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.]
    bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Smile; Conversational; Body Language; Gesture (12927339)

    [personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-04-21 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
    Yeah but it's more fun to say.
    desirestruth: (I wonder which one is better)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
    What, just 'cause it rhymes?

    [Well, yes, Naeva. But look, here's the dining car, she's finding a kettle and some cups and getting that brewing!

    It'll smell amazing shortly.]
    bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Neutral; Conversational; Body Language; Gesture (12927335)

    [personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-04-21 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
    Well.... yeah.

    [ But he sits down and breaths in the delicious scents as she brews. ]
    desirestruth: (And fell into Hell)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
    ...Kinda walked into that one, didn't I?

    [I do not know how long or how to brew rose hip tea but naeva does, please pretend there is an informative bracket text here.

    Anyway she'll pour it when it's done. Her manners and grace are impeccable, that's for certain.]
    bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Neutral (12909624)

    [personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-04-21 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
    You definitely did.

    [ When the tea is ready, he'll lift the cup up and blow lightly on the liquid before he takes a sip. ]

    Mmm... tastes as good as it smells.
    desirestruth: (I won't admit the game is over)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
    I'm glad to hear it.

    [She'll sip the tea without waiting. The temperature doesn't really bother her, and she's so cold so she's honestly enjoying how hot it is.]

    Though the credit mostly goes to the flowers themselves.
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    [personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-04-21 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
    Some credit goes to you. Good ingredients are no good if they aren't brewed properly.
    desirestruth: (Aa--I've lived all around the world)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
    You're flattering me, but it's still a little gratifying...thank you.
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    [personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-04-21 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
    I wouldn't say it if it weren't true.

    [ He takes another sip of the tea. ]
    desirestruth: (And follow this song)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
    That so?

    [You're an incorrigible flirt, sir, usually not a thing that goes in hand with being genuine about it.]
    bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Smile (12909647)

    [personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-04-21 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
    Yep!

    [ He says it cheerfully, in a tone one might even think is oblivious to any consideration that he wouldn't be sincere. ]
    desirestruth: (You can't go back and erase it)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
    [She doesn't believe for a second he's oblivious. She wouldn't have even before today. He's been too sharp a few too many times for that.]

    How gracious of you, then.

    [She does mean that, too, even if it's a phrase that naturally sounds sarcastic.]
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    [personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-04-21 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
    That's me! I'm a gracious guy.
    desirestruth: (If I knew I wasn't loved)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
    Some might even call you considerate.
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    [personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-04-21 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
    They could! They should.
    desirestruth: (I eventually got tired)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
    Not a trait people usually associate with playboys, though, you know?

    [you know the phrase 'playboy' but not 'boytoy', naeva?]
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    [personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-04-21 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
    You know the phrase "playboy" but not "boytoy," Naeva?

    [ He sounds extremely amused. ]
    desirestruth: (What if I return?)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
    I already told you about my brother, Crow.

    [She refuses to be shamed for this.]
    bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Neutral; Conversational; Body Language; Arms Crossed (12927336)

    [personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-04-21 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
    Yeah, and my question stands.
    desirestruth: (I eventually got tired)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
    My point is, I had a limited amount of people to learn words from, and they were the kind of people for whom 'playboy' was the polite phrase, not the kind who had boytoys.

    [It's possible her brother really never was that much of a manslut and she picked up bad language elsewhere. It's also probable she'll never tell crow this, because even displaced from a destroyed universe, she's morally obligated to dunk on her twin at every opportunity.]
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    [personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-04-21 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
    [ It's too bad he'll never understand the moral imperative of dunking on your siblings. Alas, the life of an only child. ]

    I'm still surprised you never heard the term. Buuut it is what it is.
    desirestruth: (What if I return?)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
    [You have a moral imperative to dunk on Jusis, it's pretty close.]

    I don't think you really understand the kind of life I've had to lead...when I said I never left the forest before the engagement, I meant literally never.
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    [personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-04-21 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
    I mean... you're not wrong. It's pretty far outside of what I can imagine. Staying in one area your whole life sounds pretty awful.
    desirestruth: (Of all the mythical stories)

    [personal profile] desirestruth 2019-04-21 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
    More people would have died if I left.

    [She says it so casually, like having the lives of others in her hands is just something she's used to.]

    There's much I still have to learn now, even if I can move freely. But...it's already happened. I can't change that...no reason to waste time crying over it. Might as well work on the future I can.
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    [personal profile] bad_crowmance 2019-04-21 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
    [ She's a queen. It's hardly a surprise she'd be used to having the lives of others in her hands. ]

    That's the best way to look at it, honestly.