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.
mtsilver_conquor: (Default)

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[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2021-01-29 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's been months since I was able to climb and yeet over things!" She chirps back as she jumps from pipe to pipe, then down again -thankfully without any issue, given the last jump down is a touch too high to be truly safe-, to wait for Senku to catch up.

"But we can take a break if you want. As much as we need to reach..." There's a small shrug.

Truth be told, now she's not moving like a monkey, she could probably use the break as well, given it has been months since she's been able to properly do anything like this.
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[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-29 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, this world needs help, right? So that is what we should be doing, or trying anyway.

[Not that she knew what she was actually doing anyway beyond taking out something now and again, but it was more to it in her mind.]

Do you think we could be that lucky? [Not said that seriously.]
paopuofyourlife: (nwg1cAO)

[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-29 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah while those of us who are used to the same thing might not. They can help us to do such things." Though Kairi herself feels like she can adapt pretty okay all things considering.

"But we should maybe go about starting this mission."
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[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-29 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"We all have something we can bring to the table. Sometimes it might just take time to find that, but you won't know unless you try."

It was something she was planning on doing at least.
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Re: Exploring

[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-29 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a cool middle name. I mean a dangerous one [Pun 100% intended] but a neat one. It would make people second guess before trying anything.
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[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-29 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Do you think we should separate in that case? We could cover more area." So it seemed like a good idea. Even though there are already a lot of people it doesn't hurt.

"If we find anything we can communicate right?"
mtsilver_conquor: (Battle Tree Owner)

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[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2021-01-29 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Like you have to ask," Eva called back as a pink blur joined the fray, Princess more than ready to have at the group of Helpmates that have decided to try and surround Lele.

She'd offer a grin and a wave, but now's not the time, not when she only has eyes for the battlefield.

"Get in there while these guys have fun." Not that she's actively directing them; just the odd whistle or two so the Helpmates don't catch the fast-moving pokemon off guard.
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[personal profile] paopuofyourlife 2021-01-29 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"If it seems like I might need it, then I will happily accept a lift. I think for the moment though we might be okay." Not that she would know further down as she started to walk.

"So can I ask how long have you been doing missions for?"
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[personal profile] stillnewatthis 2021-01-29 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Technically impossible according to the known laws of physics!" Orisa said, brightly. "Since it is clearly possible, that means that the known laws of physics are inadequate! I hope we have an opportunity to learn more about its construction. I would love to tell Efi all about it. She would be thrilled to learn as well!"
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[personal profile] firewalled 2021-01-29 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll keep that in mind. And try not to get mad if you say 'I told you so.' But no promises!" He sticks out his tongue before continuing on, an extra spring in his step to prove he's super fine.
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[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-29 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Wha-- seriously?" That kind of magic? World magic?! Tidus pauses in his walking, a little wide-eyed, and the concept of world magic something new, but-

"What did you turn into?"

Brain thinky think later -- important questions first!
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[personal profile] hisblueskies 2021-01-29 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"... I'm glad that they did, though. In your world. That they're doing their best to remember all who came before, in the ways that they were both the same and different."

It was another way in which a 'universal' language splitting itself again made sense.
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[personal profile] blitzcheer 2021-01-29 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe!" Tidus offers about as helpfully as a guy can, hands even lifting up in the shrug of how much confidence he has in that possibility. He's no expert!

"Are you gonna buy one?" But he catches onto that, if that's where that question was leading. They did have that option now on the train shop - even if it was ridiculously pricey. "You might wanna ask someone who knows about that stuff before me. I just happen to have a water sword."

He got lucky!
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[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2021-01-29 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Curufin nodded. "Oh, I see! Your father is a born warrior. That makes sense to me, since I am one as well. Fighting must have been an enormous part of his life, and he wouldn't feel right if he wasn't either fighting or practicing for the next fight. I'll ask him if he wants to practice with me in the gym. That ought to count as a purpose and a good reason to approach him."
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[personal profile] happyends 2021-01-29 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah, pushing all of them may be a bad idea.."

For the exact reason he's thinking. Maybe it'll just go more haywire if it gets that many commands at once.

"There's probably one button that could turn it off, but I have no idea which of these it's supposed to be.. There are so many of them! Yoite-san, do you have a good feeling about any of them?" What do you think he is, Madoka, a living on-off button dowsing machine?
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[personal profile] happyends 2021-01-29 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Usually she may have protested him going closer to it by himself, but Madoka is at the very least pretty sure that alpaca can't be dangerous.. At least, not by itself. So Devero should be fine.

But she still can't quite figure out what it's doing, especially as it starts calling out again. Madoka's hands raise up to her face, now being held in front of her mouth in Tension and Anticipation.

"It keeps making that sound.."
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[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2021-01-29 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
That was potentially a bit of a tall order and Natsuno didn't answer right away. He considered it for a moment, if he could potentially control an out of control person.

He thought he maybe could. It might take effort with someone like them, but he wasn't gifted supernatural strength for nothing. "Alright. I promise, if you lose control...I'll do that."
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[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2021-01-29 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"I suppose then, the only thing we can do is keep our wits about us and pay attention to our surroundings." Natsuno said with a bit of a sigh.

"And, I suppose, hope for the best."
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[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2021-01-29 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"I understand the mundane being boring." He commented softly as she continued.

When she got to the part of people deciding she'd done it, he clicked his tongue in open annoyance. "I hate that, when people just decide things for you."

"It's incredibly unfair." He believed her that she didn't do it without any hesitation. "Did you ever find this doctor?"
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[personal profile] comefadeaway 2021-01-29 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"I...no." He shook his head. "I have no idea but.."

Yoite couldn't be sure at all. He hovered his finger over the buttons in the panel and pressed one.

The response was immediate and completely inescapable.

Three helpmates suddenly turned in their direction, distorting and approaching on them.

That may not have been the right button...
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[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-29 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"I guess, but like, I think I'm on some team of computer nerds or something because people keep asking me stuff like that. Deal with the tech..."

He glanced side to side. "I'll tell you a secret. I've never used a computer before! Not even the one on the train!"

Okay, he was kind of scared he'd break it.
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[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-29 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
He grinned, tickled by the question really and he shrugged. Good boys probably got turned into lions.

"A hyena." Demyx responded. "But that's not the only world I've been to with form changing magic."
melodiouspacifist: (Aw We Do Too Have Hearts)

[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-29 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, a couple. They're not very strong though. Just kinda annoying.

[ He can agree with annoying. ]

I don't know, I was just expecting something more.
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[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-29 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, that's what I thought when they said things about this whole mission thing." Demyx answered.

He found himself looking for more, just for something, anything to do.

No such luck. "Guess we'd better get going to find something more interesting to do."

Like it had appeared with magic before, Demyx vanished Arpeggio into a small splash of water.
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[personal profile] happyends 2021-01-29 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
!!!

The petting! It's happening! Madoka is so in awe that she gasps, quickly putting her hands in front of her mouth before she makes too much noise that could turn the alpaca off! But look at Romeo go.. It must be so soft!

So Madoka dares to take a few slow steps closer too, all the way until she, too, is able to bury her hand in the soft fur.

She flashes a 'can you believe this is happening?' kind of smile at Romeo.