Hello, Trainlings! Checking back through the comms, it looks like the last time we had a "Handwave/Assume CR" Meme was back in January, so here we are almost in July, bringing the information forward!

New Players and New Characters, this means you, too! We want you in on this meme as it's forward facing for what your characters will do during train-bound downtime!

Handwaved & Assumed CR Meme

Our characters are blessed, or cursed, with confined living spaces, and have all their own schedules and rhythms to dictate their daily lives. So how do they all interact with each other? What do characters with pets or companion animals do? What do those pets or animal companions themselves do?

This meme is a chance to see how characters may recognise each other or their pets/companions in passing, where they may be sharing spaces at similar times, or have met other passengers, allowing the kickstarting of CR without having to play out every first meeting or smaller interaction on train. Who has the time for that? (Not me, I cry emphatically, not me.)

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What are your character's sleep habits like? Do they make their bed? Do they avoid it outside of when they wake up in it after enforced train "down" time? Have they personalised their bunk in any notable way?

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Is your character ever home? Do they leave things all over? Do they compulsively clean up after everyone else? Do they fold their bed up/away/into a bench each day? Are they never found in room outside of obligated wake-up? Have they decorated the room at all?

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✨ Bathing habits?</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;">

Does your character need to bathe? Do they use the hall-shower every day? Do they head to the hot springs? Do they use anything other than basic shampoo/conditioner/body lotion for their scent?

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Does your character do team chores? Do they help out individual friends instead? Have they ignored chores? Do they do only their personal chores?

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✨ Eating habits?</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;">

Does your character eat regularly? Cook regularly? Regularly forget meals? Eat in the dining carriage? Haul food back to their location of choice?

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Does your character exercise in any form? Do they practise anything in particular, from swordplay to hackey sack? Do they meditate on the regular, or attempt to run up the walls of the more open carriages? Do they regularly garden?

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What does your character do for fun? Do they read? Write? Attempt to slam dunk a ball into people's heads? What carriages are they most often found in for the purpose of their entertainment?

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✨ Media preferences?</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;">

Does your character have any preference for the kind of media they consume, if any? Be it in the movie carriage, books read, or... extensive... letting their minds wander?

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🚆 A day in the life of...?</div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 15px; padding: 5px; border: 0;"><div style="text-align: left; color: black;"><strong>

✨ Notable train-bound activities?</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;">

Does your character play music loudly in the morning, do they race through the trans-gates, do they haunt the ceilings, do they lurk outside of friend's doors waiting for them to come out, do they like to dance through the train?

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Is there anything in particular which stands out about them physically? Height? Hair colour? Non-train-issued clothing? Their love of socks and sandals? Do they carry the scent of a chainsmoker on them? Always seem to smell of alcohol? Smell like soap and nothing else notable?

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Does your character have a presence felt by people spiritually sensitive? What about to people, regardless of spiritual sense? Does your character register as human? Non-human? Human+, the second playthrough? Do they feel like life, or death, or something else entirely?

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Are they regularly sending feedback? Do they lobby for particular new carriages? What are things other characters on train may have noticed your character habitually doing?

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✨ Free space!</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;">

Anything else you'd like to say about your character's notable habits, or any petty vengeance they may be enacting, even as this very moment! Link to abilities permissions, give us word on animal companions, or anything else here!

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Lena Sabrewing

Blue Team

🚆 They were roommates!

Sleeper Upper 4 | Cabin C
✨ Sleeping habits?
Lena sleeps completely sprawled out in bed, blanket hanging over the edge and limbs all over the place. She's still pretty new, so her space isn't really decorated, but her bed tends to be perpetually unmade all day.
✨ Room use habits?
She doesn't use the room too much other than sleep. It's also good that she doesn't have too much stuff, because her things would probably be all over the place.
✨ Bathing habits?
She prefers quick showers, but she might try out the spa car every once in a while.

🚆 What are choo up to?

✨ Chore habits?
She does try to help out with the team chores, but she's also a teenager and chores are a pain.
✨ Eating habits?
She'll definitely eat at meals, because food is great. She tends to sit by herself when eating, though she's not opposed to people sitting with her.
✨ Exercise habits?
She doesn't exactly exercise regularly, but she'll be seen in the gym car occasionally.
✨ Entertainment habits?
She likes to play video games and watch movies. She's also learned about downloading music on the SCAs, so she'll be doing that a lot too. And while she's not an avid reader, she might grab something from the library now and then.
✨ Media preferences?
She's definitely open to pretty much anything.

🚆 A day in the life of...?

✨ Notable train-bound activities?
She's still a bit new, so she's mostly just exploring the train and remembering where things are.
✨ Notable physical traits/scents?
She's...a duck? She also has a streak of pink in her hair. In her Sorceress form, she dons a magical girl-type outfit, and her eyes and hair streak turn blue.
✨ Notable non-physical traits?
She has a pretty substantial amount of magic, so other magic-users might be able to sense that from her.
✨ Fun train-related character trivia tidbit(s)?
Not really, she's just kind of chilling.
✨ Free space!
She can be found practicing her magic a bit, so don't be surprised if things start levitating around you.

🚆 Welcome to the Voidtrecker Express!
We hope you enjoy your stay.

Raven might have to take Lena under her wing (no pun intended) for magic stuff.

Absolutely yes please

Then Lena can have been recruited to help with the great "make the train have better sleep" project.

Haha, that's probably not the best idea because she can accidentally connect/share dreams, but she'll try to help if asked.

Handwaved & Assumed CR Meme July 2021

Handwaved & Assumed CR Meme

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