hot_mess_express ([personal profile] hot_mess_express) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2019-04-19 06:26 pm

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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.]

    [personal profile] ghostfromthemachine 2019-04-20 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
    [ 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!))

    [personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-04-20 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
    [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: (3)

    [personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-04-21 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
    Um, okay? Hi? What are you doing?
    ghostfromthemachine: (I'm the first to know—)

    [personal profile] ghostfromthemachine 2019-04-21 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
    Shamelessly stealing your body heat? It's kind of cold.
    bowtiedbones: (54)

    [personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-04-21 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
    Oh. ...Is that working though? I'm wearing a coat.
    desirestruth: (I eventually got tired)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
    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???]
    ghostfromthemachine: (here I am)

    [personal profile] ghostfromthemachine 2019-04-21 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
    [ SOUNDS GOOD TO HER!!! giggling and settling in like the world's most staticky scarf-backpack combo ]

    Fair would probably be picking you up, actually. Less fun, though.