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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!
runs_on_batteries: (Default)

Prep

[personal profile] runs_on_batteries 2019-09-14 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Gesundheit.

[Tony gives Manabu a smile as he comes into the dressing car. He was dressed in a burgundy tunic, trousers, tall boots and the like. All he needed was a sword and he'd look like a knight- at least Tony thought so.]

I'm glad I caught you. I'm wanting to check in with all the council members before we do this. How are you doing?
siriusly: ([system reboot])

[personal profile] siriusly 2019-09-15 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Oh--hey, Tony.

[he wipes his nose with one of these brand-new gloves, blinking over his way.]

Um, fine, I guess. Just a little anxious to get out and see what this is all about, you know.
runs_on_batteries: (you think so)

[personal profile] runs_on_batteries 2019-09-15 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[Tony nods, finding that a very logical response to their situation.]

I don't know if you've met Joss or Buttercup, but they helped me figure this clothing nightmare out. But either way, that's not why I'm here. Do you know by heart what all of the teams are doing?
siriusly: (god dangit)

[personal profile] siriusly 2019-09-16 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Verbatim? [boy, he hopes not. because he's not that kind of listener. he doesn't wait for the reply before just nodding and looking past him, toward the door he came from where others are mulling about.]

...Yeah. It's an evacuation. I don't understand where this information is coming from, how the train got it, or why it's us, but...
runs_on_batteries: (whattagonnado)

[personal profile] runs_on_batteries 2019-09-17 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Tony gives him a look. With oozing sarcasm, he answers.]

Yes Manabu. I want you to know exactly where every period and comma is too-

[Oh.. the rest of that caught him off guard. He'd had something else on his mind, but that was equally important.]

I don't either. It's hard to not put some stalk in the information though after Curufin's dream. According to him, he has premonition like this in the past. I never put stock in that crap before but.. the man's a damn elf.

[ooc- literally, he's making the icon expression.]
siriusly: (you equipped bees?)

[personal profile] siriusly 2019-09-19 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Whose what now? [he looks back, plainly confused.] Someone here's a, a psychic or something? In their sleep?
runs_on_batteries: (from the heart)

[personal profile] runs_on_batteries 2019-09-19 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Curufin. He's the elf that doesn't look quite like the rest of his family. He has darker hair, less of a giant, always in an obnoxiously good mood.. ring a bell? Yes, no?.. okay well, that guy.
siriusly: (b but i didn't mean to i mean i uh um)

[personal profile] siriusly 2019-09-22 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
O-oh. [a beat.

sheepishly:]
I...I really need to get better at actually meeting everyone new who shows up...
runs_on_batteries: (smirk)

[personal profile] runs_on_batteries 2019-09-23 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[He chuckles and shakes his head.]

It's fine. If you want, I'll introduce you to people when we are celebrating our victory.