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: (pkaGhXJ)

[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-19 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Nor do I honestly. I am just taking a major guess, but we came from this basic direction."

So she was going pretty much 100% on her gut. Plus it seemed it could lead them back to where they were originally at least and maybe gather with more people.

That seems like the better idea at least.
lanxichen: (Faceline)

[personal profile] lanxichen 2021-01-19 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
Xichen shivers slightly, between the mention of Huaisang and Meng Yao's involvement in his nightmares. Then he takes a deep breath, focusing instead on the differences. Taking care of Huaisang...

Back then, when Meng Yao had been with da ge, Huaisang had been away at the barely recovering Cloud Recesses. They had come closer later, but then Huaisang had definitely not been

"It is all right. In the end, it was my own mistakes that upset me. The you I knew was responsible for his choices, and I for mine. As are you for yours - not more, not less. Do not try to take burdens of things you have not done, hmm?"
paopuofyourlife: (kh2-07-04)

Re: Exploring

[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-19 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think it's that. I mean some people might have gone through something where things like might not be great for them.

Plus, I think some people just don't like to be scared for some other reason.

[Kairi was more okay with it. Not the biggest fan but not something that would cause issues.]
paopuofyourlife: (vlcsnap-01434)

[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-19 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah..." Kairi had dealt with na few heartless when she first got her keyblade and before training, but this was something else altogether.

So moved to take care of a few more, before jumping back. She wasn't even sure if the numbers were going down.

"I feel like m we deal with some, but then more appear."
paopuofyourlife: (Untitled-3)

[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-19 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
"I guess that does make it a lot easier." Being able to walk straight through walls anyway. Kairi herself knew she would have to figure things out in other ways at least.

But she soon found herself surprised "Wait you could help people do that?"
paopuofyourlife: (vlcsnap-00421)

Re: Prep

[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-19 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
"That's right. I may have some orange clothing, but that was because I traded some of mine with someone from Orange team." Thankfully not all of them, so she did have some purple stuff.

"So hoodie and SCA, I have both with me currently."
blitzcheer: (know what that means?)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-19 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Between you and Trunks then, it doesn't sound like you have anything to worry about. And Trunks will have your back! So if anything pops out, he can punch it in the face for ya.

[ Wasn't that simple enough? ]

Is it just you and Trunks? Is the hubby going elsewhere? [ Heh. ]
blitzcheer: (very gud thinker)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-19 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Madoka over in Blue did say their sector had somethin' to do with farm animals. Ahh...

[ He rubs his head. ]

Should we be looking there? There's just nothing here.
unfavorableinstigation: Nita working with a Kernel (Wizardry Is Kid Stuff)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2021-01-19 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
... Huh. Apparently Nita's guess was right.

"It really is. Come on, let me clear the rest of these steps."

After that there'll be (most likely) more walking, more wizardry, and more Helpmates.

Hopefully not nearly as ill-mannered Helpmates.
blitzcheer: (you gave me hope)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-19 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Tidus takes a firm grasp onto the hair, hoping Taiki will tell him if it hurts any.

"Then let's go grab them and we can try doing a sweep of this place. If nothing's around, we can turn back and meet up with the other teams!"
sizedoesntmatter: (105)

[personal profile] sizedoesntmatter 2021-01-19 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"I mean, I can tell you want to go, so I'm not going to stop you. So if you want to test it out do so."

Besides when do they get times like this anyway. He just figured they would need to approach cautiously at least.
blitzcheer: (bluh bluh dad sucks)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-19 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well if it's this place's own goons that's problem, I hope that's the worse we have to deal with!"

So far, he hasn't seen anything else that's decided to lose it ad go after them. Tidus rounds the corner, gesturing for Xie Lian to stick with it, and waits by the wall. He's not worried about getting into a fight, but if they can lose it like this...!

"So much for spaceships." Pah. He's been waiting forever for a space-y mission!
ballseeker: (blame the game it's all the same)

[personal profile] ballseeker 2021-01-19 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)

Oh I'm sure he will. [ A momma's boy in all iterations - and that much Bulma is still very happy about. She can't help but appreciate how much he cares about her, even when she hadn't known who he was at the time. ]

Even the smaller version of him is always very on top of making sure I'm alright. It's sweet.

Vegeta's sticking with red this time around. [ Bulma shrugs, then, breaking into a smile. ] It isn't like he can't fly over if he needs to in the end. Mostly he'd be a pain in the ass so far as fixing things.

No patience, you know.
ballseeker: (astro boy and me for life)

[personal profile] ballseeker 2021-01-19 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)

Your father moves faster than you'd think if I'm screaming. [ Like that one time Goku has spooked her in their bedroom and Vegeta had come sprinting. Of course, Trunks still hasn't quite gotten to know them as they are now versus the Vegeta he knew when he first visited, so that's easy enough. ]

Well, I don't want you to get cold. [ She knows he's a bit more hardy than her, but still. ]

Really what I need to do is get myself some gloves at some point. My fingers are a little worse for wear compared to the rest of me at the moment.
ballseeker: (you're the one I want tonight)

[personal profile] ballseeker 2021-01-19 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)

That's the plan. Vegeta wants a gravity room, so. [ That's her plan, basically. Keep Vegeta happy, make new inventions where she can and where it so pleases her to, and if it increases her creature comforts all at the same time?

All the better.

Bulma, for a moment, looks over the old set, and then shrugs. ]


Whatever floats your boat. The new ones absorb more impact, though.

Had to adjust it if Vegeta was going to be training with Beerus and Whis.
flatteries: (you gotta pull it together)

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-01-19 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Tidus should be so, so grateful right now that Inigo isn't starting up a whole discussion about elevators. We all know it'd go nowhere and just end up as a circus.

At least the actual thing they're talking about now feels a little more significant.

"I don't know. The place we first entered this place from also didn't look-- Ow!"

Thanks, wall, for appearing right behind him and hitting his ankle on the way up. Not cool! At least Inigo looks like he's doing fine, since he just continues walking a moment later.

"As I was saying, that also looked all strange, right? Maybe things look like this everywhere."
nutkrusher: (Saiyan Armor)

[personal profile] nutkrusher 2021-01-19 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, I'm not an idiot. I wouldn't turn down upgrades.

It's just, y'know, my boyfriend got me this one.
springforth: (380)

[personal profile] springforth 2021-01-19 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"And here I was thinking that if things had gone so badly that I needed to call for help, the last thing I'd want is the help trampling my bushes and letting my vines run wild. But I get the point."

They are forced to help, regardless of their own skills or the problem. Which can get extremely annoying.
blitzcheer: (blah blah bluh wuh weh)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-19 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Tidus stops as Inigo does (involuntarily), willing to ask, but when he just keeps going, so does Tidus. ... looking out for the walls more cautiously now. You better not try and get him, walls!!

"No...," he starts, but even as he does, he's unsure. "I mean, Blue's got something to do with grazing or farm animals. I was talking to a few of them before we split. So maybe...it's just us? Maybe we should ask the others more what they're seeing."
light_of_willpower: (long-hair-armor-smile-confident)

[personal profile] light_of_willpower 2021-01-19 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Trunks raises an eyebrow at her, before shaking his head in amusement.]

I can't help with the gloves, unless you want to wear mine. But take the coat Mom. This really hasn't been worse than the room of space and time, so far. At least the gravity and pressure have remained normal.
Edited 2021-01-19 15:35 (UTC)
luckydragonsfoot: (nyh-)

[personal profile] luckydragonsfoot 2021-01-19 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Alrigh', shouldn' take too long okay?" Not...too too long!!

After all, Kaseri's Kaseri!

And for that matter, these are just normal, living breathing animals. So the more calming dust around, the less they charge themselves at the barriers. Soon enough, they're looking a lot more docile than before.

Katsuya waits a bit before giving a small wave, but otherwise sighs. "Phew...alrigh', that oughta do it!"
luckydragonsfoot: (he ran into my fist 12 times honest offi)

softly, with feeling, *i love poppin cookin a lot*

[personal profile] luckydragonsfoot 2021-01-19 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"No idea what a neo is, but I'll assume it's good righ'?" He's going to pretend, regardless, and otherwise eagerly watch and wait at the pot of...food.

"Hoh...like one 'f them instant packs..." he mutters, thinking of the various novelty 'mixing meal' things back home. "...'cept less candy I guess..."
myblueskies: (of course!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2021-01-19 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"You don't got to worry about me!" He let the borderline fall and turned back to the book with a confident grin.

"I'll be okay! And Elfnein will be back soon and we can tell her all about the mission!"
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[personal profile] shadowslipping 2021-01-19 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[SCREAMING] Wh-

Hey, wait..!!

[While Yuume rushes over, the Helpmate, suffice to say, is not reacting well.

At all. It's very much already starting to flail around.
] We can't just start hitting those at random..!
light_of_willpower: (long hair profile talking)

[personal profile] light_of_willpower 2021-01-19 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"My mother is a genius inventor, as is my grand-father. I grew up around tech and mom's lab was my first playground in a lot of ways." Trunks offered. He was not his mother at all, but he had a decent enough background.

"As for where to, it's up to you. You're doing the main patch-jobs. I'm just along to help."