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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.
najaran: (Sleepy Yawn)

Sure! That works!

[personal profile] najaran 2020-05-09 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Cold...." she mumbled. "Sleepy." She wasn't sure how long she had been down there. She might have already dozed off once... or twice... or more. No matter what she did she couldn't seem to get warm though and her head was swimming more than her limbs were. And she was starving. She would have taken off her helmet already if she could have figured out what to eat....
unfavorableinstigation: It is dark, but Nita is inside reading a book. (Dark)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-05-09 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
In her own helmet, Nita muttered a swear - which nonetheless went through on the comms anyhow.

"Come here," she said firmly, getting close enough to handle Najaran herself. The presence of a suit made it hard to tell, but she didn't see the telltale bulge of the SCA on either of the girl's wrists...

"You can't help anyone down here if you pass out, okay? If you need a nap, we can get you one on the train."
najaran: (Bluff successful)

[personal profile] najaran 2020-05-09 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nap...? Okay...." she was clearly dealing with oxygen and pressure issues. Her eyes fluttered closed as her head lolled a bit. Sleep sounded good, and she was all floaty anyway....
unfavorableinstigation: It is dark, but Nita is inside reading a book. (Reading Indoors)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-05-09 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Something clicked into place for Nita, then, seeing that head loll: without the SCAs, this was a real dive.

Which meant surfacing too quickly really could kill Najaran.

Grimacing, she reached for her own SCA. If I can't heal her myself, we'd better get her to medical...

She tapped it three times.
najaran: (Arm Pain Cards)

[personal profile] najaran 2020-05-09 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
She was all but flopped against Nita, which probably wasn't such a big deal under water. Back on the train with both of them in wet suits with awkward helmets however....


Najaran was still very out if it, but she was feeling air come back to her properly at least and was gasping in huge mouthfuls of it while clumsily fighting with her helmet. She was aware enough to realize they weren't in the water and she wanted it OFF. Everything hurt. Why did everything hurt?
unfavorableinstigation: It is dark, but Nita is inside reading a book. (Dark)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-05-09 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Nita braced herself, backing up against the luggage racks and grunting with the effort.

Once situated, she depressurized her own helmet and took that off, before moving to help Najaran with hers.

"You, need medical," Nita said, in a tone that spoke of no backtalk allowed, while at the same time mentally piecing together the words for a healing wizardry that would restore the girl's blood-oxygen content-

Which didn't work.

"And if spells in general worked right now I'd teleport us there, but they don't, so we'll have to walk."

At least she could still move, even with Najaran leaning against her?
najaran: (Call To Action By Grief)

Nita is CRAU, yes? LOL (had to tease Kaylin in there, don't mind me)

[personal profile] najaran 2020-05-09 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
She took several more deep breaths once the helmet was removed. "Food?" she mumbled, hopefully, stomach growling. No this is not actually another universe's Kaylin, though she was doing a pretty good imitation of it at the moment....

She leaned against Nita trying to walk in her flippers when the world was still all spiny. It wasn't working so well... She could summon Knight to help... but he was with the group of cards secured under the suit near her back, and not easily accessible, plus he was rather... large. But Cait Sith and the others were too small - except the ones that were way too big - and Living Weapon too pointy. She missed her other cards. And Gooligan. And her Master. And cake.

Her feet stumbled as she kept trying to walk with help. But she was really really out if it.
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking directly at the viewer, mouth slightly open, as if she's in the middle of an important or unamused expression. (Focused)

Yes. ^^ (And yes. XD)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-05-09 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, food later too," Nita answered, her mind much more focused on getting them to the med car.

One step after the other, they'd make their way to first the Dressing Car... maybe if they spotted Charlotte she could help? Teleportation didn't seem to be down, wizardry's inactivity aside.

Or just someone who could help carry Najaran, that would be nice.

"Where did you leave your stuff, anyway?"

Just musing aloud; Najaran didn't exactly seem in the best shape to be having a conversation, unfortunately.

Or maybe fortunately; it meant Nita couldn't properly yell at her for doing something so stupid...
najaran: (On back pain)

Heh.

[personal profile] najaran 2020-05-09 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"My... stuff....?" Huh? Yeah, she was really out of it still, sorry, Nita. "Wha stuff?" Culdra was she tired.
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 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Your outfits and so on. Are they in your room?"

If Najaran had her SCA off, Nita reasoned, though she still looked surprised at the semi-coherent response, then she'd had it off for a reason.

"I see you have your cards, though. Were they okay being underwater?"
najaran: (Bluff successful)

[personal profile] najaran 2020-05-10 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
"I kept them in the suit... thing... never...let...them... bu hurt..." she mumbled.
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 2020-05-10 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hopefully they are unhurt," Nita replied, now even more worried. Given how she was currently cut off from speaking to the peridexis, were the Cards in a similar state?

"We'll take them out when we get to medical," she decided.

"This way, walk with me, okay? One step, two step..."
najaran: (Tea daze)

[personal profile] najaran 2020-05-10 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"They be'er be.." she mumbled, trying to walk with her, flippers making a funny noise as they started to dry.
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 2020-05-10 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
They were going to have to clean up any mess they made while walking, weren't they?

Nita put that out of her mind for now, focusing solely on getting Najaran to medical and checking her in.

She might not need the entire day for this, but Najaran likely did need to sleep this off, after a checkup, and having her run back out only to get nearly drowned again wasn't going to be happening on Nita's watch.
najaran: (Shatter)

[personal profile] najaran 2020-05-11 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you know she's going to try it....

By the time they got where they were going Najaran was closer to asleep than awake, though she was shivering less. Mostly now she was just beyond exhausted and in pain.
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 2020-05-12 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Nita quietly lamented the lack of professional Doctors currently on the train - both Wen Qing and the Doctor had been dropped off earlier - but the medical car was still well-stocked. There should be appropriate medications and so forth.

First priority, however, was putting Najaran on the bed and checking her in.

"If you don't have your ticket on you, I'm going to have to go looking, okay?"

She gave Najaran a pointed Look. "And if your roommates are still around, I'm not above pestering them to be sure you have it back on you before you're fully recovered."
najaran: (Sad Card Thoughts Reclined)

[personal profile] najaran 2020-05-13 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Dun need it now, jes need sleep," she mumbled, trying to pull off her gloves so she could free the cards up her sleeve.
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking right, holding a book. (I'm In The Book)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-05-13 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh huh. Just get in bed and stay there, okay- wait, what are you doing?"

She reached over to help Najaran pull the gloves off. "Yyyeah, we should probably remove these. The flippers, too."
najaran: (Sleepy Yawn)

[personal profile] najaran 2020-05-14 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Once the gloves were off she freed the few cards she had hidden up her sleeve. "Okay," she mumbled, trying to kick them off, and failing.
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 2020-05-14 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
And Nita just. Stared at the cards for a second, before going back to helping Najaran get leverage to take those flippers off.

"Do those Cards still work if they get wet - or if you just can't reach them?"
najaran: (A Hard Card Choice)

[personal profile] najaran 2020-05-15 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
"they can survive being wet," she mumbled, but pulled them closer to herself, protectively. No one was gonna steam the rest of her cards from her. Nope.
unfavorableinstigation: Nita Callahan kneeling in the woods, drawing a glowing blue diagram on the ground while reading from a book. (Drawing a Spell Diagram)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-05-15 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Must be made of stern stuff, then," Nita commented, not moving to take the cards away.

"O-kay, that's one foot. Now the next-"

najaran: (Sad Card Thoughts Reclined)

TY for the thread!

[personal profile] najaran 2020-05-16 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Hands over her cards, Najaran had already passed out...