <b>Question for subsequent months</b> [<small>OOC: If you do this one, just reply to your own questionnaire and I'll see it.</small>] <br> <b>Did anyone from your universe turn up at the train station this time? If so, who?</b> <br> <b>Do you have any questions for me?</b>

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[tinkerheart]

[Dark Elves. Those words guaranteed to attract attention from one particular person. A tall, pale, faintly glowing... well, elf.
Fëanor has a theory to verify. So he approaches Drizzt not long after he's read his answers.]

Thank you for filling the questionnaire. Would you mind if I asked you one more?

[usestwohands]

[He inclines his head with a friendly, if slight, smile.]

You are most welcome. [He raised an eyebrow, though.] What further?

[tinkerheart]

[Well, few more in fact, but there's one that's most pressing.]

Do the names Oromë or Melkor mean anything to you?

[He did mention a goddess. That made Fëanor wondering if perhaps his people aren't part of the lost tribes that never answered the Valars' call and never made it to Aman. They could be. No worlds other than his own have elves as far as he knows.]

[usestwohands]

[He shook his head gently at the question.]

No. To what do they refer?

[tinkerheart]

The Valar. But that probably doesn't sound familiar either.

[Time to stop being cryptic.]

You wrote that your kin is called elves by others. So are mine. I was wondering if by any chance we came from the same realm.

[Middlearth is vast and he has seen only a tiny portion of it.]

[usestwohands]

It does not.

[He shakes his head, thoughtful.]

We are elves, but a coyote and a jackal are both dogs, and are easily distinguished from one another. The Drow have a legend, that the elves of the surface banished us to the recesses of the earth, cursed us to a land of lightlessness and gloom. Elves like you.

[There is no contempt in his voice, or hatred either in his tone or his eyes. It's spoken as a recitation, something repeated so often as to become habit, and it's obvious he doesn't believe a word of it.]

We are taught you are all vile, evil, selfish creatures who detest any being unlike yourselves. I believe it to be rhetoric spread by a cruel goddess to keep her chosen pets obedient.

[tinkerheart]

An interesting comparison. [Not one he'd personally make.] We don't have many tales about those that decided not to go to the Blessed Realm as my people did. Not more than they must have led a miserable existence under the dominion of the Enemy. [And some turned into orcs in his service but that's the theory Fëanor personally detests so his not willing to share it.]

There were no curses involved though. [To the extent of his knowledge. Still, there might have been and he wouldn't even know. All that exodus story always sounded suspicious to him.] And my people built cities underground. [A city. Singular.]

Now that's exactly something servants of the Enemy would say, and by Enemy I mean Melkor or Morgoth. Though I doubt he'd use any of those names. [Especially the second one.]

[usestwohands]

I am servant to no one who has not earned the respect. Lolth, the patron goddess of the Drow, demands obedience and sacrifice without question. I have witnessed her treachery firsthand, and experienced the sting of betraying her.

[And yet here he stands, a survivor.]

The Underdark is deeper than any surface dwarf ever delved. It is a lightless place warmed only by the fires of the earth.

[tinkerheart]

[With that one sentence Drizzt has made himself an ally.]

Fair, I believe you.

[Opposing cruel and unjust gods is a course of action he'd always agree with. Still, the description of the place resembles nothing he's ever heard of.]

Sadly, I have no knowledge of such a place.

[There's still too little to confirm or disprove his theory but that can wait.]

Thank you, I will bother you no more.

[usestwohands]

[He shakes his head at that.]

It is no trouble. If you have further questions, I will answer them.