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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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mtsilver_conquor: (a smile hides so much.)

[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2022-02-27 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Eva gives a small nod as she steps into the room, a cloak of quiet, understated confidence about her. A will of steel shows in her eyes, blanketed by kindness and the genuine desire to help. There's also curiosity there, a sort of 'huh that's really cool tech and I want to pick your brains over it, but not right now'.

Focus.

"Right. Roro, if you please?" The Rotomi's screen flickers to life, once again displaying the photo folder as it overs in front of Eva with a small 'bbzzt'. "Tech from my world, and proof of what I say; keep it within a metre of me, or it'll cut out. Security thing. Otherwise, I'll do my best to answer questions."
subcircuits: (once a soldier)

[personal profile] subcircuits 2022-03-09 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Her nod is returned from one, then the other, neither woman missing the aura that she exudes. The Black woman reaches a hand up towards the drone-- well, what she perceives as a drone, of course-- then stands to take Roro into her hands. (The twins crowd close around her, wanting to see.)

The woman with the prosthetics sits upright. "You involved with this 'multidimensional thing' we been hearing about?" she asks. Her voice is clipped and gruff, rough with the age that shows in her lined face and salt-and-pepper hair.
mtsilver_conquor: (No matter how you shake my core)

[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2022-03-10 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
"I am, yes," Eva says, keeping half an eye on Roro, who hovers so everyone can see the photos-, trusting the rotom-driven AI won't allow them to see anything other than that folder. Not without verbal confirmation at least.

Focus; think of it like reporting to one of the Matriarchs of the Seafolk who do trade with the 'Tree. "I was in the first group to be yanked from my world -got proof of that, too- when the VoidTrecker Express started this all up; that was roughly 16 months train time- thirty days per train month. I don't know what is going on with this; the train was supposed to allow those who wanted it, to go home."

A sigh as she rakes a hand through her hair. "Not... whatever's happened."
subcircuits: (once a soldier)

[personal profile] subcircuits 2022-03-14 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
There's no mistaking that the photos in the folder are of Dev, and the woman in front of them, and-- colorful animals? (The twins are a lot more interesting in that aspect of things than Natily.)

"Wait, wait," Chihyoon says, waving her bio hand. "What's this about a train?"
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