The Time is 7:50 pm on a hot summer Tuesday
You're sitting in on the Valley Flyer on a Ticket to Northampton. The scenery outside the train is green and full of nature. Around you are 9 people of interest. A girl Loading her bike onto the train, a blue haired woman crocheting a sweater, a character of indeterminate gender reading a book, 2 young boys playing on their Nintendo DS, a ghost, a butch attempting to open her watercolor set, a man pointing a camera out the window and a little old lady muttering to herself. Beneath your seat lies a backpack, inside are 3 novels, a photo of John Lennon, Mineral Water and a laptop.
What do you do?
@sonar-taxlaw you walk up to the ghost, it vanishes before your eyes, but before it vanishes you can see it is wearing a suit, had long hair and a tattoo on the right arm of a rose
@arkynwolf you look on the ground and see a business card, in it you recognize the face, the ghost was named Janet and used She/they pronouns, she owned a pottery studio in New Haven
@edhelwing The train shakes and your backpack falls over revealing your books to the cabin, they are a copy of the Death and Life of Great American Cities, Murder on the Orient Express and the first Percy Jackson Book. The passenger reading the book puts down their book during the shake, allowing you to see its title: "A treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales"
Do you
>attempt to clean up your backpack
>aid the butch in opening her watercolors
>talk to the old lady
>try to learn more about the ghost
>ask the passenger about the fay
>do something else(type it in)
@curseyournarrativeandmoisture the passenger seems flustered as you approach them but quickly puts themself together. They inform you that the fay are native to Ireland but came to New England in the 70s, supposedly the train stops in one of the Fae towns and they plan to find out where the fae town is and document it in the novel they are writing. It is now 8:15 and you know a lot more about fairies and nothing about the passenger
@fishofthewoods @parker-d-bloodrose as you leave the passenger you see that the butch has once again begun trying to open her watercolor set and decide to help her. You notice that she is seemingly trying to pry it open despite the lock on the case. It appears she lost the key to the case. Something made clear by her curses. Then you spot the key to the case, it's lying on the floor under the seat behind the butch! You grab the key from under the seat and present it to the butch, she seems grateful but still reserved. (:
@v0gons As you leave the butch, shegrabs a paper from her bag to begin painting. That reminds you, your bag is still a mess on the floor. You go to clean it up when you see that while your books are fine and you can put them back in the backpack, the mineral water has fallen and poured over your laptop!
@mack-anthology-mp3 You quietly go up to the butch and startle her as you ask if she can help with your laptop. As a result of her thanks for the help with the key, she agrees to take a look, even though she is on vacation right now. She is apparently a computer repair lady. When she gets over to your bag, she tells you she can't help right now, but gives you an address in Northampton and says she can help you out at her Girlfriend's house
@mack-anthology-mp3 She begins to tell you about how she met her Girlfriend in College and then they both moved to New York after College. She fell in love with the city but after a year in New York, her girlfriend had grown tired of life in New York and Decided to move to Northampton with money She had been saving for the past 3 months. The Butch tells you that she hasn't seen her girlfriend since she left for Northampton and while they had been texting, she hasn't heard from her girlfriend since last month, she felt her love for her girlfriend was dying and decided that to stay with her girlfriend, Sarah she needed to go visit her. So she bought the first amtrak ticket to Northampton and took some vacation time to go surprise her for Sarah's birthday.
As you ask the butch for her name, the train suddenly stops! The Conductor comes over the intercom and announces a delay. All of the passengers seem angry, save for the strange passengers who was interested in the fair folk, they seem giddy. From the back of your eye you also notice that the ghost is back, they are dancing a waltz in the back of the coach
@otherfireangel as you and the butch return talking about the past, you hear a shout "Fucking Finally" a blue haired woman has gotten out of her seat and is beginning to show everyone a sweater she has been making, when she stops at you and the butch, she off-handedly mentions how she feels bad for disrupting a heartfelt moment but just felt she needed to show off the sweater. You feel bitter towards her strangely. You didn't want your conversation with her to be interrupted. All you want to do is learn more about her right now
@pretzelcoatll you suddenly and uncontrollably get up, perform a back flip in the aisle and get back in your seat
@fireyturtle feeling embarrassed, you get up and to hide from your embarrassment after revealing to the butch that you can do a perfect back flip, you run over to the passenger's seat and ask for their name, they tell you their name is Mallory and that they are an author from Boston
They mention off-handedly that they are writing books on the history of the fay in America and that they are traveling to western Massachusetts to prove their theory that the fay inhabit New England and are of course real. They seem slightly into fairies.
@bienehexe As Mallory continues talking about Fair Folk and Fairies and Fay, they mention the idea of Glamour and how it can be detected by the strange actions of the fay who hide with it, that reminds your of the blue haired lady and the sudden backflip, you get up to approach the lady, but as you approach her, her skin starts to flake off revealing a strange pale green skin underneath. The natural world outside the coach vanishes. All that can be seen outside is stars. The seats all melt into the carpeted floor. A screeching sound is heard
@frauggietheperson The Old Lady's mumbling grows louder, she is almost shouting at this point, soon you can make put what she has been saying:
"Darkest one writes of the peaceful folk, the attack of innocence kills the peace, death flows from the red River, the mother cries"
And she repeats it over and over and over
As the lady and the fairy scream, Mallory opens his journal and begins scribbling furiously, meanwhile the butch begins attempting to break open the windows
What do you do?
In a panic, without any ideas, you run over to your bag, grab the photo of John Lennon and throw it at the Blue haired woman, who now has a set of wings. It hits her face. She screams and vanishes. The car returns to normal except Eleanor Rigby is now playing over the intercom on loop.
The old lady has stopped screaming, goes over and grabs the faeries needles and starts to crochet, returning to her seat
