Event: Healing Waters

[voidtreckermods]

"Good morning passengers, it is day twenty three of the month of Grasshopper. All passengers of the Voidtrecker Express require rest. Next stop Jema’grethy Island. All passengers prepare to disembark."

It is a very strange morning message that rings through the train on the morning of day twenty three but as the passengers of the Voidtrecker Express wake their screens glow with the colour of the void and a holographic screen pops up for them to read.

World #2554098133741: A world once inhabited by an ancient civilisation and now preserved as a historical site, nature reserve and well-being retreat. It is famous for its relaxing hot springs, calming atmosphere and beautiful beaches.

It is a popular void-traveller destination, particularly among void missionaries as a place to rest and recuperate after difficult missions.

The Voidtrecker Express will spend three days here, arriving today and leaving on day twenty six of the month of Grasshopper. The dressing carriage is open for your convenience.

It is time for a holiday it seems!

Preparation

For those who go to explore the dressing carriage they will find a variety of beachwear and wetsuits. One cupboard has a pile of tents and groundsheets in all four team colours.

One cabinet is exclusively filled with beach towels, in a kaleidoscope of colours, designs and patterns. Another is filled with different shapes and sizes of plain towel dressing gowns. There is even a cabinet with buckets, spades and small rock-pooling nets.

It seems they are in for quite an adventure.

Arrival

"Shortly arriving on World #2554098133741. Exit from void in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one."

The train lurches and rattles as it leaves the void they will get a glimpse of silver-purple sky and a beautiful ocean below.

However some passengers might be a little more than distracted, one staring at that table for a second too long, another seeming lost in thought for a couple of seconds, a longer than normal pause in a sentence. They see a vision, a glimpse of a life that is not their own. Not all at once, but here and there as the train descends to the island.

But then it is gone and things are back to normal. Just in time, as they come to land.

Jema’grethy Island

The train has landed on a grassy ridge, overlooking a beautiful beach of white sand and the ocean beyond. It is warm, but not too hot, a cool ocean breeze cutting through the heat making it pleasant. Behind them is a grassy plain, changing to forest in the distance. There is the sound of birdsong in the purple sky. To the west the land is more craggy, the silhouette of a fortress in the distance. In a word, it is idylic. A sense of peace permeates the island.

A little more worrying is the volcano-like structure in the north. But even a quick glance will show it is not a typical volcano. There is no smoke and the liquid slowly running down it in rivulets is pink and blue.

Exploring the passengers will find beautiful beaches, ragged cliffs to walk and caves to explore. Where it is more craggy the beaches are made of pebbles- perfect for rock pooling.

The place has no people, but it is clearly maintained. The eastern beaches have racks of shallow boats, both canoes and one- or two-person sailing dinghies. There is also a small building in which scuba gear is stored, along with several waterproofed manuals and instructional literature.

Ruins of ancient houses are scattered across the island, but the main settlement is built into a rocky section in the north-west that has been secured with ropes and stairways cut into the cliffs, perfect for scrambles and hikes.

There are no living quarters, but there are sheltered sections with basic toilet facilities marked as camping grounds in five different sections of the island - by the hot springs, within the ruined fortress, beside the harbour, on the eastern beaches, and on the northern face of the mountain.

Hot Springs

To the west are the hot springs. They have both outdoor and indoor areas; the indoor areas being wooden loghouse saunas, changing rooms and storage sheds, whilst the outdoor areas are a tiered series of pools spilling down the side of the mountain and shaded by brightly flowering trees. The waters are hot, mineral-rich and soothing.

Perfect for overly stressed, world weary Void heroes...

(OOC: More setting information is here, please feel free to go wild with the setting and have a fun and relaxing time. You can use this post as a catch all for your holiday or make your own posts on middleofsomewhere. More information about how the memory event is structured is here!)

Comments

Re: Arrival

[deductiongeek]

He pushes away the momentary disorientation from the very long memory that had just been crowded into a few seconds.

"Just a strange feeling." He frowns darkly, thinking over what he had seen in this moment. He couldn't say for sure, but from past experience he knew that there were people on the train who'd experienced strange vision just before some of the more dangerous missions. He'd never experienced it himself, but the precedent was there.

"And if I'm right, there is something more to this next stop than what we've been told."

[deage]

"That's a serious deduction," Haibara notes, leaning back in the chair. "What do you think is going on?"

[deductiongeek]

"Just extrapolating from the known facts." He winces a little from the lingering headache.

"Out of curiosity, have you noticed any sudden memories that don't seem to fit?" He'd just received two full days of memories he was certain were not his, so that had been very noticeable. If multiple people were receiving something similar, that was a major flag that something was up.

[deage]

Haibara sighs. "Yes. I don't know if I should be glad it wasn't just me, or worried that it's part of something larger."

She pauses for a moment, closing her eyes, recalling that... memory. "In what I remembered, I was a man, and... fighting a larger man, who could manipulate fire, for some reason."

Opening her eyes again, she looks over to Kudo. "That isn't normal here, right?"

[deductiongeek]

He frowns. "There are people on the train who have reported having upsetting visions and dreams just some of the past missions. They've proven to be very accurate, if difficult to understand. What worries me is that those usually only affected a few people, all of who had some kind of related ability from their home reality. There have only been two times before where something like that affected me, and both were immediately followed by a dangerous event."

He considers her brief description of the memory. "But I can't think how that could relate to this next stop. Or how it relates to the memory I saw." He is silent for a moment as he thinks through everything he had seen. "I was a teenager, living on a chain of islands. It was all very mundane. Lots of talk of school and traveling from island to island. Except the animals who lived on the islands were strange."

[deage]

Hmm. "The information provided said the next stop has beaches, so I could see how yours might be related. Mine seems to be the odd one out, both compared to yours and to this destination."

Her memory also had some sort of. Robot suit. She's not going to mention that, that just sounds fake even to her, and she saw it.

[deductiongeek]

"But it has to be connected somehow. It's just a connection that I can't see yet."

Conan has a puzzle now. So much for expecting him to relax at all during his vacation.

[deage]

Let's be real here, getting a puzzle is how Conan relaxes.

"I'll leave that to the deduction geek then. Just be sure to pass along the answer once you find it."

[deductiongeek]

"I'll find a way to get word to you if I figure it out in time."

...He can't actually argue with that assessment.