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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!
ramengroupie: (jog)

[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-20 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Sometimes. But Ken-chan gives me strength!"

This is the strongest and most reliable bug to ever gaze up at someone with big shiny blue eyes. Thinking about Ken-chan...makes him so happy!
sizedoesntmatter: (44)

[personal profile] sizedoesntmatter 2020-11-20 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Well...I might eat plants... The ones in the world I came from ate bamboo...but not sure if such a thing exists here. But maybe plants regardless since there don't seem to be much in terms of meat either." Did that help any? Probably not really, but it was at least an idea.
so_dark_a_road: (a vision of war)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-11-20 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Good heavens! This guy and his mother must have been psychopaths! No matter what benefit they thought they were going to receive, how does that justify the destruction of a world?"

Curufin shook his head. He was in fact no stranger to the kind of thinking that had afflicted those two, but that was in the distant past. Curufin would never destroy a community now, in order to acquire power.
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[personal profile] sizedoesntmatter 2020-11-20 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yugi nodded slightly as he followed suit trusting her 100% in not getting them lost. Plus it seemed like she was at least checking a map of sorts, so that was something.

"A...I assume it's something that helps with this type of situation."
sizedoesntmatter: (163)

[personal profile] sizedoesntmatter 2020-11-20 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
What is it made out of? Like how did you put it together or what with?

[Because at least if there was stuff that could be gathered or was on the train at least that is a problem solved.]
so_dark_a_road: (flickers of light)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-11-20 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
"We do everything we can, that's true. We're true Void Warriors, regardless of what the train thinks of us."

He smiles a little. "It's true, it doesn't seem to care if we complain. Although when I yelled at it, it didn't even give me the usual cheerful message of thanks for my feedback. Just nothing. So I suspect that I upset the Voidtrecker Express in some way." Grin. "True, it's a way to let off steam!" Pun recognized and repeated.

"Have you ever complained to the train about anything?"
blitzcheer: (coolio dealio)

foraging

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-20 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't like taking in the wild flora had to mean not doing a job - depending on what your job was. Which, with the solar station mostly cleared up and its automatons going, Tidus just had some of the upper canopies to get rid of that were hanging above the solar panels.

And that meant the unglamorous job of climbi-- nah screw that, he'd rather mentally exhaust his magic at this point to pull off a watera, generating enough concentrated water into one spot and then forcing the offending branches to break and fall with the residue water.

Timmmbeeerrrr.

It's pretty nice, when the water sprinkles down everywhere and catches you. ...A debris of branch wouldn't be, but don't worry, Tidus isn't doing any of that while Senku's directly under them.

"Huh?" However, he may have missed the last thing Senku just said. "Hey! You don't want these branches, do ya?"
blitzcheer: (the ocean's sun)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-20 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Great! Don't have too much fun," he teases as he finds where the Blues are going, and gives Quatre a wave. "See ya later!"

And he'll have to have that catch up with him later too.
blitzcheer: (so i said to becky)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-20 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ohhh, so you're from different times," Tidus says out loud. "That didn't make anything weird for the two of you, did it? Or was everything okay between the two of you?"

He's had experience with that, but he didn't have a marriage involved in that time discrepancy.
blitzcheer: (fire and water)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-20 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
...can Tidus just stay where he is then, he'll be the morale for this and pretend to watch them like he knows if they're doing anything correct. You can do it, guys!!! Yeah!!

"If you need it that bad, you'll buy it, right?" he says wryly. "C'mon, the train can't be too useful. You might start liking it too much!"
blitzcheer: (very gud thinker)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-20 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Tidus agrees with a chuckle in his voice, "I'm real happy for that. Other than some of those machinas..."

But he trails off, noticing the armadillo still bothering the girl's little friend, the way it's backing off, yet the armadillo continues to follow. "Hey hey, you," Tidus chides the creature, and he goes over, standing still for a second, it oblivious (read: indifferent) to his existence...



...until he shifts it, pointing it in another direction. "Why don't you go that way-- hey!"

And for his trouble, the armadillo starts making chittering noises, its leathery shell colouring up in reds. Tidus's hands go up.

"C'mon, we're all friends here, hey?"
blitzcheer: (whatever losers!!)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-20 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, yeah!" he answers to Curufin's last question. "Sending Red Team into a desert without giving us any bottles or containers to put food in? Sending us anywhere without weapons? I got real annoyed after that Terra mission. And I still am. Everyone on Blue nearly froze to death climbing the mountain in Irivar. I should be shouting at it a lot more!"

And he's getting riled up, even remembering all that.

"But I'd rather do something about it too, with or without the train's stupid help. Me and some guys wanna bring up some stuff about what we can do. To the council and team leads and-- everyone." He nods. "But later, after this mission! But you let us know if anyone on Orange Team needs anything, okay?"
blitzcheer: (have a good tiiime)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-20 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Mock is such a strong word. Tease is far nicer! Especially for their special and powerful relationship!!

"You sure, Piccolo?" But maybe he's got to sound a little doubtful, before agreeing cheerily: "Yeah, I know you won't let anyone get hurt on your watch. Romeo and Madoka will be counting on you! And all the others!"

But especially the cutest kids.

"I'll help out too, whenever you need it! ... ... just, I'll skip the panda babysitting too."
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[personal profile] adropofsunlight 2020-11-20 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Rapunzel didn't seem all that phased over the creature. At least not until it talked about. She never really 3expected that one.

Why she never expected it? She just never thought it was possible.

"Um... hi there... You found a robot that moves, that's a good thing, right?"
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[personal profile] adropofsunlight 2020-11-20 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rapunzel went to sit down next to him as a way to get a closer look at what was in front of them and in her mind figure stuff out and solve the issue as a team.

Because that's how teamwork goes, right?]


I'm sure it's not as hard as we think it is. The ropes...I guess if you put the right colors together is a start.
blitzcheer: (very gud thinker)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-20 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
He hums, nodding. Putting the duffel bag to the side.

"Sure, and it doesn't matter when it existed. I got something that existed a few thousand years ago..." A pause. "Or, maybe I did... the train's pretty weird about how anything works."

Now he's paused, holding onto scrap metal that he was going to pull apart.

"But I did try buying a never-emptying bento like a friend has, but that didn't work." Sigh. "That would've been handy."
blitzcheer: (very gud thinker)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-20 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
A loser boring train, that's who, Natsuno.

"A school uniform would be interestin'. The clothes the train gives you looks like something I'd sit around in, you know? There's nothing to it. A real uniform would have more flair to it!"

Like his blitzball outfit! Even the standard team one!

"Plus, I'd rather be wearing the blue than purple."
onehandsomeslickninja: (i got this)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2020-11-20 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"I use ninjutsu, of course." Which he only called 'spellwork' to keep life simple for those who didn't want a long explanation of why it wasn't exactly. "But anything destructive enough, if you know any black magic."
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[personal profile] stillnewatthis 2020-11-20 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"That is correct. These omnics are dangerous. Protecting others is my duty... and sometimes that must be done proactively."

Also she was armed, armored, and built for this. No small considerations!
blitzcheer: (have a good tiiime)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-20 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Tidus took a closer look at the pointed out piece, though it was certainly something better to examine later, once he'd finished grabbing the assorted robotics for the day. Sorting came later for him, once the air was cooler and he could sit. Gave his easily bored hands something to do.

"No problem." That was about all that look needed then, after all. But the bag goes, poofing in that arms band way. "You need an ammo refill by the way? How about food and water? I can do water now, wherever we are," he shares. He had a little friend to help with it!

"I'm gonna keep sticking closer to Purple this time since they need help clearing out the stations. But these robots are everywhere, so it doesn't make much of a difference."
blitzcheer: (star player you know!)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-20 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sure I'm safe!" Tidus promises, looking at her as he runs on in, "I got all eyes ahead of me, you don't have to worry--"
blitzcheer: (shocking!!)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-20 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"WAHEY-!"

In Tidus's defence, he does bounce back on his feet before that red laser shot comes blasting at him, hitting instead the ground he was about to step on.

"Red alert, Megalady!"

He's bouncing back some more as the robots round the corner.
blitzcheer: (name the game)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-20 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well look who else has a pulse on him. ]

Hah hah. [ Flat, but actually amused as he has a tug of a smile back. ] I'll go look for one then, so you don't exhaust yourself! Don't wanna be checking on your pulse next, gramps.

[ For the cheek that comes with the guy, standing up, there is no negative connotations that translate with the title. It's no different to a younger man calling an older guy pops. Informal, but neutral.

(Except Siebren is a total gramps, and so therefore: gramps.)

But if there's anything Siebren doesn't want to immediately add or comment on, Tidus will go to another passenger, coming back with...an axe.

close enough ]
marriedanidiot: (wistful)

[personal profile] marriedanidiot 2020-11-20 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"We are Noldor." She says fondly. "And your father the greatest of a people who have always sought knowledge. Why should I not encourage you to pursue your passions?"

She nods faintly.

"I know... what to expect." A low breath. "It makes it hurt no less."
adregem: (presidential air pump)

[personal profile] adregem 2020-11-20 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
He offers him a spare hair tie by placing it by his hand.

"Yes. Thank you. We'll do our best and get the job done quickly. In the meantime, are you going to be partnering up with someone for animal herding? I can't imagine that'll be easy in a jungle." Which he figures, would be worth emphasizing to Xingchen, and could explain the weather. Roland takes a look around, people hustling and bustling to get tents pitched up before they head out to each station. It's going to be a lot of work, and he's already mentally preparing himself for it.