[Game 21] Through The Train

[arsgoetia]

The marbles from each group are inserted into the pupils in each door. The eyes blink, unnervingly, then seal shut. All at once, the lights dim down in each compartment and fade back to quiet darkness . . . though you still see the occasional spark of magic along the windows and edges of the train.

You still have no electricity, and your magic is still dampered.

You can, at least, proceed through, either back or forward along the train. The compartments are arranged in approximately this order:

[#1 - ??? - Open] - [#2 - Sariel's Group] - [#3 - Elluka's Group] - [#4 - Maon's Group] - [#5 - ??? - Open] - [#6 - ???] - [# 7???]

Comments

Re: [Regrouping]

[playfair]

[his shirt is off and tied around his bleeding arm. this is cool. he is looking at unconscious people with Concern though]

I have part of a cipher...

[psychopompous]

. . . come here. Do you need to be healed?

[playfair]

Oh, can you?

[sure, he'll cautiously wander over]

Is that person okay...??

[psychopompous]

Just unconscious. I don't think there's anything I can do until we . . . deal with whatever's causing all of this.

[he shifts his attention to Shuri, holding his hands out]

[playfair]

[nods and holds his arm out]

Are you going to be okay in like... Hell...

[psychopompous]

[tone measured]

We will not allow it to come to that.

[he passes his hands over Shuri's arm. it's a surprisingly warm feeling, moving to the core of you, dealing with some of the shakiness and blood loss]

. . . please allow Kano to bandage you after this. I will reduce the worst damage.

[playfair]

...Mmmm. Thanks.

You don't know anything more than what Madison told all of us, right?

Re: [Regrouping]

[beleaving]

A cipher?

Re: [Regrouping]

[playfair]

An encoded message. Something that was in plaintext but then was systematically scrambled to become incomprehensible, not just a foreign language or whatever. I found it on the window.

Re: [Regrouping]

[beleaving]

Oh, so it wasn't a name? We have something like that.

Re: [Regrouping]

[playfair]

I mean, maybe it's a name. What's yours?

Re: [Regrouping]

[beleaving]

Bodbtledtwz.

[He's doing his best to pronounce it like it's some fantasy version of Gaelic but I mean.]

Need a heal, before you go give it a look?

Re: [Regrouping]

[playfair]

I think Sariel's working on something... It's fine though. Mostly it's annoying because it makes it hard to concentrate on the letters.

[bowtiedbones]

Oh! We might too. We got three letters, but it doesn't look like a real word.

[playfair]

That's probably it then!! Mine is "gwbxn'c". So it's probably an apostrophe-s but I couldn't figure out how but also I'm a little light-headed because it took a bunch of blood first.

[bowtiedbones]

Ours was "dso." Should you be sitting down??

[playfair]

Ohhhhh. Maybe?

[sits down while letting Sariel and Kano tend to him, although he's turning the words over in his head]

The "gwbxn'c" probably goes in the middle... Maybe it goes in the order of the train...? Maybe there are more...

[bowtiedbones]

There could be more... We're still stuck on the train, who knows what we need to get off of it.

[playfair]

Hopefully the other puzzles are nicer.

[they won't be]

[liarliarliar]

Of course you have a cipher...

[taking out his med kit

gonna. gonna clean up your arm]

Give me that.

[playfair]

[Sariel's helping, but it's not like regular cleaning isn't also a thing that could probably be done. he is OBEDIENTLY HOLDING OUT HIS ARM]

I didn't actually do any cipher stuff yet though. Mostly the train chewed on me.

[liarliarliar]

Why did you let it chew on you....

[gonna mop up that blood...heaves out a little sigh as he does]

I'm glad you're not hurt too badly.

[playfair]

Well it seemed to want my blood and I got a cipher out of it...?? I deliberately put in the hand I don't use as much!

[trying to sit still!!]

[liarliarliar]

[and now bandaging up]

You're too cheerful about self harm!

[playfair]

I-It's not cheerful! I don't like it! I just got used to it since I started learning blood magic!! I'm not like that guy yet.

[POINTS WITH HIS RIGHT HAND OVER IN MAON'S DIRECTION]