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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] longforgottenpromise 2022-03-03 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes. I found some." He held up a bag, heavy with crushed silver. Hopefully it would be enough and they could rely on written messages for the most part.

But who to send messages to? That was a difficult question. He had no idea who was even alive to receive them.

"We should go to the aviary and see what we have to work with." No point in starting if there were no birds and it would give him a moment more to think.

Kingdom of En and Kei. Kouryou if he could be found. He thought of the monks, of the villages that had sheltered him. Could he risk it? Without bringing ire down upon them.

If they were even still alive.
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[personal profile] jingyeets 2022-03-04 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
He gestured for Taiki to take lead, though he stayed right by him as they moved for the aviary.

"How reliable are these birds?"
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[personal profile] longforgottenpromise 2022-03-04 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"The phoenixes are very reliable. I'm not sure they can even give their message to someone it is not intended for... The other birds are less so. Messages can be intercepted after all. But no one knows I am here and we have that on our side. No one is expecting anything out of the palace that isn't from Asen and his ministers."

They were close now, just up the steps to where the birds were, he can here them, which is good, that they are still there at all.
jingyeets: (glance | it will always be the same)

[personal profile] jingyeets 2022-03-07 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
"So which ones are the phoenxies?"

Asked as they rise into the rookery, such as it is, Jingyi looking around and keeping his tail high, tucked close, to not touch the ground and not touch anything around them.
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[personal profile] longforgottenpromise 2022-03-07 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
He looked around. There are less birds than there once were but still enough. Clearly Asen still needed to send out messages, still needed communications.

"Over here." Most the birds looked dove like but where Taiki was leading there were taller birds, black feathered and sharp eyed.

There were two of them, they had enough silver for that and it made the decision of who to send them to easier.

"Do they have such in your world?"
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[personal profile] jingyeets 2022-03-09 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
He shook his head, after having tipped it toward the black feathered birds.

"Not as such," he said. "We've had owl-hawks, a few other birds, but nothing specifically like your phoenixes." There were luan souled persons, there were firebirds, but neither were equivalent, and black feathered was more akin to crows and dragon scales than anything else.

He looked around, setting the papers and inkstone and brushes down where he could, cautious.

"Tell me what you need me to do?" If there was anything in this moment.
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[personal profile] longforgottenpromise 2022-03-11 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"We didn't have them on earth either." He explained as he went over to one of the cages and reached through the bars, stroking at the feathers of the nearest phoenix.

"I need to decide what to say."

Which was difficult. There's so much and though they have time, they need to make things as clear as possible. Not confusing.
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[personal profile] jingyeets 2022-03-12 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're alive, being kept within the palace unconscious but breathing, and this false king will be taken down once you can break this unconsciousness cursed fully?"

Or at least he thinks that's straightforward.

"And you need them to quietly find allies and supplies, because once you're out of here, you'll be finding the next true king."
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[personal profile] longforgottenpromise 2022-03-13 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
He nodded and reached out for one of the phoenixes, coaxing it with some silver which it ate before hopping onto his arm. He raised the bird to place it on his head, where it scrabbled in his hair.

"Kei Ou, Kei Taiho. It is me Taiki. Takasato Kaname was the name I bore as a Taika." That would be enough hopefully, for them to know it was him. Not many people knew that. "I don't know what news you know of Tai but... I was taken from this world again, it's complicated but I am alive. My body is unconscious, being kept deep in the palace. Tai Ou... Lord Gyousou has been killed." His voice dropped but he kept talking, swallowing his pain. "I hope to break the curse of my unconsciousness soon and will go forth to seek the new king of Tai. I know that you are limited in what you can do and you have already given us much help but I am afraid I may need to ask for more when I return."
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