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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!
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[personal profile] misterhappy 2020-01-19 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy turned, looking at Miles. "Oh yeah?" He asked, studying the kid for a second. "How long have you been here?"

Happy thought about who he met so far and couldn't help but ask. "I'm not the only adult right?"
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Re: Departure

[personal profile] misterhappy 2020-01-19 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy just glared at the kid for a split second before softening his gaze and closing his eyes, letting his head fall back. He didn't know how long he sat there for before moving but he finally did get up.

"What Warning?" He asked with a laugh.
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[personal profile] democratically 2020-01-19 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well. I suppose it will need to be taken as one day at a time then." That is the best course of action to take when something seems insurmountable. Little steps will lead to a far distance, over time. "It is having the patience to wait for it, mind."
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[personal profile] democratically 2020-01-19 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"You are that far traveled?" There is a curious furrow of her forehead as she regards him. Appearances can be deceiving, of course, so Padmé wouldn't put it past him. She knows that some do make it their life's dream to roam far and wide, and see what the galaxy has to offer.
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[personal profile] misterhappy 2020-01-19 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Semantics and you know that," Happy did give him a look, but there was a fondness there that belonged only to Peter.

"Thanks for helping me get him here," He said to Bucky. "I'm Happy, Harold actually, but everyone calls me Happy."
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[personal profile] misterhappy 2020-01-19 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy sees the little girl come up behind Peter, wondering who she was but deciding to put that aside for the moment and focus on Peter. He raised an eyebrow at him. "Dust? Really kid? That's what you're going with?"

Happy flicked his chin towards the girl behind Peter. "Who's your shadow?"
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[personal profile] blueberryprincess 2020-01-19 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Evie grins at the laugh, sitting down on a bench nearby and crossing her legs.

Extending her hand to Happy, she introduces herself.

"Evie Grimhilde. I have a friend back home whose uncle is named Happy." Literally named Happy. It fits.
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[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-01-19 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Padmé is very perceptive.

"Or that, yes. If they know what we want, then we are more easily controlled. I don't always suspect them of having manipulative intentions, since the general aim seems to be to assist worlds that are in trouble. It just troubles me that they collect us to be Void Warriors without asking us first. I don't worry on my own account. I was actually searching for an opportunity such as this one. But others want to go home, and they can't yet."
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[personal profile] orangewayfinder 2020-01-19 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Blue was Aqua's colour in Terra's eyes. It made him think of her certainly so he was happy about that. But he was going to find out what the colours meant and what the big deal about them was. That way he could at least explain it to Namine' and he at least owed her that much.

His face turned red at her comment and he looked away. Why did she even say that? And the only thing that he could come up with was to smile. "Maybe we..should switch colours?"

His wayfinder was orange after all.
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[personal profile] flatteries 2020-01-19 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
He nods. Apparently that's not too complicated of a concept for Inigo to understand. (He's not a total idiot, despite.. often acting like one.)

"But what if one were to travel from one world to another then? If no one is supposed to be able to enter the void, do they just skip through it?"
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[personal profile] signseeker 2020-01-19 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Will gratefully accepts the help. He rather suspected that he was going to have a few bruises later, after that.

"It never does one well to be rude," he says. "In magic most of all. I don't think it was the asking, It was more that there was something it was trying to share, but something blocked it. I saw a great many things, but I'm not sure yet which part was most important."
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[personal profile] signseeker 2020-01-19 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know if it is the same thing." But he well remembering the lilting, delicate music that he had followed more than once in the past. When the Light had need of him to be in a certain place, when there was a great work of magic happening, the music had always come to him.
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[personal profile] signseeker 2020-01-19 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, it is less of a chance of being arrested as a criminal."
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[personal profile] misterhappy 2020-01-20 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Happy just continued to glare at the laughing child who reminded him a lot of Tony, which he decided that today it was a good thing. "Hell train? How old are you, Kid?" He asked, hoisting himself up and in the chair across the way.

"Nothing. I don't look happy to you?" He's joking, but his tone is dead serious.
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[personal profile] marriedanidiot 2020-01-20 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"You might speak to Makalaure about that." She muses. "Of all my children, none hear the Song so well as he. If anyone knows, he would."
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[personal profile] azrthmtrnznthos 2020-01-20 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
"No, I see what you're saying. I'm just...used to a different system." Raven said awkwardly. "It's nice to meet you, Paper."
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[personal profile] misterhappy 2020-01-20 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
"Do we even know if this void thing is a real thing," Happy asked, genuinely wanting to know. Not that he thought that this woman was the mastermind or anything, just the opposite. "I'll take your word for it. I'm Happy by the way," He said.
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[personal profile] misterhappy 2020-01-20 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Why vomiting?" Happy Groused. He really hated puking. He actually got car sick from time to time, which is why he prefers to drive. He didn't think that it applied to trains, however, but better safe than sorry.

"So, you run security around here?"
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[personal profile] misterhappy 2020-01-20 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
"An Uncle named Happy?" He mused with a small twitch of his lips. "Huh, and here I thought I was the only one. My name Harold actually but when I boxed they called me Happy."

"Tony, however, has many names for me, but only a few I actually answer to." He actually smiled a little at that.

"So, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in school or something?"
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[personal profile] marriedanidiot 2020-01-20 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
She shrugs. "That, I do not know. It certainly exists outside our windows. For more than that, you would need to ask those of more investigative bent than I."

She dips her head politely.

"And I am Nerdanel. A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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[personal profile] stealsyourheart 2020-01-20 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
"But that wouldn't be as challenging or fun!"
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[personal profile] dredefulchilde 2020-01-20 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
“Six hundred and eighty years old,” Joscelin says with a smirk, not breaking eye contact. Is he joking or being serious? It is so very hard to tell. “Or I’m ten. Take your pick.”

He closes the massive book on his lap.

“Not particularly, and yet you introduced yourself as such. How very mysterious.”
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[personal profile] really_sketchy 2020-01-20 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Naminé gasped and clapped and laughed at Conan's skills. She couldn't stay quiet anymore and felt the sudden need to cheer him on. "That was amazing! Could you teach me to use a skateboard like that?"
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[personal profile] really_sketchy 2020-01-20 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Looking outside the window made Naminé dizzy and she quickly pulled her gaze away, focusing her crystal blue eyes back on Madoka.

"That's okay. I can wait." She'd already waited for years to see more of the worlds. She can wait a little longer.

"Um... thank you." Naminé smiled. "I don't know a lot about what's going on yet but I'm happy that we met."
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[personal profile] really_sketchy 2020-01-20 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
She nodded her head. "I am. I hope to find some materials here. Where did you get yours? I don't know what's on this train yet." Naminé wanted to draw but she'd just obtained her body and she didn't know where you got those things.

Before, they had been given to her.