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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

[bowtiedbones]

That's right, you wanted that casino car.

[bad_crowmance]

Oh, I still want one. And I'm gonna keep trying until it happens.

[bowtiedbones]

You could just set up in the lounge car. Get a deck, get a table... that's everything you need.

[bad_crowmance]

Oh yeah, that'd definitely work. But it's the principle of the matter now, you see.

[ Everyone said "no" and he decided he doesn't like "no." ]

[bowtiedbones]

It's going to be awkward if we get this casino car if you turn out not to be great at poker.

[bad_crowmance]

I'm not worried about that.

[bowtiedbones]

Not even a little?

[bad_crowmance]

Not even a little!

[bowtiedbones]

I better brush up on my card skills, then.

[bad_crowmance]

I'd love to play against you sometime.

[bowtiedbones]

I only know basic poker and blackjack, but I’m a fast learner!

[bad_crowmance]

That's what I like to hear! I should buy a deck, I've been meaning to.

[bowtiedbones]

You should! Play for fun and practice, stay sharp.

[bad_crowmance]

[ He grins at Eliza. ]

I knew I liked you!

[bowtiedbones]

[laughs]

I don't encourage risks, but I'll encourage talents!

[bad_crowmance]

I'll accept that.

[ He won't point out that most of his talents have a degree of risk to them because that's just How He Is. ]

[bowtiedbones]

[she's a necromancer, can she really talk]

I am assuming, of course, that you're going to be betting real things and not just poker chips.

[bad_crowmance]

Of course. It's more fun that way!

[ 95% of his impulse control is other people and none of them are here. ]

[bowtiedbones]

At least sparks aren't too hard to earn back.

[bad_crowmance]

Yeah, that's true. ....Especially if you keep winning them from people.

[ He winks at her. ]

[bowtiedbones]

If! You’ve only won off me once!

[bad_crowmance]

If you wanna try again, I'm more than happy to.

[bowtiedbones]

If I bet sparks again, it's not going to be on luck like rock-paper-scissors again.

[bad_crowmance]

Haha, that's perfectly fine! Something based on skill would be fun, too.

[bowtiedbones]

There's still always running.