the orient express

/I'm incredibly homesick./

I don't know why everyone is /constipated/. This underwater view is actually kind of nice. At least the /oven/ isn't shining.

Is anyone going to get upset if I eat all the /hamsters/ in the kitchen? I'm starving.

[There is some giggling, and then Oskar starts to sing.]

In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines

So we sailed up to the sun
Till we found the sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine

We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

[He starts giggling again for a few seconds before it cuts off.]

Any of you weenies up at this hour? The ghosts here are horrible conversationalists.

...I saw one floating around, and when I asked his name, he faded away.

Glob this is starting to suck, and I'm hungry

[Private to Cinderella]

I vant to suck your blood!

So this is mostly aimed at the people who were here when it was going on, but has anyone seen a ghost that wasn't someone killed on the train back before New York? Or are we just seeing victim ghosts?

And does anyone have a list of names of the people who were victims? I mean, was anyone keeping track?

[Private to Oskar Schell]

Oskar, if you see anything that scares you send a message to John or I and one of us will come and get you.

[Private to Primrose Everdeen]

Miss Everdeen, my name is Sherlock Holmes, I live two doors down from you. I have a friend called Oskar, he's nine, he arrived only a few days ago and I'm concerned the recent apparitions may be a little concerning for him. I noticed you have a spare bunk in your room- should my young friend find himself too fretful, would you be opposed to him staying over with you for a night or two until we get to the bottom of this?

Um. Further, should you yourself experience any concern then myself or Dr. Watson will...happily assist.

Regards,

SH

I just ... It can't be ... No, I refuse to believe this ghost was Pete. I don't need anymore emotional pain.

If anyone needs me I will be in the back kitchen drinking.

I don't want to cause a train-wide panic or anything - though something tells me I might - but has anyone seen a small, incredibly cute little drummer-baby?

He was asleep in his crib when I went to take a shower, and when I came back he'd vanished. It might be the train taking the babies back, but unless it's leaving the cribs as a really, really major hint to us all then I suspect not.

He goes by the name of Ringo, and he's about seven months old. He really likes banging his rattle. Any ideas, please let a really crappy guardian know!

Thanks all!

This is an interesting device, but while all the information is absolutely fascinating, I'm much more curious as to how a self-propelled steam locomotive is travelling upside down, without us all falling to our untimely deaths.

At first, I thought perhaps it could be a series of really strong magnets, but then I don't think the devices would work at all, and all the metal on the train would be stuck to the floor. People wearing jewellery would find it very difficult to get anywhere at all.

The only other explanation is that we are travelling in a very large ellipse and inertia is pushing our bodies into the outside of the loop as the train spins around. But the loop seems to be far too large for us to maintain enough centrifugal force to keep gravity at bay, unless we are going dangerously fast.

If you draw a free body diagram with zero normal force, the only force acting on the passengers is force gravity = m*g. So, if we apply Newton's second law then...

Fg = Fc,
m*g = m*v^2 / r
Solving for v:
v = sqrt(r*g)

Basically, it's going to have to be at least nine mile a second, and I've never travelled nine miles in a second in my life. There are 3600 seconds in an hour, so we are currently travelling at least 32400mph.

That's impossible, or at least extremely improbable.

Either way, I need to go home now.

Dude, what the flying fuck?! Yeah, no, don't answer with, "but the tablet thingies tell you what's going on, and there's a letter which explains everything! tee hee!" Yeah, I know, a train, or the person controlling this train decided to kidnap people for shits and giggles!

Okay, just, this train? No, no, I am not blaming an inanimate object. The person in control of this train? They can shove the train up there ass, and fuck off!

At least I have my stuff, thanks train person, or magical kidnapping train!

ugh, alright, I need to calm down. Is there a pool some place?