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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.
shadowslipping: (Smile)

[personal profile] shadowslipping 2021-04-13 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahahah..!

...I do apologize though...I have a feeling I've probably studied your exploits, but history tends to make it difficult to put a face and name to those things.

...At the very least, you don't have the look of someone who pulled that name from nowhere, [she huffs, smiling. It's not meant to be a flirt, but it's certainly a compliment- she is not blind to the fact that Bakura looks like she could throw her a mile, not at all.

Okay it's Kinda hot.
] Might I ask what regions you typically pilfered from, for the sake of historic accuracy?

[Alright now she's just being a nerd.]
shegypt: (smooth)

[personal profile] shegypt 2021-04-14 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Kemet.

[ Said with a certain luxurious pleasure at the idea of pilfering it.

And also at being eyed like that. Bakura shifts closer, testing her luck. Her lifestyle does not lend itself to forming deep, long-lasting relationships....but what is a thief if not the ultimate connoisseur of self-indulgence? ]


Of course, I have plans to expand.
shadowslipping: (pic#13321640)

[personal profile] shadowslipping 2021-04-17 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure you do, [she says, and somehow it doesn't become patronizing in tone.

She's also doing marvelously to not look at Bakura's chest, which is probably for the best for both of them; Yuume, tragically, is very much someone who would want a deep long lasting relationship.
] Kemet though...

Hmmm. I might have studied your efforts depending on. I would have to look through my papers first though...most things from the 'missing rule' are somewhat patchy, given the curse that existed over the information.

[Nasty things, those.]
shegypt: (smirk)

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[personal profile] shegypt 2021-04-17 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ C'mon. Who needs 'commitment' when you can have a thief's nimble fing[[REMAINDER OF SENTENCE ITSELF TOO CURSED TO SHOW]].

But if Yuume won't look where she wants to look, what if Bakura loops an arm around her shoulders and pulls her conspiratorially close instead? ]


Then you should learn from the source.

[ lady if you're really not into it she'll stop, she has no boat in this race, but you gotta admit you walked right into that one ]
shadowslipping: (pic#13315175)

EYYYY

[personal profile] shadowslipping 2021-04-18 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[oh god] HEH-!

[Well she's beet red now. She's still not looking, but she's beet red, which is probably a prize e nough in itself.] I-

I- I would certainly look forward to an interview, if you're willing..!

[OH GOD SHE'S FOUND SOMEONE MORE OVERT THAN SHE EVER DREAMED]
shegypt: (smooth)

[personal profile] shegypt 2021-04-18 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Extremely.

[ Bakura is a kitty. She's basically purring.

The question is....to move in now, or prolong the game....? ]
shadowslipping: (pic#13315175)

[personal profile] shadowslipping 2021-04-22 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's going to die. Oh god.

Her voice is basically a wheezing whine.
]

You know most would get each other drinks before doing anything like this..!

[She wants to curl up and disappear now...but the interview...]
shegypt: (smirk)

[personal profile] shegypt 2021-04-22 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you know somewhere? My usual's beer, but for you......only wine.

[ Wine between these lips. That she is now trying to thumb. Hand under Yuume's chin. ]
shadowslipping: (pic#13315175)

[personal profile] shadowslipping 2021-04-25 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[YAH KILLIN' HER BAKURA.] P- Perhaps something with a picnic lunch..!?

[If this keeps up she's going to Melt. Literally. She's going to disappear, right into the shadows, and never come out!!]
shegypt: (yuri hands)

[personal profile] shegypt 2021-04-25 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a date.

[ Bakura leans in - close enough that when she chuckles, Yuume will be able to feel it on her mouth.... ]
shadowslipping: (pic#13315175)

[personal profile] shadowslipping 2021-04-27 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh gawd]

A-agreed....

[Yuume promptly melts- literally melts- into the shadows below, red as a tomato.

Don't worry Bakura! She'll show up for that date! She just.

She just has to decompress really.
]
shegypt: (shock)

i forgot lele was there so I GUESS EVA'S PORYGON GOT TO WATCH BAKURA ATTEMPT TO PICK UP CHICKS

[personal profile] shegypt 2021-04-27 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ....Huh.

Bakura pauses, surprised. Considers what has just happened.

Then straightens up, rubbing her own lips and grinning. Dammit. That gave her the shivers. The girl'd vanished into the dark.

Bakura is so turned on right now. ]