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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2022-02-12 07:08 am
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No Place Like Home: Outside

NO PLACE LIKE HOME: OUTSIDE

HOME SWEET HOME
You find yourself not on a wide station platform, in the clothes you last remember, holding what you were when you went through the glas door. There's no longer a train behind you, no sound of its whistle, with no other passengers around you in similar style of clothing to your own.

You're somewhere familiar, or just - the last place you remember being before your life became tethered to the Voidtrecker Express. A field, a city, a kingdom, or perhaps even a space station. You should be nowhere, yet you find yourself somewhere, despite all odds.

People - if there are people - don't at first notice you; but attract enough attention to yourself, and that will all change. Friends, family - are they near, a phonecall away? It's either everything you wanted or everything you imagined (for good or worse), and it could seem unbelievably real. But it is real - you're off the train, back somewhere you know.

Finally - the journey is over...


...If only.

You're moving away from where you arrived, for whatever reason. Who wouldn't? You may be far from home, have business elsewhere, or want to go sightseeing. It's time to return to - and live - your life, and that doesn't include sticking to one place.

But you'll find that when you reach a point, the world becomes...foggy. A fog that you hadn't seen in the distance before it appears, and when you walk through it, you'll find yourself in a place some have already found themselves in.

Because for some passengers, there was nowhere for them to return, and so the barriers lead only to fog, and then straight back onto the platform. The Voidtrecker Express may be stationed, or there may be a blanket of fog where it should be; sometimes, it can be caught trying to leave the station, only to come back a few minutes later. The doors are shut tight, and the windows are obscured, showing nothing inside.

Those who came from somewhere can go back, should they go through the turnstiles again. And if they want, they can take people along with them, too...


But sometimes, they go to a world no one knows. They go through the barriers into nothing, a black emptiness. Not space, for those that know space, and it doesn't seem to be the void either. But it is a void, devoid of anything at all. Just a darkness so complete they will not be able to see anything at all, they will only know their companion is there through touch and sound. How they are breathing, how they are living at all, is a mystery; one probably answered only by the SCA on their wrist.

Being there brings an unease deep down inside them. This place is not natural, not somewhere that they should exist in. Not a place that should exist at all. Luckily they are never there for more than a few moments before they return once more to the station, fog covering them like a safety blanket.




A DIFFERENT CORNER: LOCATIONS

In the first couple of days (whatever that means, when time doesn't match up between most places), the only way to move to another's tethered location is by them leading another there. But after that, individuals will show up in other locations when they reach close to the distance limit. Indeed as time goes on everything gets a lot less stable. They may know their five miles perfectly but still one step to another leads them back to the platform. Attempting to return to their world leads them somewhere else entirely.

And there's quite a few places to end up.

SETTLEMENTS
COMMUNITIES
CITIES & KINGDOMS


OOC NOTES
OOC post. Ask questions here.

LOCATION TOPLEVELS: Since it'll be easier for players to engage with settings presented by those offering them, when we see a toplevel for one of the above locations put up, we'll add it to the list! We've also included the OOC comments for settings to the side, so any questions can be left with the player, as well as extra details. Please always speak with the player first if you intend to do anything drastic to the setting!

A REMINDER: Time of log is Poi 22-25, but time within worlds can last up to a maximum of two weeks. Minimum is whatever you want it to be.

During Poi 22 and 23, characters will need to be led to a location to be able to access it. From Poi 24, people will show up in locations regardless of invitation.

The second half of the event will go up during 20th to 25th February (Poi 26-28). But as always, play around in here and do as you like!

If your character's setting isn't above, link us to it in the Questions post, along with your toplevel! We'll add it.
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flatteries: (nobody here is perfectly fine)

downtime

[personal profile] flatteries 2022-02-13 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's what I was trying to say," Inigo replies. Perhaps a bit too quickly. The guy is speaking at a high speed, like he wants to convey so much at once and he's got no idea how to do it in such a way that it actually gets through to Usagi.

"Don't you feel.. odd, being here?"

Look, maybe not as odd as Inigo does, since he's not used to these modern worlds at all, but that's not the point. He shakes his head, continuing: "It doesn't feel like you're really home, right?"

Because that's also what it had felt like to him, the moment he had found himself back in Ylisse.
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Re: downtime

[personal profile] another_moon 2022-02-13 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Usagi thought about it for a moment before nodding.

"You're right. It looks like home, it sounds like home, but it doesn't feel like home." she said. "It's not that I want to stay on the train, but it's like this place is so... foreign."
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[personal profile] flatteries 2022-02-14 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"It didn't go right."

Not that Inigo knows the details. He's not smart enough to figure out any of this stuff at all, but - but at least it's obvious that something didn't go right here. Even if the train meant to send people back home, it didn't actually send them back home. It's like they're still connected to the train in some way.

Inigo sighs, a frown on his face.

"I didn't even mean to go home. The train, it just-- it just sent me back anyway." That was the first sign that told him something was wrong. Why had the train sent him, if he hadn't made the same choice as many people on the train? Why had he suddenly reappeared in Ylisse? "We need to fix all of this somehow."
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[personal profile] another_moon 2022-02-14 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
“But, how? That’s the big question.” Usagi said. “And if we can get back to the train, we need to do something to stop this from happening again.”
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[personal profile] flatteries 2022-02-15 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
It is the big question.

And even though Inigo wishes he had an answer, all he can say is: "I don't know."

Because it's the truth. He doesn't know. It doesn't seem like any of them know.

"I tried opening the doors of the train when I was back on the platform, but it didn't work. I've seen people shout at the train, but it doesn't seem to be listening either. It's as if it just keeps trying to go out into the void, only to reappear at the platform again, if you stay there for a while and watch it."
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[personal profile] another_moon 2022-02-15 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Usagi sighed in annoyance.

"Such a pain..." she uttered. "But, I wonder... I wonder if it does these things just to keep us with it."
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[personal profile] flatteries 2022-02-16 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
".. I wonder too," Inigo says. He sounds like he's clearly in deep thought. Because he is. This whole situation feels so messy, and he's not sure what to think about it.

Letting out a sigh, he moves forward to lean on the table as he's sitting there.

"I kind of feel like it was genuine about letting us go, at the very least." Unless the train is cruel and doing this on purpose to torture them - but from what the Ministry said, it doesn't seem like a train can even have a personality, let alone enough traits to be cruel. "But I don't understand why the train isn't realising that it didn't work. It keeps stubbornly trying to leave the platform, even though it's stuck there just as much as the rest of us are. You'd think it would have caught on by now, right?"
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