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Voidy's Not So Scary Missionween Party

Who: Open to anyone not partaking in the Nebula 21-23 mission (the October event)
Where: The whole train
When: Nebula 21-23
What: A catch-all post for everyone not on the mission.
Warnings: Threads will be labeled accordingly.

Did you choose not to go on the second mission this month? Did you try to go and somehow wind up in the luggage car? Either way, you're stuck on the train for the next few days while the mission plays out. Have fun!

(This is an open catch-all for anyone not participating in the mission. Write your own toplevels and tag around! Who knows - maybe someone will throw a party!)

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Luggage

He was stepping out of the train to go on the mission, but suddenly he's in the luggage room. ... Weird.

He looks around at the other people in the room with him. "Is this... um. Normal?" He's only been on one mission, he has no idea.

Training

Ryu's taking advantage of the fact that there's few people around to transform and tear into some training dummies. He's pulling his punches, but even so there's a lot of crashing and some vaguely inhuman roars from the training gym.

He's not angry, but his whole posture still reads as furious. It's just the way he stands in this form, but it still might be concerning.

Naptime

All that training makes him tired, and it's not long before Ryu finds a flat spot to start dozing. It might be sprawled on one of the seats in the standard car, or flopped in one of the beanbags in the game room, or even curled up on top of the washing machine. Anywhere with enough space is a potential bed for Ryu.

Wildcard

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Naptime

Oh good! Where some people might see a sleeping person, Spark sees a bed. He will hop up onto Ryu's supine form unless stopped and lay out to sleep. He wanted an orange cat to nap with, yes?

Luggage:
Takato and Guilmon had meant to go on the mission with everyone else. They liked to help, so of course they volunteered.

They hadn't really expected to find themselves right back in the baggage car. Takato groans slightly from where he was pinned under his friend.

"Guilmon, can you let me up?"

The digimon hastily picks himself up. and helps his friend stand up.

"Sorry Takato! Guilmon wasn't expecting that."

Standard Car:
Later, the two of them sit together and stare at each other.

"What do we do now?" Takato wonders.

Guilmon thinks very hard. "We could make bread? Or maybe we could play some games!"

Spark had been looking for a place to nap. Something had told him to sit this mission out. So when he heard someone talking about making food he pounced on the idea. Almost literally.

He was still a little... shaken... by the incident on the water world, but he had to play the role. Had to be Spark.

"You know what goes well with bread? FISH!"

He doesn't mind that he popped up in someone else's conversation, so they shouldn't mind either, right?

"I guess we could see if theres any fish in the kitchen."

Takato smiles at Spark. He wasn't really bothered by a friend inviting himelf along (And Spark was a lot politer about it than Impmon had been).

"Yeah! Guilmon likes fish too!"

"YAY! FISHY FRIENDS!" He cheered, jumping up onto Takato's shoulder. "ONWARD FOR FISH!"

"Fish and bread!" Guilmon cheers and starts pushing Takato along. Takato laughs and decides to just go along with it.

"Okay, but remember I don't know how to cook fish."

"So... bread sushi!?" That worked for him.

"Well, I guess we could try for something like that."

"Guilmon wants to try that! Can we add peanut butter too?"

"Sure! Fish goes with anything!"

"I guess?" Raw fish wouldn't bother Guilmon. Takato had seen him hunt before. But he quietly decided that he wouldn't be trying it.

"But maybe we could make some other things too. Just in case."

"Sure! Like fish stew!"

"We might have to go find someone to help if you want that!"

"I can teach you, my humans make it all the time! It's Soup-er easy!"

When Shadow had come to her and told her that she needed to speak with Clef, she'd readily agreed. It had been impossible to miss the tension between Shadow, Link, and Clef lately, and the fact that Clef hadn't been spending nearly every waking moment in the library lately was a clue to just how bad things had gotten. She'd fully intended to speak to him after the mission, but since it seemed that she was barred from joining said mission for some reason... well, there was no time like the present. Especially since it kept her from worrying so much about what might be happening without her and why she'd been excluded in the first place.

Despite Clef's notable absence from there recently, the library was the first place Leia checked. And lo and behold, Clef was actually there this time. Maybe he'd been drawn out by the now much quieter train? "There you are, Clef," she said as she approached. "Haven't seen you around here in awhile."

His books vanished into the gem in his glove. "Apologies. I was not aware that you had been looking for me." He was trying to give people more of his attention. But he suspected he was still not good at it.

"Well, to be fair I wasn't planning on looking just now," Leia said, "but since I'm apparently train bound for the next few days, I thought it might be a good time to catch up." Among other things.

She pulled a chair over near Clef's rock and took a seat. "Well that, and Shadow asked me to talk to you. I expect you can guess what about."

"We are all train bound, unless something changed," he said, confused. Yes, he was unaware that it was mission time again. He is that oblivious.

But then he rubbed his face. "Shadow and I see him very differently," he said. "He believes I do not see him, simply because I disagree."

In other words he is still missing the point.

"You know, you really need to pay more attention to announcements," Leia said. "And to the network in general. But the short version is, there's another mission, and I wasn't able to go on it. So here we are."

"And what do you see in him?" She did want to hear Clef's side of things first before getting into Shadow's, and the main meat of the disagreement.

"It is harder now that the Network is no longer connected through my cloak." And he was pretty bad at it even when it had been. "Why were you unable to go on the mission, though?" he asked, concerned. "Are you alright?"

He sighed a bit. "He's a good person. That's what I see. He is more focused on what he is, rather than who he is.

"I'm fine," Leia assured him. "If a bit annoyed. The train wouldn't let me off for some reason. After the third time trying, I decided to take the hint rather than ending up in the luggage carriage again."

She nodded thoughtfully. "And what is he, according to him? And maybe more importantly, what is he according to you?"

"Ah." So long as she was well.

"According to him he is a creature of darkness who has to work hard to be good. According to me, he is good. That choosing to be good, working at being good, those are the marks of a good person. He is a good person. He is Link's brother. He is one of Zelda's protectors. And even if he does not see me as his father, which is fine, he is still precious as a son to me."

And there was the first stumbling block right there. But how to get Clef's overly analytical mind around it? She considered for a moment.

"I imagine it took a lot of work to become as skilled a mage as you are," she finally said. "A lot of time, effort, and study to hone your skills, and continued study and effort to keep them from getting rusty." Anticipating the question at her apparent sudden change of subject, she added, "And yes, I promise that this is relevant."

"Oh, I can see that you are getting to a point," he assured her. "In fact, I suspect it is the same one I made. Yes, I worked very hard to become a mage, and I study and practice to maintain my skills. Sadly the train offers little chance to practice some of the more complex magics."

Leia nodded. "And how would you feel if someone implied that your hard work was essentially irrelevant because you're clearly already a great mage? That rather than having gotten to where you are through your own efforts, you were simply innately skilled and talented, and that thus, it all must have been extremely easy for you? And that the fact that you continue to study and practice is only a sign of your innate talent, rather than something that requires genuine effort?"

She hoped that Clef would catch on to what she was implying. If not, she'd have to spell it out for him.

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