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voidtreckerexpress2019-07-01 06:05 am
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Intro: Into the Void
On the Platform
At first all you can see if steam. Billowing around you as you come to your senses. You are standing, in clothes that are not your own, styles you might not even recognise. You are carrying a rucksack on your back. For a moment it seems to just be you, alone in the white haze but then the steam begins to fade and you realise you aren’t alone.
The platform is not very large, but it hold ten people all facing the tracks, all wearing similar clothing. The tracks stretch left and right into steam, or perhaps fog. Nothing can be seen to either side. There is a wall around the platform and the only entrance is a security gate. It cannot be open, nor do there seem to be any staff.
What there is, is a train. Jet black and gleaming where it stands on the rails. Voidtrecker Express is emblazoned in the engine in gold. There is a hiss as the doors slide open.
Boarding, it seems, is the only option.
The Train
A horn sounds and anyone not on the train will feed the need to board immediately. The train is empty. But it seems ready for you. The stores are full of food, the carriages are all clean. Every screen on the train is showing the same message.
The luggage carriage, strangely, seems full of luggage. Or at least the cases. Suitcases, bags, trunks. All empty. But it at least will make good storage for your own bags once you have unpacked.
Carriages
Just like the message reads, your ticket is required to enter your cabin. The names are written on screens outside each cabin but once you are inside bed choice seems to be up to you. It might mean there is a fight for the top bunk.
Room is right 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 find a pillow for each bed as well as extra blankets, in case it gets cold.
Departure
A second horn, to encourage any stragglers to enter and then the doors slide shut. It seems, for good or for ill you are riding this train to… wherever it is going.
"Welcome aboard, passengers of the Voidtrecker Express." A female-coded artificial sounding voice echoes throughout the train. The train begins to move, shuddering along the tracks, fog obscuring the view from the windows.
"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 tilts, the movement changes. It seems, as impossible as it might seem to some, that this train is flying.
"Entrance into Voidspace imminent. New passengers are advised to remain seated."
A shudder runs through the train. A lurch to the left, a jolt to right, the feeling of going far too fast and then a flash, bright colours that are almost 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 multicoloured ever shifting void.
Your journey has begun.
At first all you can see if steam. Billowing around you as you come to your senses. You are standing, in clothes that are not your own, styles you might not even recognise. You are carrying a rucksack on your back. For a moment it seems to just be you, alone in the white haze but then the steam begins to fade and you realise you aren’t alone.
The platform is not very large, but it hold ten people all facing the tracks, all wearing similar clothing. The tracks stretch left and right into steam, or perhaps fog. Nothing can be seen to either side. There is a wall around the platform and the only entrance is a security gate. It cannot be open, nor do there seem to be any staff.
What there is, is a train. Jet black and gleaming where it stands on the rails. Voidtrecker Express is emblazoned in the engine in gold. There is a hiss as the doors slide open.
Boarding, it seems, is the only option.
The Train
A horn sounds and anyone not on the train will feed the need to board immediately. The train is empty. But it seems ready for you. The stores are full of food, the carriages are all clean. Every screen on the train is showing the same message.
The luggage carriage, strangely, seems full of luggage. Or at least the cases. Suitcases, bags, trunks. All empty. But it at least will make good storage for your own bags once you have unpacked.
Carriages
Just like the message reads, your ticket is required to enter your cabin. The names are written on screens outside each cabin but once you are inside bed choice seems to be up to you. It might mean there is a fight for the top bunk.
Room is right 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 find a pillow for each bed as well as extra blankets, in case it gets cold.
Departure
A second horn, to encourage any stragglers to enter and then the doors slide shut. It seems, for good or for ill you are riding this train to… wherever it is going.
"Welcome aboard, passengers of the Voidtrecker Express." A female-coded artificial sounding voice echoes throughout the train. The train begins to move, shuddering along the tracks, fog obscuring the view from the windows.
"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 tilts, the movement changes. It seems, as impossible as it might seem to some, that this train is flying.
"Entrance into Voidspace imminent. New passengers are advised to remain seated."
A shudder runs through the train. A lurch to the left, a jolt to right, the feeling of going far too fast and then a flash, bright colours that are almost 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 multicoloured ever shifting void.
Your journey has begun.
The train
"You're going to hurt yourself," she snapped, as a girl in familiarly red clothing moved to poke one of the kitchen appliances with her knife.
Re: The train
She doesn't know anything, she doesn't know how she got here. If Priestess Elena sent her. But she had said they were travelling to the mountains together. She had said just this morning. She wouldn't have not informed her if the plan had changed.
Would she? Had they decided they didn't want her after all? But why trick her?
"I will no be hurting myself." She had no idea what any of these things were but they didn't look dangerous.
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Ugh, whatever. She wasn't anyone's parent here.
"Which one are you? Sarai? Yuuki?"
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Little One wasn't sure there was a boss or leader here. No one seemed to know what was going on.
"I do be being neither of them. Who do you be being?"
Not Sarai or Yuuki. Or Peter or Tony. But that's still a few options.
Gwendolyn? Eva? Claire? Hibiki? Dread?
Not that it really matters. But sometimes people liked it when you used their names.
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"I'm Lightning." And because she couldn't help it, "You know I'll get your name eventually, right? There's only ten of us in here."
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Not all a show, she really was fascinated by everything in here. It was like some kind of surreal dream. "Be having good luck with that."
"Do you be knowing where we do be going?"
Probably not, but it's worth asking.
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"I wish," she put a healthy dose of the derision she was feeling towards her own ignorance into those two words. "Unless the void means anything to you."
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She knew a lot of things, she had lessons. She wasn't some street brat. Yet she had never heard of a void before.
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"It do be having fire inside?" She stood on tiptoes to try and see.
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Where was she? Why was everything weird? Why was she coming across things she had never been taught about?
Anger is beginning to rise in her, fuelled by fear. She doesn't understand any of this.
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She looked like no priestess Little One had ever seen but considering she had seen two priestess' in her whole life she is aware that there is much she doesn't know.
She turns her startled scramble into a hurried, clumsy bow. "I do be understanding now, priestess Lightning." Magic metal boxes. Sure. Perhaps Priestess Elena had sent her here after all. Was this the temple? It was nothing like Kant had described but...
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Wait, that's not right. Technically she's the servant of a god, which is what that word is translating as. It's complicated. "Look, don't worry about it."
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"Do this be being the Temple?"
She's pretty sure it's not, but she has to be sure.
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"Just... I'll see you later, okay? Don't poke anything with wires."
Hoping that the girl's new-found awe will stretch to not electrocuting herself, she makes a hasty exit into the next carriage.
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She watched as Lightning left and waited until she was sure she wouldn't run into her before following, to explore some more. Magic machine room left alone for now.