We're all in this train-gether 🚂

[adregem]

Who: OTA. If you’re a passenger with a ticket on this train, then you are most welcome here!
Where: Upper Music Car
When: Imagination 18, at around brunch.
What: Welcome to the train’s first ever community open forum. Come for the food, stay for the best discussions ever.
Warnings: Lots of top-levels for easy access to relevant topics to your characters, but apart from that, nothing right now! (Not a warning but a heads-up that one TL will be dedicated to the dissemination and discussion of the bonus trek during the last mission. For your OOC reference, please see here.)



Someway through the 18th of Imagination, an announcement for the already spoken for meeting is shared by the ICPs, giving people twenty minutes to come to the upper Music Carriage for the gathering. While the chairs mostly face the stage, they’ve been curved to allow people to face their fellow passengers too, so not to put the sole focus in one place.

This is a meeting for all, and everyone will have their chance to speak and be heard.

The promised snack table sits to one side of the room, and on the stage, the white board from the standard coach has been brought in, written on it bullet points for the planned topics. To assist in the flow of discussion, familiar moderators stand in place to help jot things down, carry conversation further should one idea end while another is ready to begin, among other such administrative tasks to organize the forum. Plus, the ICP’s are in constant use all throughout the meeting, with basic announcements about what’s being discussed now, and how more people are still welcome to catch up to the Music Car if they hear something that interests them.

Grab a plate, settle down, and let’s get to work.

(OOC: Specific top-levels will be set-up for ease of tagging. Select ‘Show Top-Level Comments Only’ if you would like to skip ahead! And as much as possible kindly keep to a single thread in that TL, unless a very special or private point has to be made with regards to the subject! :) Of course if you will be tagging the snacks table, the extra suggestions, or the meta-thread, this does not apply any longer.

Also, very important: Please see here for an example format of how documentation of missions can go! It is most relevant during the discussion on information gathering.)

Comments

[light_of_willpower]

An extra bath and shower car would be awesome. I don't know how you ask the train, but do you think you could add 'please put it somewhere in the middle' of the train? That way people aren't walking the entire length of the train too.

[hotheadwarmheart]

You use the little 'give feedback' option on the terminals to suggest things. And yeah, I was thinking somewhere around the training gym, maybe, might be a a good place to suggest putting it? Since people might like to get a shower after their workout or something.

[light_of_willpower]

Huh, I'll have to do that. And by the training gym sounds perfect.

[A pause.]

It's also not my idea, since Tidus originally brought it up and I know he's taken steps to make it happen, but... Do you think the Train would give us a snack-car, at the opposite end from the kitchen so it's not such a walk?

[najaran]

"I like that idea too!" she said, all but bouncing. The terminal things? Well, she'd get Gremlin to help her with that. But if she was going to do that....

She drew a card from the pouch behind her back - it flew into her hand - and she tossed it in the air. An explosion of light later and a little lizardy creature was sitting on her wrist. She glanced at it and whispered "They're telling us how to ask the train for stuff and you follow all this better than I do..."

The creature nodded and scrambled up to the top of her head, listening intently.

[hotheadwarmheart]

[...Yep, that sure is a random lizard creature outta nowhere. Was it in that card, the way the Pokèmon were in those little ball things?

Whatever; moving on with the discussion.]

We probably could. But we only seem to get one new car at a time- not counting new Sleeper cars when the old ones run out of room- so it'd probably be best to try for one now, then the other later.

[najaran]

"Then which one do we do first?" she asked, considering that.

[hotheadwarmheart]

Personally, I'd go for the bathroom and shower car first. A snack area is a good idea, but hygiene is a bit more important than having easy access to snacks.