Gelitrain (World Guide, Transportation) (Patreon)

The Gelitrain is the very latest and certainly greatest development in mobile biogel tourist attractions to hit the rails in, well, ever! It’sbiogel controlled, biogel fueled, and more than capable of spreading the shiny blackness all over the countryside.

The Gelitrain is headed by a truly revolutionary biogel powered locomotive. Crafted in the style of a classic steam locomotive of a 2-8-4 configuration, it houses all of the core elements of a standard biogel power plant. These include a scaled up power pod in the place of a boiler, biogel energy induction coils, and some very creative means of applying the resulting power to the drive wheels.

A Gelitrain locomotive must have its biogel energized via an external source of activated biogel prior to operations. Special biogel network connectors are provided beneath the cab for this purpose. Once initially energized, the locomotive can generate its own power using one of two sources of fuel: soul containing biogel masses such as gummies, or soul containing sapient life forms. Both of these are inserted into the ‘boiler’ via a sliding bed mechanism in the cab. Once within the boiler, they are all affected much like those who enter a biogel power plant power pod, floating up and being dissolved into undulating streams of trans-dimensional energy wobbling back and forth along and around the center line of the boiler, all of which is visible via the boiler’s clear sides as they generate energy to drive the machine.

The energy produced by the souls in the boiler is transferred to a power reservoir towards the front of the locomotive via the induction coils beneath the device. This is accompanied by a considerable quantity of waste biogel which once comprised the physical forms of the boiler’s trapped souls. This energy is siphoned off at a controlled rate to drive the locomotive’s wheels via ‘pistons’ crafted from a pair of gummies, driving the connecting rods via their biogel abdominal orifices.

As the train operates, waste biogel is stored until it can be playfully discharged through the ‘smoke stack’ whenever the locomotive pulls into a station, splattering tourists and other bystanders with warm, gooey blackness. Biogel can also be released via the locomotive’s ‘cylinder cocks’, spraying biogel from several tubes located to either side of the lead wheels. This biogel is mostly harmless, though if more than about 70% of a target’s body is covered, there is a significant (80%) chance that it will form permanent biogel suit. For any given biogel suit which is applied to a bystander, there is a 20% chance that it will contain a soul which has been more or less exhausted in the boiler and ejected into the waste biogel.

The tender of the Gelitrain locomotive is built to hold up to sixty gummy dolls which will be used to power it on its journey. For longer journeys, a mix of thirty gummy dolls and two hundred small crystal biogel ‘soul spheres’ are supplied. Under the lawful assumption that those visiting a railroad platform during a Gelitrain visit are consenting to transformative biogel shenanigans, the tender has been equipped with two biogel sprayer bars on each side. Thesecan be used to quickly coat bystanders with biogel from head to toe. This always results in the subject being quickly transformed into a gummy, which is then pulled inside by the train’s assigned ‘stoker’ through a side door in the tender. These ‘wild caught’ gummies are used as fuel to extend the locomotive’s range.

In addition to the locomotive, the standard Gelitrain consists of nine cars. Each of the eight passenger cars contains a combination of twenty cushy biogel seats and one or more compact biogel experience systems. Passengers are free to move about among the cars, examining the offered experiences and tempting each other into trying them. The leading car always contains a volunteer biogel locomotive fuel creation pod at its front end. This transforms a volunteer into a crystal biogel fuel sphere. The experiences in the other cars vary, though one can usually be sure to find charity auction pods, Gelivend vending machines, and several VixNeta controlled one-way-pleasure-tip transformation pods.

The caboose of the Gelitrain is where eight Gelitech model/train attendants sleep during trips. These attendants see to passenger boarding, debarking, and questions. They also do their best to satisfy any biogel related curiosities passengers may have during their journey.

Currently, the prototype Gelitrain runs a route from Kaiune’s City Junction Station, through Mashiva’s Grand South Station, and south through the Laika Valley, to the city of Ko’ri. A second Gelitrain is planned for that route, and two more are to run between Mashiva, through Runai, and to Gai’mar City to the west. Further routes are also planned.

Gelitrain tickets can be purchased for both the north or south legs of the route, one way, or round trip. Special tickets can also be purchased for a full round trip, from the passenger’spoint of origin, through the whole route, and then back again. These tickets must be purchased in advance, and the purchase price will be fully refunded should the purchaser partake of the train’s biogel temptations. Prices run from ¢50 to ¢500.