Tickets Please

[voidtreckermods]

"Good Morning Passengers, today is day twenty five of the month of Bassoon." Waking up in their beds as always to the announcement passengers will feel a little strange. The hairs on the back of their necks are standing up. If they have any kind of danger sense it is going haywire. They have a moment before a second announcement shines some light on the strange feeling.

"Attention passengers, we have been boarded by inspectors. Please may all passengers have tickets and passes ready for inspection. Please try and stay calm." Calm may be harder for some than others. The feeling can be rationalised, it is similar to the air of expectation at the start of a horror film, or a scary ride. However rationalisation might not last that long as when characters try to leave their cabins they will find the doors are locked. They are trapped.

If anyone has lingered in the gaps between carriages for any length of time they will have no doubt heard the strange sound that can be heard sometimes, almost like faint choral singing. Now it can be heard in the carriages itself. Still faint, but if they are quiet they can hear it in the distance. Almost a cross between singing and crying. Sometimes loud, sometimes barely a murmur but ever present.

The feeling of danger intensifies, heavy footsteps sound outside in the corridors and a heavy breathing, as if coming from a mask. The footsteps move towards the first cabin of the first sleeper carriage and the door slides open...

[OOC information is here.]

Comments

[pleple]

"...an acceptable justification as well." If they could learn the rules better.

Of course, that meant that rules were being broken readily enough that catching people in the act was worth the effort, which just made her more curious.

[voidtreckernpcs]

"Indeed." They nodded at her. "We thank you all for your cooperation and ask that you remain in your cabin until the inspection is complete."

They looked around the room, to check everyone was of an understanding.

[happyends]

Madoka sure understands, but she can't help but wonder and therefore - very meekly - speak up:

"U.. um, how much longer do you think the inspection is going to last..?"

Because she already feels like she's dying from nerves right now, thank you very much.

[voidtreckernpcs]

Masked eyes turn towards her and she will feel another wave of reassurance. "We are half way through the cabins. As long as the other passengers cooperate it will not be that much longer."

So far some cabins have taken longer than others.

[happyends]

Somehow the nerves seem to fade a little at those words - although she figures the words themselves must just somehow be that reassuring to her. After all, they wouldn't lie about that, right?

So she just nods a little in response.

[voidtreckernpcs]

They nodded back and gave a last look around the cabin before the door opened behind them and they stepped out. The door shut with a click, leaving the inhabitants of the cabin in silence.