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Swirling Consequences Ongoing

SWIRLING CONSEQUENCES: ONGOING

QUICKSAND 11-13 ~ TEAM OBJECTIVES ~ LOCATION INFORMATION ~ OTHER DETAILS
COMMS ~ ASK QUESTIONS ~ SHENANIGANS ~ TEAM PLOTTING ~ MISSION TASKS/REWARDS

OVER THE YELLING HEIGHTS...

As they arrive at their destination, the Voidtreckers are quick to get to work into the various jobs that need them. The Blues have slowly but steadily been doing their best to fulfil all three of their tasks. They've worked to locate locals and to get them aid after being cut off, and have been searching for those from other worlds. A few helped with the dralite work, but took priority in helping people and leaving the dralites to others.

Orange have largely focused on collecting herbs, doing some work to help farmers relocate their animals, but only a few helped the dralite with their nests. At least there will be plenty of potions, teas, and craggy leaves to hand out, with the leaves sure to help the stressed out animals yet located.

For the Purples, they've been working well to clear the roads and ruined layouts of farms and villages to give better access around the Yelling Heights. A few have helped in escorting their fellow team members and the locals in getting around.

As for the Reds, they did what they do best: going on the offensive. They've been working to get rid of the voidblobs, but don't have much interest in setting up safe perimeters. A few voidtears, however, have been located, and hopefully that will help everyone push forward in the next few days of the mission.

Overall, the farmers are thankful for the help so far, and a good decent have been assisted. They will help Voidtreckers as they need it, and have tools on hand that can be borrowed. They will be willing to assist with the voidtears, if only able to push back any voidblobs, or to make sure Voidtreckers get back somewhere safe afterwards.

The storms have increased, changing the spotty but sunny days into more rain and wind. The choral singing can be heard more, even if one isn't near a voidtear, causing an increase in animals becoming stressed and spooked. Fortunately, transgates - quick travel gates - have been set up between the Weary Wanderer (near the forest and scrublands), one in the largest village on in the farmlands, and one can be accessed around the scrublands. These will help with some of the travel.

Animals are scattered around the scrublands and fields between farms, some unfortunately perished over the first few nights, but also some safely brought back to their appropriate farms. Adult dralites will be more hostile around people, spreading out father and bothering farmlands, screeching up a storm that stuns most people even from a distance. Their young can still be found, alive or not, and they will leave with either, though with wails for their deceased child. Even capturing them and leading them back into the forest will do some good.

↪ Prompt: There's a farm not too far from the Weary Wanderer that Albany asks for people to go to - some earmuffs can be taken along to help with the sound, along with earplugs. The reason becomes clear as soon as Voidtreckers approach it, where dralites can be circling around it. A woman greets whoever comes - "Thank ya for coming out here, I know you're working hard" - and leads them to the cause.

There's a ditch where trees have fallen, their farm bordering the forest. The cries of younger dralites can be heard, but the adults are squabbling amongst one another, and people who try to approach the fallen wreckage can thwapped at by the adults.

What will be the best course of action? To bruteforce the paralsying wails and peckings and to get at the trunks? Or to pacify these disagreeable winged things? Voidtreckers can also come here and find a displaced person or two taking shelter. (B2, B3)

While a good portion of the roads have been cleared and managed, there are areas away from the Weary Wanderer that need help, where the Ciyesia mountain suffered its damage and plenty of the farm animals and more secluded farmers have been cut off from help. The great chinchillas and the voidblobs are taking advantage of the ruined roads to kill and take animals (the chinchillas), or just to ruin them as they're found (the voidblobs).

↪ Prompt:"We're gonna need all the hands we can get. Can some of your folks come with us 'round Ciyesia? We're having trouble to getting to some of ours in a tricky part, and the animals that way - oh, they're nasty."

There's a trail - or most of a trail - that goes around the side of the Ciyesia mountain, leading over to a smaller collection of hills. While good work has been done on clearing up, around this area there's still a fine slide of rubble that's scattered over the walking paths. Those with sturdy arms are necessary to clear the wreckage, but also to deal with the voidblobs, great chinchillas, and even the dralites in this area, with the latter preferred to be pushed back to the forest. The farmers coming with the Voidtreckers will help to round the animals, but they'll need help dealing with the trouble along the way.

Doing this will help them gain access to a few farms, grateful to find visitors, though their families will be around, trying to deal with trouble. Find them on the road, with animals or in a troubling situation with a voidblob, and do what you can to help. (P1, B1, R1/R3, O2)

While Voidtreckers have worked hard to get rid of them, larger voidblobs have been spotted, and are becoming a bigger issue across the community. Further perimeters will need to be set up to keep them away from the farmlands scattered around, using good coordination to cover as much ground as possible. The voidtears as a result are easier to find, as blobs can be easier to spot if people are on watch, but are tougher than the result blobs: as tall and wide as a newsagent storefront, they will take more than one or two people to deal with them. Their speed can be unpredictable, and they're sturdier than the smaller variants, having a more gelatinous ability to move - even to rise high or to spread out.

It is advised stronger Voidtreckers deal with these - coming in with little experience or just a blade will be dangerous.

↪ Prompt: "We're seein' some of those big boys out around the fields. I'm telling ya, they're fast bastards. Think you can help us get rid of 'em? Anything you need, we've got your backs."

The locals of these lands are doing their best to help the Voidtreckers, as well as each other. Getting word out to the farther communities is hard, but they have set up a system - flags. Flags made out of any bedsheet that can be found, then put up on wooden logs. They're a call for help, being used especially if they spot voidblobs. It's a desperate attempt at communication, but the voidblobs are troublesome - and more so their larger variant. No fence or barricade works to keep them back, and the best the farmers can do is hope they won't come towards their homes when they roll into their lands. It's also worse if there happens to be a voidtear nearby...(R1, R3)

Finding displaced people will be all the more important, though some have been put forward to aid. Glowing marks around the Yelling Height's forest have been put on the tree trunks to help guide people out of the forest easier from different spots, and another Voidtrecker has been encouraged to create crystal trackers, that can be picked up. These crystals will glow the closer they approach a non-native, nor non-Voidtrecker sentient being - which means both displaced people, and the voidblobs.

Sending people home will require the same anchoring technique used during Jinnjar, Diagad, and similar to the recent events. It only takes one Voidtrecker to return someone to their world, hand in hand they will cross a metaphysical void river, seeing flashes of the visitor's world and life. And Voidtreckers will be just as exhausted as they were getting their own returned to the train... Probably best to share this burden out between as many who are willing.

↪ Prompt: Some displaced people have found their way out of the woods, found around the escorts for those keeping check, or even making their way to Albany's inn or a nearby farm. The locals themselves can't help send them home, but they're used to helping outsiders, warming them up and getting them fed. Some will accept help easily, but others are less keen on approaching unknown houses. (B2)

To approach a voidtear will be a challenge, but as they're found, planning a route straight to them that minimises time will help. Closing a voidtear will require more than one person, a small group even - with each getting under a voidtear and then pressing their anchor button. They will need to focus on keeping themselves grounded and to resist the pull of the void, as they offer their own energy in stitching up the tear. For smaller tears two people should be able to close it but more voidtreckers will be necessary for the larger ones. Colours and music entice them, to just give up, let themselves float into the void... They will need to support each other to keep steady.

OOC NOTES

OOC Post ~ Questions ~ Shenanigans ~ Tasks Check-In & Mission Rewards
Notes: A conclusion post will go up on the 26th. Feel free to put toplevels put up at the end of the start log here! Or to re-use portions and to put up fresh posts here. Or to just link them here, have a blast.

Here is a TL;DR of the above tasks: Dralites are everywhere, more aggressive and hostile; farm animals are more scattered and harder to reach, being attacked by chinchillas and voidblobs around scrublands; displaced people need to be found and sent home, and voidblobs now have a larger variant; the voidtears are becoming easier to find, but the effects of the storms are worsening, closing them will be a priority.

Please have your tasks submitted by the 25th to help determine the conclusion of the mission! We will start to count mission rewards around this time too.

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I'd say it's by some pretty big definition.

[ In other words - yes, he sees Senku's trouble here. He's pretty sure the other is never going to be able to just push the sheep back to where it belongs, after all. So Inigo shakes his head, jogging over to where Senku is just trying to shove the sheep.

Fruitlessly. ]

I don't think she's feeling like coming along with you. [ And - probably coincidentally, but almost as if the sheep heard what Inigo said just now and agrees - the animal lets out another bleat right after Inigo says that. ]

I couldn't help but notice that. [ He huffs, is that mild annoyance Inigo can see? A little bit. The puff of air makes his bangs flutter out of his face. ]

I was hoping that if I pushed on it, it would start moving and head in the direction back to safety.

[ It's a great plan! Best plan!...it's horrible and it's not working. ]

[ Sorry, Senku. Apparently being a genius doesn't immediately also make you a specialist in farm animal care, who would've thought..

But at least it means they're evenly matched here, neither of them being entirely sure how to deal with sheep. Not that it means Inigo is willing to give up that easily. They've got a task here, and they're going to darn well complete it! ]

How about.. instead of trying to get it to move that way, we try to lure it?

[ That sounds like another plan, right? ]

Surely there's got to be something sheep like enough to move towards it.

[ Animal care, no, but he does know how to prepare and roast farm animals for a delicious dinner. That wasn't really going to help them at the moment however.

The farmers would probably get mad if he did that.

So they have to just get them moving. ]

Sheep eat grains, so perhaps we can try and lure it with food. Guess we can check with the nearest farmer and see if they've got something.

Then let's go do that!

[ Usually he'd suggest they'd split up so one of them could keep an eye on the animals, but.. well. As Senku has already thoroughly proven-- ]

It's not like these guys are going to go anywhere in the meantime. [ If anything, the lack of desire on the sheep's end to move is exactly the problem. ]

They're really not.

[ He sighs and looks at the sheep again and is greeted with another bleat. ]

Fine. Let's go find some food it might like.

[ He starts walking in the direction of the farm he came from that was waiting oh so patiently for these sheep. ]

[ Look at these two, on their quest to find sheep feed.

.. not that Inigo is really used to any kind of farm feed, mind you. He's used to a lot back home, but taking care of animals wasn't exactly his job. So when he enters the barn and looks around and finds the bags of sheep feed, he just.. gives them a confused look... ]

Is this it?

[ He figures that Senku would most likely know better than him - especially since Inigo just sounds confused. ]

Do sheep eat this stuff? [ ???? ]

Looks like it to me. [ At least, they look like grains, but he can't identify them. No matter, it's a world unlike his own after all. ]

We should find...a big bag's not gonna do us much good...

[ Aha! A pail. He grabs it and comes back. ]

Try putting some in here, it will be easier to carry with the sheep than a huge bag.

[ This plan is most definitely going to work. ]

Sure.

[ Hey, at least this is something Inigo can do! He might not always have the big brain plans, but at least he can follow instructions like this easily. Sure, the bag is a little heavy, but not in any way that's actually unbearable.

So it's easy to move the bag in such a way that he can pour stuff out of it, straight into the bucket. ]

.. there we go. [ Inigo says. The bucket isn't quite full, but it's close enough. Close enough to work, he thinks. ]

Surely they're going to go crazy and come with us when they see that we've got food for them, right?

I certainly hope so...otherwise we're going to have to come up with another plan.

[ He gets the door so they can go back out and try this wonderful feeding the sheep plan. ]

Can you carry a sheep that's much heavier than me?

[ Just...speculating on a plan B ]

[ ...

Judging by the silence that Senku gets when he asks that question, coupled with the half-puzzled half-uncertain facial expression that Inigo immediately shows him when he turns his head in the other's direction, the answer to that is most likely a 'no'. ]

H-How much muscle do you think I'm hiding?

Well I don't know, more than me?

[ Clearly Inigo is the strongest, didn't he punch some bears or something before? Well he killed some. Was it by punching? ]

Well.. [ Inigo pauses.

Sizes Senku up. ]

.. probably, yeah.

[ Sorry, Senku. But your muscle clearly all went to your brain. ]

But that's not saying much! I'm just your ordinary guy! I'm not some sort of.. [ His voice trails off, and he starts gesturing with his free hand, clearly trying to indicate something he isn't quite sure how to put into proper words. ] .. crazy otherworldly super person like some other people on the train!

[ Not to worry, he's not offended. ]

Hmmm. [ He looks Inigo up and down a moment and then shrugged. ]

I know a lot of people with freakish strength. I watched Tsukasa punch a lion to death.

[ Granted he's much bigger than Inigo. ]

[ See, that's what Inigo has learned in this place too. There's a surprising amount of people with freakish strength around in all these worlds, right? Sure, some of his friends were strong back home, but in a much more.. human sort of way, he'd say.

.. still, it does make Inigo feel kind of bad for being a regular old weakling in this situation.. ]

I.. could try to carry one..?

[ Just listen to that tone. So clearly confident. Obviously.

This totally isn't going to end with disaster. ]

If you're not sure about it, perhaps I could help? If this food plan doesn't work.

[ These two are definitely going to get kicked by a sheep, aren't they. ]

You think we could carry one together?

[ Somehow he sounds even more sceptical about this idea.

Because surely if he can't carry one by himself, then adding Senku's strength on top of it wouldn't be enough to reach the necessary strength treshold..

.. not to mention: ]

I think those animals are going to be even more annoyed to be carried by two people than by one. [ FOR SURE. ] .. unless we had something to put them on.

[ Like a cart.

But Inigo sure hasn't seen any of those. Must have been carried away by the landslides. ]

[ Wow Inigo, it's like you think Senku's strength is on par with a wet noodle or something.

He sighs a little bit as he considers that. ]

Okay food first...if we had to build a cart, that I could do.

[ IS HE WRONG. Can you look him in the eyes and tell him he's wrong??

But when it comes to the plan, Inigo just nods. ]

Sure. Let's go ahead and try it!

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would you be ok with wrapping this one here? c: seems like a good point