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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.
hashtagparkerluck: (201)

cw: mentions of parental death

[personal profile] hashtagparkerluck 2021-04-22 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't either." Peter admits, because he doesn't but there's a sliver of hope their and he'll be damned if he doesn't act on it. "But things are weird in the void right-so maybe it would reach them? Not that I'd even know what to say."

That's part of the pain of losing your parents young-you don't really know them. He kinda remember what they look like and if he concentrates he can even sort of remember their voices but he didn't get to know them-he didn't get to know their likes or dislikes all he knows are the things he's been told and it's not the same.

"It'd be nice to know what they were like, you know? I mean-I know what May and Ben have told me and things people who claim to have met them have said but that's always gonna be different."
knifewithnoname: (heartbreak)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-04-23 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes I do be knowing." She'd been thinking about it, a little bit, since he told her that everyone had parents.

She wondered what hers had been like. She hopes they weren't stupid people even if they were stupid enough to be dead now or to have given her and her sister away.

"You can just be saying that. Be saying you do be wishing you did be knowing about them. You do be being good at talking so I do be thinking you can be thinking of a message."
hashtagparkerluck: (what was my combination?)

[personal profile] hashtagparkerluck 2021-04-25 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Heh." Peter responds, a ghost of a smile showing on his face at the statement. "Sometimes I feel that that's the only thing I'm good at-except I get nervous and stutter a lot so I'm not even good at that-I'm very good at making everything awkward-that's my real talent."

Now he's completely off topic but it's nice to move away from the heavy subject of his his parents for a moment. "Sorry, I'm putting way too much thought in to this."
knifewithnoname: (quiet fear)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-04-25 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe." She nodded, he did sometimes act very awkward. "But you should be thinking about it, it do be being important to you."

She wrinkled her nose. "I could be sending them a message, and I could be telling them about you because then you do no be needing to be being awkward."

It was always weird to talk about yourself, even to a rock sending a message to your dead parents.