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Things just kept getting better and better. Well, except for that part where he had been knocked out. That had kind of sucked. West smirked in response to the bird man's slightly psycho laughter as he clenched a fist of his own, preparing to go in swinging once more. Nothing wrong with a bit of enthusiasm for causing rampaging ghosts pain. Or causing anyone pain, really.

He was just about to take off in the direction he thought the deer had gone when Israfel began... singing. West remained frozen in shock for the duration of the siren's snazzy number, muttering, "Owhowwww," as its last note faded around him. If anything, that display had made him even more angry.

Letting out an improvised war cry, West ran in the wrong direction, completely missing any chance of hitting the not-so-invisible reindeer.

Standing, or rather, stumbling up, the siren walked towards the beast. Drunkenly, he tripped forward, landing next to it. It was so magical. So bright. So Vivid. So Intense. Israfel couldn't look away. He wanted to poke it. Then again, when drunk he tended to want to poke a great many things. Reaching out he pat it on the nose instead. "PREETY DUUR GLOW'N FAEC." He hiccuped. "IZ UR NAME DOLFY? CUZ YUR NOSE IS GLOWY."

Iolanthe had paused to watch as the other students took their luck at throwing and hitting and kicking and.. anything they could. She came to the conclusion that they all sucked really bad. How long was it going to take for them to get rid of the nuisance?

She grimaced as she climbed over a seat to get out of the destructive path of battling students and angry reindeer ghost, thinking all the while how uncivilized it was to be crawling over anything at all. Then, just as she was about to step back to the floor, she noticed a rotten holly wreath overhead. Well, that was better than nothing! She scooped it off the hook on the cabin wall and turned back to locate the not-so-invisible reindeer.

She stepped back out into the isle somewhere ahead of it, careful of students whirling around her, and approached it slowly. For once, she was glad she was stuck on this train with so many other people - it distracted that thing from seeing her sneak up. After all, she had to get really close for what she was planning. Once she thought she was close enough to the beast she took a small running jump and swung with careful aim at his face with the prickly wreath.

Then she dashed quickly to the side, huddling back up in the safety of another row of seats.

Malodore had absolutely no time to focus on the reindeer - it was practically fighting its own minipet. Which was kind of pathetic, but Breck's faithful hounds were clearly bred of hearty stock... Luce's kicking and squirming as she tried to break free, desperate to sink her teeth into the beastie, were fearsome to behold.

The plague doctor hung on, grimly, and vowed to get a better leash.

While Calder was rather resigned in just staying out of the way and letting people with better aim handle the deer, it was the actually sight of it, no longer hidden, that inspired him to sit back up and try again. Hiding an invisible deer excused him for not hitting it, but if he failed to actually hit one he could see, then he'd feel pretty poor about his abilities - not that he already didn't. He knew that he could really feel like a worthless monster if he tried again and missed for the third time, but as the deer passed by, he felt enough spite for the creature to hike up one leg and just kick as it passed.

To his great relief, it struck the creature. It didn't floor it and it barely stumbled as it passed, but the point was that HE HIT IT! And no one died after! The deer didn't charge into someone else because of his attack and nothing exploded because of him.

"I hit it!" He gleed, and clapped his hands. He had to tell someone. When he noticed Israfel, he waved to him. His friend had been singing horribly before, but he couldn't hate him now. "Israfel! Hey! I hit it!" To which he pointed to the deer, to him, to the deer again, his foot, and the deer. He hoped Israfel got what he meant.

While still holding on to a seat corner with each hand, Riley bent in curiously. Something had just occurred to her. Sure, it was lots of fun to throw stuff at an invisible deer. And fine, she had almost been hit by some of the debris that the deer had been flinging around.

But as far as she could tell, it hadn't really moved to attack anyone yet.

So the question remained, was it prudent to keep throwing objects until the reindeer finally dropped in defeat? Or was there another option? A better option? A more fruitful option?

Riley was going to try and tame the beast.

She looked to her right, at the first students she could see; she recognized none of the students nearby. So, in a general thought that was sent out to four of the closest; Calder, Braum, Iolanthe and Israfel (though she realized belatedly that Israfel was not going to be of any help in the matter..). The thought said, simply enough;

Find me something I can use as rope.