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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!
strawberryprotector: (Badass)

Re: purple

[personal profile] strawberryprotector 2020-11-18 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, not my forte, either. Too busy fighting to have time to learn, you know?" Ichigo flashed a smile at Tidus. "Do you want to focus on plants while I handle the robots?"
blitzcheer: (won't get oh so critical)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-18 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"What's that say about your medical career?" Tidus jokes. "But yeah, I'll get this stuff outta the way. You can have the fun job -- for now!"
strawberryprotector: (smile)

[personal profile] strawberryprotector 2020-11-18 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey, I can handle medical equipment!" Ichigo laughed as he cut through a robot before it could attack. "Those are easy to use. Robotics is beyond me, though."
blitzcheer: (meerrrrily merrily meerrrily)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-18 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Did all these vines have to find a way inside the exterior generators? Apparently so. Ugh. The only guts Tidus is tearing are plant guts.

"Know any smart guys on Purple we can call up?"
strawberryprotector: (serious)

[personal profile] strawberryprotector 2020-11-18 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe Trunks or the guy who wears his bangs in his face?"

[Yes I am referencing my own other character lol]
blitzcheer: (blah blah bluh wuh weh)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-18 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The guy with bangs in his face...

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"G.....Galo? The firefighter?"
strawberryprotector: (serious)

[personal profile] strawberryprotector 2020-11-24 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe? Is he the one allergic to wearing a shirt?" Ichigo wasn't sure if that was the one he was thinking of or not.

[ooc:Whoops, can't refer to my own character anymore, since I dropped Trowa.]
blitzcheer: (very gud thinker)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-24 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Shirt allergy? Galo? ...where're you catching him? In the gym?" And getting to enjoy all aspects of his icons?!

"He was at the Purple mixer. You remember? He was offering first aid classes. Not that guy?"

[ ooc: nooo he will be enshrined in this guessing game of guys. ]
strawberryprotector: (laidback)

[personal profile] strawberryprotector 2020-11-25 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, you mean the real short one with the brown hair?" Ichigo didn't remember the kid's name, but he'd seen him around at first.
blitzcheer: (the QUEEN)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-26 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Real short? Brown hair..."

Another pause, even in the ripping and tearing that Tidus is doing.

"--argh," screw it!, "Let's just call up everyone and get them to come when we need it! There's too many people!"
strawberryprotector: (serious)

[personal profile] strawberryprotector 2020-11-27 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good idea." The train really did have too many people on it for Ichigo to remember. He went back to hacking at the branches and vines covering the solar panels.
blitzcheer: (my life as a fisherman)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-28 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
"What do you think about these missions anyway?" It wasn't like a guy like Tidus couldn't think of something else to change the subject to. "This whole place looks like it's been abandoned since forever. I wonder how we know somewhere like this needs our help?"
strawberryprotector: (serious)

[personal profile] strawberryprotector 2020-11-29 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Ichigo shrugged a little at that. "Maybe it was an automated signal? I mean, the shields are in trouble, and there's that meteor coming in. So maybe there's some kind of programmed distress signal?"
blitzcheer: (trying not to use same keywords)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-12-01 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Could be," Tidus agrees, trying to think about it. Most of the stations weren't working, but not everything was totally dead. Though...

"But, remember that other planet? The one before this one? There wasn't anything like that there. It was just a -- what did they call it? A plague? That magic problem that swept through. Not the kind of planet that looks like it can call out to anyone."
strawberryprotector: (serious)

[personal profile] strawberryprotector 2020-12-02 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Pulling more vines away from the solar panels, Ichigo got the one the were working on cleared. "Hmm, that's a good point. I'm not really sure how that one called for help, then."