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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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Initial task | I'm so sorry...

[personal profile] kingcat 2020-11-14 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"If you kick it hard enough, it'll curl up into a ball and you can just roll it away," Grimmjow is very helpful, even gesturing like he's pushing an armadillo-sized ball.

Has he actually kicked one? Is he full of shit? The world may never know.
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Grimmjow, don't kick animals!!

[personal profile] forleaving 2020-11-15 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Adam looked--and felt--vaguely horrified. "Why would you kick it?" he asked. For one, they were pretty big and he wouldn't want to risk making one angry. For another thing, they were just animals and didn't deserve to be mistreated. Not unless they were hostile and it was necessary for self-defense.
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But it's fun! You can play soccer with them!

[personal profile] kingcat 2020-11-15 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Grimmjow blinked, and gestured in a circular motion. "T'make 'em curl up, so you can roll 'em off," he replied, and started heading straight for their giant armadillo friend. "Look, I'll show ya. It's not like you gotta kick 'em that hard."
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D8

[personal profile] forleaving 2020-11-15 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
No, he understood that part, but he didn't understand why someone would want to roll it off in the first place.

"No!" He definitely believed this guy that the armadillo would curl up, that wasn't the point. "It's not hurting anybody. Just leave it alone."
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XDDDD

[personal profile] kingcat 2020-11-15 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"What? Why?" Grimmjow reached the armadillo and did indeed kick it gently for him so that the huge creature jerked itself into a tight ball. And then Grimmjow started rolling it. Towards Adam. "See? Now you can put 'im wherever you want."
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[personal profile] forleaving 2020-11-16 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Adam was, to put it simply, horrified. Kicking an animal was terrible, and watching someone else do it felt like he should have done more to stop it.

Hesitantly, he stepped closer and put his hands gently on the armadillo ball. "You didn't hurt it, did you?" It didn't look like it was hurt, but he didn't know anything about alien creatures. At least they knew it wasn't hostile, or else it probably would have attacked them already.
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-11-16 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Grimmjow shrugged. "Didn't seem t'hurt any of the others," he replied dismissively, as if Adam were the one being completely unreasonable. "Didn't even make 'em limp."
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[personal profile] forleaving 2020-11-16 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
His horror wasn't going anywhere any time soon at this rate. "How many of them have you been kicking?" And just because something didn't seem like it was hurt didn't mean it wasn't.
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-11-16 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Just the ones that're in the way," he replied. It's not like he'd been counting. "If you wanna move 'im more you better do it. He's gonna pop in a second."
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[personal profile] forleaving 2020-11-16 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
"You shouldn't kick them," Adam murmured, giving the armadillo a gentle pat. Then he started pushing it out of the way, since Grimmjow had coincidentally moved it into his way.
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-11-22 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Why not?" he asked, putting his hands on his hips as he watched Adam roll the creature away again. "It ain't like I tried t'eat 'em." Yet. He knows better than to say that part out loud, though.
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[personal profile] forleaving 2020-11-22 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Because they're only animals, and they don't deserve it," he said. "How would you like it if someone kicked you?" Backing away from the armadillo once it was out of the way, he turned back to Grimmjow.
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-11-28 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Grimmjow shrugged. "We're all only animals," he retorted. "And I'd kick 'em back. I'm a fucking hollow, what d'you expect? Tea parties?" He didn't even know what a tea party actually was, but it sounded stupid enough to pass for an insult.
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[personal profile] forleaving 2020-11-28 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
"They can't kick back," he pointed out. So it was really unfair to kick them in the first place. "And I don't know what a hollow is."
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-11-28 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Then they oughta learn," he said, as if that made any sense at all. Then he tugged off his shirt, letting Adam get a good look at his hollow hole. "I'm hollow. Always hungry for human souls. Get it?" He grinned, but there was no warmth to it.
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[personal profile] forleaving 2020-11-29 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
"They really can't." Not like humans could, at least. He was going to stand firmly by that notion, too.

He stared for a moment when he saw Grimmjow's hole. It was...not what he'd been expecting in the slightest, and his eyes widened a fraction. He wondered if it hurt. "Why do you need human souls?" he asked. "Don't you have one of your own?"
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-12-03 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Why the hell not?" Grimmjow scoffed. If he could become humanoid after being a literal cat, why couldn't they?

"I am a soul," he corrected. "And 'cause that's all there is t'eat," he shrugged. "The human food here ain't bad," especially since it actually sated his hunger.
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[personal profile] forleaving 2020-12-04 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
He wasn't going to argue about biology and how all of that was supposed to work. Especially when it seemed like Grimmjow probably wouldn't even listen.

"What do you mean that's all there is?" There was plenty of food in the world, why would someone need to eat souls?
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-12-04 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Listening is not his strong suit, no. And where he comes from, it's entirely possible for their biology to just.... change.

"I mean. There ain't anything else for a dead guy to eat except other souls, unless he's graced with entrance to the Soul Society," he said it with a sneer, like he'd take a great deal of pleasure in smashing the whole Soul Society into dust with his bare hands.
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[personal profile] forleaving 2020-12-05 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Adam considered that for a moment, his brow furrowing. "Is that how being dead works where you're from?" Dead was just...dead, to him. There was nothing that came after, and he wasn't particularly religious; he didn't really believe in a heaven or a hell.

"What's the Soul Society?" Besides a potentially great name for a band.
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-12-07 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's where dead people live. The ones that ain't hollows, anyway, and don't end up in hell," Grimmjow shrugged. "And yea, that's how bein' dead works." Everywhere, as far as he was concerned.
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[personal profile] forleaving 2020-12-08 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
"I see." He only sort of did, and he was really pretty sure that being dead didn't work like that where he was from, but he didn't enjoy arguing with people. No matter how much he did it sometimes.

"There's no heaven?" Was the Soul Society supposed to be heaven?
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-12-11 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The question had his brow furrowing. "All three worlds have a sky," he pointed out. There were a few places that didn't, but those were liminal spaces. He didn't quite understand what Adam meant by 'heaven'.
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[personal profile] forleaving 2020-12-12 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
"It's not a sky," he said patiently. "Heaven is the opposite of hell. It's supposed to be where people who've led a good life go after they die."
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-12-12 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh," Grimmjow nodded. "That's Soul Society. It's mostly like the living world, I guess. I haven't spent a lot of time there."

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