Event: Abort! Part Two (day 25, Egret). Luggage carriage

[voidtreckermods]

They are on world world#27462947582 for about five hours, helping, ushering people out of the city, fighting monsters, keeping guard. All seems well in the city itself, peaceful even except for the slight panic of people being told to move south.

Wherever they are, north in the desert, travelling through the countryside to the south or still in the city itself they will notice from their peripheral vision a darkening of the sky. Looking up they will see clouds. Strange clouds, appearing in the blue sky out of nowhere.

Their SCA’s start beeping, rapidly, flashing red. The clouds are too weird to be clouds, dark shapes in the sky. It might be that the Voidtreckers heed the warning and tap their SCA to evacuate to the train. It might be that they do not.

If they don’t then there is a moment, a moment of absolute stillness as those around them notice the shapes. A confused pause. Children stop their chatter, people stop their complaining, even the monsters seem to sense something and pause in their attacks.

The remaining voidtreckers are yanked away, even without pressing their SCA, they glow gold and disappear.

They all appear in the luggage carriage and not even a second later, with no warning the train lurches, flinging everyone off their feet as it enters the void.

It’s not really easy to tell speed in the void, but they will get the sense that they are moving fast. Faster than before, leaving that world and whatever those shapes were behind.

(OOC: Information on this event is here and part one is here)

Comments

Dyme | OTA

[swansongs]

You know, Dyme would have tapped his SCA, if he'd realized that was what he was supposed to do. Instead, he'd been too mesmerized with whatever was happening in the sky. He didn't know a lot about weather phenomenon, or...not weather phenomenon, but he was pretty sure that was no good at all.

When he found himself back in the luggage room, he was disoriented, and already felt a little like puking before he was knocked off his feet by the train entering the void. He was lucky enough not to slam into anyone, but he was probably going to have a bruised elbow from knocking into other things.

"What the fuck was that?" he demanded. "What about all of those people?"

[mtsilver_conquor]

"I don't know-"

Eva, for all she's trying to keep it together, looks as angry and worried as she sounds. "This has never happened before. Does it think we couldn't have saved them?!"

[swansongs]

He took a deep breath, and then another, trying to calm his nerves. "Were those...monsters, in the sky?" He didn't know what else to call them. They could have been birds, but he'd never seen that many before in one place.

"Are all those people..." Were they all going to die? What was the point of sending them to a place to help if they couldn't help?

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Yes." It's honest and blunt and a sign she's not dealing with this very well.

"I don't know, but we did what we could to get as many people to safety. They, at least, will live."

Because she will not accept anything else right now. She can't.

[swansongs]

Finding a suitable piece of luggage, he sat down, trying to absorb what had just happened. Would they though? Had they managed to actually save anybody? He was afraid to say anything about it outloud, though.

"We did what we could," he echoed. "And we couldn't have known...what was going to happen." They'd known about some of the monsters, but they hadn't been told anything about flying ones, and he wasn't sure the train had known either, which was a weird thought.

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[mtsilver_conquor]

Eva would like to think they did save some people. They were at it for five hours after all.

"We did, and I know we saved some, even if just the first groups. People can walk far in five hours."

The rest, well. She wasn't on Red or purple's missions and she's not thinking about the flying monsters too much. If she does, she'll lose her temper and that's not fair on Dyme.