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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress2019-12-01 06:54 am

A New Platform [Intro Post December]

"Good morning passengers, it is day sixteen of the month of Catfish." The voice woke them as usual four days after they had rejoined the train, leaving the dying world, the scientists and evacuees behind them."Team Points have been updated on the system and the shop has been updated."

. A few hours into the morning there is a second announcement. "Shortly arriving into a designated void platform. Exit from void imminent." Hopefully everyone knows to hold on, though if they do not they will be in for a bumpy arrival to the platform. At first all they can see from the windows is steam.

They step out into blazing sunshine, heat hits them. There is still steam, but light breaks through, dazzling at points, reflecting off the smooth surface of the platform. As the doors open the first four people off the train are wearing their rucksacks and dressed in purple hoodies. Yuki, Amelia, Harry and Richie. All walk steadily and unhurriedly towards the barriers at the back of the platform, show their ticket and disappear.

Those looking over the platform will recognise Ash, dressed in purple. With her are ten other people, one seems to have fire for a head, another is a book. Two are elves. All four teams are represented but Red and Blue are dominant with four new members each. Time to be welcoming.

For new arrivals.

At first all they can see if steam. Billowing around them as they come to their senses. They are standing, in clothes that are not their own, styles 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 but then the steam begins to fade and they realise they aren’t alone.

The platform is not very large, but it holds eleven figures all facing the tracks, all wearing similar clothing. The tracks stretch left and right into steam, or perhaps fog. Nothing can be seen to either side. Patches of sunlight break down and it is very warm.

In front of them is a train. Jet black and gleaming where it stands on the rails. Voidtrecker Express is emblazoned in the engine in gold. There is a hiss as the doors slide open.

Out step a selection of people, some less human than others, wearing clothes just like those worn by those on the platform.

The Train

The doors hiss open. Those from the train may encourage those on the platform to board. It’s not like there is 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 not be a good thing, as nice a day as it is.

Each ICP shows the same message. If they are near an ICP they may find a piece of paper stuck to it, for further reading. The food stores have been topped up with new fresh food, there is still an abundance of sweet peppers.

New passengers will find their tickets allow them into their cabins. They may need to negotiate for beds, especially if they want a top bunk!

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 and you will hopefully find a pillow for your bed if it has not been nabbed by a roommate, there are also spare blankets for if it gets cold.

Departure

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

The train sets off, the fog obscuring the view 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."

Hopefully someone warns you that you really want to heed that warning because a moment later there is 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. The fog from the windows is gone now, replaced with a kaleidoscope of ever changing colours.

Welcome to voidspace.
myblueskies: (the world is beautiful!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-12-05 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes. There's cabins that we sleep in and one will have your name on it. It will say so on your ticket. We get bunk beds!"

It's exciting really, once you get over the being kidnapped to another world. But as Zetta had said it wasn't the first time that had happened. So it was fine.
badassfreakingoverlord: (aghast!)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2019-12-06 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Cabins?! Bunk beds!? I'm an Overlord, damn it! I deserve nothing less than a proper Overlord's castle! What other indignities get forced on us here?" At least heaven had given him proper digs!
myblueskies: (apples and smiles)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-12-06 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well there's no castles here, but bunkbeds are fun to sleep in!" He'd never slept in a bunkbed before, he likes sleeping up high.

"There's no indignities at all." Indignities meant bad things right?
badassfreakingoverlord: (sulking and grumpy)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2019-12-07 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Bad quarters are the essence of indignity," Zetta huffed. "A bunk bed is far below what I deserve."
myblueskies: (Alfredo is speaking!)

DW is rude

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-12-11 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
"But bunk beds are fun!" Romeo smiled at him. "Still we got to get on the train! I'm sure all your roommates are really nice and you will get used to a bunk bed."

He guessed it wasn't a temple, which was what Zetta was used to. But Elfnein was used to a temple as well and she hadn't complained even once!
badassfreakingoverlord: (hopping mad)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2019-12-11 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"What's so fun about a damn bunk bed?" Zetta demanded. "As an Overlord, my bed should be a big mattress the size of a battle map!"
myblueskies: (followingdreams)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-12-12 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
"They are really fun!" Romeo told him as he tried to urge him towards the train. "If you are on the top one it is like sleeping in the sky and if you are on the bottom you have a bed with a roof! These ones fold up to the wall too. Oh you better be careful no one folds you in... You might get squished..."

He should find out who Zetta's roommates are and have a word.

"A mattress the size of a battle map? That wouldn't even fit in the room!"
badassfreakingoverlord: (damn)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2019-12-12 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"It would if the room were properly sized!" Romeo, you're gonna give him a conniption.

"...I see YOU haven't changed at all since you came here."
myblueskies: (Alfredo is speaking!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-12-12 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's a big size!" Alright it was a bit squished, but the train was quite narrow. They couldn't have huge rooms!

"Why would I have changed?"
badassfreakingoverlord: (adrift in a sea of nothing)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2019-12-13 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
"You're not a shinki any more, are you? Shouldn't you remember stuff?" If he was, that -- well, that raised a hell of a lot of questions!
myblueskies: (Alfredo is speaking!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-12-13 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Of course I'm still a shinki." Romeo peered at him. Joss wasn't a shinki anymore but that was the strange thing. It was less strange that Romeo was still a shinki surely.

"What else would I be?"
badassfreakingoverlord: (sweat drop)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2019-12-13 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"A kid again, I don't know! I thought that was just specific to that one place we were!" The Overlord's incredibly broad if shallow perspective on the countless worlds and universes out there biased his thinking quite a bt here.
myblueskies: (Alfredo is speaking!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-12-13 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"I am still a kid! I'm a kid and a shinki. All at the same time!" One didn't mean he couldn't be the other!

"I have been a shinki on the worlds we have went to on the train too!"
badassfreakingoverlord: (dull surprise)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2019-12-13 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"So the train can pick up dead people, huh. How does THAT work?"

Was it a phantom train of some sort? Did Zetta need to suplex it?
myblueskies: (Alfredo is speaking!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-12-18 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know sir!" Romeo shrugged, "But it can and everyone can see me here as well!"

It was strange, but he would feel a bit lonely if no one could see him or Elfnein or Joss.
badassfreakingoverlord: (looking at you)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2019-12-18 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"So how does that work then? You, uh, have any biological functions you didn't? Heartbeat and all that?" You know, just checking.
myblueskies: (Alfredo is speaking!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-12-18 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"No sir." He shook his head, "I don't got a heartbeat. I still am hungry like a shinki too. But I don't know. Maybe I was always hungry like this."

He can't remember, but he knows it's not normal to feel hungry after eating lots of food.
badassfreakingoverlord: (dot dot frickin' dot)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2019-12-20 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Naw, that's just really weird all around." Zetta frowned, though after a moment his natural means of thinking reasserted itself: if he didn't understand something, it wasn't important. "So long as not being in the Far Shore isn't kicking your ass, it doesn't matter a ton."
myblueskies: (Alfredo is speaking!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-12-21 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, I've been fine!" Romeo also figured it didn't matter all that much either. It was strange that Joss was not a shinki anymore but he still was but Romeo had never been to a different world before. Well he had. But that was the heavens and it wasn't like he could remember the world he had lived on before that.

So he didn't really know how any of this worked. Figuring out things was more Elfnein's skill than his!
badassfreakingoverlord: (smug sneer)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2019-12-23 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Weird," Zetta said again. "Well, whatever. So, you ready to at last sign up as a loyal minion of the Overlord, then?" Now he could at last begin molding Romeo into a proper force of demonic evil, which was some small consolation!
myblueskies: (Alfredo is speaking!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-12-25 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
"You want me to be one of your minions?"

Romeo tilted his head. He and Elfnein had had a plan back in the heavens to help Zetta learn friendship but they hadn't got to do it yet because he'd come here instead. But if Zetta wanted him to be a minion then it was one step closer to helping him! Even if the idea was really scary.
badassfreakingoverlord: (Standard Zetta)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2019-12-27 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Right!" Books had a hard time nodding, but Zetta gave it his best anyway. "Now that you're free of that whole 'guilt corrupts you' thing I can start breaking down your morals properly and mold you into a force of true evil."
myblueskies: (Alfredo is speaking!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2020-01-01 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't think I'm free of that. But maybe I am. I've not seen any ayakashi on the train or on any of the worlds..."

But he still doesn't want to be evil! That's a bad thing! "I think you should concentrate more on learning how to be friends with everyone!"
badassfreakingoverlord: (my point is made!)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2020-01-02 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Evil is a lot more fun." Zetta was prepared to rationally debate this, as always.
myblueskies: (thinking hard!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2020-01-02 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"No it's not. It's bad and it makes everyone sad." He sighs. They have had this argument before.

"Come on mister Zetta, we should get on the train."

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