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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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the_aunt_general: cap from aromanticmara at tumblr (pleasant)

[personal profile] the_aunt_general 2022-02-25 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
And Amaya smiles, gently.

And I hope you tell me all about it, she signs. I like to learn. I only look like a military dummy.

The last said with a wink.

But if you can appreciate silence, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.
sirentologist: (Science!)

[personal profile] sirentologist 2022-02-26 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
A thug with a brain. How very novel. And semi-intriguing. Usually she gets one or the other. Or if nothing else, it's someone she can chatter at who won't interrupt.

"Yes well. I prefer it, actually. It's not so...overwhelming."
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[personal profile] the_aunt_general 2022-02-26 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
That much she understands.

People ask me a lot if I don't feel like I'm missing something. But I can't miss something I've never known. I imagine it would get overwhelming, especially if you're more sensitive to it than others.

She looks around, before signing again.

Any chance you'd be willing to give me the tour?
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[personal profile] sirentologist 2022-02-26 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
"I do not understand why people must be so loud." Never mind that she's probably the chattiest of all of them. But it's so much more annoying to be interrupted

She sighs at the question, though. She is not very good at...people.

"Oh, very well. If you insist."
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[personal profile] the_aunt_general 2022-02-27 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
A lot of people are loud because they have nothing really to say, know it, and are afraid to show it, she signs, with a shrug.

And in fairness, a lot of them are small people who want to be bigger than they are.

To emphasize that, she adopts a stance like a swaggering male for a moment, before smiling and resuming her normal manner of standing. As for the last...

I mean, if I'm going to be here, it'd be good to know how to get around, right?
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[personal profile] sirentologist 2022-02-28 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
That certainly accurately described most of the people she dealt with on a daily basis back on Pandora and Sanctuary. People who certainly thought they were smarter than they were, anyway. Always interrupting her delicate and dangerous experiments. It only served them right if one of them--or a few of them--managed to blow themselves up."

"Do try to watch out for the locals. They can be rather...stupid."
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[personal profile] the_aunt_general 2022-03-01 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'll do my best, she signed in return, moving to follow her new friend.
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