Cherry herself truly believed in being kind to everyone and giving them the benefit of the doubt. That being said, her particular casual trust also came from the fact that they all had to live together indefinitely in incredibly tight quarters. Sowing mistrust and discord would only propagate and make everyone miserable, as well as put you in a position of social suicide. Obviously this wasn't some invitation to spill all of your history and dirt, but there wasn't a reason to believe someone would backstab you either.
She was going to ask what the heck edge he meant, but her attention easily shifted to his questions and she was excited to be able to be useful about something other than being strong and able to punch things.
"Ooooh!! Yes! So each team gets assigned a mission! So, like, we're on this one where we're gonna go mess up this ritual! And if this didn't seem like what you wanna do you're free to change it up and go to a different mission - the train doesn't require you to go to your assigned one so I tend to act like a floater and help the smaller teams out, for example - but since we're on this one what's gonna happen is the train will stop at each drop off point and drop us off, or sometimes it's just one point and we have to work with the locals to figure out where each objective is..."
She pauses for a breath, then continues.
"So we get dropped off on world, teams usually take some time to group up and get organized. Sometimes on world we can stop and get some supplies that might help us on our mission, but it just kinda depends on the mission. But other than that we all kinda go about our tasks! So for this mission probably everyone on our team will kinda group up like we have and we'll all get to where the ritual is, then we'll all do our stuff to mess it up!! I dunno if the team leader is gonna wanna make a plan or not, some teams are more coordinated than others..."
Her voice trailed off as she considered it, then she shook her head a little - as if to shake the thought out of her head - and continued.
"Usually we're only down on world for a couple of days, the SCA bracelet," she holds her wrist up and points to it, "will tell us when we're done and we need to head up to the pick up place! The map will show us where to go!" She smiled big, her ears wiggling cheerily.
She grew a bit more somber as she continued on. "People have died, yes. All the people with little hearts next to their names on the roster have died before. When they die they wake up in the luggage car like nothing's happened."
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She was going to ask what the heck edge he meant, but her attention easily shifted to his questions and she was excited to be able to be useful about something other than being strong and able to punch things.
"Ooooh!! Yes! So each team gets assigned a mission! So, like, we're on this one where we're gonna go mess up this ritual! And if this didn't seem like what you wanna do you're free to change it up and go to a different mission - the train doesn't require you to go to your assigned one so I tend to act like a floater and help the smaller teams out, for example - but since we're on this one what's gonna happen is the train will stop at each drop off point and drop us off, or sometimes it's just one point and we have to work with the locals to figure out where each objective is..."
She pauses for a breath, then continues.
"So we get dropped off on world, teams usually take some time to group up and get organized. Sometimes on world we can stop and get some supplies that might help us on our mission, but it just kinda depends on the mission. But other than that we all kinda go about our tasks! So for this mission probably everyone on our team will kinda group up like we have and we'll all get to where the ritual is, then we'll all do our stuff to mess it up!! I dunno if the team leader is gonna wanna make a plan or not, some teams are more coordinated than others..."
Her voice trailed off as she considered it, then she shook her head a little - as if to shake the thought out of her head - and continued.
"Usually we're only down on world for a couple of days, the SCA bracelet," she holds her wrist up and points to it, "will tell us when we're done and we need to head up to the pick up place! The map will show us where to go!" She smiled big, her ears wiggling cheerily.
She grew a bit more somber as she continued on. "People have died, yes. All the people with little hearts next to their names on the roster have died before. When they die they wake up in the luggage car like nothing's happened."