November 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 Imagination. Days can be found here.

The thought of the month is  "We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."

This means: Any thread that reaches 15 comments (total) will earn you two points.

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

Recipes are here. The ingredient of the month is Honey. 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.

Coach M: Spa

This coach is a single coach. There is a corridor running on the left hand side with a door at either end of the carriage to lead into the spa itself. The main feature is a large, square, heated pool in three split tiers in the centre of the carriage. The pool can probably fit five strangers comfortably, or more at an awkward or familiar squeeze. The décor is pastel tiles and rich, pale wood, with long mirrors and sunlamps spaced along the walkways beside the pool.

At the back of the carriage there are two massage tables and a shelving unit with fluffy towels and various scented oils and lotions. On the other side of the pool - the front of the carriage - there are a row of ergonomic loungers, as well as a closed-off booth. This booth has a sliding train door and, inside, passengers will find a simple sauna large enough to fit a couple of people in at a time. 

The ICP in this carriage can be programmed to play relaxing music or nature sounds like running water or birdsong. There is also a teaching course on massage techniques that consists of three hour-long lessons split into basic, intermediate, and advanced. There are team-coloured bathing suits and trunks in a small closet next to the entrances to the carriage.

This has been updated on the setting. Remember to let me know if your character does anything to alter the setting!

The shop has been updated! It can be found here!

Important Dates

This month’s event will be a world event on the 13th of November. (An info and plotting post will go up on the 8th)

The TDM will be posted on the 15th. Reserves will open on the 19th. Apps are between the 21st and the 29th. AC will run from the 22nd to the 30th of November.

Other Info

We just wanted to say a few words about the Bonus AC challenges available every other month. For those who might not know, these challenges are optional extras that can earn you extra Team Points for your character. The challenges are intended to encourage and reward the ‘niceties’ of roleplay: tagging out, gathering new CR, finishing threads etc.

However this month we were disappointed to see a small minority of players who we felt did not keep to the spirit of the challenge. A new CR bonus challenge is designed to make sure our new players are welcomed, as well as to encourage mixing and new relationships between existing characters. Therefore it was disheartening to see characters with multiple threads submitted that they had dropped after a couple of tags.

We very much understand that everyone is busy, the world is stressful and everyone has a lot on their plate. One or two threads that have to be dropped for any reason being submitted for such a challenge is fine. However if the majority of threads submitted are being dropped after a tag or two it feels disingenuous. 

Going forward we will be taking it up with any players who we feel are struggling with or abusing the system. We would like to thank the vast majority of you who kept to the spirit of the challenge, and we really enjoyed reading up on all the new CR you got out of it!

Monthly Plotting

Feel free to use this post to plot anything 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

Questions?

[voidtreckermods]

Re: Questions?

[thornsofmundus]

Why do shop requests get deleted? Thorne.tcai had a random outfit, but the thread with it is gone.

Re: Questions?

[unfavorableinstigation]

Is it also safe to presume our local whale (S'reee) could fit in that pool?

Though presumably as long as other people aren't in it!

[mtsilver_conquor]

Name: Fenix
Contact info: Dark_fenix

Character: Eva Iden'no (Leaf)
About them:Pokemon trainer from a live-action version of the pokemon world. Big Sister Energy. One of Orange's Leaders and still not sure how she got that role??
Plans: Getting her more active re: being a Leader. Getting her out her depressive funk because she keeps losing CR. Someone finding out her nickname is 'Leaf'.
CR wanted: All the CR! All the Orange CR. People to talk the ears of re her pokemon and to ask her things about them; talk about slang related to the pokemon world!!!! Her weirding people out re: how blase she can be about things at times.
Things to avoid: If it comes up, I will let you know.

[ramengroupie]

Ken needs to meet his team leader!

[reluctantjinrou]

Name: Nat
Contact info: Ammeschan

Natsuno Yuuki/Koide

[reluctantjinrou]

Character: Natsuno Yuuki/Koide

About them: Natsuno is from Shiki. He's a vampire, not by choice, and he's absolutely loathsome about it. He's sulky, and emo and 16 so it's about time really. He's quiet. He's unfailingly polite. He has excellent manners, he just tries not to get close to people.

Plans: Natsuno's best friend is leaving the train this month. He feels conflicted about that.

CR wanted: I'm open to any and all CR. He does not typically use his powers, outside of things he can't help, ie. seeing in the dark, hearing people's heartbeats. I'd like him to make more friends. He has successfully made (1) friend.

Things to avoid: For me, there are none. He isn't open about being a vampire, but I'm open to people knowing!

Koumyou Sanzo | Saiyuki

[its_dad_sanzo]

Name: Aro
Contact info: aroihkin, Aroihkin#4667

Character: Koumyou Sanzo
About them: From Saiyuki, a Buddhist high priest whose last memory on his world is his own death to save his adopted son's life. He's a total troll, and loves to act the fool. "I can't tell if you're a genius or a moron" is something that's been said to him more than a few times in canon. You can get more info about him over here.
Plans: He's brand new! He hates being cold and will probably spend a lot of time in that new spa car being warm. He'll also be going out on the mission when that comes up, acting for all the world like he has no idea that anything's even remotely dangerous. (It's okay, he's actually pretty heinous. This is just more of him trolling people and acting like an idiot for the lulz.)
CR wanted: All of it! He's new, and I'm new to the game.
Things to avoid: I can't think of anything!

[ramengroupie]

Welcome to the game! Ken is also new as of last month, and is touched by his warm welcome. So he will be trying to return the favor on the platform.

....He is an extremely trollable young man.

please read "& wormmon" like it's the last two words of the steven universe theme

[ramengroupie]

Name: Mari
Contact info: ghoulfriend

Character: Ken Ichijouji (& Wormmon)
About them: Eight years ago Ken was an evil genius! But he was also an immature kid, so he's done a lot of growing since then. Thoughtful, kind, and studying psych.
Wormmon is a giant talking larva who rides around on Ken's head and adores him with abandon. Also a fan of how people keep feeding him here.
Plans: Ken will be regaining his Digivice, which lets Wormmon change from being a small useless bug to being a large badass battle bug. So that will probably happen on the mission. They'll check out the spa, but be warned: anyone who approaches them and shows curiosity may be subjected to teal deer about Japanese hot springs.
He also will probably play soccer. He is very good at soccer. Wormmon is an Obnoxious Fan.
CR wanted: Anything really! Meeting more Team Orange folks is always welcome, though, since Ken is feeling out the whole "how to join a group" thing and he hasn't had to do that in a while (soccer teams aside).
Things to avoid: Please don't kill him. Or Wormmon. Killing Wormmon breaks the hearts of tweenagers circa the early 2000s.

[kumoko]

i want bugge, also let's do a hot spring episode together..........

[dreamtamer]

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

Takato Matsuda

[dreamtamer]

Character: Takato Matsuda
About them:
A very good boy who really likes art and Digimon. He is very happy to be on one more adventure with his partner, although he feels a little guilty that he wasn't able to tell his parents that he was going to another dimension (again). Constantly accompanied by a red dinosaur/dragon who likes eating bread and making friends.

Plans:
This will be his first mission with his D-Arc, so watch out for big red dinosaurs and/or a white knight showing up. (I don't think he's really talked to many people about how a Tamer fights, so this should be fun). Apart from that, planning an open log for making bread with friends. And just put in a request to buy back his cards and goggles from the shop.
CR wanted: All kinds! Takato (and Guilmon) get along with pretty much anyone. Would love negative CR, but thats going to be hard to get. They would love to make more friends with kids, and to find more big brother/big sister type CR as well. Also give me all your AI character CR.

[magicurls]

Name: Zoki
Contact info: kharamagic, zokiblu#5949, or pm me here!

Character: Seto Kaiba (blue_ice
About them: Yu-Gi-Oh's sour rival, turned into a sour team player against his will. He's a tech genius, competitive gamer...and does care about people deep down.
Plans: Mission prep, maybe playing sports more often? The only way you're getting him in that spa car is if the team goes after a game.

Also: he wonders if they should re-fill or just disband the council, because only six of the members are left after the last few months of drops. And five of them are on Orange. Other council members/players, thoughts?

CR wanted: More! Always looking for rivals, and kids he can look after.
Things to avoid: Can't think of anything at this time!


Character: Mami Tomoe (magicurls
About them: Puella Magi Madoka Magica's...different mentor figure. She's sweet and polite, but will wreck enemies to protect the people she loves. And shes a great cook.
Plans: Food! Luckily she's an expert at meal prep, and honey is one of her favorite ingredients to work with. If you're lucky enough to get her dishes on the food line, you'll eat well this month. She'll also be studying the massage instructional tapes and asking if anyone wants to help her practice.
CR wanted: Just...more! My goal this month is to get better at following up and continuing threads, I know I haven't been too good at that. I'm sorry.
Things to avoid: Should be fine!

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita seconds that line of thought - if people are interested in just having a way to centrally pool worries/disputes/requests, then there might still be space for it? But if the train as a whole isn't able to support it, she gets the idea of dropping it.

/huffs and puffs into the Info Post

[unfavorableinstigation]

Name: S.M.F. (Ace is also fine!)
Contact info: Am still on plurk hiatus (so if you ping me and I don't respond... that's why. I have the site blocked so I stay responsible and everything.) but am also on Discord at Autistic_Ace#5045.

Nita Callahan: One of two Young Wizards Deuteragonists (she shares the role with Kit Rodriguez), she is clever and compassionate (usually), always willing to put aside her own well-being for others' sake. One of many self-sacrificing types on the train, she's usually reigned in by her friends/family. XD

She's also a bookaholic, but I also seem to play only bookaholics in this game, so keep that in mind. =P Her permissions are here!

Webmind is, in a sense, the world wide web - or rather, a disparate consciousness scattered throughout the web, now condensed into a friendly robot form. His oath (not quite the same as Nita's Oath, there's no magic in his canon) is to seek to increase the net happiness of humanity - though he's broadened that notion considerably since he first took it on.

Permissions for him are here, though if your character is an OC/comes from after 2012 they don't really have to apply. ;) If there's anything that's part of your character's home setting you'd like him to know about/have as a common reference frame, though, let me know!

And Alfredo is my only Blue, a preteen who lived (and died) in the mid 1800s. He's a sweetheart, and while no longer as new to voidtrain he IS still adjusting to things, so he needs more friends to bond with!

Permissions for him are here.

[knifewithnoname]

Name: Katy
Contact info: damua or damua#1089 on discord!

[knifewithnoname]

Character: Little One- she will probably introduce herself as Buttercup or B
About them: Small assassin-in-training for a god of chaos and evil. She comes from a world in an eternal good vs evil fight and was born into the evil side. She is in deep cover on the train though thanks to some Stupid Mountain her secrets are not as deeply hidden as she would like. Also she's not great at pretending all the time.

She's a brat and she likes sweet things, she is glad that the train has finally understood that honey is a staple food. She is on Red team and in room 1:C. I love roommate shenanigans and also will be up for throwing her at people on the missions.

Plans: Nothing really! But she should get pulled into things. She's losing her first friend this platform so distractions will be good.
CR wanted: All the people!
Things to avoid: Nothing here

[agathokakological]

Name: Duke
Contact info: discord trashwitch666#9299

Character: Crowley
About them: A demon/the serpent of Eden. Loves mischief but has too much of a heart to hurt anyone. Currently in love with an angel and bonded emotionally to Alice Liddell due to past game events.
Plans: I gotta be honest, these past two months have been a challenge RP wise for me so I don't exactly know what's going on... but I'd love for Crowley to have more friends.
CR wanted: Other mischetypes. negative cr welcome.
Things to avoid: Idk. I'm slow so just be patient with me.

[its_dad_sanzo]

Koumyou's a huge troll! And a priest, for extra hilarity.

He tends to be less of a prankster and more of an "act like a total fool and make everyone scramble to keep up" troll, but he'd probably be real easy to get to play along with other types of shenanigans.

[herarrows]

Name: Beth
Contact info: scattershot | Discord: Scattershine#5868

Character: Selenay
About them: Queen lady who is desperately trying to pretend she isn't a Queen lady, currently. Also something about a magic horse or whatever
Plans: Does being better at tagging count as a plan?
CR wanted: Anything really. Friends, enemies, fellow politicians, someone to find out her big "secret" eventually, whatever else you can think of
Things to avoid: Nothing I can think of! She's dealt with a lot and I'm pretty chill

[purifyings]

Is there a club for secret Queen ladies trying not to be secret Queen ladies? Because they could totally start this club...

Only different Selenay looks more the part than Nike would. So.

Hey! I would like CR. What team is Selenay in?

[theturksway]

Name: Aisu
Contact info: PMs, plurk at aisuyoukai, CST time

Reno | FFVII

[theturksway]

Character: Reno
About them: Purple Team / Black Squad. Final Fantasy VII, taken from after Advent Children. He comes from a world of magic and advanced technology. He's a Turk which basically means he's practically a yakuza enforcer that works for the Shinra Electric Power Company that (formally) ruled the world with its vast influence and power. He's usually friendly but not always a nice guy. A bit of a (lovable) asshole. I mean, just look at him.
Plans: Not any solid plans. Reno has been going through some stuff lately though and he's a bit more of an asshole than usual if triggered. He's basically lost all his "friends" and is trying to pretend everything is all right. (And by lost I don't mean they left--he alienated himself from them by being a fucking asshole.)
CR wanted: Anything! He's easy to get negative CR with if you need an asshole or villain. He's also friendly and laid back whenever he's not being a complete asshole so he can be vaguely positive CR too sometimes. Hahah.
Things to avoid: Nada.

[herolegs]

Name: Spark
Contact info: TrueBlueSpark or PMs on this account

Character: Chie Satonaka (OU)
About them: An energetic young lady who loves martial arts, steak, and protecting the people she cares about. Purple team! (the meal prep is not going to go well for her...)
Plans: At the moment I have nothing. 8( I was finally getting ready to come back from hiatus after a very stressful but ultimately successful job change, and then we lost power to our apartment for 3 days and counting. So as you can imagine, things are still chaotic on this side of the screen.
CR wanted: Everyone and everything. Chie is a friendly and outgoing girl, and I need to have her make more friends!
Things to avoid: Nothing really comes to mind beyond what's already in my permissions?

Extra note: there's a Yukiko in the test drive, please go show her a little love. ❤️

[unfavorableinstigation]

Oh no! D: /sends Good Vibes your way/

And Alfredo is always available for roommate shenanigans, if you'd like those?

I can also toss a Nita Chie's way for more 'these are not your normal teenage shenanigans' shenanigans. o7

[light_of_willpower]

Name: Lin
Contact info: plurk shinotenshi22, or pm this journal.

Character: Trunks Brief
About them: Dragon Ball Z--Trunks is the future son Bulma Brief and Prince Vegeta of the saiyans. Unfortunately he grew up in a dystopian near-apocalypse thanks to some psycho super-strong cyborg-androids who terrorize the world. Most anyone who can stand up to them is dead, but humanity is hanging on anyways. He's the last, best, hope, and went back in time to try and stop it from ever happening. When that didn't work, he came back to the past again to help stop the threat in that timeline, even if his own couldn't be prevented.

Basically he's your usual good guy, wanting to help and protect people. He hasn't grown up around too many people, so he can be a bit shy at times and awkward. He's quiet, but friendly and willing to help with most anything. He's learning how to have friends (and a girlfriend, thanks to Cassie Cage), and it's been a very good experience for him.

He'll be one of the first to place himself between threats and everyone else, and he's a very good fighter. He's happy to train and work with other people too.

Plans: October kind of ate me, so I don't have any specific plans at the moment.

CR wanted: Family and friend type! Seriously, can't have too many friends, and having a healthy 'family' type relationship would also be good. (He and his dad are...extremely strained at best.)

Things to avoid: Depending on my stress level, I do better or worse with stuff so feel free to just ping me and we'll chat.

[purifyings]

I feel like the two Lins of this game, we should definitely have our kids meet and be friends! They both share the same core values of wanting to protect others and having to become other people's hopes too.

So. They should talk. And Trunks can help her improve on her self-defense style other than being a street brawler type (but hey she's beaten up four professional trained palace guards on her own so she must be doing something right)!

[purifyings]

Name: Lin v.2
Contact info: Lin#9184 (discord), floralstone, and/or PM
Character: Nike Lemercier
About them: A tomboy princess with the ability to manipulate the weather, help absorb negative emotions, and can hear and feel the feelings of a world, the people as a group, and the spirits of the dead. A member of team blue! Here is a permission post to know what to expect if you want CR with her.

Plans: At the moment, I may have Nike check out the spa area just to hear nature sounds to help relax her. She may be having some cabin fever issues. Doesn't help she is avoiding large groups of people. As for missions, I will most likely be tagging out more than making a top-level, so if you want our characters to team up, let me know so I can make you a priority for tags (new characters or characters with no cr are encouraged as well).

CR wanted: Right now, Nike needs CR willing to keep tabs on her and/or spend time with her. It doesn't have to be a lot, but just having anyone willing to hang out and talk will help with the cabin fever issue. Or else she'll be overworking herself with chores. I may start considering recruiting rain partners this month or help train with her to see which aspects of her powers still work to prepare for the upcoming mission.

Things to avoid: Talking about her private life is a soft no rn. She'll only open up about her own concerns will depend on the cr and conversation. Right now, she is so fidgeting and down because she misses hearing the voices of her sky and having a deep connection with anyone.

[unfavorableinstigation]

Definitely interested in continuing threading with our two!

(It's okay if we have to stop our current threads, though; I know last month's been exhausting. .-. )

And I should send Alfredo her way as well; fellow Blues unite!

the panther!

[zechs_isonfire]

Name: the panther
Contact info: https://www.plurk.com/panther3751 or feel free to add me on the discord server!

Asagiri Gen | Dr. Stone

[fun_thementalist]

Character: Asagiri Gen
About them: Dr. Stone, where everyone was petrified and they needed to build everything from scratch - Gen is the sneaky lying not-quite-connman who's actually on your side!
Plans: He's going to be doing shenanigans with 10billionpercent because of course he is, but Gen would also like to continue trolling others making friends and finding ways to make other especially murderous friends happy so they don't later decide to stab him
CR wanted: Friendship! Gen loves making friends, especially with his enemies.
Things to avoid: errr not that I can think of!

[recurrens]

Name: Silas
Contact info: discord - jacksparrow#3008, piratecoded

Character: Akemi Homura
About them: Homura is a teenage magical girl who has a tendency to be cold, distant, intense and also has the ability to stop time.

Plans: I ended up needing to hiatus most of last month because of my Flight Instructor Test, but now I am back! I know I had threads with some of you, just wanted to get a feel of who wanted to continue and who wanted to start over new!

CR wanted: Anything and everything! Positive CR, negative CR, friends, battle buddies, whatever! Give it to me!

Things to avoid: I'm pretty chill, but just message me before doing anything too crazy so we can plot things out!

[purifyings]

Raises hand on team backtagging!

Hey, welcome back! I hope the test went well for you. I'm still interested in our girls' first meeting and moving forward from there. Just so we can get an idea on how their cr will be and all. c:

[namethattune]

Name: Kia
Contact info: kiaxet or Kiaxet#7085 on Discord! I keep the Plurk private, so please let me know if you're adding me!

Character: Siebren de Kuiper (Sigma)
About them: Siebren is an astrophysicist who got a little too close to a black hole and got gravity powers and a severely wrecked psyche as a result. He's generally friendly and interested in other people, though he may not always connect. He's also got a disconcerting habit of disconnecting from reality - spacing out, losing the thread of a conversation, etc - and gets a little antsy around mentions of violence.
Plans: Long-term, I'd love for him to actually come to terms with what's happened to him, because right now he's a lot of trauma and unhealthy coping mechanisms under that friendly outside, but that's going to require close CR and a lot of development. Shorter-term, I'd love for him to make friends and get his bearings on the train - he's definitely going to need a project, once he hits a wall trying to figure out how the train works.
CR wanted: Give me everythingggggg
Things to avoid: On an OOC level, I'm fine with whatever; on an IC level, if we get too close to breaking Siebren, I'll let you know.

[its_dad_sanzo]

He sounds rad as hell and while I don't have any specific ideas, I'm all for throwing Koumyou at him to see if they stick!

[kingcat]

Name: Chag
Contact info: Chaggit

Character: Grimmjow
About them: He's a ghost that hung around long enough to turn into a hollow -- a ghost-eating ghost with lots of powers. Very grumpy, illiterate, and likes to fight. He bites.
Plans: Never got around to having him attack the engine car so that's gonna happen soon.
CR wanted: Someone to help him learn to read and write! He's working on it mostly on his own right now, and trying to hide that he doesn't know how to read, so the hard part is coaxing him into admitting he could use some help. Good luck
Things to avoid: Getting into an actual physical fight with him. Regardless of how strong your character is, it won't be good for wherever they fight. His destructive power is fairly extreme. He's considered a representation of destruction in canon.

[schrodingersghost]

Danny still needs to meet him and convince him he's not lunch.

Also more things with Takato and Guilmon. I will laugh if the accidental rivals thing actually happens.

[forleaving]

Name: Nic
Contact info: gavemyleftarm

Character: Dyme Graydon
About them: Original character, orange team. Sassy musician with a heart of gold, comes from a futuristic world.
Plans: I have zero plans, but he's going to be losing his boyfriend Bucky without even getting a chance to go on a date so he's going to be very sad, a little heart broken, and upset.
CR wanted: Anything!! Good, bad, give it to me.
Things to avoid: Nothing I can think of.

Character: Adam Parrish
About them: The Raven Cycle/The Dreamer Trilogy, orange team. Bisexual disaster, I mean psychic. Determined to find a way off the train. Heart of gold, compassionate.
Plans: Again, I have zero plans
CR wanted: Anything!! Gimme good, gimme bad, whatever.
Things to avoid: Nothing I can think of.

[kingcat]

Rawr.

Double rawr. I bet he and Adam can get into some sort of scuffling. They have way more in common than either one will probably be willing to admit.

[itwasonetime]

Name: Bramble
Contact info: bramblepatch, or I'm in the game discord

Character: Alfred the Poisoner
About them: Goblin alchemist and apothecary from the borderlands between Faeryland and the human world. A big old nerd and a bit of a worrier. He's an OC, and orange team.
Plans: He's new here! So settling in and figuring out how life works on the train, and we'll see where he goes from there.
CR wanted: Any and all! He's particularly going to be interested in talking to whoever seems to know what's going on in the medical car, and he's the kind of terminally responsible person who can't help keeping half an eye on unaccompanied kids, but he's generally pretty approachable.
Things to avoid: Not much, although I'm not looking to get him into any physical confrontations at the moment - he's about half the size of a human and a complete noncombatant.

[lanxichen]

Name: Kiki
Contact info: kikibug13

Character: Lan Xichen
About them: Xichen comes from a canon of olden fantasy China. He's a sect leader, gentle and kind but currently dealing with some heavy emotional issues he's not managed to deal with yet.
Plans: He has some castmates which he's lost at this point to reconnect with, but other than that, not yet.
CR wanted: FRANDS I mean he will big brother / dad people without much hesitation.
Things to avoid: Romance, probably - castmates are more complicated on this count.

[diamondsfortears]

Name: Tseil
Contact info: Tseil is my preferred.

Character: Daia
About them: Daia Game
Plans: I seriously fell off the ball last month and into oblivion. So, now I want to get back up to good. But not a lot, other than that. I see Orange is on cleaning duty, so... expect things to be spotless? I'm also going to try to participate more in things, because I've been a slacker for a while, now.
CR wanted: A wish for impossible negative CR. Someone please bully him. More chances to crush on guys are always welcome.
Things to avoid: I mean, I squick fairly easy, but if you want it done, I can usually work with it. Don't be afraid to ask.

[so_dark_a_road]

Maybe we can figure out something for November. I think it's been a while since Daia and Curufin have interacted.