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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2020-11-13 04:28 am
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Not with a Bang Start and Ongoing

"Good Morning passengers. Today is day seven of the month of Imagination." The voice echoes through the train as passengers wake up in their beds. Not long afterwards their SCA’s glow with the colour of the void and a holographic image will appear.

Preperation

They have about an hour to prepare, a little less than usual but perhaps expected, given the urgency of the task.

The cupboards in the dressing room are open to reveal rows of tents, in all four team colours as well as some basic camp cooking equipment. They are in bags that should be easy enough to carry.

"Shortly arriving on System #6416. All passengers get ready to disembark. Next stop world 6416. Exit from void in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one." The train rocks and lurches, bright colours of the void filling the space and then fading as they fly downwards towards a very green landscape.

Arrival and Initial Task

The train lands in a clearing, curving round in an attempt to fit. Once everyone who wishes to disembark has done it flies back into the air, vanishing from sight.

The air is heavy and humid, though it is not currently raining. The clearing is open to the sky and looking up will reveal a worrying sight. The sky is an angry red colour, colours shifting as if the clouds themselves were on fire. It's an unnerving sight.

Their SCA's show three points, one Orange, One purple and one that is half blue and half red. The three control centres. Each are a few hours treck through the jungle and it certainly feels like there is no time to waste.

Those that don't want to treck through the forest can start setting up camp, though the darkening sky might be a little distracting. As time goes on flecks of fire drift down, though they extinguish before hitting the forest floor.

Orange are to travel to the north, Purple to the south and Blue and Red must travel together to the west. Each route takes them through thick and unrelenting jungle. Flying is difficult here unless you can get up past the canopy layer, which means vision of the ground is severely hampered.

The control stations themselves are half buried in vines and require cutting into. If voidtreckers are unlucky they will meet their first security robots here, firing on the intruders. They might even meet their first giant Armadillos, the creatures are curious and may wish to investigate. They are not helpful or constructive to trying to power up the stations and prevent the destruction of the planet.

The control stations are simple enough to operate, but there's quite a lot that needs to be done in way of repairs and clearing. It will take a team effort to get it in working enough order to activate the shield.

The shield itself, when it is activated, is mostly invisible but there is a loud humming sound. The meteor, which has gotten more visible throughout the five hours, hits the shield and splinters, fire enveloping the whole sky. It is visibly terrifying, but no fire falls to earth, no rocks get through, the planet is safe.

Ongoing

Once the planet is safe the voidtreckers deserve a rest. But once the next morning dawns it is time to start with their next tasks, to make sure that this planet stays safe from future threats.

Red

The robots at the control stations are not the only malfunctioning security robots around. They roam the jungle, or are more often stranded in the jungle, powering up only when faced with a new threat.

Some are benign, terraforming machines whose only crime is using up precious power. These need to be dismantled so that power can be saved for the shield system. Others are security robots that will attack the intruders to the planet.

Though the machines are scattered they are often obvious, emitting warning alarms or flashing lights. Their SCA's will show some areas where there are larger clusters but machines can be found anywhere.

Purple

Their SCA's are filled with hundreds of purple dots, each a solar stations that needs cleared and brought back online. It's not the most glamourous job, the stations are deep in the jungle, the treck is difficult and most of the work needed is weed clearing.

But once the weeds have been cut away they will need to patch up the station, doing basic maintenance to get it back online. In some cases wires need to be patched back together but it shouldn't take any great feats of engineering to get the stations up and running.

They may run into some of the security automatons, needing to fight their way into the stations before they can begin the clean up operations.

Orange

Like the red team their SCA will show areas where there are clusters of the small insectoid automatons that need to be rescued and restored. However they can be found anywhere throughout the jungle, they are not too suited for the terrain outside of the stations and so they have gotten tangled in vines. They can be found powered down, stranded and in dire need of maintenance.

Tools and spare parts can be found in many of the solar stations that purple team have been locating. Actually repairing the robots takes some engineering knowledge but once they are restored they will go about their tasks in the stations. They will need help getting to the further flung stations as well as the main control centres.

They are very basic in design and follow pre programmed instructions rather than being able to hear and listen to orders. But once in the correct place they are very effective at their job.

Blue

Once the shield is up there is a faint humming that can be heard throughout the jungle if they listen closely and find it among the sound of rain and insects. But once they hear it, it is obvious where it is louder and more prominent.

Their SCA will pin point some of the larger control boxes but there are truthfully too many to show on a map. Not all of them have attracted Violet Pandas, but many of them have.

They are curious creatures, both of the power boxes and the voidtreckers. They are protective of each other but not so much of territory and therefore it is not difficult to move them on. Keeping them away is another matter, the power humming is interesting and they will unearth wires and chew through them. It doesn't seem to do them much harm, there is clearly safety stops in the system for such eventualities. It does however cut power off to entire solar stations and require a lot of patch work.

Good luck voidtreckers!
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Arrival

[personal profile] marriedanidiot 2020-11-16 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Go safely."

Nerdanel stops just long enough to wish her.

"Both of you."
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[personal profile] marriedanidiot 2020-11-16 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
She smiles faintly.

"Well, I will be less than useful, I suspect. I will look forwards to seeing you later, triumphant!"
blitzcheer: (whatcha gonna do about iiitt)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-16 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, is that what this is? Tidus slashes with a bark of a laugh into the next incoming sentry, sliding to kick into one charging up a blast. He's back onto his feet without pause, nothing but a puff of air for the effort.

"I'll just borrow one of theirs!" he says mockingly. "Think I'd look good?"
blitzcheer: (a match to gasoline)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-16 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey, there's gotta be something us bad at computers can right, right?" Tidus offers encouragingly. "Blue's mission said something about getting animals out of the way. We'll probably get stuck herding and stopping them from chewing the wiring!"
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[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-16 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
A scoff.

"What, the train? Help? It doesn't even give us instructions for the tents!" Which had been confusing enough the first time Tidus had to put one together on a mission! "This is where we need someone on the other side. Like,"

He lifts up his hand with the SCA on his wrist, mock says,

"'Hey, Tidus to Train HQ, give us a manual, half of us don't know what a phone is down here'."
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Ongoing - Purple

[personal profile] adropofsunlight 2020-11-16 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rapunzel paused at the sight that was in front of her, not really knowing what or even how to solve this issue.]

I think it's more than a tiny problem.
blitzcheer: (mobius back)

but that near-miss shot scene was so cool zechs

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-16 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Tidus's instincts would have told him to get down, but he doesn't need them when there's a hard yank from behind that does otherwise, getting him behind some of the trees in the way. Blasts ring in the air, and Tidus takes in the scene quickly, calculates. Closes his eyes and makes a fist with his left hand, a quick surge of power gathering.

"I'll give you a hand too!" he says, and releases the spell- and around Zechs briefly is a flash of a blue sphere, blue and gold honeycomb in design, surrounding him and then gone. "A protect spell! You'll be safe!"
blitzcheer: (mrhrhrhrhrhgghgh)

fixin'

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-16 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Tidus has been bringing equipment from the solar stations to help with the Orange Team's objectives! ...trying, anyway, to bring anything useful. And also seeing if he can pick anything up from what everyone is doing to be more useful, but.

"Uh- sure!"

Tidus hovers his hands over a few 'parts', picks over the one he thinks Ken means and holds it out. Was it the right part...!!

...maybe he should ask to swap places with Wormmon...
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Fixin - Orange

[personal profile] adropofsunlight 2020-11-16 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"What part do you need?" Rapunzel was not at all used to the various tools that people seem to need, so she is currently just staring at it all.
blitzcheer: (simply pour acid)

arrival; time for payback

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-16 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's quitter talk!"

There's enough to worry about. It's a blood-soaked sky, foreboding and ominous even to Tidus's eyes. But Tidus hears that mutter, and persistence takes a hold of him. Tidus steps forward, Jumblie's tiny body sitting on his shoulder, clinging onto a tuft of hair.

"A sky's a sky - I've seen worse." Dismissive, as if pushing aside that the sight means anything. And more important than that: "There's still time."
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3

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-16 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's cheery," Tidus remarks wryly, not really serious. 'This was your last day on earth and you knew about it. What's the first thing you'd do?' That's not a question he's thought about ever. Did what he do in his last day in Zanarkad count as an actual example?

Not that he's going to voice it. But he's been stopped momentarily from wrangling a particularly long vine he's found, following its length to find a good place to cut. Senku wants them, after all.

"Why don't you go first?"
10billionpercent: (I Sense A Plot)

[personal profile] 10billionpercent 2020-11-16 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Right, it had all the poles, at least, I assume so." Senku commented, but he couldn't be sure, it wasn't like he knew how many they needed.

"Okay..." He moved so he could cross two poles on the ground. "Like this?"
blitzcheer: (the QUEEN)

purple

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-16 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uhhh. How 'bout we leave the place nice and tidy for someone else."

Yep, Ichigo, you smash that robot there, Tidus deal with the dull task of pulling and yanking apart here. He's trusting you to watch his back! But also-

"I am so not the guy you want near electrics."
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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-16 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Wormmon chuckles. "I'm Wormmon!"

But this person fell down, and that's not good. He waddles closer. "Hey, what's wrong? Are you okay?"
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[personal profile] marriedanidiot 2020-11-16 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"I hope we do." She agrees. "And perhaps if you find that it reminds you of earth, you can tell me about it later?"
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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-16 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree.

[ Ken has machine grease smeared on his face from being elbow-deep in control centre all day.

He glances back up at the sight. They're not done yet, not by a long shot, this is meaningless if it's not sustainable and everyone had had those ominous premonitions, but... ]


So this is a "mission".
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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-16 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
...Indeed. Focusing on the situation, Ken assesses it and nods.

"Got it. Stingmon."

"Here!"

What a deep, tough, heroic voice. What an amazingly Manry Bug.

Ken indicates the pandas. "They seem to be curious about the tower. If you move them somewhere they can't see it, they might not wander back."

"Leave it to me, Ken-chan!"

.....A very. manry bug.
10billionpercent: (I Sense A Plot)

[personal profile] 10billionpercent 2020-11-16 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. I just..." Senku had to take a breath. "It'll be fine. I walk places all the time."

He knew he looked like he was ready to collapse, and that was a pain, but he wouldn't. He knew it made people concerned, but that was just annoying. Things were how they were.
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i

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-16 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Weren't there something 'bout keeping the animals safe?"

Tidus had come along with Red initially, but Red and Blue were going through the same path, so it made no difference there. But he's considering Piccolo's idea. Not so much along the same lines as Madoka brings up in the above thread, but...

Well, the fact that Blue was mostly all kids, having Piccolo go full blast would be potentially traumatising.

"Maybe we can keep with the small blasts?" Hrrrmm. "We don't wanna break anythin'. ... Do you wanna go ahead, Piccolo?"

Was he getting antsy? He can move more freely than the rest of them...
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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-16 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"A borderline..."

Ooh, ooh, Wormmon knows what question comes next! He grins at the gentle touch of the leaf being brushed aside. "So 'borderline' is your special attack! That's really handy."

They have met magic people and robotic people and people who were also books (those were not very nice people). Why can't Romeo be a people who has a special attack? That's cool!
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[personal profile] 10billionpercent 2020-11-16 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
That's true, I haven't been to this place before either. It might be interesting, but hopefully not too different to what I know so we can fix them.

[ Tinkering is really fun to him, so he gets it. ]
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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-16 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"The meteor strike, hm." Ken nods. He shifts his bundle, which rolls towards him and clings. "It certainly did leave an impression."
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[personal profile] 10billionpercent 2020-11-16 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"It'd be great to check out the code, but I don't see any way to hook them up to anything." Senku admited. "I wonder if the code would be anything I'm familiar with or not."

He made a thoughtful noise. "Yeah, based on last mission, we may not have that kind of time."
10billionpercent: (This Is So Exciting)

[personal profile] 10billionpercent 2020-11-16 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's mostly not, inside at least, but things like movement all come from the programming, typically. Now these could be strange robots that are different from what I know, but so far, it doesn't look like it."

Senku hummed. "I know some of these vines have to get out of here. Have a knife?"
10billionpercent: (Satisfied)

[personal profile] 10billionpercent 2020-11-16 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
That'd be the work of the shield. Good for saving the planet, bad for collecting free space rocks.

[ He agrees wholeheartedly. Should they be watching so closely? It's probably fine. ]

I wasn't gonna miss it, if I could help it.