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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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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-16 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Ken walks past Grimmjow, trusting that he's telling the truth - someone who'd been so upfront about things like wanting to fight and be King would have no reason to lie. Kneeling, he starts unwinding Wormmon from the vines.

"We were looking for these robots," he explains. "Wormmon's the right size, so he volunteered to explore. He must have gotten stuck the same place they were."

As for what made him faint.......

.......Ken is too polite to say.
kingcat: (This shit's exhausting)

[personal profile] kingcat 2020-11-23 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
He sighs in relief that he isn't immediately accused of doing harm to the little bug, and scratched his scalp behind his ear in an eerily cat-like gesture. "So he was right where he wanted to be?" he asked, eyeing the other trapped robots and for the moment leaving them alone, since they weren't able to reach Ken or Wormmon at the moment. "Well, he can't smash 'em if he's out cold. Wake 'im up. I wanna see him fight." If he wasn't allowed to fight the little worm himself, he could at least watch him fighting someone else.
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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-23 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
They're not going to fight just because Grimmjow wants them to. Ken has already said his piece about that and sees no reason to repeat himself. Instead, he turns his full attention to extracting his partner.

When the bug is free, he rests a hand on the Digimon's head. "Wormmon."

It's like an on switch. Wormmon's eyelids flutter, and he peers up, disoriented - until he sees who it is.

"Ken-chan." More blinking. "You saved me?"

"Mm." Ken scoots back so Wormmon can work on getting up. Need a hand? Here we go. "And you found a lot of the robots we're fixing. Thank you."

....It's probably immature of him to ignore Grimmjow like this, but he might have done so to anyone. Wormmon in need takes priority.
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-11-28 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Grimmjow kicks another robot away from them, making it into a pile of spare parts. He freezes before he brings his leg down, glancing over at Ken. "..... fix?" Shit. He moves slowly, deliberately, to get both his feet back on the ground, all the while watching Ken like he expects some kind of big reaction.
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[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2020-11-28 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes." There we go. Worm in arms. Ken turns to address Grimmjow. "These robots maintain the shields. Over time, they've wandered, and many have been trapped or lost power..."

.....It's a maintenance robot graveyard right here, isn't it.

Ah.

Ken blinks, not sure what to think of this just yet.
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-12-02 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
It sure is, but Grimmjow knows how to think fast. "Then you'll need all these spare parts," he replied, and crouched down to start gathering them into a small mound. He doesn't have anything to carry it all in, but that's a problem for later.

He just really doesn't want to see Ken when he's angry.
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[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2020-12-03 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
...Ken has suspicions about how all those robots got that way, it is true. Yet can anything he says at this point change the situation? No.

Thus, preventing further incidents is the best response.

"If you see more," he offers, "report them to orange team. It's a team-wide mission."

"Ken-chan can fix them. Ken-chan can do ANYTHING."

Anything but get goaded into fighting Grimmjow, apparently.
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-12-04 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
At this point, Grimmjow is perilously close to being on the same page about fighting, but not for very good reasons.

He bites back a retort at being given an order, instead huffing in irritation. "Fine, then. I'll go find you a stinkin' robot," he almost sounds like a petulant teenager as he turns away, stomping into the underbrush towards a robot he'd seen before 'rescuing' Wormmon.
ourtomorrow: ([kenzuna] query)

[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2020-12-05 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Ken had started his sentence with "if"...

"Ah--"

But there he goes. Wormmon and Ken exchange a look. Wormmon does his best to give a bug shrug. Some people just like to be grumpy!
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-12-07 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, he heard the 'if', he just assumed it was a threat. The problem is the associations Grimmjow has made between Ken and certain people in his past.

It takes Grimmjow all of five minutes to rip vines off of another trapped robot, and he gets his hands on the robot, dragging it by its body, and dumping it in front of Ken. "Here. This one's still good, right?"
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[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2020-12-07 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
--He really did get them one. Ken, rolling with this, kneels down to examine Grimmjow's find.

"Right. This will be helpful."

He gathers up the robot, standing. "Thanks."

Wormmon stares dubiously at the robot that is now in Ken-chan's arms. Excuse him. Some people are trespassing.

....Clearly the answer is to climb up Ken's back and camp out on his head.
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[personal profile] kingcat 2020-12-11 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Grimmjow is surprisingly good at following instructions when properly motivated. He might be gruff and abrasive, but he is also useful.

"You need more than one?" He doesn't want to be on Ken's bad side. If that means he has to scour the planet and bring every remaining robot to Ken like a whole murmuration of dead starlings, he will absolutely do it.