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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.
miseris_socios: (huh?)

[personal profile] miseris_socios 2021-04-19 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
There are... I don't know if there's a map of the world, but I'm sure it can be ordered if you really want.
shegypt: (halfass)

[personal profile] shegypt 2021-04-20 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. That method. Less attractive. Bakura waves a hand. ] Do it if you want. My points are taken.
miseris_socios: (not so innocent)

[personal profile] miseris_socios 2021-04-21 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
[He huffs and puts his arms behind his head.]

Sucks to be you, then.
shegypt: (smirk)

[personal profile] shegypt 2021-04-21 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Such sympathy.

[ you could cut her sarcasm with a scalpel lifted from triage before a horrific Incident

assuming one even had an item like that why would anybody do such a thing you'd have to be a real kleptomaniac ]
Edited 2021-04-21 12:47 (UTC)
miseris_socios: (unimpressed.jpg)

[personal profile] miseris_socios 2021-04-21 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, I’m such a sweet kid.
shegypt: (smooth)

[personal profile] shegypt 2021-04-22 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
What's a good boy like you doing on a fungus like this?

[ He did just see fit to come up here and start judging her life choices, after all. The nerve. ]
miseris_socios: (huh?)

[personal profile] miseris_socios 2021-04-22 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Finding people to bug 'cause I'm bored.

[At least he's honest about it?]
shegypt: (getto daze)

[personal profile] shegypt 2021-04-23 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Brat.

[ pots

kettles ]
miseris_socios: (not so innocent)

[personal profile] miseris_socios 2021-04-23 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, like I haven't heard that before.
shegypt: (Default)

[personal profile] shegypt 2021-04-23 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
It's a compliment...

[ Bakura stretches, going up on her tiptoes and once again nearly upsetting the standard community content warnings with her choice, of lack thereof, in tops. ]

I'm seekin' entertainment elsewhere. You can keep those!

[ "Those" being the mutilated Millennium Mushrooms....a gracious king. ]
miseris_socios: (heya)

[personal profile] miseris_socios 2021-04-23 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
[He grins at her, picking up the mushrooms. Vexen will probably want to see these...]

Sure, why not? Go enjoy pestering other people.
shegypt: (getto daze)

[personal profile] shegypt 2021-04-23 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ Bakura grins. She doesn't always pester other people - she has to be very bored, or very intent on sworn revenge, for that - but when she does, she enjoys it Very Much, thank you. ]

Later, fucker.

[ And she jumps off the side of the fungus. If he peers down, she will have completely vanished.

This was unnecessary but she wouldn't put it past him to check behind her and Bakura wants to have the last laugh, so to say. ]