Event: Mirror Image

[trainmasters]

Who: everyone!
When: Day 19 evening and on
Where: outside

[As darkness falls in the jungle, an unusually chill breeze rustles through the trees. In its wake is silence, the purified fauna going quiet as if in dread.

Is it just you, or is the night darker tonight?

You may find the cause if you leave the train. Those who are caught alone outside will see the shadows grow suddenly long. The darkness coalesces into a vaguely human form, vague and faceless but radiating cold.

Before you can react the shadows surround you. Deep within, your most bitter, unpleasant feelings rise up in your chest. It's overwhelming, threatening to consume you, but just before it can it suddenly stops. The shadows recoil, dissipating into the jungle.

You're safe, but those negative feelings might be closer to the surface than usual.

Good luck, especially if you're one of the newbies just waking up.]

[NOTES: This event will OOCly end on Wednesday, but feel free to ICly push time forward as much as you like. There will be a followup post at that time, and you can schedule player-run trials any time after.

The emotional effect of this event can be as severe as you want. Your character could just be a bit grumpy, or they could find their emotions totally out of control. The effect lasts a couple of hours or until the character counters it with happier feelings.]

Comments

[bowtiedbones]

Right? Honestly I don't even know why I ever get off the train anymore.

[saddleclub]

I wonder if just staying in our rooms reading count for good feelings.

[bowtiedbones]

If I read out loud, maybe I can call it teaching and get cash for it.

[saddleclub]

Not a bad plan.

[bowtiedbones]

Hope you all like hearing about the skull morphology of palaeognathous flightless birds versus the ontogenetic trajectory of chickens for 20 minutes.

[saddleclub]

That's fine I'm perfectly capable of tuning out nonsense.

[bowtiedbones]

There will be a quiz.

[saddleclub]

Those words sounded made up.

[bowtiedbones]

No, they're all real.

[saddleclub]

I'm really not that into birds. But I suppose it could be educational.

[bowtiedbones]

The study was trying to find context for an evolutionary analysis, but their findings didn't really stick as I remember... They didn't have any ontogenetic data for the ratites, and the muscular development of the adults was still within the potentials of the chicks, so it was hard to call how much convergence was at play or not.

[saddleclub]

You know I consider myself well-educated and yet you've lost me.

[bowtiedbones]

I guess it’s sort of specialized knowledge.