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.
subcircuits: (never considered that)

[personal profile] subcircuits 2021-01-29 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Devero can't in good conscience endorse retaliatory violence, especially not to a kid, no matter how emotionally precocious she may be. So he doesn't seem to be super excited by that prospect, saying instead, "So you've got friends here who'll back you up? Good."
light_of_willpower: (long-hair looking down hopeful)

[personal profile] light_of_willpower 2021-01-29 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
"You, uh...don't quite understand." Trunks said mildly. "He's always been a warrior. Last Prince of the Saiyans, which were a warrior race. I don't think he knows what to do if he's not training."
light_of_willpower: (long-hair-armor-smile-confident)

[personal profile] light_of_willpower 2021-01-29 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Besides just making sure Takato stayed safe, if he wanted he could also ask to fly instead. But Trunks was proud of him, for wanting to do this as much on his own as he could. Soon enough, they'd be at the top and over this obstacle.
light_of_willpower: (long hair profile talking)

[personal profile] light_of_willpower 2021-01-29 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
"If you're sure about that." Trunks replied, before letting himself smile. "If you do get sick, besides listening to you whine, I reserve the right to say 'I told you so'."
pleple: (srw gives us a smile)

[personal profile] pleple 2021-01-29 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Well Ple Two will just find a different, worse influence to encourage her. "Plenty of people who care about me. Otherwise I wouldn't be nearly so well off now." She smiles for a moment. "I like it here, as chaotic as it often is."
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[personal profile] singerofspells 2021-01-29 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe the problem is that humans don't know how to listen," S'reee answered. "But the other things are because I'm a wizard. And hang on-"

She can hear the drill, which is a lot more worrying than physical attacks. And she doesn't have practice for the spells that can gum up machinery, and can't exactly ask the Sea here. This may require a direct approach.

The direct approach is a magically-shielded whale trying to ram the help-mate.

"I am going to need a long float in actual water after today."
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[personal profile] theturksway 2021-01-29 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Demyx was right. Reno probably didn't even need to electrocute them after Demyx's water attacks to take them out, as weak as they were, but he still did so anyway. Wasn't fun if he didn't participate.

"Who knows! Hope not. Waste of our time if so." He shook his head. "There's gotta be something more pressing than this, yo."
myblueskies: (of course!)

wrap?

[personal profile] myblueskies 2021-01-29 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Romeo grinned at the high five. "Now we can go help everyone else!"
myblueskies: (they really are delicious apples!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2021-01-29 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
It's all true so it's a good job Madoka didn't argue about it! She should know just how nice she is!

But also it's working! The Alpaca is stopping and Romeo reaches out, grins encouragingly at Madoka and gently brushes his hand over the soft fur.
myblueskies: (they really are delicious apples!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2021-01-29 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
"It wasn't far away!" He thought for a moment, trying to remember...

"I can show you sir! It's over here!"
worthallthis: (thinkingsad)

[personal profile] worthallthis 2021-01-29 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Soldat is silent for a moment. They're not in the habit of prying, really, but: "If I promise to stop you if you lose control, will you promise to stop me if I do? There are the Words. I've had flashbacks where I forgot where I was. And I have-- my mind isn't really. All mine. So there's ways it could happen."

(Hey. I know you wouldn't cause any trouble. Yes. And I know you could. Yes. And nobody knows what the Bottomless Pit would do if it ever got out. Eat. Besides that.)
myblueskies: (they really are delicious apples!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2021-01-29 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
"I think we are weird to them, but that's okay. They just got to learn how to make friends!"

And that meant meeting people who were different than you!

The alpaca shuffled slightly but didn't seem to mind the touch.
renegadeprince: (bulma 02)

[personal profile] renegadeprince 2021-01-29 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
I had expected considering they plan to sustain life here they would had started to establish some sort of ecosystem already. [Vegeta may not know a lot on creating such set ups for large populations, but he knows from destroying so many what the important parts of a society was. Kind of a reverse way to gain such knowledge, but it worked.

Vegeta's lip curled up at her little jest, muttering out a reply.]
Humans have stupid sayings. [The first time she had ever used that on him he didn't have a clue what she had meant. And explaining it hadn't increase the amusement of it at all for him. He still claims it's a stupid joke. He then however gave a long glance to her, then let it pass with a sigh of breath out, confirming what she said.] Yeah, you are.
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[personal profile] goingthroughaphase 2021-01-29 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ She shrugs a little, though she does keep her eyes downcast. ]

I mean...I have a pretty good control of my powers now, but when I first got them...it was pretty scary. Never knowing if or when I would phase through something, or if people will see. Even now, though, I get worried about losing control...getting stuck midway through phasing and getting trapped Or even just...phasing through the ground and not being able to stop.

And a lot of people back home just...hate Mutants. Lots of the other students at our high school harass us, and try to get us to use our powers so we can get in trouble and expelled.

It...definitely hasn't been easy.
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[personal profile] goingthroughaphase 2021-01-29 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Have you run into any of those Helpmates, though? Some of them are pretty annoying.

[ What with the random attacking and all. ]
happyends: (so it's now or never more)

[personal profile] happyends 2021-01-29 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
If Madoka notices that hesitation or a faint attempt at resistance at all, she sure isn't showing it, since she's already turning to walk into that direction without saying anything else.

(Though it's much more likely she didn't notice at all - after all, otherwise she probably would have started feeling guilty for forcing someone into something real quick, knowing Madoka.)

"They came from this direction.." That much she knows for sure. "So that just means we have to find the place they store the food! It has to be somewhere around here, so we just have to figure out what it looks like.."

Who knows if it's an actual building or something they've hidden a bit more in the landscape so not to disturb the alpacas, after all.
irrationally: (but now i know it's going to take)

[personal profile] irrationally 2021-01-29 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
Wanting to. It's such a strange concept. No one ever asked her back home if she did or didn't want anything - they just forced her.

But maybe it's exactly because he's giving her a choice that she finds herself actively wanting to. He told her a lot too, after all. It's only fair. Not to mention that what he's saying actually gives her an idea of where to start.

"It was like that for me too, everything suddenly changing. It never felt like things could change like that before it happened, right? To a point where the mundanity of life almost got boring." The same mundanity that often lead to her fleeing into her mental Wonderland.

"But then one day, when I was young, an acquaintance of my father, a doctor.. he snuck into our home, killed my older sister, and then burned down the house to hide his crime. My parents died in the fire, but I managed to barely escape the house thanks to my cat showing me the way. But I was hurt, covered in burns, and badly traumatized by it all. No one wanted to deal with a child like that, so they locked me up in Rutledge Asylum for ten years, just to get me out of the way. Since no one knew the true cause of the fire, people even speculated I had started it and killed my family myself."
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[personal profile] mynameisallen 2021-01-29 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't like it to. I mean even back home we got some information or else it wouldn't have the chance to be what we were looking for." Anything unusual was also usually investigated beforehand so that they would know the high odds of it being what they needed.

"We are going to find out eventually because we do have to move on from this world. it's just annoying to not know where to start."
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[personal profile] mynameisallen 2021-01-29 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
"I always found they were. Orange is the one that it's least likely to happen with, but not impossible." Considering he believes there was one time where they did end up hacking to fight that he could recall anyway.

"But the fighting was not usually right off the bat type thing if that makes sense. Always seems peaceful at the beginning." He soon looked around briefly, it was probably why he seemed a little relaxed at the moment.

"As for other missions we had one that was underground, he had one where diving was involved just for a couple of examples. They are always different"
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[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2021-01-29 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"You focus on the panels. We can deal with not drowning after." It's far too cheerful, yet there's steel in the words, even as she skips back as Lele unleashes a Psyshock onto the bot to send it crashing into another one.

"Snapper won't be fighting this time," Eva adds with a point and click to the side -her peripheral vision; she didn't even turn her head- that has Lele darting in ram another bot. "Too soon for you both!"
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[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2021-01-29 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course she'd allow it, and, even if she didn't allow it, long experience with the fairy-type has taught her that Princess would find a way to con him into providing treats.

There's no wounds on any of them, unless a bit more dusty counts, and Eva grins. "They did; it's been a while since they could go all out, and they enjoyed it. Well, I know someone did."

Her eyes flick to Princess, who's strutting around like he's The Most Important Thing In The Room and Clearly, He's The Best As Well. Well, right up until he flops down at Meng Yao's feet with a sad chitter. The one that means 'please give me attentions, for I am a sad mournful pippi in need of love'.

"Go for it if you want," Eva says with a shrug, hand resting on Lele's head as if to pet the porygon2.
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[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2021-01-29 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Eva blinks. "You can?"

Wait, Stupid. Of course. Wizard-person. "What am I saying; of course you can-" It's more a rebuke of her own words than directed to S'reee. "Yea. It shouldn't be too hard and it'll probably be like a Dive."
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[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2021-01-29 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Thankfully, Eva doesn't know Orisa's an AI; things would get strained if she knew. She just thinks the robotic person's like Webmind: another form of life that happens to be robotic.

"I understood maybe half of that," a science-minded person she is not- well, unless it has to do with plants. "But basically: it's something that's technically impossible yet somehow is?"
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[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2021-01-29 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Awesome. Howfully'll it'll all go smoothly, but one never knows." Just once, she'd like a mission with no monster attacking or threatening Orange Team.

She doubts she'll get her wish. "Irisviel? Your world?" Eva cocks her head curiously.
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[personal profile] radishlobbyist 2021-01-29 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Wen Qing slowed her pace to match Lan Wangji's, eyes on the behavior of the herd.

They were very close now but the animals remained calm, some of the bolder ones even returning to eating already. The more skittish members of the herds walked away but there was no panic or fear.

"I think we might actually be able to approach them this time," she murmured without turning her gaze away. "By the way, I promised A-Yuan in your name that you would introduce him to them once our teams are reunited. He was eager to pet them."