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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.)
happyends: (believe in tomorrow)

[personal profile] happyends 2020-03-08 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Just say the word and Madoka will get a whole squad together!

For a moment she just looks at the other girl, but then slowly pulls her hands off Ple Two's so she can instead gently wrap the other girl into a hug. She knows Ple Two isn't good with those yet, but.. this situation just feels like it calls for it, more than any other.

"You don't have to do anything to deserve kindness. Anyone deserves it." If anything, malice is often just born out of a lack of that. ".. I'm sorry that no one told or showed you that sooner."
pleple: (they got something to say no to)

[personal profile] pleple 2020-03-08 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Ple Two is a bit stiff - doesn't hug back. But it's not unwelcome. No, she... needs this, just for a little bit.

"...still hard to... imagine..."
happyends: (more than i usually do)

[personal profile] happyends 2020-03-09 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"I know.. it probably can't be easy."

She's never been in a situation even close to Ple Two's. So it's not like Madoka can totally know how it must feel, but she can at least imagine from the other's responses so far.

"But maybe you'll slowly get used to it over time. I promise I'll be there with you the whole way for it."
pleple: (Drinking out)

[personal profile] pleple 2020-03-09 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It helps that a few other people are also being very persistently kind to her.

It adds up.

"You better not leave." The train. Even though that's never voluntary. At least wait for her to be more stable?
happyends: (when i noticed it)

[personal profile] happyends 2020-03-09 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
That's slightly tougher to promise. Partially since it's not voluntary, yes, but also since Madoka does know she has to go back sometime. She can't abandon the world when she's the only one who might be able to save it.

But there are a lot of people here on the train she can't leave behind anyway, so.. that's something to sort out for later. For now she just smiles, even if it's a bit more serious.

"I won't leave, as long as I have a choice."
pleple: (Drinking out)

[personal profile] pleple 2020-03-10 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Well, hopefully Ple Two doesn't get too possessive by then - and has more people she actually has the confidence to see as friends.

"...thank you. Thank you so much." She took a deep breath. "...we should wake up soon."
happyends: (i'll close my eyes)

[personal profile] happyends 2020-03-10 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Madoka nods.

".. right."

As much as it's nice to be so close to Ple Two like this, she also doesn't really want to linger in this dream for too long. So..

"I'll see you again once we're awake. Let's do something fun to forget about all the bad things for a bit by then, okay..?"
pleple: (Drinking out)

[personal profile] pleple 2020-03-11 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
"...yeah. Something calm." And she's starting to remember that it's a dream. That it's been looping.

...good thing it's just a dream. She shot someone. Might have to avoid having an important talk instead of addressing that properly.