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

[swansongs]

Dyme stared for a moment, mouth hanging open a bit. "Dude," he said. That was so cool! He wished he could do things like that, instead of trembling in fear while holding a torch. He lowered it a little now, since the monster seemed like less of a threat. It was still terrifying, though.

Kicking some sand in the monster's direction, he scrambled for something else to distract it with. "Your mother's an oyster!" Nailed it, totally scathing insult. He was pretty sure the creature couldn't understand him anyway and probably only went for noises and movement.

[hotheadwarmheart]

As cool as Lea's fire and chakrams were, what he'd had to go through to get them was very much not worth it. But that was neither here nor there.

Whether the creature understood the taunt or not someone kicking sand at it's still functional eye definitely caught its attention, and it lurched awkwardly in Dyme's direction, still snarling. Lea took the opportunity to dismiss his chakrams and instead summon up a large fireball, which he launched at the monster's blind side. The fireball struck home and the creature let out another roar of pain. But this time the sound faded out as the creature's legs buckled and it collapsed in the sand, one side a scorched and burned mess. It twitched for a moment, its breathing labored, but soon it lay still. It clearly wasn't getting up again.

Lea approached cautiously anyway, just to be sure, seemingly a bit out of breath himself. "You alright?", he asked Dyme.

[swansongs]

Dyme scooted out of the way just in case, because a fireball was still intimidating even if it wasn't aimed at him. It still wasn't as intimidating as the monster itself was though, and Dyme stayed at least six feet away from it, even after it stopped moving. He didn't want to take any chances.

"I'm okay." He nodded. "Are you? That was really cool, I've never seen anything like that before."

[hotheadwarmheart]

Probably a smart idea, honestly.

Lea nodded. "Yeah, just tired," he said. "Summoning and maintaining my weapons takes a lot more energy here than it normally does for some reason."

"But it still looks just as cool either way. My friends might have a bit more variety in the magic department, but I like to think I make up for it with style. Remind me to show you some other time what I can do when I really have time to get fancy."

[swansongs]

"Probably because of...stuff...and things..." Like them being who knew where, and far from their homes. Stuff like that. He figured, anyway. Like being somewhere where your cell phone couldn't get signal.

"But you've definitely got style." And the looks to go with the style. "Plus I just think fire's pretty cool by default. And impressive." Probably because it was so dangerous. It was like watching a firebreather or something.

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Heh, thanks," Lea said. "It is pretty cool, but it takes a lot of work to really master. Fire magic is pretty wild by default, so if you don't have good control of it, it can cause problems. Remind me to tell you some other time about how much trouble I had when I was first starting out."

"Anyway, you gonna be alright on your own? If you're not much of a fighter, you might honestly want to head back to the village and try to help out there, but if you're gonna stay on the beach, I don't want you to get into trouble that you can't handle."

[swansongs]

"I'll keep that in mind." It was too bad that he probably couldn't learn magic. He'd never been a good student, anyway.

"Um. Considering what just happened, I think I'm going to head to the village. I can still keep a watch there." Or...do something else. But being chased and attacked by a horrible sea monster wasn't something he wanted to go through again, if he could help it. "Also, thanks."

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."