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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress2021-09-01 05:54 am

A New Platform [Intro Post September]

On the Train

"Good morning Voidtreckers, it is day one of the month of Nebula. 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 doors open. As usual, those who leave first notice nothing, walking silently, rucksacks on their backs, towards the barriers. A-Qing, Atem, Beauregard Lionett, Casper LeBlanc Jr, Donatello Versus, Frankie Bacon, Ichiban Kasuga, Kumoko, Lena Sabrewing, Mami Tomoe, Mono, Peter Parker, Reno, Shi Qingxuan, Tobari, Wen Ning; all pass across the platform, not looking back. And then they're gone, disappeared 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. The platform is open to a bright blue sky, speckled with a couple of clouds. It's very warm, enough that they will not want to stay in those hoodies for long. Behind them through the fogs is a set of barriers, set in a brick wall and in front of them is a single set of tracks extending both ways into that same thick fog.

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 on the foggy, blistering hot platform; then the fog begins to fade and they realise they aren’t alone.

The platform isn't large, but it is enough to hold the 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, perhaps ten minutes or so, 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'). They will also find a bunch of posters around the train and might notice the new clock in the standard coach.

The store rooms have been restocked with fresh ingredients, the ingredient this month is a strange meat, yaddon tail.

For passengers that have bought items, these are also scattered around the luggage carriage in various suitcases and bags. There is a box labelled for purple team containing a stick of rock for each member of purple team, including those who are new. Join in your teams success!

New passengers will find their ticket allows them into their cabins. In most rooms, the occupied beds are obvious, leaving the spotless, empty spaces for the newcomers. 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.

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!
seacub: (AnxietyBoy prevails)

[personal profile] seacub 2021-09-20 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Blech..." Well, even so he ends up smiling. "...I guess that is my fault...but you still had to have been thinking about it..! Stands work on...well, mostly what you're thinking, but also a bit about what you're feeling?" He considers it, even as he wipes water off his face. "It's why I flooded the kitchen that one time," he mutters, blushing a bit.

Oops.
knifewithnoname: (I don't like the look of that)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-09-20 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Of course I did be thinking about it stupid face." She huffed and then scowled as he explained further. Stands read her mind? And her feelings?

She didn't like that. Not at all. But that was her own fault, she had shoved it into her head after all...

"Can I be taking it out?"
seacub: (AND NOW A PIPE TOO??)

[personal profile] seacub 2021-09-21 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Huh? ...No, it's...like I said, Stands are 'part' of a person. So Weather on their own can't be called a person, it's more like...a part of me?" Or well. A part of someone else that is now also a part of him, but that gets complicated.

"It'd be sort of like if the Stand was your eye. It's just your eye, right? Your eye can do stuff like see, and move, but it's still part of you."

Technically he's explaining this as a point for why removing it doesn't really work under normal circumstances (and he really hopes he never has to see White Snake again, so). Oddly, he's unintentionally clarified (or worsened perhaps), a fear LO is having.
knifewithnoname: (yeah I'm not buying that)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-09-21 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Panic rises in her that she does her best to squash down. She can't panic yet. Not in front of Emporio. She's not a baby. This was a situation of her own making.

What fool shoves weird other world weapons into their heads without asking questions? A dead fool that was who. She can basically hear Kant yelling at her for such idiocy.

But Kant is not here. No one is here to scold her, but they also aren't here to save her from her own idiocy. She glared at Emporio.

"Right. I do be understanding now."

She had a weird water gun in her head, that could read her very soul, learn her feelings and her thoughts.

The implications of that are more than she even has brain space for.
seacub: (AnxietyBoy prevails)

[personal profile] seacub 2021-09-22 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Uhhh..." Uh.

"D...do you, because somehow you seem madder..."

What's he done wrong now!! He's talked plenty of times about his link to Weather Report, did he say something wrong!?
knifewithnoname: (listening to you)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-09-23 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Why would I be being mad." She snapped at him. "I do no even be thinking about being mad."

It was a lie, she was basically shaking with rage. But it probably wasn't Emporio's fault. He came from a world where people shoved weird disk weapons in their heads to read their souls. He doesn't know any better.

She turned, to stalk out of the gym.
seacub: (who put baby in the trash)

[personal profile] seacub 2021-09-23 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Y-You're definitely mad..!!"

But he won't chase after her. He...knows a bit better than that. (And fortunately does not at all realize that she has made some very incorrect assumptions about where he's from, because his corrections would frankly make it quite worse.)

"Aahhhhh..."
knifewithnoname: (I dislike you)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-09-24 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
Sliding doors can't be slammed. Mores the pity but she definitely makes her exit felt and she stalks out, storming away to find somewhere to hide.

Even worse it is platform day so she can't even go to her hiding place in the luggage carriage, too many people.

Stupid train.