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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress2020-02-08 08:34 am

Breach!

Day twenty of the month of Domino starts as a perfectly normal day on the Voidtrecker express. Passengers work on chores, or play games, bicker and read. The usual ways of relieving the slight tedium that come with being stuck on a train. Even a train that is hurtling through the void.

It is about mid morning when the whole train tilts, suddenly as if it has been hit. It is enough to knock passengers over if they don’t catch themselves quick enough. For those in the games car there is a loud bang as something hits the window. A small black object is stuck in the window for a moment before it dislodges and disappears as quickly as it appears.

The window doesn’t smash but cracks appear around the impact site. Almost immediately sirens begin going off. "Breach. Breach. Warning. Breach."

Hopefully passengers will remember what they are to do in the event of such an incident. For anyone in the kitchen they will see that the oven, water and other appliances switch off. Doors begin closing around the train, in an attempt to seal carriages.

Those in the games carriage won’t see much of that, they will barely have time to register what has happened before they feel dizzy and sleepy, falling to the ground where they are. This spreads throughout the train, the further away a passenger is from the games car the longer they will have before they succumb but within fifteen minutes everyone on the train will be sleeping. Even including those who usually do not sleep or even those who cannot sleep.

Because this is no ordinary sleep.

For some passengers they will sleep the whole day and night, solidly and dreamlessly. But for others, for most, their sleep is anything but peaceful.

They will dream, strange, wonderful or terrible dreams and walk those dreams with their fellow passengers. Tumbling from one to another with no sense of where one ends and the other begins they will dream the whole day and night, though it will likely feel much longer and perhaps much shorter.

Their dreams may come from themselves, they may come from their fellow passengers and there are a few dreams that all may find themselves dreaming.

Infestation

The train is filled with dralite. They are everywhere, in every carriage. Flying through doors, in your bed. This dream takes the form of a stress dream, every time you think you have emptied a space of dralite there are more.

They aren’t aggressive creatures, just annoying and the ever shifting dream means that every time you remove one from hugging your head another appears. The train shifts and warps, carriages muddling as you move through it trying to contain all of the creatures.

A Distant Light

It is a dark night, though there are stars in the sky. In the distance there is a bonfire lighting up the area. Around it there are figures, they are too far away to make out any features but in the flickering light you can see they wear hoodies in the colours you know well by now.

There is the sound of singing and laughter and you want to approach. But no matter how long you walk the fire is always in the distance, never getting closer. You feel a great longing to be at the fire, but it is out of reach.

Flying

Flying is such a universal dream and so it is not surprising many of your dreams will incorporate this. You fly, over mountain, across rivers and seas, through forests and through the debths of space itself.

But most often you fly through the void, the ever shifting void around you, diving through colours that swirl and dance around you.

Dream well Void warriors!

(OOC: The plotting and information post is here. Characters will wake up on day 21 and there will be an ooc mod post detailing that on the 10th February.)
unfavorableinstigation: Foresty background (Forest)

Re: Hostile Takeover (NIGHTMARE - CW: manipulation, possible body hijacking, the LP being a dick)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-10 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The voice was a long way away; if there were words, they were tauntingly out of reach.

If Jak wanted answers, he needed only to continue forward.

But there were noises coming from behind - not cries of distress, but something more menacing.

Would he stand and fight, or press forward?
darklighthero: (pic#11014191)

[personal profile] darklighthero 2020-02-11 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
The eco warrior kept close to his morph gun, opting to shoot if something happened to be right behind him. "Who's THERE?!"

The eco warrior had his Vulcan fury in hand, opting to fight "Who's there?!" He growled again, expecting a answer.
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[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-11 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
There was a sort of scorpion-spider being, which screamed when hit - as did a fair number of the trees, also within blasting range.

The voice, meanwhile, kept whispering, just beyond comprehension.

Don't you want to find out... Jak?

There were no further encroaching enemies.
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[personal profile] darklighthero 2020-02-11 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Jak looked up at the scorpion-spider being and blinked, trying to get Jak to get closer.

/Great, it knows my name./

The eco warrior grasped at his Vulcan fury and aimed at the creature which seemed awful familiar to him. The sounds did anyway.

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[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-11 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
The source of the voice snickered - audibly snickered - at Jak's presumption.

Still far from the mark, Eco Warrior...

The pull strengthened; if Jak was going to keep resisting, he'd have to put more conscious effort in.
Edited 2020-02-11 17:15 (UTC)
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[personal profile] darklighthero 2020-02-11 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"What do you want from me?!"

Jak has been used before, time and time.

There was something this thing wanted from Jak, but kept pulling it away like it was a child's toy.

//Shit."

[[Dark: Let me out, Jak... This annoying thing is grating on my nerves.]]
((Light: Be careful, Jak... The voice is leading you into a trap.))

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-11 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
The internal debate of Jak's would be ignored, though the pull only increased more the longer he delayed.

Don't you want answers for what was done to you, Jak?

There was a grin in the whispers now; a deadly one.
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[personal profile] darklighthero 2020-02-11 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Jak's growl increased but the more the pull grew, the more he couldn't resist fighting back.

"I do want answers." Jak was falling into temptation more and more and his Light side pulled at him

((Jak, don't do what he says. Please..))
[[Dark: You FOOL! He's tricking you!]]
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[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-11 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
If Jak proceeds through to the next carriage, the trees are gone.

Instead, it's a cave system, with alien writings on the walls and the faint sound of skittering filling the air.

The pull only intensifies at this point.
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[personal profile] darklighthero 2020-02-11 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
The eco warrior started feeling sparks going around his body as he was a bit unnerved but Jak was alert enough not to let out his dark side yet until it was necessary.

Jak starts looking at the cave which has alien writing on it but no trace of Precursor language on it.

He studies the language but the skittering sounded suspicious. The pull just got harder to resist every time.

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-11 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, resistance; always amusing, but never... quite... enough.

Jak would not find his precious (hated?) Precursors here.

'The Commorancy is All' one inscription reads, briefly flickering into a language Jak can understand.

'All Praise to the King, the Mighty'
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[personal profile] darklighthero 2020-02-11 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
The eco warrior once again noted that the language on the walls changed to the Precursor language, of one he could read.

"I'm not meant to become a King! Leave my father out of this!"

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-11 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh come now, Jak, the un-voice crooned.

Whatever makes you think this is about you? Or that you had to become a King?

It chuckled.

You need not be a King to have power...
darklighthero: (Dark Jak)

[personal profile] darklighthero 2020-02-11 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Jak raised an eyebrow, lifting his gun toward the creature "Explain, NOW!"

The eco warrior's appearance finally took a change.

His hair became pure white, black horns spouted from his head, long sharp fingernails grew and his skin became a harsh lavender.

Dark stared at him with a growl.

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-12 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
There was, alas, nothing to glare at; only the walls and tunnels of the cave, and the ominous, no-longer-readable writings.

But if Dark Jak wanted a fight, he needed only to keep walking:

The engine room is just ahead.
darklighthero: (dark jak)

[personal profile] darklighthero 2020-02-12 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
The darkened eco warrior seemed like a feral animal and used his nose instead of his words. The beast used his animistic senses to rush toward the engine room.

[[Jak: Dark? What are you doing?]
((Light: Dark! Caution!))

Nothing would stop the dark beast from trying to find the Lone Power.
unfavorableinstigation: It is dark, but Nita is inside reading a book. (Dark)

CW: Body Horror.

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-12 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
The wall easily parted for Dark Jak - but inside, there was a vast space.

And, once he entered, the door completely disappeared. There was just him, an arc of ceiling - and the Lone Power's avatar, something out of Nita's memory, yet even more menacing.

It was, in shape, almost a blob - flesh protruded out from a Yaldiv shell in all directions. In the bottom of it, below the center of mass, were two faintly glinting eyes.

A sacrifice? For Me? Oh, you're too kind.

Jak better act quick.
darklighthero: (Dark Jak)

Re: CW: Body Horror.

[personal profile] darklighthero 2020-02-16 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not anyone's"sacrifice."

The lavender skinned demon growled. Dark was looking for a way out. "So you must be the leader of this mess."

The dark warrior threw a dark eco blast at the Blob.
Edited 2020-02-16 23:05 (UTC)

Re: CW: Body Horror.

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-16 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
The 'Blob', or leader as it had been so addressed, exploded on contact with the dark eco...

But then the laughter started.

How typical of you to blast your way out! It cackled, a more hominoid and stately shape forming out of the alien's remains.

Do you even have a plan for getting out of here?
darklighthero: (Dark Jak)

Re: CW: Body Horror.

[personal profile] darklighthero 2020-02-17 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
"I do but I wouldn't tell you even if I had one."

[[Light: facepalms]]
((Jak:Dark, you have a plan right?))

"You're just my imagination, what can you do?"
Edited 2020-02-17 00:45 (UTC)

Re: CW: Body Horror.

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-17 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Uh huh.

The Lone Power responded wryly, expression ambivalent. Did It really believe Jak?

... Nope.

Ah, and that is where you are wrong Eco Warrior. I am not YOUR imagination!

The shadows in the cavern intensified, creeping inward as if to grab Jak where he stood.

But if you insist, we can go there instead!
darklighthero: (Jak)

Re: CW: Body Horror.

[personal profile] darklighthero 2020-02-17 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Dark frowned, "Clearly I shouldn't underestimate someone such as you.

"You don't even know what my imagination is like. You wouldn't like it. "

Jak lightly smiled, "But thanks for giving me the upper hand."

Edited 2020-02-17 01:39 (UTC)
unfavorableinstigation: It is dark, but Nita is inside reading a book. (Dark)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-17 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
That is a matter of opinion, It replied lightly-

I don't think your opinion is going to make a difference here for much longer, a different voice chimed in, and It froze.

Meanwhile privately, to Jak's Light aspect, there came a message: I can give you a hand, here. Perhaps the upper hand, for a short time. Do you consent?

The voice was lighter than the Lone Power's; just as powerful, but the exact opposite in terms of malevolence.
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[personal profile] darklighthero 2020-02-17 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Light would hear said message being echoed in Jak's head. "A hand? I accept. Let's take the fight to your other side."

The eco warrior's angelic side stood up and got closer to the source of the voice.

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-17 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
There is a grin in the Hesper's presence-

And then she shines, that light and Light seeping into Light Jak as well.

That light began to shine even through Jak's physical form, leaving the Lone Power genuinely shaken.

N-no! What is this? This cannot be!