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middleofsomewhere2022-04-16 05:14 am
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Crashing Down: Start
As the Voidtreckers are going through their morning routines on the 24th Quicksand, there comes a train announcement over the comms. When it ends, their SCAs glow and bring up a holographic screen as is common before a mission. There's a few hours to prepare before a new announcement:
Shortly arriving at system #78961112094711. Leaving the void in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
The train shakes as it leaves the void. As explained by the mission brief, those who are not wearing their SCA will not be able to physically leave the train.
But for those that do, they will find their SCA lights up with their stopwatch. Counting down from five hous.
CRASHING DOWN: START
QUICKSAND 24 ~ TEAM OBJECTIVES ~ LOCATION INFORMATION ~ OTHER DETAILS
ASK QUESTIONS ~ SHENANIGANS ~ TEAM PLOTTING ~ MISSION TASKS/REWARDS
HOUR ONE
The Voidtrecker Express lands them within a voidcraft multistorey, the same one as when they came to holiday at the Irue Grotto. As soon as it does, their SCAs vibrate and bring up a message, audio and transcript (including brialle) become available from a Ministry worker: the tethering station is on the first floor, and there will be people and gear waiting for them, depending on what jobs they're taking up.
Evacuation plans have already begun, and everything is going to get hectic, fast. Voidtreckers will have no end of work available.
1. PROCESSING. For the more tech-minded, plenty of help is needed. Containers of SCAs in storage need to be scanned and made sure they're not faulty before they're loaded up and sent off to communities outside the Irue Grotto. It's a simple if tedious process, but necessary. There's also helping to process people, getting visitors to the planet back to their voidcrafts, so they can leave and make room for more voidcrafts to station.
People can help civilians through the health scanners, or help manage the cyro-pods that they'll be placed into, Setting up the pods isn't too difficult, it just requires hands and the ability to follow an instruction manual. The void scientists happily give this task to any voidtreckers availible to help so that they can get on with the tasks that require more know-how. ( ORANGE1 )
2. GATHERING. The Ministry also need help with bringing in people. Hover trams will help take officials - including Voidtreckers - into the Irue Grotto, to pick up people at farther parts of the city, and who can't walk to the tethering station. Directing people is necessary, as well as making sure that people have caught the message of the evacuation in the earliest hours; but also those less keen, not taking the call seriously will need to be persuaded.
People are also needed to begin going to further out communities. There are emergency broadcasts throughout the planet but the ministry and the local governing groups are aware that not everyone is going to have heard them. The ministry scramble to give the voidtreckers official passes, to help give credibility to their announcement of evacuation. ( PURPLE 1, BLUE 1 )
3. JOIN THE QUEUE. Help will be needed to help keep some semblance of order, to create a flow to keep everything running. Out in the streets, or even in the tethering station, people will become more panicked if they think they've missed their ride, if they have to wait for too long. It's not yet violent, but people with presence will be useful for helping keep everyone sensible. ( RED 1 )
HOURS TWO AND THREE
The work continues to bring people from their lives to the tethering stations, now packed by anxious individuals. There's aid needed for people outside the Irue Grotto, a call for drivers and more volunteers to stay back and help with tethering processing to get people onto the liminal stations. Panic rises with the tension, and there's also signs of disbelief for what's apparently going on.
The Ministry are handing out SCAs to be taken to those who can't come to the stations, to help with the tethering process. With quick training, people can tether themselves, and arrive at the liminal stations awaiting them.
1. ALL ABOARD. Even in the most busy of void hubs, the tethering and platform systems are not designed for an entire planet to arrive all at once. Those volunteering can access the void by a device at the tethering station. The ministry workers explain that it won't disrupt their own tethers, and they will be able to freely walk through the barrier back to the ministry building. The platform is larger than any voidtreckers have seen in their time in the void, closer to the transport station. There are rows of train tracks, but also docked air craft, space craft, there's even a port with voidcraft that look like traditional ships that would sail through water, if there were any water in the void.
All those tethered have tickets and so should know where they are going, but volunteers have been given tablets with an ever growing database to match passengers up to their voidcrafts. From there, it's a case of helping direct people, carrying luggage, and hurrying children along.
For those who would rather not be around panicked people, there's plenty of work loading animals, be they pets or animals from the zoo, who have their own dedicated voidcraft. ( ORANGE2 )
2. THE IRUE ZOO. Outside the Irue Grotto the planet is pretty rural. Not far from the city is The Irue Zoo, a clutter of domed conservatories customised to house creatures from across the system's planets: avians, reptiles, creatures that don't match anything Voidtreckers know. The zookeepers have already had collars delivered- devices similar to SCAs but for use on animals. They do however need help getting them on the creatures. For any tiny animals, there are chip guns - but, you'll need good aim.
Using drones, those piloting them can also help to make sure an area has been cleared and no one left behind, without the person piloting even being physically present. ( PURPLE 2, BLUE 3, ORANGE 3 )
2. OSIGA VILLAGES. In the villages, there are families who just don't have easy access to reach the Irue Grotto: not everyone has a vehicle. Some eagerly climb into the Ministry ride that Voidtreckers take to reach their communities, while others will need help to go to them instead. They might have family members who can't make the trip, others are more worried about their pets or farm creatures, for those lucky to have indoor farms. Luckily the SCA packs that voidtreckers were given also contain the animal tethering collars- the ministry had factored that into their evacuation plans.
More of a challenge are those who refuse to leave the lives they made, who've barricaded and are making it difficult to be helped. They might not trust the ministry. They might not believe that the threat is real. Or they might resist the idea that this threat cannot be fought, after all they are Osigan, not a weak people at all. ( ORANGE 3, RED2, PURPLE2, BLUE3 )
HOURS FOUR AND FIVE
As their countdown clocks tick to two hours remaining there is a message from Anan. The main bulk of people have been processed by now, freeing up those helping in the grotto to move out to further flung communities. Almost all efforts are now on the portable tethering kits, voidtreckers encouraged to travel by speeder to get to as many places as possible.
They're headed to a space station, getting there not for the faint hearted as it's situated in an asteroid field. Luckily, Anan can pilot her way through safely. The station is mostly occupied by elderly people and small children, suspicious people, a couple even tangry at Anan for leading strangers to their door. She takes their ire with humility but is quick to get down to business.
Here like on Osiga people have varying reactions to the news. The children are frightened but generally tough souls. Some of them know Anan and Chiff already and that helps with coaxing them. ( RED 2-3, BLUE 3, PURPLE 2-3 )
2. ON PLANET. The easily convinced have been evacuated by now, which leaves those who are, for variety of reasons, more difficult. Some are the furthest away from the Grotto, the travel time longer. Here, there is often unrest. There's been a couple of hours for people to work themselves into a state of panic. Even those ready and prepared to be evacuated are frustrated.
As they travel they might even find bands of people moving towards the grotto, angry and assuming they have been forgotten, abandoned. They can be calmed, especially when they learn that the voidtreckers have tethering kits and are here to help. But it will take some loud voices and calm personalities to break through that fear and anger. ( BLUE 2, PURPLE 3 )
3. THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE. But what of those who are adament they will not leave? The refusers are not one homogeneous group. Some refuse to believe what is happening. World eaters? Whose heard of them? Who are these strange people who are trying to empty their world? They never did trust the ministry, setting up in Irue like that...
Others truly believe that leaving their home to an otherworldly threat is an act of cowardice. Surely they should stay and fight. Stand against this threat and drive it back. They have weapons, surely if everyone just made a stand they could stop what was about to happen.
Others just can't bare to leave their homes. They are old and would rather face their fate in the comfort they know rather than leave to go to the void- they might know of it but that doesn't mean they trust it. Others are very aware of what this means, they survive but their bodies do not.
Some can be convinced, others are more stubborn. It may be best to focus on those who do want to leave, but there is no easy answer. ( RED 2-3, BLUE 3, ORANGE 3, PURPLE 2-3 )
All the time the skies are calm and clear, no sign of the approaching danger present. In some ways, this makes it harder; te only indication they have is their SCA clocks counting down. Hours turning to minutes, counting down to catastrophe.
OOC NOTES
This event will last for 1 IC day, and OOCly runs from 16th to 22nd, with a conclusion going up on the 23rd.
CHARACTER AID: Lan Jingyi will be offering transport over distance, Lea can create keyblade portals to move people; Thanatos and Tidus will have functioning transgates to allow movement between where they are and back at the tethering station. Elidibus will also eventually be creating portals and force-teleports.
Art Credit: Header
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Rezo focuses, and raises his staff.
The red mist shimmers and all the sleeping people sit up and hold out their arms. Their eyes remain closed, their breathing slow and even; between that and their lethargic movements, it’s plain that they’re still asleep.
He has to keep some of his focus on maintaining the orders (but not the sleeping- that’ll continue on for half a day or so on its own) but not as much as one would expect. It’s simple enough for him to keep it up at the same time he starts going around the group, feeling wrists for SCAs, and slipping on some of his own if he can’t find any.
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He'll pass some over too, once he sees Rezo joining him in the effort. "Call me if you need more, I'll whistle you to the box?" An offer, hoping that will work. There's six or seven people, enough to keep them busy for a minute. Tidus keeps his eyes open for any other people, but he can't exactly leave this lot even for the few that he might.
As soon as it seems they have everyone hooked up with an SCA, he can work the tethering tablet.
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Rezo can hold about four or five SCAs in hand at one time, although holding onto that many at once makes slipping them onto the unconscious civilians a bit tricky. Still, he manages, and between that and Tidus’s own efforts they get everyone hooked up very quickly.
“That seems to be everyone,” Rezo says, after checking the last person. And since he does have a tablet with him, he asks, “Would you prefer to do the honors, or shall I?”
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But he doesn't linger or wait for acknowledgements, the tablet in his hand and booted, searching and syncing with the nearby SCAs that each react to the procedure. Nothing that their wearers will recognise, and it takes a few minutes - a few minutes that still has Tidus swallowing, nervous that it might go wrong; that something will happen to interrupt it.
It goes through with a beep, and the bodies each twitch in some way before they become lax, or how ever Rezo's magic may allow them to fall even further in unconsciousness. Tidus wonders how they'll awaken on the platform, if they'll already be awake, but it's not an answer he thinks Rezo might know, and it's not one that really matters for them.
"Okay, done." What matters is getting back on his knees from where he's knelt by the bodies, its own uncomfortable sight. He looks at Rezo, noting the box of SCAs he needs to pick up. "Someone's in the area with a drone looking for more people. You want me to call up and see where we should go next?"
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Huh. Rezo makes a mental note of that.
With his attention thus freed, Rezo turns to Tidus, who apparently has an idea on what they should be doing.
“Yes,” he agrees, “That sounds like a good place to head next.” Especially with how limited time is- limited enough he’s only able to spare a second of internal regret that he hasn’t been able to be of much use with the drones and similar technical aspects of the mission.
He moves over to Tidus’s side so he can easily listen to the call.
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It's easy to follow too, a few "uh huhs", and an "Alright" that signals the end of the conversation. Or, by Tidus turning to Rezo next. "There's a family who need help moving over; she'll be sending the drone our way to lead us there. That should be it, soon. Just need to wait for her to arrive."
So he hopes, with the rest of the people in this community doing work. But there is some impatience to his voice, a waiting he doesn't want to be doing but doesn't have any choice over, until the drone ends up their way.
Rezo can probably hear the shuffling Tidus does, moving on the spot, the small agitated sounds at practising patience.
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“Of course,” he says. “Do let me know when you spot it.”
Rezo briefly falls silent so he can listen for the sound of the drone, but he winds up catching the sound of Tidus’s little movements instead.
Rezo nearly asks Tidus if he’s worried about something, what with the way he’s shuffling around, but considering they’re in the midst of an emergency it would only be strange if he wasn’t agitated. But perhaps talking will help burn off some of that agitation until they can get moving again.
Most people seem to enjoy comparing notes on their home worlds, so he asks, “Do they have drones like the one we’re waiting on in your world?”
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They had flying machina, but that isn't entirely relevant to the question.
"Where I'm from, we had machines, but we used stuff like that more like cameras than what they're doing with them here. Cameras, like-" He pauses. "You know what those are?"
He's probably not making entire sense with 'not in Spira', 'where I'm from', but he does catch that possible confusing bit.
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At the question of cameras, Rezo nods, albeit uncertainly.
“I know they’re what the video option on the ICP uses, to allow passengers to see the other people they’re communicating with,” he says. “I’ve gathered that they’re some sort of scrying machine?”
His understanding is a little vague due to a mixture of the technology barrier and the blindness issue. Rezo continues on to explain:
“By all accounts, my world isn’t what the others consider technologically advanced. I’ve been learning to operate what I can but my understanding of the engineering principles behind many of these devices is still limited.”
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"That's what the rest of Spira is like - no tech." He does let a hand out, gesturing with it meaninglessly than for any real purpose. "I don't know what scrying is, but cameras... I guess you would call it data, or information. It has a screen that it captures everything through, and then you can show it on other machines. I don't know the specifics," he admits.
It was just a button to him, an option, fewer wires than what most of the train had on board. Talking about a process he'd never thought about before this day. It was probably close (or not).
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“Scrying is somewhat similar to divination,” Rezo explains; hopefully Tidus knows what divination is, but even if not, Rezo elaborates. “Using a suitably enchanted medium, such as a mirror or pond, it allows you to see and hear events that are happening far away. Although the mechanics behind it are different, the end purpose is the same. Although cameras are much more common on the train- and, it seems, here- than they were in my world.”
Rezo tilts his head upwards, as if he’ll be able to see the drone flying up there when it appears. “That the Osigans have such powerful tools at their disposal is fortunate…”
Although perhaps ‘fortunate’ is not the best choice of words at the moment, considering why they’re here.
wrap?? and then we can have a thread for the event B)
He waves up a hand to get its attention, but it was already coming their way. "That's our drone," he remarks. Any other time, scrying and divination would sound cool, intriguing - but for the time being, Tidus tucks away the subject so they can focus on getting to the rest of the people in need of being sent off, saved from the incoming danger.
Sounds good~!
“Let’s go.”
Rezo will proceed to follow after Tidus, the sound of the young man’s footsteps and the buzzing of the drone guiding them overhead. On to the next set of evacuees, and the next…