Swirling Consequences: Conclusion

[voidtreckermods]

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SWIRLING CONSEQUENCES: CONCLUSION

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A week is a long time to be trudging across a world, helping dralites and people, closing voidtears and fighting chinchillas. But a week it has been. Most of the farmers have gotten used to having the voidtreckers around, and a friendly rapport flows between those helping out gathering and looking after the animals.

Most of the farm animals have been relocated and returned to their farms. Parts of the enclosures are still in need of repair, but there have also been efforts to improve farm perimeters with electric fencing. The farmers are still getting to grips with that, and many are busy rebuilding small outhouses or pens that were damaged in all the chaos.

Aid has trickled through to the further away communities, and the communities have rallied to support the displaced people who didn't manage to be returned home. They are a welcoming bunch, many of the farmers come from families brought from other worlds after all.

Around the mountain of Ciyesia, things are calming. The dralite have finally relocated their young, and though there are repairs needed here too to the nesting grounds, the screeching has finally quietened, and the forests are still.

Towards the afternoon of the thirteenth day of the month of Quicksand, the voidtrecker's SCAs glow with the colours of the void. The same purple and blue skinned woman as before sits behind the same wooden desk. She looks a little less stern this time.

"Thank you Voidtreckers, your efforts have been noteworthy. Things are stabilising, and from all monitoring reports, you have successfully dealt with the void twisted creatures that managed to slip through into system #5739. It looks like the tears in the void have also been patched; we will send some experts in to finish off, but they will hold until we get a team there.

The wider mission has also been a success. The ripples have been neutralised for now. We thank you for your efforts. If you could please fill in the report form sent to your SCA's and submit them for our mission audit team, that would be very helpful for us.

We would like to remind you that risky experimentation such as your untethering attempts are best done by trained professionals. We understand you were not fully in control of the situation, and so no action is being taken by the Inspection arm at this time. However, in more positive news, we have managed to gather data from the scene of that incident and our void scientists are currently working on a further understanding of your tethers.

We will be in touch."

After the video ends, there are a few hours for everyone to finish up their tasks, to say goodbye to any new friends- people or animals -before boarding the train once more. The train meets them at the platform in the woods it deposited them at, the doors opening so the weary voidtreckers can board once more.

The train leads them through the woods, further along the hillside before it rises into the air, flying up into a sky streaked with faint lines of colour. And then there's a shudder, and the world outside the windows is replaced with the kaleidoscope imagery of the void once more.

Comments

(Once someone shows him how to speech-to-text... X3)

[persona_non_ratta]

Designation: Bruno Madrigal. I'm on the Blue Team, if you need that too.
Voidcraft: The Voidtrecker Express.

Mission Report
Void date: I think the train said Quicksand 13. Is Quicksand a real month name around here?
System No.: Let's see... it says #5739.
Summary of Events: The train landed on the world, everyone got out, and then it flew away. We all went to the Weary Wanderer inn and met Señora Albany, then most of us spent some time planning and getting things organized.

I helped copy some maps for people who were going out to deliver relief supplies, then later I went out and tried to help too. I gathered some fruit cup flowers for medicine- and remembered to get some seeds to bring back to the train for the greenhouse there-, helped those bat-bird things- dralites, I think they were called- with their eggs and babies that had gotten lost, and helped find a few lost sheep. I also helped close a void tear; it was terrifying, but... I needed to do something to justify being called a 'Void hero', you know?

Then eventually things calmed down, the train came back for us, and we all got back on and left.
Reception from locals: Everyone was really kind and helpful. Especially Señora Albany; there were a lot of us and it was really kind of her to host us the whole time we were there.
Threats encountered: Well I ran into some angry dralites, but got away OK. And I kind got stuck in a bush, but I wouldn't really call that a threat, you know?
Anomalies and Interference: Mostly the weather; it started getting pretty stormy the longer we were there. And then of course there were the Voidtears. They were... well I don't know what they were, other than terrifying. I'm glad they're gone though.

Any other comments or queries: It's not about the mission, really, but um... someone mentioned that the Ministry might have a way of contacting my family back home to let them know I'm alright? If that's true, just let me know, and I'll do whatever I can to help.

Please list any other voidcraft present so that reports can be correctly cross referenced. I didn't see any others.