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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.
happyends: (the ancient magic i dreamed of)

[personal profile] happyends 2021-04-29 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
I-- I wasn't a servant or a slave!

[ Okay, maybe it's not the best thing to start with here, but the moment Madoka hears it, she just has to make sure that he understands she wasn't. She doesn't want him to get the wrong idea!

In fact, she's pretty sure she hasn't even been raised to be demure.. Her mom sure isn't, after all. ]


It's just.. I don't want to make people feel bad. Isn't it only natural to apologize when you think you've hurt someone?
foxyou: (mine now)

[personal profile] foxyou 2021-05-02 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[But if she's not a servant then why does she act like one! Has he ever met a well-off girl this timid before?]

Even then, how many times do you think you need to apologize in a single conversation? I don't want to hear any at all from you, do you understand?

[He pokes her forehead as if to emphasize his point.]

I'm not hurt, I never was, and I don't want to hear you implying my feelings are that fragile--don't apologize for that, either!
happyends: (my feelings are all i can rely on)

[personal profile] happyends 2021-05-03 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
.. okay..!

[ It feels kind of weird to agree with this. She's never allowed to apologize to him ever again?! But what if she ever does something really bad to him! What then! The possibilities are myriad, and all of them are terrifying, and--

And then she's poked in the forehead, which makes her let out a tiny, surprised sound before she quickly moves her hands up to cover said forehead.

Madoka is so easily bullied. ]


I.. I promise I'll try my best! I, um.. [ SHE DOES WANT TO SAY SORRY FOR THE IMPLICATION..

BUT NOW SHE CAN'T.. This is a dilemma already. ]


I-I think.. your strength is very admirable..

[ There, she managed to twist the apology around into a compliment for him. That's better, right? ]
foxyou: (why yes i AM amazing)

[personal profile] foxyou 2021-05-05 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh yes, that's much better! Jiu puffs up immediately, clearly happy with the compliment.]

Thank you, that's something I work hard to maintain.

[He smiles for once, hands falling to his hips in a relaxed sort of manner.]

That wasn't so hard now, was it? Much better than a useless apology.
happyends: (when i look back)

[personal profile] happyends 2021-05-05 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
.. yes..

[ At least there's no apology.

But it does feel like her meekness in front of him has increased tenfold now this whole thing has gone down. ]


I'll.. um. I'll go do something else now. Please enjoy your day.. [ Trying to escape? Madoka? No way.

(Yes way.) ]
foxyou: (what was that?)

[personal profile] foxyou 2021-05-08 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[.......Why does she seem even more downtrodden than before...that's now how this was supposed to work?

He blinks at her, confused and ever-so-slightly unsure, and - before she can run away - he awkwardly tries....giving her a headpat?]


...You too. Good luck with your endeavors, whatever they are.

[Pat pat.]