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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] halfnewb 2021-04-11 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
Ah yes, the sociopathic level of torture that was... What's New Pussycat... Truly Sam was driven to cruelty beyond all human reasoning. Who knew what other acts of violence he was committing? Hot sauce in milk, perhaps? Signing Jack up for spam emails, even.

Behavior on par with war crimes, all of it. How cruel of Yondu to sit by over there on the bench and let it happen!

"Hell yeah I do!" Sam chirped cheerfully, picking through some other rocks. "Buuut I'll probably send like... At least two more before I get distracted. Don't have a really great attention span-oh neat this one's got like a skag shape on it!" He puts that one in a bag, but for collecting not throwing. "So you don't have any messages to send at all huh? That's pretty crazy. I was convinced everyone else did, considering no one's shut the hell up about this river since that announcement. You'd think it was the only thing worth talking about."
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[personal profile] yondu 2021-04-11 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
It has nothing to do with severity, but somehow Jack brings out people's desire to constantly retaliate. Over and over and over. Maybe it's just a talent to cause people to revel in their next chance to cause him pain.

But as Jack is a dick and hell knows what the next or last thing he did was, Yondu says nothing. Probably wouldn't anyway.

"Nope." Even if he technically does have people, just ones he doesn't want to remember him, he keeps that tucked close. "Figure whatever's left got business covered."
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[personal profile] halfnewb 2021-04-11 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Nice. Means you've got more time to do something actually fun around here while everyone's getting misty eyed over...I dunno. Their cats or something? Did you check out the giant sparkly 'shrooms yet? They're pretty cool. Not as cool as like..." Sam pauses to think, something that takes visible effort for him. "... Uh. I dunno. Guns. But I guess they look neat. I cut off a chunk of one of em, to try later. Maybe it'll taste good. Even better maybe it'll get me high off my ass."
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[personal profile] yondu 2021-04-11 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"They look like a stuck-up fancy-ass asshole made 'em."

He's had these thoughts since showing up, his hatred of Ego stickin' it to him the whole time, but he's been a bit more polite about voicing them. But right now, he's just irritated enough to let it spill out.

"You have fun with your mushroom." He decides, at that point, to head back to his blanket. If he weren't trying to be sparing with his booze he would have brought some, but right now he's really wishing that he did.
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[personal profile] halfnewb 2021-04-11 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"...oh. Yeah. Okay." Sam watches him go, and then looks back at the river. "...yeah. Gonna have tons of fun." He looks down at the handful of rocks he's picked up, and sighs, discarding them on the ground and wandering down the shoreline.

'Fun'. Hard to have fun when it was something everyone on this train seemed to be deathly allergic to.