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voidtreckerexpress2022-05-12 04:49 pm
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Train Memory Investigations (Backdated to month of Quicksand and Onward)
Who: Elidibus, Seto Kaiba, Faux, Esteban, Tidus, Emet-Selch, Ryo, Wash, Naoya, Thantos, Trunks, Zetta, Kitty Pryde, Devero, Leia, Clef, Gremlin (Najaran), Zagreus, Zelda, John Conner + Open
[ If I missed anyone that signed up, lmkwewillwewill ]
Where: Games Carriage, upper floor
When: Midway Quicksand, beginning of Rabbit
What: It's time to learn what happened to the Train's Memories and Former Crew (leading into Rabbit month event)
Warnings: Nothing Immediate: Train Memories and Investigation, potential minor spoilers for various canon as people use their personal methods to look into things. More will be added as needed.
THE CALL
THROUGH QUICKSAND: THE BEGINNING
GOING INTO RABBIT: PROGRESS...
[ If I missed anyone that signed up, lmk
wewillwewill ]Where: Games Carriage, upper floor
When: Midway Quicksand, beginning of Rabbit
What: It's time to learn what happened to the Train's Memories and Former Crew (leading into Rabbit month event)
Warnings: Nothing Immediate: Train Memories and Investigation, potential minor spoilers for various canon as people use their personal methods to look into things. More will be added as needed.
THE CALL
A couple of days before the evacuation of Osiga's system, there's an ICP call made to all carriages from Seto Kaiba and Elidibus.
Seto Kaiba speaks first:
People can join in when and as they please, a set-up already put together in the upper games carriage. Giant block pieces have been moved aside, most of them gone (for the time being). In their place along the wall opposite the game consoles are screens - holographic, connected to the carriage's ICP panel to project the data the train's given them permission to look at.
There are also extra headsets, where people can access the space of this data through virtual reality - for those more inclined towards magic, particular abilities, and emotions. Even those not really in tune to anything will be able to navigate some portion of this data. And as for what there is to learn...
Seto Kaiba speaks first:
The invitation to learn. Seto Kaiba and Elidibus will be coordinating the efforts of tech and energy/magic respectively. All information gathered and turned in will be available to everyone.
Greetings. Those of you who've been on board a little while know that the train has a certain mission, to find the crew it had before us. They were all lost in the destruction of its original system. We haven't made progress on that because the train isn't able to recall certain memories. A group of us have asked the train if we can investigate, and we're going to try to find out what's missing and why.
[ Elidibus is also heard on this invitation. ]
Seto Kaiba will coordinate the efforts that use technology to access the data. I, Elidibus, will serve as a contact for efforts that manipulate or read the energy directly, whether magic or sensory gifts. If you have any questions, pray come to one of us. All the data collected and turned in will be available for everyone to read.
People can join in when and as they please, a set-up already put together in the upper games carriage. Giant block pieces have been moved aside, most of them gone (for the time being). In their place along the wall opposite the game consoles are screens - holographic, connected to the carriage's ICP panel to project the data the train's given them permission to look at.
There are also extra headsets, where people can access the space of this data through virtual reality - for those more inclined towards magic, particular abilities, and emotions. Even those not really in tune to anything will be able to navigate some portion of this data. And as for what there is to learn...
THROUGH QUICKSAND: THE BEGINNING
➀ What volunteers to the project learn, is…
for those familiar with programming - is that they can access the data logs fairly easily, with the train's help. The worry of an untranslated language doesn't come to fruition, though they're still working with a complex machine. Some time spent looking through files will help them understand what they're looking at.
With enough time spent navigating and getting an idea of what it is they're working with, they can find records of air temperature, movement of passengers, records of ICP use, purchases.
➁ For those working with energies, they will be able to - with time, and perhaps even guidance - sense the tethers connected to the train. Their own, the people around them; one's experience with sensing connections or energy in general will give them a helping hand in recognising how to 'look' at these threads.
But even those not experienced may be able to feel them out. With time, and trying. Thinking about those they already know on the train will start to make those golden strands become visible, and more time spent on this will make them even more so.
Still, it's hard work, not easy to accomplish in a day or two.
Elidibus will have shared with everyone that through his previous investigations, he has been unable to decipher the traumatised energy - aether, as he calls it, the train's life force - from Beetroot 12 to Apple 1. This is the time between when the last crew disappeared, and when the Voidtrecker Express began picking up people under its new settings.
➂ While this project starts soon before evacuation, it is something that those looking for a distraction after the heavy mission can come back to, to throw themselves into.
Fortunately, there are people who know to come and check on such people.
for those familiar with programming - is that they can access the data logs fairly easily, with the train's help. The worry of an untranslated language doesn't come to fruition, though they're still working with a complex machine. Some time spent looking through files will help them understand what they're looking at.
With enough time spent navigating and getting an idea of what it is they're working with, they can find records of air temperature, movement of passengers, records of ICP use, purchases.
➁ For those working with energies, they will be able to - with time, and perhaps even guidance - sense the tethers connected to the train. Their own, the people around them; one's experience with sensing connections or energy in general will give them a helping hand in recognising how to 'look' at these threads.
But even those not experienced may be able to feel them out. With time, and trying. Thinking about those they already know on the train will start to make those golden strands become visible, and more time spent on this will make them even more so.
Still, it's hard work, not easy to accomplish in a day or two.
Elidibus will have shared with everyone that through his previous investigations, he has been unable to decipher the traumatised energy - aether, as he calls it, the train's life force - from Beetroot 12 to Apple 1. This is the time between when the last crew disappeared, and when the Voidtrecker Express began picking up people under its new settings.
➂ While this project starts soon before evacuation, it is something that those looking for a distraction after the heavy mission can come back to, to throw themselves into.
Fortunately, there are people who know to come and check on such people.
GOING INTO RABBIT: PROGRESS...
They've lost passengers, even Senku who was part of the original group, but still, as always - the Voidtreckers must proceed.
➀ For the programmers, it's likely they've already tried to get into the logs of the past passengers. This is where it gets the trickiest, some data corrupted, but not always unsalvageable. They span through some old months, and sound mostly like any journal entries. Never always in the same tone, and some written as if speaking to the train.
Searching through past transmissions, someone will be able to uncover a transmission from system #1015 on Beetroot 5. Earlier transmissions, earlier data of void missions.
➁ For those working with energy, magic, or just pure blindly searching, there's different types of progress to be made. Some may become better at sensing the tethers of certain passengers, of figuring out where they are. Those better at such energy-seeking abilities will even be able to see through the eyes of another passenger - but, luckily, they won't know what they're thinking, or feeling.
People will also be able to navigate the different logs in this way, if they would like to try - they will be able to see through the eyes of those who wrote the entries, and know how they were feeling.
➂ But for everyone, it will be exhausting, and participants will find themselves having one dream or another.
[ OOC: Remember there are OOC details here about what can be found! If you're not sure if your character can contribute or if their skills will be able to work with what's being done, feel free to ask for help - the VR gear gives a kind of access to be 'inside' the train's data.
If your character would have any specific interests too, you can ask the mod for more details. ]
➀ For the programmers, it's likely they've already tried to get into the logs of the past passengers. This is where it gets the trickiest, some data corrupted, but not always unsalvageable. They span through some old months, and sound mostly like any journal entries. Never always in the same tone, and some written as if speaking to the train.
Searching through past transmissions, someone will be able to uncover a transmission from system #1015 on Beetroot 5. Earlier transmissions, earlier data of void missions.
➁ For those working with energy, magic, or just pure blindly searching, there's different types of progress to be made. Some may become better at sensing the tethers of certain passengers, of figuring out where they are. Those better at such energy-seeking abilities will even be able to see through the eyes of another passenger - but, luckily, they won't know what they're thinking, or feeling.
People will also be able to navigate the different logs in this way, if they would like to try - they will be able to see through the eyes of those who wrote the entries, and know how they were feeling.
➂ But for everyone, it will be exhausting, and participants will find themselves having one dream or another.
[ OOC: Remember there are OOC details here about what can be found! If you're not sure if your character can contribute or if their skills will be able to work with what's being done, feel free to ask for help - the VR gear gives a kind of access to be 'inside' the train's data.
If your character would have any specific interests too, you can ask the mod for more details. ]
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"The main thing we're looking for is anything about the invasion that destroyed System 1015. That was when the train lost most of its original crew. It happened on Beetroot 12---I don't know how long ago that was. But if you find any other clues about memories, or how to control our flight path..."
Well, that's on the wish list. "The train won't rest, and we probably won't be free to choose to go, until we 'find them'. If that's even possible."
(Giving Kaiba a chance to react if there's anything he wants to add before the full search starts)
He takes another deep breath, grounds himself in the present moment for a moment more, before he grins. "I'm ready. I'll connect to the train an' tell you what I sense, mmkay? We can check things out together from there."
Open, constant communications are the key, in Esteban's opinion, and he settles on a beanbag chair, shifting until he's comfortable before slipping the headset over his head.
"Beetroot 12. Got it." It's a goal he can reach for, and things should get easier once he's reached that point. And, with any luck, he can ask Kaiba for more precise instructions once he knows how the train is going to be sharing these with him. The headset snaps down, Esteban leans back, and gives a thumbs up to his companion, ready for the connection to begin.
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"Visual component initialized. Go for it."
Kind of headcanon-ing the train interface at this point. Could be proven false later
It doesn't feel... quite the same, if he's to be honest. The components are enabled, but they are slow to load onto the screen (though at least this time around, Esteban knows what a loading screen is. Thanks Allen!) and at first, there is... nothing. Nothing at all even though he turns his head this and that way, searching for something, searching for anything at all really.
Okay.
"We know they went on a mission, yeah?" He asks aloud to his companion, using the voice that shatters the silence to keep track of things. He blinks in slight surprise when that pops something up onto the screen, a small case within easy reach. Thank the guardian he doesn't even have-- UI is his bane. If he can interact with the object, all the better in his opinion, and he reaches out for it, first physically, before noticing this did absolutely nothing.
Hun.
He settles down again, shuffling in the beanbag chair, and has to resist the temptation to run his hands through the hair at the back of his head. That'll just dislodge the headset, so he'd rather not. He settles for scratching the tip of his nose instead, letting a slow cycle of breath through his lungs. Focusing mentally-- and this feels odd after all, to move in his thoughts, but not his body-- he reaches out to the case, picking it up delicately.
It's a simple wooden case, the kind that he'd be carrying if he'd been tasked with moving letters between two cities. The latch is not secured, and with a flick, he can see inside, to a bunch of letters, each with a different date stamped on the upper right corner. 'Quicksand' is at the front, followed by 'Poi', then 'Orchestra', the month Esteban had joined in on. Had it only been so few days?
"You can see this too, right?" he asks after a moment to Kaiba, raising an eyebrow underneath the helmet. Can Kaiba help guide him through this mess or is he on his own? He has to know this first, before they go any further-- but it seems to him as if the train is... adapting? To this way of communicating with them?
"I think... we can just ask?" He wonders aloud, checking through the letters in the box, but coming up deceptively all the way to Apple... and nothing beyond.
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Seto's moved to crouch on the floor beside Esteban's beanbag chair. He still has access to the laptop if he needs it, but he's watching closely for signs of distress and will shut it down if he suspects the man is in danger. Maybe they should've relaxed first...
He frowns as the month names end in a disappointing blank. "I joined at the start of Egret...all the other month names align. But I'm not seeing anything new. Or...old, I suppose."
His eyes sweep the space. "If there is another case, it might be hidden. Locked behind some kind of passcode or procedure...do you see anything like that?"
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"Right..." His eyes sweep across the space that he's in, but there really isn't anything that he can spot right away-- nothing but him, and the case, filled with letters.
He shifts it over to stare at the top. It's pretty unremarkable at first, but as he twists it this way and that way, he does find a number, etched above the latch and slightly off-centered. He pauses, unsure what to do with this, but there's nothing that he can see from his side that might influence anything around him right away.
"Hmmmmm, Kaiba? Think y' can do somethin' with that?"
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"That might've been it. Do you see anything new? New calendar, a record, a big gaping hole in memory?"
Or anything else?
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Oh, that is weird.
Blinking it away, he reaches for the latch again, finding the number stable-- and flicks it open. There's a strange nip, almost a resistance that startles him lightly, but a soft gasp is quickly replaced by a whispered curse.
There's letters in here too, but ink has been spilled across the inside, quickly blackening the paper. Several of the parchments seem to have tumbled over and soaked into the grimy blot, creating a mushy bottom layer atop which only a handful of the others remain. Esteban swipes them out of the box immediately, but even he can tell that there will be damage to them all-- several are entirely pitch-dark, but the paper isn't a soaked mess, and maybe they can manage to dry these somehow.
Beetroot-- Beetroot has dark splotches across its cream paper, but some of it has survived, might manage to shed some information for the snatches of clear parchment that remains. He does not waste time into breaking the seal and opening it.
A ping alerts Kaiba of received files, but they risk being in a rather pitiful state, if he's noticed what Esteban has managed to bring out of that box. The half-elf is also glancing through these, but the smudges makes it difficult to read much through it.
"Um... Alright, I have something..." his companion manages, but his voice trailing off is not the most encouraging sign. "But it's pretty garbled. I see bits and pieces, but nothin' much." He doesn't ask if Kaiba can do anything, because he's not sure that he can, and Esteban doesn't want to put pressure on him, even if accidentally.