The Train Phase/Phases will be different than the introductory phase.  The introductory was meant to be a gathering, a place where everyone could get to know one another’s character and set up officially written IC connections.  The train phases, as with most of the phases that will come, is more set to be a phase in which individual and small group scenes can take place.  It will allow for us to all form deeper IC relationships with other characters, and help drive individual stories that will come into play later within the game.  Within this phase you will be allowed to write your character in more than one scene.  However, I request that you do not write more than perhaps three scenes at once for the simple fact that what happens in one may effect another that is already going on.<br/><br/>Each train phase will be one week of IC time while travelling from city to city.  There will be no stops once the train has begun, thus it’ll be a time where the sacrifice of the Circus life is observed.  The food will be incredibly basic. For example, a meal for dinner might consist of some form of easily acquired meat like chicken or perhaps pork along with a vegetable. It is rare that a desert will be offered on the trains. Mealtimes are advised not to be skipped since the chef is not keen on handing out leftovers after the allotted times for meals is over. The lifestyle on the train will fall back into the antiquity that the game is based around.  Common entertainment will be conversation, cards, drinking, and of course the occasional roll around the sheets.<br/><br/>Regarding the sexual aspect of the game, I believe that we are going to make a seperate thread for the sexual writing.  The simple reason is that not everyone may wish to read it, so we will allow for a private place where our writers can both write and read the content.  And now to the most exciting part.<br/><br/>The Technical Aspects<br/><br/>The train will consist of 12 accessible cars, as well as the engine itself.  The engine is only accessible if you ask first and give a reason for being there, as for obvious reasons we do not wish for anyone to be able to play with the controls.  There will be five cars for living areas, three cars for Animals, and three cars for supplies.  There will also be another car for wash quarters, but I’ll get to that later.  The Animal and Supply cars will bring up the rear of the train, and will be separated animal-supply-animal so on so forth so that they cannot excite one another.<br/><br/>The living quarters, short of two, will be very basic.  The first car will belong to two living quarters, and that will be Elizabeth and Chloes.  They will have the “Master suites”, the only ones with space for actual furniture and amenities.  The rest will simply be rooms.  The second and third car will be private quarters, which will allow a character to have an individual bed, a dresser, and a vanity(Or any other single piece of furniture that you wish).  The latter two will contain rooms that have two people sleeping in them with a shared dresser and nothing more.  As for the moment, you are allowed to choose whether your character lives on their own or has a roommate.<br/><br/>All of the living quarters have electric lighting, though the family is advised not to use it unless they absolutely must as it takes away from the engine’s fuel supply.  Every car is very basic, and what you would expect from a Train Car from the twenties.  There is one exception, as I described earlier.  This sole exception is the bathing quarters.  Despite Elizabeth’s infatuation with the Antiquity, one thing that she refused to compromise upon were the bathing quarters.  Thus the only car that is modern is the one meant for bathing.  The bathrooms and showers are what you would find in any modern train car.  They are separated into two, one for the men and one of the women.  The showers are shared within their own sexes, men with men and women with women, but all offer warm water and modern amenities.  This is also one of the few places where sexual scene will not be allowed for the time being.<br/><br/>As for living quarters, it will depend entirely upon your length with the circus.  The NPCs do not count.  But no matter if you’re spirited, a stage hand or an act, what dictates your ability to receive private lodging is how long you’ve been with the circus.  This is a simple fact of who asked first.  Chloe is the exception, and that is only because she was Elizabeth’s first recruit.<br/><br/>I also hope that some of the players will accept group living.  As for the moment it may not matter, but in the future it will.  If your character is living with someone else, you have the right to decide if it’s a PCed character or an NPC, and furthermore you may choose exactly what type of character that NPC is.   Random person, friend, lover, it’s yours to choose.  However, it is important to remember that an NPC is an accessory to your character’s story, which means this character will not have individual posts. It is not permitted to make an NPC your unauthorized second character unless an application for them is submitted.