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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.
philosopherspotato: (oAo)

RIVER POTATE,

[personal profile] philosopherspotato 2021-04-10 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[One can hear muttered words.

Unfortunately, as with all muttered words, one does not likely hear All of them.

'you should have been there too', in this case, is all Potato hears.

Ah dear.
]

...Should've been where?

[ah no] Was I late for something?! Did I miss a cool thing!?
pragmaticcollaborator: (shock)

[personal profile] pragmaticcollaborator 2021-04-11 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Huh?

[What is he even looking at? Ray's not sure, but at least the whatever it is doesn't look harmful. Probably.]

...No, I wasn't talking to you. I was sending a message to a friend.

[And he is still holding the bagged pebble as proof of that. Speaking of which, he's just going to toss that in the river, like he was about to do before being interrupted.]
philosopherspotato: (:0)

[personal profile] philosopherspotato 2021-04-11 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohhhh!!

...Are they gonna be mad? [Now she's just worried. It sure wouldn't be great to have someone mad at you, she's sure.]
pragmaticcollaborator: (worried)

[personal profile] pragmaticcollaborator 2021-04-16 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
No, he...won't be mad.

[Ray can at least be sure that Norman won't be mad, though he won't just up and say what did happen to him.]

I was just telling him what he missed out on, that's all.
philosopherspotato: (:0)

[personal profile] philosopherspotato 2021-04-17 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, well that's better then..! And really nice, [she insists, with a rather firm tone in fact.] It's important to know what's happening..! Otherwise people get confused and make a lot more mistakes than they have to, and then people get hurt!

[She knows!]
pragmaticcollaborator: (worried)

[personal profile] pragmaticcollaborator 2021-04-25 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
I guess... [He’s not sure why he’s sending this message, since he knows it probably won’t be received.

But that’s not a topic he wants to just unload on someone, so he moves on to the question he’s had about Potato this whole time.]


So uh, what are you?
philosopherspotato: (:0)

[personal profile] philosopherspotato 2021-04-25 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[What's she? Well that's an easy thing to answer!]

I'm a homunculus! [She cheerfully replies.

A pause, and-
] If you say 'what's that', I don't know what else to say, [She says seriously.]