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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.
springforth: (005)

[personal profile] springforth 2020-05-09 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
The real question indeed. Persephone gives her a shrug in reply, feeling silly in all the equipment she needs to simply be down here. A fish would such a useful thing to turn into.

"I'll tell you what I find!"

And so Persephone ducks inside, finding the tableau of royalty interrupted. Guards with tridents scattered here and there, and the three beings on thrones, dozing.
kumoko: (pic#13814655)

[personal profile] kumoko 2020-05-09 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
That at least she could do. It took three tries, but eventually she managed to land a glob of thread on his cover, and reel him in like last place in a fishing minigame.

Hmm.

Great, now they were both sinking.

Hey, little demon book, can't you fly or something?
unfavorableinstigation: It is dark, but Nita is inside reading a book. (Dark)

Hmm - request an NPC, or do we need to go that far to improvise for this bit?

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-05-09 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Nita carefully flukes about the castle, taking in the vaster spread of sand on which it sits.

She's keeping an ear out, though it's more like 'all her whale's skin', for any detectable disturbance apart from her friend's investigations.
sizedoesntmatter: (126)

[personal profile] sizedoesntmatter 2020-05-09 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
He looked back up again. if we went up he knew he would be fine, but he also knew the issue would still linger. If he went further the way he felt he was pretty sure would get worse. Maybe they should have talked before he tried this.

Yugi couldn't help but get a tiny bit frustrated. "I'll try again... I just feel stupid getting anxious at being underwater. It turned out fine then after all." He looked over at the other for a moment "Thank you, by the way, I should really be more confident and just keep facing this head on."
dredefulchilde: (unsure)

[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2020-05-09 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
“I can’t.” He’s pitched his voice low enough that only Romeo can hear how much it’s shaking. “I’m not immortal anymore. I’ll drown.”
blue_ice: (silhouette)

[personal profile] blue_ice 2020-05-09 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"I still dream of the dark sometimes," he confessed, reaching up to squeeze Yugi's hand. He'd never admit it anywhere else. "It wasn't underwater, but I felt empty. And hopeless. It's hard, but you're strong, Yugi."

He squeezed a little tighter before loosening his grip, aware of how weird that might be. "You're not alone. Turn back if you need to, but if you stay I'll be right here."
blue_ice: (actually shocked)

[personal profile] blue_ice 2020-05-09 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe it wasn't a monster. Maybe it was...some kind of energy pulse. A spell, you might call it."

He ducked around a few structures, searching for further clues, but didn't find much. "Can you see anything else from there?"
tinkerheart: (smith)

[personal profile] tinkerheart 2020-05-09 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Preparation

It would be wrong to say Fëanor has been defeated by the diving gear. Far from it. The instructions are clear and the apparatus itself is not complicated. It just doesn't make much sense to him. He would have built it completely different. Yet, it took him several tries to assemble the cursed thing properly.

"This is completely ridiculous."

He kept connecting pieces in all the wrong ways. Or rather wrong from the point of assembly instruction. This whole set-up begs for modification. He's not even commenting on having close to a lizard skin as attire.


Red Team Arrival

From the moment the train exited Void Fëanor feels ill at ease. They land on the beach, both not only Red team disembarking makes for quite a commotion. So it is only when the train leaves for its next destination that he realizes the source of this strange feeling. It is as if he suddenly has gone deaf even if he can hear all the sounds. It's the echo of Music, the voice of the world itself that he's missing. This is what he was trying to grasp not fully consciously and couldn't. It is there. It didn't go completely silent but it's faint, barely audible. It should be all around him but instead comes as muffled and distant. As if a curtain has been drawn between him and the world.


Rock pools

"Not that impressive."

Fëanor certainly expected something more... ornate? Bigger? He's not sure what exactly was he expecting. How can you possibly lose people in what is not more than two feet of water? Then he hears a rumbling, the calm surface breaks, and the pool erupts into a water column shooting up, then falling down. And all is still again. The same process repeats at regular intervals.

"Oh, that's a bit more."
Edited 2020-05-09 21:39 (UTC)
so_dark_a_road: (in the unmeasured night #3)

Team Orange

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-09 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Curufin had been one of the first to reach the city, and he had been exploring around, looking for city residents who were awake. None of them were awake, as far as he could tell. He returned periodically to the part of the city nearest the dive platform, just to be sure he connected with all his Orange teammates who were down here.

On one sweep, he found Najaran checking out sleeping people.

He said, in response to her nap comment, "If you're sleepy, maybe you should go back up to the platform and sleep on the train? I'm not so sure that it's safe to sleep down here."

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-05-09 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
/I could believe that. Separate problems for separate cities.../

But, quite likely, caused by the same person, or people.

/Nothing really special, but your light's making some of those people's shells glow. Anything worth checking out about that, you think?/
so_dark_a_road: (the softer side of armageddon)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-09 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Curufin was rummaging through the equipment in the dressing carriage when he heard Duo's remark.

He grinned and started to sing, "Void Warriors, Void Warriors, trekking through the multiverse! We'll save you, we'll save you! Provided we don't make it worse. . ." He added the last line for the sake of the rhyme scheme and for laughs, since Duo had already heard it with just the first three lines.

"Yes, what a flattering superhero costume. But at least yours is purple, not orange."
Edited 2020-05-10 03:08 (UTC)
enthunder: (snark ☇ yeah well)

[personal profile] enthunder 2020-05-09 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Like a second skin, if you're wearing it right." She pressed a finger to her neck and pulled at the suit, demonstrating how snug the fit was. "Definitely better than those spacesuits."
blue_ice: (standard pose)

[personal profile] blue_ice 2020-05-09 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll look," he agreed. And he slipped under again, confirming it. "Might be a property of the scales...but was it lit down here before the attack, I wonder."

He began to look around for signs of extinguished lights. It's hard to see much. "How are you holding up?"
so_dark_a_road: (flickers of light)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-09 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Curufin grins at his father and replies, "I wouldn't expect anything else, either. We're certainly going to be ostentatious in these colors. I just hope the monsters don't have a preference for the short end of the spectrum." Light frequencies, that is. Red and orange. "Because in that case, jumping into the rock pools or the ocean might be like ringing the dinner gong!"
so_dark_a_road: (smirk of the Noldor)

Dressing Carriage

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-09 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Curufin grinned and answered, "At least your outfit is blue."

He was standing there in his orange diving suit with his orange gear, holding a pair of orange flippers.
schrodingersghost: (fenton)

Danny - OTA - Red Team

[personal profile] schrodingersghost 2020-05-09 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Dressing:
Danny is ignoring the purple wetsuit and the matching waterproof pack for now, in favor of frowning over the instructions.

"Okay, so the breathing pack connects to the helmet here. I think? Or does it connect on the other side? How do these things even work?"

Maybe it would just be easier to go intangible the whole time.

Arrival:
Danny jumps back in alarm as the rockpool just in front of him suddenly erupts in a geyser. He definitely hadn't been expecting that.

"Looks like somebody was ready to blow their top."

Too bad the surprise wasn't enough to prevent the pun.
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking directly at the viewer, mouth slightly open, as if she's in the middle of an important or unamused expression. (Focused)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-05-09 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
/May be a natural property of the material on this world,/ Nita noted.

They had no easy way of telling unless they stayed here after everything was solved.

/And I'm... Okay. You ready to go back up or anything, though?/

Really, Nita knew she shouldn't overextend herself, but cutting someone else's time down here short wasn't on her list of things to do today!

... Neither had been losing wizardry temporarily, but still.
so_dark_a_road: (a cunning and skillful horseman)

Third trial

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-09 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Curufin was already in the water when he saw his spider teammate jump into the ocean. He swam towards her and called out, not sure if she was having trouble or if she was just trying to get used to being in the water. "Need help?"
blue_ice: (and that's the tea)

[personal profile] blue_ice 2020-05-09 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe we should. We can return tomorrow, find out what the others learned today."

Kaiba drifted back toward her and started to push up. He was a little tired, but he'd make it. It was easier than down.
deductiongeek: (pic#7651079)

Conan - OTA - Team Orange

[personal profile] deductiongeek 2020-05-09 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Dressing:
Conan had known this was coming, even since that survey about swimming. He still wasn't prepared for this mission to be happening right now. Not when he still hadn't figured out what to do about the fallout of his change, the subsequent identity reveal and now Ran's presence here.

But the mission was here, and he only had so long prepare.

He grabs the smallest orange wetsuit in the room, along with the rest of the equipment and heads off in search of Ran. Although knowing his luck, she wouldn't be the only one he would find.

The Dive:
Conan steps out on the platform and walks over to kneel at the edge and inspect the water below.
so_dark_a_road: (in the unmeasured night #3)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-09 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Curufin was in the dressing room, already dressed in one of those ridiculous orange diving suits.

"Not going to wear one of those?" he asked his teammate. "Are you staying on the train?"
so_dark_a_road: (Maedhros. . . tell them I said goodbye)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-09 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Curufin was already in the water, but then he turned around and swam towards the sound of Nita's voice.

He halted in astonishment. "What, Nita, you're a WHALE???"
so_dark_a_road: (flickers of light)

Preparation

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-09 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey, Romeo!" Curufin greeted him with a smile. Curufin was already in his orange diving suit, and he also was reading the leaflet to see how the parts of the breathing apparatus fit together. "Got it figured out yet?"
magicurls: (Default)

island

[personal profile] magicurls 2020-05-09 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Mami has sort of made progress with her new bow by now. She can at least try to fight the monsters without magic, but the idea still scares her. She needs to be brave.

"Ah...hello. How are you doing?"

She should check in with her temporary teammates, she thinks.
laurefindil: (Default)

Preparations

[personal profile] laurefindil 2020-05-09 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Curufin, would you be willing to help me get my hair into this infernal helmet?" Glorfindel asks. It is braided already, but even so, it is long and there doesn't seem to be enough space. "I might have to change the braiding."