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middleofsomewhere2021-03-11 06:00 am
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Entry tags:
- !mission eleven,
- alice liddell (am) [ou],
- cassie cage [ou],
- devero [ou],
- entrapta [ou],
- inigo [ou],
- jiang cheng [ou],
- kairi [ou],
- kitty pryde [ou],
- koumyou sanzo [ou],
- madoka kaname [ou],
- masumi sera [ou],
- najaran [ou],
- piccolo [ou],
- reno [ou],
- romeo [crau],
- sonya blade [ou],
- taiki [ou],
- thanatos [ou],
- tidus [ou],
- trunks brief (future) [ou],
- vegeta iv [crau],
- yondu udonta [ou],
- yugi mutou [ou],
- ~x~adam parrish [ou],
- ~x~ai haibara [ou],
- ~x~alleyana tabris [ou],
- ~x~amery vallet [ou],
- ~x~bucky barnes [crau],
- ~x~casper leblanc jr [crau],
- ~x~conan edogawa [ou],
- ~x~danny phantom [ou],
- ~x~demyx [ou],
- ~x~dyme graydon [ou],
- ~x~ea-nasir [au],
- ~x~ken amada [au],
- ~x~ken ichijouji [ou],
- ~x~kyoko sakura [au],
- ~x~merwen [ou],
- ~x~prompto argentum [ou],
- ~x~ran mouri [ou],
- ~x~raven [ou],
- ~x~roland crane [ou],
- ~x~senku ishigami [ou],
- ~x~takato matsuda [ou],
- ~x~wei wuxian [crau],
- ~x~willow amarina [ou],
- ~x~yoite [ou],
- ~x~yosuke otoha [ou]
The Will to Fight: Start
"Good Morning Passengers, today is day six of the month of Kazoo." The voice echoes through the train as passengers wake up in their beds. Not long afterwards their SCA’s glow with the colour of the void and a holographic image will appear.
Preparation
They have an hour or two to prepare. Enough time to read their briefs, make decisions, meet in their teams and gather anything they may need. The dressing carriage is open with tents and other basic camping equipment.
"Shortly arriving in system #86525656412355. Drop order is Orange and Blue followed by Red and Purple. Orange and Blue to doors, arriving in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one."
The train lurches as it exits through the void, before descending smoothly to the world below.
Blue and Orange
Arrival
If anyone peeks through the windows as the train lands they will see a glimpse of cracked and crumbling walls, a city on its last legs. As they exit the train, however, any passengers who aren't immune to magics influencing the mind will find themselves looking at grand, sturdy walls, flags with a blue field and golden tower fluttering from the ramparts.
They aren't too far from a gate, depending on where on the train they exited, and the gates are opened and unmanned. Inside, people are going about their business, selling their wares, while children run around playing among dogs and chickens.
The newcomers don't get too much attention, even though their hoodies and combat trousers seem very out of place in this city.
The Towers
The towers stand in each corner of the city. They are solid stone, no windows all the way up. The ground floor is the largest, grand doors leading into a functional yet beautiful foyer, and from there into smaller chambers. Wide, curving stairs lead up into the tower proper.
As they climb the towers they will come to the different levels which are all trapped, to dissuade intruders and train their disciples. They will be able to descend the towers and exit and enter again as many times as they like as they work their way up to the top.
The City
It will soon become apparent that persuading these people to fight isn't going to happen. The war has already been won, the demons were defeated. The world is safe once more. Welcome, travellers, to the Shining City.
Their SCA's show them the locations of the entrances to the catacombs. There are a handful, scattered around the city, clearly designed for quick evacuation should the city defences ever be breached.
Persuading people that the city needs to be evacuated might take a good while.
The Catacombs
The catacombs are cold and dark, lamps having gone unlit for months. Those that are sensitive or can sense magic in any way will be able to tell that at least here the wards hold: no demons will be able to enter.
The tunnels are narrow, able to fit two people side by side at their widest points, but more often than not they must move single file to avoid collapsed walls or leaning pillars. Or, sometimes, piles of bones spilled from the tombs set into the walls. Side tunnels extend out into the darkness, signposts or symbols marking old, unused storerooms, bunkers for temporary shelter, or private tombs and crypts.
At points the tunnels widen out into large chambers, rooms or galleries that have been used as cemeteries for centuries. At other points the tunnels have collapsed or become almost impassable. People will need to wriggle through the gaps or find ways to stabilise the tunnels in order to pass through.
Purple and Red
Arrival
"Red and Purple to doors." The train flies back into the air after dropping Orange and Blue at the city gates. It doesn't go very far; it's less than a minute later that they're landing again. The doors open and they can step out into the destroyed countryside.
They don't get much time to get their bearings as the train flies off again, because coming over a nearby hill is a band of demons, a gate crackling behind them. The band is mostly footsoldiers, with several of the larger breed interspersed.
It's hard to say which side is more taken by surprise, but the Voidtreckers will only have moments to ready themselves before the demons rush in.
Defending the City
It's a wide area to cover, surrounding the city, and there is plenty of work to be done. Bands of demons roam around, most headed towards the city. They run, claws digging into the ground, leaving a trail of destruction behind them. Sometimes they will have a larger demon or even two with them, armed with toxic whips that they use with dangerous accuracy.
Other times there will be smaller demons, carrying ornate daggers, whispering foul spells to drain and bind their enemies. These demons become more regular as the days progress as it becomes obvious that taking the city will not be as easy as they first thought.
Closing the Demon Gates
The gates nearer the city are smaller, and easy enough to find, but the SCA's of the red team pinpoint more and more gates as they open in the areas further out. Triangular markings on their SCA maps indicate distance and direction.
The gates must be closed from the other side, so the first thing is to enter them. Entering the gates feels strange, uncomfortable, as if something were tugging and clawing at their very being, trying to pull them out of their own skin.
That feeling lasts for a moment, albeit one that feels stretched, and then they are in the demon realm: a monochrome world devoid of life, where every step taken tires the body, where even existing is exhausting.
The gates are guarded, so adjusting will need to be done in combat. Smaller gates have fewer guards than the larger, but all will fight savagely to protect the keystone.
The keystones are smooth black obelisks about a foot high, usually stood on a plinth or set above the gate location as a centrepiece. Each can be destroyed by blunt force or any other ability able to shatter stone, and once it is they will have a short amount of time to leave before the gate closes. Their SCA will helpfully start a timer indicating this.
Preparation
They have an hour or two to prepare. Enough time to read their briefs, make decisions, meet in their teams and gather anything they may need. The dressing carriage is open with tents and other basic camping equipment.
"Shortly arriving in system #86525656412355. Drop order is Orange and Blue followed by Red and Purple. Orange and Blue to doors, arriving in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one."
The train lurches as it exits through the void, before descending smoothly to the world below.
Blue and Orange
Arrival
If anyone peeks through the windows as the train lands they will see a glimpse of cracked and crumbling walls, a city on its last legs. As they exit the train, however, any passengers who aren't immune to magics influencing the mind will find themselves looking at grand, sturdy walls, flags with a blue field and golden tower fluttering from the ramparts.
They aren't too far from a gate, depending on where on the train they exited, and the gates are opened and unmanned. Inside, people are going about their business, selling their wares, while children run around playing among dogs and chickens.
The newcomers don't get too much attention, even though their hoodies and combat trousers seem very out of place in this city.
The Towers
The towers stand in each corner of the city. They are solid stone, no windows all the way up. The ground floor is the largest, grand doors leading into a functional yet beautiful foyer, and from there into smaller chambers. Wide, curving stairs lead up into the tower proper.
As they climb the towers they will come to the different levels which are all trapped, to dissuade intruders and train their disciples. They will be able to descend the towers and exit and enter again as many times as they like as they work their way up to the top.
The City
It will soon become apparent that persuading these people to fight isn't going to happen. The war has already been won, the demons were defeated. The world is safe once more. Welcome, travellers, to the Shining City.
Their SCA's show them the locations of the entrances to the catacombs. There are a handful, scattered around the city, clearly designed for quick evacuation should the city defences ever be breached.
Persuading people that the city needs to be evacuated might take a good while.
The Catacombs
The catacombs are cold and dark, lamps having gone unlit for months. Those that are sensitive or can sense magic in any way will be able to tell that at least here the wards hold: no demons will be able to enter.
The tunnels are narrow, able to fit two people side by side at their widest points, but more often than not they must move single file to avoid collapsed walls or leaning pillars. Or, sometimes, piles of bones spilled from the tombs set into the walls. Side tunnels extend out into the darkness, signposts or symbols marking old, unused storerooms, bunkers for temporary shelter, or private tombs and crypts.
At points the tunnels widen out into large chambers, rooms or galleries that have been used as cemeteries for centuries. At other points the tunnels have collapsed or become almost impassable. People will need to wriggle through the gaps or find ways to stabilise the tunnels in order to pass through.
Purple and Red
Arrival
"Red and Purple to doors." The train flies back into the air after dropping Orange and Blue at the city gates. It doesn't go very far; it's less than a minute later that they're landing again. The doors open and they can step out into the destroyed countryside.
They don't get much time to get their bearings as the train flies off again, because coming over a nearby hill is a band of demons, a gate crackling behind them. The band is mostly footsoldiers, with several of the larger breed interspersed.
It's hard to say which side is more taken by surprise, but the Voidtreckers will only have moments to ready themselves before the demons rush in.
Defending the City
It's a wide area to cover, surrounding the city, and there is plenty of work to be done. Bands of demons roam around, most headed towards the city. They run, claws digging into the ground, leaving a trail of destruction behind them. Sometimes they will have a larger demon or even two with them, armed with toxic whips that they use with dangerous accuracy.
Other times there will be smaller demons, carrying ornate daggers, whispering foul spells to drain and bind their enemies. These demons become more regular as the days progress as it becomes obvious that taking the city will not be as easy as they first thought.
Closing the Demon Gates
The gates nearer the city are smaller, and easy enough to find, but the SCA's of the red team pinpoint more and more gates as they open in the areas further out. Triangular markings on their SCA maps indicate distance and direction.
The gates must be closed from the other side, so the first thing is to enter them. Entering the gates feels strange, uncomfortable, as if something were tugging and clawing at their very being, trying to pull them out of their own skin.
That feeling lasts for a moment, albeit one that feels stretched, and then they are in the demon realm: a monochrome world devoid of life, where every step taken tires the body, where even existing is exhausting.
The gates are guarded, so adjusting will need to be done in combat. Smaller gates have fewer guards than the larger, but all will fight savagely to protect the keystone.
The keystones are smooth black obelisks about a foot high, usually stood on a plinth or set above the gate location as a centrepiece. Each can be destroyed by blunt force or any other ability able to shatter stone, and once it is they will have a short amount of time to leave before the gate closes. Their SCA will helpfully start a timer indicating this.
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"They're gonna do their best but we gotta get these people outside because sometimes 'their best' ain't good enough. They got a lotta good people but we're gonna be a solid back-up plan."
It makes the circumstances seem dire, but they are if things go tits up with the towers or the outside group.
He gives her a little squeeze. "Besides I need someone to help keep me from killin' some o' these idiots. Who else is gonna be able to do that?"
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"M-Mister Yondu, you aren't really going to kill some of these people, are you?!" Maybe Madoka is taking it a little too seriously. And for a moment it seems like everything he's telling her is going right over her head - except maybe it's hitting its target after all, since Madoka momentarily doesn't seem so worried anymore about what she can or can't do.
Although she now instead may be worried about what he can do. Her hands are thoughtfully pressed to her mouth after the shock.
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"Alright, you don't want me to? Well, dang, now what am I gonna do?" His sense of humor is, sometimes, quite a thing. He looks the part, right? He might as well have fun with people's assumptions. Peter Quill was still convinced he might have eaten him far into adulthood.
"C'mon, we're almost there."
He steps away from her then. Doesn't much think about it when he whistles for a stable-hand's attention. Especially since Galactic translators don't usually translate Centaurian for other people. But when he does, thanks to the SCA a feeling of 'Hey you!' hits with the sound and as unusual as anything else is, understanding a whistle of all things did give the guy some real pause. Magic illusion calmness or no.
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Guess who still hasn't caught on to the fact that it's a joke. Or, well, at least the fact that he's laughing - coupled with the fact that she definitely believes he's a good person - gives her the idea it might be a joke.
But she isn't 100% sure yet. Which means in a way that's almost circus-levels of comical, there's a tiny girl running after Yondu, flailing her arms and sputtering something like: "Y-you have to promise to not kill anyone--!"
(Usually she would be a little more careful about saying stuff like that so loudly, but this may be the one way in which the illusion hanging over the city may be convenient.)
Madoka only stops when she's right next to the other again, right in front of the stablehand. She's a little out of breath from having ran those few steps after Yondu after having spent a moment in a daze, but she's quick to ask: "Um.. sir, have you seen anything odd from the animals here lately..?"
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"Oh, yeah... We've had a few of them get aggressive. We don't know why. They didn't look sick-"
The man is saying.
"So whichn's have been the worst for it so far."
Now that Yondu can really get a look at those stables, though, a bunch of the animals are just gone. There are still a few genuine ones, but his hackles are raisin'. He's even missing the person's answer 'cause he's distracted.
He's gone from playful to serious. "Hey, Angel? I'm gonna take a look in that barn. I got a bad feelin'."
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Hence her slightly hesitant tone when she speaks up.
".. Should I come with you?" She'd rather ask what he's thinking about, but unsure of whether or not he wants to mention it, if he's being so vague in the first place. But if Yondu would rather have her stay here and wait by the stablemate, she'll do just that.
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The stablehand then looks to Madoka. "What does he mean 'what's going on'?"
Yondu slips into the barn, taking count of how many goat stalls here are actually nigh on empty. They have way too much food. Currently the goats aren't eating it, the few that exist are pressed up to one side of their stalls. Towards him and away from the divider wall behind them.
He goes over into that next divider wall area, and there's a goat that's struggling its way over the fence to get in with its neighbor, who is also trying to push its panicked way out of its stall.
In the stall next to it, he can't quite make it out, but the tears in the wood of the barn let in enough sun that he can see the jewel-tone skin of something crouching in the hay. Yondu whistles sharply, which Madoka can probably hear, bringing his arrow up to hover beside him. The shape with light barely glinting off of it 'wakes up', stirring and raising its head. He doesn't know if it was sleeping or stalking, but he's guessing it knows he can see it now.
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And there's no way he'd take it out like that over nothing.
So even though the stablemate just seems confused, Madoka knows there's no time to lose.
"Um, sir.. I-I'm sorry, but.. I think you need to see this.." Standing next to the stablehand, she activates the mana drive once more. Casting the same spell on him as she used on Yondu and herself.
And Madoka knows it works, because the man's eyes grow wide, even though he's staring at the same display as he was a few moments ago.
But it no longer looks the same to him.
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The thing stands up to full height slowly, on its hind legs rather than all fours as it turns towards the blue man. Yondu doesn't know if it's confusion at a new type of person that makes it pause, or if it's that it didn't expect anyone to be looking directly at it, but it takes a few seconds longer than expected to vault out of the stall to come after him.
There's more whistling from inside the barn, accompanied by some snarling, and that confused stablehand is ready to run in and see what's going on. He makes it just in time to see the dying demon drag itself around the corner and pass, and Yondu can only hope these corpses last long enough for someone to realize what's there.
But he also gets a 'what the fuck' look in the process. Finally! Someone's noticed, and Yondu points to the demon. "I killed that. I'm on your team." Just so he knows. "I know y'all got pitchforks readily available here, don't be aimin' 'em at me."
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Just in case. Just in case.
"Y-Yes! He's not lying. We're all on the same side." Hopefully that'll be a bit more believable coming from a girl whose only weird feature is the fact that she has cotton candy coloured hair, right.. "There's a problem going on here in the city.. And we're here to help fix it."
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While they weren't making a hostile motion just yet, just a surprised and frightened one, Madoka putting herself between them alarms him at first. The protest is lost, though, because the man's starting to talk.
"Who are you people? Who did this to us?"
This isn't a great time to say 'we come from a magic space train' 'cause this boy is gonna think he lost his mind. "Y'all don't have time for that. If you don't warn ever'body here to look harder we're gonna be in deep shit." He gestures and shoos 'cause the first answer won't help and the second one he doesn't know.
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Thankfully nothing has to be sacrificed here though. Madoka can see plain as day on the man's face that he's mostly just terrified by what he's seen here. By the implications of it. And while Madoka does think Yondu has a point, she figures she may as well add a few more diplomatic words to it, just to ensure all this goes well.
"Please, sir! You have to convince the other people too that this is going on. There's a lot of dangerous monsters coming this way, and we want to make sure to help you leave the city in time to be safe..!" Look, clearly not even one of the natives of this city could resist this level of puppy eyes from a cute girl, right.