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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2019-07-13 08:02 am

To Climb

Preparation

Just after light on the seventh day since boarding the train everyone’s SCA glows with the colours of the void before showing a message. A briefing for the mission to come. No one gets much time to process this before there is a shaking, like turbulance before there’s a jolt and flash of colour.

”Welcome to Hub World#5739. Our next stop will be Ciyesia in a few hours.”

Outside the windows the void is gone. The train is winding through a mountain range. The mountains tower up around them. The sky is a beautiful blue though every now and again there is a swirl of colour, like the void is trying to break through.

The countryside wizzes by, sometimes you go past settlements, small villages of wooden houses. Sometimes you pass farmers in fields. Sometimes herds of animals, horses, camels, strange animals with six legs and curled horns.

Eventually the train slows. ”Now arriving at Ciyesia. Passengers must wear their Safety Control Apparatus. Please ensure you take all equipment needed for your mission with you when you leave the train and take extra care when you step from the train to the platform. Next stop Ciyesia.”

Arrival

And in a billow of steam the train comes to a stop. The doors hiss open and there is indeed a rickety wooden platform, fallen into disuse. Sat upon it were two children, a boy and a girl who were staring at the train with open mouths.

Before the doors were even fully opened they were off running, “Ma! Ma!”

The platform is in a clearing, surrounded mostly by trees but down the path the children took a building can be seen. If you follow the children you will find it a large homestead, with a sign outside. The Weary Wanderer. The children are on the doorstep talking to a woman and gesturing towards you.

As you approach she smiles, a little nervously. “Well. This is not something I thought I would see in my lifetime. Welcome Treckers, I offer you the hospitality of my inn.”

She gestures them in. Inside is a large common room with wooden tables. There is a fire place but the day is warm enough that it is not lit. At first glance it looks old fashioned to anyone from a modern world, even fantasy-esque for those who would recognise it as such. Indeed her and the children are dressed in simple layered, loose tunics. But then you may notice some of the candles are battery powered and! there’s a coffee machine on the bar.

“Maia can you ask our guests what they would like to drink?” The woman hands the little girl a slate and chalk before she begins rummaging around on the bar for mugs and glasses. “I’m sorry, it’s the quiet season so we aren’t quite guest-ready.”

They become guest ready in an impressive amount of time. The little boy runs off and returns a short while later with a plate of oat biscuits that he begins handing out.

Sheltered and soon to be fed it is time to learn more about this land and plan for your journeys ahead.

(OOC: Information for this event is here and the initial briefing is here
enthunder: (confront ☇ gonna get nasty)

[personal profile] enthunder 2019-07-23 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
She'd waited long enough to recognise Buttercup's trained lunge and then dealt with the second in the meantime, her own dralite being much less cooperative. But then, it wasn't like she gave them a chance to sabotage her, moving just quickly enough that by the time they started their outraged flapping, she'd already stunned the chinchilla and buried her own knife into the monster's neck. Hunting really was much easier in a team.

The flapping wasn't stopping, though. Time for more bribery while she crossed to Buttercup.

"Not bad. Let's keep going."
knifewithnoname: (excited smiles)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2019-07-24 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Two stupid fur monsters dead. Buttercup grinned at Lightning even as the dralite at her back started fussing again. Ah Lightning was feeding hers, the girl wasn't sure what she felt about rewarding them for bad behaviour but at this point she is embracing anything to keep them quiet and not screeching. She reaches into her hoodie pocket for half a smushed oat biscuit.

She broke it in half again to share between the two creatures and nodded at Lightning trying not to show how much the praise meant to her, time to keep going, she had an important job to do in backing up a priestess. On a mountain full of monsters.

Just like a real warrior.