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Car #14 - The Hospital Car

Speed - Scenic

Format - Free Seating

Travel Time - Several days

Points of Interest

Beds - A number of adjustable, moderately comfortable hospital beds with removable lap trays. Each bed/patient area is separated from the others by gauzy curtains and has a window looking out at a white void.

Nurse’s Station - A stand where nurses prepare medications for their patients (or sometimes just hang out). 

Offices - A few small but nice offices with predictable doctor decor. The doctors can usually be found here when not making their rounds.

Cafeteria - A cafeteria with different lines for soup and salads, sandwiches, and the hot meal of the day. 

Denizens

Doctors (Background/Speaking) - Dr. Seth, a stethoscope; Dr. Siggy, a blood pressure cuff; and Dr. Ivy, an IV stand, make the rounds fairly regularly. Clearly no HIPPA laws apply in this place, but they’re all reasonably professional.

Nurses (Background/Speaking) - Sets of scrubs that seem to be worn by invisible people... but upon examination there’s actually nothing inside. You’re not sure how they can still perform their jobs, but they do.

Patients (Background?/Non-speaking?) - There are a few other patients besides the Passengers, including a small comatose snake statue and a shattered slipper.

Special Notes

Upon entering the car, any Passengers who do not have significant injuries become ill. This is a generic flu-like illness but can have a few other symptoms if they’d be particularly uncomfortable for your character.

Uncooperative, destructive, or cruel behavior causes all patients’ conditions to worsen. Considering the cast involved, assume this occurs in the smallest noticeable increments possible.

The cafeteria food is really good.

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Car #13 - The Masquerade Car

Speed - Scenic

Format - Free Seating

Travel Time - Several hours

Points of Interest

First Room - The room you originally entered, with doors leading into the dressing rooms and one to the main building. The faded etiquette and dancing guide is still here, poised on the podium. You clearly aren’t supposed to come back once the festivities have started.

Dining Hall - A long, candlelit room with a good number of round tables, fully set with velvety black tablecloths and more pieces of silverware than any normal person would know what to do with. 

Ballroom - A wide, grand hall with plenty of room for dancing despite the little tables at the sides for resting or snacking classily. One end has two short sets of steps onto a full stage for the orchestra.

Green Room - Set between the hallways and the back side of the stage. Has stacks of chairs, a water bubbler, and racks of music stands. You aren’t supposed to be here, either, but it could make a good getaway/recovery spot for a while if you’re careful.

Denizens

Slippers (Background/Speaking) - The main attendees of the masquerade ball, humanoid figures of tinted glass, which appears molten but feels little different from human flesh. Their hair seems fairly human, but there’s a very inhuman glow to their eyes.

JJ (Swag) - A figure at the masquerade draped in a beautiful deep ocean blue suit, with a pair of black gloves and dress shoes. The mask is the same beautiful deep blue as the suit and the eyes glow... but the expression looks sad.

Orchestra (Background/Non-speaking) - A number of living instruments, capable of facial expressions and floating but difficult to tell apart from their non-living counterparts when still.

Special Notes

Lying about anything unnecessary for the Denizen charade will cause an immediate crack in your mask. Enough cracks will make the mask unwearable. There are no replacements.

The consequences for removing your mask or otherwise betraying your status as a Passenger are intended to be dire, but depending upon what ends up happening and what ideas players have, we may adjust this.

The dinner is canonically before the dance, though of course you can have threads in any order OOC. The exact seating for dinner is undetermined OOC and can be canonized as we go according to player needs.

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Car #12 - The Mirror Mines Car

Speed - Scenic

Format - Free Seating

Travel Time - A few days

Points of Interest

Entrance - Gloomy tunnels lit by dingy lamps along the sides. A single railway runs through the main passage, which has long since been picked bare. The large mining cart that led you inside rests here, with enough decidedly not-new mining equipment for everyone.

Mineworks - Several equally gloomy passages branching out from the end of the tracks. The occasional glint can be seen in the walls, but it usually takes a good couple of pick strokes before any mirror chunks show themselves.

Reflecting Pool - A broad but shallow recess between the end of the tracks and the exit door. The raw mirror ore seems to be the perfect thickness to set inside, though it may take some wrangling for all the edges to fit together perfectly.

Denizens

Reflections (Background/Speaking) - Each Passenger has a Reflection residing in the Mirror World. Though they have spent their lives faithfully reflecting their Primes’ movements, they seem to have a little more free rein on the Train. The Reflection does not typically have the same exact temperament as their Prime.

Special Notes

There's a limited amount of dry food in the mining cart. You’ll have to ration carefully if you want it to last more than a day.

Once enough of the reflecting pool is assembled to show a full-body reflection, the Reflections can properly interact with the Passengers. Before then, there may still be a few traces of rogue movement that don’t match what the Passenger is doing.

Each player can design their own Reflection, but mods can be called in if help is needed. This is a character who has been bound to witness and act out everything the Passenger has done in view of a reflective surface, so think about how that might affect someone!

As usual, threads are free to feature your Passenger and Reflection together or separately. You are not required to play a Reflection, but it will still exist canonically.

Reflection lore should work roughly the same way here as in the Infinity Train series—if you need more details and/or would like to try anything interesting, ask around in your planning chat!

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Car #11 - The Library Car

Speed - Scenic

Format - Free Seating

Travel Time - Several hours

Points of Interest

Shelves - Rows of filled shelves from floor to ceiling that seem to go on infinitely far into the distance. A few of the legendary library ladders are here and there for your use, as well as some round metal step stools for shelves that aren’t that high up.

Front Desk - A simple counter labeled “INFORMATION,” though it provides very little. One librarian is seated there to help you but may not. There’s a small room behind it where another seems to be lurking.

Books - Tomes of a variety of sizes, ages, conditions, bindings, etc. Every book contains the life account of a single deceased human. They appear to be written in the native tongues of their subjects, but you have no trouble understanding the text, at least not for any language barrier reasons.

Denizens

Jimithy (Roadie) - A belligerent tween-looking goatboy with curled horns and frizzy hair. Usually found at the reception desk but would rather berate your research skills than actually provide assistance.

Timothy (Amelia) - A shy teen goatboy with glasses who actually does all the work behind the desk, though he's too anxious to talk much to strangers. His real name is Timaeus, but the misunderstanding has gone on for so long that he feels awkward correcting his coworker.

Spectres (Background/Speaking) - Opening a book causes a spectral version of the subject to emerge, immaterial but available for interaction. Closing the book again causes them to vanish.

Special Notes

According to Jimithy, the volumes are organized by the date of the subject’s death, with the most recent the closest to the entrance. The shelves are pretty sparse with their labels, so you may have to check books at random to remember where (when?) you are.

In order to exit, your Passenger must read one chapter of a book with personal significance to them. This can be because they knew the deceased person, are related to them, have been inspired by them, etc. Historical figures are here as well, but the distance you’d have to cover to find someone over 100 years dead would be unreasonable.

Once the exit door appears, attempting to leave the car with a book will bounce the Passenger back inside. Jimithy says only books containing valid checkout registers can be taken, but none of these seem to have one no matter where you look...

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Car #10 - The Daycare Car

Speed - Scenic

Format - Free Seating

Travel Time - Several hours

Points of Interest

Play Area - The majority of the car is a large play area with all the indoor faculties you could want. Cutesy, bright, mostly foam and plastic. Injury should be difficult but is never impossible.

Posters - Bright posters with encouraging kiddy slogans and illustrations. Includes an activity schedule for the day—most of it seems freely adjustable, but there’s a hard deadline for naptime at the end of the day. 

Learning Area - A few desks and cubbies of supplies where kids can have fun with crafts or practice reading, playing recorders, or math. Enjoyment levels may vary.

Break Area - A small, bleak additional room for staff and Passengers to escape to when necessary. Has restrooms, a kitchenette, an incomplete deck of playing cards, a few sad-looking tables, and a sofa. The refrigerator is somewhat stocked with food and drink that are not clearly labeled and thus fair game by break area law.

Denizens

Sister (Maw) - A seemingly human Denizen dressed in a nun’s outfit. Actually, is she a Denizen at all, or is she a fellow Passenger? Either way, with the striking resemblance she bears to the recently-slain Atsuko… something isn’t quite right here.

Flour Patch Kids (Background/Speaking) - Each Passenger has a corresponding Kid that looks, speaks, and acts about like they did when they were little. Feel papery but have some weight to them and will leak flour if injured. Just human-looking enough to be cute without lapsing into uncanny valley (though your mileage may vary).

Toys (Background/Speaking) - A number of animated toys that work to pacify and corral the kids... to an extent.

Special Notes

Your threads are welcome to feature your Passenger and Kid separate or together. You are not required to play a Kid if it’s not coming together for you (though it will still exist canonically).

The exact age of your Kid can be whatever works best for your own backstory needs, but they should all qualify as small children.

If this situation brings up OC spoilers you don’t want out yet, let mods know—if you want to move quickly to hide your Kid somehow or give them some nondisclosure warnings, that’s perfectly okay.

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Car #9 - The Bouquet Car

Speed - Express

Format - Megathread

Travel Time - A few hours

Points of Interest

Zen Garden - A garden with a single path winding around large stones surrounded by raked sands; past an old, stooped tree near a gazebo; and over a babbling brook. While peaceful, everything but the gazebo seems strangely devoid of color.

Flower Shop - A rustic, somewhat claustrophobic shop with shelves of bonsai, ikebana arrangements, and the like. Among the normal offerings are a few translucent, glasslike roses. They will crack, chip, or shatter if dropped.

Bouquets - Ten bouquets stretch along one wall of the shop, but you get the feeling they’re incomplete. Each has a tag with a simple ink brush illustration.

Bouquet 1 (complete)

Tag: the letter “A”

Roses: orange, pink, blue

Bouquet 2 (complete)

Tag: an eye with a dark circle beneath

Roses: (orange, lime,) toffee, red, green, whitish

Bouquet 3 (complete)

Tag: a gadget of some kind

Roses: blue, lime, teal, red

Bouquet 4 (complete)

Tag: a figure hard at work as a clock speeds along overhead

Roses: toffee, green, blue, grey, orange

Bouquet 5 (complete)

Tag: two similar figures facing away from each other

Roses: grey, orange, red, green

Bouquet 6 (complete)

Tag: a pair of handcuffs

Roses: orange, whitish, pink, green, lime

Bouquet 7 (complete)

Tag: a wrist with a number of marks

Roses: green, yellow, toffee

Bouquet 8 (complete)

Tag: a hoodie

Roses: green, teal, grey

Bouquet 9 (complete)

Tag: a noose

Roses: yellow, green, grey, purple

Bouquet 10 (complete)

Tag: two figures placing a hand on each of a smaller figure’s shoulders

Roses: teal, purple, lime, yellow

Denizens

Tsubaki (Kris) - A pink and green hummingbird that seems to flap even faster than normal thanks to all that nervous energy. Would like to help the Passengers but gets very nervous at the prospect of even talking to one. 

Naru (Maw) - A fluffy teal silk mothperson whose four arms are put to good work scrapbooking. She seems to be keeping her distance; perhaps all the injuries have her feeling squeamish?

Special Notes

A character holding a clear rose and concentrating causes the rose to take on that character’s Standardized Hex Color. The petals become a bit softer, too, but are still fragile.

The bouquets do not need to be completed in any particular order.

Two characters touching a part of the garden at the same time may cause that part to gain a natural coloration, depending on the circumstances. There will be a separate forum thread for these interactions that is assumed to be simultaneous with the main megathread.

If Tsubaki is grabbed/similarly attacked, the attacker will get a poison ivy style rash/reaction. Not deadly but not pleasant.

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Car #8 - The Segway Car

Speed - Scenic

Format - Free Seating

Group O - Asuka, Jack, Matsukaze, Melvin, Vinzent, Viper

Group R - Abel, Arty, Dexter, Haruka, R.N.A., Taran

Travel Time - A few days

Points of Interest

Obstacle Course - The heart of the car, a winding course through various terrain and every obstacle you could ever imagine cropping up in a shopping mall.

Food Court - Several stands of pretty cheap generic mall fare. No one is actually manning them, so it’s weird that your orders still show up normally. Officers receive meals for free. Robbers have to steal theirs.

Stores - The mall has a single department store and a handful of other shops, offering completely normal human items despite none of the residents being human.

Mall Prison - On the wall outside hangs a bulletin board that tracks each Passenger’s number of demerits. The interior is normally inaccessible but consists of a single dinky cell, perfectly sanitary but devoid of nice things.

Denizens

Plart (Roadie) - A large blue bouncyball with sunglasses and a moustache. While he has an authentic cardboard Badge of Mall Policing and claims to be your instructor, he can’t really demonstrate Segway technique by example here.

Mallgoers (Background/Speaking) - A number of large bouncyballs of various designs going about their business at the mall. Some have accessories that somehow stay on and upright through their travels. Likely to flee in terror from any obvious robbers but happy to cover some expenses for officers.

Special Notes

You physically cannot leave your Segway while on the obstacle course or traveling the thoroughfares of the mall. Some invisible force will shunt you back if you try to dismount.

Everyone in Group O is assigned to be officers, while Group R will act as robbers. Uniforms for both will be enforced, but you can still try on other clothes, remove the mask, etc. for brief periods of time. Until Plart catches you, for the most part.

All items on your person besides your Neko-Neko-provided glove and notebook vanished with your normal clothing. You can try to convince Plart to return some necessary items, but for the most part it’s all off-limits until you personally achieve the car’s exit condition.

If a robber successfully reaches the exit door with any stolen merchandise, the robber will be allowed to exit, and the closest officer will receive a demerit.

If an officer successfully halts a robber in action, the officer will be allowed to exit, and the robber will receive a demerit.

Receiving a second demerit will cause the offender to warp into Mall Prison for the rest of that day. After that, gaining a single demerit will warp them back to the cell again.

Demerits may also be given for other unsavory behaviors like unwarranted violence. We won’t be aggressively keeping track of daily demerits; just go ahead and put your Passenger in jail for a thread if you feel like it. We can work something out.

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Car #7 - The Car Wash Car

Speed - Express

Format - Assigned Seating

Group MTV - Melvin, Taran, Vinzent

Group DMJ - Dexter, Jack, Matsukaze 

Group AHA - Abel, Arty, Haruka 

Group RAV - Asuka, R.N.A., Viper

Travel Time - Less than an hour

Points of Interest

Procession - Each group is forced into its own vehicle to sit in through the ride. Kept in neutral, hazard lights on, fuzzy radio cutting in and out.

Path - There doesn’t seem to be any way out of the car wash besides straight through. There’s light at the end of the tunnel—it looks like you’ll find the exit door once you’ve made it off the track.

Denizens

Car Wash Employees (Background/Non-Speaking) - A number of brightly colored brushes, sponges, and cloths. They’re happy to clean up your cars but definitely know something’s wrong here and are a little bummed about it. They’re not sure how to help besides just keeping at their jobs.

Special Notes

Neko-Neko ultimately enters the hearse, while the creature is bringing up the rear outside of any vehicles.

Don’t worry too much about the setting details, and assume any attempts to shake things up fail. More than anything, this is just a recovery area between the trial and the start of the next chapter. Enjoy your awkward funeral procession!