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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.
magicurls: (Default)

Re: Fairytale tea

[personal profile] magicurls 2021-04-11 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
I just ordered it a little while ago. The train's supply was lacking.

[ She smiles and offers Momo a biscuit---not particularly doggy-formulated, but it smells hearty. ]

Rosetta's been sniffing all the mushrooms. They're so interesting to her...I guess they would be, at this strange fork in the road between worlds.
redmeguca: (Default)

Re: Fairytale tea

[personal profile] redmeguca 2021-04-11 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Momo happily accepts the biscuit. Nom!]

Yeah, I guess so. I saw some pretty weird stuff in Fissures, but nothing like this.
magicurls: (dreamy)

Re: Fairytale tea

[personal profile] magicurls 2021-04-13 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Right. It's almost as strange as....but it's nothing dangerous. Just weird, right?"

She laughs as she nibbles on her snack, a small biscuit.

"We could use more days like these."
redmeguca: (If you say so.)

[personal profile] redmeguca 2021-04-13 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
You won't find me arguing. Much as I love a good brawl, it's nice to just sit back and relax sometimes too. God knows we need it after that last mission.

[Kyoko, naturally, goes right for the pastries. That peach cobbler is calling her name...]
magicurls: (:>)

[personal profile] magicurls 2021-04-14 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ Quiet laughter as she sips her tea. Of course, it's all so familiar... ]

It's not always quite that bad. And the train said it's going to warn us before it gets that bad again, so at least I'll be ready with enough beds.

We'll just have to keep getting stronger, right?
redmeguca: (The rare happy Kyoko.)

[personal profile] redmeguca 2021-04-14 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
Right. We'll get so strong that nobody can beat the two of us! Three? Two and a half? I've heard there's another me on the train, but I haven't actually ran into her yet.
magicurls: (:>)

[personal profile] magicurls 2021-04-17 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
...really? You two must have a knack for avoiding each other.

[ Mami laughs to herself a little. ]

I think I met you first, and then when I met the other you, she was so confused. A centaur? I was confused too...I didn't figure it out until I looked at the roster, but your auras are a little different.
redmeguca: (If you say so.)

[personal profile] redmeguca 2021-04-17 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh, what can I say? I'm great at avoiding confronting myself. And if she's anything like me, she probably won't be thrilled to see me either.
magicurls: (eyes closed)

[personal profile] magicurls 2021-04-22 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
It's not so bad. Maybe...there are things you can learn from each other?

I've been making sure there's enough food for both of you, so you don't have to worry about that.

[ Her pile of biscuits is a little big...]
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[personal profile] redmeguca 2021-04-22 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Like what? The only thing I've got that I haven't pretty much mastered is my Doppel, which she won't have. ...Serious question, if she's got tricks I don't I want to know.
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[personal profile] magicurls 2021-04-28 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
I honestly don't know....we fought together once...if anything, you have the more varied abilities.

[ Sip of the tea. ]

But your paths went in different directions, I think. There might be something to compare notes about.
redmeguca: (Food is more important than you.)

[personal profile] redmeguca 2021-04-28 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe... I've seen a few other ways my path could have taken, and only a hand-full were any good.

(Can a zombie feel the breeze?)

And some were definitely worse.

(I'll curse every last thing in this world!)