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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress2021-05-01 07:50 am

A New Platform [Intro Post May]

On the Train

Like clockwork, the Voidtreckers are awoken by a familiar message this morning.

"Good morning Voidtreckers, it is day one of the month of Llama. Points have been updated on the system."

With points updated, everyone can spend the morning shopping. Most people will be expecting the second announcement that comes a few hours later.

"Shortly arriving into a designated void platform. Exit from void in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one." A lurch and a jolt and the windows fill with the fog that means they are at a platform. The air is sticky and warm, the windows almost immediately dewing over with the humidity outside.

As usual the first to leave the train notice nothing, walking silently, rucksacks on their backs, towards the barriers. Azula, Prisoner, Amery Vallet, Dyme Graydon, Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, Yoite, Piccolo, Bulla Brief, Xie Lian, Kurosaki Ichigo, Hua Cheng, Renee Corbin, and Ran Mouri; all pass through the platform, not looking back before they disappear through the barriers and into the fog beyond.

But on the platform itself there are new faces. Wearing hoodies in all four colours, in various states of confusion.

For New Passengers

At first all they can see is steam billowing around them as they come to their senses. As their eyes adjust, they find themselves on a platform, rich wood and pale stone forming a natural, tree-like structure overhead. Behind them is a set of barriers, and in front of them is a single set of tracks extending both ways into thick fog. The air is rainforest-hot, and the sound of frogsong can be faintly heard over the drip of the artificial canopy.

They are standing, in clothes that are not their own and a style they might not even recognise. They are carrying a rucksack on their back. For a moment it seems to just be them, alone in the white haze; then the fog begins to fade and they realise they aren’t alone.

The platform isn't large, and seems smaller with twenty-eight figures scattered around, all facing the tracks, all dressed in cargo trousers and hoodies. Then there is a roaring sound and out of the fog arrives a train. Jet black with gold writing on the side. The Voidtrecker Express. There is a hiss as the doors slide open and out pours a strange assortment of people, over a hundred at least. Some are human, some are less so. Most are wearing the same hoodie in one of the four colours, red, orange, blue and purple, though some are sporting different clothes in a variety of styles.

Behind them, the doors close, and the train is cloaked in the same fog that hides the world beyond the platform.

The Train

After a short time, the fog clears and the doors hiss open again. Those from the train may encourage those on the platform to board. It’s not like there's anywhere else to go and even if there was, you feel a pull. A need to board, a feeling that staying on the platform would lead to something terrible. If that is not enough, there are plenty of people on the platform now, to encourage them onto the train.

Each ICP shows the same message and next to the screens there are stacks of leaflets written by those on the train, with further information (see
'Publications'). The store rooms have been restocked with fresh ingredients, including several crates of nori, the ingredient of the month of Llama, as well as all sundries.

For passengers that have bought items, these are also scattered around the luggage carriage in various suitcases and bags. For each member of Purple Team, a small silver box with their name on it contains a glittery cupcake.

New passengers will find their ticket allows them into their cabins. They may need to negotiate for beds, but at least they won't be alone in their confusion - since the sleeper carriages are now double-decker, and experience isn't going to avail the passengers in finding their rooms.

Room is tight but there are storage cubbies at the head of each bed, beds fold up and the bottom bunks double as benches for the small table. There is storage under those benches full of spare blankets and pillows.

The new double carriage's transfer ICP is active, allowing people to move to a double room should they meet the requirements with another person, though they'll have to move their belongings themselves.

Departure

A second horn sounds to encourage any stragglers taking advantage of the fresh air, and the doors slide shut. Veteran passengers know what will happen next, but they may wish to brief their new companions.

The train sets off, the fog obscuring the view again as it picks up speed.

"Welcome aboard, passengers of the Voidtrecker Express." A female-coded artificial sounding voice echoes throughout the train. "Please take the time to read the passenger information displayed on the Information and Communication points and familiarise yourself with the layout and emergency exits."

The train begins to tilt, leaving the ground and rising up into the fog-filled sky.

"Entrance into Voidspace imminent. New passengers are advised to remain seated. Entry into Voidspace in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one."

A shudder, a jolt, a lurch to the left. A flash of light, colourful and blinding. As quick as it happens it is done. The train seems to steady itself. The fog from the windows is gone now, replaced with a kaleidoscope of ever-changing colours.

Welcome to the Void!
shitcopper: (Default)

[personal profile] shitcopper 2021-05-01 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Ea-nasir grins, the kind of grin you'd see on a used car salesman. "Not into ingots? That's fine, I've got all sorts of goods. Spices? Wait no. Crystals. You look like you're into that sort of thing."

She pauses for a few moments. "Don't have any tarot cards, though. Maybe I can make some." She seems to be very seriously considering this, and also maybe has a wrong idea about Death.
fivemilesdeep: (A good idea)

Web Surfing

[personal profile] fivemilesdeep 2021-05-01 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Platform has been a bit less eventful for Ryo than last time, and he's heading through the train when he hears Jonouchi looking at something and talking to - himself? Maybe?]

[Except now he's talking to him, and Ryo knows well enough to play along.]


Of course not.

Do you need any help with the thing I didn't hear?
washibot: (mission update!)

[personal profile] washibot 2021-05-01 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Raptor tilts her head again, "Why should it matter? Every Kyuranger is as important to the whole as any other. Well, Lucky is the luckiest man alive, but other than that we all were needed."

"But yes! If it is a black hole, I may be able to figure out how to get home through it. Or at least contact my voyager."
crimsonsnow: (dissociating)

I gave up crying

[personal profile] crimsonsnow 2021-05-01 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
The sensation of a resonance ending and a resonance snapping are two different sensations indeed, and it's the latter that snaps across Jade's synapses - hooks of light tearing themselves out from underneath his skin, his veins, vanishing somewhere he can no longer reach. The knot in the back of his head he knew as Mythra, the knot of warmth and love he has often warmed his hands by, is gone.

She's just gone.

In her absence, the dark that comes from a light you always leave on going off. In her absence, cold. Ether leaks out of him out as the truth sinks in; ice meeting the air's humidity and stealing its warmth, crystalizing to snow. He doesn't seem to notice it gathering on his hair, his shoulders, piling up in the hood of a jacket he has never worn before.

The resonance only snaps like that if she's dead, so his eyes scan his surroundings - though there's no way he's going to find her core crystal like this, not in this crowd. ...not unless he does something drastic, anyway. Before he can do more than think that thought, fire touches his senses. Someone calls his name.

"Asch." Different clothes or no, it would hard to mistake the taste of that ether. "Where?"

Where are we? Where's Mythra?

(No other sound comes out. He is well and truly stuck.)
intelinside: just believe everything i say (so don't call me a liar)

[personal profile] intelinside 2021-05-01 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you looking for anything specific in these?

[It's not a bad idea to work together on this, so although Phineas's initial idea had been to jot down the titles he might want to come back and pore over later, he heads over to take a seat and start skimming through one of the ones she hasn't gotten to.]

...This one's like a training manual. Void Missions: Classifications and Examples; it has sample missions and... [He flips ahead.] It gives various outcomes in the back. I don't think it explains any basic concepts, whoever's reading this is expected to know them already.
motherofresistance: (Are you sure?)

Re: platform!

[personal profile] motherofresistance 2021-05-01 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It was difficult to get a proper sense of anyone on the platform. Not only due to being surrounded by so many people, some of them frightened and/or confused, but also due to the simple disorientation physically, mentally, and in the Force that came from such a sudden and dramatic relocation. However, there was no mistaking the inherent connection between herself and the dark haired young woman who seemed to be making a beeline for her.

And the feeling was cemented when the young woman hesitantly greeted her. She knew it was true, the same way she had known that Luke was her brother. And yet, it wasn't quite the same; the connection had that same sort of odd quality to it as her connection with the Luke she'd met in Nautilus, the one from another version of her galaxy. Like and yet unlike. Though that gave her an idea of who she might be talking to, given that the young woman had called her 'mom'.

"Jaina?", she said. Like the young woman's greeting, it was at least partly a question.
deage: (lost)

[personal profile] deage 2021-05-01 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ "Ai-chan", "this age", and the resemblance is enough for Haibara to put the pieces together. ] Yoshida-san?

[ She was... older. Much older. Was she from the (subjective) future?

Worse, did she still know Haibara at this age? Years later, without a cure? No, she could put that aside for now. Her thoughts were running at ten-thousand kmh but this deserved her full focus for now, set the other thoughts aside for the moment. ]
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[personal profile] writerkick 2021-05-01 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
That's right. And on the other end of things, we have...

[She digs through the pile, and then pulls out a pamphlet.]

Lots of permits, but very little useful information. For specifics... I suppose I'm wondering if it's possible to send a message?
motherofresistance: (Small smile)

Re: Leia Organa | Star Wars (Wake CRAU) | OTA

[personal profile] motherofresistance 2021-05-01 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It may have been essential, but it was just as much of a giveaway as it had ever been. Leia stepped aside, leaving Spark to pounce on empty air. Hopefully that bit about cats always landing on their feet was true.
deage: (arms crossed talking)

[personal profile] deage 2021-05-01 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmph. Let's see. "The 'couples car' idea has had high traction for a long time. With it out of the way, I'd say that the biggest competition is out of the picture." A pause. Dramatic. "Of course, next time there might not even be a lab under consideration."
tactlesstantei: (quiet)

[personal profile] tactlesstantei 2021-05-01 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
...Ah.

[Masumi takes the letter, immediately reading it over before anything else. On reaching the end, she folds it and tucks it in her hoodie pocket, still a bit saddened by her friend’s departure.]

Thanks, I didn’t realize she’d written this.
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[personal profile] 4starlowclasshero 2021-05-01 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"A welcome guide, huh? I guess that could help things out a bit!" Goku replied.

Man, he's gonna be bummed he missed Piccolo!
4starlowclasshero: (Huh?)

[personal profile] 4starlowclasshero 2021-05-01 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"The Tournament of Power. Why?" Goku asked, blinking. Is this another Trunks? A past-future Trunks?

Man, time travel sucks.
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[personal profile] deductiongeek 2021-05-01 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Conan's expression immmediately sours as he picks through that. Because there was a lot to unpack.

"Okay first. What do you mean Ran left? Where did she go?"

And the other worrying part.

"Did she have long hair? And claim to be an actress?"
4starlowclasshero: (What do you mean?)

Re: Arrival

[personal profile] 4starlowclasshero 2021-05-01 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I could really use the help here..." Goku admitted, grinning sheepishly.

He does notice that power coming from her... is that god ki, too?
deductiongeek: (wide eyes)

[personal profile] deductiongeek 2021-05-01 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
For once, he was more than relieved to run into her. For one thing it was proof that Vermouth had held to her word during his absence. And also, if there was anyone he could be sure had kept track of everything he heeded to know, it was Haibara.

"Yeah, I'm back. Apparently. How long was I gone?"
flatteries: (and some just won't)

investigating

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-05-01 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a good thing that Inigo is starting to get increasingly more used to Entrapta and her.. well, let's say antics. Otherwise he may just be startled anywhere he goes about the train by her doing something ridiculous at any given place.

Or, right now, suddenly speaking from up above him. Any other voice definitely would have surprised him, but with what he's hearing now, Inigo just takes two steps forward so he can turn around and look up to indeed see Entrapta up there, balancing on her hair like she's carrying out some circus act.

"Measurements?" He asks, curiously. "What are you going to do with those?"

Entrapta, you have so much data!!
flatteries: (somebody said that life isn't fair)

iv

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-05-01 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Going to the music carriage to dance is always a risk on platform days and Inigo knows it. There's usually way too many people exploring the train to have a shot at some privacy there - but since he's feeling the urge to dance, he goes to check the carriage out anyway.

.. only to see a confirmation of his thoughts. Yup, there sure is already someone in the carriage. Though not necessarily someone he imagined would be here. He didn't even know that Soldat could play the piano, after all.

(Look, Inigo is not talented at the piano enough to be able to tell whether this is Soldat actually playing it or just tapping at keys.)

But rather than leaving the carriage and deciding to try it some other time, Inigo spots the look on the other person's face, and so he ends up approaching them.

"Hey," he says, a bit more softly than usually. He stops next to the piano. "Why are you sitting here all by yourself?"
flatteries: (you don't gain a single thing)

v

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-05-01 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
".. Senku, you aren't trying to rope poor new people into something, are you?"

Not that Inigo really sounds that suspicious. Senku surely wouldn't do anything that'd seriously harm someone else - if anything, knowing Senku, he would be putting himself on the line first over everything. Hence why there's a slight joking edge to Inigo's tone as he says it, more than anything else.

"You can't take advantage of them, just because they haven't learned about your wild experiments yet!" .. because this probably has something to do with an experiment, right? Not like Inigo can tell by the sign, but he's pretty sure that it's an experiment when Senku is involved. Especially when there's nothing to gather for him on the platform, from what Inigo could see.
deductiongeek: (paying attention)

[personal profile] deductiongeek 2021-05-01 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'd appreciate it."

He nods at her belt. "A new friend?"
flatteries: (somehow it's never enough)

laundry duty

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-05-01 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
There's just something new and weird to find on the train every single day, isn't there.

Like when you're just trying to take care of your chores, making your way over to do the laundry, only to find a person there who is.. hovering in the air. Casually. Because regular people flying around, even if it's not that high up, is apparently just a normal thing now.

Not so normal to Inigo though, hence why the boy stares at her for a few moments before slowly taking a few steps closer.. and realising there's no way he's going to be able to access the washing machine with her hovering there like that..

"Ah.. Milady, I understand it is very rude to interrupt a beautiful woman in the middle of her.. erm.. hovering.." (He's so smooth, right.) "But I was trying to take care of the laundry."
flatteries: (and some just won't)

train wandering

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-05-01 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, if anyone has ever looked like a confused newcomer, it's this guy over here. Just standing there at the front of the train, clearly having no idea at all where he's going.

".. Are you lost?" Inigo asks, sounding a bit surprised himself. Sure, the train is long, but it's still a train! It's pretty hard to get lost when you technically can only go in two directions at any given time. "Were you looking for something in particular?"
flatteries: (the sun rises slowly as you walk)

train

[personal profile] flatteries 2021-05-01 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
This encounter definitely will be novel to Death - because it's someone who isn't terrified on sight because he just died, but it's someone who's terrified on sight because he's fully convinced he just got greeted by some random normal girl. And if there's anything that's absolutely terrifying to Inigo, it's exactly that.

He does his best to try and surpress the feeling though. At the very least enough to smile awkwardly. Come on, he doesn't want to look like a total weirdo over here!

"Erm-- Good day, milady! Is there anything I could help a lovely lady such as yourself with..?"
happyends: (my feelings are all i can rely on)

[personal profile] happyends 2021-05-01 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Madoka definitely doesn't notice him at first. She's just a tad too young and oblivious to really be paying that close attention to her surroundings - close enough to be able to see Asch when he doesn't want to be seen.

Which is why the moment he 'leaves' the shadows like that, it's as if he comes literally out of nowhere. Which means that at one moment Madoka thinks she's entirely alone in the carriage, and then there's someone with bright red hair and a blue hoodie suddenly right there.

So of course the young girl's eyes grow wide, and she lets out a startled yelp before quickly covering her mouth in embarrassment.

"S-Sorry, I didn't see you..!" More literally so than she realises or means, even.
happyends: (better than the rest)

platform

[personal profile] happyends 2021-05-01 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
There definitely are some people leaving on the platform.

And Madoka is used to it. To a certain extent. She's seen this so many times. Friends leaving, people so close to her leaving. It happens every few weeks, but somehow it never stops hurting. Even now, she's watching the parade of people leaving, mostly just hoping from the bottom of her heart that they'll be okay, that they're going home and will be alright there.

She only manages to tear her gaze away from them the moment all of them are fully gone through the gates - and that's when Madoka starts looking around her.

And spots the familiar blue man.

The girl quickly runs up to him, a hint of worry in her eyes.

"Mister Yondu-- did you see? Mister Piccolo is gone.." And he was one of their leaders!