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middleofsomewhere2022-04-16 05:14 am
voidtreckermods) wrote in middleofsomewhere2022-04-16 05:14 am
Entry tags:
- alice liddell (am) [ou],
- allen walker [crau],
- devero [ou],
- esteban drake [ou],
- fai d flourite [ou],
- inigo [ou],
- little one [ou],
- madoka kaname [ou],
- nell ingram [ou],
- rezo greywords [ou],
- romeo [crau],
- taiki [ou],
- thanatos [ou],
- tidus [ou],
- yugi mutou [ou],
- zelda (oot) [ou],
- ~x~k'zeka tia [ou],
- ~x~shen qingqiu [au],
- ~x~soma cruz [ou]
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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"Where else can they be? Do we ask someone if they sent through some Aeras over already?"
If they're on the void platform now, or whatever it is people are showing up on - but Tidus really doesn't want it to be that the parents are tethered already, while they have their kid!
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He doesn't sound too certain though. He would like to think that no parent would abandon a child in a time like this, but he knows it is not true. He knows there are parents who might use this chaos to conveniently loose a child.
"But we can ask... Someone with the lists."
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"No way, maybe they're just further into the crowd."
.. but then again, it's not like they have forever to search this entire place to see if his parents are here somewhere.. Inigo tries to think really hard, glancing up to where Tidus is still holding the kid.
"Do you know where you saw your parents last?"
He figures he'll probably get an unhelpful answer about how it was somewhere around here, but still, he's got to at least try to do something here.
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"Yeah, whereabouts did you lose them? Can you tell from here?"
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Taiki looked around sadly. "Maybe one of the ministry have a way to get a message out..."
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"Alright. I'll go ask."
It's not like it ought to be hard to find one. If anything, it'll be harder to move through the crowd to get to one.
"You guys wait here together for a moment - just so we won't lose each other as well." And so the poor kid has some company. "If you guys hear an announcement in a few moments, then you'll know it worked."
It's at least worth a try.
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He tells the kid above, "See? Inigo's on the job. Just keep looking for them! They won't leave without you. Just keep an eye out for them, okay? They need you to look too!"
It's probably pointless, but hopefully it gives the kid a distraction, something to focus on. Ganbatte, Inigo...!!
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The little boy pressed his face into Tidus' shoulder, thinking. Before finally nodding.
"Clothes..."
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"Think about your mum and pop's hair too. Is it like yours? We've got to look out for their heads!"
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He looked around the crowd. "And my dad was wearing a hat. It's his favourite."
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This sea of people growing by the sea be damned. He doesn't let impossibility into his voice, only making the task ahead of them sound like the one they need.
And even start to call a few times: "Momma Aera! Aeera! Flax is here! Flax of Aera!"
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"Aera? Is there anyone called Aera?"
His voice was quiet, not the call of Tidus but he made sure to ask anyone in a blue coat.
Hopefully Inigo's attempts at making an announcement would work soon.
i'm an amazing writer, i know, thanks
How? In what way? Who knows, I'm literally the only person in this thread who doesn't write for the ministry! So just imagine whatever they method they might have in your head. Yes. That's it. That's the method that's being used right now to call out Flax's name and for his parents to come see the nearest ministry member.
Inigo himself still hasn't returned to either of the other two's sides - or maybe it'll be easier for them to make it to him and the ministry worker and meet up there, just in case the parents do turn up that way. Either way, he's definitely not back yet with how hard it can be to get through the crowds here.
But at least the announcement is here. We're getting somewhere!!
writing is our passhun
The chaotic noise of the civilians come close to drowning out the sound of the announcement, but Tidus manages to hear it, a small sound of relief escaping him. He's just enough smarts to figure they shouldn't hang around, or be standing on chairs. Let's fix that, maybe.
"Taiki!" Tidus shuffles on the seat, getting closer to the edge and looking at the guy, nodding his head in signal to give him room. Once he does, he'll hop off from the chair, Flax still safely on his shoulders. There's still a sea of bodies around them, but nevertheless-
"Let's go!"
indeed
He is small and not very heavy but he does his best to carve a path through the crowd.
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He figures he just has to do the right thing and wait at the spot the parents would be guided to, and that's where he can see the other two - if not just mostly first Flax, since he is sticking out from the crowd due to the way Tidus has decided to carry the boy - approaching after a few moments.
He raises his hand, waving it and hoping the other two will realise it's him here.
"Taiki, Tidus, over here..! His parents should be here any moment now!" Once the others are close enough to him that he doesn't have to yell over the crowd to be audible, he adds: "The Ministry people said that his parents haven't been processed yet, so they ought to still be around here somewhere."
Rather than accidentally having left the boy behind by himself. That would've been awful.
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It's hard knowing if they're going in the right direction or not, Tidus mostly guessing from his brief time in this section of the station when they first arrived. But he sees Taiki's welcoming face, the hand waving, and he shifts Flax on his shoulders some. Saying, as above the other noise around them as he can:
"Alright! We'll soon meet them!"
That's even before they get close to Inigo, and he delivers the better news. Tidus didn't really want to think the parents did that, but it's good to hear regardless. "Great," he says to Inigo, before turning to face out towards the crowd - he's got some good eyes above him, after all.
"We'll keep an eye out!"
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Taiki smiled at Inigo, good job on the detective work and announcement! And then at Flax who was peering across the crowd.
They were stood a little longer and then.
"There! There!" Flax began bouncing on Tidus' shoulders, pointing.
"Flax!" A woman shouted out, over the crowd.
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Inigo doesn't interrupt to say anything. He just steps back - a tiny step, it's still pretty crowded here, after all - so he can allow Tidus to hand the boy over to his parents. There's a faint smile on Inigo's face.