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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] agoodsoul 2021-04-26 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Noble." Dennis says it like it feels weird in his mouth. It's hard not to smile a bit.

"I know Lan Sizhui can't lie, guessing you not lying type either huh?" But his tone indicates he's not insinuating he would anyway.
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[personal profile] wenyuan 2021-05-02 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
He chuckles and smiles back at him.

"I may not have been raised by the Gusu Lan sect but many of their principles are behind Hanguang Jun's teachings to me. So yes, I am not the lying type."

He tilts his head as he regards his friend.

"Do you truly not see yourself as noble?"
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[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-05-03 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Lying us bad and all, but he can't imagine never telling a fib or nothing. Though lies have 100% fucked up his life, so yeah. Lying? Not cool.

As for Sizhui's question, it's uh. Loaded. Dennis gives a soft shrug.

"Dunno. Hurt a lot of people in my life, feels hard to look at myself as noble." Not like he ever meant to hurt them, but there are consequences to poor decisions and all that.

"Before the train was trying to make something good of myself."
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[personal profile] wenyuan 2021-05-03 04:35 am (UTC)(link)

He taps a finger to his chin, humming a thinking noise as he twists his lips.

"If you were trying to make something good of yourself, then that classifies you as noble. I've told you about...other members of my family. Since then, we've also tried to make something good of ourselves. Though I suspect my uncle's alcoholic drinks are...far worse than anything that anyone's ever attempt to brew."

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[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-05-04 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Sounds like a lot of you were good anyway." Not their fault that people couldn't or refused to see that.

"I'll take your word for it, you seem like the expert on nobility." Dennis teases, trying to play down the whole thing.
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[personal profile] wenyuan 2021-05-05 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
He reaches over and gives him a playful push. Not too hard though.

"I might know a thing or two."
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[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-05-05 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
Dennis looks afronted at the push, though obviously he's not actually upset by it.

"Nevermind, I take it back. That's very un-noble of you." And he'll reach over and tug Sizhui's sun hat down over his face. Gotta tease back.
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[personal profile] wenyuan 2021-05-18 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)

"Hey!"

He laughs and rights his sun hat again

"Al alright, no picnic desserts for you, then."

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[personal profile] agoodsoul 2021-05-19 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
"S'fine, watching my girlish figure anyway." Which is sorta true, but he wouldn't say no to a sweet.