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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

[bad_crowmance]

Yeah, they're really nice.

[bowtiedbones]

The big white ones are a kind of morning glory, but they open at night. So instead of getting butterflies or bees for their pollinators, they attract moths!

[bad_crowmance]

You don't say?

[ He glances over at her properly. ]

You know a lot about flowers, huh?

[bowtiedbones]

Oh gosh, no. Naeva knows way more than I do about flowers— this is just trivia.

[bad_crowmance]

Naeva is like a plant fanatic, though.

[bowtiedbones]

Well, in this case, I'm mostly here for the moths. I want to see a hawkmoth!

[bad_crowmance]

What's a hawkmoth? Other than a type of moth, obviously.

[bowtiedbones]

They're like one of the best kinds of moth! Not the biggest, but they are big, and some of them even get confused for hummingbirds with how they act. There's a couple species that can hover, a bunch that are super fast for an insect, some have transparent wings, and so many are just so pretty! Like especially the sphinx moths.

[bad_crowmance]

They sound like pretty cool bugs! I hope you get a chance to see one, then.

[bowtiedbones]

I'm hoping! Who knows with the wildlife on this island, though.

[bad_crowmance]

No kidding. There's some weird shit around here.

[bowtiedbones]

Have you run into anything extra weird?

[bad_crowmance]

Not too weird, but tentacle monsters aren't an everyday occurrence as far as I'm aware.

[bowtiedbones]

Wait, like, cephalopods, or like just tentacles?

[bad_crowmance]

The second one, it definitely wasn't a cephalopod.

[bowtiedbones]

That sounds kind of gross, honestly.

[starting to bounce on her heels a little, eying him... thinking...]

[bad_crowmance]

No kidding.

[ But he notices the look on her face. ]

What's up?

[bowtiedbones]

Oh! Um, It might be a weird ask, but would you mind if I sort of— borrowed your arm? I can probably bother Fang instead if it's a problem, I just feel really clingy right now.

[fluttering her hands. she's too mannered to crowd right into someone's personal space without asking once but goddamn she needs to cuddle SOMEBODY]

[bad_crowmance]

[ He lifts his arm up slightly, elbow crooked. ]

I'll never say no to having a cute girl on my arm.

[ He winks at her. ]

[bowtiedbones]

Don't say "never" unless you mean it!

[because she will absolutely take advantage of that. hooks elbows, hugging onto his arm.]

[bad_crowmance]

Oh, I definitely mean it.

[ He tucks in a little closer once their elbows are hooked. Somehow,
the chill seems to be fading already. ]

[bowtiedbones]

Oh good. Then I came to the right person.

[bad_crowmance]

You did! So, how's your evening been going?

[bowtiedbones]

It's been okay. Mostly uneventful, but the flowers and everything tonight are really nice.

[bad_crowmance]

Yeah... I'm wondering what the deal is with the flowers.