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.
blitzcheer: (sorrrRRRrrrrYyyyyyy)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-21 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sheesh, I guess so. Hope that centre isn't too far from here." Not that there was much of anything to see with where they were right now, and Tidus scans the way they came and the road they're now one.

"Think we should look around here or try regrouping with the others? A map would be real good right about now."
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[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2021-01-21 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey, I wanna hear stuff, you just don't have to tell me." Like he wasn't sure 'Sephe was hiding, intentionally or not, some other stuff. "I'd get mad if he was some guy you were eyeballing, that's all!"
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[personal profile] comefadeaway 2021-01-21 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm sorry." Yoite said, bowing slightly.

"I didn't. I can't hear anything." He explained with a bit of an apologetic look.

"What did you say?"
blitzcheer: (very gud thinker)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-21 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"What kind of guy gets funny about how the thing he made looks when he was the one putting it together?" Tidus scoffs, shaking his head in disbelief. "You don't just grab body parts and only figure out five seconds later things are going to be...not so great."

Though, this whole time he's been imagining this monster as some rotting, walking corpse... probably not what he should be thinking.

"I guess it makes for a fun horror movie though. Those things you don't want anyone thinking about - it's all about freaking the audience! People rising from the dead." He raises his hands, wiggling his fingers. "Well, I don't think we need to worry about that here. This seems more of the 'an alien got in through the hatch!', or, 'we were actually transporting an alien all along and it got out!' kinda setting, don't you think?"
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[personal profile] springforth 2021-01-21 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"He's friends with my--her son? This is still weird. Another Persephone's son. And my world's version didn't like me very much. It was mutual. He pushed out of the way to get on a train instead of me." Huff pout. She hesitates and then shrugs, smiling crookedly.

"Thanatos was just the bearer of weird alternate world news. No need to get all in a weird jealous huff over nothing."
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[personal profile] rieper 2021-01-21 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"They're made of light." He glanced back at her. "So they disappear when they can no longer maintain a physical form."

It was kind of hard to explain a hardlight hologram to someone he wasn't certain knew much of light and physics science. So he left it at that.
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[personal profile] rieper 2021-01-21 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"We're looking for the Great-Summer to provide aid. Where is that located?" Following the SCAs was easy but there could always be a less obvious route. From the sound of this thing though he doubted he'd get much from the Helpmate. "What else can you tell me about it?"
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[personal profile] rieper 2021-01-21 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
47 honestly barely understood the boy's words. The kid's abilities were beyond him. He didn't really know much about them besides that the kid had something.

"It's fine. We'll make it."

He wasn't worried about it either way. It was as he said. This was just another mission.
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[personal profile] voidtreckernpcs 2021-01-21 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"The G-Great-Summer is," the Helpmate starts and then quickly freezes, appearance flickering, as well as the once beside it. The two pause, frozen, trapped in place.

--but then they begin again, the one resuming with its work and, the one speaking to 47:

"We're sorry, can you repeat the request?"
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[personal profile] shutupnail 2021-01-21 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Piccolo hesitated. Couldn't hear anything? Was that a part of the boy's injuries? He hadn't realized.

His lineface turned pensive but remained (mostly) intact.

"Right. It's nothing. I was just trying to warn you. You need to watch your back as much as your front. Be situationally aware of your surroundings in battle. Or else you'll get yourself and others hurt."
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[personal profile] theturksway 2021-01-21 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cue the blank stare.]

Well okay then. Don't get stuck. I'm not a magician that's mastered the art of sawing people in half without killing them.

[Also a bad joke. Worse even. He didn't care.

As for the blank stare, it was just a facade. He wasn't the smartest Turk but he'd heard enough science talk from the R&D department to understand enough of what she meant. Didn't mean he liked it. That kinda science nerd talk, that is.

The powers were kinda neat, minus the science nonsense. Useful at least right now. Couldn't fault her for that, even if it was weird.]
Edited 2021-01-24 23:02 (UTC)
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[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2021-01-21 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Natsuno offered her the tiniest bit of a smile. "I don't think that would fit in well with my skills. Think more...I'm very strong and fast and have extraordinary senses. I seem to do okay with a blunt weapon."
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[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2021-01-21 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"No." Natsuno shook his head. "Not really, unless you count the supernatural scientific. I solved my problems with killing people."

Was that really something he should tell a small child? Probably not.
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[personal profile] sos_pilot 2021-01-21 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"All you're doing it selling it to me more, my man." Della grins from ear to... well, you get the idea. "I love creepy, with as many 'e's as you can jam in there!"
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[personal profile] sos_pilot 2021-01-21 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm... well, if you were in charge of this place, where would you put it?
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[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2021-01-21 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"It would have to be, I mean, I can't imagine getting to another planet. I know people have walked on the moon but after that, didn't they decide things were too far?" Natsuno didn't really know, it wasn't really his area.
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[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2021-01-21 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe. I talk to Rapunzel a lot." He admitted. "And Trunks is training me, which requires conversation."

Natsuno was perfectly capable of speaking with people, he just didn't necessarily prefer to do so.

"My roommates are not terribly annoying."

There, that was something wasn't it?
melodiouspacifist: (So Very Interested)

[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-21 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I mean, I guess that's weird but it's not really dangerous is it? I thought missions were going to be dangerous and stuff.

[ At least, he's been told that. ]
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[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-21 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh, you can try if you want, but I probably shouldn't touch that kinda thing."
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[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-21 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"I know I'm not much of a fighter or anything..." Demyx began, what a liar, "but I was kinda hoping for this world to have...something." He waved his hands.

"I think by far it's the most boring world I've ever been to!"
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[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-21 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but I'm just you know, a ditzy airhead, don't give me like responsibility! Ask anyone!

[ He can be very responsible, when he wants to, but that would ruin his slacker image. ]
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[personal profile] soldier_blade 2021-01-21 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"In theory," Which, of course, meant that in all likelihood it wouldn't work-or if it did work it would be a straight 'shot in the dark. "But given that this was a rush job and I'm working blind, for all we know any more tampering would send them all at us."

In other words, better for them to set the panels as they were, so atleast the holograms would be helpful rather than being a hindrance.

"Atleast now we know how to get a handle on things." And hopefully she'll be able to repair any messes.
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[personal profile] comefadeaway 2021-01-21 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's good." Yoite said softly. "I wouldn't like it if you were hurt."

Then, he might get mad and the helpmate really wouldn't stand a chance then.
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[personal profile] comefadeaway 2021-01-21 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay. I trust you." Yoite told her and let her have his hand. It was alright, after all, he had gloves on. He wouldn't want her to have to touch his hand otherwise.

"I don't really know. I haven't used many things like this." He admitted. "I...I had a phone once, but I didn't really know how to use it."

Also, he had a bad habit of avoiding calling for help.
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[personal profile] sos_pilot 2021-01-21 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She ducks as well, then turns around, cracking her knuckles. ]

That's what I like to see! Now we can really lay into it!