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.
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[personal profile] springforth 2021-01-23 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
It doesn't even help to hear his Apollo was a woman. She fusses with the zipper of her hoodie and tries to settle her shaking hands. Yes she doesn't have to tell him anything. That's good, she doesn't want to touch that broken bit of herself at the middle. But maybe at the edges, so he knows not to--so he won't say his name again. So she won't have to hear it from him if all people.

"Uh--well he and I--we had a difference of opinion. On whether I was interested in him. And whether my lack of interest meant I wouldn't be in a relationship with him. He didn't seem to care."

There's a lot in that words, things said, unsaid. She twists the strings of her hoodie round and round her fingers.

"So--please don't mention him again? And don't get all puffed up. I can't--" She doesn't want to deal with his feeling about it on top of her own. He doesn't even know the full extent, everything to be angry about.
Edited (Dumb typo) 2021-01-23 15:42 (UTC)
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[personal profile] comefadeaway 2021-01-23 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, I'm not hurt." Yoite told him, shaking his head. "So then we're both okay."

He looked a little relieved and he looked around at their surroundings, but he didn't see any more of them charging at them.

"I think we're alright for now."
comefadeaway: (Hmm?)

[personal profile] comefadeaway 2021-01-23 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's alright. Yukimi gave one to each of us." Yoite admitted. "Sort of, he just...wanted me to call if I was in trouble. I never used it though."

It really depended on what one called being in trouble, didn't it?
flatteries: (you can be king again)

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-01-23 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He still pouts a little, like he feels guilty for ruining what Della considers fun.. (Though what anyone else would consider mortal danger, really.)

But at least it's not too bad, since she doesn't seem upset.

As if to compromise, or to make up for it, Inigo gently takes a hold of Della's hand. There. Everyone loves holding hands, right! Even if Inigo has to lean over a little since Della is so relatively short.. ]


Have you been doing alright out here so far? This place is so odd..
reluctantjinrou: (Sleepy)

[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2021-01-23 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ten years..." Natsuno considered that for a moment. What would he have been doing ten years later?

"I'd have been done university by then, and hopefully working in law." He commented. "If things turned out the way I expected anyway, but they didn't."

He glanced away and regrouped a bit. No sense dwelling on things more than he already did.
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[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2021-01-23 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's frustrating." Natsuno said with a grumble. "The last mission was much better for that, it was really...cathartic to kill a bunch of robots."
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[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2021-01-23 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's kind of where we're stuck. I'm just heading in the direction furthest from the train and hoping for the best, but there hasn't been much to do, aside from shelter myself from the elements." Natsuno frowned.

"Isn't there supposed to be something, I don't know, dangerous?"
reluctantjinrou: (I Will Get The Last Word)

[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2021-01-23 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Alice, please, if he knew such a connection he'd be horrified.

"She's incredibly cheery." Natsuno complained. "But it's not like I'm not used to it. Tohru was too." He shrugged. "Mostly we've watched movies together and apparently she likes art."

That was...about what he's got. "I wouldn't say I know her very well."
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[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2021-01-23 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Intelligent...apes?" Natsuno asked, blinking. "Like...humans or are they still animals...?"
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[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2021-01-23 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know if it's the most important part of this mission or not. I'm not entirely sure what we're meant to be doing in the first place." Natsuno confessed.

"I'm just moving in the direction furthest away from the train."
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[personal profile] light_of_willpower 2021-01-23 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Y'know, I'm not sure." Trunks answered honestly. "Most of us return the stuff as we have such limited space, and it's not necessarily stuff we usually want to wear long term." The one exception, might've been Irisvar. Trunks wouldn't mind keeping some of the clothes from the dressing car then. it was part of why he and Cassie had gone shopping.

"You can also talk to the spider-seamstress."
ballseeker: (enjoy the ride we're about to ignite)

[personal profile] ballseeker 2021-01-23 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)

"Yeah, but if you stumble on something that would have a more long-term use that isn't hard to store..." Why not, is basically what she's saying. Of course, Bulma still has all kinds of things from her previous inventions, whether they're still top notch or the most advanced, so that she still has them to refer back to if needed. And yes, she still has that first scouter she repaired when Raditz and the other saiyans had first touched down.

That one's kind of a little relic of Vegeta, in a way, for her, and so she's kept it despite it being useless now.

"Spider seamstress?" The tone says she's a little alarmed by that, but then, mumbled : "Well I guess at least it isn't a worm so I don't have to hear your father lose his mind."
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[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-23 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uhhhh." Demyx looked like he was thinking, considering over the years if he had been to such a world. "No, never. There's at least usually something to look like. Even in the desert there was like dirt and stuff."

That was an excellent description of the Pride Lands, no doubt Tidus might feel like he was actually there.
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[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-23 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah yeah. [ He waves his hand, look he's too old to be mommed at ]

Nothing to worry about anyway, I don't have to be smart.

[ That's a source of amusement only to him maybe, but it's true. He just has to be smart enough. ]
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[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-23 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well as far as missions go, it's really really boring." Demyx admitted. "And I don't really know what we're meant to be doing except you know walking."

He waved his hand at the empty area. "Also there's nothing here!"
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no worries at all!

[personal profile] ballseeker 2021-01-23 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)

Oh, Trunks and Vegeta are on Red. Fighters, and all. [ Vegeta more so than Trunks, though Trunks isn't a slouch at it, either. In a way Vegeta has tempered down with time on his training time balanced with family or wife time, but he's still fairly consistent. With Bulla's birth he's been gone more often training with Whis and Beerus, after all. ]

But Trunks has decided to come with Orange this time. He's good for either, really. My brains and Vegeta's brawn make a good team.

[ Hence why her kids are a triple threat in Bulma's opinion. Good looking, smart and strong enough to break regular people like a toothpick. ]
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[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-23 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay then, maybe we should just leave the computer parts alone and just...clear out hostile enemies in this direction." Demyx suggested because that sounded like the best, and simplest plan to him. Don't break anything. Don't make it worse.
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[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-23 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He chuckles at that. ]

Oh, that, right. [ His poor wet teammate, well he can fix that. He plays a few notes on his sitar and the water that is no doubt soaking Roland will materialize off of his clothes and out of his hair and land on the ground with a small splash then. ]

I probably should've been paying more attention. [ He chuckles lightly. ]

I kinda got turned around, but it's cool! I'm Demyx.
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[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-23 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maaaaaan." Demyx complained. "Here I was hoping for something interesting. This place is so boring!"

Sure, there was the odd helpmate, but what did that really do to keep things interesting? Not much, in his opinion.
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[personal profile] light_of_willpower 2021-01-23 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"He's definitely not personable, so if you do approach him, try to have a purpose and good reason, I guess." Trunks encouraged. "He trained a lot mostly. Kind of all the time, when he wasn't eating or sleeping. I'm told, and have seen some evidence myself, that he's mellowed a bit. So I'd say he cares about Mom, and his family now, but not much else. He still trains a lot, when he's not eating or sleeping."
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[personal profile] flatteries 2021-01-23 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course Inigo's hand fits right into Roland's the moment he reaches out for it. It's practically instinctive at this point. Inigo doesn't even have to think about it. He's mostly just thinking about what Roland is saying instead, but before he's even done with that, they're already moving hands, Inigo moving right along with the other.

(He may also be pondering the meaning of the word resetting, okay.)

"It's alright." Inigo doesn't sound too bothered, though it's hard to tell if the light tone is natural or him putting it up on purpose. It could be either with the way it sounds right now. "I've had to deal with one of those things already. They're not very strong. The robots during the last mission were much worse."
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No worries, ever.

[personal profile] azrthmtrnznthos 2021-01-23 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"He's far from pleasant. He conquers dimensions, and leaves them as wastelands." Raven had picked up on the sarcasm. "In any case, I was raised by the monks of Temple Azarath, until I was about 14ish. I went to Earth, then."
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Re: malfunctions

[personal profile] azrthmtrnznthos 2021-01-23 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Raven blinked, and internally sighed. "Alright, dropping my magic now. Keep smashing, I'm gonna try and look for a panel to turn it off."
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[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2021-01-23 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah."

'Puffed-up' wasn't the right word. More like 'absolute cold fury', as Zetta read into what she'd said and didn't like what he came up with. Apollos, it seemed, were jerks no matter the venue.

"Prinny Squad!" he bellowed, abruptly, and in response to his orders, the three familiar Prinnies popped up to do the Overlord's bidding. In this case, it was to throw themselves at Persephone and capture her in a hug around the leg, waist, and shoulders in that order.

Zetta couldn't do it himself (which was sort of fortunate, because otherwise he'd be in quite a state about the appropriateness of showing affection and support to someone instead of lust and lechery), so this would have to do.
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[personal profile] azrthmtrnznthos 2021-01-23 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Alright, so like I said, it's a bit more advanced than I'm used to--but I think I understand enough." Raven pointed out on the panel what she'd found. To call a helpmate, or to disable one.