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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.
redmeguca: (The rare happy Kyoko.)

[personal profile] redmeguca 2021-04-11 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. Arianna-nee is, if I'm honest, an airhead. Always cheerful and upbeat, and smart in her own way too, but sometimes she just doesn't think about what comes out of her own mouth. She has a really weird sense of aesthetics too, calling just about anything "cute."

[Kyoko chuckles a bit as she thinks about her adoptive sister, but grows serious after a moment.]

She was the first person I met there, just after I arrived in the burning city of Incendia. She was the one who convinced me not to give up on myself after failing to save Sayaka. I don't think I'd be the person I am today without her. She's my sister in all but blood.
happyends: (so it's now or never more)

[personal profile] happyends 2021-04-11 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
.. that's sweet.

[ Both that this person immediately helped Kyoko out of the goodness of their heart. But it's also sweet to see Kyoko take to someone so much, especially since the girl does seem a little like the type to keep others at an arm's length.. ]

I'm glad she was there for you at a moment where you really needed it. I really hope your message will reach her.
redmeguca: (I know)

[personal profile] redmeguca 2021-04-11 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Not just then. I still had my fair share of screw-ups and breakdowns at Keystone, but she was there for me every time. If not for her, I'd probably still be convinced that getting close to me is a death sentence.
happyends: (better than the rest)

[personal profile] happyends 2021-04-11 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]

How about here then, Kyoko-chan..? [ Because Arianna isn't here, so-- ] If you'd have a breakdown here.. do you think you have someone you could go to about it..? It's not good to deal with that kind of stuff by yourself, you know..
redmeguca: (Default)

[personal profile] redmeguca 2021-04-11 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, it's fine. Haven't had one of those for a while now. It's been over a year for me, you know? I've calmed down a lot, and in more ways than one.
happyends: (lies in the palm)

[personal profile] happyends 2021-04-11 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Well.. that's good to hear.

[ Madoka doesn't think the other girl is lying about it, anyway. ]

But, still.. I mean.. [ Yes, she's waffling a little. But it's mostly since Kyoko has such a strong personality, and Madoka.. does not. Which is why she doesn't want to accidentally brush Kyoko's feathers the wrong way. ] .. you're not alone here. You at least know that, right..?
redmeguca: (Default)

[personal profile] redmeguca 2021-04-11 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh? Of course I do. You and Mami are here, and Kumoko's pretty cool too. And let's not forget Momo here, the objective best companion anyone could ask for.

[Momo lifts her head with a yip in pride.]
Edited 2021-04-11 19:25 (UTC)
happyends: (that has been plucked)

[personal profile] happyends 2021-04-11 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's the tiniest pause, but then Madoka laughs. ]

Well, Momo is pretty cute.. [ She's not going to deny that! She does seem like a good companion for Kyoko. An emotional support doggo. ]