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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[raising his voice to be clearly audible]

Everyone: draw up your most positive feelings and focus them on the artifact. They seem to weaken it.

Really...?

[Robin will focus on the object again, though she's a little hesitant, and focus as hard as she can on the feelings she has for her family--for Kieran, and Tristan, and Sariel, and Elluka, and Sera, and Leo, and Itachi, and Madison, and Kano, and everyone. maximum family overdrive.]

What, for real?

[thinks about

stealing old men's band t-shirts]

Um! Okay!

[thinking about the feelings of SUCCESS whenever she pulls off a big summoning, or just the warm fuzzies of hanging out with her pet familiars]

"Well, isn't this hokey," Hale says. He closes his eyes and puts a hand over his heart.

It's harmless to try, and if it fails, I do have a fallback, though it's far more...disruptive.

Ah...

[He thinks of waking up to sunlight and a blue sky... He remembers the salvation of another world from Darkness, the joy and relief as things ended well and the people saved.]

[thinking about afternoons teaching Misaya, mostly, and scenes from his old life, long ago]

Does it...?

[ I will think of, a garden, and of hope??? ]

As you all focus, the orb dims and flickers more and more, a static and sharp electrical-looking wave running over its surface, until finally it goes entirely dark.

It doesn't seem to have fully solved the problem—there's still some degree of powercap, for example. But some of the oppression seems to lift...