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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2022-04-23 08:12 am

Crashing Down: Conclusion

Time ticks down, five hours turn to three hours, turns to one hour, turns to mere minutes. All the while the Voidtreckers rush to tether people to void craft. All efforts are now on reaching the furthest communities.

The effort is monumental, an evacuation that was improvised at every stage and yet was successful. The planet quietens as its citizens vanish off into the void, villages emptying, creatures gone too.

By the final half hour they can be pretty confident that on Osiga at least the only people left are those who have chosen, for whatever reason, to do so. Even now it might not be too late to save them, the right word in the right ear could change everything.

Minutes tick down, and the question becomes: Do the voidtreckers evacuate, or do they stick around to try and convince that last person? Do they save lives by force? Leave them to their chosen fate?

Whatever their choices, time is rapidly running out.


CRASHING DOWN: CONCLUSION


HOUR ZERO

As their timers count down into the last two minutes, their SCA's begin to flash amber. Danger is approaching.

Some of the remaining citizens hunker down, awaiting what comes. Others gather, weapons in hand to face this foe they have been told to flee from.

Danger is indeed approaching. In their peripheral vision they will see a darkening of the sky as strange shapes begin to fill it; too weird to be clouds, nothing that can be accurately described. For those inside, even those with Anan in a space station, they will sense this shadowing. Almost as if shapes are crowding in on reality itself. An extremely unnerving experience. The shapes fill the sky, fill the system, and their SCA's flash red.

It is time to go.

It might be they try and fight, just to see if they can. It might be that they scramble to tether the last couple of people, people who have just rapidly changed their mind about staying here. The train lets them. Anyone who doesn't evacuate themselves will be allowed to stay until the last possible second, as their countdowns click down from 00:01. Then their world glows gold as the train yanks them back, landing in the luggage carriage with barely time to draw breath as the train lurches into the void violently.

For the first time, anyone looking out the window as the train enters the kaleidoscope of the void will see other void craft. Trains, ships, planes, weird orbs. Just for a few moments these craft fill the space, and then they move, the train as well, bringing colour back to the void once more.

OOC NOTES
OOC Post ~ Questions ~ Shenanigans ~ Tasks Check-In & Rewards


This post can be used for any last minute rescues as well as their return to the train and any reactions and debriefing that characters need!

If your character wasn't wearing their SCA during the very last second, please notify us of their death over here.

Art Credit: Header
persona_non_ratta: (Sad smile)

Evening

[personal profile] persona_non_ratta 2022-04-27 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
It was a little while after the announcement that Bruno approached Ryo, holding two cups of coffee. "Hey," he said gently, offering him one of the cups with a faint smile. "I, uh, don't know if you like coffee or not, but I figured since you were nice enough to make some for everyone..." Bruno had prepared both cups how he liked it, with enough milk and sugar to mellow out the bitterness without making it too sweet. Hopefully Ryo liked it alright.
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[personal profile] fivemilesdeep 2022-04-29 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
A few people had come and gone - it looks like most everyone is exhausted or unhappy, and Ryo can't blame them. He knows the mission has affected him - there's a buzzing in his chest that he can't quite place - but he hasn't taken the time to sort out his feelings yet.

(It's dangerously close to going against Keita's reminders, and he knows that, but...well, he knows his limits. He'll rest tonight.)

He takes the mug and offers Bruno a smile in turn. "Thank you. I appreciate it." He's more of a tea person, but he's not about to turn down a gift, especially when the coffee has been sweetened a bit. "How are you doing?" Bruno hasn't been here long, and this month has been rough.
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[personal profile] persona_non_ratta 2022-06-24 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Bruno sat down rather heavily on the bench next to Ryo and sighed, both hands wrapping around his own cup, as if to warm them. "As well as anyone is, I guess," he said. "So not that great. I'm not hurt or anything, but..." He trailed off with a bit of a sigh.