A New Platform [Intro Post May]

[voidtreckermods]

On the Train

Life returns to somewhat normal, though the train still seems to be moving faster than before. Eventually though it slows until they wake one morning to a familiar announcement. "Good morning passengers, it is day one of the month of Fiddlesticks."

Those that have been on board a while know that new months usually come with new people and also new points, indeed when they check points have been updated and the shopping spree can begin. A few hours later another, expected announcement sounds.

"Shortly arriving into a designated void platform. Exit from void in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one." A lurch and a jolt and they are soon surrounded by the fog that means they are at a platform. The sun is shining and they will find it pleasantly warm when they disembark.

The first to leave the train though don't seem to notice the nice weather. They notice nothing as they walk silently, rucksacks on their backs, towards the barriers. Padme Amidala, Terra, Ianto Jones, Happy, Hibiki Shikyoin, Shikeo, Elfangor, Bailey Morello, Will Stanton, Primrose, Prisoner, Aaron LeBlanc, Miles Morales, Rustling Paper all reach the barriers, show their tickets and disappear through, vanishing into the fog.

But on the platform itself there are many new faces. Once again the largest amount of newcomers to date.

For New Passengers

At first all they can see is steam. Billowing around them as they come to their senses. They are standing, in clothes that are not their own, styles they might not even recognise. They are carrying a rucksack on their back. For a moment it seems to just be them, alone in the white haze but then the steam begins to fade and they realise they aren’t alone.

The platform is not large and it holds twenty nine figures all facing the tracks, all dressed in cargo trousers and hoodies. The air is warm, pleasant even. Both left and right the tracks disappear into the mist. Then there is a roaring sound and out of the fog arrives a train. Jet black with gold writing on the side. The Voidtrecker Express. There is a hiss as the doors slide open and out into the cold step a selection of people. Some are human, some are less so. They are wearing the same hoodie in one of the four colours, red, orange, blue and purple.

The Train

The doors hiss open. Those from the train may encourage those on the platform to board. It’s not like there is anywhere else to go and even if there was, you feel a pull. A need to board, a feeling that staying on the platform would not be a good thing. If that is not enough, there are plenty of people on the platform now, to encourage them onto the train.

Each ICP shows the same message and next to the screens there are stacks of leaflets written by those on the train, with further information. The store rooms have been restocked and bacon has taken over onions as the food of choice! Any of orange team who go to check the luggage cart will find a parcel containing chocolate eggs, each the size of a chicken egg, filled with caramel. One for each of the orange team, including new members, come share in the reward!

Passengers who are not brand new will notice some changes to the train. There are now seven sleeper carriages. The kitchen and dining carriages have changed, one whole double carriage dedicated to each one. The kitchen has huge ovens and preparation space downstairs with a row of sinks and more preparation space upstairs. The dining carriage has two floors as well, each one with a long wooden table that fills the length of the carriage, benches to either side.

There is also the long awaited cinema. There are hundreds of films, some slightly familiar to those from worlds with films, others strange and unusual.

New passengers will find their tickets allow them into their cabins. They may need to negotiate for beds, especially if they want a top bunk!

Room is tight but there are storage cubbies at the head of each bed, beds fold up and the bottom bunks double as benches for the small table. There is storage under those benches and you will hopefully find a pillow for your bed if it has not been nabbed by a roommate, there are also spare blankets for if it gets cold.

Departure

A second horn sounds to encourage any stragglers and the doors slide shut. Veteran passengers know what will happen next, they may wish to brief their new companions.

The train sets off, the fog obscuring the view as it picks up speed.

"Welcome aboard, passengers of the Voidtrecker Express.” A female-coded artificial sounding voice echoes throughout the train. "Please take the time to read the passenger information displayed on the Information and Communication points and familiarise yourself with the layout and emergency exits."

The train begins to tilt, leaving the ground and rising up into the fog filled sky.

"Entrance into Voidspace imminent. New passengers are advised to remain seated. Entry into Voidspace in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one."

A shudder, a jolt, a lurch to the left. A flash of light, colourful and blinding. As quick as it happens it is done. The train seems to steady. The fog from the windows is gone now, replaced with a kaleidoscope of ever changing colours.

Welcome to the Void!

Comments

[lanjingyi]

I. Platform / boarding
[Waiting on the platform is a young man with a bright cheery smile, long black hair tied up in a ponytail, and bright eyes. When the jet black train docked at the platform, he gazes at the train in wonder. He has never seen a train before. He came from an ancient time, a rural place where vehicles are wagons and carriages were driven by horses.

A rucksack on his back, wearing a purple hoodie to denote what team he is on, and a white headband is worn around his head, it's pair of tails flows with the wind.

He waited on the platform long enough until it's time to board.]

II. On train / departure / Cabin 6-D / Meeting roomates
[At the sound of the horn, announcing a departure, the doors slide shut, and the train moves into motion, leaving the platform behind and into the sky. Jingyi boarded the train and was set to find his cabin room to unpack his things and settle in.

Once he arrives and finds his cabin becomes occupied with his roommates, he cheerfully smiles, shy at first, and then brightly]

Hello. I guess we're roommates, huh? [He cups his hand in the other and makes a bow, a custom ancient Chinese greeting of a child to formally greeting his friends and elders.] Courtesy name, Lan Jingyi. But you can call me Jingyi. Nice to meet you. Let's be friends!

III. Just wandering around passed his 9pm curfew / Can't sleep, won't sleep
[Gusu Lan Sect's rules dictate he should be in bed by 9pm, and he follows the rules always.

But! A curious mind wants to know. He has too much energy and is restless, so he can be seen wandering through the car back and forth, exploring the garden, the kitchens, the cinema car to binge on available the films and shows, and dining room to figure out the layout of the train. What is this? What is that? How does it work?

He should be in bed, but he can't sleep. Everything is new and exciting to him!]

IV. Wildcard
[Feel free to make a starter of your own! Any questions or plotting, hmu here! If met on TDM, feel free to remember or start over anew.]

[oripyrothy]

[ Platform ]
[ A teenage girl in a purple hoodie is looking around the platform, squinting to try and see through all this steam. As she does, her expression is moving between confusion, worry, and... anger? The anger might be a little unusual, but not more than the fact this girl also seemed to have horns made out of black stone, and a tail to match. ]

Silence! Sileeence! [ She calls out for a couple moments before her expression turns a little darker. Ifrit was decidedly unhappy, and didn't know what to take that out on.

She turns to whoever's around, now. ] OI!! Somebody mind telling me where the hell this is!? [ A small flame flares up around Ifrit's hand, and she lets it stay there, for the moment. It makes her look intimidating, she thinks, and thus more likely to get answers. ]


[ Train ]
[ Ifrit was... difficult. But she wasn't so difficult that she would stay out on that platform, not when the train was far more likely to provide her with clues and answers.

Okay, so there's a welcome message on the computer sceens, and a leaflet of some kind. Ifrit's not dumb, she knows there's gotta be some answers in these, even if they're lies and propaganda. It's just up to her to sort out the truth. She can do that.

However, she runs into a hurdle a little bit into her read-through.

Eyebrows furrowed, she... tries to get the attention of whoever's passing by. ] Hey, you. Can you read this? [ Ifrit waves the leaflet in their face. Yes, it's rude, but she needs to know what it says right?? ]


[ Sleeper 3, Cabin D ]
[ As soon as Ifrit makes her way into the cabin, she's tossing her rucksack onto the floor and trying to... take in. The scene. The room. Four beds, in two sets of bunk beds. In a tiny room. With other, equally tiny rooms nearby. ]

Four beds? Seriously, in a space this small? [ Her expression shows her usual frustration, but also some worry mixed in.

She doesn't even have her Originium monitor on her leg any more. She won't even know if it's flaring up or dangerous, and even at normal levels being this close could be dangerous to whoever they're throwing in here with her. Maybe.... maybe they'll all be Infected, too?

It's around then that she really takes in who else is with her. Right, um, hm. ] Um, sorry. I'm Ifrit, I guess I'm supposed to stay here now.


[ Medical Coach ]
[ It's not long after Departure that Ifrit finds herself exploring the Medical car. She's rifling through medicine, looking for anything familiar. Painkillers would be nice. So would something to keep her from dying. But painkillers are a more immediate concern. ]

I don't know any of this shit! [ She complains loudly, shoving around medicine as she looks through it all.

It'd help if she knew the name of whatever she was looking for. The stuff Silence always gave her was green. Sometimes orange? That didn't help much. ]

[hashtagparkerluck]

{ A. Platform out to greet the masses. }

It's new arrival day! Which some people on the train dread but Peter Park looks forward to it every two weeks! He's gets sorta dress-there's an attempt to comb his increasingly more wild curls and he throws on a hoodie. Out on the platform he glances around, looking for familiar faces or new faces that look like they might need a little bit of help. If they do, he quickly wonder over to them with a warm smile and a slightly awkward. "Hi, I'm Peter-Peter Parker."


{ B. The Cinema }

Guess who is moving in? He's not really but the moment he's back on the train he rushes off to find Cinema car. It's more beautiful than he imagined and he'd like to take this time to thank everyone that voted for films. They are truly the best. Now to scroll through the hundred and hundreds of movie titles and search to see if certain ones were available.

All these titles are just so beautiful and he might actually cry. Maybe. An excited "Oh man. Oh man, oh man." escapes him as he just continues scrolling through the titles.

Xue Yang || The Untamed

[xue_yang]

I. Platform
[First thing he notices is the clothes. Rather dull, kind of ugly but at least not uncomfortable. Then he notices the loss of his weapon, even despite rummaging through his bag. Someone is definitely going to die for taking that. And then he notices that everyone dressed basically the same and seem to be waiting to board the thing that just arrived. He can play this two ways..raise a fuss and see if it gets him out of here, or play along and find out who took his stuff. He opts for number 2 since he has a strange pull towards the train anyway.]

Why does it feel like they are herding us in like sheep?

[He better not be going to slaughter but considering what he had just been in the middle of on his world, he really wasn't far off from that anyway.]


II. Housing
Well isn't this quaint. [four beds..which means he's going to have to live with three other people? That's rather unfortunate. For them anyway. He tosses his stuff onto one of the beds, choosing the top bunk because he'd rather like to have the vantage point and is there really anyone who will argue with him?]

One more person then my previous living arrangement.

[An arrangement that actually had one too many in his opinion. He turns to look at the door as it opens to reveal another roommate and flashes a smiles that could almost be considered sincere if it wasn't just a little too toothy and with an evil glimmer to it.]

It seems we are sharing this space.

III. Rest of the train/Kitchen duty
[The first thing one should do is figure out the territory. There are quite a few things on this train that he hasn't ever seen before. The train itself is new to him so he decides to start from the front and work his way to the back and see just what is inside of it. Anyone he encounters is going to get greeted, curious to see who else is around. He seems innocent enough on the outside to anyone who doesn't know him at least, and he's a master at deceiving people to get what he wants. So for now he might as well play nice.]

[When he reaches the kitchen, he finds out that because of his team color he has to help with the cooking. Unfortunately for his team mates Xue Yang knows exactly zero about such an activity. He has done the shopping for food on a very few number of occasions but never the actual preparation. So instead of helping, it seems he is taking on a supervisory role as he leans against one of the preparation tables and snacks on some of the ingredients.]

I'd rather not assist otherwise someone might end up poisoned. [A seemingly innocent remark on his cooking abilities while having a slightly darker undertone to it that meant he might actually do such a thing.]

[ooc: feel free to encounter him anywhere on the train! He's going to be searching the whole thing!]

Platform!

[yilingdaddy]

"Jingyi?" A familiar voice calls with a laugh, and Wei Wuxian, dressed in similar clothes but in blue - and his hair is different, as he's taken to weaving it in one loose braid...with a white ribbon peaking out and tied off with the usual red, bangs still as loose and wild as ever.

He grins as he wanders over. "Welcome to chaos!" Just where the Junior always wanted to be, right?

Train

[les_magique]

I-

[Samata blinked and took a step back so she could focus on the paper being waved in her face.

The welcome leaflet?]

Yes, of course. Can't you?

[madcuriosity]

A: My adventures began when I followed a white rabbit [Platform]

"Curiouser and curiouser!" Alice wasn't quite sure how or why she went from taking the Red Queen and checkmating the Red Queen to be right back on a platform for what she could only guess was the Looking Glass train! Perhaps they were restarting the game and she was a pawn again? But shouldn't something have been said?

But she wasn't wearing her dress, when did she change? She scowled as she picked at the trousers and scrunched up her nose. The first order of business was getting her dress back! Wherever that was.

She looked down at Dinah, she didn't really remember Dinah being with her either but she was quite glad for it.

"You know, Dinah, this place just keeps becoming more and more strange," she held her cat close as she looked all about and at her wrist. "Why, I dare say we've must have gone right back to the house with how quick everything went! Look, Dinah! There's someone!" and they didn't look anything like a regular Looking Glass resident... or a Wonderland resident either. "Oh ah- I beg your pardon! Hello!" she gave a small run up to the person. "May I have a moment of your time, please?"

B: Then all of a sudden, I fell! [Departure]

Despite being seated, Alice had been looking out the window to try and see what was going on. She couldn't recall the train looking like this, let alone the Looking Glass looking like this. So while the announcement to remain seated was heard, Alice wasn't quite seated safely.

Dinah had clung onto the seat with her claws and remained where she was... Alice however, suddenly found herself on the floor, having fallen right of her seat, right into or perhaps onto someone else.

C: I found myself in a place where everything would be nonsense [Around the train]

After trying to make sense of the pamphlet and that she wasn't in the Looking Glass, Alice supposed she should explore... Maybe she would find some way to get home. She hugged Dinah a little closer, the little kitty meowing and purring, sensing Alice's distress.

"Dinah, what do you think I've gotten us into?" she sighed softly, looking up at the entrance of the next cabin. "I am glad though that you're with me, Dinah. It's much nicer to be with someone you care for, after all," she thought aloud as she kept trying to decide whether to enter or not. "I hope we can find something to eat in one of these cars, Dinah, I didn't get a single THING at the feast!" Dinah meowed in agreement. "How far do you think we are from it?" she asked to the cat but it could be quite easy to mistake she was speaking to you.

D: Wildcard
[If you don't see you a prompt you like, please feel free to make one or contact me at snickersnack]

yuna ⇀ final fantasy x-2

[kabe]

➵ platform

( falling like an endless dream, the world was filled with whiteness. the brightness that once engulfed yuna did so again, but instead of opening her eyes to the coldness of the farplane, instead she opened them to cloud of steam that filled the area she was in. she turned her head from side to side, gawking at anyone who may have been around. her eyes were bright and filled with confusion.

she had gone from being angry and confused about where she was, who shuyin was, and now she was even more confused. she was still unaware as to why she was here or where she even was [frankly she didn't know what the train was]. however as soon as she saw a bit of clearing, she began to run back and forth on the platform, looking around.

while she may have been placed into new clothes, and looked the same as others, some may notice the long braid she has hanging behind her hair.

running around on the platform, looking to see something familiar, eventually causes yuna to bump into someone [anyone] and fall to the floor on her knees. )

Just where the heck am I?

➵ train

( after recovering from the turmoil on the platform, yuna followed along with the others. while she had been worried about what she was getting into, she eventually calmed down when she saw the train looked familiar-

it had seating, storage, and seemed to move. it appeared it was more of a land ship, or something of that nature. nonetheless, yuna eventually sat down and remained silent for a brief moment before closing her eyes and thinking about what had happened prior to her arrival.

'don't touch me.'

the words rang through her mind as she began to remember the embrace shuyin [using someone else's body] gave her. she was so against being touched by someone who wasn't him and yet her body forced her to remain still. someone else's emotions and feelings had poured into her and she didn't enjoy that. however, the raw sensation was still in her.

with a soft sigh, yuna stood up, determined to figure out what was going on. however she just couldn't express herself or focus. instead she focused on what could comfort her-

and that was whistling. the sphere hunter began to walk up and down the train, whistling. it was a tune meant specifically to summon tidus to her; it wouldn't work, she felt, however it was all she could do in this moment.

naturally she would have to be stopped in one of the cabins at some point. )

➵ cabin

( once yuna settled down a bit and began to read more about the train, she eventually found her way to her bunk bed in cabin a. she wasn't sure if she could trust falling asleep in a place like this, so for now she opted to simply hang around her bed and observing the things she had.

once of the things that was in her rucksack was her grid and several dress-spheres. the orbs glowed brightly against the most basic grid she was sent with, but it meant she didn't always have to wear what this place gave her. her normal outfit consisted of a tank top, shorts, and boots, much more revealing and fun than what she had on.

so with no one in sight, she placed three of her spheres into the grid and stood up. she began to transform into her gunner outfit, holding up her guns towards the door. whoever walked in at that moment, would surely be scared. )

Platform!

[yilingdaddy]

"Because it is," a voice pipes up not far away. Wei Wuxian is dressed in similar clothes but in blue - and his hair is different from how cultivators usually wear it, as he's taken to weaving it in one loose braid...with a white ribbon peaking out and tied off with the usual red, bangs still as loose and wild as ever.

He looks the other man over, arms folding across his chest as if this is just another day. Just a slight smirk, rather than the annoyance he feels.

"Loose something?"

cabinmates

[blue_ice]

[ Kaiba has enjoyed the last week or so of having this room to himself. Unfortunately for him, that's over. He's settling for the evening now on one of the top bunks, wearing a white undershirt and fluffy orange pajama pants---definitely not his choice. And peeks over the edge of the bed. ]

That's your name on the door, so yes.

[ He doesn't have room to sit up up here, so he just curls on his side and looks down. ]

I'm Seto Kaiba, one of you passenger representatives. Might want to pick your spot now before the others show up.

Closed to Madoka

[sobothersome]

The odd but small black cat lay curled upon the platform a little ways from a rucksack. The cat is curled up tight on itself, clearly asleep, occasionally it would shiver.

It looks for all the world like a stray cat.

No one would think to look at the weak little thing and think; vampire. But that was what it was. Sleepy Ash of Sloth. The oldest of the Servamps. And currently in a strange place, his bond with his Eve severed, and his psyche weakened by that fact.

train

[blue_ice]

[ Kaiba's just brewing a cup of tea for himself, when a whistle rather unlike the teapots sounds nearby. He pokes his head out of the kitchen and sees a young woman he doesn't recognize. ]

Thought you were another teapot. Newcomers aren't usually that cheerful on the first day.

[oripyrothy]

[ Ifrit's face displays a lot of emotions. But the biggest one is frustration. Maybe... a little shame?

She bites back a growl. This person is helping. Maybe. ]

Not all of it. Is there something wrong with that? [ Her tone comes out a little more biting than Ifrit would've liked. But, well, she was never good at hiding her emotions.

She's been getting better at it since the Doctor started helping Silence teach her stuff, but she knows she's not as good as other kids her age are supposed to be. It's a sore spot. ]

A.

[madcuriosity]

Alice looked up when Peter came over to her and smiled, hugging her cat closer. She gave a little curtsy and then frowned at the fact that she was wearing trousers. "How do you do, Mr. Parker!" she smiled.

platform

[magicurls]

Mami sees a young girl among the crowd and immediately hurries over, a small slice of tart already plated for her. She smiles as she talks, her curls bouncing.

"Here. You must be so confused."

[xue_yang]

A familiar voice indeed since it seems like only moments before since they had been talking. He looks towards him, his smirk masks his frustration that this man hadn't been able to help him as he had wanted and now he is here.

"It's not nice to take people's things without asking." What he does find is that little piece of candy. An ironic memento that he leaves in the bottom of the bag for now. "But I'm assuming that means everyone here has lost something of value." Certainly he couldn't be the only one unlucky enough. Or was someone just smart enough to take it from him and leave everyone else armed?

[oripyrothy]

A representative, huh? [ Ifrit's proud she didn't stumble over that word, a little. But she knows what it means, and what it means is that maybe this guy can just... fix this. ]

So hey, I'm not sure rooming here is gonna work out great. Can you give me a different room or something?

[ She takes a moment to try and... size up this guy, while waiting for a response. She's honestly not able to really grab that much from him though... just that he's not obviously Infected.

Not great for him. ]

[madcuriosity]

"Oh! Hello! Ah- yes, I suppose I am. Did we restart the game?" Alice tilted her head, adjusting her hold on Dinah. "Are you part of the White Queen's team?"

[blue_ice]

Right, the next part of the speech. It's actually a somewhat ceremonial title. The actual person in charge, if you can call it that, is the train. We've never seen the conductor, never had direct communication with it other than cryptic nonsense. But it controls where we sleep, at least to a degree, the same way it brought us here and forced us into these uniforms.

You're welcome to sleep anywhere else you want on the train, but you'll be teleported back to one of these beds around 6 AM no matter where you were before. Don't ask me why or how, I'm still working on that myself.

[usernamesarecool]

{ A. Platform. }

At long last he's been reunited with his bow tie. He probably would have preferred the TARDIS but it's a start. Upon receiving his package he squirreled away to change and steps out on to the plat form feeling much more like himself-much more like the Doctor should. There is a slight change though, the Purple his out fit has a red tint to it so no one forgets he's on the red team, probably. This is what he wears now, this is cool.

He adjusts his bow tie proudly and moves off to greet new arrivals with a nice 'hullo!' and a friendly smile.


{ B. By the Engine. }

Still out on the platform, the Doctor is standing as close to the engine as he can get without being right up against it. He watches it carefully, pans the screw driver over it and checks more gibberish readings. He lets out a sigh and tries again, this time checking for life signs. He presses a hand gently against the engine and closes his eyes in attempt to establish a connection.

'Hullo.' he offers a friendly greeting first. To any onlookers it probably just looks like he's petting the train.


{ C. Medical Carriage. }

Once the train is off again, the Doctor goes to the medical carriage as he's been spending some time there recently and settles into a swivel chair. He's got quite a bit on his mind now so he might not notice the first person to come in.

[faithfulsupport]

Platform - Ignis is out on the platform wearing his blue hoodie. At first he's hanging back with his daughter Madoka at the hot chocolate stand the blue team runs as a sort of welcoming committee. She's always so enthusiastic as she hands out the warm beverage and Ignis keeps it stocked.

There's a sort of unfinished sewing project that the advisor has temporarily stashed behind the booth, keeping it out of sight. Plus there's a package that Madoka bought for Noctis that's tucked away. Green eyes idly flicker over to his team leads who are Raven and Bucky respectively and he nods at them as they pass by. That was something he wanted to discuss with them and Noct as well, but that would wait for now.

If anyone approaches, Ignis nods to them as a sort of hello and acknowledgement. "How may I be of assistance?"

Kitchen - He's noticed the changes and he's pulling the oven open admiring the space. But of course he's also noting how much more space there is to clean. Well when it's Blue's turn, guess Ignis is going to need some help with this. His eyes blink as he reads who is on kitchen duty and he immediately makes a mental note to talk to Tony and Noct about it with a slight groan.

But then he pulls his notebook out with all his recipehs from home. This month, or by best calculations is a certain train leader's birthday. And that's..going to require some planning to pull off so he might as well get started. So after jotting a few things down, he looks around. "Now where did they put that dratted coffee pot...."

Platform

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin steps out of the train onto the platform, expecting the usual swirling clouds of fog and smoke. But there's nothing of the sort today, just sunshine. He stares in wonder and then turns to do what he came to do, greet newcomers and help orient them to this most strange situation. ]

You mean the compulsion to get on board the train? It does do a bit of sheep-herding. Nobody like that much, though it does guarantee nobody gets lost before departure.

Waver Velvet | Fate/Zero AU | orange team

[littlefury]

[i; train]

[On his way to the luggage carriage, Waver paused to look over the newcomers; seeing no one he recognized, he sighed to himself and shook his head. Next time, definitely. Possibly. He was gone only a moment, leaving the carriage with a book clutched to his chest and a parcel in the pocket of his orange sweatshirt. The latter had been a surprise, but he wasn't going to just turn it down.]

[ii; dining carriage]

[From there, he took up his normal routine of sorts on platform days; a cup of black coffee and a quiet seat to observe people passing by.]

[Or to not observe them, this time. Because Waver's nose was firmly in a book today.]

[iii; wildcard]

[he'll probably hang around before heading back to his room, hit me for whatever]

[les_magique]

Well!

[Samata's tone was simultaneously slightly reproachful at Ifrit's rough attitude and embarrassed at having forced someone to admit that she couldn't read. How dreadfully awkward!

She searched for something to say for a second or two. Lacking any better ideas, she snatched the leaflet from Ifrit and proceeded to read it to her out loud. The whole thing.]

[magicurls]

"...I don't think we were playing a game? You must be confusing me for someone else. I know it's all scary right now, but we'll take care of you, okay?"

Mami takes a deep breath. "You're a passenger of the Voidtrecker Express now. It's a train that travels worlds across the universe, and it called us all here to help."