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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 2021-04-22 12:17 am (UTC)(link)

"Back to your own world?" Bulma asks even as she chews over the thought. Of course, this is sort of educated by the fact that she'd been in a different place before she and Vegeta had arrived here, but :

"I don't know that the rocks really get back to your world, anyway. At least where Vegeta and I were last time, the common thought was your world was basically paused while you were gone. It wasn't like the world was just going on wondering where you were."

Bulma thinks about it for a moment and then amends : "Which is probably good because Vegeta would've taken the kids and blown up the planet probably."
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[personal profile] nutkrusher 2021-04-22 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
Cassie chuckles, slightly nervously. "Yeah. Sounds about right."

She turns her gaze toward the sky.

"I was thinking more about being able to reproduce some parts of Void technology in our own universes. Being able to travel or communicate beyond the dimensions we already know about."
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[personal profile] ballseeker 2021-04-23 12:54 am (UTC)(link)

Bulma pauses for a moment. Of course, she has an idea of why Cassie would like to travel beyond dimensions and the lot. At this rate she's been to an alternate future, created another so that Trunks and Mai could have a peaceful life... and seen Universes fight it out for survival in a ring. There isn't much that the world could be able to achieve that would surprise her, but she does feel the need to warn her.

"From what I've gathered time and dimensional travel are largely frowned upon by the higher powers in our world. Our Destroyer is so fond of Bulla or I think he might've taken Earth already for the amount of times I've built time machines and used them." That is to say that Beerus wouldn't be at all thrilled about any of this, though.. Bulma is too defiant to not try.

"Dimensions and Universes are the same. Doing it tends to have a ripple effect as well that changes things even by minute details you might not think of otherwise. Just things to be aware of."
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[personal profile] nutkrusher 2021-04-23 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
"It definitely isn't something to take likely," Cassie says. "I'm not sure what our Elder Gods would think of it, either. But if anyone's got the experience and know-how, it's probably you."

Beat.

"I mean, I'd have our scientists give it a go, too."
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[personal profile] ballseeker 2021-04-26 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)

"We just need to hope Beerus or Whis don't show up, then." Trunks' first arrival in their time line had shifted things just enough to be concerning, so she knows where their concern originates from. Screwing with timelines and universes is best left to the professionals, but...

Oh well. She'll do it anyway.

"The problem is it shifts things ever so slightly. Wrinkles become folds, etcetera."
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[personal profile] nutkrusher 2021-04-27 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Cassie says. "Dimensional travel, time travel. That stuff's not really my specialty. It'd probably make my head hurt if I thought about it too much. I leave the technical stuff to Specialist Briggs."