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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.'
knifewithnoname: (worry)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-02-02 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Alice understands. She had hoped she would. She understands why she would want to be big. Just think of herself that way? If she were bigger and stronger? Believe she could be?

She took a deep breath, closed her eyes. Thought really hard. If she were bigger? If she was strong enough to use a huge sword.

She opened her eyes, tried to make herself grow, at least to Alice's height. That would be a good start.
irrationally: (now i can't sing; i can't feel)

[personal profile] irrationally 2021-02-02 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It may be an interesting sight for the girl.

Because at first she's clearly watching Alice from the usual angle, but if she's thinking hard enough about it, she'll find herself slowly getting on a more and more even level with Alice - all the way until she's able to look the older girl in the eyes.

"See?" Alice says, smiling. "I knew you could do it."

Any child can imagine things if they just try hard enough, after all. Most of the time it comes natural, Alice thinks.

"Now you're as tall as me!"
knifewithnoname: (excited smiles)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-02-04 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Her eyebrows raised as she got taller and taller until she was just the same as Alice. She beamed when she realised what she had done. She had managed to grow.

"I do be being. Now there will no be being any monsters that I can no be beating."

Alice was strong after all.
irrationally: (ᴡᴇ'ʀᴇ ᴀʟʟ ᴍᴀᴅ ʜᴇʀᴇ.)

[personal profile] irrationally 2021-02-04 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, gosh. The girl may not exactly be the stereotypical image of a cute child, especially considering some of the things Alice has figured out about her by now, but there's nothing about this moment that could be called anything other than precious. Alice sure thinks so, anyway.

She enjoys it so much that she can't quite wipe the smile off her face. She won't even tell the other that being tall doesn't necessarily mean that you're automatically stronger. Why ruin such a sweet fantasy?

"Well, it does seem that we've got some company already," Alice says, as she glances off at the trees in the distance, starting to spot a pair of mongeese that are suddenly starting to head in their direction. "Perhaps it's time to put that to the test."
knifewithnoname: (yes okay)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-02-05 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah so they did. She wrinkled her nose at the mongoose, which looked very much smaller from all the way up here. Then she walked over, stick in hand, time to show this mongoose who's boss.

Her stick came down to wack at the mongoose, sending it back flying into the nearest tree.

"This will no be being any problem for us now."
irrationally: (ᴡᴇ'ʀᴇ ᴀʟʟ ᴍᴀᴅ ʜᴇʀᴇ.)

we can probably wrap it here!!

[personal profile] irrationally 2021-02-06 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Indeed."

Alice smiles as she says it. Maybe this isn't the sort of thing she should take delight in, since it's letting a child indulge in violence. But then again, technically it's just the girl defending herself from those creatures, isn't it? It's just Alice teaching her how to take a different look at the world. How to see yourself as someone strong and big enough to overcome things.

Surely that much can't hurt.

She moves her own stick as well when more of the creatures approach them.

"So let's get to work."
knifewithnoname: (yes okay)

sure!

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-02-07 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, let's be getting this done."

Nothing could stop them now and so the rest of this mission was going to be easy!