Ongoing: All Teams

[voidtreckermods]

The first few days are taken up with solving the problems in the various sectors, all the while getting closer to their goal. The Great-Winter, Great-Summer, Great-Spring and Great Autumn.

On Day 9 of the month of Jelly they will see on their map a clear indicator of where to go. As they draw near it will be obvious what they are looking for.

The Overseers

In the centre of each of the sectors there is a large metal tube, hundreds of pipes lead from it, spanning up to the ceiling above and down below, creating a field of pipes and tubes to clamber over and crawl under to reach the central tube. On the tube itself there is a panel, wrapping around it in a circle. The SCA's of the Voidtrecker show an exclamation mark, if they click on them they will see the message.

Reach the panel, enter the inner systems and give your aid.

As Voidtreckers step towards the tubes it will seem as if the world shifts around them. Instead of metal and wire they will see trees. The Great-Spring is a tree in blossom, pink leaves spreading up across the canopy. Great-Summer has strong green leaves, Great_Autumns leaves are brown and falling and Great-Winter has no leaves at all.

The panel is still there, the only part of the scene that doesn't look organic. As the Voidtreckers move towards their goal the tree begins to move, branches fighting against those trying to get through the roots. The aim seems to be to push intruders away, going as far as flinging them back with higher branches.

The branches aren't the only security measures in place. As they push forwards they will find creatures coming at them from the trees.

Strangely the creatures look like creatures from their own worlds, any creature they would expect to see in a tree. Regardless of species they attack with claws and with lazers from their eyes. They don't move far from the branches, but try and stop invaders from getting close to the trunk.

For those that get through they will find that as they draw close to the 'trunk' the attacks stop, as if they have reached an eye of a storm.

Going Further

The panel is a simple glowing screen, there are no instructions but their SCA's will beep softly and if they press their SCA to the panel they will find everything vanishes, the trees, branches and weird animals.

Or perhaps it is they themselves that vanish as they find themselves in a large white room, everyone is together here. No matter what sector they had travelled through and which overseer they entered through.

There are four tubes filled with liquid, pink, green, orange and white towering over them.

"Our systems have been compromised." The four voices ring out. "Heal what has been harmed, destroy what should not be here. Find the source and purge it from our world."

The overseers and the room vanish and the voidtreckers find themselves in a forest, a forest that is slowly being choaked by red sickly vines.

The Voidtreckers themselves will find themselves looking different, almost like the hard-light holograms of the Helpmates though they certainly feel like themselves. They are carrying a sturdy stick but nothing else and depending how imaginative they are will quickly find they can alter their appearance to fit their wishes.

Heal and Destroy

The voidtreckers will find themselves drawn towards the vines, if they touch them they will be able to soothe, a glowing blue light from their hands that runs down the vine before it fades away, freeing the trees that it held in its chokehold.

There are many pathways, many vines and it will be a long task to clear it all. It is not long also before the first threats find them. Threats that look like mongeese, small creatures that will lunge at them, teeth bared and claws out.

Luckily the Voidtreckers will quickly learn the ability to soothe is not the only power gifted to them.

On the Outside

For anyone who does not enter through the panel it will seem like their fellow Voidtreckers have entered a deep trance. The area they are sat around the tree is calm, no threats enter there. But outside that area there are still threats, the branches attack, the animals attack and sometimes Helpmates try to evict those they see from the area, claiming it 'restricted.'

Comments

Hua Cheng | Blue team | ota

[crimson_rain]

I. The Overseers
Hua Cheng entered through the Great spring, and from there, he joins the others to explore the centre of the sectors. It was a large chamber and once he figures out what he needs do, the world shifts it's seasons and instead of the technology, he sees trees.

The goal is to reach the panel, enter the inner systems if he can find his way through the maze of trees first, fighting his way through the trees that blocks his way. The trees guarding the inner systems push intruders away, flinging them back to the exit.

"The trees, it's the security of the system. We need to push forward."

Moving forward into the inner sanctum, that's when the creatures attack with their claws and lasers to stop them from going further.

II. Going Further / Heal and Destroy
Once they fought their way in, the panel is in sight, a simple glowing screen. Hua Cheng simply stare at it. But once the button is pushed with their SCA, whoever figured that out, their surrounding vanished and they end up in a large white room.

"Where are we? Is everyone all right?" Looking around, he finds himself in a forest.

In the forest, Hua Cheng doesn't really need any healing, being a ghost who is able to manifest himself as a solid person. Seeing the animals again, it's a matter of helping his teammates to make their escape safely if he could the animals and helpmates kept attacking.

III. Wildcard
[Anything else? Write anything else here! If anyone is injured or need healing, he can heal as entered through the spring door]

[myblueskies]

"The security?"

Romeo grinned at the man who had helped keep his spirits up when Joss had left. "We gotta get to the panel, right?"

It was just through all of these roots! So they would have to push on as best they could! He ducked as a branch swung towards him.

[crimson_rain]

Hua Cheng is puzzled when all the trees suddenly appeared and he ducks and evade when it seems the trees are pushing the other voidtrekers away with their branches.

"It's the trees. They're pushing us away from finding the panel. If we could try to duck and evade and push forward. Let's keep searching to find the panel."

If only Romeo can keep up. Hua Cheng has more experience being a soldier and martial artist, so it's easy for him, but Romeo is a child, so he waited for Romeo to keep up and make sure he's all right.

[myblueskies]

"Yes sir!" Romeo nodded, jumping up to follow Hua Cheng. He might be a small child but his nature as a shinki made him light and agile, even more so than he already would be.

So he keeps up pretty well, ducking under the branches.

He's taken by surprise however when a squirrel jumps at him.

[crimson_rain]

At that moment, Romeo becomes his responsibility too. When he noticed he was being attacked by a squirrel, teeth bared, shooting lasers from it's eyes, and looking like it's going to attack, with his quick reflexes, he caught the animal bare-handed.

He takes no pleasure in killing, so with his strength, he simply flung the animal back to the forest like it was a football.

"Let's go and keep searching for the panel. It should be around here somewhere."

[myblueskies]

"Wow!" He's never seen anyone catch a squirrel before, never mind throw one away like that. He looked up at the man with big eyes before nodding silently.

"Yes sir!"

The panel had to be here somewhere, even if these roots were tricky to scramble across.

[crimson_rain]

The animal is going to fine! Just a rough landing it has to deal with that is all.

"Let's keep searching." They go deeper to search for the panel, but the animals and trees keep attacking, so it's a matter of evading and ducking. Hua Cheng easily cuts them with his sword.

As they get closer, to the eye of the storm, the attacks become fewer, and eventually, they find the panel, a glowing screen.

"I think this is it. What we're looking for. The panel."

[myblueskies]

"I think so!" He looked around. "It looks like a panel." Or at least like the panels on this world.

The creatures had stopped attacking at least!

"Do you think we got to just poke it?"

[crimson_rain]

"Let me poke it." He gives the glowing screen a poke. After poking the screen a few times, his SCA beeps softly, and he pressed it to the panel. Everything vanishes into a large white room.

Overhead, there are four tubes filled with liquid, pink, green, orange and white towering over them. There are voices that gives instructions. The overseers and the room vanish and they're back finding themselves in the forest and the vines.

He turns to look around to see if his friends or everyone is all right. "Romeo, are you all right?"

[myblueskies]

Romeo nodded and let the man poke at the SCA and then... fall asleep. "Mister Hua Cheng? Um..." Everyone else was doing the same thing, so Romeo took a deep breath and touched his SCA to the panel and ended up in a white room and then a forest.

"Yes sir!" He grinned to see him, "That was a bit scary though..." He punched the air, to keep his spirits up.

Going Further

[10billionpercent]

He hadn't met Hua Cheng really, but at the question, he couldn't help. "I'm fine, I think." Senku said, looking over himself.

His stick seemed small and ineffective, he thought and it changed into a staff.

"...Oh, that's cool. Where are we?"

[crimson_rain]

After the panel is found and pushed, it's a simple matter of pressing the SCA against it and everything vanished from the trees and animals.

"I don't know. Let me look around." They find themselves in a white room. It's confusing until he sees the four tubes with the colored liquids and the loud voice over, and then he looks around to see a forest.

"We're in a forest, I think."

[10billionpercent]

"I see that." Senku commented, looking around with wide eyes. "I don't know what to make of that...I understand the instructions." He prefaced. "But this seems really strange."

He approached one of the red vines and reached out to touch one. How did he fix it?

[crimson_rain]

"What instructions you're told?" When he noticed the vines, the vines ensnared and entangled the trees tightly, blocking their path and the way out.

He inspects the vines too, and touches it, to send energy, and the vines begin to loosen and unravel to free up the trees. "I see."

And that triggers the alarm and the animals that looks like a mongoose come out to attack out of nowhere with claws, teeth and shooting lasers from their eyes.

[10billionpercent]

"Lasers? Really?" Senku dodged, forced to let go of the vine and tried to keep his footing.

He huffed and held out his hand which managed to freeze it in its tracks.

"Annoying!" The magic part was cool...the animals trying to kill them, not so much.

[crimson_rain]

"Be careful of the lasers in their eyes." Not that it would hurt him much, considering Hua Cheng is already dead and is a ghost, but the lasers might hurt and burn.

He managed to knock off a group of mongoose creatures with a blast of water, sending them off.

"How are you managing?"

[10billionpercent]

"Fine, I think, I managed to- ack!"

Apparently that freezing spell only lasted ten seconds. The mongoose jumped at him, claws drawn and instinctively he whacked it with his stick.

"Okay that didn't work!"

heal and destroy

[blitzcheer]

"Yo, you wanna watch out for those rodent things, or deal with the vines?"

Tidus doesn't know everyone here, but they're all here to get this over with, so he's willing to work with anyone he sees about. He's managed to swap his stick over for a blade, though the rest of him looks like much of the same attire worn on the train (if with a blue jacket, thanks).

"It'll be quicker if we both do the vines, but I can go for anythin' that comes for us if you're not a fighting kind of guy."

[crimson_rain]

Hua Cheng does indeed wear a blue hoodie, so he's on team blue. He heard his suggestion after he discovered he can blast the animals with water to knock them off with impact and not killing them.

"I can fight. But killing the animals clearly isn't the answer. Let's search for the vines since it seems they're blocking the path."

He sees Tidus and nods in agreement. He's new, so introductions. "I'm Hua Cheng by the way. Team blue."

[blitzcheer]

"Tidus, nice to meetcha! I'm Purple, sometimes."

Like today, though his own clothing wasn't representing that today. He nods to the plan however, begins to scan the area for the vines while his ears listen out for danger.

"How'd it go for you guys? Heard you got sent to the petting zoo side of this place."

[crimson_rain]

"Oh, team purple? Have you met Xie Lian? That's my husband. Hopefully, you didn't try his cooking. He likes to cook, but his food isn't edible for humans."

He joins Tidus on the search for the vines. When he touches them to soothe, the vines unravels to release the trees to free up the pathways it blocks.

[blitzcheer]

"Ooph, poor guy! Nah, I had my own food, but we did group up for a while. Long hair, right? The streets kept switching around on us, and those Helpmates were useless. So we were always trying to regroup together."

But at least it wasn't dangerous - just tedious. Tidus walks up to another one of the trees, the same happening for him when he touches the vines as they do for Hua Cheng. He watches as they recede out of sight, but minds to keep an eye out for any approaching trouble.

[crimson_rain]

"Yeah, he has long hair. We discovered that the streets keep changing paths, there are walls, and the robots malfunction a lot. I think this world is preparing for a new civilization, but just needs help with it's technology malfunction."

Teaming up with Tidus, he continues on the path, touching the vines to unravel and loosen up to open up the path for the others to find their way out.

[blitzcheer]

"Something like that - or something got in here that shouldn't be here. That happens - sometimes bad stuff can get into tech and make it go crazy!"

He's trying to be be careful not to throw around terms like computer and viruses, but there's only so far he can explain - only so far that it makes any sense to Tidus, really.

"That's what I think those animals are supposed to be we keep seeing jumping around. ...or, they're trying to protect the computer and think we're the problem."

Is that actually it? ... ... ... Argh, this just becomes more of a headache the more he tries thinking about it!

[crimson_rain]

"I don't know much of technology because I'm unfamiliar. I destroyed a lot of those machines because they're in the way." He felt it might be difficult to explain, so Tidus doesn't need to explain much.

"I think the animals are connected to the security system. I rather try not to hurt them if I can. But maybe you're onto something that they're protecting something much bigger. We're definitely the problem, so that's why they're trying to push us out."

In the meanwhile, he unravels more vines to clear the path. "I think you can touch the vines to help free the trees and clear the path."