WEEK 1

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 1

[The train wouldn't stop. Not until very early the next morning. The few who might have been awake would be able to exit the train, entering the cool twilight of the dawn. The star is dark, and few stars can be seen in the sky as a cold breeze begins to blow from the mountain beyond. You can see some chunks of rock floating idly nearby, far away from the station that it won't hit trains, but near enough that one can see they are larger than the train they just disembarked.

Lastly, laid out in front of them, the first port of call: Menahoven. The mountain: The Throat of the World.

But which world? Who knows. Not any of yours. Maybe it doesn't matter. Not when you are so far from home. Not when you have no way to get off this rock without the aid of the trains-and they will not let you pass.

It looks like you're stuck here until the Conductor decides to leave. In the meantime, everyone will need to get comfortable.


There are fifteen strangers left in this place.]

Comments

[eternaldivide]

Haha. I guess you have a point. What's also really funny is when he's super grumpy, but the moment my sister speaks he's suddenly nothing but a flustered mess.

[ Admittedly it's annoying that him and his sister are ... a thing. But it's funny seeing what happens when his sister enters the picture. ]

Hmm... Has to be, with its tail. And I suppose this would make fish simply underwater potatoes.

[ The whole world is just now filled with potatoes excellent ]

Dark is an element too, being the opposite of light. But it's the one element I don't know any spells for.

[higanbana]

Ehehe... your sister must be a powerful force to reckon with, indeed~!

[If only she could someday have such power.]

Yes. And whales, the largest potatoes of all.

[These two are so worryingly on the same wavelength.]

That makes sense... and, in a way, so does that last part. Darkness... doesn't really seem to suit you, you know?

[eternaldivide]

She is! I'd like to see anyone try to reckon with her.

[ And not.... just because Mithos would fight whoever tries..... ]

Heheh. With bugs being the smallest potatoes of all?

[ It's so cute and yet so worrying how did it get here ]

Ah, really? I never really thought about why...

[higanbana]

I wouldn't dare. A woman powerful enough to bring a man to his knees just by entering the room... no, that is power to admire and aspire to, not to reckon with.

[♥ But hey, at least she's respecting Martel properly!]

Indeed~! Ehe, there are actually bugs known as potato beetles. I think because they eat the potato crops, but even so... the idea of tiny little potatoes with beetle legs sounds kind of adorable, doesn't it?

[One day we'll look back on this thread and wonder how things got so far out of hand.]

I don't know quite how to describe it... you just have this sort of lightness about you. While not always the case, it is easy to associate dark with the forces of evil, and it is hard to imagine you among them.

[About that.]

[eternaldivide]

[ Mithos giggles at the image. ]

Well, that one companion happens to be her fiancée, to be fair. I don't know what she sees in him, but as long as he never hurts her, then I'll accept it.

[ Gotta follow her wishes ... ]

Really? I don't believe we have those sort of bugs back where I'm from. I've never heard of them. But you're right, it does! Do you think they'd be cuter than ehm... potatoes with little butterfly wings?

[ We'll be eating potatoes and just remind ourselves of this thread and question... 'why' ]

Ah ... [ He blushes a little at that ] T-Thank you, Ris. I've ... never been told such. Though, if anyone truly has a lightness about them it's my sister.

[ jfc that... video ....... ]

[higanbana]

Oh~ I see. Well... at least he knows his place, right? So that's at least a good start. And maybe someday he'll even come around and be less of a grump!

[Wishful thinking, Yuan's a grump forever.

The idea of potatoes with little butterfly wings, though, earns a delighted little gasp from Ris.]

Oh no... I hadn't even considered! That's too cute for words...!

[It's true...]

Ehehe... nothing to thank me for. Merely the truth, as I see it. [She's blushing a little, too, though.] But... well, such things would run in the family, wouldn't they? I believe it.

[eternaldivide]

Oh, he does! Too bad he doesn't know his place anywhere else. But ... maybe one day he'll just be a little less grumpy with my sister around.

[ Forever a grump and Mithos will forever talk shit about him.

That aside though Mithos laughs lightly at her reaction. ]

I think we might have found a winner to cutest potato!

[ Very ... true ... ]

Hmm. I wonder if that is truly the case. [ Still though ] When you look at my sister and myself we don't look very much alike.

[higanbana]

I'm sure he'll learn in time! If not... well, I suppose there will always be fun to be had teasing him.

[Poor, poor Yuan.]

We just may have!

[She's so excited about this. She... really does like cute things, doesn't she?]

Hm~? There has to be some similarity, I'm sure. There are plenty of tiny details in a faces and bodies, there's probably plenty you're not even thinking of!