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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] ourtomorrow 2021-04-21 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Both Kens are watching. THEY SAW THE EXTREMELY SOCCER THING WORMMON JUST DID!!!!

Time to do something even more soccer, and more amazing. Wormmon scrunches himself up and - "Hyaaahh!!" - shoots the ball at the goal. It leaves the ground for a moment, rolls, rolls....is indeed headed in the right direction...

....slows.....

Ken is wearing an expression as intense as any he's worn during battle. Come on! Come on...roll a little farther....for Wormmon.....
miseris_socios: (haha!)

[personal profile] miseris_socios 2021-04-21 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, from Wormmon’s perspective it might be hard to tell that the ball stops just short. Time to celebrate anyway.

“You did it!” Ken goes to pick up Wormmon as long as the little Digimon doesn’t show any objections to it and holds him up high.
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[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2021-04-21 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uwaaaaaaahhh!!"

Wormmon is startled, but pleased once he realizes why he is All The Way Up Here Now. "Ken-chan, did you see? Did you see???"

...Ah. Ken sees what is happening. And they can't really be sticklers for the size or shape of such an indeterminate goal, can they? Wormmon scored. Yes, when one considers the circumstances, Wormmon has surely scored a point.

He comes up beneath his partner, smiling. "Mm. Good job."
miseris_socios: (yay!)

[personal profile] miseris_socios 2021-04-22 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
He grins at Wormmon and gently places him atop the other Ken's head. "See? You're a good soccer player."

Maybe he'll need a bit more practice, but still. For a worm it's pretty damn good.
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<-foreshadowing

[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2021-04-22 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Head worm! Wormmon clings as Ken nearly overbalances, then fixes himself. He has to lean forward a little to accommodate Wormmon's bulk, but it's not like his partner is heavy, so....

Yes. They can manage this. Wormmon can stay on his head. Ken smiles. This is nice. (Awkward, but having Wormmon here makes up for it.)

Wormmon, meanwhile, is having THE GREATEST DAY OF HIS LIFE. "Eheheheheheheeeee!!!"

Ken gives...Ken....a grateful grin, nearly chuckling himself. Thank you for this. It had not occurred to him that Wormmon might enjoy this perch, but now that he is thinking about it, many of his friends' Digimon do....Perhaps they should go about like this, more often.
miseris_socios: (ah...)

adorable as fuck

[personal profile] miseris_socios 2021-04-22 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"... You make a good team." Again, a pang of missing Koromaru, but he pushes on. "... I'm... I'm really glad I know you two." His face flushes slightly at his words, but he tries to ignore it.
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[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2021-04-23 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's okay, Ken's blushing again now as well. But with a smile. "Me too."

"And me." Wormmon nearly dips in front of Ken's eyes, he is so intent on pushing his way into the conversation. Attention? Attention? He likes the other Ken, too.
miseris_socios: (huh?)

[personal profile] miseris_socios 2021-04-24 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
"That's good. ... Are you thirsty? I brought some water with me, I was pretty sure we couldn't drink the water..." And given that they're not supposed to have their SCAs off, he's right to have thought so.
ourtomorrow: (scratch)

[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2021-04-24 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Is he thirsty? Ken has to stop and assess. His mouth is a little dry. They haven't done much running around yet, but if they're going to keep active, hydration is important....

"Thanks." He tries to peer up at Wormmon. "What about you?"

Wormmon puffs himself up. "That much running was noth...ing..."

Puffing up has turned into huffing and puffing. Ken tries to catch the other boy's eyes, then discreetly holds up 2 fingers. A water for the worm, too, please.
miseris_socios: (ah...)

[personal profile] miseris_socios 2021-04-24 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
He nods and goes over to his bag, pulling out a water bottle. He looks at Wormmon for a moment and opens the bottle, pouring a little into the cap and handing the bottle to Ken and the cap to Wormmon.
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[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2021-04-24 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Wormmon holds out his top legs (claws? pincers? it shall never be known) to accept his bottle cap. Ken takes the bottle and carefully sips.

"Thanks," Ken says, at the same time Wormmon smacks his mandibles. So Ken takes the cap and fills it again, then passes it back up to Wormmon.

But...is this the only water bottle? He holds it out to Amada-kun. "Um...are you..."
miseris_socios: (ugh...)

[personal profile] miseris_socios 2021-04-25 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
"No problem." The other Ken's words confuse him for a moment before he pulls out another water bottle.

"I.. um. I always keep food and water on me. Just... just in case." He knows he's fine, with other people being around. But he still worries...
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[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2021-04-25 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
"....Ah." Ken feels better now, knowing he isn't depriving Amada-kun. That the other boy thinks of these things as 'just in case' is....concerning, but it just makes him all the more glad that his friend is somewhere that won't be a concern.

So many people have difficult lives in so many different ways. But they've all been able to find each other here, and work together. The world - the worlds - really are so much bigger than Ken's claustrophobic problems. He's a part of something!

Wormmon smacks his mandibles again. This time, Ken carefully reaches the bottle up and lets Wormmon drink from it so he can have as much as he wants. Easy...gently....

Glug glug glug. Ken's tension is completely gone. He's wanted here. He's with a friend.

He's happy.