voidtreckermods: (train)
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.
flatteries: (doesn't it almost feel like)

[personal profile] flatteries 2020-05-15 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
.. by Naga, how is Yuki so perfect? Here Inigo was feeling so pathetic and worried about having to tell Yuki something like this, and yet the other manages to react in the perfect kind of way. That way he can be so gently reassuring is one of the things Inigo likes so much about him. It's not patronizing in a way that makes him feel even more pathetic. Instead it's just.. sweet. Yuki denies Inigo's negative thoughts so easily, and then even says something like that last thing.

Something that instinctively makes him smile, even though it's a little awkward still.

"Of course not.." He gets the point. If he wouldn't think so about Yuki, then Yuki wouldn't think so about him. It's a surprisingly effective thought, and Inigo slips his own hand into Yuki's, intertwining their fingers as he stares at the other. "I'm not sure if there will be time for it during the mission, but.. I suppose I could try to learn from you if there is. You might just be the only person who wouldn't make me feel incredibly awkward about it."
happyends: (i can believe in)

[personal profile] happyends 2020-05-15 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Romeo's enthusiasm and relentless hope is as infectuous as always. No matter how worried Madoka may still be about some things, it feels so hard to think about those when Romeo is smiling at her like that. So she smiles right in return.

"Okay. I'll have to show you my kitty by then too. He's going to be helping me out during the mission." Yes, a cat is going to help her. Does Madoka realise how ridiculous that sounds out of context? Probably not. "I guess you won't be able to see that this time, but there's always next time..!"
sendiintheclown: (casual)

Re: Purple mission OTA

[personal profile] sendiintheclown 2020-05-15 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"It would take industrial glue to hold it back, though I admit I hadn't thought about braiding it. That would shorten it up and keep it out of my mouth..." Trowa pondered the idea for a moment before removing his helmet. "I would appreciate the help, please. I've never learned how to weave a braid before."
myblueskies: (of course!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2020-05-15 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh you used to do missions before you were here, miss Whisper?"

She must be very good at them then!
myblueskies: (so proud of you)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2020-05-15 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Romeo did catch that smile, but it just made him smile in return. He was glad that Joss didn't seem so scared anymore.

"Just through this bit, we're nearly there!"

He was proud of Joss, for getting this far.
myblueskies: (Alfredo is speaking!)

Re: Arrival

[personal profile] myblueskies 2020-05-15 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Um. I don't think so." He shook his head, "On training days we used to practice with them lots and lots and they never ran out!"

So he doesn't think they were a finite resource!
draconite: (shocked | you say that you're the hero)

[personal profile] draconite 2020-05-15 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I can't ask for any more than that! Shall we charge?

[ – oh, and uh, that's apparently all the warning he's getting before Bryn just goes ahead and charges on the horrible monster menacing at them. There she goes... ]
so_dark_a_road: (through sorrow to find joy)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-15 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah, I see. Perhaps your famous writer is right. We must see what is down in the city before we assume anything. I should know that, shouldn't I? I'm a craftsman, and the crafts work the same way."

Oho, another person from Conan's world. It's getting harder to keep track of who's on the train. This is no longer a small group, now it's a large one. A hundred and twenty people at Curufin's last count, and many of them people Curufin hasn't yet spoken to. "You're going to explore the city with this person? Probably just as well. You know each other and must know each other's style and methods. That makes an adventure safer and more productive." Usually, that is. Okay, sometimes.

Curufin would sympathize with Conan's desire to be recognized as an independent person. The Elf has never really thought of him as a child, but as a strikingly intelligent person with a small body.
so_dark_a_road: (rainy day in the forest)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-15 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Staying on the train is always an option," replies Curufin. "Usually a few people do, though not so many as are staying this time. I always go, but then, I'm a maniac." He chuckles.

"How about you, Danny? Are you up for Purple Team's assignment, the caves and tunnels?"
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking directly at the viewer, mouth slightly open, as if she's in the middle of an important or unamused expression. (Focused)

Preparations

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-05-15 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Nita definitely looks distracted, but she's never completely unable to tease her sister:

"I managed to snag the design specs of the suits the Empire had, if you ever want to try that on."

Then she pauses, considering. Junior Jedi opportunity or no, there were possibilities...

"Doubt they'd be as maneuverable underwater as in zero-g, though."
schrodingersghost: (fenton - that actually worked?)

[personal profile] schrodingersghost 2020-05-15 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"I always go on the mission, so I guess I didn't really notice." Danny shrugs. "I thought about it, but I'm not really sure if I'm going to be the most useful for that. Escorting isn't really my strong point, you know? I was thinking about maybe going on the red mission instead."
so_dark_a_road: (among the contending princes)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-15 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes, I understand," answers Curufin. "And I guess you'd be escorting the island's spiritual leaders. I wonder if they'd have the spiritual cognition to perceive that you have a ghostly nature? But no matter. I see what you mean, since Orange Team frequently gets assignments that involve escorting people. I can do it, but its not my forté. What I really like is fighting. So, if you go on Team Red's mission, you'd be jumping into rock pools that might have become portals to elsewhere, and trying to rescue people who have fallen into them and disappeared. That does sound like a good mission for you."
swansongs: (Let's face it I blew it you waited)

[personal profile] swansongs 2020-05-15 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's okay." While he'd been hopeful, he knew not everyone had a plan.

But then apparently someone did? He was both relieved and a little more worried--he wasn't used to these kinds of situations, tense, stressful, fight or run or die. Once had been more than enough for his entire lifetime, but he couldn't do nothing.

Doing his best to keep up, he followed after Taiki, starting to get a little breathless. Glancing over his shoulder, he made sure the creature was still following them, and it was. "No problem with that!"
schrodingersghost: (Default)

[personal profile] schrodingersghost 2020-05-15 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's kind of a good reason to avoid getting to close to them? People can get weird about ghosts." Although no one so far had had the shoot first, ask questions never reaction that had been so common at home.

A shrug.

"But yeah, that's the other part. I kind of have a lot of experience with jumping into strange portals."
aggressivelygood: (005 ✪ You're a sweet talker)

[personal profile] aggressivelygood 2020-05-16 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Again, Sven nodded, perturbed just a little by the weight of the the dome around his face and the way the light bounced at the edges of his vision when he moved his head.

He stood alert. Feet firm against the bottom of the pool, knees soft and responsive, core aligned and head up and facing ahead of him, mouth drawn into a serious line. And waited. Sven's yellow eyes flicked to his teammates and then back to Tobias.

"So, uh. Any minute now, right?" Gods, he wished he could sense anything at all about the magical energies in this place. Presumably the pools were active.
wisdominshadows: OoT: The dark age will end! (twenty four)

market, maybe? or looking about for an archive?

[personal profile] wisdominshadows 2020-05-16 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
It would be a bit anticlimactic.

"So no one would have seen the others fall, even if we could wake one up," she muses, following Nita down. A pity, even beyond the obvious; that shuts off one line of inquiry.

As Nita already knows the way, it shouldn't take too long to arrive.
wisdominshadows: (six)

[personal profile] wisdominshadows 2020-05-16 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
A fear of fish, then? A little odd, though Zelda supposes that there are probably odder.

"And you went in anyway?"
so_dark_a_road: (among the contending princes)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-16 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe so? No knowing how this particular culture feels about the ghost issue." Fortunately, the train's passengers were pretty laid back about most things, including ghosts. And as for Curufin, he had been one himself, and who knows? -- might be one again someday. So, he had the perspective that allowed him to chill. Besides, he was an Elf, and they do understand about disembodied spirits.

"Well, let's hope this rock hole portal thing turns out to be solvable. And yes, I'll bet you've been through a few portals in your time! What kinds?"
Edited 2020-05-16 01:27 (UTC)
alongtailtalltale: (13)

Re: [purple]

[personal profile] alongtailtalltale 2020-05-16 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
"It's perfectly fine to ask that!" she said. "As for what I can do...."

She unwound her tail, extending it to about twenty feet, while forming the end of it into a fist.

"... I can do this...!"
sonoflucis: (smile)

[personal profile] sonoflucis 2020-05-16 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Noct gasped, arms moving to wrap around Prompto. This side of Prompto was really exciting and different. "What was that for?" He teased.
so_dark_a_road: (in the unmeasured night #3)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-16 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Curufin went back to doing a last organization of his own equipment, but he looked up while he worked.

"You're going with Blue Team this time? Hopefully you won't be going into the water. But it does sound as though you'll be fighting any monsters that come out of the sea. Do you have weapons or powers?" Functioning powers, that is.
najaran: (On back pain)

[personal profile] najaran 2020-05-16 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Dunno. Hafta help them," she mumbled, shivering badly.
achickenformylove: (mdzs 13)

WangJi - OTA

[personal profile] achickenformylove 2020-05-16 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Preparations
None of these things were familiar to WangJi. In fact, as soon as he saw the wet suit, he was pretty much against doing this only because of how ... different this was from his robes, but in the end, he decided to go with it anyway, go to support Sizhui with his purple team mission.

So he was in the dressing car, trying to figure out what everything was and how to put it on. So awkward....

Team Purple
As they arrived at their appointed drop off spot, WangJi disembarked with the other. This sounded at least like something that he would be able to handle. Between himself, WuXian, and Sizhui, they would be well set to assist with the mission.

Before departing with the group, he happened to glance over and meet the eyes of someone else. He nodded in greeting to them.
gundamofthedesert: (another cup of tea)

Quatre - OTA

[personal profile] gundamofthedesert 2020-05-16 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Preparation
Quatre was excited for his first mission. This seemed like it would be interesting, especially when they were given wet suits to wear. He hummed to himself as he looked at all of the equipment that they had been given. He was at least willing to give this a try.

"I wonder how much swimming this mission is going to call for."
gundamofthedesert: (grin)

[personal profile] gundamofthedesert 2020-05-16 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Quatre had really just been getting ready himself, looking at the wet suit and flippers that had been provided. He was still studying them himself when a familiar face exited the changing room, wearing one of the wet suits already.

"Duo!"