June Information and CR Meme

[voidtreckermods]

We hope everyone had a fun month! Some information for your ongoing journey.

IC Month

This month is still the month of Llama. Days can be found here.

The thought of the month is "With every falling apart, there is a coming together".

This means: Any thread with someone your character has never met before in-game will earn you two bonus points during May and June.

Threads that fulfil this criteria can be submitted during June AC (this month!). You may find it easier to keep a tracking list of threads for easy compiling of bonus AC!

The ingredient of the month is nori. Recipes are here. All the ingredients can be found in the storeroom, refreshed at the platform, and characters are welcome to make other food with them.

This month’s chore assignments are:
Blue: Meal Preparation
Purple: Laundry
Red: Cleaning kitchen and bathrooms
Orange: Cleaning bedrooms and passenger areas

The Train

As a reminder, you can list things that characters have added to the train here. Just comment under the header of the carriage you are adding to!

We would also like to give a quick reminder about the two styles of network we have in game. On the train we have the ICPs these can send messages to the whole train or a specific carriage or sleeper cabin. They are video or voice only! For more information on the ICPs please look here

When on missions the character's SCAs work as comm devices, allowing voice chatter and there is always a comm-specific post for that. For more information on the SCAs please look here.

Important Dates

This month’s event will be a train event on the 12th and 13th of June.

The TDM will be posted on the 16th. Reserves will open on the 18th. Apps are between the 22nd and the 29th, and AC will run between the same dates.

For a reference, please consult our calendar post. For player-led events, please see the player plot calendar.

Other Info

Thank you once again to both Ree and Nat for their wonderful NPC work in the last mission! If anyone wishes to sign up to help with NPCing on missions please go here!

Our new players (and old players who want a refresher) might find it useful to read gameplay before the platform. As always the mods are happy to answer any questions you might have.

We're delighted to announce that Ree will be joining the modteam as a mission assistant! This formalises a lot of what she has already been doing the last few months both as an NPC handler and helping with boss battles and other big mission events. It also means there will be a third person available to ask questions about missions and give out further information which should help things run a bit smoother and make sure everyone can be as involved as they wish to be!

Ree also made a shiny premise page too, which can be used to help recruit new players.

Points have been updated on the Roster.

Monthly Plotting

Feel free to use this post to plot anything you want for the next month! Here’s a structure you can use!

Name: [your name]
Contact info: [anything you want to share]

Character: [name]
About them: [canon, a brief description of who they are, any specific permissions]
Plans: [got anything in the works?]
CR wanted: [anything specific?]
Things to avoid: [just so lines can be drawn]

<b>Name:</b> <b>Contact info:</b> <b>Character:</b> <b>About them:</b> <b>Plans:</b> <b>CR wanted:</b> <b>Things to avoid:</b>

Comments

Matt's Characters

[bakegarasu]

Name: Matt
Contact info: atrypical, Discord: Matt#6266

Kia

[fivemilesdeep]

Name: Kia
Contact info: Kiaxet or Kiaxet#7085

[bakegarasu]

Character: Yosuke Otoha
About them: Ex-yakuza turned city protector turned passenger. A guy with a good heart that hides it with a lot of stoic looks and his lack of emotional intelligence. He also can't feel (physical) pain.
Plans: Trying to deal with the stuff he saw in the third circle last mission, checking on people, trying to learn some more things because he's getting bored... he's also volunteered to temporarily help take care of Red team while Lightning is away, along with Thanatos.
CR wanted: Teach him things! Not academic things, that's not his style, but something artsy maybe, if you can find the right medium for it.
Things to avoid: idk go for it my dudes

[miseris_socios]

Character: (AU) Ken Amada
About them: An 11 year old with a vengeance streak a mile wide, failed assassin of the guy who killed his mom. Now trying to adjust to train life and be seen as a competent person others can go to and also allow himself to be a kid sometimes.
Plans: Ken wants to step up to a more serious role on the train - he's not sure what that is, but he does know that he needs to be taken seriously. He's probably going to strain himself too hard at some point during the (OOC) month and end up stuck in bed for another day or so. He's also dealing with the fallout from the third circle last mission and is a little wary of using his Persona right now... he might try and snag Ann and/or Futaba and ask them stuff.
CR wanted: People to fuss at him, people to teach him skills... he knows he needs more but he hasn't had a chance to develop a lot.
Things to avoid: /shrug

[helborn]

Character: Casper LeBlanc, Jr. (CRAU)
About them: A demigod son of Hel turned worldhopper turned... worldhopper again. It's been three years since he left home and while he knows he has to go back, multiverse travel has been very good for him. Overexcitable and reliable and loyal to a fault, he likes helping people and nerding out and is here or anyone who needs to talk. Also comes with an ability permissions page.
Plans: idk maybe trying to see if he can find people for Operation Get Soul Back. but he has to find people who can actually... move souls around.
CR wanted: Other divine people, other teenagers who had their lives turned upside down pre-train... also just. Everyone else.
Things to avoid: idk he's pretty adaptable with most CR

[katzenpfote]

Character: Caleb Widogast
About them: Caleb is a wizard from a D&D world with limited tech (most advanced they encounter regularly that's pure tech is probably guns which only came around in the past 20 years or so) and a lot of shit going on under the surface. He and the rest of the Mighty Nein - a semi-bumbling group of antiheroes and fuckups - have (somehow) managed to fight off a lot of it, stop a war, stop an ancient god breaking free... killed another 'god'... you know. #justdndthings
Plans: He's settling in and hopefully will have his components back so he can actually be useful in terms of spells. Unfortunately that means he is back to being somewhat smelly, though if I can get him a Haversack (it's like a Bag of Holding) he might keep stuff in there. Once they hit a planet he's summoning his familiar back as well.
CR wanted: Magic nerds, other medieval fantasy-esque people, any sort of academic people... he's here for that shit.
Things to avoid: Anyone that brings up the subject of gaslighting (though he doesn't know that term) or memory alteration is going to have a very difficult time with him. He's got an opt out on his permissions page in case anyone needs to check triggers that might come up or opt out of any of them.

[yondu]

Name: Bianca
Contact info: Disc crotchetyneanderthal#4935 | PM any journal

Yondu Udonta | MCU | Blue Team

[yondu]

Character: Yondu Udonta
About them: Cabin U1:B
-Former slave to the Kree Empire turned Space Pirate Biker. Exiled from his group and still upset over it. Raised a Problem Child who was part Space God.

-On the train he's been adopted by a couple of kids and he's made friends, some he's been too stupid to fully recognize as friends and not just acquaintances that are going well so far. He's also still kind of terrified of people hurting him, but he was called family by a couple of people and told he was loved in a friend context which is completely new for him. He's also one of the Blue Team Dads.

-I had been having him have an 'out of his league' crush that was causing some funny awkward moments but I went so hard during the event no more embarrassment for him. He gets to recuperate a little of his pride. Not too much of it, but a little, as a treat.
Plans:
-Mission Trauma: I shoved some of his stuff out in the open, as in a couple of people have actually seen Stakar at this point, they saw what happened to his crew, and a couple of people know he's pretty much given up on life in general. The only current reason he's still trying is that there are some people that depend on him.

-Heist-Planning Brain Activated: He's getting some locks to help teach some hoodlums to improve their lock-picking skills for mission purposes. He knows there's a couple on blue team who listed it in their skills but he'd help anyone learn who has an interest in not being taken captive. After the last mission he's getting worried about the Ministry taking notice and starting to take some precautionary escape planning out of pure paranoia.

-ICP Adventure: He's going to be doing a little experiment with Mono where they try to see where he can reach through the ICPs/if there are parts of the train the ICPs go that they don't know about yet. This is just for the silliness of Mono bringing back random-ass shit ala Baby Groot. If anyone has some non-essentials they're willing to have go missing because Mono decided to present them to Yondu and mildly horrify or surprise him, please let me know. They'll be given back fairly quickly (he'll do a lost and found box in the standard car).

-Nature Stuff: Centaurians in Marvel Comics have a tight connection with nature, and I've been vaguely using it as Yondu being like, "I like these plant-filled places because they remind me of my homeworld that I barely remember." He never learned to explore it being raised the way he was. Someone else with a connection might be able to point out, "Hey, you might have a solid reason".
CR wanted: General stuff, just hit me up, and I want some bawdy scumbag conversations that I can make some terrible jokes with.
Things to avoid: Breaking his fin or arrow are no-goes, no long-term mind control.

Entrapta | She Ra and the Princesses of Power | Orange Team

[sciencegirl]

Character: Entrapta
About them: Cabin L2:D
-Mad scientist with the ability to move her hair (and it's constantly moving) and works on robots. Has experience with magitech and sees magic as an integral part of invention. Loves any chance to work with other scientists.

-Royalty who does not act at all like royalty. Princess of a mining kingdom named Dryl and lived in a castle (Crypto Castle) that was basically a labyrinth. Has a crush on a giant bat creature alien clone.

-She was working with void-sensitive radios and getting other opinions from people. After a couple of months of work she finished a combat bot named Claudette. Finally finished up a drone project she prodded out for a while and did some thorough investigation of the Hard Light tech. She used her experience after the illusions on Erda to try and help people during the last mission.
Plans:
-Medical Aid: She's offered to help out the Medical staff with Cybernetic issues (she has experience from helping in Season 3 and with removing/deactivating the mind control chips in Season 5). So if someone wants to have her help she will be available for it.

-Illusion Stuff: She's going to try some various illusion solutions (as many people will be) to try and prevent herself from being affected by them because she knows she's weak to them. She wants to augment her welding/protective mask to be able to protect her.

-Meta-plot Research: She's going to order some conductive resin and using the stones she salvaged from the Endless River and start building antennas as part of a project to see how distant a signal they can send. I'd love her to have help.

-Claudette the Service Animal Robot: She's going to order some stuff to invest a little more effort into making Claudette an effective mission aid. She's normally in the gymnasium, and she probably actively enjoys it if people shoot at her 'cause it means she gets to play dodge. So long as they don't destroy her (she needs to be able to regenerate) and they are decent to her Entrapta's not going to complain.

-Soul Lantern: She's going to be trying to help Soldat with his soul in a lantern problem. She'll subtly ask around about people that have experiences that have some sort of 'bound object' or wobbly soul experience.
CR wanted: She's a fixit fidgety scientist so make use of her.
Things to avoid: If someone comes at her hard with negative CR she'll just avoid them. It's not productive to engage with someone like that.

Alvin Murphy | Z Nation | Red Team

[zombiemessiah]

Character: Alvin Murphy
About them: Cabin L4:D
-Was called the 'savior of humanity' and the 'zombie messiah' back in his universe and love-hates the role. He's a mind-controlling king of the zombies who runs a club called 'Limbo' and dresses to suit his stage of evolution (apocalypse permitting). Once took over Spokane, Washington and renamed it Murphytown. Has been both blue and white in the past, but is currently crimson-skinned and straight-up decided to dress for the devil look.

-Origin story is your generic "science experiment gone awry" after he was strapped down and mauled after being given a test vaccine. He's more than happy to play along with scientists so long as he's a willing participant. When he's not there's hell to pay. He's covered in some really rank scars (cw for those here).

-He's admitted to maybe a couple of people that he's been a father, but not really shown off how much his daughter's passing messed him up. He got to play tacky bartender. He's flirted a lot and noted how obscenely hot the adults on the train are. One of his best friends here is a telepathic alien.

-There is usually either brain cubes in the freezer, a brain in a brown paper wrapper, or black cookies with red Zs on them. He labels his stuff now. DO NOT EAT MURPHY'S COOKIES they're zombie crave friendly.

-Infected a bunch of people on the last mission but then suffered psychic withdrawal almost as soon as he was back on the train. He can also make jewelry out of scrap metal now thanks to the ability he consumed there.
Plans:
-Generic AF: Still want him to learn necromancy or cultivation. Had a vague plan to do "Alien Jello Shots" at some point in which he downed a neuromod from Prey? Other than that, I don't really have a whole lot of plans other than buy some nice clothes and have him bitch about stuff.
CR wanted: People to snark with or at. I'd like to have him have a genuinely serious moment at some point but it's difficult to wring out of him.
Things to avoid: He gets real touchy if people suggest that 'if he behaves he won't get hurt'.

Bucky/Soldat | MCU | Purple team

[worthallthis]

Name: Gail
Contact info: cacopheny @ plurk

Character: Bucky Barnes AKA Soldat
About them: Former brainwashed amnesiac assassin for HYDRA, who died after the split-second decision not to actually kill Steve Rogers and then spent a year and a half in a dead world where they slowly learned how to People again. Soul/life force/whatever is in a lantern that they carry around all the time, which I sometimes forget to mention in narration. They're on Purple team, but always swap for somebody on the kitchen chores so they can cook instead, and often do missions with Red team.

Plans: Soldat spends the majority of their time in the kitchen, working on daily meals and mission prep work, with some time in the evenings in the training car helping people learn basics like how to fall, how to break holds, and how to hit where it hurts the most so their students can run away when necessary. On the last mission and in the aftermath, they basically displayed to most of the train that they've disassociated to the point of alters being able to take over their body, so there's a lot of fallout and explanations going on and/or going to happen there. Plus Steve Rogers just left right after discovering this so there's some definite guilt and fear there that other people might reject them for it, especially considering one of their headmates is a ruthless assassin and another is a very self-focused monster.

CR wanted: People they can adopt and look after, people who can maybe slowly convince them to open up and stop focusing on working so hard to be useful, people to poke at the disassociation/headmates thing. Open to positive and negative there. Trying to mom or dad at them will probably not be easy, but I'm happy to put them into a situation for people to give it a go.

Things to avoid: Personhood, mind control, memory loss, giving orders. ... well, not necessarily avoid? Because I absolutely like poking Soldat's issues, just be aware it will result in freakouts or stonewalling. Also not interested in romance for them at this time.

[fivemilesdeep]

Character: Ryo
About them: Sleeper Lower 2 cabin B, orange team, OC from a fantasy/magic-heavy world! 16-year-old healer who has a weird contradiction of really liking people and also being worried they'll hate him for absolutely no reason. (His world took a perfectly good healer and gave him a tragic backstory and now he has anxiety.) He's gotten a lot better at coming out of his shell, and has a bit more confidence, though he can still be a bit shy and is still trying to find his balance. That said, if he meets someone in pain or needing help, he goes into healer mode and that's all confidence and authority. He knows what he's doing and he wants to help. Basically, he's a little ball of compassion and anxiety. Please be his friend.

Plans: It was a tough mission. He's tired. He's going to try to help people as best he can, but he also really needs people to convince him to calm down and take care of himself. Other than that, someone please introduce him to the wonders of modern technology, including video games. Also, cooking lessons are always welcome!

CR wanted: Adopt him! Be his friend! Let him take care of you! I welcome negative CR; that said, if it starts negative, it might not improve, because Ryo can hold a grudge.

Things to avoid: OOCly, just don't link me pictures of spiders; ICly, nothing!

Notes: Please fill out his permissions post! Ryo's Sense allows him to pick up on life energy and a few details, and having that information helps me out quite a bit.

[worthallthis]

Entrapta you're the best :<

Soldat has built a radio before but it was like. Old-timey, ham-radio style. Not sure if that would help her endeavors there or not?

[worthallthis]

Oh my god Mono and Yondu need to steal Soldat's little ghost friend :D It will be an adventure for all of them.

(Also they love you Yondu. Keep trying. You deserve it.)

[yondu]

At least with that one Yondu'd have an immediate "...Uh oh." and get it back to Soldat as soon as possible.

It can hang out with the chicken and the pigeon and the windmill and the ugly ass frog in the meantime.

[sciencegirl]

It could! Apparently, the radio is just like a regular radio with special fiddly bits. She will be buying another one to let other people dismantle it. If she brings it up to him maybe he can help with some on-board testing stuff.

Roland Crane | Ni No Kuni II | Purple Team

[adregem]

Name: Lexi
Contact info: PM this journal, or Discord #Titallenial7701.

Character: Roland Crane
About them: Your Isekai Resident President, looks like a freshly baked twenty-year old on the outside, functions as a fine forty-eight year old wine on the inside. Audits and reads for a hobby, mildly sarcastic, current Purple lead, enjoys writing things down for posterity. Holds a vested interest in the protection of others, doesn't know what it's like to "not work??", tries not to dad things around but he can't help it sometimes. Has a higgledy named Rannygazoo the Resolute that hangs about if you're pure of heart enough to see him. Please don't mess up the hair.

Plans: June's a train event month, so he's up for whatever that'll be. Will probably throw up a catch-all log since the last time he had one was November 2020. Interestingly, last month marked Roland's real-life one year anniversary on the Voidtrecker! He's been around since the Terra mission a couple of worlds back and was involved in heavy metaplot since Nion, so I'm absolutely keen to have him discuss theories, how to get home's, and all that jazz with whoever wants to catch up on what he knows and believes in particular. He'll also be donating some of the books he bought in his attempt to know more about the void in the Library too. And as always, cute, fluffy, SOL are always in high demand!
CR wanted: Any and all, though negative CR is probably going to be a no-no for me, personally. Maybeeee next month? LOL

Things to avoid: For the player, mentions of overt angst, ED's, weight loss, weight dynamics, vomiting. Not in the right mind-space either to tackle any super detailed, explicit suicidal imagery/attempts thereof as well, but if I can get a TW in advance, I won't mind as much and can be spoken to if it's integral to CR :) Other than that, it's all good.

[namethattune]

Character: Siebren de Kuiper (Sigma)
About them: Sleeper upper 3 cabin A, orange team, from Overwatch. A brilliant astrophysicist who experienced a lab accident that gave him gravity powers and shattered his sanity. He's generally kind and interested in others' work, and he's doing his absolute best not to let anyone know about his mental health issues. He's also questioning quite a bit about his role back home ever since an event gave him the space and time to realize that something back there is Wrong. He's a shield tank, so he's absolutely the protective type.

Plans: Very little specific - he's mostly just keeping on keeping on being Gravity Grandpa/Science Grandpa, and he may be working with other science people and trying to convince others to vote for a lab car next time. He's also happy to help people settle in as needed.

CR wanted: Everything! More responsible adults. More kids to adopt/protect. More people to sass at, because he absolutely can and I don't mind negative CR. More perceptive people who will know something is off, even if he refuses to talk about it.

Things to avoid: I'm trying not to mentally break Siebren, so if a thread starts pushing too far in that direction, I may ask for a direction change or a rewrite.

[wisdominshadows]

Name: Mary
Contact info: delatour

Character: Zelda, Princess of Hyrule (no, not that one. Or that one. Or- has this joke gotten old yet?)
About them: The only child of the king of Hyrule (who isn't allowed to have a name until 2002, but I suppose he's dead and doesn't need one), Zelda's typically princessy childhood was abruptly shattered by the discovery of badly-interpretable prophetic powers, the ambitions of would-be god Ganondorf of the Gerudo, and the murder of almost everyone she knew and loved in a palace coup. Thus began a wild and rather depressing adolescence on the run, while she adopted the identity of an ambiguously gendered ninja from a tribe who worshipped one of her ancestors as a goddess.
And then the rest of Ocarina of Time happened, and she started rewriting reality in an attempt to make a friend happy, an action that has no adverse effects whatsoever.... But no, really, she's a quiet teenager who loves music and history who could always use some friends.
Plans: Well, I think I have a science book I need to finish so Zelda can give her copy back, so it won't surprise anyone that she'll be in the library a lot. Otherwise, the Greenhouse or the Music Coach are always good places to find her.
CR wanted: Anyone who's interested in music or magic would probably be a good fit for Zelda.
Things to avoid: I'm generally fine with most things, including most breaches of the fourth wall. I would appreciate it if anyone who did the latter were to give me a heads up first.

Kazie's girls

[forceshadowed]

Name: Kazie
Contact info: notanybunny

Jaisyn | Purple

[forceshadowed]

Character: Jaisyn Solo (AU)
About them: Jedi, animal whisperer, the girl with the dad jokes!
Plans: She's starting a zoo I guess?? Apologies in advance to her roommates. But that's also mostly a distraction as she tries to think about WTF happened on that mission and what's the deal with the train. Lots of meditating and philosophizing for her, even as she continues to be a good Purple and do chores.
CR wanted: People to crush on. She already has a few, but let her meet and get flustered by cute people. Has a weakness for redheads and serious, broody types who don't really get her jokes but somehow seem entertained by them... lmao.
Things to avoid: Can't think of any at the moment.

Lisa's Collection of Good Beans

[paopuofyourlife]

Name: Lisa
Contact info: Plurk: faysdarkangel, Discord: faysdarkangel#6874

[morganizedchaos]

cute fluffy slice of life you say

how do you feel about cats, Roland

No but in general, re: metaplot, if Roland didn't hear about/attend Senku's information-sharing session while they were off-train, Ghost made transcripts (yay, thought to text) that he's happy to share to catch people up.

Kairi | Kingdom Hearts | Purple

[paopuofyourlife]

Character: Kairi
About them: A princess of heart, keyblade weilder and all around sweetheart who sees a side of people they might not realise, but if you piss her off she will get mad at you.
Plans: The only plan I have 100% is Kairi getting Paopu Fruit and giving them to people who want them. Not sure how many I will get but it will be something she can keep buying for people if needed. The only other plan she would have is training. All of the training.
CR wanted: Friends, training buddies, a friendship that can change over time, anything and everything.
Things to avoid: N/A

Yugi Mutou | Yu-Gi-Oh! | Orange Team

[sizedoesntmatter]

Character: Yugi Mutou
About them: A gamer who loves his friends to the point where he would be willing to throw his life away so long as they were okay. Basically, he's a sweet adult, but can go to extremes to help friends if necessary.
Plans: Well Atem is coming to this platform so Yugi will mostly be dealing with that and adapting to that thing. Also officially sharing a bed with Kaiba come platform to, so a lot of things happening for him to handle.

Apart from that, I don't have an awful lot planned, but I am thinking of having Yugi learn actual self defense.
CR wanted: All of the friends. He does need them.
Things to avoid: N/A