middleofsomewhere | Swirling Consequences Start

Swirling Consequences Start

On day Seven of the Month of Quicksand as passengers are beginning their day there is an announcement over the ICP system. “Attention voidtreckers and passengers of the Voidtrecker Express. Please give your attention to the following message from the void ministry.”

A blurring of the screen and it fades into a video of an elderly woman, skin a swirl of purple and blue sat behind a dark wooden desk hands folded neatly in front of her.

“Greetings crew of the Voidtrecker Express. I am commander Orlaith of the void ministry. As you will be very aware, you were recently involved in a dangerous and somewhat foolish experiment of the tethering system which we assume was initiated by your voidcraft. We received your call for emergency assistance, and were able to stabilise your craft enough to allow it to focus on ensuring crew safety. We are under the understanding that it was a crew member who used the emergency signal given by the Inspection Arm of the ministry, and that member should be commended. So too should you all, for we have reports that the crew of the Voidtrecker Express took part in a risky and difficult anchoring task to ensure the safety of all. As ever, the crew of the Voidtrecker Express exceed expectations for a crew with no formal training.

However, in less positive news, the actions of your Voidcraft have had a ripple effect throughout the void. Worlds that are non void active have reports of seeing void activity in their skies, with residents reporting dreams and uneasy feelings. In void active worlds there are more serious incidents. We have voidcrews in thousands of systems working towards stabilising the void access points.

We understand that after such an ordeal, your crew may be exhausted however we do need your help. System #5739 is a hub world that is extremely void active. It is used to weathering void storms and the barrier between the world and the void is thin. However, it is currently experiencing an unprecedented amount of void activity and world bleeding effects. We need a team to go in and help the citizens there, clearing out any issues and helping stabilise things from within.

The people there know about the void, and are used to void travellers. However, try not to stir up any extra trouble.” The last sounds almost exhausted. Their reputation may precede them.

The video ends.

I assume no one has any objections as voidtreckers have chosen to work with the Void Ministry. Please see your mission briefs. This is not a catastrophe mission."

They have a couple of hours before landing, a few hours to study their briefs and prepare for what is to come. Teams might chat, people might give out equipment gathered over the months, some of the passengers who have been on the train since the very early days of the month of Apple may have advice to give.

Either way a couple of hours later there is another announcement. “Shortly arriving at System #5739. Exiting the void in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one...”

SWIRLING CONSEQUENCES: START

WEARY WANDERER ~ FOREST ~ SCRUBLANDS ~ FARMLANDS ~ COMMS

QUICKSAND 7-10 ~ TEAM OBJECTIVES ~ LOCATION INFORMATION ~ OTHER DETAILS
ASK QUESTIONS ~ SHENANIGANS ~ TEAM PLOTTING ~ MISSION TASKS/REWARDS

ARRIVAL

The train shakes as the view of the void leaves its windows, giving way to a cloudy and wet sky in its descent. There's a small bump, and they land on a set of tracks that lead them uphill. Grassy mounds can be spotted on either side, occupied by sheep, goats, and the occasional six legged antelope grazing. In the farther distance are secluded farm houses, or small clusters of buildings.

Things don’t seem so bad, until the clouds spark with colour that sends animals running, far skittish for anything they're used to.

The sparse hills give way to more trees as the train weaves through them, until finally comes to a stop at a small station, no more than a raised platform in the woods. With a sigh, the train doors open, and passengers can walk out into the clearing. Once everyone who wishes to leave disembarks, the train sets off once again, flying up into the air and out of sight.

"Oh good. You’re here!"

Looking over, voidtreckers will spot a young girl at the edge of the clearing.

"Ma said we should expect some void heroes any day now. She’s put some stew on."

And she’s off. For any who wish to follow her, she leads them to an inn, The Weary Wanderer written on a sign. It’s a large inn, larger than might be expected in such a remote place, and the innkeeper Albany quickly organises rooms and food for any who wish it.

“Well, there’s a whole lot more of you than there was.” She takes in the group after Maia explains that they are from the Voidtrecker Express. “Storms are getting worse, we’re getting reports of stampedes, landslides and monsters coming through the colours.” She explains. She has some maps of the area and happily allows her main common room to be turned into a planning station. She’s clearly used to void travellers.

THE WEARY WANDERER

The inn has a large and open floor, the entrance close to where a fire crackles, chairs and a table beside it. To the right are places for eating, and kitchen doors that lead in and out, while to the left is where a counter separates another route to the kitchen, and to the family's own private quarters. By here too are the stairs leading up into the bedrooms, with some also available on the ground floor.

There's enough room for the voidtreckers to squeeze into the front at once, and the tables can be joined to create a more team atmosphere.

The problems are everywhere it seems. Farms need help, dralite chicks need rescuing, and their parents reassured before they go on a murderous revenge spree. Voidtreckers can stay or plan or jump right into things - the forest and scrublands are the closest to reach with both behind the inn, while the farmlands will take half a day to reach. Alabany will mark on the maps where to go for the farmsteads, or ones she knows about, and allow her inn to be used as an intiial base.

For those whose skills lie more in cooking and maintaining camp, she will happily take their help in the kitchens, or suggest They go down to the nearest farmsteads and lend a hand there. It'll take about half a day on foot to reach the nearest few, but many hands are needed. They will have better tools for moving debris and making repairs; she has a few, but not enough for everyone, and she'd rather they be used around the forest if anywhere. She needs those!

Albany will warn about the dralites, and to plug your ears if you're going through the forest. Their screeching can stun and slow people even at a distance, and with everyone worked up, it makes it hard to get through. They happen to like bugs, and a fruit called matts - similar to dates, fruits that grow off certain small trees in the forest.

YELLING HEIGHTS: FOREST

Location of: Dralites, young and old, their nests; monkeys, voidblobs (uncommon), fruit cups and purple stars. Displaced people.

The Yelling Height's forest reach spreads far, wrapping around the lower third of the great Ciyesia mountain and its budding fellow heights, with trees as tall as redwoods making up most of its wood. This gives plenty of space for travellers to move through, but the treetops create thick canopies that shroud the world below, the dots of penetrating light visible in contrast. Against some trees can be found what look like bushes, and there's plenty of them around, along with moss; but looking closer, these have hollow middles, made up of pin needles, twigs, feathers and all sorts. Some have been ruined, some have eggs inside.

High-pitched cries can be heard echoing, but it can be hard to tell how far, or what distance they come from - there's too many, making what should sound distressing, sound like a racket. While there's paths that can be followed, some of the wood has fallen, with ways disturbed by rubble that's tumbled all this way down from the mountain. There are signs to aid - those that haven't been knocked over - to give some sense of direction. Still this wood is hard to navigate, and Voidtreckers will want to be careful about rushing in without a plan. Trouble lurks in all manners...

Dralites can be found scattered around this forest, big and small - Albany will tell them as much. The youngest are easy to locate, unable to fly, and make a lot of noise. Slow-moving and dragging their heavy wings, they need help moving with any speed. They can be found alone, or attracting the attention of the great chinchillas or monkeys (who see them less as prey, and more as something to bully and take out their frustrations on).

Some will accept help from the first person that approaches them, jumping on them and wrapping their wings around their neck or head, clinging on and accepting them as their ride. They will need to be returned to their nests, and will reject any nests that aren’t theirs. It'll be very similar to escorting a toddler, often throwing screeching fits if they don’t think their helper is trying hard enough, which can make it difficult for people to move around.

They are hard creatures to please, even so more the adults who are furious that their nests have been disturbed. As large as a sheep with larger wings and powerful talons they might just swoop down and grab smaller unsuspecting voidtreckers and carry them to their nests as workers to help fix them. Some of these adults may be near their nests, or will be seen swooping around above-head at startling speeds, searching for their young.

There are eggs that have gone missing too. A place they can hatch safely is essentia, since they can easily become pray or be snatched by the monkeys who live in the forest and steal from the inattentive.

As well as helping the dralites, there are herbs that can be collected here. Purple Stars are leaves that grow at the top of tall trees. These can be found deeper into the forest, and are different from the other trees by their branches only growing at the very top, their bark stripy. They will need to be climbed, or flown up to - not getting startled by adult dralites is essential, or becoming target practice to the monkeys. They have rocks.

Deep in the most dampest sections of the fores, Fruit Cups grow in a tangle around spider plants, that will ensnare the unwary into it’s sticky grip. For every few flowers, there's a wide trapping of the spider plants, vines impossible not to get stuck to. But as difficult as they are to collect, they are useful, and the potions they make will be handy to the communities that require help. Some voidblobs have gotten trapped here too, and they'll become active once people get close.

YELLING HEIGHTS: SCRUBLANDS

Location Of: Farm animals, some voidblobs, great chinchillas, farmers in need; ruined paths, craggle leaf. Some dralites, mostly adult. Displaced people.

The trees eventually give way to a mix of rock and dirt, stone jagging up from the ground underfoot that travellers will need to watch out for. Vegetation is littered around, patches of shrubs as often easy to catch the eye as grazed grass poking out around mossy-coated stone. There are paths, or were, but only the remains of them can be found, the area reshaped by landslides.

Animals can be found isolated or in some groups, spooked by any newcomers around, and the odd shepherd trying their best to get their herds under control. But there's further trouble than blocked paths to deal with - because these jobs can never be simple.

The farmers' plans are to bring the grazing animals back down to the lower ground and to their farms, but they'll need help clearing up paths and guiding them off the mountain and back to their farmsteads. Not only will it mean moving debris and locating animals, it will also mean protecting them from the predators in the area - and other trouble.

The horned goats, often a worry on these slopes, have grown even more aggressive. They ram into herds and farmers alike, even attempting to send them rolling. They need driven off, away from the herds. The chinchillas are also more aggressive, running rampage through the hills and attempting to down the livestock and to take them back to their nests.

There will also be sightings of the voidblobs for the more unfortunate, dubbed such by the locals. Gelatinous and luminescent, they are a mess of what were likely multiple creatures that have been fused together, patches of fur and teeth and claws held together with thick veins of colour. They attack indiscriminately and without reason, and are difficult to take down, never responding to blows of any type. You only know when they're taken out by when they stop moving - otherwise, they will continue.

During the first night there is a disturbance on Ciyesia. Trees are felled, the mountain seems to rumble and more animals flee, spilling panicked down the mountain to the farm lands below. For whatever aid is giving to the area on the first day, this event causes more damage to the surrounding areas.

LOWER LANDS: FARMLANDS

Location of: Voidblobs (common), great chinchillas, a few horned goats; ruined pathways, farms in need; people to craft balms and potions, access to tools.

While not as high as the Ciyesia mountain, nor as shrouding as the blanketing forest, the rolling countryside shows its sloping and uneven distance, varying fields split by tones and sandy paths - or what should be sandy paths. But the damage to the earth is noticeable, chunks of the various mounds ruined, broken at parts. You can see trouble, ensuing or approaching, just by looking around long enough.

And the biggest trouble will be reaching it.

Buildings squeeze against fields and fencing, separated far from anyone that could be called a neighbour. But there's a few of what can be called villages, where trades are conducted and visitors are sure to stop. There's usually a singular inn, but people looking to call on the help of a void traveller to help with this mess. They can promise hot meals and some goods in exchange, but first needs to come the help.

Though moving the herds closer to the farms is a sensible idea that doesn’t mean the farmlands themselves are safe. Landslides have cut communities off, some of the chinchillas and horned goats have made their way down the mountain and angry dralites stalk the plains looking for their young.

The shaking of the earth and the landslides have caused damage and debris. Trees have been felled bolders moved, barns and houses have been damaged. There’s a big clean up operation required. Farmers have wheelbarrows and shovels and Albany has some more that can be borrowed. It will require a team effort to clear the roads and make sure essential supplies get where they are needed.

Most of the farms and villages have protections in place, but they are overstretched and exhausted. Villagers take turns patrolling, protecting the herds and the people from creatures should they be goats, chinchillas or the new and terrifying void blobs.

Extra people to set up perimeters are very welcome, as are those who can drive the creatures back into the forests. It’s not just the homes themselves that need protecting but also the paths between them, so voidtreckers and others can deliver supplies to the further afield communities.

Making the herbal remedies will mean finding the right people for it, but locating the villages is a good bet. Tinctures and teas are the best method, boiling the plants and breaking them down over hours. Even if you're not experienced, people being around to help monitor the pots and bottle them will be helpful. The craggle leaf are good as they are to feed upset livestock, but also as medicine, for helping against the voidstorm's headache-inducing effects.

FROM THE VOID...

DISPLACED PEOPLE: Once or twice a year, people can be found in the Yelling Heights, wandering around dazed and confused, hailing from a whole other world. Since these storms have begun there have been at least two a day, perhaps more that have yet to be found. They have no memory of arriving, some might not even have memories of who they are, or where they come from.

For now they need found, gathered in once place and care given to them.

VOIDBLOBS: The voidblobs, as they have been dubbed by those who have seen them, are truly monstrous creatures. Perhaps once multiple creatures they have been fused together, a mess of fur and teeth and claws held together with thick veins of colour these creatures have one instinct and that is to kill.

They are rampaging, strong in their urge to destroy. Fighting them is difficult as nothing seems to slow them down until they die, it’s hard to know how hurt they are and injury doesn’t seem to stop their brute strength or will to kill. They rarely will stop and fight either, requiring a team just to keep up with them as they will lash out and fight but keep rampaging on, drawn towards groups of people or creatures. They can be found anywhere.

VOIDTEARS: For now, it's Red Team's task to find these tears and secure a perimeter on them - a difficult enough job that will take the first few days of the mission. They aren’t visible except in the storms, and so finding them requires braving them, where the wind sings with void music, rain pouring with hail, and a strong sense of unease growing until it too unbearable to endure. But the exact point of the tears must be found: a spot where the kaleidoscope of colours shines down onto any under it, only visible in that area.

STORMS: These are scattered around the lands, never moving despite the clouds that do. In the storms, the voidtears pulse with colour. Being near them is uncomfortable, and there is always the risk of a voidblob coming through. Being near the voidtears for too long even outside of voidstorms will lead to headaches, and so it is wise to rotate who is guarding them.

THE FIRST NIGHT: Late into the first night, there will be loud noises, the earth rumbling and a worrisome show of lights as the full moon hangs in the sky above. There may be word from fellow voidtreckers what's going on, but either way, this disturbance will bring out trouble into the night, breaking fencing and some buildings that were on their last legs.

OOC NOTES

OOC Post ~ Questions ~ Shenanigans ~ Tasks Check-In & Mission Rewards
This log lasts for 7-10 Quicksand, with the next log going up on the 21st March (11 Quicksand). Please remember that we will be determining the progress of the mission by task objectives being fulfilled, so PLEASE visit the task objectives toplevel and let us know what your character has been working towards! We accept handwaves (especially if your character is around but you're on hiatus), but actual thread links will count more towards success!

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RED TEAM

You've either wandered into a group of voidblobs or see some approaching. They're annoying on their own, but as a group, they can cause serious damage.

The voidstorms are easy to find by the literal storms they bring, but the tears themselves? They're a pain to, only visible once you're right under them. How will your character persevere in the search? Flying, if you can, might seem the quickest option, but a closer level to the sky seems to make the headaches and disorientation worse.

You've somehow been convinced into fixing up a fence during watching the perimeter. Yes yes, that's important, but the area is clear for now, and what if an animal gets loose? More hands will get this done quick.

BLUE TEAM

What kind of people will you find out there in the wild? Someone desperate for an offer of aid, or someone suspicious, distrusting? Are they even human, or some other race - or sentient object?

The dralites aren't good at in any way but wailing. But their eggs are unique, obsidian in appearance. So if you see a monkey carrying any such thing, or see one being carried by a great chinchilla - that's no lucky lump of goal. That's your way of calming down the ticking time bombs of angry parents.

PURPLE TEAM

Farm work isn't your chore, but the farmers need all their herds before they go anywhere, so you're getting involved whether you want to or not.

Make a good impression on the farmers, and they're likely to help you out. Need to borrow tools? Or can you convince the farmers to let you and your friends borrow some, passing them onto the people who need them?

ORANGE TEAM

Herb collection is hard enough with tall trees and spider plants but watch out for the monkeys who want to steal the prize.

Once herbs are collected they can be made into potions. They aren't too difficult to make and Albany has recipes if asked.

Herbs aren't the only things monkeys want, there's a group converging on a dralite nest, those eggs look very shiny.

ALL TEAMS

Distance is a real concern. Who will go where, where are places and people in need? Scouting is a good idea, and so is organising who will be best, where. ... or, you can just go and do your own thing.

Image Sources: Top header - Tavern - Farmlands - Void coours

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Appreciate it! At least we don't have to carry the supplies. Magic really is something else." Senku grinned at that and waited patiently. He was going to be slow, but at least he could help.

He probably wouldn't get goat-butted anywhere...right?

It was better not to consider testing Senku's horrendous luck.

"God, I want one of them things so bad. Though probably I could get the tech version off Bulma- that capsule corp stuff?" And then there's WangJi's weird bottomless bags. But man this all is useful.

Yondu catches up to stride along, ready to go ahead if someone needs to labrat their way across some patches of unsteady earth. As far as he's concerned there is no guarantee that Senku won't get goat-butted anywhere, should he get the wrong kind of curious paired with that striking streak of luck.

"What all you got on ya?"

"It's really amazing. I mean, I know the teams have them, but I got this one through Roland a long time ago." It was full of so much stuff, most people would be horrified if he started pulling everything out of it.

"I think that has a size limit from what I know about it." Senku hummed. "But I'm not sure I know all the details about Bulma's tech."

He likely didn't. "I've got some food and water, along with some blankets and my usual medical supplies." Senku recited. "I haven't been out there yet so I'm not sure how stranded they are, or what condition they're in. Could just be an easy delivery."

"Well, yeah. But I figured a lot of these things got a size limit. Maybe I should ask the Ministry about other worlds that might got 'em for purchase. Though I ain't really bothered to try and get a sit down yet."

There are all kinds of resources he wants to ask about and stuff. But, also? Yondu just doesn't trust cops. He's certain that in a way they'll be expendable sacrifices. So reconciling that is a difficult notion.

Mostly he is playing along because he wants the best for his crew. This one deserves it.

"But if they cain't, I figure Bulma's can. Speakin' of which, you got a full mix of supplies? Not just potions but the industrial kind?" It's Senku, he figures he does, but it's worth checking.

"According to Roland, as long as I can remember what I put inside of it, it won't run out of space. The only things I don't know that are in here are anything Gen put inside and he can keep track of his own stuff." Senku wasn't one for micromanaging his spouse.

"If you get an answer from the Ministry, let me know. I'm just collecting information, as far as what kind of things they know."

He was insanely curious, but outside of that, he was looking for information he could cross-check with other sources.

"I've got everything they provided, a few potions, a medical kit of my own making, and the salves I've been experimenting with. As far as other personal supplies, I'm frankly running low but this is the first place we've been that I could potentially gather a few things in a long time."

"Koumyou has that same problem with Devero." He chuckles a little about it. Sometimes he tries to remind himself why it's better that he's without an S.O. (a habit that's only started on the train, thanks to suddenly being around all these happy couples) and one reason is he knows he'd be on purse duty. Senku and Koumyou? Both on purse duty.

"Yeah, I'll let ya know. I uh... I mean, I still don't fully get how the tetherin' thing works, but I ordered a couple of books from that Tree Root Cloud perspective on the void? I'll dump 'em in the library once I get 'em." So Senku can check them out if he wants. Gone are the days that he wanted to be cagey. Should he disappear, a whole chunk of information could go with him.

"Alright, well... We can help out a few folks an' come back for a refill. Holler on the SCA for someone to prep some extra basics or somethin' while we're out."

At least with a magical ring there was nothing really for Senku to carry, because it might surprise Yondu that he misread his and Gen's relationship. It didn't really matter, either way, he was very fond of Gen and that was all that seemed to matter in the end.

"We might have to walk awhile, I can tell you what I know." Senku offered. It was probably silly that he had the ring on, but also had a backpack. He just liked to keep some things on him in case Gen took the ring, but ultimately, he had it probably close to 80% of the time.

"I'll be sure to read them. On board we have nothing but time anyway." It wouldn't take long for him to read them and he'd just put them back.

"Not a bad idea." Senku said as they walked. "If we find out there's something we need specifically, it might be easier to get someone to bring it, if not, maybe they could meet us partway or something?"

He does that frequently. It really makes how often his and Soldat's has been misread real karma.

"Yeah, especially if we got someone to teleport." He wouldn't count on the two fliers he knows, though he's pretty certain they faired better in their fight than him. He was mostly just there, trying to be a nuisance and keep Vegeta from making a mistake he'd regret. Just holding his attention until Bulma could arrive.

"I could give a shout out to Raven. She's been pretty reliable." The walking during this mission had been important. Fast travel, while effective, didn't give him time to check for footprints or dangerous terrain for people that couldn't fast travel. But if others could make the trip quicker? Absolutely.

"That's good to know. I don't have those kinds of skills, although I can use the transgates just fine."

Everyone could at least, and that helped, but not when they were setting out. Senku did not like walking, but he hated the thought of people being stuck and hurt more. So, he would walk on the uneven terrain.

"The train said we all have three point tethers, which is fascinating because not everyone can think of what the third point is. And even though at present my non-travelling self is not viable, so to speak, at least it's not presently organic apparently my tether is fine."

That was probably new information, outside of Gen, no one would know he asked the train about that.

"Y'know... I had a couple of conversations with the train that got me thinkin'. I asked her if we was here for our capacity to destroy or save worlds. She pretty much said 'yeah' to that. Now... I asked her if she didn't know how all this was happenin', if someone programmed her to do this without her knowin'. Or if it was possible. That we might be someone's last ditch effort to save things.

"So maybe somebody else got our tether point. Someone that survived that whole void world breakdown thing."

He's no longer calling it a 'world-eater' because the idea of living things in the void was so impossible that he just has this suspicion it's like a corruption of some sort rather than a living thing.

"I did confirm my original body was disposed of Ravager style. Which means it was broke down to atoms, practically. Whatever's sustainin' my tether is-" He flaps his hand loosely. Like fuck does he know.

"Sounds like you've had a lot more luck than I have talking to the train. I submitted my questions but have yet to receive a response." He sighed a little and shrugged slightly. He wasn't holding his breath on that.

"I don't know. I don't know who could've done that on my world considering the state it's in." Admittedly he's frustrated by that, and trying not to focus on something inevitably means focusing on it.

"Mine's not destroyed, merely petrified. So it's presently inorganic."

"Not enough luck. Just enough to get a whole lotta 'I don't know'. But I don't know how this three point tether thing can work when one of the points don't even exist anymore. We got these articles, though, remember? Ones from the Ministry when they was warnin' us about train stuff. One of the stories was about some Collector wantin' a sun god up his sleeve-"

And man, is there one of those in every universe?

"Which means that somebody figured out how to tether people against their will and abduct them entirely that weren't the train. So I wanna find out more about that case."

Even if he feels like he's sifting through garbage at a landfill for a diamond ring. "I guess in the spirit of actually makin' some progress, I'm thinkin' of makin' some practical requests concernin' items we need. You got any suggestion in terms of rescue equipment or somethin'?"

"I don't know makes me all the more interested in the answer." Senku admitted, but then again that was his whole existence thus far.

"Wouldn't mind running into the Ministry again sometime soon." Senku admitted. "For those questions, and others. I'd like to get a clear picture on how one becomes void-active and how the void travel works. We're tethered to this train, but if the train is not independently behind it which is a possibility considering the AI comes from programming..." Whether or not it was operating under programming now was another question, and one likely the train couldn't answer. "Could be like that story, and be able to control our trajectory would be beneficial, would it not?"

Senku thought so at least, but those were the kinds of things he thought about on a regular basis.

"We have a decent supply when it comes to medical supplies, and food, it's finally expanding a little bit and added more variety. That was a help. What would be beneficial is everyone having a survival kit of sorts, but I'm not sure how much that would cost, although we can vote on things...hm, maybe I could request that as an option. There's things I carry on me that everyone should have, like a knife and some rope, some way to create a fire..that kind of thing."

They were things that had other uses, at least.

"Oh, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't one of them 'You gotta find the void on your own' type rules. So I'd soak up what knowledge you could before headin' home. Might be able to dodge some fine print."

Yondu's skeptical, to say the least. Xandarians were up their ass about the whole 'non-involvement' when it came to worlds without space-faring vehicles, where the Kree were savages that would invade wherever. And he's already seen the exceptions that the Ministry would place on worlds. How they were so limited during the last mission.

Again, Yondu just plain doesn't trust cops. But they need answers and he does believe in playing ball with allies so long as they're allies.

"Good point. Basic survival kit stuff we could fit in a pack. I'll make a note of that kinda thing. Hold up." He stops to drag a trunk out of the road.

"I'm sure, but fortunately I have an excellent memory so if I can absorb as much as I can..."

Senku didn't have an opinion on authority either way. He wasn't interested in being that authority, that much he cared about.

Honestly he only cared when people got in his way, and as long as they weren't in his way, he tended to be rather indifferent. He flouted any laws he hadn't agreed with while steadfastly upholding others. He was a bit of an odd guy.

"Never run out of uses for knives and rope." Senku admitted and stopped, looking at the trunk and he huffed a little bit.

"If you don't have some kind of cheat strength to move that on your own, shouldn't be too hard to get some leverage going to help."

"Yeah, we could get some of them woven ropes. The kind ya pull a bit? An' strong tape. Just li'l' stuff."

Basics for people that couldn't generate things on their own, generally. "I was hurtin' for glowsticks earlier. I was considerin' lookin' up a magic user but I just started lightin' up the trees."

But not everyone could do that, and that's a thing he's only really recently got down to something quick enough that it was worth wasting energy on. But even then, some basic kitted-out shit would help even the most mundane of mission tasks.

"Ropes. Tape is good. A small knife, I never run out of uses for that." Senku admitted as he considered that for a moment.

"Glowsticks? Hm, that's interesting. I keep a way to start a fire, but honestly, if we're going to order it from a train, might as well ask for a flashlight of some kind. That would be the modern equivalent."

Glowsticks would work in a pinch, but were they easy to hide if necessary? Perhaps he was thinking more of the type that one cracked to light up and they remained lit until burnt out.

"I mean for markin' trails. I was wonderin' my way through the woods lightin' 'up trees to make a path."

He points off in one of the directions where he'd created a path. It's too light out to make it, but in the shadowy overhang of canopy and closer, the lit splotches of trunk are more obvious.

"We used to use 'em to keep the path lit when we went into old ruins to retrieve shit. You know what? I'm takin' ya up on the lever thing. To hell with this." He got the trunk mostly out of the way for people, but a cart would still have trouble going through. So this could just eat his ass.

"Huh, not bad. If I were at home I could navigate with the sky, so that's not a bad substitute."

It wasn't something Senku would've thought of at the outset, but a good idea is a good idea.

He nodded and grabbed a fairly big rock that he could carry with a few huffs and set it down on the side of the tree away from the road. Then he looked around for a big stick.

"We'll do it together, although you look heavier than me, you apply the leverage and I'll help you push it out of the way."

"Apparently the moon's at least a lot like a Terran moon." He almost mentions Vegeta specifically, but chooses not to. "It's puttin' off somethin' called 'Blutz Waves' but Bulma could tell ya more about that. I'm bettin' it's somethin' akin to whatever hatches out Celestials in my universe."

Just random ass wierd multi-demensional space talk. But honestly Yondu misses space. The void doesn't feel as free.

"I got a wonder runnin' through my head. Them voidblobs, it just strikes me? Are they caused by the tears or do they come from 'em? 'Cause nothin' livin' is supposed to come outa the void."

"Huh. It might be an unfamiliar sky, but it's still nice to look at." He let out a wistful little sigh.

Void and all, Senku still wanted to set foot in space one day.

"I wonder." Senku hummed. "Couldn't say really, might be a chicken and egg situation." He commented, although Yondu might not know that expression.

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