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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2020-04-18 11:02 am

Event: Abort! Part One

Until now there has been one mission in every month. The practice in Apple and since then one for each month. So for those that have been on the train for a while they will be extremely surprised when on the twenty fifth day of the month of Egret their SCA’s glow gold and a hologram appears. Another mission.

Strange or not preparations need to be made, the voidtreckers are needed, strange timing or not.

Preperations

As promised the dressing room is open once again and there is a collection of leggings, shirts and tunics. All are in bold, differing shades of team colours and are made of sturdy material. There are a couple of cloaks, like those they wore in the goblin world they look medieval in style but will keep rain off as well as a modern raincoat.

As usual they have about an hour of preparation time, to gather supplies, get changed and help those who need more help disguising themselves to do so.

Arrival

”We are now approaching world#27462947582. Warning: Exit from void in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four,” Hopefully even those who are new know to hold on or sit down by now. ”Three, two, one.” A jolt and a lurch and the void from outside the windows disappears to show green grass and a blue sky.

The Voidtrecker Express has landed in a small dip between two hills. Tall enough to mostly hide it and once everyone who wishes to disembarks it vanishes.

The voidtreckers, on climbing the hill, will find they are inside the city walls, just. Here it is mostly farmland still but as they move towards the centre there are more houses and things become more crowded and bustling. The city is big enough that an influx of strangers doesn’t turn many heads.

Their SCA has a map, red team’s has a marker for the northern gate, purple’s show the position of guard posts. Orange and Blue’s shows the main gates that lead out into the kingdom beyond.

Red Team

Getting to the northern gate doesn’t take all that much time and they are let out without much fuss, though fair warnings about the monsters out there. It is clear that though this city is nominally guarded and walled, it has been a long time since there has been war here and people can come and go as they wish.

The desert is, much as can be expected. It is more a scrub land rather than rolling dunes of sand but the land is cracked and dry. They have to move at least an hour away from the city before they come across any monsters at all.

When they do they are strange almost-boar looking creatures. They are vicious and will attack on sight, charging with huge tusks and teeth that are far too sharp to belong to a natural creature. They are clearly intelligent, even if they don’t seem to have language. But they never come across more than five at once and there doesn’t seem to be any movement of them towards the city.

Purple Team

The guard posts are only have a few guards there at any one time. Though questioning any of them the voidtreckers will learn that there are other guards in the city, ready to come to the defence of the walls if the alarm is ever sounded. Those on the walls are there to keep watch.

It might take a little bit of persuading but there isn’t a huge problem with purple team being allowed up onto the walls. As long as they don’t seem to be causing or bringing trouble.

The surrounding countryside is clear. To the north is the desert but to the east, west and south there are rolling hills of green. The kingdom that this city is part of.

For them it is a few hours of tedium and anticipation. Watching the landscape, waiting for a threat. The other soldiers are curious enough that they could be coaxed into conversation or a game of dice.

Blue Team and Orange Team

It is very difficult to convince a city full of people who have not known danger in a long time that they have to pack up and leave.

There are difficult shop keepers, confused farmers, worried parents.

Some are able to be ready quickly and so can follow the Blue team out of the southern gates. It might take more than one group, with a few blue team going with each one. The kingdom isn’t particularly dangerous but who knows when that may change. Keeping everyone together and moving will be the challenge here.

For Orange team there are plenty of logistical problems to get stuck into. Animals need moving, people need help packing or wrangling small children. Older people need help finding carts to ride.

Not to mention the very stubborn ones who will take a lot of persuading. Those who were on the goblin world have had practice in this already of course, and hopefully have tips to share.

(OOC: Information about this event is here)
dredefulchilde: (unsure)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2020-04-18 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Joss shakes his head. “I’m stronger. I...was stronger. Stark told me to keep you safe, so I did. I was always going to make that call, because you’re far more important than I am, Romeo.

“But now I can’t even do that. I’m useless.”

He buries his face in his arms.
myblueskies: (I don't know what to do)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2020-04-18 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"No." He shook his head and twisted round so he could look Joss in the face. "I'm not more important and you're not useless. That's all not true!"

He shook his head and wrapped his arms around Joss again. "It's not true at all, so don't say things like that!"
dredefulchilde: (looking up)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2020-04-18 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
“You are.” Joss’s voice is still quiet, almost emotionless. He sounds exhausted.

“You are the most important person on this train for me and I will gladly do what I did again. But now I can’t protect you. I’m failing in this single, critical task.”
myblueskies: (oh no!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2020-04-19 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey!" He frowned at Joss, scared all of a sudden at the intensity of Joss' words. "You're not failing. I'm here and you don't got to be scared for me. We protect each other because we are best friends! You're really important to me too so I don't want you do ever get hurt like that again. Because..." He swallowed, just thinking about it made him want to cry, but he had to be strong.

"We protect each other. Okay. You don't got to be scared for me."
dredefulchilde: (crying)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2020-04-19 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Joscelin says nothing, just leans into Romeo and cries silent, exhausted tears. Part of him is mortified at this. He feels he's done nothing but be a weak, human crybaby these past ten days. The rest of him is just tired.

"I don't want to go," he whispers eventually.
myblueskies: (they're so brave)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2020-04-19 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"You don't got to." Romeo wrapped his arms around his friend and spoke into his hair.

"It's you're choice. You can go or not go but no one will say anything about whatever you do."

Or they would have Romeo to deal with. "So you don't got to be scared. You can stay here if you want!"
dredefulchilde: (looking up)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2020-04-19 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Joscelin clings tight to Romeo. “I want to stay here,” he admits, “but I can’t let you go off by yourself. What if something happens?”
myblueskies: (big eyes)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2020-04-20 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Romeo frowned, he would stay with Joss. But Elfnein also needed him and he wanted to help all the people on the world. It was tricky!

He hugged Joss again as he thought, "Okay so we will go together. And we will keep each other safe. We can make a vow!"
dredefulchilde: (looking down)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2020-04-20 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
They’re always making vows, and Joscelin is mostly breaking them. After all, the last time they made a vow, he died. Still, he gamely holds out his pinky.

“Right, then.”
myblueskies: (I swear!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2020-04-20 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
All that mattered was he tried to keep them, and Romeo truly believed that Joss tried his best.

He held out his pinky with a small smile. "Let's vow to help each other lots, help each other to be brave and keep each other safe so we can both come back to the train!"
dredefulchilde: (Default)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2020-04-20 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
“It’s a promise.”

His voice is a lot steadier now as he sings the pinky promise song with Romeo. He’s going to be okay with Romeo there.

Won’t he?
myblueskies: (soo happy)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2020-04-20 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course he would be! They were best friends and with this promise they would be able to do this mission with no trouble at all!