voidtreckermods: (train)
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!
so_dark_a_road: (these are my brass knuckles)

Wildcard -- gimme a ride?

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-09-15 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ Curufin is running back and forth, summoning the city-dwellers to come with him or other Orange Team members, climb up the cliff path and escape the city. He's finding that the hard part is getting back down the cliffs fast enough after rescuing one batch of people, in order to find the next. On the cliff top, he sees that Kumoko is using some magical ability and runs to catch up with her. ]

Hey, can I ride on your back to get back down to the city? And then back up again, if we find anybody who can't walk well?
kumoko: (UM)

[personal profile] kumoko 2019-09-16 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ Without the help of the cool, mature beauty that was her maxed-out Analysis skill, she really has no idea how much MP she's using with each teleport spell. She's tired, but not too tired, and one of the merchants gave her a drink for saving them that felt like fifty shots of knockoff Red Bull and she's just resorted to killing goblins with her scythes rather than magic to save on MP more. She's pretty sure she can do this all day.

It's kinda... lonely, though? She really has been ruined by having to stick around the other passengers. The people here don't know she's a person, so they've patted her and told her 'good job' with that hopeful glance around like they're hoping her summoner will show up.

So maybe when she realises that, hey, isn't that her cute subordinate chasing her??? The guy who promised to win Orange the month prize or whatever, she sticks around to hear what he has to say.

She nods before she can think better of it. She even crouches, legs bunching inwards like a spider-themed sedan chair. The teleport array hangs in the air beside her, inert, ready for activation. ]
so_dark_a_road: (many secrets of craft)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2019-09-22 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ Curufin smiles at Kumoko, and when she crouches, he hops onto her back. Ride em', cowboy! Except he knows she's an intelligent being and he won't treat her like an animal or a big insect. ]

Thanks! We'll get down there and bring anybody up that we can find!

[ He sees the teleport array in the air beside the spider, and he's never seen the exact thing before, but he guesses it's use. He waits for her to activate it and take them down into the city. They'll appear amongst a group of running children. ]