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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2020-05-09 10:40 am

Under the Sea: Mission start

After fleeing the strange shapes in the sky the voidtreckers are perhaps not looking forward to yet another mission and indeed the first few days of Fiddlesticks go by without any strange dreams, no warning that another mission might be nigh. Yet on the morning of day five their SCA's will glow with the colours of the void and a holographic message will appear.

Preperations

The dressing room is open once again, though the clothes this time are simple in choice. A wet suit for each void trecker as well as a pair of flippers, a helmet and a breathing pack. It at least has instructions and there will be a little bit of time for them to figure out how to use them. Apart from that there are some waterproof packs for supplies to be packed in.

They will have a couple of hours to get ready for their mission.

Arrival: Blue and Red

"We are now approaching world #7625000129523. Drop order is Red and Blue, Purple then Orange. Red and Blue team to doors. Arrival in world #7625000129523 in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one."

The train shudders and lurches as they exit the void, the view from the window goes from the ever shifting void to a beautiful deep blue sky. They fly through the air and swoop down to land on a sandy beach. The doors open allowing those who are taking part in the Blue and Red missions to debark. The doors close and the train swoops up into the air.

The beach stretches from one side to the other, in the distance as the beach turns into sloping green hills they can see a village. Beyond that there is a jungle. Any red team who check their SCA will see four points, the rock pools.

The villagers have noticed the huge train sweeping down onto their island and so contact is made quickly. They will be quite accepting of the help and explain the situation. They will help any of red team to the rockpools if asked.

Red

The rockpools are built up and indeed made so the water will reach a persons waist if they stand in them. The water is cold but not overly so. When the water shoots up anyone in them will shoot up also.

They will find themselves in a vortex of water, with anyone else who enters that rockpool. The water itself seems to be fighting them, tendrils of water reaching out of the whirlpool to try and drag them further into the chaos. It takes a whole lot of willpower to stay in the centre, the water can be fought with weapons, even with fists. They feel as if they are falling or flying, perhaps both. Surrounded by the pure chaos of the ocean.

Blue

Hopefully they spend the day helping with preparations because when night falls the monsters emerge from the sea. Terrifying twisted creatures. The villagers only have simple weapons but will tell them that fire is helpful against these water creatures.

Hold off the monsters and keep the people safe.

Purple

The doors close and the train flies off into the sky, flying over the island to the other side where it lands on a rocky bay, near tall towering cliffs.

"Purple team to doors." The doors open, allowing the purple team to disembark before flying off once again.

In the cliff face there is a large cave entrance, over the entrance there are symbols, translated by their SCA's. Clear mind, clear heart. Come those who seek to serve.

There are six people stood by the entrance, looking quite surprised at the new arrivals. One, a woman with silver hair recovers enough to speak first. "Ah. Void warriors. We are honoured by your help."

Once introductions are made the spiritual leaders will happily accept the escort and their adventure can begin.

Orange

They fly up and out across the ocean, a longer flight than before but eventually they descend and there is a slight juddering before they land, floating on the ocean.

"Orange team disembark, please use luggage or dressing carriage doors only."

They will step out onto an inflated platform that streches around the train. Down below are the depths of the water and their SCA's show them at the point of Bui. It is below them so all they need to is dive.

The dive takes a while, and depends on their swimming ability but hopefully with a bit of teamwork they arrive at the silent city of Bui.
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Evening Patrol

[personal profile] usestwohands 2020-05-14 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Drizzt, who has come to think of his weapons and Guenhwyvar as truer companions than any person could hope to be understood Lea meant the admittedly impressive, if a little over the top, weapon he carried. Clearly enchanted and capable of what he assumed to be fire given the thrumming of energy, it was certainly attention grabbing.

He smiled first at the keyblade ruefully, before grinning up at his ally's arrival. "Lea." He nodded in greeting. "If you're attending to patrol, I should warn you, it's typically custom to remain unseen, lest our quarry decide to stalk villagers elsewhere."
pleple: (It's all desire)

[personal profile] pleple 2020-05-14 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
...he really could just handle this so much better than her, couldn't he? It's a bit galling being so behind the curve when magic is in play. Hopefully she can at least put on some muscle as she grows up. Yeesh.

That said, she was ready to slip up behind a distracted monster and impale the heck out of it, right in the side. And... hope that did the trick.
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[personal profile] pleple 2020-05-14 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Absolutely." Madoka's friend, an ally in battle... it's an easy call.
pleple: (Vitamin souls)

[personal profile] pleple 2020-05-15 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Ple Two had to scramble back and watch Xion for a moment, while she got her bearings.

It didn't seem like she was especially needed. Damn.
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[personal profile] sobothersome 2020-05-15 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Maru wondered how many times this guy had been dropped on his head as a kid. Okay, so maybe as a cat he was cute. He did his very best to be that way, it seemed to make people happy if he was cat-like when a cat. But as a human? He'd only ever seemed to annoy people. No one had ever called him cute.

Except Madoka. But he was coming to the understanding she thought everyone was cute.

He didn't really have a chance to think about it much more because Shiny Guy was petting him and dammit if he didn't know his weak spot by now. That wasn't fair at all...
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[personal profile] sobothersome 2020-05-15 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Maru nodded and moved. Not to help Ple Two up. But to scoop her up from the ground and held her in his arms as he stood up.

"Once you're both safe, I can come back out... Look after her." He said to Madoka. While Maru might have been lazy, while he would rather have just stayed in bed without having to do any of this. He was doing it now. And if that was the case it would be done right.

Ple Two needed some help, whether she wanted it or not. Madoka was worried. And with her distracted like that she couldn't be out fighting. They both needed time to rest. Maru started walking, knowing Madoka would follow. He'd take Ple Two beyond the barricade that was being set up and to where the others were. The two girls would be safe there.
nobodys_puppet: (Fighting A Losing Battle)

[personal profile] nobodys_puppet 2020-05-15 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
She wanted to yell at the Somebody to stay out of the way so he didn't get hurt, but yelling at a Somebody.... That was still in the scared-she'll-get-in trouble side of things. So she tried to finish the monster off faster, if she could. Magic would do it, she was sure, but she didn't want to drain Roxas. So she was mostly focused on bashing the thing with the Keyblade....
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[personal profile] sobothersome 2020-05-15 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Tight..." He explained further. Maru pulled at the fabric at his waist and frowned. There was very little give. He supposed it had to be that way, it was a wet suit, they were meant to be close fitting. That didn't mean he had to like it.

"... It should be fine." Just bothersome. As soon as he had the chance to get it off, he would be taking it.
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[personal profile] silentwoof 2020-05-15 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Whisper," she responded, uh, quietly. "First here."
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[personal profile] silentwoof 2020-05-15 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds like a very long time? "...as long as you... stay strong. Have hope."
pleple: (But it won't be long)

[personal profile] pleple 2020-05-15 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Ple Two would love to argue, of course. They should fight. It was important to protect other people. But... now, she wasn't going to fight with Madoka over it. So she nodded at Madoka's reassurance.

She didn't appreciate Maru just picking her the heck up though, immediately pouting a bit. "H-hey, I can walk... you know..."

Dammit.
wizard_redfive: (Glare)

Dairine - OTA - Orange

[personal profile] wizard_redfive 2020-05-15 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Preparations

Dairine gives the wet suits a rather dubious look.

"Ugh," she mutters, eying the skin tight fabric. "I miss the space suits."

Even if they were in atrocious colors.

Orange Arrival

She does, eventually, get changed into a wet suit (though Dair takes her sweet time being the train's last stop). It's not as bad as it looked. Dairine would've preferred to stick to a wizardry for this, but if the train is providing the equipment perhaps it'd be better to save that energy for other things.

Once they descend, however, her mood takes a sharp turn as Spot suddenly goes silent.

Oh. Oh no! She should have known better than to discuss depowering this month!

Dairine spends the first fifteen minutes furiously typing on her laptop with increasing alarm. After a series of different experiments, she curls up, glaring at whoever happens to be nearby.

"This is the worst."
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[personal profile] wisdominshadows 2020-05-15 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Master Kaito?"

Alright, it doesn't look as though he's going to snap out of it on his own. Zelda carefully moves back to him, placing one hand on his shoulder and, after a moment of hesitation, the other under his chin.

Then she looks straight into his eyes and drops her voice- not quite into the timbre of Sheik, but enough to catch his attention. Keep your voice low and steady, her etiquette mistress had once told her, a queen does not need to raise her voice to command attention.

Well she is not a queen here, but she needs this panicking young man to listen. "Kaito," she tries again, low and clear and with all the command she can summon, "breathe."
Edited 2020-05-15 02:04 (UTC)
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2020-05-15 02:09 am (UTC)(link)

"I had a boat." He shrugs and then admits.

"And I had a few panic attacks on the way back when a fish flopped into the boat, although it didn't stay."

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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2020-05-15 02:10 am (UTC)(link)

He doesn't fight her, but his eyes are frantically looking around until he catches her attention.

"Breathe?" He manages a deep gulping breath.

wisdominshadows: HW: watching carefully (fifteen)

[personal profile] wisdominshadows 2020-05-15 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
"With me," she nods, putting a little more steel in her voice.

"One," -breath- "Two," -breath- "Three," again. She'll continue until he's calmed down.
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[personal profile] laurefindil 2020-05-15 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Glorfindel is perfectly content just sitting there and petting the kitty. But eventually the Train will have other ideas. How do we get out of this? LOL]

Glorfindel continues to pet the black cat's ears. "It occurs to me that you might have been able to step inside the wetsuit and then transform, and put it on that way. Or does your powers not work that way?"
sell_tickets: (After A Swim)

[personal profile] sell_tickets 2020-05-15 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
He chuckled a bit. "Back home I have help when I need it. Here I just used magic."
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[personal profile] sobothersome 2020-05-15 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Maru had, like before, been leaning into Shiny Guys hand. Maybe a little harder than he probably should have. Because when the guy spoke and pulled Maru from his little kitty daze, he nearly fell over sideways.

But in true cat form, he righted himself as nothing had happened at all.

"Uh... no. Doesn't work like that." Maru at up and patted his chest with one of his paws. "I'm still wearing it. Somehow. I dunno how it works... But if I did it as a cat and changed, I can't be sure I won't end up with my head through a leg hole. And that would be a pain..."
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2020-05-15 03:06 am (UTC)(link)

He nods, and it takes a few starts but his breathing starts to regulate as she talks him through it, until the panic fades from his eyes.

"Sorry." He looks away. "Thanks."

wisdominshadows: HW: Zelda praying (thirty eight)

[personal profile] wisdominshadows 2020-05-15 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
"You're welcome," Zelda replies, and pulls her hands back.

"But there's nothing to be sorry about. Are you all right?"
swansongs: (That I should really stick)

[personal profile] swansongs 2020-05-15 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
He took a few steps back, shifting the torch back to one hand, even though the double-handed grip had conveniently hidden the fact that he was shaking a little. He could have happily gone his entire life without seeing a creature like this, which was definitely a large part of why he didn't look into sea creatures back home in his spare time, just in case there was something terrifying.

Despite his stress, he laughed. "I'm pretty good at being distracting," he said. "I've been yelled at so many times to shut up." And he could definitely shout or wave a torch around or both. He would've felt bad about doing nothing anyway and letting someone else do all the work.

Keeping the torch at arm's length because having it any closer made him feel like he was going to singe off his eyebrows, he cleared his throat and addressed the fish creature. "Hey, you ugly bastard, I'm right here!"
wisdominshadows: HW: looking forward (thirty nine)

[personal profile] wisdominshadows 2020-05-15 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
"I suppose that's something."

As in, Nita won't be harmed by anything odd in the water. And possibly they can rule out explanations like, 'a new kind of kelp which interacted badly with the city's denizens.'

Which would usually leave 'a spell' as the most likely explanation for a mass outbreak of slumber, in Zelda's experience, but it's probably a bad idea to become wedded to any possible explanation right now.

"Does it look like they all fell asleep at once?" She vaults over the platform ledge to join the others in the water.
swansongs: (That I should really stick)

[personal profile] swansongs 2020-05-15 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, me too." He was a lot more worried about monsters and fighting them than he was letting on. He didn't have any experience with monsters or fighting beyond throwing some punches in dark city streets, and he was pretty sure the monsters would have the advantage.

"I'll do what I can to take it easy," he added. "Maybe I can find a vantage point where I can keep an eye out and still rest my foot." So he'd be ready for running around when the time came.
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[personal profile] longforgottenpromise 2020-05-15 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Thank you." Taiki smiled in relief. He would definitely feel better knowing they would look out for each other.

Inigo's words all but overwhelmed him again, it happened a lot with Inigo. He was sometimes just so caring and kind it was hard to even understand.

"He is." His voice was quiet, intense. Even if he is glad that Inigo will stick with Gyousou he is still going to spend the whole night worrying.