VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2021-01-11 05:58 am

Fierce New World- Mission Start!

"Good Morning passengers. Today is day six of the month of Jelly." 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.

Preparation and Arrival

They have a short time to prepare for their mission, enough time to read their briefs, make decisions, meet in their teams and gather anything they may need.

A few hours later there is another announcement. "Shortly arriving on System #2207385. All passengers get ready to disembark. Next stop world #2207385. Exit from void in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one."

The train judders as it leaves the void, the colours from the windows turn into the blackness of space but quickly white as the train descends into the entrance of the biosphere.

The doors of the train open and passengers can enter the large white-walled holding bay. Currently, they are the only vehicle inside. There are four large doors around the bay each labelled with where they lead. Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

The doors open easily, and their SCA’s show a basic route, though the non-linear nature of the sectors mean that obstacles will need to be navigated. While they are in a closed world, there is a day and night cycle: the panels far up above are designed to make it seem like there is a natural sky, brightening and dimming every ten hours.

Red/Summer

Empty Streets

Wide streets divide sealed-off factories and manufacturing pods that tower up towards the ‘sky’. It is hot here, though the fumes from the factories are vented out, leaving the air breathable if overly warm.

Sometimes the pods are not yet finished, empty shells that can be sheltered in. There are also stations for living, with plumbing and basic amenities scattered through the sector. Places to rest as they move towards the center and the Great-Summer that they seek.

Helpmates

Where factories are still being built they will find Helpmates, operating machinery or moving materials.

They will not pause in their tasks for long but are programmed to answer questions so can be drawn into a conversation. Or, if the Voidtreckers are unfortunate, they will find those that are malfunctioning turning on them as they approach.

They aren’t too difficult to fight, but can do some damage with the machinery if they manage to take a Voidtrecker by surprise. They can be fought with weapons or magic, or for those that think to use the panels they can be shut down outright.

Wild Weather

Though warm, the corridors remain a constant temperature that is not too unpleasant for people. For the most part. Unfortunately, due to the malfunctioning state of things routes may become impassable. Boiling air, freezing blasts, electricity crackling across a pathway.

Their SCA’s do a good job of warning them, allowing them to change direction or shelter in nearby buildings.

Purple/Autumn

Exploring

The Autumn sector is the least complete of the sectors, with shells of habitation pods and not much else. No one is expected to live here until nearing the end of construction, and so the pods are unfurnished, many missing doors, some missing internal walls.

Outside the streets are wide and clearly made to be pleasant to walk on; it is airy, bright and spacious, if a bit eerie due to the quiet.

There are panels on the walls, to call Helpmates to appear. Here they are primarily for helping citizens, giving directions and offering aid.

Malfunctions

Since there are more helpmates there is more risk of them malfunctioning. They attack with or without weapons, using any tools they can pick up to attack. They can be fought with weapons or magic, or for those that think to use the panels they can be shut down.

They won’t chase people into the houses, their privacy programming preventing them from doing so.

Turned Around

The roads seem simple, built in a grid pattern around the houses. However, whatever is going wrong here is affecting the very streets themselves. Sometimes there will be a wall where there wasn’t before or roads go in circles. Sometimes they find themselves at a dead end, trapped until structures shift again.

Their SCA’s do their best to keep up but it can take a while for them to reroute and by the time they do, that path might be blocked too!

Blue/Spring

Patchwork Forest

The Spring sector houses the hydroponics and pastoral sections. It alternates between grazing land and more heavily forested areas with rows of pine-like trees in a checkerboard pattern, with empty plots interspersed. Walkways divide each square, but all squares appear able to move about as required, as though on a conveyor system.

There are clear walkways to avoid stepping on any newly growing plants. In the grazing land live flocks of camelid creatures resembling alpacas with blueish wool, on average a metre and a half tall at the shoulders. Helpmates appear here as if on a timer to feed the animals and tend to plants.

Destruction


If the Helpmates here malfunction they attack anyone nearby, cause havoc to any farming equipment and frightening the animals.

They can be fought with weapons or magic, or for those that think to use the panels they can be shut down. The panels here are less obvious than they are in the more urban sectors, low to the ground, looking almost like energy panels. But once they know what to look for they will be able to use them to shut down the Helpmates.

Stampede

Frightened animals are likely to flee and unfortunately in this case it means rampaging across the grazing land to the newly growing trees.

They will need to be calmed, returned to their grazing lands and the plants restored. Or it might be that the Voidtreckers can stop the Helpmates before the creatures get too spooked.

Orange/Winter

Exploring

The Winter sector’s primary concern is life support. Huge banks of air scrubbers form artificial cliffs, while other sections are tanks filled with water in varying stages of processing or recycling.

The paths here are a lot narrower than they are in other areas, sometimes requiring moving between pipes or scrambling over layers of railing.

There doesn’t seem to be any easy or straightforward path through the sector, their SCA takes them on wild winding routes through the machinery.

Help or Hindrance

The fluctuating temperatures here are causing problems with many of the pipes, several sections are flooded, others are in danger of being so.

There are patch kits in easily opened panels, designed to be used by the helpmates and indeed there are many helpmates out.

But some are less helpful, those that are malfunctioning are more likely to cause more damage than they are there to fix. They will attack any one who tries to interfere with them. They can be fought with weapons or magic, or for those that think to use the panels they can be shut down.

Patch Job

Once the malfunctioning Helpmates are dealt with the pipes still need to be fixed. The patch kits do not have any instructions but are simple enough that anyone with a basic knowledge of how to fix things should be able to figure them out- though the more knowledge and expertise they have the better the fix!

For those that don’t, many of the jobs will need more than one person and so for those that don’t mind taking instructions they will find an extra pair of hands is always welcome.
paopuofyourlife: (vlcsnap-00381)

Ghostly Streets

[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-12 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Like...are you expecting something to suddenly jump out?" Kairi never really watched horror movies, but she could feel the unease that a place like this could bring and that thought of that possibility being a reality.

"But this area is making me feel uneasy."
paopuofyourlife: (ALokN)

Arrival

[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-12 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
Kairi was looking around quietly, taking everything in that she could before looking over.

"I can't say about the worlds the train takes us to, but from experience, not all worlds are exactly alike."
paopuofyourlife: (vlcsnap-01434)

Turned Around

[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-12 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Are you a little lost?" Or very lost by the sounds of it as she started to look around herself moving to follow the other.

"Where are you trying to go first of all?"
paopuofyourlife: (4vXPUtH)

Exploring

[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-12 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
So you like spooky things?

[Might as well make some small talk while exploring, right? plus it was a good way to get to know team mates to.]
paopuofyourlife: (5)

Malfunctions

[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-12 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
Kairi couldn't help but watch on and wondering just what the drone was. She had never seen anything quite like it after all. But she was at least making sure to use her keyblade on those that might be a bit too close to her.

"What does the flying machine do exactly?"
paopuofyourlife: (Untitled-8)

Re: Danny | Purple

[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-12 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
Kairi was standing, eyes looking around as she was trying to figure out where she was actually meant to be going. So when she saw the other she jumped, not realis8ing anyone was actually around.

"Where did you come from?"
paopuofyourlife: (vlcsnap-01025)

Prep

[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-12 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
Kairi was quiet. Trying to figure out what she actually needed to take with her. She had noticed others were taking stuff, but she hadn't been sure what it was they were taking.

So what better way than to ask.

"Excuse me. Can you tell me what I should be taking?"
flatteries: (the harvest left no food for you to eat)

turned around

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-01-12 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ In Inigo's defense, he was totally reaching out to try and pull her back before she'd hit that sudden wall face-first. (Beak-first?) But even he was just a moment too late with his reflexes, so all he can do instead is offer her a hand to help her up from the ground. ]

That thing really came out of nowhere.. Are you okay?

[ Seems like they're going to have to be careful even just while wandering around! ]
happyends: (the ancient magic i dreamed of)

[personal profile] happyends 2021-01-12 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Leave it to Alfredo to give the good, logical argument here. After all, it's not even like there's a benefit for the alpacas themselves in Madoka touching them - they probably already get enough care from those things that help them out.

She shifts a little on the spot, looking a bit more uncomfortable. Was it too much of a selfish desire in the middle of a mission?

".. you think it'd be a bad thing to do, then..?"
blitzcheer: (the QUEEN)

Tidus ; Purple

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-12 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
1: prep - a

    "...That's helpful."

    Always with his SCA, Tidus is one of the first few to read the mission objective as it comes in, dry in his reaction. Seriously, what was this copy and paste job for each team? Anyone around without theirs is free to read it with him, so long as they don't mind doing so beside him.

    It's only with a sudden realisation that Tidus's expression drops.

    "Wait, does this mean wire work?"

    Oh no. Not again.
b
    Other than initial reactions, Tidus will be easy to find as he gets ready for the mission, as well as helping to bring out the supplies opened to the community to take. Spare water bottles and extra lunchboxes will be set out on a table in the standard coach with the dressing carriage apparently not opened with extra goods for the mission, and there's a list of weapons available for anyone to ask about.

    Feel free to ask about any of the goods, or just to talk about the mission before it's time to leave.
2: arrival

    "Oh, hey... I think I watched a movie like this."

    Sorry, don't mind Tidus as he just admires how bland everything looks in its simplistic design, the large doors separated and leading to their various destinations. It makes the train stand out in contrast, eyes leading over to the large doors which read some clue to their destinations.

    This was not a great time to get into earth sci-fi movies...
3: exploring

    This was not a great time to get into sci-fi movies.

    It's...empty. Plain. Roads that can be seen shifting, and geez, Tidus did not sign up for any puzzling headaches that they usually mean. He's not worrying around that immediately though, checking out the pods that are numerous, even in their incomplete numbers. Tapping on glass if it's there, squinting in at the ones without their front doors.

    "Ergh. Who'd want to live here? This is worse than what we've got!"

    He'll take their cramped cabins any day!
4: malfunctions

    It wasn't even like Tidus was looking for trouble, or trouble was immediately around. He finds one of the panels scattered around for reaching those weird, holographic things, poking around at one to see what he can find. ...and alright, maybe slamming a fist once on this particular panel when it seems to glitch out. Oh, that does something.

    --and that something is a Helpmate appearing beside him in a blip and reaching out for him, grabbing at him, much to the disapproval of Tidus's yelp and the guy landing on his ass on the ground. Mayday, rogue Helpmate!
5: turned around
    "Wuh... huh?"

    It's a wall. Actually, the problem isn't so much the wall he walked (nearly) into the first time, but the second one - when turning around and trying to head back. Are you lost with him, suddenly confused about which way to go? Or...

    "Heyyyyyyyyy?! HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY"

    Or do you hear the dulcet tones of one youth trying to communicate to other life? Please, he only just learned of the saying 'in space, no one can hear you scream', and he's not about it!
light_of_willpower: (long-hair confused)

[personal profile] light_of_willpower 2021-01-12 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Trunks reached up and scrubbed a hand down his face. "No, you're right. And I've spent enough time around Blade that I should figured that out too. It was a stupid suggestion."

Her sigh though, makes him reach out and place a hand on her shoulder. "From what you've said, I understand. And you know I'll be here for you."
sizedoesntmatter: (115)

Patchwork

[personal profile] sizedoesntmatter 2021-01-12 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm... not sure exactly. I mean they look safe, but we don't really know." And not knowing is the worrying thing for him. Sure right now everything seems nice and peaceful, but at the same time, he could never be sure he n things will start happening.

"I think it depends on how confident you are and how much you want to pet them"
blitzcheer: (the QUEEN)

exploring

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-12 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Ghosts live nicer than this. [ Or unlive. Whatever. ] Is everyone supposed to sleep in those tiny things if they stay here?

[ Tidus is eyeing the pods in particular, or what's been built of them. Are they temporary? Because yeesh! ]
blitzcheer: (:O)

arrival

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-12 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
At the idle touch Xie Lian appears to place on the panelling, it doesn't take more than a few seconds before a humanoid figure appears beside him with a soft blip sound. Its face is barely human in features, with slits for eyes without colour and simple shape, a thin lines for a mouth that doesn't move as it speaks.

'Greetings. Are you in need of help?'

Xie Lian may miss the sounds of a startled fellow passenger nearby, who is hurrying over to join him with the appearance of -- something? Someone? Tidus is on the case!!

"What is it? Does it talk?" he asks in a hurry, slowing as he comes near - and the form turns, to better face the pair of them.

'Affirmative. We do speak,' it answers.
blitzcheer: (don't look at these icons)

exploring

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-12 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe we can give them decoration ideas if we do. It's a panel we're looking for, right...? I guess in a wall?

[ They just need to traverse these rows of pods. Ugh! ]

I've seen eggshells more appealing than this place.
blitzcheer: (hand onnnn HIP!!!!)

exploring

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-12 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Let's hope this place doesn't get full up," Tidus speaks up, wandering the same road as the other guy happened to be. There weren't a lot of branching paths yet. Just a lot of...nothing.

"Would be nice if the problem just came out and attacked though. This is...quiet. A boring quiet."
blitzcheer: (no promises there)

1b

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-12 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"You know how to set up the suspense. This a new hobby?"

Look at Roland go - he could become his very own narrator! Tidus's hands sit on his hips in the paused step before the doors he had been examining with interesting, head cocking in Roland's direction and the slip of a smirk on his lips to hear him speak up.

But he does have to add, gaze turning about the rest of the open room, lacking in anything but an echoing space.

"This does look like something from one of those space movies."
blitzcheer: (awww yeah babeyyy)

arrival

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-12 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Noo, Madoka...! Not the eyes!

"I'll be fine!" he assures as she turns on him with her deadly power, assuring her with a confident nod and smile. This room is...something else, a whole lot of nothing, but he's not so distracted by the dull interior to miss the girl.

"You have to be careful too! And let me know what you and the rest find on Blue's side, 'kay? Let me know if you need the help."
theturksway: (091.)

[personal profile] theturksway 2021-01-12 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Never seen anything but a ghost phase through walls before.

[He admitted before eying her a bit scrutinizingly.]

You're not one of them dead people, are you?

[Half a joke, half a serious question. There were ghosts on board the train supposedly...but he hadn't directly interacted with any of them yet.]
irrationally: (ᴡᴇ'ʀᴇ ᴀʟʟ ᴍᴀᴅ ʜᴇʀᴇ.)

Ib

[personal profile] irrationally 2021-01-12 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Turning off the helpmates is probably the better solution. Especially since it means less damage to these things, so they can still properly function later on.

Unfortunately Alice has no idea how technology works. She's fought robots before, and they sure didn't have off buttons, so the girl figures these don't either. And so when she spots 47 fending them off, she's quick to take out her own oversized-hammer style metal hobby horse, smashing it hard enough into the nearest Helpmate to make the hologram cave in as a reaction.

"Is this the whole reason they brought us here? To take care of a few misbehaving robots?" They're not even as dangerous as the ones from the last mission! You know, despite the overkill she is unleashing on them.
hisblueskies: Blond-haired boy stares slightly off-center, one eyebrow perked. (Eyebrow-raise)

II - Just Watching the Scenery (for now)

[personal profile] hisblueskies 2021-01-12 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Again, if Alfredo hadn't known better, he would have assumed some part of heaven looked like this. Endless fields, calm and happy wildlife...

But something was missing. Several somethings, given how this 'biosphere' as it'd been called, was in trouble.

"I wonder how long this was supposed to take - making a whole world," Alfredo clarifies.

"It sounds like it's meant to be a lot of work. And over such a large space!"
firewalled: (get up get out and get done)

[personal profile] firewalled 2021-01-12 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Trunks?"

Rich takes a unsteady step forward as he realizes who's standing before him, a proper shield betwen him and the malfunctioning holograms. He breathes out a sigh of relief.

"Just... one second! I'll be quick!" He just needs to patch this leak, and then they can both get away from those things.
adropofsunlight: (85 (B))

Climbing

[personal profile] adropofsunlight 2021-01-12 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm good. Peachy." if she could you would be giving a thumbs up right about now, but she needs to focus. With pascal hidden away and safe she was trying her best to climb.

"How much further is it?"
theturksway: (044.)

5

[personal profile] theturksway 2021-01-12 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
The sudden shifting of the terrain was a new obstacle they hadn't encountered before here or on another world. Though he shouldn't have been surprised he really wasn't expecting it from a place like this. (It did remind him a bit of the Temple of the Ancients though. That maze had been one hell of an annoyance to the Turks.) Just went to show you that nothing was ever what it seemed.

This place was strange though. He supposed there was a reason for the grid layout that could move wily-nily around on its own but right now all it was doing was getting on his nerves. And making things difficult for them.

"Great. Another malfunctioning part of this sci-fi movie reject," he groused loud enough to be heard fairly clearly despite the 'muttered' tone of it.

He looked around to see who else had gotten caught up in this particular set-up. He heard the blond before he spotted him and then sauntered leisurely in that direction. "Hey, hey! Calm down, yo. It'll shift back out of this eventually so we can get back on track."

Hopefully.
happyends: (so it's now or never more)

WILDCARDING because you can't bring up that alpaca option and then not let me have it!!

[personal profile] happyends 2021-01-12 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Look. Madoka has thought about this long and hard. But no matter how much she tries to convince herself otherwise, she just knows that she really wants to try and pet one of these alpacas. And she knows it's selfish, and that she shouldn't ask, but...

But they're so cute..!!

And surely if the resident Responsible Adult gives her permission, then it ought to be okay, right?

"Mister Piccolo.." Oh no, look who's approaching him. Look at those puppy eyes. "Do you think I can pet one of the alpacas..?"