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

[controlsthedie]

Getting out sooner is appealing.

"I could try." Thanatos starts to walk to the tree. "What did you do?"

[subcircuits]

Devero accompanies him to the nearest of the infected trees. "I didn't actually do anything," he admits. "I just--" He lifts his hand to one of the vines, gentle blue light welling up under his palm as he sets it on the inimical presence.

After a moment, the blue light does its thing, suffusing the substance of the vine and then flashing away and up along its length. The whole thing gives a brighter pulse, and then fades away into nothingness.

"That's it. That easy."

[controlsthedie]

Thanatos presses his palm against the nearest vine, not sure if he should be seeking something in particular while doing so. At first, nothing happens. Then his hand begins to glow blue. The vine vanishes Hermes quick.

He draws his hand away and stares at it. The blue glow fades. "How..."

[subcircuits]

"No idea," Devero tells him cheerfully. "Something to do with these bodies and how our minds have been transported here, I'm sure, but I couldn't begin to tell you how it all works. I'd have to get down into the tech first."

[controlsthedie]

There's nothing more to it, then. At least, nothing that they could explain with what they have. So, Thanatos continues to press his hand on vine after vine, hoping that when this is all "done," he'll return to how he should be.

[subcircuits]

Devero stays with him for a few moments, doing his own share of the work of soothing the infection. Once he's satisfied that Thanatos isn't going to freeze back up, he leaves him to it, slipping quietly away to go rejoin his Sanzo elsewhere in the forest.