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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2019-09-13 04:44 am

A City Falls: Start

Preparation

Just after light on the seventh day of the month of Bassoon everyone’s SCA glows with the colour of the void before showing a message. A briefing for the mission to come.

Anyone who goes to investigate the dressing carriage will find all the cupboards and drawers open. They may need to battle through spider webs but soon will find an array of clothes. Trousers, skirts, dresses, shirts, robes, cloaks. Everything they will need and plenty of choice. All the clothes have accents of team colours in more muted hues than the normal bold hoodies they wear.

A few hours later there is an announcement over the speakers. "Arrival to Planet #25768 imminent. Prepare for exit from Void. Drop order: Purple, Orange, Red, Blue. All passengers are to wear their Safety Control Apparatus and are reminded that emergency evacuation protocol is three short taps."

The train shudders and jerks. It is time.

Purple

"Purple Team to doors. Drop in two minutes. Purple team to doors."

The train flies down through the air before coming to a stop between two rocky outcrops. The doors hiss open, it’s a bit of a jump down to the ground and anyone who looks back will find the train hard to see. Not invisible but definitely cloaked, shifting to blend in with the rock.

They can hear the sound of many footsteps and the high sound of young voices. It is easy to hear where they need to be.

As they move down the rocky slope they will see the main pass. A large group of children are walking. Spirits are high even if it is clear they are on their guard. Older teens are wearing weapons, swords, the odd axe, a few daggers. Nothing expertly crafted but they all wear them with ease. Slightly younger children carry the very young, toddlers and those too young to walk and keep pace.

There’s a sound from in front of the group. From around the corner a girl, about thirteen years old, runs towards them. Her braids bounce against her shoulders, her eyes are wide with fear and she waves her hands at the others. “Run! Run!”

A shadow looms behind her, a winged wolf, gaining speed towards her. Sat on the wolf is a spear wielding goblin.

From all around them a growling of many more wolves, in the hills, close and ready to pounce.

Orange

Once Purple Team are gone the train flies again. "Orange Team to doors. Drop in two minutes. Orange Team to doors."

The train seems to be still concealed as it hovers at the city walls. There’s a bit of a jump onto the walls but at least they are near one of the staircases down into the city.

Also luckily no one seems to have seen them appearing out of no where though that has more to do with the general chaos rather than anything else!

There is a lot of chaos! People evacuating, animals everywhere, people looking lost and bewildered. Get herding or helping and encourage people up that cliff path!

Red

The train flies onward. "Red team to doors. Drop in two minutes. Red team to doors."

The train makes a slightly bumpy landing on a rocky slope. Scrambling up the slope red team will see a group of fighters, perhaps eighty in total. There are some supplies to the side, not yet allotted. Some horses and weapons. All the fighters are currently focused on a tall woman who is on horseback, facing them from the front.

“… Say those that stand here, as few as we may be were the ones who end the goblin menace on our lands for good. For our children and our families. We fight!”

The end of what was clearly a rousing speech, the fighters cheer. They begin to move over the slope, towards the goblin camp below. If you are joining this battle the time is now!

Blue

The train flies low, skimming over the lake. "Blue Team to doors. Drop in one minute. Blue Team to doors."

Jumping down off the train they will land in the shallows of the lake. It’s not deep enough to go over their boots and now too far to wade to shore. The shore is rocky, loose rocks and pools of water to avoid. The tower stands before them. Three goblins, riding wolves perch on the walls high above them. The sky above crackles with lightning that is not at all natural.

The doorway to the tower is open, there are a lot of stairs to get up. The howls of the wolves fill the air as the wizards fight them off above. Time to climb!
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2019-09-27 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)

"Depends - it's pretty versatile. I can use it just like that, of course - cut fruit with it or something. I've used it to cut ropes for balloons or to open bird cages..."

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[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-09-29 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Sounds like a versatile tool, if you can use it for a fruit knife. You used it to send somebody up in a balloon before they knew they were launching?" Grin. Curufin can see the humor in that. "And you let the birds flutter free? Kind of you."
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2019-09-29 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)

"It's a pretty popular trick yeah. And the birds are mine - I use trained doves."

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[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-09-29 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
He snickers, imagining the surprise of the balloon flyers finding themselves aloft before they expected it. "Doves are such beautiful birds. I suppose they make your magic acts beautiful."
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2019-09-30 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
"I like 'em! And doves are actually really smart, you know? I've an entire dovecote at home - I hope someone feeds them while I'm here..."
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[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-09-30 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
"It sounds like the perfect friendship, you and the doves. You have friends that would know to take care of your doves?"
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2019-09-30 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
"My best friend Aoko - I hope when I don't rock up at school she'll drop by to check on me but... " He frowns, worried.

"I did leave them with enough for a few days, I hope..."
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[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-09-30 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
"I'll bet your friend will think to check on your doves. She must know you pretty well if she's your best friend, and so she'd know you'd worry about your birds."
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2019-09-30 09:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Aoko will." He nods, agreeing. "I just... she's going to be so mad at me..."
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[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-10-04 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Why will Aoko be mad at you?" Curufin wonders. "You mean because you disappeared from your world? But that's not your fault."
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2019-10-05 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Aoko... she's lost too many people." He says quietly. "I don't want to hurt her too."
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[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-10-06 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Sounds as though you care a lot about her. I hope she won't lose you forever. There must be some way to get back to your own world, sooner or later."
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2019-10-06 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Aoko 'n I have been friends since we were kids." He shrugs.
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[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-10-06 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Very nice to have a childhood friendship that lasts. How did you become friends?"
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2019-10-07 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, we do go to the same school... and we're living pretty close to each other too. Just a few streets away." He shrugs, and smiles.

"We met at the clock-tower in the center of town. She was looking for her dad, and she looked so sad... so I gave her a rose."
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[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-10-13 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"How very kind of you to try to comfort Aoko. Was she looking for her father because he was lost, or for some other reason?" Sometimes people look for dead relatives, or for those who are for some other reason lost to them forever.
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2019-10-14 08:33 am (UTC)(link)

"She got lost. " he grins wryly. "And I couldn't leave a girl crying."

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[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-10-19 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Oho. So you were being her true knight." Smile.
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2019-10-19 08:45 am (UTC)(link)

"A magician must always be a gentleman!"

so_dark_a_road: (flickers of light)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-10-20 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
"And it seems you were the perfect gentleman!" Smile.
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2019-10-21 02:58 am (UTC)(link)

He grins and bows. "I try to be!"

so_dark_a_road: (flickers of light)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-10-23 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
"You succeed very well," says Curufin, with a smile and an equally courtly bow.
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2019-10-23 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
He flushes, pleased.

"Thanks."
so_dark_a_road: (among the contending princes)

Wrap?

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-10-23 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Curufin smiles at Kaito.

And at this point, the Void exit and team drop order announcement comes, and the train shudders. Team Orange will be second. Curufin checks his Safety Control Apparatus and his other gear, looks at Kaito to see if he's doing the same, and grabs onto the nearest safety bar.
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yus

[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2019-10-24 06:21 am (UTC)(link)

"Good luck!" He tips an imaginary hat to Curufin.