Conclusion

[voidtreckermods]

Thank you.

For those inside the system the voices of the Great-Seasons ring out around them once the red mass has vanished and the blue plinth it was smothering is freed once more. They don't have all that much time to reflect on that before they find themselves waking up once more in their bodies around the tree trunks.

Or at least, around the tube that is the Great-Season they entered through. All illusions have vanished now, all that is left are pipes and metal.

The Great-Seasons allow them passage out from the centre, no sentries or pipes attack them this time. Everything seems to have been put to rights, the walls in the Autumn sector have stopped moving, there is no strange weather effects in the Summer Sector, no engineering problems in Winter and all the camaloid creatures in Spring are calm. Any Helpmates they come across are doing their jobs and no longer malfunctioning.

After a small amount of time, enough to check that all is well, their SCA's light up. All Passengers are to return to the Voidtrecker Express.

Considering the vast distances involved it is probably best that they use the evacuation function to return to the Luggage carriage.

Once all Voidtreckers have returned the train returns to the Void once more.

Comments

[its_dad_sanzo]

"I admit I might not have hit the evacuate function so fast if I'd given it any thought," Koumyou laments, "but I'd never used it before, I didn't know we'd all end up in one car!"

[flatteries]

"No one told you?"

Geez. Inigo thought someone would have made a public service announcement about it with the other teams too - he knows people were talking about it with the purple team as soon as the whole evacuation thing was brought up, anyway. That's exactly why Inigo had gone ahead: he had wanted to warn the people present in the luggage carriage to quickly get out and move on to the rest of the train before more people would arrive.

But it seems that the chaos started a little too early for that warning to still matter, huh.

"I really ought to tell someone to put it somewhere as public knowledge.. This is always where you end up when you use the evacuation button. I'm not quite sure why."

Maybe it's the part of the train that's the button is connected to? Who knows. Inigo isn't good enough at technology to understand this kind of thing very well.

[its_dad_sanzo]

"Well... I didn't really... pay attention to the radio at all during this mission."

Hey, at least he admits it.

"It's just a lot to keep track of..."

It's really not, but he does like to complain.

[flatteries]

Inigo looks over at Koumyou.

And just.. stares for a moment. He's trying to determine how serious the other is about it. Inigo doesn't think it's very hard to pay some general attention to it, after all. But he can imagine that people who aren't used to it - like him at first - or who have some other challenges with it may have a harder time. And he wouldn't want to make fun of that or downplay it.

So rather than immediately starting on his own opinion, he just asks: "Really?"

Got to sniff out the full situation first before he says anything else!

[its_dad_sanzo]

"Afraid so!"

Sorry Inigo, Koumyou has no problem looking like a total airhead.

[flatteries]

What does he even say to that.

Inigo doesn't want to seem like he's lecturing something much older than him, but.. But..!! He's pretty sure it's in Koumyou's own best interest to at least tell him this much!

"M-Milord, you really should be paying a bit more attention to them! Things can get really dangerous on these missions, you know? I wouldn't want you to be caught off guard." At least he does mean that last part. Inigo doesn't want to see anyone hurt, it's why he's saying all of this in the first place.

(mostly it's his player forgets there's a comms post whoops)

[its_dad_sanzo]

"Is... is that so?"

Whelp. Look, having what is essentially a radio on him at all times is pretty far outside the norm for Koumyou Sanzo. Sanzos are an independent sort of people at the best of times.

GJFKJ it happens!!

[flatteries]

He nods.

"Really! I wouldn't say it happens every mission, but there are often important announcements being made across them.."

And look, Inigo can kind of understand it. It's why he's being gentle about this. The SCAs - and all other technology on the train - were totally new to him at first too, but he's learned to adapt through necessity.

"So, erm.. try to at least listen to the first message that comes through them? If it isn't useful, you can just ignore the rest people say after it. But often when people send out a message to everyone, it's for a good reason. In my experience, anyway."

[its_dad_sanzo]

"I'll try to keep that in mind, then."

Or at least let Devero know, that man thrives off being responsible! And he doubts they're going to be split up for long on any given mission, going forward. Not after the success of this one, and seeing how naturally the big guy fussed over the younger members of the blue team.