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

[knifewithnoname]

"How my foot do be connecting?"

She tilted her head at him as she returned, ball in hand.

"I do no be understanding." Had she kicked it wrong?

[xue_yang]

He points to his own foot. "Depending on how you hit it, the angle will differ. If you keep your foot straight..in theory the ball should also travel that way."

Xue Yang has always been good at working things out so he is fairly confident in this assessment. But putting it into application is much harder.

[knifewithnoname]

"So if I to be hitting it straight on it will be going just forwards?"

That makes a lot of sense. And honestly had been what she had been trying to do, it was a difficult thing in practice though.

"Do you be knowing how?"

He held out the ball.

[xue_yang]

"I've never kicked one so I am not sure." He reaches out and takes it though and then sets it down on the ground. He lines his foot up with it.

After a couple of times of bringing his leg forward and lining it up, he finally gives one solid kick hitting it solidly with the top of his foot. The ball travels straight towards the tree and slams into it.

[knifewithnoname]

She watches him as he lines up the ball and kicks it hard towards the tree, she grins as it connects and then ducks as it bounces right back at them.

"You did be aiming good!"

[xue_yang]

He has fairly good coordination. Comes with swordsmanship and his top skill is being able to liberate a person's tongue from their mouth with just a flick of a wrist. Kicking a ball against a tree is easy in comparison.

"You should try it again. Just keep your foot as straight as possible."

[knifewithnoname]

She nodded, going to retrieve the ball, this time with a level of determination. If Xue Yang can do that on his first kick... She was determined to do just as well.

She placed the ball down and looked at the tree, looked at her foot, looked back at the tree. She kept her foot as straight as she could before she drew his leg back and kicked it.

This time it hit the tree square on, it wasn't as powerful a kick than before but it came straight back towards them.

She grinned.

[xue_yang]

"Accuracy will always be the most important." He nods his approval at the fact that her kick struck right where she wanted it to.

"Power can always be added later." That is the key to learning anything new.

[knifewithnoname]

Accuracy and then power she nodded with a grin. "I will be remembering that."

She went to retrieve the ball, she would need to practice a lot more, because the idea wasn't just to hit the tree but bounce off the tree to hit another target, and that would take a lot of aiming.

"I do be thinking the ball would have to be being heavier to be being a proper weapon though and then it will be being harder to be kicking..."

[xue_yang]

"I think the damage can be just as severe with this then with something heavier once you have the correct power behind it. You have to find a weight that you can still control and hit without it being too much."

Xue Yang thinks that if the ball becomes too heavy it would become harder to use appropriately.

[knifewithnoname]

She nodded, "I can be trying with the different balls, there do be being a lot in the gym."

So she could try out different weights and see which ones she could control.

"But I should probably be practising until I can be doing it properly first."

[xue_yang]

He nods, "I will leave you to your practicing." That way she can concentrate on her kicking versus having an audience to it.

[knifewithnoname]

She nodded at him with a grin, "I will be seeing you later," and an idle wave before she went back to fetch the ball once more. She was determined to get this right!