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

[radishlobbyist]

"So, back to business as usual," Wen Qing surmises unhappily. Lightning is right that there is nothing that can be done now about the people they left behind but it still rubs her the wrong way to simply leave it at that, she will have to find some way to make her displeasure known.

For now, though, she gives her a tight little smile and leans slightly into the hand on her shoulder. "Let's figure out what we can do. Be better prepared, I think, that would help. If we do get a chance to stand our ground, we should be the best we can be."

[enthunder]

"More or less," she agrees, equally disaffected. She drops her hand after a brief tensing of her fingers in the fabric of Wen Qing's top, not wanting to pass on the nervous energy still simmering within her. "Yeah. I'm gonna go see if anyone saw anything more detailed. Some of the psychics, maybe... We can start working on a battle plan. See you at dinner?"

[radishlobbyist]

Wen Qing nods and even musters another small smile for her which is a little less forced. "I'll see you there." Her voice has gentled and she reaches out for Lightning again, though her fingers fall short of touching her. "Thank you. For..." Listening. Not dismissing her. "Thank you." She nods her chin at the door. "Now go. There's work to be done"

and that's a wrap!

[enthunder]

She nods back, firmly this time, and then jokingly salutes at Wen Qing's order, one hand closing into a fist and resting against her own chest. "Copy that. And... anytime, okay? Later."

And she's gone, slipping through the crowd.