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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.]

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...Yes.

[He's incredibly flustered, adjusting his clothes and trying to think about something sobering and not. Y'know. Randy.]

What did you see?

[ He could lie, but there's genuinely no point to it right now... And he still hasn't forgotten how sharp Rufus was during their first meeting. ]

A meeting with you and some pain-in-the-ass of a Noble. And me.

I see...

[Well that's... It's not anything Crow wouldn't have known if he had his memories, Rufus supposes. So it's not so bad.]

No harm done then.

Except maybe to your composure.

I am perfectly composed.

[he's still bright red and Uncomfortable]

Of course, you're a perfectly composed shade of tomato red.

I most certainly am not.

[ Crow pulls out his chain and takes a picture of Rufus. ]

You wanna bet?

[--Hey!]

Erase that at once.

A hundred sparks and I'll even make sure you watch as I delete it.

How dare you.

[He's just gonna try to snatch the Chain cause. Obviously. WE DON'T NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS.]

[ Unfortunately, the terrorist was expecting something like that and dodges out of the way. ]

--Whoa! I wouldn't do that if I were you.

[ He pulls up the messaging app to Jusis and clicks on the little icon to attach a picture ]

Whatever you are doing, don't.

[You're going to DIE, Crow Armbrust.]

Whoops, too late!

[ He hits the SEND button. Enjoy that picture, Jusis! ]

[Rufus is now considering whether or not he'd be acting out of line if he drew his sword.

The answer is yes but it's still tempting.]

What did you just do?

[ The answer is yes but honestly, how many people would blame him. ]

I sent a copy to Jusis.

[ He says it serenely. ]

--You devious little beast.

[He's SO MAD. At least he's over the whole sex thing now? He's just embarrassed about the photo and mad about the extortion thing.]

You'll regret that.

[Because he's going to really try to take the phone now. It's on. Boss vs Boss.]

Heheheh.... Bring it on!

[ Let's be real, not having amnesia means that Rufus is gonna have the advantage in this particular Boss vs Boss battle, but that doesn't mean Crow's going to give up easily. ]

Edited 2019-04-21 09:54 (UTC)

[Rufus is being a sane person and not pulling weapons into this stupid not-quite-serious fight so at least he can't like. Smash too hard. He is going to be shameless about hand-to-hand though so IF CROW SLIPS UP he'll end up with some bruised ribs and one less phone.]

[ Crow puts up a good fight, but while he's not afraid of fighting dirty, this isn't a serious enough one to warrant that. It's not even a huge slip-up, but Rufus is being shameless enough that it's enough for the phone to slip out of his hands and into Rufus' while Crow's grimacing and pulling back. Did you know that bruised ribs hurt? ]

You're stronger than you look.

[ It's a compliment, sort of.

If Rufus tries to turn on the phone, the lockscreen is girl-on-girl porn. ]

Even at your best you'd need at least two of you to defeat me.

[Hmph!! He's going a bit red again at the lewd image, but trying to get into the phone to delete the photo anyway.]

[ That sounds like a challenge. ]

Heh! I'll keep that in mind.

[ The phone is protected by a swipe pattern, he'll have to defeat it in order to get into the phone. ]

[He's trying to use logic on this. Think, Rufus! What pattern is Crow most likely to use?

He tries a few things, including a half-hearted effort at coming up with something sexual. If he can't manage it he'll just pocket the thing.]

Please do. I base that statement on personal experience.

[ Shockingly, nothing sexual works. He raises an eyebrow when Rufus pockets the phone, though. ]

You know, I need that thing.

And yet I'll be keeping it, unless you want to tell me your passcode.

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