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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2020-05-21 05:22 am

Under the Sea: Conclusion and aftermath

Ritual

The jellyfish is no more and as red team take stock of their injuries, or collapse from exhaustion the lights zip around them, singing their song of joy. They gather around the light that had been inside the jellyfish and now that it has been released it is obvious this light is different. Stronger. They surround it and the song gets even louder as they begin to move towards the plinth.

In the caverns where the purple and orange team are there is a stillness. For those in orange team still in the cavern they can only hope that the instructions they gave out had been followed. Luckily for them they have been, Purple team have done a remarkable job of defeating the crabs and cleaning the temple. The priests gather around the shell on the alter, arms linked together in prayer as they seek to re-sanctify their temple. As their prayer begins they will invite the voidtreckers to join them, though no one is forced into taking part in the ritual. They suggest that they use their strange wrist jewellery to open communication with their friends in Bui.

The monster on the beach is defeated and though the fight is still raging against the crabs, a beacon has been built and lit. The islanders who are not fighting gather around it, linking arms, drawing any voidtreckers who don't object to joining them into the circle.

The song begins hesitantly, almost as if everyone has forgotten the words and only half remembers the tune. The SCA translates, the prayer is simple, a blessing on the land and its people, deliverance from the darkness and hope for the future.

The light from the jellyfish reaches the plinth and is set upon it. The song heightens and the light shoots upwards, blinding in its brilliance.

Through the dark storm clouds a light streams towards the island, most of it towards the beacon on the island though there is a break away light that goes towards the train, where some of orange team have set up a second beacon. It swirls around those on the train roof, singing a song of happiness and bounces back towards the island.

The light reaches the main beacon and hits it with a strength that lights up the whole sky. The light splits more solidly into two and speeds off over the ocean. Light pours into the underground caverns, not caring about the ocean and rock in the way, the light pools into the shells, the caverns glow warmly.

Outside the storm calms, clouds roll back, the sun shines. The sea stills. The wind stops. The sun is rising, a beautiful dawn. Any monsters left scuttle away, vanishing into the ocean, away from Bui.

Those with any powers that they couldn't reach before find them returned in a rush. Those who can sense life find this world teeming with it. A song that dances between every plant and creature.

Some of red may have evacuated to the train but those who stayed to see the ritual through, the world around them seems to melt away and they find themselves back next to the rock pools. Among their number there are some confused looking islanders who intrinsically draw closer to those who helped free the lights.

Orange and Purple

Down underwater there's noise and a babble of voices as the citizens of Bui wake up. There's a shimmering around the city now, like a shield though they can pass through easily. Parents scramble to locate their children and all check on loved ones and friends.

The familiar voice of train announcements is heard through Orange team's SCAs. Orange return to the VoidTrecker Express. Once everyone is on board it flies low over the ocean, skimming the waves.

In the underwater temple the priests finish sealing the ritual and then it is time to begin the return trek. There are no monsters this time and after a few hours, as they emerge onto the first of the sandbanks they will find the VoidTrecker Express is waiting for them.

Red and Blue

The monsters gone, those of the island gather everyone from the rock pools and for a few hours everyone sleeps.

At about noon the islanders begin to stir, begin putting things to rights. Wood is moved from the strategic points to more communal campfires on the beach. Any dead monsters that haven't been gathered for food have been washed out to sea, disappeared into the depths. They begin to prepare food and won't turn away any helpers. Though those who have been fighting are encouraged to rest.

The islanders bring blankets and start to gather. Everyone is exhausted but the children, in the way of children find the energy to play in the sea and the sand.

Beach Day

Early afternoon the train lands on the beach and everyone gets a holographic message to their SCA.

Mission successful. Well done Voidtreckers. Enjoy the rest of your day. You will find suitable clothing in the dressing room. A new recipe has been added to the kitchen information points.

The dressing room is indeed open once more, this time it holds swimsuits of every style, shorts, t shirts, wraps and beach skirts. Sun hats and sunglasses can also be found. It's a bit of a mush mash but they should be able to cobble together something other than their uniform wet suits.

Time to laze around on the beach or for those who still have energy swim or play. A few hours later a ripple across the water brings some of those from Bui and they swim or lounge on rocks to talk.

Food and stories

Food is cooked and shared, the islanders will happily try the voidtreckers' offerings and share their own. As the sun begins to set they gather around the fires. Stories and songs are shared and there's even some dancing for the brave.

Voidtreckers can choose whether to sleep in their own beds or spend one last night on the island before the train flies off into the sunrise and into the void.
madcuriosity: (I don't know where I am)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2020-06-03 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
"No, the train," she clarified, knowing Nita couldn't have been on the beach too long since the train only just gave them the day off.
so_dark_a_road: (in the unmeasured night #3)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-06-03 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Of course I will come and play for the Bardic Circle!" He smiled, too. "Most of the people will never have heard Maglor sing, so they won't be comparing me to him." Good to be able to joke like this, despite how much he missed his brother.

"You're right about the denim. It will last at least ten years. Far better than those wool fabrics we used to use." He clenched his bicep and the smile grew broader.

And then he listened to Glorfindel as he accepted Curufin's apology. "I thank you. It was a terrible position to be in, and yet, if I had the chance to do it all over again, I know I would make different choices. I'm grateful to you for your efforts to understand what happened. I don't deserve it, but it heals my heart to hear that you value our friendship."

His grin came back, a bright white grin. "I like the view from my part of the beach, too." He waved a hand to indicate Glorfindel's outfit.
Edited 2020-06-03 04:33 (UTC)
so_dark_a_road: (flickers of light)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-06-03 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Curufin grins when Nerdanel rolls her eyes. He recalls his own childhood antics and those of his brothers and cousins, and he knows his mother was somehow able to take it all in stride, despite the worry they must have caused her, because she loved them all dearly and wanted them to find their own paths.

"Aulë would agree with you there, I have no doubt!" he laughed. "And as for the beacon lights, whereas I normally try my best to see the bigger picture, I suspect you are right. We never really do. What we can do is think as far ahead as we can, and try to see as broadly as we can, and take our best shot, and hope for the best."
knifewithnoname: (listening)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2020-06-03 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
"I do no be minding." It was a sentiment she had heard a few times since coming to this train. She should have a name and she should be able to choose what people called her. It was a strange thing to think about, like Peter's insistence that everyone had parents at least once when that did not match her experience of the world at all.

Her face turned from thoughtful to beaming when her elbow was knocked and he praised her. She had clocked him as one of the more powerful fighters and on top of that he had magic. So praise from him meant a lot.

"I did be learning a bit at home and then I did be learning more here. There do be being lots of good fighters here. At home I would have been going to be learning to be a Warrior, they do be people who do be protecting priests, but I did be coming here instead."
silentwoof: (Default)

[personal profile] silentwoof 2020-06-03 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
"There... should be plenty of time." Probably?
knifewithnoname: (excited smiles)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2020-06-03 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
She watched him as he considered and then nodded once at his answer. Not hard. Just as she had thought.

She stood up and with a determined nod, walked into the water. Not knowing this skill was stupid and while she was next to an ocean, with no monsters trying to drag her under, was a time to learn.
Edited 2020-06-03 05:28 (UTC)
pleple: (Taking over)

[personal profile] pleple 2020-06-03 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Ple Two... could be a good girl, surely. "Ah. ...I know they do... already, in some ways." At least her smarts and her sass and her abilities.
pleple: (Default)

[personal profile] pleple 2020-06-03 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
"One can... only keep it up for so long, I imagine." It could be exhausting to be always on the move.
pleple: (Doesn't make side to)

[personal profile] pleple 2020-06-03 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
"W-well I... she has other people to spend time with too..." Ple Two didn't want to just... cling the whole time.

Should she?
pleple: (The street desire)

[personal profile] pleple 2020-06-03 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Ple Two could maybe succeed at dragging him. Possibly.

The sand might make it difficult.

"Mm. ...I wouldn't mind just a little more time spent... on worlds."
madcuriosity: (I just wish things made sense)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2020-06-03 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Ala- I beg your pardon, but what is alacrittery?"

At the double-checking, she frowned and looked down at her hands, unsure what to make of it.

She did so hate lying...

"I... suppose I could be better."
kumoko: (i wanna use magic tho)

[personal profile] kumoko 2020-06-03 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ no thanks that's also bad. she wants to be unnamed spider again, please and thank you.

Anyway, here's the point where, if she was a character in a drama, she'd yell something like "you're not my real mom!" and burst into tears or something. But she's not a character in a drama, she's a spider, and she's spent like a week grinding trash mobs and not even getting the pleasure of watching an exp bar tick up. ]


fine I'll split them

[ Blip! Pile of goblins. Blip! Pile of crabs. ]
xue_yang: (Default)

[personal profile] xue_yang 2020-06-03 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds like something Xingchen would have done if he were on the train. He looks out at the water, "I'm not the kind of person that generally thanks someone when they do something like that."

Meaning..don't expect him to say those words but one can assume he is grateful.
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[personal profile] sobothersome 2020-06-03 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
She was waiting for him to show he was okay to eat, so Maru stretched out a hand to take some of it and pulled it closer. It did hurt to move too much, but if he kept one arm wrapped around his middle and used his other to eat it seemed to go fine.

At least he was able to eat something. Just not as much as he would have normally. In fact very little. Maru gave a little shake of his head and sighed.

"I think I need sleep more than food..."
marriedanidiot: (working hard)

[personal profile] marriedanidiot 2020-06-03 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh that's an idea I had not considered! But no, I was thinking more of using them in a mosaic... not my normally preferred method but these truly would suit ..."
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[personal profile] marriedanidiot 2020-06-03 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
"No." She agrees. "Although we had our own inventions, but we took a different tack, I think. But my Atarinke has been exploring the worlds for a while, he says. He has had a chance to learn many things from places foreign to us - and he well remembers how hard it would have been, I am sure!"

Also, quite frankly, she loves her husband very much, but absolutely no one on Tirion would ever want to be taught by Mad Genius Feanaro, even putting aside his bloodied past, as he had something of a reputation as an absolutely terrible lecturer who would randomly switch topics as the thought occurred to him, and had no patience for slowing down enough for anyone to keep up with him until he had children of his own.

By contrast, Curufin was a saint.
kumoko: (eh really??)

[personal profile] kumoko 2020-06-03 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
She's stuffed with crab meat too. Hurgh. But she'll show them! Not to mention, she still has no way of measuring her stamina or mana, so at this point it's better to stuff her face instead of risking passing out or dying from lowered reserves.

Look, she just wanted to eat crab. No further questions.

"What was in there, anyway?"
marriedanidiot: (wisdom)

[personal profile] marriedanidiot 2020-06-03 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
She laughs. "I raised seven boys, so I should hope so!"

She nods, smiling fondly. "It is. Ai, but perhaps I'll avoid the fighting, next time. I feel rather useless!"
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[personal profile] marriedanidiot 2020-06-03 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Not quite like this." She smiles in memory.

"The sands at Alqualonde were far more colorful! All the light catching of the gems tumbling in the waves... But the atmosphere is quite similar."
mynameisallen: (Huh ★ So answer me this?)

[personal profile] mynameisallen 2020-06-03 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay so guessing it will be then I suppose." This whole actually doing things is still very new to thin after being used to working pretty much most of the time. Usually in downtime, the other would train as well.

But he soon started, sand into the bucket which seemed to be the first step in his mind. Once it was pretty full he looked down at it, pausing briefly again.

"How can I turn this over without losing some sand?"
blitzcheer: (i go where you go)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-06-03 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
"If fighting's what they need me to do on these missions, I'll be ready for it, no problem!" he declares. Because hey, no problem indeed. Nothing he isn't used to.

"Maybe I'll even try a Red mission next time. You and Blue barely have any people compared to Purple. Can't let you have all the fun against the oversized seafood."
mynameisallen: (Well ★ But where will you go)

[personal profile] mynameisallen 2020-06-03 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
"I guess I just don't get the humor." It doesn't help that he had actually seen him and just anything other than what he saw was just a little strange. "I think it's it had been a couple years ago, I might have understood it a little more."
mynameisallen: (189)

[personal profile] mynameisallen 2020-06-03 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
"I think they have the ones that go over your eyes here... I saw them but haven't actually gotten to give it a try yet." He was still adapting to the handheld stuff first. But he could understand at least why people seemed to enjoy them, though there was also a lot of violence in some of them that seemed a bit excessive.

"But I do tend to find them a good thing to do to waste time."
mynameisallen: (220)

[personal profile] mynameisallen 2020-06-03 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Music can do a lot."

Allen was probably always hungry considering, but Allen knew that he couldn't say for a fact if anyone could cook faster than he could eat. Being able to eat a whole meal in a span of a minute kind of makes that a little hard.

"I'm sure I'm always hungry considering the amount of energy I had to use during the mission, but it really would mean no one could cook fast enough, trust me. I'd have to eat a little and often instead."
blitzcheer: (flex flex let's go run!)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-06-03 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Then let's do that sometime! Waste time together." Because wasting time with someone is better than wasting it alone, in Tidus's very expert opinion.

"I haven't checked them out either. I never got around to checking out most of the game room before we got put on the mission." A small huff. "And I do not want to spend all day in my room. It's too tiny!"

Cramped spaces? No thanks. The less time he can spend in there, the better.