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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)
mynameisallen: (Glance ★ A soldier I will be)

[personal profile] mynameisallen 2020-04-23 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Allen Walker." So this was another who had been to a world before this one. Still good to know that there were still others that would have that little bit of understanding. More so about the question, he was asking himself.

"Both of which are different. On the train will be the same for the most part but if we are going to different worlds, then that's a different matter. It reminds of the first place I went to. So that will be different every time where I might be okay in some but not in others"
so_dark_a_road: (they came in the dead of winter)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-04-24 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Pleased to meet you, Allen!" said Curufin.

"True. On the Voidtrecker, there is an understanding that we're not all going to be alike, or have similar experiences. This is a fairly accepting community. But you never know for sure about the mission worlds."

He's curious. "How many worlds have you lived in besides your own?"
mynameisallen: (229)

[personal profile] mynameisallen 2020-04-25 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Please to meet you as well," Allen said knowing at least to still be polite. He soon listened and nodded slightly. He understood that well there would be a lot of differences because well not common to have many people from one's own world usually.

He always used to those he once knew coming and going from the last one at least twice to know that.

But at the question of how many worlds... that... was a good question. Allen soon was holding his hand up and moving them. One, Two... he was up to five at some point before pausing. He was really thinking about it.

After around five minutes he was back. "Around twenty."
so_dark_a_road: (these are my brass knuckles)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-04-26 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Twenty worlds? That's amazing! How do you keep track of all the memories?" Curufin had never met anyone who had lived in more than four or five worlds at the most.
mynameisallen: (175)

[personal profile] mynameisallen 2020-04-28 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
"The amount is because the first place I landed in had a case of having to save worlds, so there was already a number of them around." Not so much for the place he went to after however. In that case it was cities and not other worlds. But they were still themed differently.
so_dark_a_road: (in the unmeasured night #3)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-04-28 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, I see. It was a world that required you to save other worlds, then. It had a mission, something like the train's missions?" Curufin had only been in one universe in which that was the case -- the universe of the Voidtrecker Express. The first world he lived in after his death was only concerned about its own lands, and the second didn't give a rat's ass about anything.
mynameisallen: (Smile ★ With no one left)

[personal profile] mynameisallen 2020-04-30 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Exactly. Though it was a slow progress, we did manage to save a couple before I found myself in the next place..." It bothered him that it never got resolved really before he found himself here. "Not so much a goal in the last place I was at, but it was a little bit more peaceful."
so_dark_a_road: (flickers of light)

Want to wrap this thread?

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-08 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It was frustrating to leave a world before the fundamental problems of that world got solved. Curufin could identify with that.

"Peaceful is good," he said with a smile. "You might have needed a vacation, and if that second place could provide it, so much the better."

He looked around to see how the rest of his team and the other teams were doing with preparations.

"So, if you've been in a world that saves other worlds, then you're ahead of the game. You already know something about what's required. And as for this mission, you're on Purple Team, so I guess you're going up on the city wall to guard the city. I'm Orange Team, so I'll be down in the city persuading the citizens to pack up and leave. If you need help up there, just yell! Orange Team will be glad to assist."