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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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Glorfindel smiled back. "I am Glorfindel. It is nice to meet you." He gestured at the caves. "Are you assigned to a group yet? There is the Point or Scouts, the Outriders, the Flank who bring up the rear, Floaters, and of course, those who are going to be sticking close to our charges to protect them."

"Of course!" answered Curufin. He comes over to take a look and see what is the problem. "You could try braiding it in cornrows, like mine? That way, it'll fit into your helmet better. Want some help?"

/Thanks./

Nita didn't sound embarrassed at the praise, for once. Wonder of wonders!

/Well, we're here to dive, aren't we? Want to go see what we can find?/

As long as she didn't get too tired... At least, unlike some people, she has her SCA on, it having morphed to fit a fin instead.

Xue Yang stares at this entire..odd..contraption with disdain. Does he want to go on the planet? Hell yes..Does he want to wear this? Nope.

But this is his first 'mission' of this trip and so he intends to at least see what all the fuss is about. He picks up his red suit and will find a way to climb into it but still looks utterly confused about all the things attached to it.

"What is the point of all this?" He should read the booklet but its easier to just get someone to explain and at least he knows Curufin.

Geralt eyed the man blandly. Elf, he didn't need to look too close for that, but it didn't matter either way. Yellow eyes rimmed in red took the whole into consideration, but in the end he only shrugged.

"Thought I'd scout. Don't need a torch to see what's in the caves, and I'm not much for entertaining."

Curufin has already been out in the water, just to test the breathing apparatus. But now he starts climbing back up the ladder, and then he spots Conan looking over the edge of the platform. Curufin looks up.

"Going down under, Conan?" he asks, cheerfully.

Red Team - Rockpools

After finally being able to get dressed and figuring out all the attachments, Xue Yang finds himself standing in front of one of the Rockpools. He watches it, just like the other teammates appear to be doing and sees that it doesn't quite act like water should.

He walks up to it and stares down in, waiting until one of the moments when it is calm.

"They expect us to dive in and help any idiots that have gotten sucked down into it? Why should I risk my life?"

He has no desire to help someone he doesn't even know. He came along because he wanted to see what the fuss was about with these missions, but diving into potential problems seems a little silly.

Someone is going to have to really convince him that this is worth is time. Otherwise he is going to go off and find his own entertainment.

He has spotted a fellow red member and saunters over to her side. He doesn't particularly care about taking care of the mission, but he needs to at least look like he is interested.

"This is my first time. How long do we have to wait before we get to work?"

Alice had been watching Persephone as she had never before in her life seen such an outfit. She blushed when she had been caught staring and then looked down at her own wetsuit, still very much just in her hands.

She looked back up when Persephone showed off her flippers and giggled.

"You're a very pretty duck, though."

Glorfindel sighs with relief and nods "Yes, very much so. I do not want to go through this mission with my hair wrapped around my throat."

He put his helmet down and sat on the bench, then started undoing his braid.

"Jump right in. I'm sure the water is fine." Xue Yang has his arms folded in front of him, clearly not interested in getting pulled into whatever trap that water might be. He's watched it do its thing for several minutes and he can't figure out why anyone would have been foolish enough to get trapped in it.

Curufin was already dressed in his own dive suit and carrying his equipment.

"Sure, no problem," he answered. He set his gear down and came around behind his teammate and pulled the zipper up. "Is that all right?" He had noticed the burn scars and wondered if the garment would be uncomfortable for Dyme, with that long steely zipper up his back.

Glorfindel nodded, a smile playing on his lips. "Yes, those of us who can see in the dark are the best for scouting. Do you want the left side or the right?" Because it would be ridiculous for them both to scout the same side and leave the other side open.

"If I find anything that I need help with, you will undoubtedly see a bright flash," he said. It would have to be pretty big, but this was a new world and they'd only been told there were monsters. If there were Balrogs, he'd do more than flash, though.

Kaiba switches on his light as well, pushing further into the darkness. He still has to pace himself.

"I've never done this, but I've trained for space travel. It's similar in some ways. But...hm, hold on."

It's been a while, and he can see the ocean floor now. He touches the sands and looks around. "I might've missed. Do you see anything?"

The market can't be that far away. There's a shadow ahead that might be a stall.

"...I can do that."

Kaiba hauled himself upright, shook off as much water as he could, and disappeared inside to give her time to take care of things. He wasn't up to pulling out of his suit yet, but he did return with the promised towel and set it down, carefully keeping his gaze on the horizon.

"I can stay if you need help getting to your room. It must've been far worse for you than me---not that I know anything about having magic."

Nita had finally transformed in the time he was inside, not looking forward to the completion of the energy drain... but, once she transformed back, she felt better. Enough not to just collapse, anyway.

This world's problem was so strange!

"... I think I'll be fine, actually. It's the use of magic itself that's draining, thanks to whatever's going wrong here. And most everything else I can do is blocked, or muted."

Shaking her head, she took advantage of Kaiba not looking at her to lever herself up onto the platform and wrap herself in the towel.

"Thanks, again. For the towel and the help."

She turned to face her and nodded. "I'm sorry," she said softly.

"Ah -- are you all right?" Ran offers a smile at the girl, noticing her hesitation. She's already taken the wetsuit that seems to be her size and is brushing through her hair with her fingers, trying to get it ready to braid.

"Was there not one that fit you?"

Curufin turns around and sees Xue Yang staring at the dive suit and its gear with contempt before he pulls on the suit.

"Xue Yang!" He smiles. "I guess you're off to the rock pools with Red Team. Oh, yes, the helmet and oxygen device. That allows you to breathe when you're underwater." He's in his own orange suit, but of course he hasn't assembled the breathing apparatus yet. He just finished reading the user manual.

"First, you snap this hose into this square package-like thing, and then you put the square thing on your back like a pack and fasten its straps around your torso so it can't come loose. Then you put the helmet on and snap the other end of the hose into it." To demonstrate, he picks up the tube and snaps it into the square pack-like item, fastens the square on his back, puts on the helmet and snaps the other end of the tube into the helmet.

"Not the best place for hair, wrapped around your throat." Curufin comes to stand behind him, and when Glorfindel is finished unbraiding his hair, Curufin takes a comb out of his pocket and starts working with the rich golden tresses, carefully re-braiding them in a very different style. It takes a little time, and Curufin hums while he works. When the new hairstyle is finished, the hair is neatly compacted against Glorfindel's head, and the ends are easy to tuck into the helmet.

"How's that?"

Curufin is in his orange dive suit, and he's reading the instructions to figure out how the breathing apparatus is connected up.

He turns to Danny. "That's right, the pack is connected to the helmet, with this hose. Right here." He demonstrates by connecting his own. He figures that if Danny sees how it is done, he'll be able to do it himself.

"I don't know precisely how they work, but it looks as though the pack thing extracts oxygen from the water and pipes it to your helmet."

"Conan-kun." Ever the watchful neechan, Ran is there, tugging him back from the edge. "It's too easy to fall in if you do that."

Predominantly she's chosen this particular mission to keep an eye on him. He's faced a lot -- more than any seven year old -- but he is still a child, and this place is completely different than anything from their world. Better that she stays with him.

. . . Not at all for her own comfort level, either. Nope.

"Yes! Let's go see what's down there!" he answers.

Curufin does have his SCA on, and a good thing, since a hundred meters is deep enough for the light to become dim. They'll need to see. Curufin's Elvish night-vision will still work, but no sense in taking any chances, and the device has a flashlight beam. He's also aware that in that last, short mission, the only reason any of them are still alive is because the train SCA'd them out of there fast. Not that Curufin wasn't angry because they didn't get to finish the mission, but he was glad not to be dead.

"Want to lead the way?" he asks, with a grin.

Funnily enough, Nita's not bothered by the lack of light; just by sending out some quiet whale-sounds, she gets a boatload of data back on the placement of objects, presence (well, absence, currently) of sealife, and so on.

/No problem!/ Nita calls, before diving back under with a proper breath of air.

Persephone turns a smile on her, still barely holding back a laugh at her flippered feet.

"Thank you very much. I'm used to suits but nothing quite like this. And never in this much...color." She lifts a foot to pull off one flipper, bracing herself on the wall, "I suppose I'll be easy to see in the water. Do you need any help with this?"

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Rock Pools

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