middleofsomewhere | Event: Healing Waters

"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!)

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"Sure, I'm not particularly busy." Senku offered, he'd already made his tools and had been exploring, so it wasn't like he couldn't be diverted from his thoughts for awhile.

He looked at the porygon2 with a bit of a headtilt. "This is...one of your animals?"

"Awesome. Though we might want to find somewhere to sit. This could take a while."

At least a few hours, if Eva had anything to say about it.

"Yeah, it's a porygon2; the two actually refers to the version of the AI that runs it. It'll be doing the holograms needed."

"I could sit anywhere, I'm not picky." That was true these days, the ground was where he sat most of the time.

"Holograms? How does that work? Is it a robot?" He looked far more interested in the porygon2 now. "Did you program it?"

"The nearest patch of grass it is then!"

She's way too excited about this, honestly. Someone she can ramble too? Oh hell yes.

"She, but yeah, it is and nope. I had it custom-designed and everything, but it's also been rather gutted thanks to the Train back to the basic shell they used for porygon2." There's an annoyed huff. "The holograms' come out of the eyes. Lele:Holo:Carratt."

And just like, there's a strange, alien looking creature-plant keeping pace alongside Lele now. Though, more of a hop-amble like a kangaroo? If the 'roo had long, spindly fingers. "Isn't she cute?"

Um, Eva... your cuteness meter might be a little off...

"Huh..." Senku mused, wondering about that, and very interested in the porygon2, but the hologram is not uninteresting.

The creature is nothing like one he's seen before.

"I guess? I mean, I think it would be interesting to dissect." Was that something that Eva might find cute? "It looks like a combination between a plant and an animal. A poisonous plant at that."

She does not even think. She simply reaches over and smacks him upside the head with a sharp tsk. "I do hope you mean that as in dead and not on a table alive while you did so."

Everything else can come after.

"Hey!" He protested, ducking a bit in time to take out some of the sting. It didn't hurt but he leaned away from her a little warily after she did that.

"Well yeah, how do you dissect something alive? That's just surgery."

"True, true." Her grin looks real and the shrug after is. He has a point after all.

"As for Carratt- You're right yet not. While she is animal, she's also plant thanks to the mycelium-based mushroom she has a relationship with." Parasitic relationship, but Eva's not about to scare him off. "Yet that's not the only part of her. For all she's grass-type, she's also fairy-type and-" Eva exhales before shaking her head with a grin. "and if pushed, she can be rather nasty and unforgiving like all fae can be."

It was to her credit that, aside from being swiped at he didn't think she was going to do anything else, because he didn't get up and put actual space between them, but stayed where he was, leaning forward to look at the creature again.

"Animal and plant? That doesn't make much sense..." He mused, but that was more in reference to Senku's own life experience. He wasn't easily scared off, Eva didn't need to worry.

"What do you mean by grass-type and fairy-type?" Naturally, he was going to have some questions.

"I could saw you the scans they've done them? And the skeleton if you want."

She... might have forgotten that one of those things needs Roro to connect to the internet.

"It's in reference to the bioenergy that's part of a pokemon's makeup, and it's theorised people have it as well, though we haven't been able to prove or deny it, but given we have psychics and Darkened, it's possible..." Eva shrugs a little. "Anyway, grass-type is just one of 18 types of bioenergy found in pokemon. Uh- Lele:Holo:Momo."

And just like that, there is a very big, very plant-dinosaur-like thing's snout a few feet away from Lele. "This is a grass-type. More exactly, it's a holo of a female fushigibana owned by my boyfriend."

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Event: Healing Waters

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Pretend it's a mega venasaur. ^_^

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