[Video, some time near the end of this storm shenanigans]

[myninjainfocard]

[The feed starts out with very obvious shuffling around before finally steadying and focusing. Kabuto sure is looking like a right mess. He's still put on appearances enough to look mostly human, but he looks absolutely haggard, hair very much out of the ponytail and looking wild. His glasses are the only put together part about him. He's seems to have also not bothered with a shirt today, the background some might recognize as the examination room of the medical carriage.

Look, don't ask why he's picked there.

He rubs his hand against his face with a low sigh, right, put together.]

Do we have any idea how much longer this is going to continue on? And what is the point of thinking it practical to stay in the medical carriage to avoid having to go through the nonsense to get here if whatever entity is in charge or the train or whatever it is finds it prudent that I still wake in my assigned bed?

[Even his voice sounds... tired. Just exhausted.]

I suppose it... would make sense on a logical and practical level, but I can't help but feel... annoyed that I evidently can't be treated like a fully grown adult and make my own decisions about when I sleep and where I sleep.

Any... information into this nonsense is greatly appreciated.

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[monkeyinthewrench]

Ooh, right. All that weird stuff everywhere. Huh, wonder if the chaos death was related.

[ Blink. There's something to think about, though it's not very comforting. ]

The train knocks us all out at the same time, right? Maybe there's something really secret it doesn't want anyone to know about.

[myninjainfocard]

Po... ssibly? Nothing has changed on my end, but I doubt a chaos death would really be that out of place at this point.

[No, he will not elaborate, thank you very much.]

I suppose that... is a possibility. Though what would it have to hide? If we continue to assume it is a sentient being capable of emotion and therefore capable of deception, what would the goal for doing such a thing be? What could possibly be worth hiding?

[monkeyinthewrench]

[ Huh. Interesting facts to note for later, but:]

...I mean, think about it. If all it wanted was to encourage us to sleep, wouldn't it be better to have us on staggered shifts, even slightly, or not make it mandatory? You probably don't want all of us on completely different schedules, but it would help with the crowding. And that way someone could sound the alarm if there was an attack.

[ He's still a little freaked out from the nightmare. ]

I don't think the train's lying about what it wants from us, or anything like that. All the world-ending stuff feels real. But maybe there's something it thinks we'd freak out about if we knew, like how death revival works or...something.

[myninjainfocard]

But on the other hand having everyone on the same schedule is easier to keep track of. Movements would be occurring during specific time periods, sleep or being out would be specific periods of time. While you do have a point for overcrowding, it tends to not be an issue unless something specifically sets everyone off at once.

[Like that damn game room that immediately comes to mind.]

And if we were to be attacked, can anything actually survive outside of this train that isn't on a planet or craft of their own? And even if they were, we would not be able to survive out there, if my information is correct. So it's a rather moot point.

[Death revival, bah.]

You would be surprised at how not difficult it is to bring someone back from the dead. Not to the capacity the train has done, but I've heard of it being done in my own world before. While the life functioning systems may not return to how they were previously, the brain, skeletal system, and musculature systems are still very much intact and functional.

[monkeyinthewrench]

Huh. Well...usually when that happens, the bad guys beam us onto their voidship for torture and kidnapping, and I don't know how you guard against that.

[ His tactical brain comes entirely from sci fi movies. ]

...uh, so basically these people make zombies? Are they trailing organs everywhere?