Echoes in a Void

[voidtreckermods]

"Good morning passengers, today is day twenty of the month of Horseshoe." The day begins normally at least. Passengers wake in their bed, perhaps get up, begin to start their morning.

It is perhaps less than an hour after waking that the first problems occur, turbulence making the train shake and roll. It's not quite bad enough to throw most sure footed passengers off their feet, but it is not very pleasant. Anyone near the window will notice the void looks different. The colours are bolder and shift more violently than usual.

"Passengers of the Voidtrecker Express, please brace yourselves for a Voidstorm." The announcement is not that useful, but a moment later the ICPs all show a message.

The void continues to shift and swirl, violent and mesmerising.

Outside

It might be that the strange effects of the void draw them to the windows, or it might be that they hear a voice. A friend, a lover, a mother. Calling them. Soft and sweet, high and playful.

Join us. It's tempting, faces show in the void outside, pleading and cajoling. Passengers might even see places, a home, a land long lost. Just outside, not out of reach at all. All they have to do is join them, enter the chaos of the void. Or at least stay close, watch through the windows, stare into the void...

Inside

The shapes outside the train are not the worrying thing, as the storm progresses people will start noticing that the train seems fuller than usual. An empty carriage becomes full in a moment, people eating and playing or reading. A friend passengers thought long gone walking down the corridor towards them. Or perhaps it is not a voidtrecker that they know, but a stranger in uniform going about their business, seemingly normal until they pass through them, leaving them chilled and weak.

They gravitate towards those who are alone, following them, gathering around them, sapping them of energy.

Safety in Numbers

Sticking together is the safest course of action. Being together, physical contact or just shared activities will make the echoes leave them alone. Start a game, encourage a beanbag reading circle. Anything to keep people distracted and together.

Stay strong, Voidtreckers, the storm shall soon pass.

(OOC: Here is the ooc information for this event. This post can be used as a catch all, or you can start your own posts set during this time.)

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[knifewithnoname]

She barely hears the request, she's stood by a window glaring out into the void. The face in the void keeps changing, her sister, Kant, Taiwin, even Juni and Sami. All calling to her. All she needs to do is leave the train, join them.

So her face is pressed up against the window, as she tries to think of ways to get out. She hears A-Qing's voice, but it is not enough to make her turn.

[spikelet]

Rapid calculations go through a-Qing's head. She could just forge ahead and grab her. She could yell, or bump into her... but she's seen the knife the girl carries, and she'd rather not startle her into using it. So hugging her like she did for Willow is out of the question.

Yelling it is, for now.

"Hey, stop ignoring me!"

[knifewithnoname]

She didn't turn, she heard, just. But it wasn't enough, the draw of the void was too much. Her sister... Kant... Taiwin. They all wanted her to go back. They weren't even mad. They just wanted her to return.

She wanted to return. She stared, the shifting colours dancing through her mind.

[spikelet]

"Ugh!" Her foot stomped, narrowly avoiding Buttercup's heel, and she decided to go with the slightly less advisable of her plans. She dropped the blankets on the ground bar one, and then threw that one over the girl's head.

"Sorry about this!" She wasn't, really, but saying it gave her the moral high ground when she got bitten or stabbed. And she was confident that she could maybe wrestle an eleven-year-old wrapped in a blanket away from a window.

Maybe.

[knifewithnoname]

The world went dark. The void disappeared from her sight. The voices were still there but the darkness, it broke her out of her staring, broke through the desire to do nothing but stare.

She felt a moment of relief. Then panic. Because someone had just thrown a blanket over her head, the world was dark. She twisted, lunging out to fight whoever was trying to kidnap her, scrambling to try and get the blanket off and fight past her assailant.