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.]
    desirestruth: (The lantern lights)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
    Apparently.

    [VAMPIRES AREN'T REALLY A THING WHERE SHE'S FROM.]

    I haven't ever fed on anyone who didn't offer, so if you'd like to get the rest of your heebie jeebies out and done with, I'd appreciate it.
    saddleclub: (30)

    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-21 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
    I have never had a heebie or a jeebie in my life. But you must confess hearing about something that's only mythology in my own world would surprise anyone.
    desirestruth: (The end of the tunnel)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
    I suppose it's a better reaction then fear or revulsion.

    [Like, no one's freaked out and tried to murder her yet, it's weird.]
    saddleclub: (24)

    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-21 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
    Fear and revulsion would certainly be ungentlemanly ways to react to a lady.
    desirestruth: (Ran away on it's own)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
    It's surprising how little that ever seems to stop anyone, but I appreciate the thought.
    saddleclub: (30)

    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-21 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
    Perhaps the gentlemen in your life need reform school. Or they're simply not gentlemen to begin with.
    desirestruth: (If I knew I wasn't loved)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
    ...I can think of at least two.

    [Sipping her tea.]</small. The reform school may not be a bad idea. Perhaps after the war I'll found one for instilling proper manners for meeting monsters.
    saddleclub: (07)

    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-21 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
    A worthy project. Though my condolences on the war.
    desirestruth: (I eventually got tired)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
    ...Well, with any luck, it'll be over soon. Alliances do have a way of making peace...it's the making it last part, that's tricky.
    saddleclub: (52)

    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-21 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
    Yes. And there's always war hawks and other self interests to look out for.
    desirestruth: (Mother mother--!)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
    Ad a lich and a couple century-old curses. Not to mention his people think of me as a literal nightmare and rumor, and mine think of his as butchers and traitors.

    [She's so frazzled, Jusis. So frazzled.]

    Still, it's worth seeing this through. There is progress...
    saddleclub: (25)

    [personal profile] saddleclub 2019-04-21 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
    It sounds like you have plenty of obstacles. What a pain.

    [He's blunt.]
    desirestruth: (What if I return?)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
    If it was easy, we wouldn't still be at war to begin with.