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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 2022-02-25 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, you get used to a lotta things. Like not killin'." He looks back over to the big floating cat creature. "I cain't kill nearly as much as I used to, not without causin' people what don't deserve it a lotta grief.

"The gentleness I show when I ain't killin' someone ain't for my enemies. It's for the people I know that don't need to see more dead bodies."

But, to be honest?

"...Y'know, I'd actually ask 'em. Memory or death. You wanna live without a memory or die? Some people are just gonna choose a memory wipe."

But he thinks back to so many of the worlds he visited. Even the space port he's been bouncing back and forth from. He couldn't ever stay in one place, he doesn't think, not forever. But he loves all those different places.
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[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2022-03-03 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
'I see.' Not really; gentleness is, even now, an alien notion. Nor does she see how death causes grief. She can ask Eva, later, though. Or look into the woman's memories.

'It's something to consider, at least.'

"Yondu-san's right. I... I think once all of this is solved... Maybe." The tone is hopeful, yet from the look in Eva's eyes, it's something that will be talked about between them later when they don't have company who isn't aware of all the cultural baggage that'll come with such talks.

Eva sighs. "But we have to solve this first."

'Why solve when you can have fun? It is night... and she wouldn't attract attention.'

"You just want to go flying."

Fluffy has the grace to look complete innocent.
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[personal profile] yondu 2022-03-03 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Go flyin'?" Yondu asks, turning away from the edge of the roof with a look of confusion.

But, oh right! She mentioned dragons. And that she had a dragon. She'd shown him that dragon.

Is she gonna whip out a dragon? Right up here?

He feels like someone might notice even if it's night but also Yondu is very prone to not giving a damn if it's a good time.
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[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2022-03-04 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
"'Wingthing,'" both Eva and Fluffy say at the same time, though only Eva continues with a half-grin as she fiddles around with Roro until she snatches a premierball out of the air with ease that suggests she's done it a hundred or more times.

She holds the white, tennisball sized object up. "The p'tera I told you about. Provided you follow what I say -for safety reasons- you can meet her."

'P'tera are no joke,' Fluffy adds. 'Listen to Eva.'
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[personal profile] yondu 2022-03-05 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Right. Gotcha." He backs over towards her. Because he doesn't want to be eaten. Or frozen. Or lit on fire. Or poked with a thousand plant needles. Or any of the other things that the critters here can do.

(Honestly he should try and poke around with some of the plant pokemon, 'cause on the off chance they survive this, it'd be a bunch of useful skills to pick up.)

"A'ight, I'm good." He'll just let her handle this, thanks. He does, shockingly, have some sense of self preservation, just not when his babies are in trouble.
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[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2022-03-05 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Once Yondu's beside her, Eva holds out the ball and taps the centre button. In no short order, a scaly, grey 'dinosaur' with wings appears in a burst of light. It stands close to six foot at the shoulder, a towering apex predator of a pokemon wearing a basic, but sturdy, leather riding harness with metallic green buckles.

Wingthing scents the air, but soon settles into something that could be called relaxed but alert, and it's not hard to see why some would call the creature draconic. Eva grins when green eyes zero in on her, the 'ball hooked onto her belt.

"Hey girl," Eva says, calm and confident as she walks up to the aerodactyl, who gently butts her nose against the fragile human with a low growl-like purr. It's one that only gets louder as Eva rubs said nose with one hand, and absently checks over the harness with the other. After almost a full minute, she speaks. "She's settled. Eager for flight, but otherwise, you can come closer now. Just stay in her light of sight, and don't make any sudden movements."
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[personal profile] yondu 2022-03-05 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
Luckily, other than his arrow? Yondu's not prone to sudden movements. He's happy enough just to move around all easy-going like, even in the most not easy-going of situations.

He's seen bigger and weirder but usually bigger and wierder is fixed on attacking him or eating someone. It's not a giant creature that someone can actually pet. Maybe not just anyone, but someone. So he comes over to linger by Eva's side again, uncertain what you do with a giant winged lizard beaked thing like what's happening in front of him.

"Yeah, I ain't got the foggiest what to do in this situation," he admits. Like a child of country folk raised like a city boy and sometimes bumbles about how to be gentle around nature. He'd be worse at it if Nell hadn't helped him.
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[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2022-03-12 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
Wingthing's eyes, crocodilian with the cold intelligence to match, track the newcomer, nostrils scenting Yondu. But otherwise, Wingthing is docile under Eva's hand; willing to trust the human knows what she's doing.

"Si'en," Eva whispers once Yondu's next to her. As if on command, Wingthing lowers herself to the ground rumble-purr to reveal two very basic tether-and-belts attached to the harness, with flight googles loosely looped around each belt. Eva wastes no time in clambering up and getting herself onto the front one.

Then she offers a hand out to Yondu. "Up you come. Into the belt and get the goggles on. Eye-blind isn't something to sneeze at."

"Up you come. Behind me.
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[personal profile] yondu 2022-03-12 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It takes a little bit of doing around the fin considering the particular way it juts out from his head, but he manages it after a bit. Just a touch longer than it'd take most people. Though he finds himself regretting the particular design again. Maybe he should get a set he should switch out.

But aside from that he settles comfortably in behind her, making sure he's secured so that he won't fall off a fucking giant flying reptile 'cause there are definitely worse ways to go but he'd still rather it not be this way in particular.

"Alright, I'm good." He thinks, anyway. Like taking a ride with another pilot, just windier.
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