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Your character wakes up in a neat bedroom in their team carriage, in nondescript underwear. They might be missing their memories, or their special abilities, or they may just feel a little queasy. Next to them is what seems to be a smartphone, which they know how to use even if they never had before, even if they don't know if they have before. On the screen is a simple message:

Welcome aboard the Aurora!

You have been selected by the Star Prince as a potential hero, tasked with saving the universe from Malice. As a passenger I, your Construct and Conductor, will attempt to provide you with quality lodgings and safety. In return, we ask that you join your fellows in making bonds and doing your utmost to bring joy back to the Stars.

Due to the process of restoring your body, you may find some things are missing. We apologise for the inconvenience and hope to return them to you as soon as possible. Thank you for your cooperation.

★ One
Upon investigation, you'll find some basic clothes matching your team's theme in the storage provided in your room. Or, perhaps, you're wandering out of the room still undressed. Either way, downstairs you'll find someone has left a tray of cups of hot tea on the living room table. Drinking it may be simply pleasant, or it may cause you to feel a sudden need to warm up to the others in your carriage -- emotionally or physically. Welcome to the team, newbie!

☆ Two
Shortly after your arrival, you find yourself wrapped up in some monster NPC's Game. You're inside what appears to be a stone temple, with a massive golden scale on one wall. Suddenly, on one side, a heavy metal weight is dropped. As the scales tip out of balance, the floor begins to slowly disappear, brick by brick, ready to drop you -- and whoever is with you -- into an abyss. Your only hope comes in the form of an inscription on the altar:

How much do your secrets weigh?

Every secret you tell causes a weight to fall onto the other side of the scale. The bigger the secret, the bigger the weight. If you can collectively tip the scales, the floor will quit dropping bricks and a door will appear to allow you back to the train. If you can't, you'll fall, seemingly forever, til you pass out. When you wake up you'll find yourself unable to lie.

★ Three
You've been on the Aurora for a while, maybe you've even started to grow used to it. Used to the train, used to used to the slow but steady revival of the world around you into something less hostile, used to the trials, maybe even used to the people. The singing tree, however, is new. You're pretty sure that tree wasn't there yesterday. You know the singing wasn't. But it's here now. And it's LOUD. Almost unbearably so, enough to come seeping through if you cover your ears. Somehow it even seems to come through if you somehow have the ability (whether mechanical or magical) to seal off your hearing...? If you compliment the tree, however, it stops singing for five minutes. It may even stop altogether if you hug it. But are you willing to risk looking that silly?.

☆ Four
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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

That seems unfair.

[Sips coffee whatttt isssss happeningggggg]

It is. Sometimes, people are missing their powers or both, but you can regain either.

How do I do that? How many other people are missing - powers? What kind of powers?

Participating in trials which are events and activities in which we aim to complete certain tasks; I am not certain, you can ask them in both cases. Everyone is different.

. . .

Are these trials meant to remind us of what we've forgotten? Reliving significant moments? Or... Training to get our power back? That makes sense. Can I do a trial now?

Those are sensible assumptions, but no, they are to help purify stars--worlds that we visit. we do not choose when to do trials. They happen at certain intervals and we are not informed beforehand.

[that would just be too courteous and make too much sense.]

Purifying star worlds...

[Sips his coffee]

Yes. We are here to save the universe.

[That is a lot. Kit puts his coffee cup on the table and stares at it, that can't possibly be real, can it? Isn't she just saying a bunch of lies so she can distract him and trick him into giving up his organs easier? But why would she pick these nonsense lies?

He is going to slowly reach for the sugar to put in his coffee.]

Is the universe in so much peril that it's relying on a bunch of powerless amnesiacs?

Yes, it is. The information is all on the device you arrived with, but some aspects of the self were lost in transit such as memories or powers.

It is in dire straits indeed, but we are making some progress.

I should go check my room for that device, I just stumbled out. Excuse me.

I will accompany you.

[she makes to move at his side.]

Umm, no, that's okay. I should get dressed too.

Ah, I suppose you should. You remember the way back to your room?

[. . .

Stares at doors

points to a random one that is definitely not his, ???]

That is incorrect. That room is occupied.

[probably finn's room or something.]

I did not see you leave it, but I can tell you from the process of elimination that it is one of these three.

[she'll write it on a paper napkin.]

The rest belong to our teammates.

[hers is locked anyway]

[Takes the napkin and looks at the doors, taking note.]

Okay, thanks.

[Heading towards Selene's room]

That is the wrong one.

[???

Looks at napkin instructions, then back up at the doors, pointing a finger at each one as he counts them off.]

Are you sure?

That is Selene-han's room.

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