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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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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.
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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-16 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Bent at an angle, there." Ken nods towards the appropriate object, tense but not so tense as to take it out on someone else. "There's a portion of the machine I can't reach."
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[personal profile] adropofsunlight 2020-11-17 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
She looked over before going to happily pick it up. Once she came back she held it out.

"Here you go, though can't reach? How come?"
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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-18 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
"One of the broken parts is within this machine," Ken explains, demonstrating how he's going to use the tool to reach where he couldn't get his arm in. "I'm a lot bigger than what's supposed to be - "

Oh, speaking of. Here comes a bug with a bug lashed to its back.

Or, okay, it's a giant green larva with vines wrapped around a squirming multi-legged robot.

"Ken-chan, I found one that moves!"
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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] ramengroupie 2020-11-20 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"It is." Ken grins as his partner wiggles on up. "Thanks, Wormmon. That will be a big help."

"Tee-hee."

The creature - Wormmon? - looks Rapunzel's way while Ken begins freeing the robot. "What about you? What are you doing?"

The people on the train are all so enterprising and helpful. Wormmon is learning a lot about the different jobs that need to happen in order to save worlds.
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[personal profile] adropofsunlight 2020-11-21 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
"What am I doing... I'm just helping those who need it. I did... have another job but I long since lost that." She gave a small frown before she started to play with her hair a bit, after all the last job did involve it and she still felt about bad it.

"I also if I ever need to defend people do that to. But I use a frying pan."
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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-21 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Huh." A moment to do the logistics, and then. "That would work!"

She whacks the bad guys like baseball. Obviously that's how it works.

"We're apart from a job we used to do, too," Ken admits, now checking over the automaton for any places in need of repair - and it's latching onto his wrist, why do these things always try to fix him. "But there's still plenty who need us. That's a wonderful thing."

...This thing is in perfect working condition aside from the fact that it has claimed his hand in the name of Repair.
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[personal profile] adropofsunlight 2020-11-24 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
She nodded slightly before pausing, tilting her head curiously. "What was it you did before then?" she was curious and it wasn't long before her friend Pascal was moving about on the ground before starting to climb up, he was so small no one would have noticed right away, plus blending in helps.

"Though I'm not exactly helping right now, is it okay if I watch and learn what you are doing? I'm hoping that if I do it can be useful for another mission."
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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-24 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Of course," says Ken, and shifts so she has a better view of what he's doing. "Joints and power supply are the first places to check for damage."

There's...a bit of buildup here. Ken scrapes out a little buggy socket. The living little buggy, meanwhile, answers Rapunzel's first question.

"Ken-chan is so kind. He protects everyone. And I protect Ken-chan!"

Edited 2020-11-24 13:14 (UTC)
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[personal profile] adropofsunlight 2020-11-25 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
Rapunzel looked over it seeing what he was doing. "Is it because joints and power are things that are the most important for it to function?" She assumed that it was the case at least. Cleaning it seemed like an easy enough thing that even she could do.

"So your job was to protect people, huh?" Sort of like some missions where we might need to protect people."
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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-25 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Right." Ken offers Rapunzel the robot so she can take a look at it, herself. Please take it. It's attempting to "repair" his hand, and that's starting to tickle.

"We do." Wormmon is perking up now that it looks like someone besides Ken-chan will be holding the Other Bug. "So we're really excited about the missions. Doing things like this means we're needed, huh?"
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[personal profile] adropofsunlight 2020-11-25 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Rapunzel took the robot to take a look, taking to mind of all the bits and pieces that were inside. There was really alot of wires and the sort. How do people know what is what?

"Yeah, it does give you that sense, though I kind of wish that sometimes we could have the time after to really explore the place."
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[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2020-11-25 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Wasn't there a vacation world?" Ken asks, adding "we tend to leave right after we help" to his mental list of "clues to turn into a theory, later". But this question is just as pertinent, if not more so.

Because it involves hot springs.

Ichijouji Ken has, ah, feelings about hot springs.
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[personal profile] adropofsunlight 2020-11-28 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes, but that wasn't a mission world. That's what I mean, after missions to really explore a place." She would have loved to find a nice spot to paint or draw really but found they don't get a whole lot of time.

Maybe a small amount, but in her mind not enough
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[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2020-11-28 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"I see. That is a shame." Ken sighs. Oh, he missed the hot springs world....!

"It's okay to leave this one, Ken-chan," Wormmon reassures his partner. Except he does so while casting a rather dubious look at the automaton, which until recently had been giving his partner an awful lot of buggy, many-legged attention.

Wormmon may have a horse in this race.
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[personal profile] adropofsunlight 2020-12-01 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
"So...we move onto the next one?" Rapunzel had already gone to move onto the next one. As she extended her hand for Pascal to climb onto her shoulder before she did and kneeling down.

"This one looks like it needs some work."
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[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2020-12-01 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mm. Clean it out as best you can."

People learn better by doing, and while Rapunzel handles that, Ken will sort through the tools they have available to see which he might need.

Wormmon, meanwhile, has realized he didn't greet his fellow animal companion. He raises a claw. "Hello."
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[personal profile] adropofsunlight 2020-12-03 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Rapunzel nodded slightly as she slowly started to get to work. It seemed simple enough, but she knows that it might still take a while.

Pascal himself soon looked over and gave a small little wave of his hand. He can't speak all he can do is make a squeaky noise to say hello.
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head to wrap?

[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2020-12-04 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
That works for Wormmon, who smiles at Pascal! It's nice to meet new people, of all species.

Ken's also going to give Rapunzel all the time she needs - it's her first time doing this. He will watch, though, to see if she has more questions or needs backup.