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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] ballseeker 2021-04-19 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hmm... Well, I suppose it doesn't really matter if it's workable, right?" Or at the very least they could pick it apart for parts at the end of the day if it worked. Bulma's very much not on the picky side when it comes to these things, provided they work. Any lead is a good lead when there isn't much to work from to begin with.

Considering that she's invented and rebuilt a time machine or two... this seems doable.

"If Goku was here we could maybe just use his instant transmission, but.." Bulma's shoulders shrug. ".. It's maybe also good he isn't."
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[personal profile] sciencegirl 2021-04-20 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"It might be a little more complicated than that. It seems like the Void is very particular about what messages it lets through."

She gestures to all the rocks.

"Unfortunately it seems too dangerous to get samples of the water... also I can't find a bottle that will hold it."
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[personal profile] ballseeker 2021-04-22 12:24 am (UTC)(link)

"There's not one in the picnic supplies you could rig?" It's something to consider at any rate, or, actually, now that she thinks about it a little bit more, she has a bit of a cheat here. "I have family that flies, if that would help. I could convince Vegeta."

'Convince' meaning putting the bottle in his hand and saying 'fetch' to keep his wife happy.
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[personal profile] sciencegirl 2021-04-22 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
"It evaporates too quickly. Or whatever process it is- I assume it's evaporation but I can't tell. It could be soaking into its surroundings or dissipating in some other way. Plus when I touched the water before it didn't feel so good."

She shakes out her hand. She's even wearing gloves, and it still bothered her. Tingly and unnerving.

"But the stones seem to be fine. For now, anyway."




OOC: But the mods have informed me messing with them in experiments will make volatile reactions so guess what Princess has two thumbs a lotta hair and is gonna get soot on her face!
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[personal profile] ballseeker 2021-04-23 12:39 am (UTC)(link)

"Let me know if you'd like any help with your experiments. Even if it's just extra hands." Bulma's curious too, but she's got bigger fish to fry for Vegeta. And, apparently, something to do for Cassie as well at this point. Family obligations add up, of course, but helping Vegeta with his tail and his new gravity chamber are most important at this point.

And who knows what other opportunities may pop up.

"Any idea what you're going to try with them experiment wise?"


( OOC : oh no, poor Entrapta's hair! ... That's the Duo Maxwell in me popping out. )
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[personal profile] sciencegirl 2021-04-23 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
"That would be great!" Especially since working with people usually gives her a lot of great ideas.

"Oh! I was thinking maybe we could make dummies for the gymnasium with varying degrees of damageability! Maybe even mobility. Right now they're just not as robust as they need to be."

Though she wants to find out more about that radio first.



OOC: Luckily the worst she'll get is some singeing but y'know, good blow up times.
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[personal profile] ballseeker 2021-04-26 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)

"That definitely sounds useable for most people. Not my family, but - " Bulma stops to laugh a little at the thought, knowing that no dummy they make would be indestructible for Vegeta right about now. Maybe for Trunks, but.. well. That was a saiyan problem.

"Most people aren't as strong as them and that's probably for the better."
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[personal profile] sciencegirl 2021-04-27 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
"It's true that the Saiyans are exceptionally strong, as are the gods, but there is still a good chunk of the train that isn't. And they feel inadequate comparatively. Some of these people were some of the strongest their worlds had to offer back home. I'm used to not fighting, but for them, being so severely underclassed compared to their crewmates makes them feel anxious and inadequate."

Especially the ones that already have issues with personal value, which is a number of them. She's seen it, and it breaks her heart. Yeah, there's definitely something to be said for the power of discussion and the support that comes from friendship, but on a train when they feel trapped and useless it can't be good for them.

"I can't do much, but maybe I can help them become stronger. Maybe a little more knowledgeable in how to handle things stronger than them, even. I think one day they may really need that."