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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.
nutkrusher: (dafuq)

[personal profile] nutkrusher 2021-04-14 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Cassie blinks and stares for a moment.

"...Okay, how would they not know that? Are you adopted? Did you, like...die in a way that nobody saw, or something?"

A long pause.

"Uh, sorry if that last question is a bit much."
Edited 2021-04-14 01:29 (UTC)
schrodingersghost: (Fenton - Concerned3)

[personal profile] schrodingersghost 2021-04-14 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
An uncomfortable shrug. "It was an accident. A really weird accident, and I guess technically I'm half ghost? I don't look like one right now, you know?" Another long pause. "And... they know I got shocked some? But I never told them what really happened. There just never seemed like a good time for it."

Mostly because every time he got up the courage to tell them, he walked in on them talking about the best ways to dissect and/or experiment on his ghostly alter ego.

nutkrusher: (dafuq)

[personal profile] nutkrusher 2021-04-14 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay, so that...actually, no, it doesn't."

Her face is twisted into a truly confused mess of wrinkles at this point.

"See, in my universe you're either dead or you're not. Does 'half-ghost' mean you can, like, leave your body, or phase through objects or something?"
schrodingersghost: (Fenton - Sad)

[personal profile] schrodingersghost 2021-04-14 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Honestly it doesn't make much sense in my universe either. As far as I can figure out, I'm kind of stuck halfway between, so I can be either? So I can pick whether I want to look like a human or a ghost, but I can do stuff like phasing through walls any time." Here Danny makes a face. "Which was a pain to figure out how to control. I dropped so many beakers through my hands the first month that my school banned me from holding anything fragile."
nutkrusher: (Maaaaybe)

[personal profile] nutkrusher 2021-04-14 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
"That sounds...inconvenient," Cassie says.

"But as long as you can still stick around on Earth, I guess having powers isn't the worst thing in the world."
schrodingersghost: (Default)

[personal profile] schrodingersghost 2021-04-14 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Flying's nice?" Danny offers. It was still one of his favorite parts of what he was. Other parts.... He just tried not to think about it too hard.

nutkrusher: (Saiyan Armor)

[personal profile] nutkrusher 2021-04-14 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"It is," Cassie says. "Plus it saves on gas money."
schrodingersghost: (fenton - in the fountain)

[personal profile] schrodingersghost 2021-04-15 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Danny goes to respond to that, and then pauses thoughtfully.

"Huh. I was going to make a joke about not having to worry about that until I'm old enough to get a license. But actually, I guess I'm old enough now. Weird.
nutkrusher: (Contemplative)

[personal profile] nutkrusher 2021-04-15 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"I guess it's been a while for some of us," Cassie says. "I may end up throwing a birthday celebration myself."
schrodingersghost: (Fenton - Idea)

[personal profile] schrodingersghost 2021-04-16 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's a good idea. You could probably at least get a decent cake out of it."
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[personal profile] nutkrusher 2021-04-17 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
"I am THE master of throwing parties," Cassie says. "It'd really be my gift to the train, if you think about it.