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Aurora Express Mods ([personal profile] trainmasters) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2020-03-04 07:32 pm

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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!]
bowtiedbones: (63)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2020-03-10 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
You're welcome. It's very belated, but welcome to Thyme.
malignstar: (vogue)

[personal profile] malignstar 2020-03-10 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
... it is a different feeling, to be welcomed.
bowtiedbones: (20)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2020-03-10 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
That's what happens when you make an appearance that isn't mid-trying to kill someone.
malignstar: (point of order)

[personal profile] malignstar 2020-03-12 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
It is not as though I had many options.
bowtiedbones: (23)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2020-03-12 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Did something change that you're able to come out and talk now these days?
malignstar: (hide your face)

[personal profile] malignstar 2020-03-12 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
There was some... interference in one of the trials. I believe it has something to do with the one called Washington. Dusk.

Once we were able to deal with that... business, your Felix and I... came to an arrangement. Upon his insistence, oddly enough. Something about loneliness contributing to my... temper. Exaggerated, of course... But I do appreciate the opportunity to have some time to myself. More or less.

Yes, that was a thank you. Do not expect another.
bowtiedbones: (54)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2020-03-13 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Calling him "my Felix" is kind of weird.
malignstar: (vogue)

[personal profile] malignstar 2020-03-14 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
It is not his name.

... not his true name. And you gave it to him.
bowtiedbones: (40)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2020-03-14 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
I've named almost everyone on Thyme.
malignstar: (drink the pain away)

[personal profile] malignstar 2020-03-14 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
I am aware. It is among your talents.
bowtiedbones: (20)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2020-03-15 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
I just have a good head for science.
malignstar: (are you still there)

[personal profile] malignstar 2020-03-15 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
I do not remember if I cared much for it.