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[hot_mess_express]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 20, evening
Where: The train and surrounding terrain

[So after all the earlier excitement.... dramatic organ music starts to play through the cars. There's no obvious source. It's just... There? All around you for a while, before fading.

Of course before the music fades there's more things going on. A mist seeps up from the earth outside the train and within the train simply seems to form like it's produced by invisible fog machines. As the mist grows into a thick fog, you can hear eerie noises. Distant wolf howls, the screech of a fox that sounds like human screaming, owls hooting hauntingly, the leathery flap of bat wings, and other, less identifiable noises of the night, strange and otherworldly.

If you go out in it, breathe it in, the mist will chill you. Make you desire... Touch.

The need to hold another person is an almost growing compulsion, but it can be fought.

However things that are harder to avoid are the flowers, night blooming wisteria in white and purple seems to have grown from nowhere in the train cars, hanging down to brush the heads of passengers with sweet scented blossoms, and the floors of the train and ground around it have become endless beds of gently glowing moonflowers.

The only places the fog and flowers don't reach are team cabins.

Effects:

Mist:

Cold that cannot be dispelled without touch, a desire to touch others.

Wisteria:

Purple blossoms cause an empathetic bond with the next person you touch.

White blossoms cause arousal and a mild to powerful aphrodisiac effect.

Moonflowers:

Share memories or thoughts with the next person you touch.

By morning the mist and flowers will vanish.]

Comments

[desirestruth]

[Naeva, idiot that she is, lost her damn mind the moment the organ music started. These haunting, creepy sounds, the music of the night, the creeping mist--

all of it, every part, is so much like home it makes her heart ache. Of course, she's going to get herself caught up with the wisteria and the moonflowers easily, but for right now, she's standing in the lounge, drinking in the mist, with a deeply sorrowful expression on her face. Also a large bandage over one of her cheeks, stained faintly pink with the blood still seeping through it.

...You know, right in the path of traffic.]

[saddleclub]

[Man he just wanted to take an evening walk and now it's hard to see his hand in front of his face let alone anything else.

You might encounter him by him walking right into you or vice versa, or you might find him sitting in the lounge refusing to move but looking pale.

((OOC: Any effect is fine by me.))]

[desirestruth]

[Yeah she's standing stock still with some moonflowers and purple wisteria this was bound to be a collision--

The mist is thick over the palace grounds, making it impossible to see more than a few feet into the forest. The lanterns placed in the grounds seem now only stars in an impossibly somber sea.

"We've had reports of four more abominations loosed today, Your Highness." The man behind her is dark haired and tall, his face thin and drawn, if still handsome. His sibilants are faintly hissed, and his eyes never blink for the duration of the conversation.

"...See if the mist can be made thicker. It will be easier to catch them without my mother noticing. Have you sent word to my brother?"

"Yes, but he's not close to the forest this time of year...we fear he won't make it in time."

She is silent for a long while, staring out into the mist, inhaling the scents, and then sighing out, gently. "...Then bring me my sword. I'll go tonight." The memory fades away with the look of concern and bitten-back protests on the young man's face.

Naeva doesn't quite fall over but she did have to reach for Jusis to steady herself!]

Ah!

[cawnflict]

[ fwapping him in the back of the head with a magazine. in the lounge. ]

[bad_crowmance]

[ He sees that pale look and it's enough to get Crow to stop nearby. ]

Hey, what's up? You look like you just saw a ghost.

[voreaciously]

There you are.

[A voice, then a figure emerges from the mis, the face looking mildly uncomfortable.]

[nihilmancy]

[The atmosphere is certainly mysterious, if nothing else. Hlasoh spaces out enough that Juisis is able to bump into her- she gives a little squeak, then a polite bow of apologies]

Ah, um, I apologize for my negligent attention.

[ruinatings]

[THANKS TO THE MIST as Rufus is trying to get to the lounge he's gone face first into some purple wisteria. He steps around it, shaking his head, and stumbles right into Jusis.

Hello.]

--Ah. Jusis.

[That was definitely graceful and intentional.]

[bowtiedbones]

[Eliza is outside crouched right in the middle of all the spookiness, hugging her knees and looking for MOTHS.

mind you don't trip over her hiding in the fog in Thyme's big black overcoat]

(( any effect is OK! ))

[desirestruth]

[WHUMP a jackal just ran into you. At least she didn't trip.]

Eliza?

[wontforbidtherain]

It's cold. Should it be this cold?

[Normally Cat can (and does) wander around without a coat in any weather, but now she actually looks uncomfortable]

[bad_crowmance]

[ The fog is thick, but it hadn't stopped Crow from going out for an evening stroll. The air has a chill to it, but he's never found he particularly disliked the cold. He shivers, but it's not the worst thing in the world.

The flowers catch his eye though, and he stops to crouch down and stare at one. ]

...Huh! These are new.

[ ((OOC: Any effect is fine!)) ]

[desirestruth]

Moonflowers.

[Hi hello yes naeva has a ton of them. She loves flowers so much crow you don't even know.

though she has some purple wisteria so you're going to--]

I've never seen so many in one place.

[nihilmancy]

[Looks dreamily at the flowers, floating just above the ground.]

They're beautiful, aren't they?

[bowtiedbones]

Aren't they pretty?

[wearing her Thyme coat with the hood up, all covered in dew. she's been out here a while.]

[ruinatings]

Anything new is likely suspicious.

[So says Rufus, bundled up in his cozy Ginger uniform in the mist.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ hmm mmmmm. the atmosphere is kind of nice— soothing, even, which is kind of odd but doesn't really surprise her at this point. of course she'd like this kind of spooky nonsense, she's some kind of spooky nonsense. the cold, however, is another story.

which is why she's just going to be inviting herself to piggyback on the next person she spots. ...at least she's really, really light? ]

Hello! Don't mind me, all right?


((ok with all flowers too!))

[nihilmancy]

[Hlasoh isn't actually much larger, and she's currently floating several inches above the ground, so she squeaks in surprise before sinking down to the earth. But it isn't too big of a problem at least, since at least she is light.]

Er, um, okay?

[bowtiedbones]

Um, okay? Hi? What are you doing?

[desirestruth]

Oof--

[Well, give her a second to adjust to the weight and realize who it is.]

...I guess this is fair.

[RIGHT LET'S GO PICK SOME FLOWERS???]

[voreaciously]

[Oh...this is like.

This is like home now. Everything looks right with the growth here. Technology twined with nature, not against it but in functional harmony with it.

She can be found eyeing and touching the flowers with gentle and open fondness, or standing in the mists, but she is frowning, perhaps confused. It is difficult to tell with her eyes hidden away.

((ooc: all effects are a heck yes))]

[desirestruth]

[Naeva's arm-deep in flowers for different reasons, but at least she doesn't plow headlong into 80H. She has a bandage over her cheek (what did she do yesterday) but she's otherwise fine, just with an armload of moonflowers and purple wisteria.]

They're beautiful, aren't they?

[nihilmancy]

[She isn't touching the flowers yet, but she is drifting slightly above the ground, leaning in sometimes to breath in the scent of them.]

Hah, it's like a dream.

[nihilmancy]

[Hlasoh is taking an evening stroll, probably just after dinner, and immediately becomes aware of the strange changes to the train. She is wary as she walks through the cars, but not quite panicking- just curiously examining the changes, leaning in close to look at the flowers.]

((ooc: all effects are fine, though memory writeups may take a little while to tag with!))

[wontforbidtherain]

[Cat is investigating the mist: fog felt comforting, except now she's cold and feeling alone and doesn't know why]

Is anyone there?

[Okay with other effects]