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[Today 47 was wearing his signature suit as he stood nearly at attention before the Information and Communication Point in the Gym Carriage.]

Your attention, please, for a brief announcement.

My name is Tobias Rieper. You may see me in the greenhouse or gym frequently. The latter of which is the topic for discussion today.

As many of you already know, the gym is often host to a myriad of passengers intent on practicing athletic and combat skill sets. What you may not be aware of is the fact that many of these individuals are offering to teach said skills to other passengers. Anyone looking to brush up on their combative abilities or learn new skill sets is welcome to join us in the gym.

I highly recommend if you do not have any combat experience to at least find someone here to teach you basic self defense as the missions we participate in can be rough on those without any experience in the area. We may not be able to entirely simulate the hectic nature of a true emergency but we can provide helpful tips and skills to remain calm and stay beneficially active during one.

If you need any help finding a teacher or a free sparring partner you can talk to me. There are a plethora of skills to chose from including hand-to-hand combat, melee weapons combat, archery, firearms, and some highly specialized abilities from specific world archetypes that can be taught to others. These may or may not include magic. I can offer a recommended routine of daily exercises for regular physical fitness as well.

Additionally, if you ever need the gym for any sports related activities when it appears to be overrun contact me. I can help remove the practice gear and clear out all the fighters.

[They (still) need a bigger train. An additional gym for sparring would be fantastic. Get on that, Voidtrecker Express.]

Thank you for your time.

[47 ends the feed with a polite nod. Replies will also come from the Gym Carriage. There is an ooc post for this and the ic mingle log is up as well!]

blueberryprincess

[ Another month, another round of new faces. Evie's stopped hoping for familiar ones, and yet, she's just as glad to see the new train residents as if they were her friends from home. So the princess has a grin on her face as she addresses people from the device in the kitchen.

Because of course that's where she is. ]

Hello, new passengers! My name is Evie Grimhilde. Welcome to the Voidtrecker Express! If you haven't noticed, all teams are given a chore for the month. If you're on the team that has food prep or meals and you're new to cooking or are unsure of what you're doing, please feel free to find me and let me know. I've been cooking for years and would love to help anyone that thinks they might need it.

Also, I'd love to learn to make a dish from wherever you're from if you'd be willing to show me. I love the fact that all of us come from different universe entirely. It's been really fun to learn about different traditions, for the most part, and I'd like to continue getting to know about the different people and different places we all come from.

Looking forward to talking to you all!

[ And end feed. ]

les_magique

Expanding our skillsets seems to our advantage. Whatever bizarre situation we find ourselves in next, the more capable we are the less likely we are to get hurt. So with that in mind, does anyone want to learn how to be a wizard? My magic may not be the most powerful, but it is adaptable, and can be learned by anyone.

In theory. I've never tried to teach it to someone from another dimension and it might just not work, but it's not like we have any shortage of free time around here is it?

And then...

[She hesitates]

If... that doesn't sound like something you're interested in I DO have another, more unusual offer.

I've worked out the prototype of a spell that should be able to nearly instantly send a...a blob, for lack of a better word, of arcane energy from me to a target. The problem is, the target has to be animate or it can't lock on.

So...basically I need someone who's willing to get hit in the face with blasts of energy so I can test it out. Which I realize is a kind of unreasonable thing to ask someone, so if no one is willing to I'll just come up with something else. I have points, and I can make enchanted items, so I'm not above bribing people, if that's what it takes.

[A beat.]

Oh right that was the other thing! I can make enchanted items! Flying carpets and magic spectacles and other such fantastical things! If you can acquire the raw materials I need to make something, I will make it for you. If you have an idea of what you want, I will brainstorm with you over how that idea might translate into something I can actually make! Just get in touch with me. My name is Samata Mahto.

[BONUS ACTION PROMPT FOR GARRETT]

Samata had never actually met the thief she had spoken to in person, but he had told her that he could get her a jeweler's tool kit and, equally importantly, a big pile of silver. Silver was a critical component for making enchanted items. She wasn't sure why, but experimentation had determined that it could expand a person's odic field in strange ways, and also interact with magical currents.

Which was why she was knocking on the door of someone she had never met face to face. She'd worked with criminals before. This was fine.

usernamesarecool

[ The Doctor's clearly in the Medic car, as he promised he's spending a good amount of time there-helping to get things a little more organized and keeping any potential patients happy and generally healthy. ]

Hullo everyone! [ He smiles brightly and goes to fix his bowtie but stops as he remembers... ]

Erm... Anyways, I'm the Doctor-yes the one that was recently appointed a member of our lovely train's council. I'm not here to debate the legitimacy of the council so if your intent is to complain about that well-frankly, I don't want to hear it. I could go on for hours-possibly even weeks about why a systematic government with this many people onboard is, in fact, necessary, but I'd really rather not. Although, I suppose, if you must-come talk to me in person and I'll see if I can't ease your doubts.

There is something I'd like you all to think about-The Train. What do we all think? Because based on what just happened a few days ago I'd have to say, and my friend Nita agrees, we might have got it a bit wrong.

So I invite you all to consider this: the Train is alive.

If you don't believe me-answer me this, why haven't we been in contact with driver or conductor? Why are cars added so quickly? It also explains why we can only communicate with the train through the ICPs.

I've been mulling it around for a bit as I do have a ship that's also alive-she might even be on the other side of the wall and keeping the Train company for all I know.

I bring it up now because I think it's important that we recognize that during that last mission our dear Train got scared. It ran away-and fast from I could feel.

magicurls

So the rumors say that a time will come soon when we earn points and have a chance to spend them, right? And we don't know how the points are decided, or how many we'll get, but if we have enough we can summon items that are familiar to us.

I'm familiar with the bear fund, and I plan to give to it myself, but I was wondering if we had any other kind of point coordination happening. The amount of items we can request by default is limited and not very useful, but personal item requests from home are a lot more flexible.

I was wondering if we could make a wishlist of items that we might need help acquiring? For example, if any of you are mechanics, we could use toolboxes. If any of you are artists, we could use paints and canvasses. Something like that...so if for some reason you have more points than you know what to do with, you could help the train be better prepared or nicer to live in in general.

Or if there's anything you own at home that you think could be useful to others, feel free to list that. What do you think?

mimidaeia

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[Not even a half-hour after Webmind’s announcement ends, all the ICPs up and down the train start getting spammed with text messages. Sorry folks, but from what she’s gathered from past messages SXT-2 assumes you’re just allowed to tell the world every time you want to dump an ice bucket on your head. The above flashes on all the cabins, though there are some minor bugs- in one or two cabins maybe a font doesn’t show up properly, or there’s that hated [Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('< font=helvetica12px >') in entry] message.

Ten minutes later, SXT-2 starts testing messaging to specific ICPs. That’s even more spam. Whoof.]

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sacrament_of_blood

[A teenage girl with red eyes and sharp teeth is on the screen. Behind her, one of the washing machines can be seen with laundry soap suds spilling out of it and onto the floor. She looks both troubled and apologetic.

It's pretty bad, too, the suds're spilling into nearby cars.]

I am sending this for several reasons.

Firstly, I am Merciless and I wish to apologize for my errors that caused the state of affairs you can see. I carefully observed another person using the machine so I could perform my duty properly. However, I believe my error laid in the amount of soap I used or at least it was the primary difference between our actions. I used considerably more than the other person with the intention of getting the clothes more clean.

As you can see, that was a mistake and I extend my apologies. I shall do my utmost to clean this up, although I would greatly appreciate it if someone showed me how. This event has eroded my confidence in my ability to do such tasks without guidance.

[She sighs.]

Secondly, after I clean this up, I will be offering my services as a priestess. I am far more capable at that. I have had intensive training in it, wherefore I have not had any training in doing laundry. I can bless objects including fluids and perform ceremonies such as weddings and funerals. I can also perform rituals such as preservation from decay, tracking by blood, or warding against an enemy. However, any ceremonies I perform will have to be adjusted to a more generalized form, as I do not believe there are any here who worship the gods of my people.

Speaking of, thirdly I wish to hear about your gods. What gods do you have?

dredefulchilde

I’m in urgent need of holy water. Can anyone help me source it? It can’t just be water you’ve prayed over a bit; it has to have been blessed by a priest. I don’t have any preferences when it comes to denomination.

This is terribly pressing. Do it for Romeo, if not for me.

les_magique

[Video]

I have taken the time to figure out the use of this communication device for two reasons. The first is to show off my hat.

[She has a hat on. It's a wide brimmed pointy hat that looks exactly like the kind of hat a wizard would wear. She looks quite pleased to have it.]

I suppose a hat isn't that important in the grand scheme of things, but I like this hat, and having ANYTHING from home is something of a luxury, given our current situation.

Anyways the other thing I wanted to talk about isn't quite so trivial. I'm curious about magic.

I have spent the last few years devoted to unlocking magic's mysteries, you see, and I THOUGHT I was making good headway. But now that I'm here, I'm realizing that this is a MUCH more complicated subject than I thought it was. Magic works entirely differently depending on what world you come from. Some worlds don't even HAVE magic in the first place!

So if you know anything about how magic works in your world, I would be interested in comparing notes.

[And then, a minute later.]

Oh right also. Gladio, if you wanted to try teleportation, now seems like as good a time as any.

yilingdaddy

[ Instead of your usual message, there's a cheerful Chinese young man with a red ribbon in his hair that the newcomers may have seen in a blur passing by. Those familiar with him are less likely to be surprised by the bright grin on his face though.

Nor by the wave he gives, black robes rustling around him before he finally speaks. ]

Hello! To everyone who has just arrived, welcome! To those who have been here a while, don't judge, this is important!

[ Oh no, he's actually bouncing a little. ]

In a few days, Lan Zhan and I are going to get married, and since we're all a family on this train, you're all invited!

A-Yuan is working on the cake, but if you have suggestions on other sweets you want to see but don't want to make, let him know!

[ He taps the side of his nose a moment, trying to think of what else he needs to say. ]

And someone - or someones! to help cook, since apparently I poison people by spice.

[ He brushes that off with a grin and bob of his head that's almost like a bow. ]

You can come find one of the three of us if you want to help, or pipe up here- though I can't guarantee I'll answer quickly. Much to do!

[ Another silly little wiggle of fingers and he steps back. ]

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