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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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controlsthedie: store art of Thanatos from behind with hood down (ごめん、失礼しますが)

[personal profile] controlsthedie 2022-03-26 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
"... If that were possible, I would not be worrying about this in the first place." Death had already stopped once in his world for an entire month. Any way to alleviate that burden, create some kind of failsafe to prevent a lack of death from happening again, would have been put into place then after a godling threw the world out of balance.

If there was a way, Thanatos might have had a life beyond his role back home.

"Mortals can find another to do their job. The case is not so simple for gods."
jan_ken_hacking: (B| stare)

[personal profile] jan_ken_hacking 2022-03-26 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mnh. I had hoped maybe there could be someone with overlap available...at the very least, enough to help, but if no one came to mind to begin with then getting creative isn't the answer."

Hmm. Well, at least they're still looking for the way back to Thanatos' world, but...

"...what will you do when they find a way to stabilize the tethers?"
controlsthedie: store art of Thanatos from behind with hood down (ごめん、失礼しますが)

[personal profile] controlsthedie 2022-03-27 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
Thanatos tried to explain it once to Alice how mixed his feelings on the matter is, and it's even more complicated now. He's felt the despair of losing almost everything that was besides his duty. It's not something he can put into words and convey correctly.

"If I have to return to the train... I'll fight it as long as I'm able to." He has contacted the Ministry, and they have arrived on his world. However, their capabilities are painfully slow, and there is no telling what the gods of Olympus will do. Olympians are not above punishing mortals trying to interfere in the business of gods, and they won't hesitate to declare war against another god, which ultimately puts more mortals in danger.

Thanatos has to give the mortals, Hermes and Charon, as much time as he can. "I stay as long as possible."
jan_ken_hacking: (she's gonna B LO W)

[personal profile] jan_ken_hacking 2022-03-29 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Kiyoiri stops moving. Just for a moment.

"....Even if it delays the real solution?"

She won't argue it further, no matter his answer. No, she knows the fruitlessness involved in arguing with most gods. It's something everyone at Chaldea knows, by now.

But she has to ask all the same, even as she stares toward a gate among the platform fog.
controlsthedie: screenshot of Thanatos and Nyx (Last night I thought up a song)

[personal profile] controlsthedie 2022-03-31 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
"If everyone is returned to the train at once, then there's nothing to be done for it. However, if the process ends up being gradual, I want to be among the last to give my world more time before I'm forced to go."

And he will fight anyone who tries to bring him early. Thanatos has a duty to his world, and could anyone really blame him for wanting to bring the mortals an end to their suffering? Or help establish some kind of plan with his mother that might loop in the Ministry?
jan_ken_hacking: (Talking)

[personal profile] jan_ken_hacking 2022-04-01 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Not great. But not her place to really argue it either. Kiyoiri simply looks at the deity from the corner of her eyes, before closing them with a nod. There's only so much anyone can do or convince with gods involved after all, and more than that, she hardly has any idea how this will end.

What else, then, can she say.

The girl blinks at another 'gate'. "...Is this one it?" With how many haven't been, hopefully one is right, right?
controlsthedie: screenshot of Thanatos and Nyx (Last night I thought up a song)

[personal profile] controlsthedie 2022-04-02 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it really so bad that he just doesn't want to be first in line?

"I don't know. I did not appear here by gate." If he had, then he'd just turn around and go straight through it. Thanatos walks forward and reaches out, hoping for that something will feel "right" about the gate. He doesn't immediately sense anything of note.

Mother please, guide him back home.

And so, Thanatos walks through the gate.
jan_ken_hacking: (B| stare)

ties this off with a bow while laying down....wueh

[personal profile] jan_ken_hacking 2022-04-05 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
Of course it isn't.

It's his duty, his role, his home, his people. At this time as it is, Kiyoiri can't even tell if delaying will be possible at all, let alone a risk.

She can only ask, hypothetically on the matter, and leave what his answer is to sit on the air and on her mind.

Kiyoiri watches Thanatos walk through the gate.

She watches and quietly prays for whoever fails to pass in time for however long Thanatos has to grant that death.
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