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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] wewillwewill 2022-02-22 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Elidibus knows what lions and tigers are. There's plenty of those scattered across the worlds he travelled before the Voidtrecker Express scooped him up. But he doesn't say anything for or against the zoo, nor correct Jake on the nature of his question; which was not so much interest as a clarification. He'd much rather see where this leads.

From misty fog around the platform to bustling, urban metropolis in a densely packed city. The Ascian... is given pause as they appear outside of the apartment building Jake shares with Amy.

It's not the cityscape precisely. Elidibus has seen grander, he's seen worse.. even in the modern era there was Garlemald's tall buildings and structures. Likewise to the technology present.

It is instead the sheer amount of people. Something which never could- was allowed to happen because of the necessity of the great work he and his brethren had executed through the millennia. Population control through waves of Calamity.

Diagad, the false city, had had something along this scale, but it hadn't been real; a series of blocks woven together with illusion and people from myriad realities stitched in to make a fit. Elidibus has seen that. In Jake's Brooklyn, everything is as it properly should be.

Jake might be walking and the people might be avoiding the Voidtrecker in their midst subconsciously without acknowledging the Ascian's existence, but Elidibus is standing still, letting those people stream around him as he observes. He doesn't seem lost or bewildered, exactly. But the sight has certainly left him momentarily without a response for the officer's question in light of more pressing interests.
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[personal profile] monkeyinthewrench 2022-02-24 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Jake is happily chattering about things that add up to nothing: things he recognizes, favorite hangout spots, places where he solved a particular murder. So many memories on these streets. But as he stops to look at Elidibus, he worries a little.

Why is the man so still?

"...hey, everything okay back there? Did someone give you the stink-eye? Don't take it personally, it's just a New Yorker thing. We're crammed in like sardines so much that we automatically hate people. Usually."
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[personal profile] wewillwewill 2022-02-24 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
Elidibus shakes himself out of the stillness when Jake calls out to him. Pulls himself away from glimpsing how the aether flows and wrenching his sight back to the physical world.

"I doubt anyone can see me." Though admittedly given the flow of New York crowds, that would be a difficult thing to determine. But since the Ascian was full stop in the middle of the crowd and not getting shoulder shoved or grumbled at, he's probably correct.

"Pray forgive me, I was caught up in my observations. I believed you mentioned some vehicles in yellow serve as.. taxis, you call it?" The context does seem to impart a sense of public transportation. "I believe there's one now."

At least he was somewhat paying heed to what Jake said. Nevermind it seems a timely assist to distract the officer from whatever had given Elidibus pause.
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[personal profile] monkeyinthewrench 2022-02-26 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Jake nods, glad he can help with this much at least. "Good eye! Hey!"

And he waves an arm enthusiastically, demonstrating the usual cab-summoning ritual. It fails...hm. Right. The whole 'not being actively noticed' thing. He'll have to be louder.

"Hey!" He jumps up and down, waving...still nothing. He sighs and has to resort to grabbing the arm of an officer from the precinct.

"Hey---yeah, it's me. I'm back. Wild story. Think you could flag down a cab for me? I don't think they like me much today." Jake sells this story with an awkward laugh, and somehow it works. The officer dutifully waves a cab over, and they can finally set off toward Prospect Park.

"That was a lot harder than usual," he grunts.
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