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.

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[subcircuits]

[Devero has a little inkling of an idea, but he doesn't speak up for a long moment. However, as a moment of silence stretches:] Dance.

[Maybe he gets a couple looks from other listeners. What did this big soldier guy, who's spoken up before now to talk about logistics and technology and leadership, just say? He clears his throat.] I know how to dance. All kinds. For partners and groups. If anyone else can dance, or-- or wants to learn...

[And maybe just a tiny bit defensively:] It's a good stress reliever.

[myblueskies]

Oh I love dancing sir!

[Romeo doesn't seem to consider it strange that the very tall, slightly scary, new man is now talking about dancing. He has bounced out of his chair though with a grin.]

It's so much fun and is really good for keeping everyone's spirits up!

[blitzcheer]

[ Tidus absolutely perked up at dancing being mentioned. Not that he wasn't interested already in Rapunzel's suggestion, but- ]

Yeah, dancing's a good one! I bet some people'd love to do some dancing! [ MENTIONING NO NAMES HE WON'T EVEN LOOK IN ANY PARTICULAR DIRECTION. Except, to Raven-! ] And you know how to knit?

[azrthmtrnznthos]

Yes.

[A pause, as if she's considering something.]

I suppose I could try and teach others. Besides that, I also meditate regularly and have helped others here do so before too.

[eyeslikeblood]

[ With a flash of remembered laughter, a child and parent swirling in a field of flowers, Gyousou leans forward. Another chiselled soldier type speaking for it can't hurt, surely. ]

I'd certainly like to learn to dance, and I wouldn't turn down painting or knitting, either. We have the time for it, after all, and plenty to learn from one another.

[flatteries]

[ Somewhere between mister tall, dark and handsome over there starting about dancing and then watching two people pipe in who are definitely having him in mind, Inigo is starting to feel like this is a trap. An embarrassment trap. But if he doesn't speak up, he feels like Tidus may try to literally drag it out of him, so with one fear he speaks up.. ]

Erm, Rapunzel is right. Those creative things.. t-they can really help you express and process things that are too difficult to put in words. So I'd really recommend picking up any form of creative expression for people who don't do it yet.

And.. um, the place we're at right now is actually perfect for dance practice. Since you can put on music, and there's a stage and all.. [ It's like Inigo is starting to speak slower and slower with more than just a hint of reluctance as he continues.

His face is getting redder too, making his hair look almost purple. ]

A-And I suppose I could.. help teach too.. for people who'd like to learn more traditional styles.. Or need a shorter partner... [ Was that last part even audible anymore, as mumbled as it was. Who knows. ]

[adropofsunlight]

[Rapunzel seemed to be getting a little more confident as she listened to others, more so when it was about the subject of dance.]

Dance is a great thing and a good form of exercise to. Maybe we could list who people can learn from the types. Like I know Ballet and would be willing to teach that along with anyone else who might know. Inoigo seems willing to teach to as well as one other, so we already have various kinds. Maybe we could do that with other types of expensive therapy like painting or just crafts in general. List who you can learn certain ones from.

[blitzcheer]

That's really great! [ Look, he's definitely enthused to hear all these ideas--plus, of different people willing to get together and share these classes. ] How about we put a poster up for the more crafty classes in the standard coach? Even if they're just one on one, somewhere where a person can go, hey,-

[ he looks at Raven for this, ]

I saw your name said you'll help teach me knitting. Can you?

[ He looks at everyone else then. ]

That's all we need, don't we? Just a name and what you wanna hang out and with people. And then people can find you out. [ Hah. ] Not like setting up times for anything here is easy anyway.

[flatteries]

[ SUCKING IN A DEEP BREATH, trying to force down the shyness now the worst part of this is over-- ]

That sounds like a good idea, especially since new people could easily find it there. [ Without them having to be told and being bombarded with even more information when they first show up. There's already enough they have to absorb at once! ]

Would you mind making a poster like that, Rapunzel? It sounds right up your alley.

[adropofsunlight]

I could make something like that, but I could need names of all of those who are going to offer lessons.

[And she would have some idea of what to do.]

[flatteries]

Well, you got the people who offered here, right? You know my name.

[ Despite being shy as hell about dancing in front of others, but maybe he does.. just.. have to get over it.. Ugh. ]

If anyone else wants to offer too, sounds like it's a good idea to speak up now.