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.
knifewithnoname: (serious)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-01-21 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
Electricity was no joke it was true. It was useful though, even though it was dangerous. Like most things. It was something new, something she only knew since arriving on the train.

She glances over at them when they hold out the bird and reaches out with the hand not holding the gun to take it with a small tilt of her head.

"I do be thanking you." A paper bird? That was what they had been making? "I will be keeping it." She promised with a small smile.
knifewithnoname: (that sounds unpleasent)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-01-21 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
She followed him, shooting any helpmates that close. It was almost too easy, these weren't difficult creatures to kill.

If they were even killing them, they just disappeared. She's not sure they are real people at all. Not robots either...

"They do no even be leaving bodies..." As if they were ghosts before they were even dead.
knifewithnoname: (yes okay)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-01-21 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
Mami's shots hit and the Helpmate's buckled and vanished, once they were clear she moved to Mami's side.

"I do be being alright, do you be being injured?"

She looked her over and wrinkled her nose. "They did be being rude, you did just be asking them questions."

No reason to attack them at all.
knifewithnoname: (But I don't want that)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-01-21 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
She nodded with a nose wrinkle. "Did you be trying to be solving your problems with science?"

He voice was curious, though if he didn't want to talk about it she wouldn't push. He had mentioned it though, it had been a strange thing to say.
renegadeprince: (calm 04)

[personal profile] renegadeprince 2021-01-21 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Sorry Trunks, you've lost him for the moment as he considers what possibilities there could be to improved armor. Bulma always seems to pull out something new even when he thinks she can't push it any further, and it's not always a case of just being stronger, sometimes being more practical on other levels like more flexible or easier to move in than the last design.

When he does answer, his tone still speaks that he is still partly distracted by those thoughts.]
She did mention them briefly.
sos_pilot: by <user name=cupcake_graphics> (even if i gotta)

[personal profile] sos_pilot 2021-01-21 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ She's surprised, she thought he'd be flattered. ]

Because your water-transport was such a good idea?
tactlesstantei: (disgust)

[personal profile] tactlesstantei 2021-01-21 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
I don’t know, but there has to be a way to make them stop!

[Now that she has a bit of breathing room with the Surprise Dragon and Jonouchi stepping in, Masumi has a chance to quickly look around for anything that might be useful for stopping the helpmates faster. There doesn’t seem to be much, but a little ways off is a panel on the ground...]

That panel there might have something to do with them, if we can use it!

[It’s the best guess she’s got.]
blitzcheer: (i go where you go)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-21 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Tidus cocks a brow. This was a weird conversation, but even so...

"Well, long as you don't hurt anyone or do anything evil," said with a comical tone and a grin, "I say you'll be fine! Let's just hope something shows up here soon. I was really expecting more action when we got the call."
myblueskies: (of course!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2021-01-21 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not really hurt, just bumped I think!"

He doesn't think anything is bleeding!
myblueskies: (Alfredo is speaking!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2021-01-21 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
The barrier vanishes as Romeo drops his arm. He watches quietly as Devero attacks the Helpmate. He was a strong fighter!

Romeo kept watch, to make sure that no other Helpmates were going to sneak up on them!
blitzcheer: (nearly missed this)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-21 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
'The Great Autumn is located in the centre of the Autumn sector from either entrance,' replies the Helpmate, helpfully.

"And how far away is that?" Tidus asks.

'If you wish for a fast journey, please visit a nearby tram pick-up point. You can view the map for drop off points and times.'

Guess what isn't around them or anywhere.
nutkrusher: (You've Stepped In It Now)

[personal profile] nutkrusher 2021-01-21 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Cassie sighs again, louder this time. "Which direction is the center of the sector if we'd prefer to walk?"
stillnewatthis: (hello!)

[personal profile] stillnewatthis 2021-01-21 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh! Although each individual force screen has limited duration, I can continuously deploy projectors after a delay for assembly at charging." Orisa lifted her left arm, in which said machinery was contained.
seacub: (AND NOW A PIPE TOO??)

[personal profile] seacub 2021-01-21 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Emporio's response to the correction is a bit of a squint. 'Much' doesn't necessarily mean 'enough' mister, you can't trick him with this!!!

But, he also knows better than to argue that point blank. Instead he just frowns a bit skeptically, and even more worriedly, not entirely sure what to say. "...If you say so I guess..." Is ultimately what his brain apparently settles on, his clouds disappearing. "How would it make sleep 'less' help though, instead of just..." He searches for the word, frowning. "...I guess...'neutral'? Like it isn't helping, but it's not making it worse."
seacub: (AND NOW A PIPE TOO??)

[personal profile] seacub 2021-01-21 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sorry I can't push anything back more than this," the boy offers with a weak smile, looking for another direction they can head. More than likely, 47 is going to find it first- if he hasn't spotted it already. "If it was something caused naturally it'd be one thing but...all of this is coming from malfunctioning internals- I can't get Weather's reach that far without seeing the exact source."
stillnewatthis: (stop!)

[personal profile] stillnewatthis 2021-01-21 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"It is very complicated! Considering all things, some form of faster-than-light communication would not be mandatory, but very close to. Otherwise the coordination across such distances would be extremely difficult." It would take sixteen minutes to talk from one side of the ring to the other!
onehandsomeslickninja: (what?!)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2021-01-21 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"You certainly don't have trouble keeping busy!" Edge was impressed -- that was quite a list, and way out of his capabilities as well. Considering his skillset revolved around ninjutsu and leading a kingdom, he was struggling to find ways to occupy his time.
luckydragonsfoot: (he ran into my fist 12 times honest offi)

[personal profile] luckydragonsfoot 2021-01-21 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Phew..." So far, so good.. "Yup! She's got a natural effect an' all, but she's really focusin' it righ' now..."

The blond frowns, looking a bit worried though. "Er... ...I dunno if they'll still be calm when she...stops though..."

He did not think this through.
luckydragonsfoot: (OHHHHH NO-!)

[personal profile] luckydragonsfoot 2021-01-21 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[The dragon for now, has decided the best answer is to coil around it like a horrible boa.

A few other helpmates are now charging from a distance to help the helpmate, and Katsuya saw them.
] AwwWWW COME ON-!

Righ', panel!! Uhhhhhh...

[Excuse him while he goes to try and see what that thing's about.] There's.......... ...uhhhh...

[.........................] ....I...I guess we jus' push at random?

[what if it goes worse :[]
shadowslipping: (pic#13315175)

[personal profile] shadowslipping 2021-01-21 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[The helpmate is very violently attempting to throw Della off- given what it is, who knows how violent 'violently' actually entails though.]

That also means we don't know how poorly it'll act in reply..! [She shouts, ducking back as the help mate swings in her direction.]
voidtreckernpcs: (Default)

[personal profile] voidtreckernpcs 2021-01-21 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"This is the summer sector, which primarily focuses on manufacturing," it explains. "If there is business, building or street you are searching for then please state the name."
longforgottenpromise: (confused)

[personal profile] longforgottenpromise 2021-01-21 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh..." He nodded, "Um... How did you... I mean what kind of communication arrays are you used to?"

It seemed he had lived somewhere without technology and so Taiki is interested.
shadowslipping: (pic#13321640)

[personal profile] shadowslipping 2021-01-21 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"It seems so yes... We'll have to just press on then," she sighs, somewhat tiredly. "...It's a shame we can't determine more about the goal from here though, beyond it being the goal- at least then we could work on a plan as we went."
shadowslipping: (Sigh)

[personal profile] shadowslipping 2021-01-21 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe? Yes?

As it is. "Exactly that. When Frankenstein saw his creation awaken, he became repulsed- though the creature had not even properly begun to move, he abandoned his laboratory, only returning a full day later. By then, the creature- confused, fearful, but otherwise kind- had made his way out to survive in the wilderness."

She laughs though. "Hahaha, truthfully he had little choice in the materials though...as disturbing as it is to imagine someone putting together parts from raided graveyards, he would have had to obtain everything somehow after all... ...fortunately, Mary Shelley determined that Frankenstein was flawed more by hubris and bias than any lack of consideration for existing life," Yuume remarks dryly.
longforgottenpromise: (smiles)

[personal profile] longforgottenpromise 2021-01-21 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Taiki lets out a surprised breath of air as he is hugged by Inigo. His arms go around the other boy quickly though. He feels a little embarased by how impressed Inigo sounds, how much faith he has in him.

"I'm sure you would be fine... But I'm glad I can help more now..."

These last couple of missions he has felt less of a burden, able to fly and shift.