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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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[personal profile] yondu 2022-02-20 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
"If we can get 'em set in the right spots, I got somethin' that still works here." He pulls back the flap to his overcoat, exposing the holster and whistles so that his arrow comes out and hovers in front of him.

That yaka metal with its sensitivity to sound and energy probably feels really strange around someone with force powers.

"I'll get in and out, set 'em off at will. Don't even need a remote or timer so long as I have this."

And if he doesn't have to be too careful? All the better.
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[personal profile] averyusefultray 2022-02-20 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Whoah," Ezra comments, though Kanan manages some measure of control.

Sabine is just interested. "It'll just detonate? Total control?"

Hera tries to keep the focus on the mission since they don't have time for Sabine to try reverse engineering that one. "We can hit this depot here. If we make it look spooky enough, they'll assume it's Jedi and redirect away from the main factory. Hopefully in enough numbers to give the rest of you a clear run if you're subtle."

Yeah that one was pointed at the kids.
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[personal profile] yondu 2022-02-20 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"I can catch it on fire, so if we set up the bombs in the right places? Easy pickin's. And dependin' on how explosive their batteries in their vehicles are? Them too... But uh... Gonna need to know where the power cells are for them."

Most of the rest, like people and such, he can figure out, and he plucks the arrow out of the air.

He feels bad for the kids. Not because they seem to dislike the work, and they seem ready for it (and it's about as fun as war can be made to be), but still it's a rough kind of way to grow up. He doesn't say that, not wanting to hurt either Hera or Kanan's feelings 'cause this is about the best they can do right now.

"I'll be subtle until some shit goes off."
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[personal profile] averyusefultray 2022-02-21 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Sabine pulls up schematics. "Power cells here and here."

"The Empire's more interested in churning things out quickly than in worker safety," Hera adds. A lot of things aren't very stable. Health and Safety regulations are things they've read about in old books.

"Once we stop being subtle it'll be up to the rest of you."

Kanan nods. "We've been thinking about ways to hit it for months. The fuel depot's close enough that we should be able to shut the whole thing down if we get close enough without them noticing. We just couldn't create a big enough distraction before."
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[personal profile] yondu 2022-02-23 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
The best part of this? This is the kind of thing he would have liked to do in his normal life. Go off, help a world. Stakar did it sometimes. Dragged him along. Apparently in some other world, he does it on the regular.

So it's nice to just do it.

"I'll take a quick look at what they got, commit it to memory, get some of them explosives in there, make a nice mess for y'all."

A small offering for the war effort, right. But to Hera? "I'll fill ya in in case I need to get outa range, end up leavin' the job partway done by accident. Thank ya for givin' me the chance." After all if he's cornered, he might be driven out of five mile range.
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[personal profile] averyusefultray 2022-02-24 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
"That's kinda Hera's thing," Ezra explains. "Even Chopper manages to make things better and he's terrifying."

The droid warbles his objections but is silenced with a well placed glare.

Hera taps the controls to mark a line. "If we stay inside the perimeter we should stay in this world. Which is easy to say before the shooting starts."

But disappearing might keep the Empire distracted too. "ANything that gets the crew some time helps, even if we're still stuck behind this blockade."

Yeah she's frustrated that she can't fly through it to get in contact with he Alliance.
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[personal profile] yondu 2022-02-24 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Welp, I ain't exactly a color meant to blend into most landscapes, so let's see how this whole 'inclined to ignore me' thing goes. If there are turrets, I'll do my reasonable best to take them out before they see me."

So long as they're in football field of range of his arrow, he should be able to hit them. He's got a pretty good spread with that thing.

"I got a radio built into the collar of my coat, comes with the uniform. Better to use that than something what I could drop and leave behind. I'll leave ya the range to figure out." Hopefully with some careful speech, on the off chance anything was intercepted it'd not be useful to the enemy. "I'll only get back to ya for important shit or to confirm or deny."

And with that, he's ready to go get him some explosives 'cause sometimes a bastard just needs to blow some shit up.
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[personal profile] averyusefultray 2022-02-25 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
"You'd fit in fine at a lot of cantinas though." There are worse universes for that at any rate. "Hopefully it'll work as long as stolen armour does and keep things quiet until the fighting starts."

Why the Empire still insists on covering its soldiers faces... well, she's not going to suggest they do otherwise.

At least he gets operational security. "We'll call you Ravager One. I'm Spectre Two. Kanan's One, Chop's Three, Zeb's Four, Sabine is Five and Ezra's Six."

Not that broadcasting Yondu's name is going to do anything but confuse things, but it's a good habit to stay in. "We can assume turrets and at least a couple squads of troopers. They're not encouraged to be creative, but they've got numbers."
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