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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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"Ryo, I am passing on the care of Washington to anyone else who will take him. He is in Upper 1D according to this. I am not bothering with another reckless mortal and his guardian cat who doesn't do her job or isn't like her namesake. If he wants to fall to my realm for his stupidity, then that's his fate."
No. Just no. He's not dealing with this and will remember this should they have to interact in a mission.
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He wouldn't think someone too injured to drink water would be able to leave a cogent note, but he doesn't know anything about this Washington person and hasn't seen that note yet. He holds his hand out, gesturing for Thanatos to give him the note. "I'll go take care of him. Can you manage things here for a bit?"
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Thanatos makes no attempt at stopping Mort's ranting about Wash and Athena.
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"Thank you." For managing things and for handing over the note. He smooths out the paper and reads it. It's a simple enough note, though the mention of cats being contrary brings a hint of a smile on his face - which he tries to hide from Thanatos, as Thanatos is very evidently upset at that same cat. "I'll be back soon."
It's a good twenty minutes at least before he gets back - the transgates make traversing the train easy enough, but it was still a matter of getting the door open, doing a thorough job checking Washington over, and...honestly, petting the cat.
(He'd been impressed that the cat opened the door from the inside to let him in, and it had been very fluffy. He couldn't help himself.)
He finds Thanatos and stops, not sure if Thanatos wants an update on the person he'd essentially disowned. He goes for neutral ground instead: "Did I miss anything?"
Lagos warbles conspiratorially to Mort in the meantime. Cat Athena definitely isn't as good as Caissa, but she did let Ryo pet her. That's one point in her favor. Only one.
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"Nothing much. Just taking these back to the kitchen," he says as he collects some empty dishes. Thanatos doesn't want to know how Wash is doing. He's not his problem anymore.
The companions' talk doesn't go completely unnoticed by Thanatos. There's a small disappointed squeak from Mort that Lagos gave fake Athena that one point. Some people can act nice while also planning one's downfall, and if that fake Athena even tries to get near Thanatos, he will fight her. He's not afraid of how much bigger she is.
Thanatos puts a hand atop Mort's head but doesn't say anything. He's usually trusting of animals, so for one to get on his bad side like this is rare.
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Lagos just gives a little shrug with wings that still don't quite work. Look, the cat made Ryo happy, and that's not always easy to come by around here. He has to give her that point, at least for now.
Of course, if that cat tries anything, Lagos is going to stab her, but he's pretty sure Mort already knows that. They will be united against that stupid cat.