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.]
    saddleclub: (37)

    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-20 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
    Not recently, no.
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    [personal profile] cawnflict 2019-04-20 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
    [ he's almost disappointed... what happened to good behaviour ciabatta... ]

    My other theory is you just wouldn't put up with me teasing you all of the time if you didn't.
    saddleclub: (52)

    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-20 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
    [Why do I like bad birds.]

    It's not like your teasing is particularly unpleasant.

    [Like on a scale of one to what he grew up with it seems downright friendly?]

    If you're trying to be disliked you could put some effort into it.
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    [personal profile] cawnflict 2019-04-20 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
    ... maybe another time.

    Tell me more about your memory. Where were you?
    saddleclub: (61)

    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-20 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
    It was a school festival, I assume that's what you saw. Simply some indoor garden one of the classes had put together as an attraction.
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    [personal profile] cawnflict 2019-04-20 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
    A school festival... those are a thing?
    saddleclub: (08)

    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-20 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
    ...Yes? It's quite popular with students, alumni and outsiders alike.
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    [personal profile] cawnflict 2019-04-20 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
    I didn't attend many things like that willingly.
    saddleclub: (24)

    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-20 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
    What are you, a recluse?
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    [personal profile] cawnflict 2019-04-20 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
    Sometimes. I don't remember anything that nice, though.

    [ he has had like one whole friend. ]
    saddleclub: (56)

    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-20 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
    [You big loser. Says the guy who only just learned how to have any friends a year and a half ago.]

    Why? Are people so put off by you?
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    [personal profile] cawnflict 2019-04-20 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
    I was born in the lower branches of the hierarchy, so I wasn't very popular, no.
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    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-20 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
    Hierarchy? I take it your world has a class based system?
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    [personal profile] cawnflict 2019-04-20 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
    Yeah. It's based on what animal you have the same features as.

    [ ...he's mad. ]

    It's ridiculous and nonsensical.
    Edited 2019-04-20 23:46 (UTC)
    saddleclub: (25)

    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-20 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
    A system of class based on the arbitrary context of your birth. How unsurprising.
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    [personal profile] cawnflict 2019-04-20 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
    I'm glad you get it. Even if I can fly just as well as the eagles, it never mattered.
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    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-20 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
    My own world has a similar system, though it's not based on features. I ended up by chance on the top of the social structure but it's not like I can't see how deeply such arbitrarily chosen roles are flawed.
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    [personal profile] cawnflict 2019-04-21 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
    Mm. I got that feeling from you before. It's good when you're self aware.
    saddleclub: (24)

    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-21 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
    It does little for the greater problems, however.