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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.
gentle_jim: (eyebrow raise)

cw: drugs

[personal profile] gentle_jim 2021-04-16 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
M u s h r o o m s

Jack is a few feet off to the side, still looking sullen and holding a crumpled bag in his hand. It figures the universe would know the perfect way to shit on him after what he'd just done. He looks up with a grunt as someone supposedly speaks to him. Oh hey, it was that guy he met in the luggage car that he'd nearly strangled.

"How should I know? Best way to find out is just to mash 'em up and go for it. Might get nasal frostbite though. That always sucks." It's not the best way at all, but Jack no longer has an R and D lab to test them and he also doesn't care.
halfnewb: (Smug_Bastard)

Re: cw: drugs

[personal profile] halfnewb 2021-04-16 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Someone sounds like he booted on the wrong side of the processor." Sam snickers from behind his helmet, already cutting off a chunk of mushroom using the blades from his suit's wrist. "What's the matter? Too many targeted burger ads to send via Bullshit River?"
gentle_jim: (disgust)

[personal profile] gentle_jim 2021-04-16 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Is that even a thing?" Jack deadpans, though its a fair assessment considering how many processors he's been in lately. Not that Sam knows that. Or maybe he does? Jack isn't sure how much has been spread around the train yet.

"What is it with you and the burger ad? Was there a subliminal message in that one? I can't even remember."
halfnewb: (SamWink)

[personal profile] halfnewb 2021-04-16 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"I mean probably. Not that I needed more than your sexy ass face to get it stuck in my head. Also, every time I'm craving burgers it pops up." He dropped a mushroom chunk in one of the bags at his side. He sure wasn't going to be using it to send messages. "And if you're not sending ads, what're you sending? I see that bag bunched up in your big yaoi hands."
gentle_jim: (eyebrow raise)

[personal profile] gentle_jim 2021-04-30 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"I guess there's worse things you could be associating me with," Jack grumbles. He's still undecided where to slot this guy. He wears some kind of power enhancing armor and knows his way around guns, but he's not a vault hunter or a bandit. Certainly not a civilian either. A mercenary, maybe?

"In my what? I don't even know why I grabbed one," he huffs, sounding like absolutely does know why he grabbed one.
halfnewb: (SamWut)

[personal profile] halfnewb 2021-05-01 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"...uh-huh. Spoken like someone who totally doesn't have their hand in the metaphorical burger cookie jar." He snorts, rolling his eyes. "Fine fine. Don't tell me. I'm sure there's tons of other people on the train you could angst to that would actually give a shit."
gentle_jim: (squint)

[personal profile] gentle_jim 2021-05-01 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The 'burger cookie jar' comment actually gets an amused grunt. It's just the type of stupid humor that makes Jack laugh.

"Are you kidding me? I don't do 'angst', kiddo. How come your ass isn't doing the rock bag thing, huh?"
halfnewb: (SamRUSrs)

[personal profile] halfnewb 2021-05-02 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Sam rolled his eyes. "Gee I wonder. Big ol' mystery that one. Too bad you don't have a spare processer to dedicate to it. Too busy cataloging my ass."
gentle_jim: (arms crossed)

[personal profile] gentle_jim 2021-05-02 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Your ass wouldn't take up a single byte of my data," Jack scoffs. Honestly, the distraction from his thoughts is nice. It's easier to snipe at this guy and be annoyed than think about or try to process anything that's happened recently.

"Fine, I'll take a guess. Everyone you loved is dead or some other sob story like that. If you came from Pandora, that's just about everyone's crappy background."
halfnewb: (Smug_Bastard)

[personal profile] halfnewb 2021-05-02 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, exactly. So why'd you even have to ask? Pft." Sam snorts at him. "So really I'm more justified in asking who you have to send messages to. Everyone's lost everyone. Who do you have left?"
gentle_jim: (hey kids handsome jack here)

cw drug mention

[personal profile] gentle_jim 2021-05-02 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
His instinctual reaction to that question is to bristle, to just walk away. But where can he even go? There's no office here to retreat back to. He doesn't have the authority to have this guy dragged away or the even the guards to call to do it. Hell, the little shit isn't even scared of him.

"I don't know. There's got to be a babe or two I met at that hot tub orgy still alive. They can't all have dropped dead from cocaine addictions," he says flippantly, deciding instead to deflect with some good old bluster.
halfnewb: (SamRUSrs)

Re: cw drug mention

[personal profile] halfnewb 2021-05-03 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"..uh-huh. Just sending mental dick pics to one night stands like a normal person." Sam rolls his eyes. "Tell me or don't tell me, whatever. But if it's obvious even to me that you're out here for a reason, don't embarrass yourself trying to lie about it."
gentle_jim: (about to throw a FIT)

[personal profile] gentle_jim 2021-05-05 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're real annoying, you know that?" Jack growls, poking Sam hard in the chest piece.

"I don't get you at all. You should be scared of me. Or in awe. Or pissed off. You act like I'm just some regular schmuck. I don't know what you're getting out of this act, but cut it out."

Jack exhales -- or rather makes the sound, since he has no lungs. "Everyone's dead. You said it yourself. There's no point. I don't know why I thought otherwise."
halfnewb: (SamPoutResentment)

[personal profile] halfnewb 2021-05-06 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Because the river can send shit to whenever so I figured you'd be sending it to your dead mom or whatever the hell has you so pissy."