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[trainmasters]

Who: everyone
When: Day 59, evening
Where: near the Aurora

[As evening closes in, with the candy hearts and decorations still around, the train is assaulted by... a smell.

An awful smell, like mold and rot, that drifts down the honey river from the spring deeper into the plateau, preceded by a wave of fleeing eels. The river changes from golden to a sickly greenish black sludge and rises, beginning to spill over its banks.

Everywhere the sludge spills, tendrils of stick black "candy" grow, looking somewhere between weeds and tentacles. They move, and reach out hungrily towards you. If they catch you they'll cling to you, covering you in sludge and minor scrapes, though they don't seem able to do much more harm than that. Anyone touched by sludge will feel unbearably lonely, and find themselves either unable to lie or unable to tell the truth. Which depends on the person, though it's more likely to be whichever urge is more foreign to the individual.

The sludge is hard to remove. In fact, it'll only come off when washed by someone else's hands...

On the bright side, the river will clear and the weeds will disappear by morning, so hang in there!]

Comments

[deerlyloved]

[WELL someone went out and poked a weed with 0 sense of self-preservation...

He was already feeling lonely, and it's not really painful, so rather than tear his caught hand away he has now just flopped in the sludge spill, letting himself be wrapped up in weeds.

W/e who cares. He'll become a loneliness cocoon.]

[shintaiprotagonist]

That seems an inauspicious place to rest, friend.

[deerlyloved]

It's fine. Just smelly.

[shintaiprotagonist]

That alone would seem to recommend against it.

[malignstar]

Trying out for the new Swamp Thing?

[deerlyloved]

What's a swamp thing?

[malignstar]

Scary creature that lives in a swamp.

[daydreamshimmer]

[Solar Flare has A LOT of memories to take, so time to take some.]

[Welcome to a Very Serious Incidental Snowball Fight And Souffle Delivery.]

[Never underestimate the difficulty of cutesy games and Fluttershy should be feared. Also Solar's living arrangements and also she's a streamer.]

[Solar is attending a dance with a boy whose encouraging her. The astute might realize her general awkwardness might be because she's new in the human world and her being a pony isn't a Known Thing. She still ends up being elected princess and she's quite happy about it! Also cute date with this Flash dude.]

[Solar Flare is absolutely a delinquent. She goes around doing street art and knows how to pick a lock. All for artistic expression and helping a friend, BUT STILL. Also Rarity is Super Dramatic.]

[Everyone is Super Dramatic. Also they're dealing with new magic. Solar Flare is rolling better with it and also she has touch based empathy/memory reading abilities. THEN THE MUSIC NUMBER IS A THING THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS. Feel free to try and make sense of that.]

[bestbrotherever]

[Loki would pretend he wasn't watching like a creeper, but he doesn't really care if he seems like a creeper.]

So, it continues to come together. [From his grin, he doesn't mean that in a bad way at all.]

[daydreamshimmer]

[LISTEN]

[She's seen enough of his memories it's probably fair at this point.]

Yeah. I think I didn't realize where I was going in the human world... [Which is Interesting. How does one accidentally dimension hop? At least the Aurora had someone bring them.]

And the magic was sudden. Though why them specifically....then again, there's Twilight...

[bestbrotherever]

Perhaps you are there to bring them magic and teach them of its use. [Teasingly, but maybe he means it a little? It would be an actual glorious purpose for her if true.]

Does regaining your memory of obtaining your mind-reading abilities grant you any more insight or mastery over them?

[malignstar]

I have so many questions about your friend, Pinkie Pie... But you and that Flash seemed pretty cute.

[daydreamshimmer]

Pinkie Pie is....definitely a lot of energy.

....I guess? This is the first time I've remembered him. I think he...helped me get human things? Without telling him I wasn't human. From stuff I was thinking.

[malignstar]

Sounds like a good guy to have around.

[featherbeaned]

[ A Howl of ANGUISH comes from the general direction of the sludge polluted, banks-spilling river. ]

NnnnnnnnnoooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[ This is the worst thing she's ever had to witness in her whole entire life ]

[bowtiedbones]

[in rainboots, because HECK NO THAT RIVER]

Meri—!?

[featherbeaned]

Eliza! [ THIS IS ]

[ THE WORST ]

[ the worst!! ]

My river! My honey! Look what they've done to my honey!

[bowtiedbones]

It looks so gross!

[malignstar]

[ Felix is pacing outside Thyme's car for some reason, running a hand through his hair and looking uncharacteristically anxious. ]

This is a wholly terrible idea...

[bowtiedbones]

[giving him a second look just because he said "wholly"]

What is?

[malignstar]

[ Looks up quickly and those eyes are golden, not red. Though the uncertainty is still there. He stops rubbing at his hair to fold his arms over his chest and glance away. ]

Introducing myself, as he put it.

[ Under his breath: ]

... You have an abundance of nerve to call me rude, you ill-mannered playboy.

[bestbrotherever]

That does not seem to deter any of the others on this train. Why do you worry?

[malignstar]

[ A pair of golden (not red) eyes snap toward the less familiar voice, wary and unfriendly. ]

I am not worried.

[ Under his breath: ]

... I do not intend to start anything.

[daydreamshimmer]

What is?

[Hello, was walking by.]

[malignstar]

... I was not expecting to see you again so soon.