Let it Snow: Blue Start

[voidtreckermods]

The moment the doors open for purple to jump the train is speaking again. “Blue team to doors. Void shift imminent. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one” The train lurches and shudders as the windows flash the colour of the void for a split second before it shakes again and they are back in that frozen tundra.

The doors open and blue can jump down into a large snowdrift. They are at the foot of an impressive mountain range. Snow swirls around them, the wind hows. Ahead of them, half obscured by snow is a tunnel entrance.

Even getting there is exhausting, wading through the snow. Inside there is no snow but it is cold. The walls and floor shine with ice and the way is treacherous. It is pitch black.

Their task is to find those hiding in the tunnels. Some have formed makeshift camps in large caverns, others have fled into the small tunnels and have gotten themselves lost.

The voidtreckers are lucky to at least have a map on their SCA though it does not show where anybody else it. It is time to start the task of rounding everyone up and making sure they can survive the storm.

Comments

[pleple]

It's a lot to take in, she's sure, if you're from far enough in the past.

"I've been to Earth, but only briefly. For... a purpose I failed at." It's not hard to sense her mood souring at the recollection.

There's far worse to it than just failure.

[happyends]

Honestly, even something about the wording 'a purpose I failed at' feels kind of bad to Madoka with what Ple Two told Madoka about herself before.. So she doesn't want to dig into it. She doesn't want the other to feel bad when they're already stuck in bad enough circumstances with all this cold.

Time to try and spin this into something positive. Come on, Madoka!

"Then.. maybe somehow I'll get the chance while we're on the train to show you Earth the way I know it..! If the train sends us to a place that's like it sometime.. It's a really fun place, you know. We could go to the CD store together and listen to music, or go eat ice cream or cake.. I bet any of it would be fun as long as we're together."

[pleple]

There's a lot to feel bad about - more to be confused about. Ple Two doesn't like to get into it, exactly; and it will distress Madoka if she spills every detail of her life. No one needs that dumped on them.

"I've heard some of Peter's music. ...some of it is interesting." The sweets too. Someone needs to discover the ice cream fiend buried deep within.

[happyends]

"There's lots of different kinds of music."

She laughs a little. Madoka has no idea what kind of music exactly Peter likes, but she can only imagine how it must've been kind of funny if it was something extreme as Ple Two's first sample of regular Earth music..

"I'm sure we could find something you'd like. There's so many things you could do in general.. So I really want to try and see if you can get a chance for that sometime!" Even if she has to drag the other girl into the train's kitchen and feed her every single kind of sweet out there, okay. Anything to try and give Ple Two some more happiness in life! It's her mission now!

[pleple]

"I'm... sure there is..." Frankly, between the Disney stuff and Hamilton stuff, the concept of musicals has been gotten across. Glemy had listened to classical pieces and opera, but it was hard to tell whether that was an honest interest or just for appearances.

"...but we'll take our time." And anyways, they've got a job to do now.