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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] marvelous_murderbot 2021-04-13 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"But would it be more irresponsible to send them a message that may only concern them and prompt rescue attempts, using up resources."

She takes a moment, thinking it through.

"Still, our priority must be your peace of mind - and I suspect only by attending to your duties, even here, will you find it."
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[personal profile] averyusefultray 2021-04-14 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
"They're cautious." It's been a point of contention. "Barely enough resources for what needs to be done in our galaxy. They won't try the impossible."

Not strictly true. "Kanan might, but not High Command." Maybe she should have just told Kanan what to tell them. But she had too many other things to say to him. "They just need information."
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[personal profile] marvelous_murderbot 2021-04-14 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
She thinks it over for a long moment.

"Then be honest, and hope for the best. Since you cannot receive messages back, one can only presume in any event - but surely they know you well enough to understand your speak in earnest."
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[personal profile] averyusefultray 2021-04-15 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Raddus would think I'm on spice." Or possibly that he's on spice. THere will definitely be spice involved. "But Senator Organa has led an interesting life."
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[personal profile] marvelous_murderbot 2021-04-15 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Bail Organa? Of Alderaan?"

Well that gives her a much more precise timeframe about when Hera is from.

"I suspect he knows strange quite well."
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[personal profile] averyusefultray 2021-04-16 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
"He worked closely with General Kenobi." She of course has no idea what a major indicator it is that the senator is alive. "We've known him longer than the rest of High Command too. He might trust it without Kanan needing to intervene."

Kanan arguing with High COmmand seems like it will end poorly.
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[personal profile] marvelous_murderbot 2021-04-16 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
She says nothing, merely nodding in acknowledgment.

"Your logic has no discernible flaws. Granted, we must proceed from presumption at every level - but once we move past that..."

She pauses.

"What about his daughter? The Princess Organa?"

Guri has very direct knowledge of her capability, after all.
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[personal profile] averyusefultray 2021-04-17 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
This could all just be a theoretical exercise. But if it isn't, they do need to make use of it. "Leia? She's a good kid. I'm not sure she'd be able to do much with the information."

She'd just be passing on the problem of trying to explain this to someone, really.
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[personal profile] marvelous_murderbot 2021-04-17 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
"She isn't..."

She started, then stopped. No, better not to say it.

"Very well."
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[personal profile] averyusefultray 2021-04-18 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
"She's older in your time, of course." It's a strange thought though. SHe's Ezra's age and even if he was technically not a kid any more... he was a kid.
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[personal profile] marvelous_murderbot 2021-04-18 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
She nods, decisively.

"And without revealing too much, suffice to say she becomes very active in the greater work."
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[personal profile] averyusefultray 2021-04-19 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
"That doesn't surprise me." That was a not a girl who was going to be happy to sit back and watch, no matter how many grey hairs she was giving her father. "She planned the mission we did with her."
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[personal profile] marvelous_murderbot 2021-04-19 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
She nods, quiet for a moment.

"Senator Organa, then?"
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[personal profile] averyusefultray 2021-04-20 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
SHe nods. "I think so."

What was another strange thing? "I thought I'd have a lot to say about the mission to my crew but... I trust them."
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[personal profile] marvelous_murderbot 2021-04-20 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"A good sign, I would think?" she responds, moving closer to observe the process.

"What will you say to them instead?"