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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2021-04-10 06:25 am

The Endless River

On the morning of day twenty one of the month of Kazoo there is a message on the ICP screens around the train. Their SCA's will light up the colour of the Void and show the following information.

World #398050 is a void nexus known locally as Tshering. As a void nexus this world has strong links with the void and the connection through worlds. World #398050 is home to the Endless River. Legends speak of this river being powerful enough to send thoughts from one heart to another across any distance. All that is needed is for you to know who it is you wish to reach.


On-board

The dressing carriage is open, filled with clothing best suited to a pleasant spring day. Light, airy and in a rainbow of joyful colours and florals. One closet is entirely filled with wide-brimmed hats bedecked with ribbons, feathers and ornaments. A stack of picnic baskets and containers filled with an alarming variety of passenger-suitable foodstuffs and flasked drinks sits in one corner, next to rolls of thick, weatherproof blankets in the four team colours.

The large box marked Do Not Use Yet, filled with small, empty jute bags, is hopefully still sat in the Luggage carriage, ready for passengers to grab handfuls of its contents as directed by the announcement.

Upon landing (after an appropriate countdown), the train remains on the surface, its carriages partially curved to form a gathering site for the day. Welcome to Tshering, the eighth void nexus!



A Day for Picnics

Tshering, system #398050, is a strange place, only habitable by grace of the passengers' SCAs. The sky is shot through with colours, a cascade of sunsets, and through it, the void shimmering through it in seams like a child's painting of the milky way. Still, there's a beauty to the chaotic mash of colours that soaks through its landscape, and in the shelter of the forests of towering funghi that dot its surface, the Void can go unseen by its visitors.

The temperature seems mild, suitable for the provided clothing, and if there are weather patterns around the world they've taken the day off. The funghi are sturdy enough that what air flow there is doesn't disturb their stalks, and carved grooves and holds in some of the larger examples indicate that climbing them to sit atop their glowing crowns is eminently possible, and, in fact, encouraged.

the Endless River

The Endless River is a font of pure chaos, flowing from a multitude of small rivulets across the area to a central reservoir, from which it pours directly upwards, away from Tshering's surface and out of sight, beyond the world's atmosphere.

Anything bagged and placed within the Endless River will also flow upwards and soon be out of sight, passing, presumably, into the Void. Scattered across the surface of Tshering are small, glittering pebbles, as described in the announcement.

The stones are pleasantly cool to the touch, and all passengers need to do is feel. Messages can be in any form that the Voidtreckers wish. Perhaps words, perhaps feelings, perhaps an image from their mind into the stone. Perhaps a mixture. Once they begin their message the stone will glow slightly and continue to glow as they secure it in the bag and cast it into the river. They will feel, almost instinctively, that they need to focus as they do so, thinking of the person they wish to reach all the while.

There are plenty of bags and many more stones; passengers will not be limited in their sendings.
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[personal profile] magicurls 2021-04-11 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
"It's white tea with rose petal and a sprinkling of dried fruit," Mami shares with a smile, already pouring Bulma a cup. "One of my favorite springtime drinks. It'll keep you in tune with the beauty around you, though this isn't usually what I have in mind for spring..."
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[personal profile] ballseeker 2021-04-14 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)

"That sounds like a unique flavor." And if she's sharing, Bulma will definitely try some, shifting to settle down next to her for a drink. After everything that happened at their last stop, it's nice to be able to just.. socialize. Without there being a bunch going on around them on top of it too.

"Well there's a lot to appreciate here with the mushrooms and everything." Bulma laughs lightly. "Though, the domes on the caps remind me of the houses back in my world. They were dome-shaped instead of more square."
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[personal profile] magicurls 2021-04-17 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
"It's one of my favorites," Mami smiles, glad to share. It's actually fairly nice here.

"Oh, they must have been nice houses! But was it hard to fit everything you needed in there?"
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[personal profile] ballseeker 2021-04-17 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)

"No, not at all." Bulma shrugs. She often seems to forget just how affluent she is in terms of space and size of homes, but.. well. She's always lived at Capsule as it is, so it's a little difficult to remove herself from it.

"They're just tall enough that you don't have to worry about cabinets and stuff. The main wing of my house has a nice open area over the living room and a balcony.. so you can make them really airy with the right windows and all."
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[personal profile] magicurls 2021-04-22 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
"That sounds almost like a fairytale cottage. I could see it with warm light, and with flowers..."

She laughs a little dreaming about it. "Did people live in trees too?"
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[personal profile] ballseeker 2021-04-23 12:30 am (UTC)(link)

"Oh - that sounds like ChiChi's house almost. Mine is.. well. More modern. We're in the middle of West City so there's lot of metal and windows. It's great for being able to see where everyone is, even if they're outside, though.. Which is fantastic when you're about to have two kids that can fly." She laughs a little at the thought, but then again, she's used to seeing Trunks and Goten zoom by and waving as they do it. She's a fairly hands-off mother as things go, but it's easier when your children are brawny from the beginning.

"I'm sure some do. I don't, being in the middle of the City, but that might be nice. Maybe I'll make one for Trunks."
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[personal profile] magicurls 2021-04-28 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Flying kids? That sounds like a handful!"

Mami laughs politely, trying to imagine it. That's...really something, wow.

"You'd have to be a really strong mother to manage all that."
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[personal profile] ballseeker 2021-04-28 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)

"They're good kids, I don't worry too much." It also helps that she isn't a woman to be messed with. She may not be a saiyan with all kinds of power and strength, but even Goku is scared of a slap from Bulma Briefs. Her children are no exception.

"I don't like to crowd him, really. Trunks has always been a good kid so I don't feel the need to. It helps, of course, that he's more resilient than a regular human kid. Goten too."