So Familiar a Gleam: Conclusion

[voidtreckermods]

Time to leave!

There is not much of the city left, but the park is holding together as those anchoring help those who are not voidtreckers through back to where they belong. Monsters continue to attack and a little further out there is a battle of hearts and minds being fought with the mass of colours and chaos.

Eventually, after the bulk of citizens had been evacuated everyone with SCA's on would hear Jin-Roh's voice after a few frantic beeps, as Chiff aligned everyone's SCA's. "We are almost done here, if you are with anyone not tethered to a voidcraft get them to the evacuation point, as quickly as possible."

Anan pulls out of the anchoring point to call out to any defenders in the park. "Come on! Anyone who isn't a voidtrecker! It's time to go."

Luckily those off fighting the entity headed the message and made their way to the park as Jin Roh spoke again.

"Everyone else get ready. When we call it you need to leave. If you don't have your SCA on then get to someone who does."

As the last people rushed to the park Anan calls out again, through her SCA and outloud to the park. "You need to unanchor, before you can evacuate. Everyone be ready."

She goes in again though, because there are some last people, those from the large battle, getting through as another message was called.

"Almost there. Be ready. On my command..."

Anan unanchored again. "Quick everyone unanchor."

"NOW" Jin Roh's voice came through strong on their SCA's. Hopefully those with SCA's would grab those without.

There is some outside help as well, the train pulls anyone who is unconscious or still under the entity's control, forcibly evacuating them. This includes Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji and Zagreus.

Luggage Carriage

There has been a mass evacuation before and that was crazy enough but since then the population of the train has almost doubled and now it is an extremely tight squeeze as everyone crashes into the luggage carriage at the same time.

The train jerks and rolls as they enter into the void at breakneck speed and again as they seem to slow, rather than speeding off though the void.

There's a crackling from their SCA's. "Voidtreckers? Voidtreckers come in!" Anan's voice. "Please tell me you made it..."

There's only a few moments of signal and soon they are flying though the void again, away from the strange non-world, the entity sealed for now. To new adventures, but first hopefully some time to recover from all that has happened.

Comments

SCA

[voidtreckernpcs]

There's a crackling from their SCA's. "Voidtreckers? Voidtreckers come in!" Anan's voice. "Please tell me you made it..."

[consider8]

It was times like this that made Eight grateful that she didn't have any bones. She quickly shifts to her octopus form and slowly meanders her way to a clear spot where she could answer the crackling voice coming from her SCA-phone.

"A lot of us are here... its like a tin of sardines at the moment. Should we do a head count? Anybody notice anybody missing?"

Group call let's go

[namethattune]

[The upside of standing head and shoulders above everyone else is that, once Siebren manages to raise his arm and activate his SCA, he can be a speakerphone for just about everyone.]

We have returned to the train, and we are alive, if a bit cramped.

[And the sun is slightly warm.]

[nutkrusher]

Cassie is currently pressed firmly against a wall. She replies through strained teeth.

"Sure, you count the thirty on the right side of the car and I count the thirty on the left. Someone else can get the floor and someone else can get the ceiling."

[tactlesstantei]

That's an understatement!

[It's Masumi, pinned to a wall by the amount of people crammed into the luggage car. She's also noticeably exhausted, but is trying to keep going until she can get to her cabin and rest.]

Imagine all of us stuffed into one train carriage and that's what you have! But yes, I think we're all here...

Organization, Food and Motivation, Anyone?

[wewillwewill]

For better or worse, Elidibus is back in a vessel that everyone who has met him should be familiar with. Who wouldn't have wanted to be the fly on the wall when he left his temporary host and then offered to evac her as an anchor?

Well. Let's just say that went strangely given the circumstances at the time. More on that later, perhaps. Or not at all.

He isn't finding the cramped conditions great, but it hasn't robbed him of his observational skills. Namely there's a huge crowd of people and many are unconscious or disoriented. Perhaps even wounded.

"Those nearest the entry please begin moving out of the carriage. Make space for those who are unconscious or injured." he begins, speaking in a commanding manner over the gathering. It will be loud enough to be heard.

"If those who can teleport others find the unconscious or injured near them, please use your talents to transfer them to the healer's bay. Let us not dwell overlong in these conditions."

His gaze turns to those nearest him. "When you are able to move, please make room. I'll create a rift to the dining carriage. If you would begin to organize food and drink, I believe many would welcome it. Let us put aside our respective Team duties for a time and work together on this matter. It does not have to be extraordinary. Simple fare will suffice."

The tones he uses both in general address and to those near him is designed to get people to keep moving and not 'freeze'. It is reassuring to hear and has just the right amount of concern to suggest Elidibus speaks with sincerity and what is probably in most everyone's best interests.

Once there is enough room, spellwork is woven and constructed and in almost an instant, a dark, shadowy cloud of black, purples and blues billows into existance. It is perfectly fine, just a little shadowy and there would (should?) be no adverse effect of making use of it. As promised it will lead to a safe corner of the dining carriage.

[consider8]

Time To Leave

Eight's body is beyond exhausted, and her adrenaline is starting to wane. But the mission still wasn't done. She wasn't going to be satisfied until everyone was safe. "ANCHOR!" She yells, raising her phone up into the air. "ANCHOR! HURRY!!"

Low Key Takoyaki

By the time Eight is able to leave the luggage car, she is too tired to care. She is so tired, in fact, that even maintaining her human form is a bit too much of a bother. After a step or two out, the physical form just gives up and she oozes onto the floor as a debilitated octopus. Her tentacles push her forward weakly with only one destination in mind: her room in lower one A. Heck, she's so out of it, she may not even be bothered if someone were to step on her. Probably. Okay, no, that was still not especially likely. But the girl's exhausted, give her a break!

[consider8]

"...well, they're complaining instead of yelling in agony, so I think that's a good sign." Eight huffed.

[blitzcheer]

"Stupiiid traaiin," can be heard muffled through the body pile up. Complaining about the train? Just a normal state of being for Tidus.

[katzenpfote]

[Just A Little Unwell] (cw: references to institutionalization)

Caleb does not want to be here.

He's been forced into a medical car, told that he needs to be monitored to see that he's all right... but he's not happy about it.

After an initial burst of panic where he'd had flashbacks to a much darker, much dirtier cell he'd finally settled down. For a given value of 'settled', since he's spent much of the time pacing the available walking space in his 'cell', counting out loud in Zemnian.

"Eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf, sechs, sieben, acht. Eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf, sechs, sieben, acht..."

And on and on he goes.


[Sweet Dreams]

Needless to say Caleb did not get much sleep over the night, but he'd seemed well enough to be let go.

Given the stress he's been under, however... it doesn't take long for him to pass out.

Sometimes it's leaning against the sink in the kitchen, sometimes it's facefirst in a book in the library, sometimes it's lying down in the greenhouse. Occasionally you might be led to him by a meowing cat, sitting and not shutting up until someone follows him to his wizard.


[Wildcard]

[???]

[miseris_socios]

[Run Away]

When they can all finally move, Ken runs.

It's instinct more than anything else, trying to get away from his feelings. He runs to his room to grab his bag before running to hide in the game room, making sure he sinks low in the beanbags and makes sure there's no clear visibility of him from the doors. He turns Koromaru's card over in his hand, considering.

If only Koromaru were here...


[Hidden]

He doesn't mean to slink around, but the mission left him shaky. He slides into the kitchen when it looks like not a lot of people are there and starts prepping some vegetable soup - both for himself and to leave out for people who are too shaky from the mission to make their own food.

It's easy to catch him, since it takes a while.

Once he's done with that he hides away upstairs in the music car, trying to not be seen. He's got headphones in, so it's easier to sneak up on him than usual.


[Wildcard]

[???]

[seacub]

Nnnhhh...

[Emporio appears to be somewhere in the upper shelving cases, but at least he's small enough?] I feel like I just want to go to sleep...

T...thanks for the help Anan... [Hopefully she heard that before they lost connection...]

[yondu]

Wait... I don't see a few folks. Cherry an' Tani... I don't- wait...

[He's dizzier than expected.]

I think I done made a mis-...

[And then there's a muffled sound of Yondu just dropping against someone else, because an overworked, overtired old man who doesn't know his limits just ran out of steam. He'd left whatever healing equipment he had on Raven because she'd needed it more. His get up and go has gotten up and went.]

[renegadeprince]

[Vegeta manages to get an arm free from those around him, catching Yondu as he started to fall and holding him up long enough to move closer to him.] I got you. [It taking a moment to realize that Yondu isn't just needing a hand to stand but was completely out cold. This calls for another solution.

Quick to hoist Yondu up and over onto his shoulder, Vegeta started to move towards the exit.] Move, please. [Carefully weaving his way between others and out of Luggage Carriage to go and drop Yondu off in his room.]

[tactlesstantei]

Please Rest

[After managing to get out of Luggage, Masumi begins dragging herself back to her cabin for the rest she desperately needs after acting as an anchor. Almost literally, since she's leaning heavily against the wall as she slowly makes her way down the hall.

Thankfully she makes it to Sleeper One, but unfortunately trips on her way up the stairs and doesn't have it in her to get back up. In fact, she ends up just passing out on the spot. Feel free to find her blocking the stairs up to the upper cabins in Sleeper One.]

Lack of Energy

[In the days following the mission, Masumi spends most of her time sleeping, too exhausted to do much else. Usually she sleeps in her cabin, but sometimes she ends up sound asleep elsewhere, such as:

-Propped up in a chair in Standard, her cheek leaning against the window.
-Sprawled out in a beanbag chair in the games car.
-In a chair in the cinema car, having fallen asleep in the middle of a movie.
-Passed out in the middle of a simple meal in Dining, her food just sitting there half finished.

If caught and woken up, she'll at least look a bit sheepish, but mostly just exhausted. Anchoring must have taken a lot out of her.]

[flatteries]

Please, Eight, everyone is heading in this direction! It's not exactly the best plan to be something very squishy and easily trampled upon when there are so many people moving out of the luggage car and in the direction of - well, anywhere else, really.

But there is an upside to her being in that form. Once someone does notice her, it makes her very, very recognizable. And Inigo does notice her, though he just stares at the octopus trying to crawl forward for a moment or two before he lets out a tired sigh.

And then he speaks up.

"Need a hand?"

Yondu Udonta - Blue Team - Merriment Day 15

[yondu]

Dining Car - Tired Food Crimes

He's not sure of what happened between the luggage car and his room. Just that he somehow made it from point A to point B. He'd thank whoever did it but he has no idea when he wakes.

He clings to dreams of standing behind a bar, smiling at leather-clad friends with their own versions of the flames. A mix of the Captains from the old days and people he'd met in Jinnjar and is doomed to likely never see again. He dreams of looking over Centaurian forests from a porch, of cupping his hands around a flower and watching it change from one hue to another. He dreams of a sky streaked in colors, pink bubbles interrupting the beauty in a way only he'd find threatening and damnably familiar. And sometimes, sometimes he dreams of floating bodies, watching and waiting for him.

He wakes after one of those, and eventually shambles his way to the kitchen after a half-assed effort to freshen up. He's too tired to do any real cooking, so he just grabs an ice cream cone, fills it with cold chicken curry leftovers because he doesn't want to fucking do a dish, grabs a package of sandwich meat, and sludges his way to the dining car to eat his monstrous snacks.

He's worn out, he's hungry, his head is full of fuck and he can barely think. Questions and other important things will have to wait until later.

Cinema Car - Circle of life

There's a movie about a woman archeologist looking for a mysterious artifact. She's wearing a fedora, a leather jacket, has a whip, a long braid, short shorts, and hiking boots. And something about that seems a little ill-advised but, you know? At this point, what's logic? She's already ran across the backs of a bunch of crocodiles to escape the bad guys.

He doesn't know Terran animals enough to say whether or not that's a viable solution.

She finds the a relic that a cult is also hunting for, but a member of said cult, elaborately robed, sets off the traps around her hoping she'll die so he can steal it. She's immediately caught in a complex situation of sliding stones trying to make an escape.

Yondu's dully watching, blinking slowly with his feet propped up on the seat in front of him, chewing popcorn at the speed a cow chews cud. Once he swallows, he mutters, "Had someone do that to me." And flips off the screen lazily. Peter Quill taught him a few things, as well.

It's at least doing a little bit to take his mind off some important losses. Sometimes shit is temporary. Sometimes it widens that hole in your aching chest. But he can't be sure yet, not until the platform.

FOOD CRIMES FOOD CRIMES

[its_dad_sanzo]

Koumyou's also in the dining car, napping with his head down on the table. Not an unusual sight after any mission, let alone this one.

He does, however, stir when Yondu comes into the area, and blinks very slowly at the man's food choices.

"That looks..."

What are words? Words are hard. Give him a second, here.

"...Like a choice."

CINEMA

[luckydragonsfoot]

Katsuya's going to be honest, he's not really paying attention to a lot. Of anything, actually! Being blasted out and then evacuated and shoved into triage by confused psychic ponies does that. He's a very tired guy, and that's before the exhaustion from everything else sets in.

Anyway, he'd probably normally be all over the movie, but instead he's just kind of staring. Staring.

It takes a solid few seconds before he even realizes Yondu spoke.

"...Huh, the traps thing..?" He doesn't even quite know which traps thing he means. It could be all.

[hoardsrealestate]

Luggage Carriage and Return to Cabins (Upper 1E)

On crashing into the luggage car with literally everybody, Freeza does the one instinctual thing he can do ad moves toward the nearest open air -- which is of course toward the ceiling, disentangling with whatever poor souls appeared with him and letting them remain where they lie while he reorients himself. He has never been more thankful to not need to breathe.

Once he realizes what has happened, he sets to getting a few people to their feet that appeared to be struggling with it; the more people up, the less floor space is being taken up and the faster they can all disperse.

Once freed, he returns to the sleepers to wait until the shower is open, if necessary, change, and decompress. He might adjourn to the dining car for a bowl of curry at some point.

[4starlowclasshero]

“Instant Transmission… is safer…” Goku groaned. “Jeez, this is nothing, but it’s cramped!”

AU!Usagi Tsukino | Purple Team | OTA

[another_moon]

Enough of this Mess!

Usagi was glad this mission was over. Being attacked by random people, nearly getting arrested, being forced into hiding, helping people trying to escape... yeah, no. She's had enough. Once she disentangles herself from the crowd in the luggage car, she's going to go and disappear into the lab car. Her hand goes for the brooch on her chest, pulling it off and causing her New Sailor Moon form to disappear in a flurry of ribbons.

The entire mission made her feel terrible. She wanted that feeling to go away and, reaching the lab, went immediately to work on her brooch, popping open its back and messing with its insides to adjust it again. Maybe she can find a way to increase mental protections.

Wanderings (Wildcard)

Oh, that earlier feeling hadn't gone away totally and Usagi was feeling listless, so she'll be out and about. You might find her in the kitchen, making a snack; perhaps she's in the game room messing with a video game; she might have wandered back to her room in Lower 2 - B.

Either way, the girl needs something to get her mind off of what happened.

Nozomi Yumehara | Purple Team

[cureofmanyworlds]

Harsh Truths?

Three missions with illusions. Three missions where she had been dragged into dealing with such things. This one was the worst of all, having been subjected to a false world and false life.

That life was what she hated the most. Not that she had one, but they forced her to be in a relationship with someone. That was her decision. If she wanted to be with Kairi, she wanted to ask her out, ask her permission.

Pulling herself out of the mess of bodies, she was going to find the nearest chair and sit in it, pulling her legs up to her chest and bury her face in her knees. She isn't sure how to talk to Kairi after this...

Wildcard

Done feeling sorry for herself, Nozomi's going to wander around, lost in her own little world. She might be in the theater car, losing herself to another marathon; she might be in the spa car's pool, swimming again; she might be in the lab car, curiously poking around.

Either way, she's out there trying to push through.

cinema

[jingyeets]

Lan Jingyi is not tracking moving pictures well right now. They're still unfamiliar, three weeks and a whole illusionary life in, but they're sound, and the parts that make him jumpy aren't so bad that he doesn't appreciate the babble of music and voices that otherwise comes in.

So it is Yondu will have a dragon, long in body and roughly fox sized, sprawl across the seat next to him, acting for all the world like a creature as entirely exhausted as he. Frankly, with how he's laying, he can't see the screen. He's been napping on and off, no apparent indication of when he's awake since he doesn't bother opening his eyes overmuch.

"Wha' happen'd?" Lifting his head, he turns it to the screen before it goes blank, and his eyes blink slowly like he doesn't understand what's going on.

Food Crimes

[agathokakological]

Crowley is himself again, thankfully, but when he sees Yondu he freezes, emotions welling up within. He has the strong urge to not only thank Yondu for pulling him out of his illusion, but for reminding him that he is loved, that he has a family.

Crowley might not have thought of it like that before Yondu put it so plainly.

With a thin smile, he flops down onto a seat beside Yondu, placing a hand on his back.

"Good to see you, mate."