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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!
amnesiadragon: (dying wish)

[personal profile] amnesiadragon 2021-09-01 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
Arrival

A figure appears on the platform out of the fog and instantly falls to his knees. He's too tired to keep standing, and so this is the next best thing to collapsing. He takes a breath and then another, not noticing his strange clothes or the other strange people around him. The roar of something metal has him reach for his sword but -

But it's not there. And he's too tired to panic.

Better to stay down for the moment so he can regain enough energy to stand.


Exploration

What's this? What's that? Ryu has never seen so many things like this before. He's moving slowly but at least he's able to move, and he keeps poking his nose into stuff. The luggage car? There's so many boxes to open up - you might want to stop him before he opens yours. The armory? There's a lot of things here... maybe if he takes some of the stuff he recognizes he can sell it later. The cinema gets a yelp as soon as something starts playing, and the kitchen...

He's been watching people, and they put food things into the box and it looks like it heats them up. So food-related things go in there, right?

Someone please stop him before he microwaves a fork.


Wildcard

Ryu's basically poking his nose everywhere, so it's not hard to find him as he ambles around in a purple hoodie.
averyusefultray: (Flying)

[personal profile] averyusefultray 2021-09-01 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Platform

This, at least, is strangely familiar territory at this point. A routine of sorts. Hera mostly changes back to the uniform for arrival day because there's a useful reason to wear one. She's not just looking for new purples, but it sends the message of being one of them.

She keeps her cap though. Since the train hadn't deigned to provide one.

Chores

After a month, the passengers are free of any risk of having to eat Hera's cooking. Though she did approach it very sensibly. She knew her limits and stuck to chopping for the most part.

Cleaning bedrooms and passenger areas though? That didn't take any specialized skills. Any member of a crew should reasonably expect to have to engage in that sort of sweeping and scrubbing.

Which means any somewhat reluctant purples may find themselves on the receiving end of a Captain Mom look.

Games Room

But the real focus right now is the flight simulator. Trying out the modules Yondu loaded on had been exciting. His world certainly did have some fun craft. But the platform brought along her own additions.

Of course she'd been willing to teach when Yondu asked about it. Flying is a passion and he's right maybe at some point this will even be useful on a mission. They'll need to be ready.

"Do you want to give it a try? The B-Wing is probably a bit much if you've never flown before, but I've added controls for an X-Wing and a VCX freighter that are a good place to learn."

She doesn't expect anyone to know what those mean, but they need to know which programs to call back up later if they want to keep practicing.
monkeyinthewrench: (so about that)

[personal profile] monkeyinthewrench 2021-09-01 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
platform a

There's a man in orange who looks distinctly weirded out by what he's seeing, unsure if it's a dream. He didn't somehow get dragged back to prison, did he? He's in a featureless yard, wearing what superficially resembles a prison uniform...but not everyone's wearing orange. There's red, blue, and purple too. And there's a group of people and...aliens? No, they must be cosplayers. They're coming off the train, marching right through toward the light like zombies.

Another group follows at a much slower pace, looking far more alert. Most of them wear the uniform in its different colors, but not all. They approach, but before they do..Jake has to take in some clues. Like this weird new fitbit. And this ticket with his name on it. And that their hoodies have a train symbol, and hey, the train has a name. 'Voidtrecker Express'.

"...nope, gotta be a mass hallucination. Hey, uh, I don't know what you guys are selling but I didn't buy this ticket!"

platform b

Hopefully someone's given him a quick explanation by now, and he has a minute or two left before the horns start. Jake can be found digging through his rucksack, wrinkling his nose at the items. Clothes, toiletries...notebook and pencils?

"Ugh, worse than a space cult, it's a nerd camp? Where's Amy? Love you, babe, but this is more your thing than mine..."

He might be joking, might not. But either way, he sure does wish his lovably nerdy girlfriend was here. In fact, he's just found his phone. No cell service, of course not. But there's a smiling picture of her on the lock screen, which he'll look at fondly for a moment before shuffling it away.

standard

Jake finds himself shoved in a seat in standard with a pamphlet in hand, explaining the alleged truth of the situation. All right, so it's more of a space...humanitarian mission, allegedly? Or wait, if they're not all human, is it beingitarian? Quite possibly!

He's thankfully seated before they rocket off, but he thumps back anyway, head rolling to the side to check out the void. He stares for a little while...at least until his head rolls back down to stare at the notebook in his lap, pages blank.

"Major migraine alert. 'Kay, I'm just rapidly speeding away into the depths of space, further and further from anything I know, no big deal, happens all the time."

library car

"Oh no, an empty library? Man...maybe it's better Amy's not here, it'd break her heart."

Jake takes in the paltry offering of books, rifles through what few papers he can find, and eventually hauls himself upstairs. He rips a few pages out of his nerdy notebook, pops a pencil...and starts jotting down various observations, slowly taking over a whole table with a spread of notes. There's a sketch of various trains zooming from world to world, a mushroom cloud of an explosion, and various stick-people wearing hoodies and...superhero capes? Yeah, that definitely improves it. His makeshift conspiracy corkboard is actually looking a lot like some childhood fantasy drawings. Weird.

"But why not just assemble the Avengaboys? I mean yeah, you've got some heavy lifters, and I'm amazing, sure, but civilians? Child civilians?"

wildcard
(Feel free to bump into him anywhere else, or request a different prompt!)
Edited 2021-09-01 05:32 (UTC)
cureofmanyworlds: (Nozomi - Huh?)

Games Room

[personal profile] cureofmanyworlds 2021-09-01 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
“X-Wing? B-Wing? Whaaaa?”

Oh, hey, guess who hasn’t watched Star Wars before?

“Are those craft from your world?”
4starlowclasshero: (Default)

Platform A and feel free to fourth wall. He’ll just look at you confused

[personal profile] 4starlowclasshero 2021-09-01 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
“Aha, yeah, to be honest, we all kinda are like that. You’ll enjoy it, though!”

And there was Goku standing before him.
dnaofahalfa: (Human: U G H)

[personal profile] dnaofahalfa 2021-09-01 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
((OOC: As a note, Razzy is fourteen. Canon only has her as twelve. So younger icons kept for expression diversity, but she IS older. Also hair is only to just below shoulders. The struggle of playing a canon preteen for any length of time.))

Platform
Here is a 'fourteen' year old girl in purple, with a kind of strange corgi. Who sure looks like Danny. Razzy blinks as she looks around, glancing down at her clothes, looking herself over, and then at the train as the fog clears briefly. "Voidtrecker Express, huh..."

She looks down at the dog. "Hey Gabriel. Let's do a test," she said, picking up the dog and closing her eyes. She's like that a few moments, before opening her eyes slowly. She looks around and huffs. "Seriously?" She moves her wrist to look at the SCA. "You know, I did worse willingly, you don't have to keep me here by force," she said.

Then closed her eyes again.

"...."

She opens her eyes and huffs. "Ugh, of course. I know your mission is good, but you're on my short list now," she said to the SCA and she lowers the dog to the floor. "Come on, Gabriel. Let's go find Danny. I'm pretty sure he's here."

Cabin L4:D
Razzy will be staring at her name on the cabin for several long moments when she first finds it. "....this conductor is looking for a fight."

She sighed and will go to open the door and see whose inside. Might as well get to know her roommates.

Train: Reading Material
The first thing that gets Razzy's attention is the poster, looking at it with surprise. "Rapunzel and Taiki....?" She murmured. Gabriel barks at her side and she looks down.

"Well, it might be coincidence. Still...art would be fun. Not often I get to draw with other people," she said.

Though after the poster, she'll find a place in standard coach to go over the leaflets. Sitting upside down, feet hanging over the top, head close to the floor, idly petting Gabriel as she goes over the information.

Train: Kitchen
....girl's gotta eat.

And boy, can the girl eat. She isn't making anything overly complicated, but she is all for this Yaddon tail, whatever it is. Sharing it with the dog because she's in a new, weird place. She's keeping her dog with her.

Train: Triage
She is...

Raiding the first aid supplies. Looking through them seriously, and putting some in her bag and others away.
Edited 2021-09-01 05:52 (UTC)
monkeyinthewrench: (staredown)

[personal profile] monkeyinthewrench 2021-09-01 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
Jake's brain is still waking up. Hello, wall of muscles that eclipse Terry's. And perfectly spiked, strangely familiar hair. Something's floating in the back of his mind here, but first:

"...wait, are you saying this happened to all of you? And what's so great about it?"
dnaofahalfa: (Human: Oh noes!)

Arrival

[personal profile] dnaofahalfa 2021-09-01 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
Oh shi-

Razzy is quick to rush over to Ryu, kneeling beside him, looking him over. Checking for sign of injury. "Hey, can you talk? Are you hurt?"
4starlowclasshero: (Grin)

[personal profile] 4starlowclasshero 2021-09-01 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
“Yeah, we all have. I honestly don’t think there’s anyone who willingly came here!” Goku said.

“But, hey, you meet a lot of neat people, visit different worlds even save a few, too!”
amnesiadragon: (unbearable atmosphere)

[personal profile] amnesiadragon 2021-09-01 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
He looks up at her and blinks blearily. "Ngh... I'm f... ine. The... soldiers..." His face pales and he shakes his head.

They're gone. He knows they are.
dnaofahalfa: (Human: idk)

A

[personal profile] dnaofahalfa 2021-09-01 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Another point for not being prison: Literal kid.

"Trust me, its never a mass hallucination. That would make life way too easy," she said.

She also has a dog. Its even a corgi. Kinda.
monkeyinthewrench: (staredown)

[personal profile] monkeyinthewrench 2021-09-01 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Like some kind of traveling justice league, gathering the greatest heroes from all across the universe?"

Up goes the eyebrow. This man certainly looks the part. In fact, he looks like a particular famous superhero.

"Huh. Well you kinda look like a guy who could stop a speeding rocket, so that tracks, but why all the secrecy? Who's driving this thing?"
dnaofahalfa: (Human: But what if?)

[personal profile] dnaofahalfa 2021-09-01 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
"There's no soldiers. You've been transported somewhere else," she said, pulling off her rucksack and opening it, looking through it. "Seriously, no first aid kit?"

"You don't sound fine. What's wrong, I might have to get creative."
yondu: (2 4 9)

[personal profile] yondu 2021-09-01 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Farewells and Gets - Platform and Luggage

It doesn't get easier, watching people go. He's pretty sure his chest actually hurts a little when Kumoko does. He'd had these half ass thoughts of having a team again, these lucky moments when he could work with and fight alongside people he trusted. He'd seen how hard she'd gotten people's backs.

He frowns, but doesn't say anything because maybe it's true, what he was told. Maybe it's just an act that the train does to set people at 'ease' or something. Parades out their image like empty automatons. There's a few members of Blue Team in there, ones that helped a lot. There's Kyoko's friend. There's another almost friend he'd made, another well-meaning god.

He does his usual and gets back on the train as soon as his ass can. Goes to find his boxes. There's the one for Vegeta. Materialization tech to pass on to Bulma and make it so his armor can form around him at the push of a button (if she implements it right, which he's sure she will).

And after a little more frustrated digging, anxious and scathed with recent losses, he pulls out his other package. Removes something that looks like a glowstick, and holds it up to shine yellow against his face. It's then that he remembers how to smile, but it's a little more metaphorically sharp than usual.


Feeling Fruity - Greenhouse

The train always supplies them with substantial amounts of food, but everyone's worried about having more. He's got the powers to do this, right? All he has to do is practice with them. Problem is that 'grow' and 'change' are colliding in his head. He can't work on a whole tree worth, he has to do a fruit at a time to test. And what's he done? What the shit has he done? Nothing that makes any ass bit of sense, is what he's done.

He's now sitting cross-legged and looking at a pile of fruit set on a borrowed chair. There's a green striped banana shape peeled to show a watermelon inside. An orange pulled open to show little orange pomegranate seed shapes. A pumpkin broken open, but instead of being lined with stringy squash it's lined as one of the coconuts would be (and tastes very much like pumpkin pie). They're not terrible or anywhere near inedible, they're just offensively not right.

He cups his hands around another one, a strawberry, and when he removes them he's got a red bumpy pear.

"...The hell did I do here?!"
monkeyinthewrench: (little lost here)

[personal profile] monkeyinthewrench 2021-09-01 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
He's right on the edge of almost panicking when he's stopped by an unfamiliar voice. A teenager, holding a corgi, and a hint of a smile tugs at his lips. He's reminded of another fluffy boy he misses right now. And that reminds him of said fluffy boy's owner, and Jake forces himself to remember what Captain Holt would do in this situation. Stay calm, gather intel, work out what's true.

"Right, of course not. No memory of buying a ticket, or changing clothes, or getting here...do you remember anything?"

He's slightly concerned about a teenager here alone. Maybe it's not prison, but whatever this is has him on edge.

Can't be too on edge when confronted with a corgi, though. A hint of a smile tugs at his lips. He's reminded of another fluffy boy he misses right now. Right. Cheddar. Holt. What would Holt do in this situation? Keep calm and learn the facts, that's what.
hitokiri: (170)

library and sorry in advance for this jerk

[personal profile] hitokiri 2021-09-01 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Izō doesn't really read recreationally and he's not here to do research but it's (usually) a fairly quiet area and occasionally he'll come up here to sit or potentially nap or whatever else. Why? No one would ever think to look for him in a library.

But he's not about to stick around and listen to someone else talk to themselves if he can help it. Or, that's the plan until he's about to walk past the table and gets a look at... whatever's going on here.

"Wouldn't underestimate the kids around here. Some of 'em could probably kill ya an' make it look easy."

And there's a free bit of advice, stranger. It's no big deal. And in case Jake might be wondering, yes, both his swords are real.
monkeyinthewrench: (little lost here)

[personal profile] monkeyinthewrench 2021-09-01 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Okay...note to self, don't annoy the assassin. Jake swallows nervously, willing himself not to make another note in his book. Not right now.

"...but they wouldn't, right? Seems like this is a terrible place to try to get away with murder. Too cramped."

He does not sound quite as confident as he wants to.
amnesiadragon: (freefall)

[personal profile] amnesiadragon 2021-09-01 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
"No, I... they didn't hurt me. They couldn't. I..." He scrubs at his face with the back of his hand, trying to drive the terrible image away.

"In an instant... I killed them..."
dnaofahalfa: (Human: Chip)

[personal profile] dnaofahalfa 2021-09-01 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
"How I transitioned here? No. Nor how I arrived at Diagad, but that's what usually happens when you're forcibly moved through dimensions," she said, scratching the corgi behind the ears.

"But I met my cousin on Diagad, and he was with this Voidtrecker group. From what I got, its a transdimensional void traveling train that goes around fixing problems for worlds that are in danger. So how much did that make sense? Do you know sci fi?" She asked. "Because this sort of thing is a lot easier if you're from a world that knows sci fi. Or magical planes, that helps."
hotheadwarmheart: (Small smile)

Kitchen

[personal profile] hotheadwarmheart 2021-09-01 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Lea had no idea what this month's ingredient was. Hopefully someone on board did. But figuring that out could wait. It was Blue's turn to clean the kitchen and bathrooms this month, so he was busy putting away some freshly washed and dried dishes when he spotted the boy walking around, looking around at everything with wide eyes.

"Hey there," he said. "I'm guessing you're a new arrival, am I right?" The fact that he couldn't recall having seen the boy around the train before was a big clue in that regard.
dnaofahalfa: (Human: So tired of this)

[personal profile] dnaofahalfa 2021-09-01 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
....oh.

Oh no.

This is one of THOSE situations, isn't it?

She puts a hand on his shoulder. "How much control did you have?"
mtsilver_conquor: (On top of the world!)

[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2021-09-01 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Kitchens
Sure, Eva doesn't have to be doing this; she's Orange Team, not Blue Team, but shhh. This, for her, is far better than any of the meats from home she'd found at Aquafir. This is part of life, of her childhood and memories of home and the woman is visibly excited as she works on a yadon tail stew (or two), dicing the tails into chunks and sticking them, bones and all, into the pot. She's not even paying (much) attention to the recipe and is humming some sort of victory tune.

"I grew up eating this -pass me that please-" A point with a knife to either a vegetable of some kind, or a bowl of oran/cheri/pinap berries. "You're going to love it, and the recipe's not half bad for it either." A pause, then: "Though, it's hard to tell which type of tail it is, and I'd assume they sourced them ethically.."

There's something in her tone, light as it is, that suggests the tails better have been sourced ethically, or else.

Or maybe you come in as she's working on making yadon jerky, hard at work slicing the tail thing strips, with the bones vanishing into her arms band for later.

"Oh hey. You mind lending a hand here?" She nods towards another of the tails. "Or I can talk you through something else to make with yadon."


Rock Garden, late night
She had a reason to nick the bones from her jerky making: it's to feed them to both Princess and 'Nona, the fox flopped in front of the out of the way bench as he works a bone over with powerful jaws. Princess is beside her, also chewing on a bone contentedly.

"Think I could get a bag o'bones next month?" Both pokemon's ears flick at the sound of her voice, but otherwise, they're too busy with bones to chew to pay much attention. Well, unless someone approaches. Then both pause to eye the newcomer, wary and rather protective of their food.

"Don't mind them; first treat from home in a long while," said she stands and steps over 'Nona to put herself between the person and her pokemon. "What's up?"
amnesiadragon: (maybe i'll even buy a sheep)

[personal profile] amnesiadragon 2021-09-01 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
He looked up with his hand on the door of the microwave, blinking in surprise. "Um... yes." He nodded and looked Lea over, trying to think. He looked a little like the Worren Tribe, but no animal features and the hair was the wrong color. Same sort of spikes, though.

"I need to get back to the abandoned village near Chek... but I got told I couldn't go back there..."
amnesiadragon: (how long will the rain last)

[personal profile] amnesiadragon 2021-09-01 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
He flinches but doesn't pull away.

"I don't... after I got into the fight... after he'd hurt the villagers... not much."

It's still his fault, though. He's a god, isn't he? So he should be able to control himself...
dnaofahalfa: (Ghost: Bad habits as they are)

[personal profile] dnaofahalfa 2021-09-01 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
"You wanted to protect people?" She asked.

Her voice is soft. Gentle.

Understanding.