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

[so_dark_a_road]

"It's a mystery all right," he agrees. "And we're not going to know why these powers were blocked, at least not for a while."

He turns and grins back at her when she gives him that joking warning. "I hope not! It worked on that last mission, calling to the kids and looking and sounding as funny as I could possibly make myself. The kids and the parents were both entertained, and that helped them trust me and all of Orange Team. I was thinking the same approach might work here. But. . ."

He looks at he still bodies on the sand. They don't respond. And besides, now Curufin has reminded himself and her about the unfortunate ending of the last mission. He doesn't want to think about that, and so he becomes even more enthusiastic.

"Wake up! The Orange People are here to help you!"

[wisdominshadows]

He might hear a small, sharp breath sucked in as he mentions the last mission, but by now Zelda has some practice at compartmentalization. She locks the thought away, alongside a half-formed mental list comparing this city to the frozen Zora's Domain at home, and goes deeper into the coral shelf.

"I might add, then, that there are certainly people out there who would be quite happy to gut you for interfering with their nap," She says instead, and he's welcome to guess whether she's joking or not.

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin hears that breath of consternation as regards the failed last mission. He feels the same, but he too is a good compartmentalizer.

He smiles sardonically at Zelda's quip. "Oh, you could be right about that. But I'm willing to risk it for the sake of knowing whether these people can be awakened."

[wisdominshadows]

"Perhaps you shouldn't attempt that method just yet," She tells him, and kneels down beside one of the children.

"I don't have a fairy fountain on hand, and any mistake would be terribly difficult to fix."

The child looks fine, she thinks- you would never know there was a problem unless you tried to wake him. What would his mind look like, she wonders, if she could reach it? Would it be as peaceful?

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin comes and stands beside Zelda and the mer child. He looks closely at the child.

'Perhaps you're right," he says, quietly. "What do you think?"

The child looks fine to him, too. Except for the shimmering scales, he could be any child of the land races, peacefully taking a nap. Curufin tries one more time to reach out with his mind and touch the child's, but his Elvish telepathy still isn't working. He wonders if Zelda has any special senses that still are, and that would tell her anything about the child's condition.

[wisdominshadows]

"I don't know."

She closes her eyes and shakes her head.

"I know more lullabies than songs of awakening..." The words are quiet and rueful, more to herself than to him. "He's fine, physically. I think the only real danger would be if we left him out in the open."

That goes for the others nearby as well. But how to protect them until this ends?