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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress2020-01-01 05:55 am

A New Platform [Intro Post January]

On the Train

After a very quiet latter half of the month of Catfish the calendar clicks over. Passengers wake up in their beds as usual to the passenger announcement. "Good morning passengers, it is day one of the month of domino.".

Those that have been on board a while know that new months usually come with new people and so the message a few hours later will not be a surprise. "Shortly arriving into a designated void platform. Exit from void imminent." A lurch and a jolt and they are soon surrounded by the fog that means they are at a platform.

It will come as a relief that no one leaves this time, no one with packed bags to walk silently towards the barriers.

Added to that the platform itself holds more people then it ever has before. Twenty one figures, all the colours are represented. The ground is icy and their breath pools in white clouds around them.

For New Passengers

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 large and it holds twenty one figures all facing the tracks, all dressed in cargo trousers and hoodies. The air is cold, the ground icy beneath your feet. Both left and right the tracks disappear into the mist. 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 into the cold step a selection of people. Some are human, some are less so. They are wearing the same hoodie in one of the four colours, red, orange, blue and purple.

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 also it’s very cold out on the platform. The train is warmer.

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. The store rooms have been restocked and it seems that water chestnuts are the month of Domino’s ingredient of choice! Any of orange team who who go to check the luggage cart will find a parcel containing gingerbread snowflakes, decorated with icing. One for each of the orange team, including new members, come share in the reward!

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!
yilingdaddy: (Gremlin)

[personal profile] yilingdaddy 2020-01-02 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Wuxian believes in all of their abilities to stay safe. Sizhui has been raised well. But this is his son, and he'll always worry and want to protect him.]

He loves you. [It's clear to anyone who sees the two together. And Sizhui is good for Ning.

Wuxian remembers his own concern when he'd first seen the train, but once Wangji had joined him he hadn't been worried. Now he'll make sure he is a very real, very solid presence for Sizhui to lean on. The lack of a laugh, or even smile at his pout has him concerned though...Must increase the absurdity!

He slaps the side of the train with a little grin, as if it's a good little train that does only good.]


It keeps us protected as we travel. Though the rooms are small and narrow. We're all crowded in like we've been planted. [He grins, aiming for the stupidest grin he can manage.] We seem to keep multiplying and the train gets bigger and bigger!

[He shakes his head and waves off the last question.] I wasn't expecting the Void to be so noisy, that's all. Lan Zhan just gets a headache, lucky guy...

[BUT BACKING UP TO WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM.]

We all have to do chores. The two weeks Lan Zhan and I had to wash clothes! [He tilts his head and laughs a little.] We might have done it wrong...
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[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2020-01-02 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
“Bollocks.”

Joscelin looks thoroughly unimpressed with Peter’s explanation. “Did you know that the human heart rate tends to elevate when a body fights infection? I can hear your heart beating like mad. Your body temperature is elevated, you’re pale than usual, and you sound like your sinuses are plugged. I’ve been around enough sick humans to know the signs. You even smell ill.

“I’m very much afraid, Parker, that you’ve got the common cold.”
knifewithnoname: (serious)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2020-01-02 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
A disturbance in the force? Was that like the void? Or force like strength? Peter is laughing and talking about a saga. Like a tale? So he is a legend in Peter's world rather than someone like Thanos who Peter has fought directly.

And Luke's dad? Would everyone's family end up here eventually? Not hers of course. But. Then again. Tony is dead.

She's not thinking about that and Peter is still talking, asking her a question. "No." She shook her head. "I do no be having any magic." Because that's what he means by powers. Not just power. Which everyone has.
luckybucky: (Sad and I hate you)

[personal profile] luckybucky 2020-01-02 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, okay, Bucky deserved that -- and a few drops do spill, but he hardly reacts when they hit his skin. He sighs heavily, looking down into the mug as he listens, and sets it aside when Tony heads for the door.

"He shouldn't have," he snaps, following Tony out of the kitchen. "And we both know I'm not. If it were that easy to just snap out of it, they never would have controlled me in the first place." He huffs out an angry sigh. "I only asked because I want to make sure you can. When I'm like that, I don't remember him. I don't remember anything." Except how to kill. How to be the weapon Hydra had honed him into with such care and cruelty.

"You said it's your job to protect the people on this train. I want to help." Bucky was maybe taking liberty with Tony's words, but that had been the gist of it.
rieper: (just a feeling.)

[personal profile] rieper 2020-01-02 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Less smashing, really, more just brute forcing. He even tried a non-crowbar leveraging with a random piece of metal taken from something on the train. A piece of busted up chair maybe? He had pilfered a few of Tony's supplies while helping create garden boxes.

47 stopped moving as he heard the approach and turned slightly when he heard the voice. A moment passed but then he nodded. "Nothing so far."
knifewithnoname: (serious)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2020-01-02 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
"I do no be having a family." She told him with a shrug. "So they can no be coming to this train."

She didn't seem sad about it, it was just strange that so many people had families and they were here. So many people who were adults had parents. She hadn't even known adults had parents until she came to this train but apparently they did.
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II

[personal profile] pleple 2020-01-02 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm quite sure there's a better place to put these," Ple Two said from behind. Her tone was accusatory, despite being much smaller than the... strange... chitinous monster man who'd abandoned his boots. That much was understandable just looking at him - he didn't really have the feet to go with them, and while his form put her a bit on edge, it would be rude to question it.

The boots, she could question all day.
lansizhui: (☙ inquiry)

[personal profile] lansizhui 2020-01-02 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
{For Sizhui they have only been reunited recently. Thus the impulse to be near Wuxian is strong; he wants to remember the days they spent together down to the smallest detail. But most of all he wants to be a family again.

Wen Ning is part of that...their...clan. He glances down at his feet, his cheeks burning.}


I care about him too. {The slap against the train jolts him out of his thoughts and he focuses on Wuxian in surprise.} Are you a radish now too?

{His lips twitch at the edges.} Headaches aren't much fun. {He knows several herbal remedies and he makes a mental note to keep them in stock - if possible.}

What do they do to you? You avoided answering.

{The idea of them doing laundry is a little funny.}

How can you do it wrong?

knifewithnoname: (quiet)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2020-01-02 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
She ignored the comment about parents. People here often assumed that parents were things everyone had and so she would forgive him.

"It do be being nice to be meeting you Bucky. Mister Stark did be dubbing me Buttercup so you can be calling me that if you do be wanting to."

It still, after all these months, feels almost cheeky to claim it as an actual name.
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[personal profile] lansizhui 2020-01-02 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah..." he struggles for something comforting to say and fails, "I'm an orphan too. Technically."

But he has been shown a lot of kindness by two men who didn't have to give him anything. If it weren't for them, he would have perished as a little child.
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[personal profile] hashtagparkerluck 2020-01-02 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, okay, but the Force isn't magic I don't... I don't-" Cough. "At least, I don't think it is. It's about balance. Keeping your mind balance and like... using that balance to do stuff. Like move stuff-you've never like... moved stuff with your mind right? I need to know because that guy-Vader-he's bad. He's really bad." He explains quickly, coughing between words. "In the mov-uh-story he went around and basically murdered all the Jedi knights and people that were uh-could use the Force."
luckybucky: (A little happy)

[personal profile] luckybucky 2020-01-02 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
He wasn't sure why it mattered how quickly they came to that particular conclusion, but he figured she must have her reasons. "Starting with a train called the Voidtrecker," he agreed with a lopsided smile.

He eyed the ICP over a little longer, taking a look at the available options. "Sounds like we've been kidnapped by someone or something more powerful than anyone on this train has dealt with before," he replies. "So what's the general consensus? Just play along? Or are there regular escape attempts?"
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[personal profile] runs_on_batteries 2020-01-02 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
Dammit! He wanted to make a dramatic exit, what the hell was wrong with this guy?

Tony whipped around at him, which of course made his mug slosh on his hand. Cursing, he dropped it and then glared at the moron. His anger snapped at the remark whether he could do it or not. Immediately his armor clanked to life, encasing him in a matter of seconds. He held up his hand and fired, purposefully blasting a shot right by Bucky's head.

"I can and will protect the people on this train. I don't need your help!"
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[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2020-01-02 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Not sure. I know if Satoru were here, I'd be stealing his shirts for one." The quip's light and offhand, as if it's more throw away than fact. For all her relationship with her rival is complicated, it's the small things that matter.

Like wearing each other's clothes- and she refuses to allow jealousy to cloud her mind. For all she knows, Tony's marriage back home was arranged in a way that allowed them both to take lovers (Moltres knows she'd want such a thing for her and Satoru). Either way, it's not a topic she'll bring up unless she has to.

Besides, if Tony's world coddles children, then it probably has some less than stellar ideas about marriage.

"No, and I'm both glad and... not." Mostly because while she wants someone from home, anyone, the longer it goes that she's the only one here, the more doubt creeps in, as does fear. "It's better this way."
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exploring - kitchen

[personal profile] pleple 2020-01-02 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
In the kitchen there was a stone-faced eleven year-old and a lot of water chestnuts. The crisp bulbs were not a food she was at all familiar with, which meant that she'd need extra practice to know what they were even supposed to taste like.

Cal's presence... pinged something in her head, and she turned to look with a frown. There had been Luke first; and now other presences. Not at all like Newtypes, but with a presence beyond brain patterns and simple physical forms, and if there were going to be more of them, she might need to get a real explanation. "...hello. To you and your... friend?"
hashtagparkerluck: (What?)

[personal profile] hashtagparkerluck 2020-01-02 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Actually I did-I did know all that." Peter frowns, trying not focus on the headache brewing as he takes a sip of coffee.

"'Cause I have like super sensitive hearing too and I got bit by a radioactive spider so uh it could just be a side effect of that. Maybe." Please ignore that he coughed his way through most of that sentence.

"Besides, I'm Spider-Man. Spider-Man doesn't get sick."
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[personal profile] luckybucky 2020-01-02 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
He looks up, eyes wide as if he were trying to get himself into some sort of trouble, but the expression disappears in an instant. "I'm just having a look around," he replies, forcing up a smile. "Trying to get my bearings. I haven't traveled by train in a while."

His gaze drifts to the paper in her hand, but he doesn't ask about it -- he's seen them stacked up near the computer terminals, but he hasn't bothered to read one yet.
pleple: (but i made my bed)

Platform

[personal profile] pleple 2020-01-02 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
"What is that?" Ple Two asks plainly, nodding at the skateboard, as Conan backs off to avoid making a fuss. Clearly, it's got... wheels on it, with no visible motor, but that's all she's getting out of it.
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[personal profile] azrthmtrnznthos 2020-01-02 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Where would we escape *to*?" Raven responded, amazed that he was taking this well so far. Calmer than she would've expected too.

"We're traveling in a void, and when we've stopped it's either been at the station like you just came from, or for a 'mission'. Last time we stopped on a planet that was dying, to help answer calls for help for evacuation."
hashtagparkerluck: (what was my combination?)

The Train

[personal profile] hashtagparkerluck 2020-01-02 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Peter's hoping that he can hide from the dark presence Vader seemed to think he could bring onto the whole train in his cabin. He needs a nap and maybe some juice of something because damn he does not feel great. He's just about ready to throw in the towel and admit he's sick.

He comes up to his cabin and sees someone that actually looks vaguely familiar outside the Cabin he shares with his Aunt and the other Spider-teens.

"Uh... you know, the cabin you're supposed to be in is on your ticket." He sniffles and tries not to cough. "Oh hey! I totally know you! You were at the airport! You have an awesome metal arm!" His excitement comes at a price and he lapses hard into a coughing fit. Why must he have to cough every time he tries to talk?
Edited 2020-01-02 07:08 (UTC)
hashtagparkerluck: (lalala ignoring you)

[personal profile] hashtagparkerluck 2020-01-02 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
Conan might not have believed it but Peter did! Banner and Cap never got sick! Did they? He's pretty sure he read something about that. And something about Cap punching a tank unconscious which he's pretty sure is true.

"I don't know. Allergies?"
luckybucky: (The fuck you say?)

[personal profile] luckybucky 2020-01-02 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. Bucky would like to take this moment to admit that he has made a Mistake. He did, at least, leave the coffee behind, so he wasn't going to burn himself on top of everything else, but he does feel his heart sink as Tony's armor crawls over him.

"Ah, fuck," he mutters under his breath, but he avoids the shot easily enough. If he's in for an inch, he might as well be in for the mile, right? He frowns at Tony. "It's not as simple as who has the bigger gun," he points out. "It's about being able to out-maneuver me when I have no sense of self preservation. When I'll put myself in harm's way, just to land a punch."

He says that, but then he ducks back into the kitchen instead of trying to do any damage. "I'm as good at hand to hand as Steve, or your friend Black Widow." And god forbid someone give him a sniper rifle and the room to use it.
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[personal profile] myblueskies 2020-01-02 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
"What do the trains look like in your home?" Romeo asked. This train did look a bit different than the train he and Ginia had caught when he had been helping her with a prayer. That had been a bit more square, not as long and didn't have so much smoke.

"You're welcome." Romeo grinned down at the little creature. "I've been here... two months I think because it was Bassoon and then Catfish!"
myblueskies: (the world is beautiful!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2020-01-02 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes sir!" Romeo nodded, "Um. Do you know what a horse and carriage is?"

He's never met anyone who doesn't know what one of those were at least! "That bit." He pointed at the engine. "Is like the horse and it pulls all these carriages along! Except it flies and goes into a place called the void and then to different worlds!"
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[personal profile] runs_on_batteries 2020-01-02 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
Tony looked out at the crowd around them as he listened to the other two talk. Though uncharacteristic, he doesn't make a comment on either of their remarks.

The person the conversation brought up mixed with the other question of who had shown up was not pairing well within him. He felt the familiar jolt of anxiety and his eyes searched, hoping and equally not hoping to see her. The anxiety was spiking.

Just breathe. He told himself, focusing on keeping himself calm. Five things he can see.. four things he can hear.. He slowly went through the mental practice.