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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2021-01-17 06:05 am

Ongoing: All Teams

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.'
melodiouspacifist: (Aw We Do Too Have Hearts)

Heal and Destroy

[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-19 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Careful." Demyx warned lightly as he used the stick in his hands to whack a mongoose suspiciously far for someone who claimed to be a pacifist.

"What're you doing?"
unfavorableinstigation: It is dark, but Nita is inside reading a book. (Dark)

Re: Heal and Destroy

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2021-01-19 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Look."

Nita's voice was unexpectedly gentle; laying her hand on another wire-vine, it paled and dissolved harmlessly.

"We're supposed to fix things like this."

She either doesn't notice the mongoose-whacked, or doesn't care that it's being whacked.

"... Though preventing those things from attacking us helps, too."

She wasn't going to dissuade Demyx from his actions, here.
melodiouspacifist: (Think Think Think)

[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-19 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh, okay, if you think so." He wasn't very confident he could do anything for soothing the vines.

He reached out and placed his hand on one and when it worked, he looked a bit surprised.

"Oh. I mean, I'll keep an eye on our backs." He could do that much.
unfavorableinstigation: Nita working with a Kernel (Wizardry Is Kid Stuff)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2021-01-19 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Nita faintly smiled.

"There we go. ... Thanks."

With that wisdom(?) imparted, she went back to her work, clambering along the - pillars? Data housing?

Whatever this was supposed to represent, anyway.

"We can switch out, if you want? ... Though I'm not sure if I'm good for fighting here."

Not if her upsetting arrival was any indication.
melodiouspacifist: (Nort Yeah yeah I'm on it)

[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-19 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
He sighed lightly and then laughed it off. "Nah, don't worry about it. Totally got this."

At least, he thought so. He could whack things with a stick at least. He didn't seem to call upon his water, or his sitar for that matter.

It was kind of frustrating.

"Just don't tell anyone, I don't want some kind of weird reputation."
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking directly at the viewer, mouth slightly open, as if she's in the middle of an important or unamused expression. (Focused)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2021-01-20 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
"I won't."

There was no need to, specifically; that he'd do it on his own, without asking for attention, was more than enough.

"Just because we all live on a train doesn't mean... that we tell each other everything, I suppose."

On to the next wire, and the next...

A mongoose whooshed by her face; while she couldn't see it as one, she still perceived enough of a presence to frown at it.

The mongoose froze in place.

"... Huh."
melodiouspacifist: (Real Villains Use Cue Cards)

[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-20 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
"I guess." Demyx agreed, as he moved with her and when she froze it, he moved into action.

"I'm just not-" He swung the stick and it connected with a solid thwack as the mongoose was knocked a good distance away. At least this kind of attack focused on where most of his strength was.

"-a dependable guy." Demyx informed her. Was he a little tired of that characterization? A little bit, but it kept him safe and he was flying blind here.
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking directly at the viewer, mouth slightly open, as if she's in the middle of an important or unamused expression. (Focused)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2021-01-21 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Meaning you don't want the reputation? Or-"

Nita moved over, placing her hand on another wire; it too faded.

"Or you know you wouldn't be able to keep it up?"

She'd shaken off her confusion at freezing the mongoose for now. There was, after all, still work to do.
melodiouspacifist: (Default)

[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-21 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
"C'mon, just look at me." Demyx said with a goofy grin. "I'm not the kind of guy who's all serious and heroic..no matter what the train says."

He glanced away briefly and focused instead on throwing leaves at the next mongoose, and whacked a second with a stick.
unfavorableinstigation: It is dark, but Nita is inside reading a book. (Dark)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2021-01-21 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Nita had a brief flash of a certain boyfriend's fun-loving sister, facing down mercenaries with little more than a laser weapon and a bar of rare chocolate; her right arm jerked, and she almost stabbed a wire with a piece of ice instead of soothing it.

"You don't need to be serious all the time to look out for people, or just want to. Sometimes - it's the left-fielder tactics that work out the best."

Nita sounded distracted, though, to be sure; it would be easy to dismiss what she was saying.
melodiouspacifist: (Nort Yeah yeah I'm on it)

[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-21 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nah." Demyx said with a bit of a chuckle. "Totally not my thing." He thought so anyway.

Another one approached, this one going for Nita and he threw leaves to make it fall over and stop.

"Leave that to the real heroes."
unfavorableinstigation: Nita Callahan kneeling in the woods, drawing a glowing blue diagram on the ground while reading from a book. (Drawing a Spell Diagram)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2021-01-21 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Y'know-"

Nita got out, placing her hands on two different wires, watching them fade.

"Most heroes don't think of themselves as heroes, either; usually those who are just there for the accolades... it doesn't mean as much, when they do something."
melodiouspacifist: (Nort Huh??)

[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-23 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, but..." Demyx began and as a mongoose tried to get the jump on him, he turned and swung his stick at it, sending it flying a good distance.

He wouldn't be a bad baseball player.

"Nevermind. Just trust me. Not a hero."
unfavorableinstigation: Nita Callahan kneeling in the woods, drawing a glowing blue diagram on the ground while reading from a book. (Drawing a Spell Diagram)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2021-01-23 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"So long as you don't collapse or anything, sure."

Nita could let things alone eventually.

"Just have to keep going."

Presumably she was talking more about soothing the vines than the actual topic at hand...
melodiouspacifist: (Nort Yeah yeah I'm on it)

[personal profile] melodiouspacifist 2021-01-25 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"No real risk of that, I think. This leaf stuff doesn't seem to affect my magical energy at all."

It wasn't drawing on his magic. What was it drawing on? Curious. A smarter person might ask that question.

"Got your back."