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

[10billionpercent]

Well, no, probably not, although you can test out certain theories and hypothesis, looking for patterns to the places we come for example. A lot of theoretical physics is just that, because we haven't found ways to prove them yet but that doesn't mean there isn't things to learn.

[xue_yang]

[Xue Yang understands testing and trying to figure out exactly how things function. He did enough of that when he was trying to recreate the Stygian Amulet. He hasn't felt inclined to figure out how the train functions but perhaps it would make things interesting.]

If you need help testing it somehow, I might feel inclined to assist.

[10billionpercent]

I'll be sure to keep that in mind. I want to keep exploring what I can with the void. I'm tempted to look at the train too, but not while we're on it, obviously.

[ That sounds like a project for another day. He'd be fascinated in seeing what the train was made of for interstellar travel. ]

Space travel- [ to get back on topic ] involves remaining in the same world, but leaving the surface of the planet and heading up into the sky. Those stars you see, the moon, they're all out in space. The moon in particular, humans have landed on it before in 1969.

[xue_yang]

1969..? I believe would be in the future I am not likely to see.

[Since that is several hundred years after when he dies, given that once he returns home from the train he will be returning to death.]

I'm not sure anyone during my time even considered flying up to the stars.

[10billionpercent]

Well to be fair, I wasn't alive then either, I wasn't born until 2003.

[ He implies he's from the distant past though and that's pretty interesting. ]

What time are you from?

[xue_yang]

It would be about the year 450 AD where I am from. I don't know how much time has passed there since being here but the Xuanzheng dynasty is currently underway.

[He never really paid much attention to who was in charge or when since politics didn't really concern him.]

[10billionpercent]

Interesting. In my world, for me, it's 5741 AD.

[ That probably sounds kind of crazy on its own, but that feeling is mutual. ]

I'd guess that probably around that time you weren't looking at space travel, you're right.

[xue_yang]

We didn't even have a train.

[That is the first piece of modern technology he had to learn about once ending up on the platform. There is a long list of things he has learned about since then. And each time they end up at another stop, even more stuff he has never seen before.]

It seems we have quite a lot of time between us.

[10billionpercent]

You wouldn't, trains didn't appear until 1804.

[ He commented that without even thinking about it, like a reflex for incessant trivia answers. ]

It must be strange for you, then. [ He nods. ] It's a lot of time, yes, but because in my world, my world kind of ended, I started a few years ago with a lot less tech than you have in your time. We're talking stone tools and fire. I just, fortunately, know enough to get from that point to hopefully, back into space.

[xue_yang]

The world ends? [Another curious tilt of the head and a slightly raised eyebrow. That is interesting to know.]

How did it end?

[10billionpercent]

Not in the flashy way everyone was expecting it to, with the explosion of the sun. That's not due for a few billion years yet. Actually, I guess it is more accurate to say civilization ended.

[ He sighs softly. ]

In 2019, something unknown caused every human on the planet to be petrified, turning them to stone and putting them in something like a cold sleep. I've been working on solving the problem, to discover how it came about. After that, nature just took over, so everything humanity built up to that point is pretty much gone.

[xue_yang]

Well at least I don't live to see the end of the world. Though I could probably handle being in a world that is not yet developed.

[Xue Yang has always known how to survive even despite the roughest of circumstances.]

Are you going to try and continue to find out what happened to your world while you are on the train?

[10billionpercent]

Everyone's going to come out of this, I'm going to make sure of it.

[ He's ambitious if nothing else. Part of it is the challenge, part of it is the sheer admiration for what humans can create. ]

It's not so undeveloped anymore, we've been working pretty hard. We even have one paved road. That came about once we got access to the Sagara Oil Field.

[ He nods. ]

Well I'm not sure what I'm going to find out, so much as I have a lot of time to work and fine tune my theories.

[xue_yang]

How long has it been since you woke up on the new world? How many of you were woken up?

[He's rather interested in the idea of a world reborn. He wonders how it would be with the people he knows and which ones would be able to handle starting over in such a way.]

[10billionpercent]

I've been awake the whole time. [ He says this like that's not a big deal ] But I broke free of the petrification three years and 184 days ago, in my world, before I was taken here, based on the date at the time.

I emerged from what I'll call stasis on April 1st, 5738. The next person to break free was my friend and he did so on October 5th. After that, we spent several months experimenting until I had a breakthrough in what we call revival fluid. I had to take into account energy that the other people weren't generating because their minds were asleep when mine wasn't.

At this point in time, we have about a hundred and fifty people, of which about a hundred are people who were revived. There are a great many limitations to how much we can revive people, considering not only the lack of materials, but the fact if we revived a bunch of people without some kind of infrastructure in place, we'd never be able to feed them all.

[xue_yang]

So basically you are the one that is saving the world. That's a fairly heavy burden isn't it?

[He doesn't seem as shocked by the fact that Senku was awake through his entire time being petrified. Somehow It just seems like it is expected and natural given what he has seen in this short time with the other man.]

[10billionpercent]

Yeah, I am, because I can't let humanity die out. I'm not okay with that.

[ The burden though, it is heavy for him to carry but... ]

I'm not alone. I have allies who will work with me to achieve the goal. It's been a long road so far, and a complicated one but right now everyone is working together.

[xue_yang]

Saving the world is always going to be complicated. It would be odd if it wasn't. But at least you have figured out how to bring people back. Having more hands will make it slightly less complicated.

[Xue Yang is hardly one to talk about teamwork when he is used to being a lone wolf and doing whatever he wants when he wants. But he has started to see the benefits of coordinating with others.]

Are they going to be able to continue well enough while you are here?

[10billionpercent]

Both more and less complicated. Even if we could make enough revival fluid to revive people all at once, we have no way of feeding them all. It has to be very carefully done. I imagine we're probably looking at another ten years in this process.

[ He's not daunted or deterred by that. It will be hard work, but he's perfectly fine with it. ]

Yeah. I may be important, but my generals in particular know what they're doing. If I up and disappeared, Ryusui would take charge and lead everyone, keeping them under control. Gen would throw his weight behind him to bring everyone under the same goal without challenging his power. Chrome is a smart, inventive guy and he comes up with stuff I know but haven't gotten to yet. He'd push technology further, and Ukyo is a brilliant enough strategist, able to keep his eyes and ears open to protect them.

They'll be fine. I'm not worried. It would be awful planning to have the fate of the world resting on one man.

[xue_yang]

[It does seem like he has a reliable team, which is good considering they are trying to restart the world. ]

Seems you are well equipped for the task at hand. Ten years doesn't seem like a very long time to have to wait to bring back humanity. I imagine it took quite a bit longer then that the first time.

How long before you expect you'll be able to get to the stars?

[10billionpercent]

[ Senku raises two fingers and looks like he's thinking doing the math. ]

Being that we have to travel to different continents and countries, not knowing what we're walking into and the amount of time it takes to go there by ship...

[ He's doing the math, the actual math. ]

I think we may be looking at a six year window to gather all of the materials and then perhaps two years on construction, maybe pushing it to three so, nine or so.

I could be wrong, we did complete our ship in only one year. But our projects are not mutually exclusive, we have different work groups doing different things.

[xue_yang]

Delayed only a little because you are here instead of there for an unknown amount of time.

[Xue Yang is still impressed that he seems to think they will be able to do so many things in such a short period of time. He's pretty sure none of those things will be possible in his lifetime back at his home.]

[10billionpercent]

Ah, that's true, there's an unknown factor of how long I'll be here.

[ He chuckles. ]

But work can happen without me, that's the only logical way to run things.

[ He stretches and puffs a bit. ]

Appreciate the conversation, but the hot spring's getting to me, I'm gonna have to get out.

[xue_yang]

[He nods and lifts his hand in a wave. He intends to stay there for a bit longer and ease the last of his stresses away.]

The train isn't very big. I'm sure we will see each other again.