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>

Comments

[thebiggestguy]

If you choose to fight, you're not a weapon. You're a person, making a choice.

That's an important thing, to me. [Dread lifts one hand, curling it into a fist. The runes in his glove flare to bright, white life.] I do a lot of fighting. My wife and I... we've fought things no one else in the world could. But I never forget that I choose to do it, and that keeps me from feeling used, feeling out of control. Feeling like I exist just for that.

[sobothersome]

I don't like fighting. [Maru replied with a shrug.] But I guess it's what I was created to do... And I fight for my Eve. So they don't have to. To protect what they hold dear.

[He looked down at his hands, they looked normal now, but they could become weapons soon enough... Everything about him, when he was activated, was a weapon. He didn't want to say this guy was wrong when he was being so nice. But it wasn't Maru's choice. In fact, Maru deliberately refused to make the choice. He'd rather someone else make the decisions for him. It was less bothersome that way.]

I was made the way I am.

But... I guess... I'm not as bad as I could be.

[thebiggestguy]

That's not a bad choice to make, I think. Fighting so others don't have to.

[Not choosing is a choice of its own. Everything is a choice, even if it doesn't seem like that.]

It's what we're doing on the train, after all. Stepping in to fight, either directly or as part of the big picture.

[sobothersome]

I suppose that's a way to look at it...

[It was interesting the way this man thought. Putting a positive spin on things just seemed like a bother to Maru. Like it'd take too much energy to do that. But it was alright. And in a way it was also true. He didn't want Madoka to get hurt and have to fight... And since coming on the train there were people he had met who he would have liked to include in on that protection... So maybe he was growing as a person and making choices for himself without even realising he was doing it?]

... Was there anything else you wanted to know?

[thebiggestguy]

[Dread looks back down to the paper, eyes flicking over the answers that aren't answers. Truth is, he could ask all of them all over again... but why? He knows and by now Tony knows that no patterns or premises offer themselves out of the data.]

Anything we ought to know? In general? About anything.

[sobothersome]

Not really...

[Maru gave a lazy shrug, he didn't know what else to tell the guy that was important.}

[thebiggestguy]

All right. Thanks for your answers.

If anyone gives you trouble... let me know, okay? [He already expects that Maru... won't, dismissing it as too bothersome, but nonetheless he has to put the offer out there.]

[sobothersome]

[Maru nodded and tilted his head curiously.]

Same to you. Let me know.