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[trainmasters]

Who: newbies + you
When: Day 22, evening
Where: around

[This evening, out of nowhere, Hazel's carriage disappears. There's a shower of sparkles, a bright light, and after that... it's gone. Anyone who was in its hallway is now in the Garden entrance. The Garden car itself is now hooked to Clover's carriage, as if it had aways been and Hazel was never real. Clover itself is currently bare as well -- the lock screen is dull, completely turned off, and there are no lights inside. No one is there, now, but at least the space remains.

In some carriages, that loss of vibrancy is countered by the appearance of some new heroes. In general, the gloomy mood throughout the train is only heightened by the onset of a heavy storm. Outside there's a crack of thunder that rattles the train, and it begins to pour so hard the edge of the clearing is barely visible through the windows.

The rain, the thunder, and the strobe-light effect of constant lightning will continue til dawn.]

Comments

Ginger (But also elsewhere kind of)

[awakenerd]

[Wherever you are in the train the cabin lights briefly seem to dim and the ambient noise around goes… Quiet… As if you’re suddenly isolated, almost cut off in another world.

A voice reverberates not through your ears but through your mind, your entire being echoes with words, right to your core, the meaning as sharp and clear as if they were spoken beside you yet they come from nowhere and everywhere.]

DOST THOU DESIRE THE POWER?




...?

WAIT--WHAT?

[Well the spooky voice seem actually pretty confused and the whole lights-dimmed-cabin-isolated-from-the-world effect fades…

If you’re anywhere but Ginger that’s about it. Weird.

In Ginger however... Stepping out of one of the doors is a young man with mussed black hair in the team pajamas looking rather bewildered. This time his words are spoken aloud, and while the quality of his voice is much more normal and human, it’s the same one that reverberated through the cabin a moment before.]

Where… Is this?

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow is not in Ginger when he hears the words-- obviously he's not, he's never had any reason to. He's in the lounge, reading a book (if anyone bothered to look at the front cover, it's the Kamasutra) and minding his own business when the words hit him. They echo through him, vibrating through his blood-- his bones-- down to the very core of him.

Dost thou desire the power?

And there's something about that question that sounds achingly familiar and yet wholly not. Those memories are gone from him, but some part of him beyond memories holds onto them still. "Dost thou desire the power." The power for what? ]

Yeah, I'll bite.

[ He says this out loud to the confused voice that may or may not even hear him. ]

[awakenerd]

[CROW PLEASE

there is no answer or any inner spooky voices but like, watch this space or just keep an eye out for spooky voice owners I guess.]

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow is, in fact, both listening for spooky voices and keeping an eye out for spooky voice owners. ]

1/?

[ruinatings]

[A LOUD VOICE--]

[ruinatings]

[wait I've felt this before]

Re: 1/?

[ruinatings]

[--and I've HEARD THAT VOICE BEFORE]

[ruinatings]

[but wait that doesn't add up so maybe it's not actually...]

[ruinatings]

[Oh geez there he is. Kill me.]

/done

[ruinatings]

[As Rean is approached by the team dog, Rufus elects not to get up from the couch where he's drinking tea, previously enjoying the peace and quiet.]

Good morning, Rean.

[awakenerd]

[Weird train, weird hole in his connection to the mana of Zemuria, weird--oh! Cute dog!

Rean's already kneeling to coo over the dog;]

Who's a good girl? You! You're a good girl.

[When Rufus speaks up and calls attention to himself.

Wow how depleted is his mana he didn't sense the man right there?

But he's going to keep petting this dog because he doesn't recognize Rufus, only that that is his name. He doesn't remember why he knows but he knows that.]



Good morning..?

I couldn't find a jackal

[desirestruth]

[



WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT.]

[awakenerd]

[This is fine]

[desirestruth]

[is it, rean

is it.]

[crimeson]

[i don't even technically belong in ginger but I was visiting my man, so]

--Rean?! What the FUCK?

[what the FUCK]

[awakenerd]

[Oh does he get two awakeners?? He's probably still petting the dog when Randy reacts.]

...? Did you not call on me?

[crimeson]

I didn't! And I don't know whether to thank the guy who did with flowers or a fist in the face.

[unaffective]

[ just sort of. startles, going still. the fact that she hears a voice is not especially alarming, having lost its novelty so long ago she can barely recall it, and it isn't - in its sense or sound or feel - that one that she's been dreading hearing again. quite the opposite; on the contrary it's a familiar comfort in a way she's quick to place, even if the particulars and the tone assure her it's not a repeat of the last few times. that's not a mistake she'd make.

but so - where does that leave it? a trick, or something within her, or a stranger with a similar sound? there's nothing for her to pursue, so how does she confirm it? well, and then there's the matter of what it's said. what does she do with that?

by the time rean gets to the lounge in his explorathon she's just sort of sitting in one of the chairs, by all appearances reading a book, but actually fairly deep in thought. still, she does spare a glance in his direction, waving a bit. you know, it's decent to do that much. ]

[awakenerd]

[Rean for his part smiles at the strange woman and raises a hand in a friendly greeting. And of course when he speaks it's that soft familiar voice, albeit with different inflections.]

Hey there.

[voreaciously]

[

80H has had enough of people stepping in places they should not. Honestly, what are her psychic shields even for? She is wary as shit.

She is also bored.]

What sort of power?

[awakenerd]

[Sorry your call cannot be connected--

Anyway no answer for a while but eventually there's a new Ginger wandering around.]

[bowtiedbones]

[obviously not inside Ginger, but shrieking back at the voice at TOP VOLUME]

No??? Who do you think you are!? Get back here! I have four familiars! Four! Who do you think I am, I'm out of your league, you door-to-door hack!

[awakenerd]

[Look he can't hear you but he'd be so baffled he's sorry eliza!!!

New guy will be out and about wandering in a bit though.]

Re: Ginger (But also elsewhere kind of)

[nihilmancy]

[Flatly replying out loud.]

No.

[Later on, you might find this girl in the outrageously goth Licorice clothing, making a fork and knife dance around in the air.]

Re: Ginger (But also elsewhere kind of)

[awakenerd]

[When he gets out there he'll just stop and watch! That's pretty cool.]