voidtreckerexpress | Event: Expulsion (Day 24)

"Good morning passengers, today is the twenty fourth day of the month of Apple." The morning announcement sounds as usual as dark turns to the ever shifting colours of the void outside the train windows. Some passengers may stir. It might be that they are an early riser or bad sleeper and get out of bed the moment the announcement wakes them or perhaps they roll over and go back to sleep.

Either way the morning rolls on for a few hours whatever they might be doing. Until a sudden judder runs through the train, followed quickly by another. Much like bad turbulence. Really bad turbulence. A third follows and there is a crackling sound before an alarm starts going off blaring loudly, the lights begin flashing red, white and red again.

"Warning. Void engines failing. Warning. Void engines failing. Warning Expulsion from void imminent." More shaking, worse each time, enough to knock them over and then a bang, the train plummets into darkness and lurches, sending everyone flying...

… They never crash land. Instead they float, suspended in the air. In the darkness it is hard to orient themselves or even understand what is happening. There’s a roar in their heads as pressure builds, their ears pop. "All systems critical." Breathing is hard, for one terrifying moment there seems to be no air to breathe.

"Oxygen levels stabilising." They can breathe, the pressure in their heads fades, their ears eventually stop ringing. "Pressure levels stabilising." They are still floating, suspended in darkness. "Gravity systems critical".

Emergency lighting flickers on finally, a red glow from either end of each carriage, in the cabins and along floor strips, enabling them to move without bumping into anything. If they can figure out how to move at all that is. Outside the windows is dark. Not the blackness of the void at night but the deep vastness of space. A few moments pass, enough time to just about process that fact before the voice over the speakers is heard once more.

"Passengers of the Voidtrecker express, due to technical issues we are currently experiencing void engine failure. Thank you for your patience as we endeavour to continue our journey as quickly as possible. We ask that all passengers help in securing the train for re-entry into the Void and on behalf of the Voidtrecker Express I apologise for any inconvenience caused."

Then there is silence. Broken only, no doubt, by the passengers on this now stranded train.

(OOC: Event information is here.)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

The cold was the worst. Floating was actually sort of fun once she got the hang of it and she was used to the dark, the red lights were dim but they were enough for her to be able to make things out. But the cold was bad. She had already been quite cold on the train, it was nothing like Gauig where it was warm even at night time. But this was even worse than normal.

She had gathered her clothes and her sleeping bag from the luggage compartment. Getting dressed was hard but she had mostly managed.

She's still cold though so had gone in search of extra blankets and also her boots. Now she was out in the corridor trying to figure out how to get them on her feet when she spotted Conan, also wrapped in blankets.

"Do you be being alright? Do you be needing more blankets?"

He was younger than her, so she should at least make an attempt to check he's not freezing to death.

Conan had managed to find two blankets to wrap around himself. At his size, he'd been able to wrap each one several times, and was already having trouble moving around without dropping the outer blanket.

And yet he was still freezing. He hated days like these.

"I don't think more blankets will help," he grumbles.

"I do no be thinking they will be hurting." She would be wrapped in blankets, but instead they are floating nearby and she is still struggling to get her boots on, she hasn't worn them since her very first day because they were stupid and stompy but she figured they would be warm.

"Do you be having all of your jumpers on?"

He sighs. "Everything I could find. I feel like I'm wrapped up inside a sleeping bag."

And he was still cold.

"Good. It do be being stupid cold." She hates the cold. She's just decided right now. She can't remember ever being this cold in her whole life.

"Maybe we should be moving around to be keeping warm, but it do no be being like we can be running."

He just nods and tries to retreat deeper inside the blankets.

"We could try going back and forth between the walls, but its tough to move fast enough to warm up at all."

"And if we do be going too fast we will be bouncing around like a soccer ball, but we will no be being able to control it."

Or at least she hadn't been able to, before Peter rescued her. Slowly seemed to be the key to moving without losing control. But slow was not good for warming up.

"Exactly." It was still just calculating angles, but to move fast enough to actually get some exercise would be risking getting hurt.

"Maybe we could try anchoring to the wall somehow?"

"Anchoring." She knew what that meant. It's how ships held themselves still in the water.

"We would be needing rope and something to be using as a hook. Maybe we can be finding something in the luggage carriage."

There were a lot of random things there and in the store room. Between the two they might be able to make something.

Conan nods. "That's a good idea." And it was at least something to do. He was finding the boredom of being unable to do anything but float almost worse than the cold.

"Okay then we will be going there to be getting some. Can you be moving or should I be bringing some back?"

He looked like he was struggling, but moving at all was probably better than not.

"Just give me a moment." He twists around in the air as he shifts the blankets into a more travel-friendly arrangement.

She waited while he moved the blankets and then nodded down the corridor. "Let's be going."

Hopefully they would find something useful.

Event: Expulsion (Day 24)

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