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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!
myblueskies: (of course!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-09-22 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know! It's lots of stairs though!"

Many many stairs but they can run and soon they will get to the top! It was important that they got up and were able to help the wizards because that was their job!

He held on tightly, making sure not to drag her. Together they would get all the way to the top!
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[personal profile] happyends 2019-09-22 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Although Madoka only has a regular teenage girl's stamina and speed, she's still doing her best to at least not give up and keep on running, even as she's slowly starting to get more tired as they keep running. But she's pretty sure everyone is already ahead of them by now, so she feels like can't stop and make them only lag even further behind.

At least it feels a little less bad knowing there's someone right here with her. Although he seems so young.. So she can't help but wonder-- "U.. um.. Once we get up there, do you have a way of dealing with those goblins..?"

She knows not to underestimate people based on appearances (that's what the whole magical girl thing is about, after all!) so for all she knows, Romeo could be some amazingly powerful wizard. But he could also just be a regular boy, in which case the responsibility would fall onto her to make sure he wasn't in direct danger, right?
myblueskies: (of course!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-09-23 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Um I learned how to use a spear! But I don't got a spear..." He's slowed a little naturally. He's got lots of energy by default of being young and enthusiastic, but it's still a lot of stairs!

"I can make borderlines though and I know how to throw them so they are like fighting!"
happyends: (to walk into the void again)

[personal profile] happyends 2019-09-23 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
For a moment Madoka glances at Romeo like he grew a set of extra limbs while still running. It's not as if she's totally doubting the other's capabilities here, but.. the idea of someone as young and tiny as Romeo using a spear is kind of wild.

(Sure, she's seen it from Kyouko, but.. she's a magical girl, she doesn't count!)

"Borderlines..? I don't think I've ever heard of that before.."
myblueskies: (they really are delicious apples!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-09-24 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
"They make a wall so nothing can get through and eat you!"

They were almost near the top now! All that running had been worth it!

"So if the bad goblins try and get us I can keep us safe!"
happyends: (to walk into the void again)

[personal profile] happyends 2019-09-24 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's amazing.."

It's still a little confusing to try and visualise it inside of her mind, but just that last part by itself makes it amazing. Despite being in her general age category, Romeo is so much more impressive than her already.

"I-- I'm sure you could do so much for the wizards here with that..!" Since protecting them was supposed to be their mission, right?
myblueskies: (the world is beautiful!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-09-25 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
"I hope so! I'll try and keep all the wizards safe." He grinned at her. "Do you know how to fight?"

Hopefully between them they could help everyone as best as they could!
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[personal profile] happyends 2019-09-25 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
That makes her look a little guilty. She glances ahead, like she's trying to mentally calculate whether they're maybe just close enough that they'll arrive there in a time that she can still avoid having to answer that, but it seems they're just a little bit too far off still.

So instead she slowly answers.

"N.. No, I don't." Which shouldn't be a thing a regular 14 year old girl should feel shameful about, and yet here Madoka is, looking exactly like that. "It seems like I'm one of the only ones who can't.."
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[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-09-27 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's alright! I didn't know either until mister D2 taught me!" There was no shame in not knowing something, as long as you learned and did your best!

"I can't teach you borderlines but if we find a spear or a stick I can teach you how to fight with it!"

He was sure he knew enough now to teach someone else and Elfnein always said that teaching others was a good way to practice.
happyends: (i'll explain all i know)

[personal profile] happyends 2019-09-28 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
D2..? That's.. a rather odd name for a person, but Madoka is both too polite to say that out loud and too distracted by their current situation anyway. But the suggestion he makes is something worth considering even as they're running. Being taught by someone slightly younger than her is slightly embarrassing - not due to pride necessarily, but since it makes her feel like she should have been on that level to begin with.

On the other hand, what other options does she have? But..

"Well.. Right now we have a lot of other things to worry about.."

Like, you know. The tower being under attack. Who knows if it'll be under attack the entire time they'll be here?

"S-So it's alright. You should be careful and try to help protecting the people up here.."
myblueskies: (of course!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-10-04 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Well yes, there wasn't time for training right now because the goblins were attacking! But he would stick with her and keep her safe until she learned to fight herself!

"I will be careful and I'll help protect everyone! We can protect everyone together alright! Because team work is really important!"