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middleofsomewhere2022-02-12 07:08 am
voidtreckermods) wrote in middleofsomewhere2022-02-12 07:08 am
Entry tags:
- !event,
- cassie cage [ou],
- clef [crau],
- devero [ou],
- idia shroud [ou],
- inigo [ou],
- jin ling (mdzs) [crau],
- kairi [ou],
- koumyou sanzo [ou],
- little one [ou],
- najaran [ou],
- sonya blade [ou],
- spark [crau],
- thanatos [ou],
- trunks brief (future) [ou],
- vegeta iv [crau],
- xion [crau],
- yugi mutou [ou],
- zelda (oot) [ou],
- ~x~k'zeka tia [ou],
- ~x~senku ishigami [ou],
- ~x~shen qingqiu [au]
No Place Like Home: Outside
NO PLACE LIKE HOME: OUTSIDE
HOME SWEET HOME
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.
...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
- Buddhist Temple, China ( Koumyou Sanzo | TL )
- Rebel Camp, Lothal ( Hera Syndulla | TL )
- Homestead, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA ( Nell Ingram TL )
- Capsule Corp ( Trunks | TL )
- School Grounds, College ( Idia Shroud | TL )
- City Ruins, beach ( Najaran | TL )
- Hakkei Palace, Tai ( Taiki | TL )
- Gusu Lan, mountain sect (China) ( Lan Jingyi | TL)
- Lotus Pier, riverside, China ( Jiang Cheng | TL )
- The Endless Abyss, Hell ( Shen Qingqiu | TL )
- Hyrule Castle Town ( Zelda | TL )
- Haven Palace ( TL )
COMMUNITIES
- Spaceport ( Yondu | TL)
- Mobile Station Base ( Kiyoiri )
- Arkwood, Town (Ryo | TL )
- Techstead, Town ( Devero | TL )
- Tatsumi Port Island ( Ken Amada )
- Mor Dhona / Town, Mountain, Lakes ( K'zeka Tai | TL )
- Hyrule Field & Lon Lon Ranch ( Link | TL )
- Ishigami Village, Japan ( Senku Ishigami | TL )
- Aether Paradise/Artificial Island/Natural Preserve ( Katsuya Jonouchi )
- Nautilus ( Spark/Clef TL Clef | TL Spark )
- The Underworld, Hades ( Zagreus and Thanatos | TL )
- Sanctuary ( TL )
CITIES & KINGDOMS
- Saillune City ( Zelgadis | TL )
- New Mantle, City ( Ruby Rose | TL )
- Brooklyn, New York City, USA in 2017 ( Jake Peralta | TL )
- Azabu-Juban District, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan ( Usagi Tsukino | TL )
- Hau'oli City ( Eva Iden'no | TL )
- Gauig City ( Little One/Buttercup | TL )
- Kyoto, Japan ( Masumi Sera | TL )
- Shinjuku, Japan ( Yosuke Otoha | TL )
- Kingdom, Evermore ( Roland Crane )
- Garlemad, Kingdom ( Zenos | TL )
- Kingdom of Knothole ( Mina Mongoose | TL )
- Domino City ( Yugi Muto | TL )
- Amnity Park ( Danny Fenton | TL )
- Garlemald ( TL )
- Lothal ( TL )
- Los Angeles ( TL )
- The First - Crystarium and Lakeland ( Elidibus | TL )
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.
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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But no, he's gotten pretty used to being surrounded by people all the time at this point, so there's no real reaction at all to his uninvited company, besides a dissatisfied snort.
He does, however, cast a glance at Inigo that looks kind of like it's questioning his sanity.]
The doors of which train, exactly?
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[ Inigo glances over in the direction of the train.. or where the train ought to be, anyway. Because when he looks over, he too is only greeted by an empty rest of the platform with some fog lingering at the end of it.
The guy lets out a frustrated sound, like fate itself is playing a prank on him right now. ]
It tried to leave again, didn't it? It keeps doing this. [ Inigo might have stood there and stared at the train for just.. too long already by now.. ] It keeps trying to go off into the void, and then it just appears here again a few moments later. Over and over.
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It was foolish of us to put any faith in this endeavor to begin with - not only are none of us able to go home as we were promised, but the train is trapped as well.
[He is basically calling the train a useless failure of a possibly-sentient thing, yes.]
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Inigo is so not going to disagree with you on that one. If his exasperated facial expression - sticking around from a moment ago - isn't enough of a clue to that fact, then it's the way he sighs. It's like his soul is leaving his body, it's that deep of a sigh. ]
I'll do you one better. [ How? Well-- ] I didn't even intend to leave.
[ So Inigo didn't even put any faith in it! It just.. happened! ]
I was on the train one moment, and then I suddenly wasn't anymore. I wasn't even remotely close to trying to leave, and it kicked me off anyway.
[ Dude. Dude!! Why is the train like this? ]
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Isn't that how the train always is? Shoving us off when it feels like it, forcing us to go where it decides? [Was Jiu ever capable of faith to begin with? A valid question.
Regardless, he joins in on the sighing, gazing off in the direction the train supposedly went with a look like he's contemplating walking that direction himself.]
The bigger issue here is whether any of us will ever get to leave this station, if even the train is trapped...
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[ Because.. well, what would they do then? They wouldn't have any way to contact the Ministry and tell them about this, so maybe they can fix it. They wouldn't be able to go anywhere. Just being stuck here on this dumb, dumb platform.
It sounds like a miserable existence, and Inigo is so not here for it. ]
.. we should try to draw its attention when it reappears. [ Because it will. It has to. Inigo will at least have faith in that, since it's not the first time it left and then reappeared. ] Do you have any good ways of doing that?
[ Inigo knows better than to just assume what kind of powers someone might have by someone's appearance, after all. For all he knows, Jiu can fire huge laser beams or something. ]
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[He may be a powerful cultivator, but being great at one-on-one martial arts battles is not quite the same as being a walking light show.
(He's also just an incredibly pessimistic guy.)
Jiu folds his arms, frowning at Inigo.] Do you have any ideas? I don't suppose you have anything on you we could use?
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He moves the sword in his other hand a little, causing it to suddenly get covered up with a bunch of rocks that seem to appear out of nowhere, changing it more into a club-like weapon than necessarily a sword. ]
I have multiple options.
[ As one can see. ]
It depends on whether you'd prefer a more or less violent route here.
[ Inigo himself sounds remarkably neutral on those options. He isn't too fond of the train in the first place, and even less now it's kicked him off involuntarily, and thrown all of them into this dangerous situation. ]
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He places a hand against his hip, raising an eyebrow.]
If you plan to stop the thing with violence, do you have a second plan for the possibility that it gets damaged too much to leave? If you do, I'm certainly happy to assist with the violent route.
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People way stronger than me have fired off stuff at it in the past. [ Granted, that was from the inside, not from the outside.. But Inigo would find it very strange if somehow the train's insides were better protected than the outside. It'd make no sense. ]
I'm pretty sure we couldn't fully damage it if we tried.
[ He pauses - and then glances over at Jiu. ]
Unless you're saying you're one of those people with crazy superhuman strength? [ Look, he's learned to not judge by appearances when it comes to that at this point. People on the train sure have some weird powers sometimes. ]
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There's only one way to find out, isn't there?
[Reasonable! As he summons a beautiful, glowing white sword from thin air.]
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Yes.
A very reasonable answer.
Then again, this would only be worrisome if Inigo wasn't fully well aware of the fact that there's no way the two of them could do anything to the train - which is why he doesn't protest to the other's idea, instead just making his own glowing sword disappear, deciding to stick with the rocky one. It'll probably make more of an impact. ]
Alright. Let's try hitting it at the same time and seeing if that gets us the train's attention at all. [ It's at least worth a try. ] Are you ready for it?
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[Of course. And despite his general rudeness he does actually have enough of a teamwork-ethic and battle ability to coordinate the attack, creating a few dozen swords of crystallized spiritual energy above him as he lifts his one physical blade - ready to throw all of them at once, together with that...rocky one.
Please ignore the look he gives, it only lasted half a second.]
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No one would ever believe him about these sorts of stories when he'd tell them back home and he knows it. ]
Okay. [ He's doing his best though - focusing on what they're about to do, rather than make some surprised fuss about the other's powers. ]
One, two, three.. Strike!
[ Granted, there's going to be a lot less striking on his end.
But Inigo is still determined to fulfil his part in all of this, so he still swings his single club-sword at the train to hit it. ]
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...Unscathed. Does it even stop moving? It looks like it's gonna just keep barreling through, actually.]
Does it stop for nothing-!?
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[ Apparently Inigo put quite some force into that strike, since the boy is breathing a little harder than a moment ago, now lowering the sword to hold it by his side. ]
Even if it's unscathed, it's got to at least have felt that! Wouldn't it know that we're out here?
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[He wouldn't put it past it! Or being broken on the inside somehow, but he doesn't exactly know enough of anything to bother voicing that possibility aloud.
Shen Jiu lowers his sword as well, as he gazes off at the train.] Have you tried jumping on it as it passes?
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Then he glances back at the train - or more noticably, up at the top of the train. Or does the other mean on the back of the train? .. well, even that idea.. ]
Could you do that?
[ Jiu is the one who displayed pretty wild powers just now. Inigo can't do anything that special, but maybe he has some sort of special train jumping powers. Who knows. ]
.. you know, without getting massively injured, that is.
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Do you see any other option? Perhaps you'd like to jump in front of the thing and see if it knows to stop?
[Jiu himself shows no intention of jumping anywhere at all, thanks.]
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[ Inigo's jaw drops. ]
Hey, come on! [ Bro, they're both stuck in this crappy situation, no need to take it out on him! ] I was just wondering if you had some sort of special power for that! I'm not sure if you noticed what you did only a few moments ago, but that sure isn't normal where I come from!
[ In other words: it's something Inigo couldn't even dream of doing. So of course he might be wondering if Jiu happens to have a few other special powers. ]
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[Joking! Not that you can tell with that poker face of his. Anyway, he turns slightly, to sweep his gaze back over the rest of the station again.]
Is there really no way out of here? There surely must be something.
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Thankfully Inigo is distracted from that thought before he can react to it by the other thing that he says. He glances over, his eyes a little wider. ]
What do you mean? Can't you just walk back to your world? [ That's how he assumes the other ended up here in the first place, after all. The same way Inigo did - by walking in his world for long enough to just arrive here on the platform. ]
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And spend the rest of my life in the small, limited area this platform is apparently connected to? Yes, what an absolutely wonderful idea.
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No, I was just.. worried. You made it seem like you had nowhere else to go back to at all.
[ And apparently - who would've thought! - there are people out there who worry about other people, even when they are basically complete strangers. Inigo seems pretty genuine about what he's saying here, after all, if his current facial expression is anything to go by. ]
.. yeah, I agree with that though. [ Now that worry has been fended off, it's time to focus on the main problem here. ] Either we or the people inside of the train have to make it realise that it's got to stop and pick us back up. I know the people on the train must have realised too that more people left than intended.
[ Since they were cruelly shoved out by the train. ]
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Also he kinda doesn't have anywhere to go back to if leaving the piece of "home" he got just brings him back here again, but like heck is he gonna admit that. Instead, he turns his head to look in the direction the train should be reappearing from, watching for its return.]
Do you know of any other ways to catch the train's attention? If not, I suppose we'll have to wait for those inside to get to it...or try leaving the station again, I suppose.
[He doesn't sound enthused by that last option, but he also looks kind of on-edge all around.]
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