April Information and CR meme!

[voidtreckermods]

We hope everyone had a fun month! Some information for your ongoing journey.

IC Month

This month is the month of Egret. Days can be found here.

The thought of the month is Great things never came from comfort zones

The challenge is: Tagging into other peoples top levels or posts will earn you two bonus points. Two bonus points will be awarded for each thread that you tag into during March and April.

Threads that fulfil this criteria can be submitted during April AC. You may find it easier to keep a tracking list of threads for easy compiling of bonus AC!

Recipes are here. All the ingredients can be found in the storeroom and characters are welcome to make other food with them.

This month's chore assignments are:

Blue: Cleaning bedrooms and passenger areas
Purple: Meal Preparation
Red: Laundry
Orange: Cleaning kitchen and bathrooms

The Train.

As the month moves onto the month of Egret the train will stop to pick up new passengers. When everyone rejoins the train they will find a new sleeper carriage!

This has been updated on the setting.

They will also notice a new post on the ICP. It will go live with the intro tomorrow but information can be found here!

The shop has been updated! Points have been updated on the passenger roster.

If your character does anything to alter the setting please let me know!

Important Dates

This month's event will be an on-train event on the 18th and 19th April.

Reserves will open 18th April with a TDM on the 15th April. Apps are between 21st and 28th April. AC will run 22nd to 29th April.

New players may find it useful to read the arrival information if they haven’t already!

Monthly Plotting

Feel free to use this post to plot any thing you want for the next month! Here’s a structure you can use!

<b>Name:</b> [your name] <b>Contact info:</b> [anything you want to share] <b>Character:</b> [name] <b>About them:</b> [canon, a brief description of who they are] <b>Plans:</b> [got anything in the works?] <b>CR wanted:</b> [anything specific?] <b>Things to avoid:</b> [just so lines can be drawn]

Comments

[blue_ice]

Name: zoki
Contact info: kharamagic

Character: Seto Kaiba (blue_ice), Team Orange
About them: From Yu-Gi-Oh a former CEO, top duelist, and overall pain in the butt is learning he has to live in a society instead of above it. It's a rough road.
Plans: He's working on starting an engineering class so the teams can be better prepared for the next mission, and now that he has his deck back the Epic Duel of Epic Destiny will happen.
CR wanted: Gaming rivals and students. Please continue to friend him so he can be confused about it.
Things to avoid: Nothing comes to mind.

Character: Mami Tomoe (magicurls), Team Purple
About them: From Puella Magi Madoka Magica, a senior magical girl who once guided Madoka. She's dealing with feelings of guilt and inadequacy, but will try to put her perfectly polite mask back on before too long. Let her feed you.
Plans: crying bonding with Madoka, figuring out just what her place is in thiis strange situation.
CR wanted: Friends, co-heroes, people willing to attend teatime. She's a little rusty with regular human contact, please help.
Things to avoid: All good!

[casslang]

Offers Jessie (Rule!63 AMC Jesse Custer), Thea (CRAU from a sex or die game) and Cassie (AU in the app)!

[magicurls]

Cassie please be friends? This girl needs super friends.

[casslang]

Her dad and Hope are the supers but yes to friends!

[magicurls]

Ah x.x Well they'll have a good time! She just wants to be welcoming.

[casslang]

Name: Morgan
Contact info: TheHourMorgana

Character: Jessica "Jessie" Custer
About them: AMC Preacher, pre series version of Jesse but just escaped Angelville.
Plans: Just facing how insane her family is AKA the Angelville arc, facing her phobia of tight spaces (blame the coffin).
CR wanted: Anything!
Things to avoid: NA for now

Character: Thea Queen
About them: DCTV/Arrow, Oliver's sister and eventual Speedy. CRAU from Pathema aka sex or die island
Plans: Regaining agency post island and facing it, training again, becoming a hero
CR wanted: Anything!
Things to avoid: NA

Character: Cassie Lang
About them: MCU, Ant Man's kid and fill in the blanks between the Snap and Endgame *points to app*
Plans: Just meeting people, her dad's old van horn as ringtone
CR wanted: Her cast and fellow teens! Otherwise anything!
Things to avoid: NA

[les_magique]

Name: Eric
Contact info: overbringer

Character: Samata Mahto
About them: Samata is an original character from a world based loosely on the world described in the player's handbook of Dungeons and Dragons. The basic idea is that Wizards are people who learned magic through careful study. That means being a wizard is a skill and THAT means there must have been someone who discovered how to do it and started teaching everyone else.

In a world where Sorcerers serve as an aristocratic elite, citing the hereditary magic in their blood as sign of their divine favor to rule over the common folk, Samata Mahto was an ordinary grad student who accidentally discovered a method by which someone not born a sorcerer could still use magic and became her world's first wizard. What started as teaching underground wizardry classes rapidly spun out of control when everyone started to realize that having wizards around made sorcerers not seem that special any more and next thing she knew, people were rioting in the streets as a five hundred year old social order was overthrown in a few months.

Samata is passionate, brave, and smart, but also hot headed, judgmental, and prideful. She has an initial distrust of anyone born with magic powers, but will get over herself soon enough. She has a magic prosthetic arm that she can move as if it were part of her body.
Plans: If you bring Samata silver, she can make you magic items. If you ask her to, she will teach you wizardry. Her main goal right now is to gather the tools she needs to make the next version of her prosthetic.
CR wanted: Hot people to flirt with. Magic people to distrust. Other scholarly types to have long academic debates with. Friends, lovers, enemies, people who find her annoying, whatever else you have!
Things to avoid: nothing immediately comes to mind?

[adropofsunlight]

Name: Lisa
Contact info: Plurk: faysdarkangel

Character: Rapunzel
About them: Tangled, a ball of sunshine who has live 18 years of her life in a tower. Is excited about learning new things and is pretty much wanting to make everyone happy.
Plans: Rapunzel wants to set up classes that are more for fun things rather than the classes we have currently. Also a class that would be useful for those who don't understand modern days things. Because that stuff be confusing.
CR wanted: All the CR Rapunzel is usually pretty open to new friends and even with negative people she would still try...
Things to avoid: Don't know yet, if someone brings up something then I might say but otherwise come at me.

Character: Yugi Mutou
About them: Yu-Gi-Oh! Current King of Games, former high school student and budding game designer. Has had to deal with a lot and managed to come out of it okay.
Plans: Questioning everything after all that happened to him over the last two weeks. What skills he has and what he should be learning here, about his preferences in a romantic way thanks to people asking. These two things I am going to have him try and explore in one way or another. Just not sure how exactly yet.
CR wanted: All the CR. Gamers, people who just need a supporting friend.
Things to avoid: N/A

Character: Allen Walker [CRAU]
About them: D.Gray-Man. A cursed boy who has been through a lot and learned a lot at the same time. Stubborn to a fault on certain subjects and also really bad at the self-sacrificing thing. Like willing to do dumb shit just to save someone.
Plans: None at the moment. He'll be disappointed that he wasn't here when the mission was going on though...
CR wanted: He needs stubborn people to get through to him sometimes, or people who can admire that are stronger.
Things to avoid: I've put his boy through tones of awful things already, so... Nothing I won't do to him.

[callmegladio]

Name: Theo
Contact info: JustAnotherUsername

Character: Gladiolus Amicitia
About them: FFXV, Taken after his DLC and meeting back up with the boys
Plans: Not... really? He appears to be accidentally collecting people to train with/teach which is amusing when he had decided he didn't want to do that! He's learning to garden. Generally he's just doing his own thing.
CR wanted: Gladio welcomes anyone. You'll usually find him in the greenhouse watching his plants or laying in the grass reading, or working out.
Things to avoid: Nope.


Character: Duo Maxwell
About them: Gundam Wing. OLD fandom. It's understandable if you don't know who he is. Stolen immediately after the events of Endless Waltz. Pilot of a giant ass mecha, technically a terrorist, demolitions expert, orphan, just a teen! Actually a pretty nice guy! lol
Plans: Not a gosh darn thing! All he plans on doing is checking things out, meeting people and getting to know them. ^^ Recon. As you do.
CR wanted: ANYTHING. Talk to him~
Things to avoid: TUGGING ON HIS HAIR, DAMMIT! ;__;

[swansongs]

Name: Nic
Contact info: gavemyleftarm

Character: Dyme Graydon
About them: OC, sassy musician with a heart of gold, has a tendency to flirt.
Plans: Absolutely nothing!
CR wanted: Anything! I'd really like him to start making friends, but I'm open to any kind of cr.
Things to avoid: Nothing!

Character: Leviathan
About them: OC, angel-turned-demon, surprisingly kind for a Lord of hell. He's got a lot of issues he's working through still.
Plans: He'll be intro'd in April, gonna be meeting a lot of people, but I have no specific plans beyond that. He's probably going to take a liking to gardening, though.
CR wanted: Anything! Like Dyme, he's lacking in the friends department, but I'm up for any kind of cr.
Things to avoid: Nothing!

YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE (especially for Webmind's bit)

[unfavorableinstigation]

Name: S.M.F./Ace
Contact info: Autistic_Ace on plurk and Discord! Or just poke either of my muses' accounts, really. (unfavorableinstigation and iamnotgod, respectively)

Character: Nita Callahan, Team Orange, Cabin 4:B
About them: Nita is a passionate bookworm who likes helping people - and is more than a little self-sacrificing about doing so - as well as a hard worker period. Being a wizard gives her power through the Speech, the language the worlds were made with and that all creation naturally understands.
Plans: No big plans apart from getting the train to talk to people, maybe??? Though that's as much the peridexis' goal as it is hers, except for teaching Namine how to do shielding. She can also tutor for math/science if anyone pokes her into doing so.

Will probably handwave what she's doing on platform day specifically - namely, handing out Eva's new leaflets and catching people up on what's known so far. Let me know if you want a tag from her this round!
CR wanted: Tutoring?? People she can theorize about what's going on with the train with? More wizard CR?
Things to avoid: Neither romance nor drag-out fights are expected from this character... well, from me. But I can be persuaded if it feels IC enough!

And now, WEBMIND!

Character: Webmind, also Team Orange, Cabin 1:D
About them: He's from the WWW Trilogy, where the only miracles come from the people, governments CAN be overthrown without bloodshed, and God does not exist. Atheists unite!
Plans: /clears throat/ So for this platform, I had the idea of him being so wrapped up in his panic (click through to his journal linked above for the intended draft, though I may still change it) that he doesn't get off the platform in time, making him the second IC death.

BUT, interacting with him should still be an option, no?
CR wanted: COMMENT HERE if you plan on tagging Webmind! What would your character plan on doing - talking to him out loud? Poking him (note: if your character ISN'T a machine themselves, one of the feeds he's tied into now is pressure, so reaching him this way is a possibility! If your character is consistent enough with the poking, anyway)? Stealing his stuff?

If your character knows Binary and/or Morse code, they'll have a much higher chance of breaking him out of it, though if his chief questions aren't answered (what has happened back home? Is he in one piece? Is he attacking people and he can't even know it?), he'll still be at risk of spiraling again later.

If your character is bodily picking him up, please say so! This will definitely get him on the train above all the other options, even if it doesn't knock him out of his panic.

If he does die, I'll have waking up in the luggage car reset him in a way, clearing his panic and thus making it easier for him to read the sensory data he's got to deal with now.

Once things are all cleared up, however that happens, one of the things he'll zero in on is setting up a textchat function for the train/ICPs! For him (and at least one other train resident), this is a matter of accommodations, not just preference, so he'll be prioritizing that alongside getting to know everyone on the train.

Gods, how do I play such chatterboxes...?

[sensitiveapple]

Name: Cat
Contact info: Plurk! Errantwritings; Discord: Cat#3165

Character: Misa (Team Orange; Cabin 3C)
About them: Star Wars! (Between RotJ and TFA) She's a courtesan in training, and Force Sensitive. She's proud of her profession and will talk to people about it IF THEY WANT. She's coming to learn thanks Peter that it disturbs some people.
Plans: Not really. She's going to need the Force users on the train to stop her because she's just using it willy-nilly and doesn't realize it.
CR wanted: Someone catch her at fail!meditation. Other than that, she's going to be all over the Platform, making sure certain people haven't left.
Things to avoid: Nope!

Character: Victor "Sabretooth" Creed (Team Purple; Cabin 4C)
About them: MCU!AU, the MCU happened, but there were mutants at EndGame.
Plans: He's going to like cooking. So, anyone wanna help him with that? Other than that, he's going to stare at Platform and just be like "sigh".
CR wanted: Have an owie? Emotional or otherwise? Come to him. He'll try to make it better.
Things to avoid: Nope

[sensitiveapple]

I'd love to get Allen and Misa together. Platform obviously?

Also! Creed and Rapunzel. He's worried about her, even if he's not overt about it. So, maybe a hair braiding thing. They can talk about healing magics? (His isn't magic, but whatever)

[sensitiveapple]

I imagine Gladio and Creed probably know one another from the gym car in the morning? Maybe nodding acquaintances? If you'd like to thread something with them, I'd be up for it.

Misa will gladly meet both of them! I'd like to get her with Gladio for some knife work, maybe? But Duo definitely on the platform.

[draconite]

Name: Claire (she/her)
Contact info: superorbital

Character: Bryn Pendragon
About them: Infopost with impressions and permissions! Bryn's a traveling warrior with as many braincells as she has functioning eyes (which is to say, one). She was raised by a dragon as part of his horde until a prince whose name and face she's yet to find out went and slayed him. After taking on the powers of her Dead Dragon Dad, Bryn has set out on a Revenge Road Trip across the continent of Seidrfold, a Fantasy Kitchen Sink setting full of all sorts of neat European mythological nonsense. Despite how edgy that description makes her sound, she's actually a cheerful, high-energy sheltered weirdo who cannot be trusted with her own braincell and is having SO MUCH FUN out here on her wild adventure.
Plans: Since I've just arrived, I don't have any plans! Mostly I'm just looking to get her settled.
CR wanted: Meeting up with her teammates on Team Orange, for the most part! Aside from that, making friends with fellow troublemakers who'll be inclined to go along with her shenanigans or anyone holding a braincell who might try and reign her in. I'm pretty open to anything!
Things to avoid: Nothing I can think of!

[runsfast_rollsfar]

Name: Coop
Contact info: coopyey or Coop in the Discord :3c

Character: Prisoner, Team Red
About them: A dumb bastard from Dead Cells, he is incredibly good at fighting and not much else. He's kinda a pessimist and faces life with a tired shrug. His body's a corpse and when he eats it gets vaguely less disgusting.
Plans: Mostly currently operating with Team Fandango (Renee, himself, Spinel) to provide appropriate shenanigans. He's been helping Spinel with learning how to do chores. He's probably figured out she's pretending to be dumb so that Prisoner will play with her, but he's fine with that.
CR wanted: I'm down for anything with him. He's a bit more open to maybe being friends, especially with the younger crowd because he finds Spinel quite cute and charming. More sparring partners.
Things to avoid: Nah.

Character: Rustling Paper, Team Orange littlepaperbird
About them: Comes from a custom d&d 5E campaign where a group called Novum Astra is out saving the world, one ridiculous adventure at a time. They had returned to a city called West Water to return a staff to its rightful owner, then had Paper help them delve into the secrets of an ancient drowned elf city beneath the sea. He was helping them when he arrived here! He likes ruins and ancient artifacts and has a pact with the Old God Yog-Sothoth, The Gate.
Plans: Nothing specific!
CR wanted: ALL THE FRIENDS and anyone who has a scholarly understanding of magic he would quite like to meet. He finds wizards just fascinating. I'd love to have someone be more negative with him, but that would require unusual acts of cruelty so I'm not sure how feasible that is.
Things to avoid: Nothin'

Character: Aaron LeBlanc, Team Blue (new) bornebygrace
About them: Basically a modern day Earth AU. Heaven and Hell are doing that fighting thing and he was originally to join the ranks, but refused to snitch about his friend dating a demon. Got kicked out with his wings stripped, but not officially fallen, per se. He doesn't know how to cope with literally anything and he was left with absolutely no structure in his life so he's just kinda zoned out for the past 200 or so years thanks to the help of drinking, drugs, and others. He'll be a bit moody to start.
Plans: Nothing specific, just kinda loose words thrown around.
CR wanted: Guys to flirt with and possibly be fwb. Anyone to encourage his bad habits and feed into his suffering, anyone to draw out good habits and encourage self love and acceptance. Friend friends, a beard or two would be cool.
Things to avoid: Nothing to avoid, but just to note: he has two wounds on his upper back along his shoulder blades where his wings once were. It's kinda like a mouth wound: suddenly applying force to them or touching them when he least expects it hurts a LOT, but carefully doing so when he's ready for it is painful but is almost a more satisfying type of pain? I hope that makes sense? Again, nothing to avoid, weaponize at your own discretion.

[runsfast_rollsfar]

My character Paper (littlepaperbird) is team orange and likely will get along with her quite well - he's pretty positive and peppy as well. He could very easily be talked into doing shenanigans, and would be quite excited to help since he's very good at illusion magics! He'll be excited at a new team orange friend ^^

[runsfast_rollsfar]

Aaron will try to help Webmind out with his panic but I'm not fully sure how it'll play out until we start threading it. Aaron doesn't know Binary/Morse code, of course, and I don't forsee him picking Webmind up for any reason. I may also poke him with Paper, but that's undecided right now.

I would like to tag Nita at some point with all of mine eventually, but it's just kinda as it happens. d:

[runsfast_rollsfar]

(chinhands) Aaron's gonna definitely flirt with Gladio. I imagine Aaron will likely find Gladio most approachable while he's reading, or otherwise alone. Aaron's not much one for growing plants and I think he'd just watch if Gladio were working out. d:

I'M REALLY EXCITED TO FORREAL POKE DUO HE WAS SO CUTE IN THE TDM aaron will probably big brother him pretty hard but we'll see - I try not to push cr any specific directly and try to let it grow organically

I need to poke you with my other two, my brain just feels a bit like scrambled eggs on a sidewalk lol

[hashtagparkerluck]

Name: Kinz
Contact info: kinz#9265 or kinziekay

Character: Peter Parker
About them: MCU Spider-Man. Walking disaster. Extremely friendly can talk for hours.
Plans: Peter's been ignoring sleep so he's gonna start seeing the effects of that.
CR wanted: all of it. come talk to this Spider-Child.
Things to avoid: Don't call him Einstein and you're golden.


Character: The Doctor
About them: He's from that one show about time travel. He's a very friendly alien and loves to talk
Plans: He's gonna be starting in as the teacher for the younger kids and volunteering time to the medic car. He'll also probably pick up a project or two along the way.
CR wanted: Everything. Gimme.
Things to avoid: Nah


Character: Aoko Nakamori
About them: Magic Kaito/Detective Conan. She's friendly but a bit temperamental
Plans: Nothing thus far. Come at me.
CR wanted: Everything. She needs more friends.
Things to avoid: nothing really except that no tell her her bff is actually kid. she will punch you.

[unfavorableinstigation]

I'll definitely feel bad if I end up just having him 'no sell' all possible opportunities - but maybe it can turn into a group thread or something? Be hell to track during the big intro log, though.

And tossing Nita at yours has been fun so far! =D Nita and Paper really should talk teleportation spells in-game sometime.

[flatteries]

rapunzel and inigo should really try to get some class for oldtimey folks running! they just need to find someone modern willing to be the teacher and explain things, since that'd probably be easiest...

[polterguide]

Name: Avery
Contact info: daintily, Avery#8156

Character: Bailey Morello, Team Orange
About them: An OC! They're a mild-mannered, reserved person who can get easily dragged into shenanigans. They've got a few extrasensory abilities, including empathy and psychometry. They've got a degree in psychology and a desire to help - sometimes at their own detriment. Nobody ever said they were smart.
Plans: Just arriving and getting settled so far!
CR wanted: Anything and everything! They're New so any kind of CR we can work off of would be welcome!
Things to avoid: Nothing super comes to mind, here!

[deductiongeek]

Name: Lel
Contact info: leloipa on plurk, Lel#8770 on discord

Character: Conan Edogawa
About them:
Detective Conan

High school detective and Holmes geek, currently a first grade detective and Holmes geek, thanks to an encounter with a dangerous crime syndicate and their experimental poisons.

As a note, there is no Conan Edogawa listed on the train roster. Conan refuses to acknowledge this and continues to insist that he was just confused with his cousin by the train.

Plans: Deal with his self appointed best friend leaving, get some soccer games going, possibly work towards a plot of becoming his real age for a day and forever ruining his attempts to keep a secret identity.
CR wanted: Other kids, book lovers, responsible adults

Character: Danny Fenton
About them:
Danny Phantom

Teenage half-ghost superhero. Likes puns and NASA. Makes terrible decisions.
Plans: Hanging out with fellow ghosts and teen superheroes. Avoiding math classes and ghost hunters.
CR wanted: All kinds! I want to get Danny out meeting more people this month.

Character: Will Stanton
About them:
Dark is Rising Sequence (book)

Fourteen year old time traveling wizard kid who was mentored by his universe's Merlin. Overly solemn and prone to forgetting that he's not a wise old man yet.
Plans: Getting out and talking to more people.
CR wanted: Everything! But especially anyone willing to try and remind him that he'd still a kid and allowed to have fun.
Things to avoid: [just so lines can be drawn]

Re: YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE (especially for Webmind's bit)

[deductiongeek]

Still planning on having Conan talk to him with Morse code. He'll try to talk him down?