September 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 Nebula. Days can be found here.

The thought of the month is "Make new friends, but don’t forget the old, One is silver, the other is gold.".

This means: Threading with the same character twice this month will earn you two bonus points. As a note it is possible to earn this more than once with the same character (if you thread with them four times, you will get the bonus twice) however we still expect people to mix and thread with a variety of people!

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

The ingredient of the month is yadon (slowpoke) tail (a strange, tough, gamy meat). Recipes are here. All the ingredients can be found in the storeroom, refreshed at the platform, and characters are welcome to make other food with them.

This month’s chore assignments are:

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

The Train

As a reminder, you can list things that characters have added to the train here. Just comment under the header of the carriage to which you are adding. There is also a handy spreadsheet here!

Important Dates

This month’s event will be a mission event running between the 11th and 24th of September.

The TDM will be posted on the 17th. Reserves will open on the 19th. Apps and AC are between the 22nd and the 29th.

For a reference, please consult our calendar post. For player-led events, please see the player plot calendar.

Other Info

~ Due to some real life issues Elle has dropped her characters from the game, she is remaining as assistant mod as she feels able to still help behind the scenes. She will be back playing once things calm down for her!

~ We have a mission guide in the works, in the hope that it will help ease new players through their first mission. If anyone has any suggestions of anything else pertinent they think needs to go in there please let us know!

~ A question about team switching has been added to the FAQ.

~ Our new players (and old players who want a refresher) might find it useful to read gameplay before the platform. As always the mods are happy to answer any questions you might have.

Monthly Plotting

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

Name: [your name]
Contact info: [anything you want to share]

Character: [name]
About them: [canon, a brief description of who they are, any specific permissions]
Plans: [got anything in the works?]
CR wanted: [anything specific?]
Things to avoid: [just so lines can be drawn]

<b>Name:</b> <b>Contact info:</b> <b>Character:</b> <b>About them:</b> <b>Plans:</b> <b>CR wanted:</b> <b>Things to avoid:</b>

Comments

Knux

[cureofmanyworlds]

Name: Knux
Contact info: AshBlaze

Re: Knux

[cureofmanyworlds]

Character: Nozomi Yumehara
About them: A digitally-created copy of a magical girl. Sweet and well-meaning, even if she's clumsy and unsure of the world around her as she's trying to be someone that isn't a copy of herself.
Plans: Well, Nozomi discovered that she can control plants before the vacation, so she'll be diving more into that and expanding her horizons!
CR wanted: Any and all here! Good, bad, shippy, non-shippy, whatever!
Things to avoid: None at the moment!

[another_moon]

Character: Usagi Tsukino (AU)
About them: An alternate universe version of Usagi who was only one of two to awaken when the Dark Kingdom returned. As such, she's more technically inclined and powerful than normal but still lonely and completely awkward in the whole scope of friends and keeping secrets.
Plans: She'll be busy trying to figure out if she has telekinesis after seeing that she seemed to pull it off. She'll also do oddball things here and there, sooo...!
CR wanted: Any and all! Good, bad, shippy, non-shippy, whatever!
Things to avoid: None ATM

[4starlowclasshero]

Character: Son Goku
About them: Oh, you know him - the Saiyan raised on Earth, the guy who ended up showing off all those legends being true just by being a fighting nut!
Plans: ANYTHING, REALLY. Last month was terrible and I need things for him to do! _@
CR wanted: Any and almost all!
Things to avoid: No romance. He's spoken for.

[10billionpercent]

Name: Nat
Contact info: Ammeschan Discord: Ammeschan#5385

[xue_yang]

Name: Tohma
Contact info: PM or one_night_star

[xue_yang]

Character: Xue Yang
About them: Usually the crazy one from that show full of cultivators and basically everyone wants him dead. Slightly unhinged but trying to be better. He's lost a little bit of his edge recently because of some personal stuff that he's tired of people trying to get him to feel better about.

Plans: He's been losing a lot of his close CR lately and it's really started to put him on edge. And him being on edge is not good for any body. So he takes great pleasure in being able to let loose on missions and he doesn't feel he has been allowed to do that as much as of late. So chances are if this next mission involves fighting, he will be throwing caution to the wind and letting loose. So he probably could use someone to just settle him back down before he kills the wrong person. Someone keep him out of going back into solitary confinement again.

CR wanted: He needs mostly good CR. People that won't set him off. He really isn't afraid to hurt people so if you actually do want your character cut...well...this guy would be the one. But mostly he needs people that will help show him what it means to be a good human being.

Things to avoid: Don't talk about Xingchen. Don't talk about feelings and probably best to avoid provoking him in anyway. He has three swords hidden under his clothes and he's not afraid to use them.

[lucklessgege]

Character: Xie Lian
About them: 780 years older then he looks. Immortal god that has ascended three times but that's a long story so don't make him try to explain it. Terrible cook and probably has the worst luck on the train. Probably best to not stand too close.

Plans: I really want to see about setting up a temple on the train. He's so used to the little one back home and keeping it tidy that he just really misses it. Not that he necessarily needs people to pay tribute to him, and he wouldn't really expect anyone to...so perhaps just a general temple? Though he could use the little extra boost in spiritual power...

CR wanted: Give him friends! And fellow sword admirers. He loves swords. Come talk to him about swords. Or help him establish a small and unofficial shrine to himself in a small corner of a random car of the train. But really he would just be happy to learn more about other people's worlds and their abilities.

Things to avoid: His cooking.

[weisexual]

Character: Lan Wangji (OU)
About them: One of three on the train. If you don't know who he is by now with that many rolling around...well honestly not that surprising. He doesn't say much and likes to hide away in the quieter cars.

Plans: He really needs to meet more people. I will be trying to get him out more in the next mission. I'll be out of town for platform but hopefully I'll be able to get him out and active helping people and fighting whatever monsters might show up on the next world.

CR wanted: He really needs a lot more family time. There is so much of that on the train with all the different versions. So he definitely needs to connect with that. He also needs more...friends is a strong word...acquaintances would better fit him. People that he at least knows he can trust enough to fight alongside in a battle.

Things to avoid: Hurt or say anything bad about anyone he cares about and he will make you regret it. Besides that...just try not to be too annoying.

[10billionpercent]

Character: Senku Ishigami ORANGE TEAM

About them: The mad scientist protagonist of Dr. Stone who holds several jobs in canon including village chief, leader of the known human world, doctor, engineer, scientist...it's a never ending list.

On the train, he works often in medical and constantly has some kind of project on the go because he can't sit still. He's a Junior Lead for Orange, one of the understudies to Eva and Curufin. He has been learning magic out of curiosity. He has also been investigating the train and the nonsense surrounding it.

Plans: Aside from working on a new spell, and building his models in the evenings he doesn't have a lot of plans. He had a conversation at the train, and is now further convinced it does not hold their best interests at heart, considering he gave the train several alternate methods of communication to try, none of which were enacted. His current goal is to get the train to talk to them and he's considering something more drastic that the train would have to take notice of.

CR wanted: On the last mission, Senku was tortured and then he basically made himself scarce. When it came to vacation island, he actually took a vacation. His current plan of 'let's not talk about anything troublesome' is totally working.

Outside of that, he wouldn't mind more people to talk to, it would be nice if someone could get him to relax the rest of the time instead of working like he does. He isn't sure what to expect about the upcoming mission and is a little anxious about it after the last one.

Also he has open project slots if anyone needs anything!

Things to avoid: If you don't want to piss off Senku, don't grab him. I'm fine with it, if you want to try, but expect a not-so-nice response.

[partofthecrowd]

Character: Rui Ninomiya ORANGE TEAM

About them: Rui is a programming/tech genius who has her own social media empire. She's the protagonist of season one of Gatchaman Crowds, but is taken from Insight, where she is more of a side character who all of her friends seem hell bent on destroying.

On the train, she's fairly new and isn't up to anything specific. She can often be found lying around somewhere, because she is a fairly miserable person who doesn't really know how to fix things, or reach out to people.


Plans: She had a nice relaxing vacation and she's ready for a mission, something she's somewhat more interested in.

CR wanted: Rui needs people in her life that don't screw her over, to be honest. She hasn't talked about any of her issues, aside from an off-hand comment to Devero that she wasn't in contact with her parents, not that she's the type to volunteer information.

Things to avoid: I'm good with anything. If a topic is broached that Rui doesn't want to answer she typically just sidesteps it so you can try to discuss anything you like.

[wewillwewill]

Name: Maruah
Contact info: Discord: Everyworker#8128, PMs to: wewillwewill

Character: Elidibus [OU]

About them: Ancient entity. Walking spoiler for much of Final Fantasy XIV Online's story. Borrows a body (don't worry no one was using it at the time) to be seen by most people.

Plans: He doesn't have overt plans but he is patient and observant; Elidibus is simply not a person who is makes decisions lightly and he's only been present a couple of months. He's learning many things about mortal daily life so as to seem more integrated, though a little part is in curiousity. Though he has not said much of anything, he considers this something of a 'vacation' from his ultimate task. A time to reflect.

CR Wanted: Any CR that makes sense. Positive, negative. As long as it flows with the actual RP or IC situation. I like all sorts of cross-over CR so feel free to reach out to me even if I don't tag you specifically.

Things to avoid: Nothing ICly for Elidibus exactly. He's hard to rile, though he will respond to protect himself and for a variety of practical reasons, the train or the train's occupants. He doesn't tend to turn to violence first but this doesn't mean he isn't a nasty enemy to have.

Fenix | Eva

[mtsilver_conquor]

Name: Fenix
Contact info: Dark_fenix fenixofthedark#9631

Character: Eva Iden'no (AU Leaf)
About them: Pokemon trainer who comes from a realistic pokemon world. She's very much a Good Person who does the Right thing no matter how hard. Due to world reasons she does not see herself as such and is starting to withdraw a bit due to a lot of people knowing about her 'crimes'. Very much Big Sister Energy and will adopt you given the chance.

No, really. She will adopt you as Family and Family Is Family.
Plans: New CR and people to aggressively yank her out of her shell, please and thank. Stuff with pokemon, be it teaching people about them or just talking people's ears off about them or her world in general. Or extolling the virtues of yadon tail stew.
CR wanted: Kitchen people! Come learn how to properly cook yadon tail AKA slowpoke tail as Eva knows how to make it taste nice and tender. Also cure it, so. Jerky anyone?
Things to avoid: If it comes up, will let you know.

[chocobosnap]

Character: Prompto Argentum PURPLE TEAM

About them: Prompto is a Crownsguard and best friend to some dorky king in Final Fantasy XV. He's an avid photographer, and gun enthusiast. Way more decent in combat than he thinks, and getting better all the time.

Aside from a growing chocobo plush collection, Prompto hasn't made too much of a splash on the train, aside from his romantic subplot on the last mission. His priority, is as always, protecting Noctis, and going home is high on his wish list. They both need to go, for the fate of Eos.

Plans: Prompto admitted after much dancing around that he liked Casper and they started a relationship and Casper has vanished, he's leaving at platform. Prompto's going to be rather upset and disappointed about that.

So he'll do what he always does and offer a nervous smile. Likely he might decompress at some point and drop the facade. Outside of that he has new ice powers to navigate and like in the illusion he's going to start having accidents.

CR wanted: Prompto needs friends! He's a cheerful guy, very friendly, he just isn't sure why anyone would want to be his friend. Even though he still has Noctis, Casper will be missed a lot. He can probably be caught coping in real time. He hides a great deal behind that smile.

Things to avoid: Nothing really, Prompto's a pretty easy-going guy.

[yondu]

Name: Bianca
Contact info: Disc crotchetyneanderthal#4935 or PM

Character: Yondu Udonta
About them: U1:B
Pre-train: Former slave to the Kree Empire turned Space Pirate Biker. Exiled from his group and still upset over it. Raised a Problem Child who was part Space God.

Current-train: Blue Team Lead along with his roommate. Missing some people that left the train and really missing Peter lately. Getting closer with his grown-up friends lately which means he's starting to trust people. He let himself have a good time at Aquifir.
Plans: He's supposed to help Kyoko and Koumyou with plots, depending on the content of missions. He'll be messing up practicing with his Diagad powers at some point and while helping greenhouse fruit grow, make things like watermelons that peel like bananas or oranges that grow with pomegranate style insides but still with oraange flavor.
CR wanted: IDK I'll take whatever as thrown at him. He's been pushing people away a little less.
Things to avoid: Breaking his fin or arrow are no-goes, no long-term mind control.

Character: Alvin Murphy
About them: L4:D
Pre-Train: The Savior of the Human Race and the Zombie Messiah of his world, jailed for mail fraud and ended up experimented on. He can now mind-control zombies and people that he directly infects. He's also psychically able to communicate with anyone with those sensitivities. He's also immune to any bacteria or virus he comes across and evolves after expelling it from his system.

Current-Train: He just kind of wanders around like the background making comments about situations. He doesn't get directly involved too often. He flirts, but he's not been super open with the fact that he can't really swap bodily fluids with normal humans without psychically connecting to them. Generally a trash garbage zombie creature with fabulous fashion sense and canonically poly pan.
Plans: There was some stuff I didn't get to do before. Mostly it was seeing if the threat of his bite would set off the SCA to caution mode (with a consenting user). Senku had made him think of that when he arrived but he never followed it up even when he had to come out of the zombie closet.

He's been brushing up on some necromancy, and he told Teddy (Xehanort) some about Lucy in a way that mattered. Not just an offhanded mention.
CR wanted: Both people amoral and maybe people that can tolerate those three slivers of useful kindness in him and kind of bring them out. He's actually pretty protective of people that he might see singled out for being 'dangerous'.
Things to avoid: See above. If you tell him to 'behave or else' he'll get pissy.

[yondu]

Okay so Yondu can barely cook but feed this man strange jerky.

[controlsthedie]

Name: Avie
Contact info: (Pacific Time) aviekokyre, aviekokyre, Discord: aviekokyre#3411

Character: Thanatos

About them: From Hades, Red Team, Death Incarnate who is actually a nice guy (but also tsundere and emotionally confused) but is still learning how to be his own person instead of just his job as God of Gentle Death and more. (Having a bit of an identity crisis in the meantime…)

He's been here since the start of Jelly and carries around a plush mouse (Mort) who squeaks and wants to F I T E. Than can often be found in the quiet car, giving himself a break from feeling ill and overwhelmed by all the sensations he feels on the surface (vs the Underworld). He'll also be found in the greenhouse car, enjoying the green life there.

Plans: Still being nice to Than this month because he needs a break. We shall see how that goes with the mission. Missions are mean to him ;~;

That said, he's going to yell at the train some on its feedback post.

Than is going to discover his life powers from the last mission which is bringing slowly Mort to life. I want also Than to learn more string related crafts or even a string instrument. Let him handle "threads" in a way that doesn't involve death.

CR wanted: Open to a lot of CR ideas. He's one of the point people and healers for the Red Team. He also helps out with Red inventory things.

Things to avoid: Do not try to restrain him, especially by grabbing his wrists or shoving him into a small space. Thanks, Sisyphus. You took a perfectly good death godling, gave him a month shackled in a box, and now he has trauma and a lot of insecurities.

Other: Than also has a permissions post for characters who have connections to death (though more for potential thread/CR ideas as Than has given up trying to understand this train) and also for Hades game spoilers if that's something you're worried about. He's taken from after the 1st win, all nectar given, favor completed, but no ambrosia.

[melodiouspacifist]

Character: Demyx PURPLE TEAM

About them: Demyx is an antagonist turncoat from Kingdom Hearts. He's incredibly sneaky and clever even though he constantly plays dumb, begging people to underestimate him.

Since arriving on the train he's gone from avoidant, scheming loner to a protective, helpful loner. He is the only one who's managed to change his team colour, through character development thus far. He has a pet dog now, named Metronome. His mission given power is invisibility.

Plans: Reno going home is quite a blow to Demyx. Reno was someone who he got along with very well and had reached a high level of caring. A lot of his growth and development comes from the relationship they had together. He'd like to play it off with a callous so what?

He isn't going to be able to do that, he's not entirely heartless.

Also, the conversation and confrontation he had with Xehanort has not come up, on his end, and that among other things, is something he should probably work through.

CR wanted: Demyx needs more friends, more contact with the outside world. By outside world I mean outside the music room.

He's having a lot of feelings here and doesn't know how to process them.

He also isn't sure what he wants, how do you people?

There's a lot going on with Demyx.

Things to avoid: Go wild.

[goingthroughaphase]

Name: Usami
Contact info: usamichan13

Character: Kitty Pryde
About them: A teenage mutant with the ability to rearrange her molecules to phase through matter (and apparently some earth manipulation abilities). She's sweet and friendly, and likes to make new friends and help people. Just don't make her mad, or you could find yourself stuck in a wall.
Plans: I don't have anything concrete with her right now, other than working on her new earth manipulation powers she had prior to the vacation. Kitty is back to being my only character here, so I want to mostly focus on getting back into the swing of things with her.
CR wanted: I'll take anything! Friends, brotherly/sisterly-types, mentor figures, give me everything!
Things to avoid: Probably nothing too antagonistic.

[hitokiri]

Name: min
Contact info: koutenko

Character: Okada Izō
About them: A Heroic Spirit / Servant from that really confusing Fate/ franchise. Also, super likely to tell you what he does for a living (spoiler alert: it's murder). He's grump and rude and doesn't like to pretend he's something he isn't which means he's leaning pretty hard into his manslayer persona at all times but also his version of Chaldea is full of YOUNG PEOPLE so he's doing his best?? He's not as awful as he tries really hard to make people believe he just has a lot going on that he doesn't want to talk about...
Plans: Coping?? With this train?? Also: he'll figure out he can turn into a dog/gain dog features at some point. Mostly last month was almost a total wash for me and I'm ready to actually DO STUFF.
CR wanted: EVERYTHING. Good, bad, ugly, etc. I'm here for it! He has just... so very many trust issues but would appreciate some people closer to his own age to talk to? Probably? Once again reiterating where I accomplished nothing last month so I'm excited to do stuff now!
Things to avoid: Unless you're actively looking for negative CR (or at least to start off that way lol) it's best to avoid teasing, mocking, or laughing at him because it's his biggest trigger and he's killed over it in the past. Naturally, I'm fine with it and there's plenty of non-lethal workarounds but that's the quickest way to start off on a bad foot with him lmao.

[tactlesstantei]

Name: Absol
Contact info: darkestabsol

Character: Masumi Sera
About them: A high school detective, who would do anything for her family/friends. She's on Purple Team, and tends to spend time trying to look into whatever mysteries come up on the train or practicing in the training car.
Plans: Masumi's going to be discovering she kept her calming power from Diagad, and will be wanting to practice with it once she figures it out. She'll also be going on this month's mission, but that'll be plotted once we get mission info.
CR wanted: Anyone!
Things to avoid: Not really!

Kazie

[forceshadowed]

Name: Kazie
Contact info: notanybunny

Jaisyn | Star Wars EU | Purple Team

[forceshadowed]

Character: Jaisyn Solo
About them: Genderswapped version of Jacen Solo. Wayward Jedi Knight on a soul-searching sojourn across the galaxy. Was on the train in May then poofed but is now back again! Loves dumb jokes and collecting dangerous animals.
Plans: It's mission month, so she's going to be on the front lines again. Other than that, just reconnecting with previous CR and showing off her not!flerken.
CR wanted: Always a sucker for found family, so bring it.
Things to avoid: I'm pretty chill as a player and will roll with practically anything, but do check out her permissions post here since there might be triggery stuff you'd like to avoid. TL;DR she's a badass fighter with badass powers but she's also been through A Lot.

Selene | The Shards of Heaven | Red Team

[moontwin]

Character: Cleopatra Selene II
About them: Daughter of the Cleopatra, but from a canon where magic is real and there's a whole war going on behind the scenes of history between heaven and hell and all that jazz. Widowed young queen of Mauretania just trying to get by in her weird new world.
Plans: Still here for Operation: Let Selene Be A Teenager, lmao. She's just going to stay on the train and be pretty (she's stocked up on dresses and will keep acquiring more) while the others go out and participate in the mission. (The last time she "went to battle" she inadvertently caused a demon summoning, okay. She hates it. She's also gonna freak out when her Diagad powers start showing.)
CR wanted: FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY. Please continue to adopt this orphan. And here for shipping if it happens!
Things to avoid: Like Jaisyn, she's more of the triggery one, so here is her permissions post for your perusal.

[worthallthis]

Name: Gail
Contact info: cacopheny @ plurk

Character: Bucky Barnes/Soldat
About them: Former brainwashed amnesiac assassin for HYDRA, who died after the split-second decision not to actually kill Steve Rogers and then spent a year and a half in a dead world where they slowly learned how to Person again. Soul/life force/whatever is in a lantern that they carry around all the time, which I sometimes forget to mention in narration, but it is Always There. They're on Purple team, but always swap for somebody on the kitchen chores so they can cook instead (who on Red team would like to swap for cleaning chores instead of cooking?), and often do missions with Red team.

Plans: I'm really kind of coasting right now, as Soldat is trudging slowly up out of a really low point after the last mission arc. They're doing better, thank you vacation event, but they're still kind of slow and quiet right now. They're dreading the next mission to be honest, but they'll be chugging away in the kitchen car doing meal prep for it anyway. Some of the problem is I am a busy bee with 3 active games and some distracting RL stuff, so I haven't been as proactive as I should be, too.

CR wanted: People to drag Soldat out of their funk a little more. People to prod at their personhood issues and interact with their headmates and ask why they're chewing on their hair or pendant or something. People to teach, whether fighting, cooking, origami, or even elemental manipulation.

Things to avoid: Mentions of mind control or memory tampering. If Soldat finds out your character can do either of those things, expect immediate dropping of communication, unless they've built up a pretty solid amount of trust first.