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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.)
badassfreakingoverlord: (sulking and grumpy)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2020-02-11 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Damn." Apparently not about to press the issue, Zetta was instead going to grumble about missing out. "Just my luck when I finally have a body again!"
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking right, holding a book. (I'm In The Book)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-11 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Nita was actually relieved at the focus change, but that didn't mean she was going to be any less stubborn.

"Considering you could have become a frog or something, I'd say you have luck enough already."
badassfreakingoverlord: (Standard Zetta)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2020-02-12 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, no, I definitely could not have." Considering only an extremely unlikely series of events could have ever caused him to bind his soul to a book in the first place, having it come up with a frog as the subject wasn't gonna happen. "So if you're not here to conquer or be conquered, what's your deal?"
unfavorableinstigation: It is dark, but Nita is inside reading a book. (Reading Indoors)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-12 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"... I honestly don't know."

There was the sound of a train whistle in the distance, but it came from nowhere near the castle, so Nita put it out of her mind.

Perhaps not the best idea, but all the same...

"But third options are pretty intriguing all by themselves, aren't they?"
badassfreakingoverlord: (damn it ruffnut)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2020-02-12 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"...you have no idea how flirty that sounded, do you." Zetta groaned, face buried in his hand.
unfavorableinstigation: It is dark, but Nita is inside reading a book. (Reading Indoors)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-12 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Nita swiftly followed, facepalming as well.

"I swear, I don't have an internal tracker for these or anything!"
badassfreakingoverlord: (damn)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2020-02-14 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're going to be a real pain, aren't you." Zetta heaved a deep sigh. Why couldn't she have been either a conqueror or a victim? Either of those were so much easier to deal with. "Worse because you don't intend to be."
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking right, holding a book. (I'm In The Book)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-14 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Now you know how you feel to other people?"

Well, somewhat; it was an imperfect analogy, and Nita knew it.

"Who knows, maybe if we talk long enough one of us will activate a trap door to elsewhere?"
badassfreakingoverlord: (wat)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2020-02-14 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"I totally intend to be a pain. And I'm in no hurry to leave now, thanks."

After all, here he was in his Netherworld, with his body. Finally everything had been set right, even if the details were a bit fuzzy. All that crap could just be over and done with!
unfavorableinstigation: Foresty background (Forest)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-14 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"... And here I thought you'd have a place with booby traps."

She said this despite their earlier tangent.
badassfreakingoverlord: (maniacal glee)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2020-02-20 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, sure, there's a wing for that. But we demons live in both style and luxury!"

Of course, demon style did indeed involve a huge lava moat, but it had its moments.
unfavorableinstigation: Nita working with a Kernel (Wizardry Is Kid Stuff)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-20 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Nita suspected it was rather more than just a wing, but poking Zetta for secrets even now seemed a bad plan.

"What kind of style? Baroque?"
badassfreakingoverlord: (sweat drop)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2020-02-24 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"..Badass!" Zetta flailed one hand at the castle, trying to encompass the whole damn thing. "Look at it! And yes, badass is totally a style! Look at me for example!"
unfavorableinstigation: Nita looking right, holding a book. (I'm In The Book)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-24 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Nita chuffed, orange cloak billowing around her again.

"Yeah, sure. That's the word I was looking for."

She could think of other ones, but perhaps humoring him was the way to go...
badassfreakingoverlord: (smug sneer)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2020-02-26 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Damn straight it was!" Across the drawbridge and in through the great front doors. Random demons clustered about, chatting or just standing around like the good NPCs they were, though they did take a moment to look at the girl.

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-26 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
She wasn't sure why she was following Zetta, maybe because that was just where the dream wanted her to go...

But she waved in return to the NPCs who looked at her; it was only polite!

Though perhaps that wasn't the best approach. This was a demon overlord's castle...
badassfreakingoverlord: (maniacal glee)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2020-02-28 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
This was, after all, Zetta's dream. And by dream logic, he was the center of everything and thus everything revolved around him. Just like Zetta's waking logic, except with actual backing here!

Meanwhile, the other demons waved cheerfully back. Ever see a zombie, a gargoyle, and a weird stump monster wave? Now she had!
unfavorableinstigation: Nita Callahan rendered in Undertale-style graphics. (Nita.jpg)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-02-28 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh hey, friendliness!

... Did this mean Nita's passed a test of some sort? Maybe that was a question not worth answering.

"Where are we heading next? Does this place have an elevator, or are we taking the stairs?"

Might be bad form if she tripped on them.