Under the Sea: Mission start

[voidtreckermods]

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.

Comments

[laurefindil]

"Oh, visions," Glorfindel's tone is not the most respectful. "I love the Valar as much as the next elf, don't get me wrong, but their visions could be a little more helpful sometimes." Even if he is their Champion on Middle Earth, they could be more clear.

[xue_yang]

Xue Yang shrugs, "Then I guess we are stuck with waiting until we find a world with people willing to forge them in a quick manner." He doesn't know if he will ever be able to get his sword back but for now it seems he'll just have to use his head to stay alive.

[stealsyourheart]

"Ayup." He nods. "Complete with mudslide! Well. Ashslide?"

[wisdominshadows]

Zelda tries not to wince.

"Of course there were," she mutters. "Well. There probably won't be another any time soon. Things rarely seem to directly repeat themselves."

She wants a Goron craftsman. She has the spells to deal with such things... but their work would be better. There's no doubt in her mind.

[sizedoesntmatter]

"Yes, vegetarian means there shouldn't be any meat in it." Which at the moment was a good thing as he was already starting to make preparations, going as far as to make sure he had the pasta ready to.

"So it should be fine"

[stealsyourheart]

"True that. I wonder what the next stop will be like? If you're right, we're either going to cycle back ground to the start or... try something different."

[achickenformylove]

"I would not doubt there are those who do receive visions, but I have done well with the information I have learned from books. There are a lot who claim such things for their own gain."

wrap?

[tinkerheart]

"If we ever end at a world where people willing to lend me their forge, I can make any sword. Sadly, such an opportunity has only happened once."

When it did, he had chosen to make something else.

[springforth]

Oh--oh there's no way she's going to force this poor little girl into anything. Persephone kneels and reaches out to touch her hands, stilling them if she lets her.

"There is no reason for you to force yourself to go because some dumb train dragged you into this."

Wrap!

[xue_yang]

"Let me know if that happens."

He moves towards the pools. Might as well get this over with.

[bethereprompto]

"Well that and the colors. Chickens don't normally come in green or hot pink or blue. I can't ever decide if my favorite is the black ones or the golden ones like in the picture. We met a black one once and it was just adorable! You'd never guess something so small could become something so big! And aren't roosters the ones who usually look the fanciest between chickens? These have more puffy feathers and they're really soft too! You can get chocobo feather stuffed pillows if you're rich! But I'd only want one if they were using feathers the chocobo didn't need anymore instead of hurting it, because that would just be awful. Why would anyone want to hurt something as pretty as this?" He asked, pointing to the picture.

He really would go on and on but fortunately Madoka's answer to his question was distracting enough. "Aww, that's really sweet. You really love helping people don't you, Madoka? You're going to grow up and be something really important, I bet."

[bethereprompto]

Nothing special? Have you been in the sun too long?

[He grins, pleased Bryn was having such a positive reaction.]

It is amazing! Gladio's not bad either. He just doesn't have Iggy's zillion recipes in his repertoire or pizzazzy, fanciness with food, but his stuff can turn out really tasty. We'll eat well on this mission! Don't worry.

[enthunder]

"Then I'll just have to stick around and keep you on-target."

She pulled away at last, though she caught his other arm as she turned back to face him. "And that means getting you the rest of the way into this suit, for now."

[sobothersome]

Ostriches and chickens... and Madoka wanted to be a large dog that carried brandy around their neck. He didn't know which was more confusing and amusing.

He blinked owlishly at the blonde guy as he babbled about chocobos. His interest was piqued only when a pillow was mentioned, and that's what he asked about. "... They're soft?" He asked. "The pillows?"

[faithfulsupport]

[Green eyes caught Bryn's face lighting up and he was confused about someone not being able to cook on an adventure. How else were people supposed to eat? Ignis himself remembered not having much gil but he cooked a lot of those nights when funds were few so the boys could at least have a good meal and get a night's rest out under the stars.

That look went from Bryn to Prompto when the question was asked if he'd been out in the sun too long. There was a long suffering sigh and he shook his head.]

Very well Prompto. Since you're so insistent about eating so well, you can help with making dinner.

Re: Dressing

[hotheadwarmheart]

Not knowing the people involved, the joke flew right over Lea's head, but Khary's amusement at least got a grin out of him. "I'm guessing Whilamina likes walking through people?", he asked.

Re: Prep

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea nodded. "I probably would have too," he said. He gave a bit of a wry smile. "Course, I haven't exactly been known for making the smartest decisions in life."

He really had no idea why the train would suddenly yank everyone out of a mission and flee. But then, he had no idea how the missions were selected to begin with, or even what any of them were doing there. There was almost nothing about this train ride that wasn't cryptic. It reminded him a bit of Castle Oblivion in that sense.

"Anyway, my name's Lea," he said. "What's yours?"

And one more should wrap this thread.

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea nodded. "No problem," he said. "I'll see you around the train sometime then, if not before."

[hotheadwarmheart]

'You don't know the half of it,' Lea thought, but opted not to voice it.

Instead, he gave a bit of a wry smile. "Well this one has been moving pretty fast- literally and figuratively- since we got here," he said. "Honestly I'm still catching up with it too; having been to other worlds before doesn't make being stuck in a new one any easier."

Re: Dressing

[sell_tickets]

He chuckled. "Actually she tried to show off that she could walk through a table, which would have been fine, except that she was very very drunk at the time. Next time when Yasi asks for one of my homebrews he needs to specify who it is for. I figured it would give Yasi a nice buzz if he only took a sip. Whilimina? Total light weight and she downed most of the flask," he laughed.

Re: Awwwww

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea chuckled. "That'd be nice," he said. "Given how many of these things we'll probably end up fighting, you'd have a whole collection before you knew it."

Re: Awwwww

[nobodys_puppet]

"Maybe we'll find one that drops sea salt ice cream."

[sensitiveapple]

She nods. That's good. "Thank you, for doing this. People are going to be starving when they come back, and while I can make a peanut butter sandwich, that's not good enough."

[madcuriosity]

Alice's hands are stopped by Persephone's, the bright pink color very noticeable against her pale peach.

She looked down at her feet and gave a small nod, suddenly sniffling, her eyes burning.

"But... what if it's the way to get home?"

[happyends]

Yeah, she's going to become something important, alright. Like the goddess keeping an entire world safe.

Not like Madoka is fully aware of that though, so instead the compliment just lights up her cheeks. Sure, Prompto is a little goofy even to someone as naively sweet as Madoka, but she thinks that's just charming - and she has a heap of respect for the guy all the same. So his opinion clearly means a lot to her, and if he thinks she could be something important.. that's pretty wild. But also pretty nice.

She's not even quite sure what to answer to it. She stammers a few things before giving up on it, instead perking up at Maru's words. Thanks, a topic that isn't her, she loves it!

"Are you interested, Maru?" Madoka's gaze shifts between the two guys. ".. Uncle Prompto, it looks like you'll have to try and get one for him! I'll pay you back!"