arsgoetia | [Game 21] Through The Train

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[Game 21] Through The Train

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???]

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You step through the door into the fifth compartment. There is a barrier here, but it flickers and comes down easily when you move to pass through it.

It's dark, illuminated only by shifting, unearthly shapes occasionally passing by the windows. Faces, sometimes, white and eyeless; swooping tremors of color, like northern lights, that burst and disappear.

As soon as you step inside, it becomes apparent why it may have been so easy to enter: there is blood splattered over the walls and ceiling, and at least one blue marble is sitting on the ground, nestled in a pile of scorched ashes. Someone . . . got partway through releasing the puzzles, but didn't quite make it.

There's nobody else in the compartment. The eye sigil is still activated on the far door, but that marble is there, glowing faintly.

[reaches down and picks up the marble, then looks around]

[does this mean the scales and handprints puzzle is still active here?]

You don't see anything familiar; just blood, and the windows. It's possible that it was slightly different than what you experienced.

[or you know, someone legitimately went berserk and killed everything inside]

[carefully steps around the blood and ashes to put the marble into the eye sigil]

[. . .]

[IS THIS THE SORT OF SITUATION WHERE YOU CAN REALLY PRAY FOR THE DEAD?

doesn't matter, he's clapping his hands together and doing it, silently wishing them a safe trip, before stepping further into the compartment.]