video | orchestra one, immediately post platform

[jingyeets]

( Lan Jingyi, appearing briefly on ICP, soaked from head to toe, actively dripping water with his hair and ribbon plastered down either side of his face, his, er, nightgown likewise... plastered... against him... and it's white, this is a wet shirt contest and no one told anyone who showed up on platform, they all just suffered together. )

Look, if anyone's trying to find me and is confused why I'm not in my tiny short bed cabin, I'm staying in the "inn" carriage the next week.

( that's it, that's him wanting to inform the ones who'd probably want to know but being in a less than happy mood to track everyone down so doing it in the most broadreaching, effective way the train's got going for it. )

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[jingyeets]

People make a lot of... smells. Eventually. Living close together it ends up happening, there's not enough to keep on top of hauling away scraps and other waste, so even when it's clean, if your nose is sensitive it still... smells.

For whatever good it does. I talk at the train all the time. It rarely talks back in anything not standard, and if it does, more of that hints at negative than otherwise.

[so_dark_a_road]

People do. And if there is no real provision for keeping the place sparkling clean, they'll mess it up for sure. I never experienced that in an Elvish community, but I noticed it in some of the mortal communities I visited after I came with my father and brothers to the continent of Middle-earth. If you have a sensitive nose, I can see how it would be a bother for you to be in those not-too-clean communities.

Oh, good. I think that if more than one of us asks for the weather updates, then it's more likely we'll get them. The train doesn't reply to you, either? I would think it would be tempted, as you are such a good-natured young man. And you say that even if it does reply, there's a suggestion of negativity more often than not?

[jingyeets]

Exactly. Noses go numb eventually, but then they wake up again, and ugh.

( He simply shrugs, not really in the mood to point out the train is shitty in how it handles things. That frankly, he doesn't think it cares about them, personally. They just exist in its digestive tract. )

See what happens when you try to give it an easy way to give a yes or a no. It chose the no.

[so_dark_a_road]

Poor noses!

[ Curufin gives Jingyi a smile in response to the shrug. He has mixed feelings about the Voidtrecker and its decisions, and he doesn't understand the train any more than Jingyi does. But he admires the young man's persistence in trying to communicate with it. ]

I suppose this is a simple yes or no question that we're going to ask. Will it give us the weather updates or not? If it doesn't want to, I wonder if it will actually say no, or just let us wait until the next platform and notice the lack of any such update?

[jingyeets]

Platform. We'll know when it does or does not announce things then.

[so_dark_a_road]

Hmm. Yep, that sounds like what the train would do.

[jingyeets]

Right, so don't hold your breath, unless you don't need to breathe.

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin chuckles at the joke. Jingyi is good at these humorous verbal twists. ]

I won't hold my breath. I'll just wait till the next platform and see what's in the train's platform post.

[jingyeets]

( a sharp huff of air out, and his eyes point ceilingward. )

Yeah, that'll make two of us.

Good place to wrap this thread?

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Sometimes it's hard not to be exasperated with the train's habits of interaction. Curufin rolls his eyes to show he understands. ]

late note but yes good wrap point!

[jingyeets]