WEEK 1

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 1

[The train wouldn't stop. Not until very early the next morning. The few who might have been awake would be able to exit the train, entering the cool twilight of the dawn. The star is dark, and few stars can be seen in the sky as a cold breeze begins to blow from the mountain beyond. You can see some chunks of rock floating idly nearby, far away from the station that it won't hit trains, but near enough that one can see they are larger than the train they just disembarked.

Lastly, laid out in front of them, the first port of call: Menahoven. The mountain: The Throat of the World.

But which world? Who knows. Not any of yours. Maybe it doesn't matter. Not when you are so far from home. Not when you have no way to get off this rock without the aid of the trains-and they will not let you pass.

It looks like you're stuck here until the Conductor decides to leave. In the meantime, everyone will need to get comfortable.


There are fifteen strangers left in this place.]

Comments

Library

[awitchdidit]

[Little known fact: witches are enormous nerds. Naturally, Beatrice can be found in the library, and at this point, she hasn't been kicked out for reading Proscribed books or something yet.]

[She is, however, going to quietly walk behind Atsushi to look over his shoulder, whispering since they are, indeed, in a library.]

So, what are you reading?

[whitemoontiger]

[ Having been so involved in trying to get some remotely useful information from this book, he really hadn't heard Beatrice approach. Not until she spoke up and he visibly jumped in his seat, taking a second to remember how to breathe before he looked back at her. ]

F-From what I can tell, this one is claiming this whole place is egyptian in nature but the only thing that directly proves it is the pyramid and that's about it. This place we're in right now doesn't match up with that at all!

[ See? He can whisper too, as to keep with that they are in a library and he doesn't want to disturb anyone else. ]

[awitchdidit]

[Look at this perfectly innocent face. This is the joy of learning, not successfully pulling the world's lamest prank.]

Ahaha, yes, very true. The whole thing looks like some kind of fusion between Dracula and The Mummy. I think we're in an especially shoddy historical recreation, personally.

[whitemoontiger]

[ At least he's not going to dwell on it much, especially now that he feels like his heart isn't racing a mile a minute now. ]

I... can't help but agree with you. It's like they just put two different cultures together or something.

[awitchdidit]

I think it may be a habit, given that we're on what's effectively a spaceship made up to look like a turn of the century steam train. Everything we've seen so far is anachronistic mishmash.