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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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dnaofahalfa: (Ghost: About to pass out)

Ghost Fighting

[personal profile] dnaofahalfa 2022-02-26 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Razzy leans against the wall next to him because of COURSE she checked on Danny and of course they had to check on Amity Park and of course they had to go Ghost Hunting.

"Can we call in Valerie or someone? That'd make this a lot easier?" She said. For the first time, really feeling actually HURT without also feeling depowered. It was a strange sensation. Ghosts hit hard.

"They have to be coming form somewhere, right? There has to be a cause for this much trouble."
schrodingersghost: (pic#15048913)

[personal profile] schrodingersghost 2022-02-26 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
"If we call in Valerie, then she's only going to be interested in hunting one ghost. Me."

Because of course when his human self had fallen into a coma and his ghost self had stopped showing up, his parents had blamed his ghost self. Loudly and Publicly.

Danny sighs as he leans against the wall. The constant ghost fighting was already starting to wear on his energy, so he was going to take some rest where he could get it.

He was really starting to wonder how he had lived like this before. He'd gotten super spoiled on the train, where fights actually happened on a schedule.

"The Ghost Zone? But I tried to get in there to see if I could figure anything out, and I didn't even make it out of sight of the portal before I got dumped back onto the platform."
dnaofahalfa: (Ghost: Just listen a second)

[personal profile] dnaofahalfa 2022-02-26 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"What? Even after everything with Vlad?" She would think after Valerie saved her, whatever her beef with Danny would be done. After all, it was pretty obvious they were related somehow. "I could talk to her? She doesn't have a problem with me."

And maybe do something about this wholly misjudgements of character.

Razzy looked at him, hands clenching and unclenching at her side. She was tired, but knew when she could spare energy. She just wished she knew HOW to make herself do it.

"I mean more specific then that. Someone in charge, someone encouraging all this. This is a lot to not have a reason," she said. "Someone has to be able to tell us why."
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[personal profile] schrodingersghost 2022-02-27 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, the last time we met she did promise that the next time we met she'd be coming after me. Also she shot at me, so there's that." And that was before the whole coma and disappearing and leaving her as Amity Park's only competent ghost hunter.

...He probably owed her an apology card or something. Did Hallmark makes cards for things like that?

He makes a face. "My first thought is Vlad. But I checked. Wherever he is, its not within the area I can reach." Maybe one of the ghosts he was somewhat friendly with would at least know if there was any gossip, but unless they came to the part of Amity Park he could reach, he was out of luck there too.
dnaofahalfa: (Ghost: No jokes now)

[personal profile] dnaofahalfa 2022-02-27 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
"What?! What the hell, Valerie," Razzy said with an almost offended look. "All right, I'm talking to her. She knows you would go pretty far to save me, she's definitely got blinders if she thinks its good to save me and think you're evil or something," she said with a huff.

"...have you tried calling?" Razzy asked. "Your parents would have his number, right?"
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[personal profile] schrodingersghost 2022-02-27 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"If it helps, I think she was smiling while she said that?"

Although he didn't really think she was 100% joking.

He scowls. "You know how our real bodies are in a coma right now? Well, guess how my parents reacted when I showed up as a second Danny who is definitely not in a coma."
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