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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!
amery: (∞ Are you high or something?)

[personal profile] amery 2020-01-06 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Bastion, that was a lot to wrap his head around, and he wasn't really succeeding. "I...I see." He felt like he needed to sit down. He hardly even knew where to start with all of this. "At the very least, I hope there's tea on this train."
amery: (∞ Literally facepalming right now)

[personal profile] amery 2020-01-06 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Amery made a disgruntled noise. "It seems cruel to kidnap people from their homes and bring them here." No matter what they'd been in the middle of, even if it'd been a war. "And for what purpose? Why is it necessary for us to be here?" He'd always wanted to travel and see new things, but not like this.
amery: (∞ This had better be worth my time)

[personal profile] amery 2020-01-06 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
"I see." He wasn't good with children, he'd rather that be that on the subject, but he'd then he'd be upset with himself. "Are you going to be all right?"
rieper: (just a feeling.)

[personal profile] rieper 2020-01-06 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
Accused of being nice? And with a sense of fun? Now that was certainly a first.

Kaito, however, was wrong. 47 was simply blending in. He had a basic sense of politeness that he conveyed to the rest of the world but if it wasn't required to get by he would just as soon ignore everyone. Or hurt them to get them out of the way. It was especially important here on the train since there was no true escape. Best to remain unnoticed by everyone.

The hitman wasn't about to say anything of the sort to the kid though. He hummed thoughtfully and let it at that.
flatteries: (i could spill my guts out)

[personal profile] flatteries 2020-01-06 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
At least Inigo doesn't seem to protest those words as much. He just smiles at Bucky as he hears them, and then nods a little.

"That's sweet of you to offer to someone you've only just met. You're a really good guy."
flatteries: (nobody here is perfectly fine)

[personal profile] flatteries 2020-01-06 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Qua.. drupeds?" Give him a second, okay, Inigo has had a lot more to do in life rather than learning fancy terms for things, so it takes him a moment to even realise it's a word he does know compared to the weird other ones she's saying. He's pretty sure Laurent used that word at least once..

"Oh, yes! You mean they walk on four legs, right? They do, and their legs are relatively thin compared to their body. And they have a tail and a mane-- that is to say, hair growing out of their neck."
happyends: (i'll explain all i know)

[personal profile] happyends 2020-01-06 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
She rubs her cheeks a little with the hands are on them in order to try and force the blush down. It seems to be helping - or maybe she's finally starting to slowly calm down from how initially flustered that remark made her. It helps that Naminé's question is a fairly normal one.

"Um.. It's been a while.." She slowly pulls her hands off her face and puts them in her lap instead. "I think maybe two months by now..? But some people have been here even longer than I have."
stealsyourheart: (Default)

[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2020-01-06 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Kaito laughs. "Ah, the stoic type. Well, you can deny it, but I think you're nicer than you let on. Nicer than you might want to think, maybe! Thanks though. I had a good game."
flatteries: (this was gonna be easy)

[personal profile] flatteries 2020-01-06 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Every now and then we get sent on missions. The train stops in some dimension, usually one where there's something seriously bad going on, and we have to help make sure everything gets better."

Honestly, he may be speaking a little too lightly of that, as if it's something super simple and common. But moving from dimension to dimension to help people out is a fairly normal concept in Inigo's life so far.

"Usually it involves saving people from some sort of threat. Apparently the train sees all of us it pulls in here as capable of doing so."
onehandsomeslickninja: (i got this)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2020-01-06 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"You'd give me a broader smile if that were true, and it would never touch your eyes."

He took from her statement that she was one of those number as well, or else deliberately not objecting to the principle on its face. Either way.
onehandsomeslickninja: (eh heh)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2020-01-06 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, it's a train that travels through a mysterious void, and we didn't exactly have a choice about it. Why not?" He hadn't meant that as a name, but if it pleased her, he couldn't begin to think of arguing.
badassfreakingoverlord: (recoil in horror!)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2020-01-06 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"You just got kidnapped by a train! Why do you still have any standards of incredulity?!" So many arguments he could make, so little time. "Besides, I'm right here! Do I even LOOK fake?"

Up close, the book looked no less animated, fluid, and downright lifelike in a book sort of way than at a distance. If this was all a trick, it was a really good one.
badassfreakingoverlord: (badass and angry about it)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2020-01-06 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, this is easy. Say some guy has a dozen minions, three Prinnies, and a pickup truck here on the train. So quite sensibly he claims a train car so his minion army has a place to hang out. Now, say another guy hears about this and pitches a hissy fit, threatens to kill all the minions, and insists the first guy leave the car and just cram his minions and stuff wherever. Crowding the halls! A pickup truck in the dining car, in everyone's way! Prinnies constantly underfoot! Now," he said, regarding her, "which of those two is the smart one and which is as dumb as a post that flunked out of post school?
afterburner: (of being how you want me)

[personal profile] afterburner 2020-01-06 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, we've got a VR game that's kinda like it, so you could always practice?" Renee shrugged, but grinned. Then she shrugged again.

"I don't even know. Recruits, maybe. Kinda shunted into this without a 'by your leave', if you ask me." But she almost laughs at BD when he goes off.

"I can't understand what he said, but his tone was pretty clear, and no, I can't blame you for that either, little buddy. But no. We can't even get to the conductor's cab. I already tried once and got a broken wrist for my troubles--and I'm not uh. Weak." As if he couldn't tell that something was up by the power display she'd already been engaging in. Either of them, Cal or BD, as it were.

"I just kind of resigned myself to it and am riding the rails on this crazy train 'til we get to the end, or they let me go."
afterburner: (thinking hard or hardly thinking?)

[personal profile] afterburner 2020-01-06 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't even remember that much--I think I'm kind of jealous!" But Renee laughs it off anyway. It's kind of hard to stay upset in any way about that sort of thing. Not to mention that she genuinely liked Pete, and so even more so, he was hard to stay angry at.

Not that she got mad at him often, either.

"I'm just glad you had people to look out for you. It's hard having to figure out things about yourself, and try to take care of yourself, too." Not that she wanted to get too heavy at the moment, but Renee wasn't sure of what else to say.
afterburner: (eyebrows raised)

[personal profile] afterburner 2020-01-06 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It wouldn't be the first time, nope...

"Maybe? I mean, Hank--uh, Henry McCoy, he's the foremost researcher on the X factor from my world these days, he's a geneticist and a mutant in his own right--he says that sort of thing is possible. I help him sometimes in the lab, but..." It wasn't really her thing.

"Yeah, I don't even know how that happened, but he's all right. Not that easy to talk to, but we kinda play charades and we manage." Renee shrugged at that. "Takes all kinds here, I guess, right? I mean, mutants, elves, spider-kids, other non-human sorts...we've got a lot to parse." She laughed a little at that, but it was true.
deductionrival: (It’s the ball cap)

[personal profile] deductionrival 2020-01-06 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"This is the first place I've been to that can bend the laws of physics and time." Although he'd agree, America didn't seem to have much logic either.

He shrugged. "Every once in a while, people go missing here. We don't know why and the ones who go missing end up in a suitcase in the luggage carriage. I just experienced that and it's really unsettling." His gaze shifted to the floor with a heavy sigh. "But I don't feel anything negative. Just this clear gap in my memories."
deductionrival: (It’s the ball cap)

[personal profile] deductionrival 2020-01-06 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Shinobi?

[Hattori gives the young man an odd look at that. He knows the word- he knows everything, he's a detective, after all!.]

You're a shinobi? I could use some help keeping my kendo sharp if you're interested. I'm the champion at my high school back home.

..

What do you mean first-aid is pointless?
sensitiveapple: (dressed up)

[personal profile] sensitiveapple 2020-01-07 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
She nods. She should keep her skills sharp. Jocko would be very disappointed in her, should she allow her practice to slacken.

"I would like that, thank you." She says, shyly. "But perhaps we should use blanks? Vibroknives are not toys."
sensitiveapple: (beaten)

[personal profile] sensitiveapple 2020-01-07 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
She frowns. "Of course. It was formed after the war." She says, confused. Why wouldn't this woman know about that? Has she been living in Wild Space? It's entirely possible, but Misa doubts it, with hair like that.
sensitiveapple: (comfort)

[personal profile] sensitiveapple 2020-01-07 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
It's nice, being held by someone who doesn't want anything from her. Even Jocko and Freema want things from her, even if it's just training, or to hurry and grow up to be the next Mistress.

But this man, Bucky, doesn't seem to want anything. He's what Freema would call soul-wounded, and just needs someone to be nice to him. That, she can definitely do. She feels the tension flow out of him and actually smiles. That's good. She's helped him, and that's what matters.

She stays there, wondering if this is what it's like to be hugged by family. She doesn't remember her mother, from before the auction, and after... it's all about the house. So, maybe?
deductiongeek: (pic#6584045)

[personal profile] deductiongeek 2020-01-07 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
He honestly had no idea what to say to that. His own parents idea of protecting him from his situation had consisted of trying to scare him away from the case with a fake kidnapping. Before leaving him behind as they left the country once again. And before that he'd been living on his own since they left to go globetrotting when he was fourteen.

"There are people who look after me."

He just had a bad habit of ignoring them whenever he saw something suspicious.

"Its not like they're letting me wander around in dangerous areas. But anywhere can be dangerous under the right circumstances."
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[personal profile] signseeker 2020-01-07 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sure I will be fine," Will says calmly. "I will find my way home again one day I am sure. There's not much use in getting upset about it right now."
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[personal profile] signseeker 2020-01-07 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Will is silent as he thinks through all of that. If he was no longer in his own world, or his own universe, perhaps that explained why he could no longer feel certain things. Perhaps it wasn't that he had lost the ability to find the Old Ways, but that he was too far away. And if he was no longer in his own world, could the same be true of the Light?

"This void... does anyone know what it is?"
runs_on_batteries: (swarmy asshole)

[personal profile] runs_on_batteries 2020-01-07 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Hmm, well thank god something gave us this perfect Christmas gift."

He dragged his hand back down Ignis' thigh. "You know what I'd love.." He purred, licking against Ignis' ear. "If you got up and turned around. I have got to feel you in this pants. And then again when I've taken them off. And Tiger.. remind me.. why am I allowed to do this?" He smirked, wanting to hear his lover say the words that always got him going.
Edited 2020-01-07 02:46 (UTC)