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[bloomingdespite]

So! [Wester claps their hands together on the screen, massive bags under their eyes but clearly buzzing with excitement.] You may have noticed that I've been... practically nonexistent on the train these past few weeks. Don't worry, I'm fine.

Seriously. I'm planning on crashing out for like, a solid forty-eight hours in a bit, don't worry about how much sleep I've been getting.

Anyways, the reason why I've been absent for the past bit is... [they rummage around offscreen and triumphantly retriever a bulging binder labeled "MONSTER WORLD: COMPLETE SECOND EDITION,"] this! I've been hand-transcribing all the rules for a tabletop game from my homeworld from memory.

...and making some errata.

...and some other major rules changes too, seriously a lot of this system does not enable proper roleplay at all in favor a pure dungeon crawl experience and that just makes things less fun, you know?

...and writing up my campaign.

Which, uh. Brings me to my main point! If anybody wants to play around with yours truly as the Dark Master, go ahead and hit this post up. I'm probably going to be taking like... six people max per session, but I can definitely run concurrent campaigns for everybody. I need something to keep me occupied during off days, right?

Haha.

Anyways so what's been happening on the train recently because I remember exactly NOTHING because I was too absorbed in this.

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[shadowslipping]

[Video response here, from a Very Worried purple garbed young woman. Suffice to say, she doesn't have any thoughts on the tabletop stuff just.

Yet.]

I don't recommend genuinely sleeping for that long after this, but more importantly just how long were you awake!?

[TOO LATE FOR NO WORRIES! SHE WORRIES!]

[luckydragonsfoot]

[HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.]

....what uh.

What kinda changes...

[He may not have had a great time last time, but hey, he was set to start up on Alola and then he was here! So.]

[blue_ice]

Well, the ghosts of past crew members came back to haunt us for a day, and being exposed to them too long knocked people out. So that was fun.

[ He thinks a moment, but chooses not to mention that Atem was one of them. ]

But other than that, everything's perfect.

[adropofsunlight]

Oh! I have never heard of a tabletop game, but I can at least guess what it is.

It's a game you play on a table, right?

[so_dark_a_road]

I was wondering why I hadn't seen you in a while!

As for what was happening while you were asleep, Kaiba's already touched on it. The train warned us that we were about to have a Void storm, and that it's effects would be unpredictable. It didn't tell us about the ghosts: the phantoms of departed passengers that we knew, and of passengers from long ago at the beginning of the Voidtrecker's journey. If we came into contact with them, they drained our energies. These were the ghosts inside the train. The ones outside the windows of the train were the ghosts of people we knew and loved from our own worlds. We were all surprised, to say the least! Some of us are still recovering.

And as for this tabletop game, I don't know anything about such games. The only games we Elves played on top of a table were drinking games. [ Wry laugh. ] But I might be interested.

[extrasaltypotato]

[Hikaru comes to you a veteran of a thousand edition wars, whose been living on the Net too long and heard the posts of Forgeites roar...]

Please define what you consider to be proper roleplaying. I can think of at least three broad definitions, all mutually incompatible. And those are the ones that make sense.

[thornsofmundus]

Oh! I think I'd like to play. Mom and Claire and the others who made us have a tabletop game and it always looked like they were having fun.