No Place Like Home: Outside

[voidtreckermods]

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NO PLACE LIKE HOME: OUTSIDE

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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...

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...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...

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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.

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SETTLEMENTS

• Buddhist Temple, China ( Koumyou Sanzo | TL )
  
• Rebel Camp, Lothal ( Hera Syndulla | TL )
  
• Homestead, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA ( Nell Ingram TL )
  
• Capsule Corp ( Trunks | TL )
  
• School Grounds, College ( Idia Shroud | TL )
  
• City Ruins, beach ( Najaran | TL )
  
• Hakkei Palace, Tai ( Taiki | TL )
  
• Gusu Lan, mountain sect (China) ( Lan Jingyi | TL)
  
• Lotus Pier, riverside, China ( Jiang Cheng | TL )
  
• The Endless Abyss, Hell ( Shen Qingqiu | TL )
  
• Hyrule Castle Town ( Zelda | TL )
  
• Haven Palace ( TL )

COMMUNITIES

• Spaceport ( Yondu | TL)
  
• Mobile Station Base ( Kiyoiri )
  
• Arkwood, Town (Ryo | TL )
  
• Techstead, Town ( Devero | TL )
  
• Tatsumi Port Island ( Ken Amada )
  
• Mor Dhona / Town, Mountain, Lakes ( K'zeka Tai | TL )
  
• Hyrule Field & Lon Lon Ranch ( Link | TL )
  
• Ishigami Village, Japan ( Senku Ishigami | TL )
  
• Aether Paradise/Artificial Island/Natural Preserve ( Katsuya Jonouchi )
  
• Nautilus ( Spark/Clef TL Clef | TL Spark )
  
• The Underworld, Hades ( Zagreus and Thanatos | TL )
  
• Sanctuary ( TL )

CITIES & KINGDOMS

• Saillune City ( Zelgadis | TL )
  
• New Mantle, City ( Ruby Rose | TL )
  
• Brooklyn, New York City, USA in 2017 ( Jake Peralta | TL )
  
• Azabu-Juban District, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan ( Usagi Tsukino | TL )
  
• Hau'oli City ( Eva Iden'no | TL )
  
• Gauig City ( Little One/Buttercup | TL )
  
• Kyoto, Japan ( Masumi Sera | TL )
  
• Shinjuku, Japan ( Yosuke Otoha | TL )
  
• Kingdom, Evermore ( Roland Crane )
  
• Garlemad, Kingdom ( Zenos | TL )
  
• Kingdom of Knothole ( Mina Mongoose | TL )
  
• Domino City ( Yugi Muto | TL )
  
• Amnity Park ( Danny Fenton | TL )
  
• Garlemald ( TL )
  
• Lothal ( TL )
  
• Los Angeles ( TL )
  
• The First - Crystarium and Lakeland ( Elidibus | TL )

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.

Comments

[subcircuits]

While he's doing that, Devero swings up into Babysitter. He settles into the pilot's cradle with a faint sigh, engaging the exo so he can point its forward floods at Koumyou and the door.

He tracks the lights to the left, illuminating a mechanism of chains and pulleys stretching up into the gloom. "There's a lever," he calls out, "you see it?"

[its_dad_sanzo]

"Yeah," Koumyou finds it, grabs it, and hauls it down. His feet leave the ground a little when he does it, but he gets it done.

Then, if Devero doesn't protest, the sutra snakes out from his back and slides several tendrils under the bay door, and cracks it upwards. Koumyou actually goes down onto his hands and knees to peek out under it, just in case there's witnesses out there.

[subcircuits]

There's no protest from Devero, and nothing immediately visible to Koumyou on the other side of the door besides bare concrete.

Devero takes a step forward in his exo, but stops again when he realizes what Koumyou's doing anything. "Anybody out there?" he calls.

[its_dad_sanzo]

Precious Devero... he sometimes wouldn't know stealth if it snuck up behind him and smacked his ass, would he? Koumyou huffs out a laugh and then stands back up, the tendrils lifting the door in one smooth motion.

He steps to the side and makes a gesture/wave toward the outside with plenty of flourish, "After you."

[subcircuits]

Well, if it smacked his ass he might. He's had his fair share of quick and dirty assignations in empty rooms and out of the way corners. But out on the field? Nope, not at all.

But Koumyou's response is answer enough. He engages his exo and strides it smoothly forward, through the door and out of the building. Killing the forward floods, he prioritizes the rear camera in one display and works on entering Beepers' frequency into Babysitter's scanners on another.

[its_dad_sanzo]

Koumyou waits until Babysitter's clear, then steps out as well while the sutra lowers the door back down into place. One paper-thin, indestructable tendril even stays under it as it comes down, then puts the lever back to normal before all the tendrils vanish.

"Is there room in there? Or should I jump on top?"

[subcircuits]

"There's rescue perches on the back you can hang onto," Devero tells him. "Let me light one up for you."

Indeed, on the back of the machine, picked out in blinking LED pinpoints as Devero triggers that function, is a set of hand and footholds that a person who's in good physical condition can, well, perch on.

[its_dad_sanzo]

Well, Koumyou could have obviously done this anyway, but the novelty is really something else. He even goes to the trouble of climbing up to that spot the normal way, instead of leaping up.

"Onward, to Beepers!"

[subcircuits]

"To Beepers," Devero echoes, sinking back into the sync with his exo and striking out into the woods. It'll be a bouncy, jouncy ride for Koumyou, but certainly nothing that a martial artist as accomplished as the Sanzo can handle.

For Devero, it's-- it's-- it's comforting, to be in his rig again, but he can't enjoy it. Not really. Not given the context....

He's quiet, focusing intently on his machine so he can exclude everything else.