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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerooc2021-07-31 08:34 am
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August Information and CR Meme!

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

IC Month

This month is the month of Merriment. Days can be found here.

The thought of the month is "Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something".

This means: Any thread where you tag into another character's post or top level will earn you two bonus points during July and August.

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

The ingredient of the month is coconut. 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: Cleaning bedrooms and passenger areas
Purple: Meal Preparation
Red: Laundry
Orange: Cleaning kitchen and bathrooms

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 to which you are adding. There is also a handy spreadsheet here!

When passengers return to the train after picking up new arrivals they will find sleeper carriage 5 has been removed- the four passengers from that carriage have been reassigned to different cabins, though no room-mates have been split up.

They is a slight change to the armoury- additional communal lockers- one for each team and a multi team locker. Information about that can be found on the settings page and the list of communal supplies can be found here.

Important Dates

This month’s event will be a train event running between the 12th and 17th of August.

The TDM will be posted on the 17th. Reserves will open on the 19th. Apps are between the 22nd and the 29th, and AC will run between the 23rd and 30th.

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

Other Info

The shop has been updated with Large Items. Points have been updated on the roster.

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.

Thank you as ever to both Ree and Nat for their help with NPCs in the last mission. A huge thank you to everyone who took part and who welcomed our 4th wall guests.

For anyone who missed it- please read over the consequence notes for the end of So Familiar a Gleam.

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]

averyusefultray: (Default)

TEAM YUBSIE

[personal profile] averyusefultray 2021-07-31 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: Yubsie
Contact info: [plurk.com profile] yubsie, Yubsie#4558

averyusefultray: (Default)

HERA SYNDULLA

[personal profile] averyusefultray 2021-07-31 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Character: Hera Syndulla
About them: Purple team, sleeper Upper 4D. She's rebel scum taken from about a year before the original trilogy kicks off. She's a talented pilot (not super relevant on a train but hey after that last even she can fly), a pretty good tactician (actually relevant!) and fiercely protective of anyone she has decided is one of her people. She's Space Mom in a sea of dads on this train. :p

Plans: Yondu and Della have some flight simulator related plans, she's teaching people to play dejarik and she's trying very hard not to think about what she would want in a peaceful future. The fact that the main distraction she's trying is adopting half the train is... a choice. She also has train chores, though she is helping with prep since Purple is on kitchen duty this month and she sure can't cook

CR wanted: Adopting younger characters is in her nature. Fortunately for youthful protaganists her parenting style is "If I bring the impulsive kid WITH me to do the dangerous thing I at least can see them. If I tell them not to do the thing they will do the thing where I can't help them if they get in trouble."

SHe could however really use some Grownup Friends since she's wrestling with Grownup Worries.

Things to avoid: Nothing offhand
acapriciousthing: (Default)

DEATH

[personal profile] acapriciousthing 2021-07-31 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Character: Death
About them: Sleeper Upper 2, Red team. Will probably never do Red's actual mission. Death is a little ray of sunshine who loves you no matter what and will not judge. She's good at drawing people out and loves Disney movies. She doesn't sleep but know mortals need that...

Plans: She's judging the illusion generating entity just a little bit.

CR wanted: Give me your difficult people, she'll draw them out. Give me your undead and your dead in canon people.

Things to avoid: ICly she won't like you much if you're a notably powerful being who meddles in mortal affairs but no one is quite on the scale that gets a REAL Time For Death's Opinion.
theotherphil: (phace touch)

[personal profile] theotherphil 2021-08-01 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Where would you like to assume Phil and Death ended, CR-wise, for the mission?

Also any juicy marriage insights that Phil should know that might not get brought up? Nicknames, personal quirks? On Phil's end, just know that as a spouse he was pretty corny, a little self-centered as always, but affectionate and well-meaning.

(Heck, we could also do a little PSL thing where they get to talk about feelings and back-date it if you are into that. If not, that's cool too!)
fivemilesdeep: (Default)

[personal profile] fivemilesdeep 2021-08-01 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
Ryo got death powers from the latest mission (they're a bit like last rites powers - able to lay a soul to rest/make sure it goes where it's supposed to go, etc) and hasn't figured it out yet. IDK if Death would pick up on that, but if she would, that might be fun to play with!
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MORDIN SOLUS

[personal profile] theverymodel 2021-07-31 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Character: Mordin Solus
About them: Sleeper Lower 2-D, Red team. Mordin is the very model of a scientist salarian. He's an old man who has regrets but is somewhat at peace with them because he's done what he can to set the mistakes of the past right. Yes, that's right, that's his canonpoint. He still loves science and wants to make things better, especially if he's the only one he's sure will do it right.

Plans: He has about seven new science studies he wants to do. Comparative genetics across universes and determining if there's a physiological reason staring into the Void gives you a headache. He probably also wants to know what exactly anchoring did to mess people up...

CR wanted: Science people! Also people to discuss ethics with. Or music, tell him about your music.

Things to avoid: Nothing offhand
subcircuits: (go young lover)

[personal profile] subcircuits 2021-08-01 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
/slaps hands on the table
SCIENCE
crimsonsnow: (girls just wanna have fun)

Jade Curtiss [AU] | Purple Team

[personal profile] crimsonsnow 2021-08-01 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Name: rar
Contact info: [plurk.com profile] rarsneezes, or on discord! (I have DMs from anyone in the VT server turned on!)

Character: Jade [AU]

About them: From a Tales of the Abyss/Xenoblade 2 fusion crossover in which he's a blade who had to escape his shitty driver. If this is meaningless to you, that's fine, he's not going to talk about the latter and the former really only means he has a lot of opinions about magic rocks and magic constructs (being technically both himself), as well as Magic In General, and is extremely fascinated about the differences in magics/magical energy between worlds. So if you want to hit him up for a converastion about that, then by all means!

Otherwise he's just snarky bastard scientist with an ice magic leaking problem. He's only been on the train two IC months, but he's slowly warming up to it. Come poke him, the worst that could happen is you all die! (This is a joke.)

Plans: My own IRL schedule permitting, I'm thinking of Jade making an open network post that's just "hey can we PLEASE catch people who were anchoring or otherwise occupied up on how that chaos fight went; here's space to share anything you think relevant" because IC he only knows the vague details and he wants some specifics, please. This ensures other people in the dark like him can get caught up, too.

CR wanted: Local bastard in desperate need of train friends - but I know this is going to take time IC and OOC so no rush lmao.

Things to avoid: Like, shipping, but otherwise I'm open to anything!
theotherphil: (stiff uppa lip)

[personal profile] theotherphil 2021-08-01 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Jordan
Contact info: Bakurapika#4565

Character: Phil Connors
About them: Weatherman from Pittsburgh whose single tether on reality has recently gotten cut.
Plans: Phil hasn't had any chance to process what's been going on yet post-mission - I want to give him to work through that or otherwise figure out how to react to the train and everyone on it. He's on the precipice of something and he doesn't know what.
CR wanted: Someone for Phil to freak out to (ideally someone he met on the platform or afterwards who had a neutral or positive interaction with him); an emergency that even a jerk will need to pitch in to fix without trying to analyze how real it is first; alternatively, some kind of boring pleasant situation for Phil to calm down and enjoy his nonexistence in; or someone to either help Phil or try to intervene as he abuses any and all intoxicants he can get his hands on.
Things to avoid: Not much! But know that Phil is not going to be as outgoing (some may say argumentative) as he was on his first few days on the train. Please do hit me up on Discord if you are able!
subcircuits: (amused)

[personal profile] subcircuits 2021-08-01 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
ey yo did someone say intoxicants? devero has weed
theotherphil: (sunglasses)

[personal profile] theotherphil 2021-08-01 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello Devero, my new best friend!
subcircuits: (feral)

[personal profile] subcircuits 2021-08-01 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
/fingerguns
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Nell Ingram | Soulwood series

[personal profile] nell_of_soulwood 2021-08-01 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Mai
Contact info: [plurk.com profile] Maisfeeka
Discord: Mai#4886

Character: Nell Ingram

About them:
Nell is 23, raised in God's Cloud of Glory Church (bmore a cult, really) near Knoxville TN in modern day USA - just with shifters and vampires and all that jazz, married at 12, widowed at 18, and now a semi-respectable widow woman who has lived almost entirely off the grid her whole life. She makes her owns teas, creams, herbal remedies, etc; knows how to handle guns and do basic maintenance on a variety of machines; and has the ability to commune with the earth, encourage plant growth, and a wide variety of other interesting things. Her application gives a lot more detail.

Plans: Nell needs to start growing some of her seeds and making a place for herself in the garden. No real plans other than that at the moment except for her to get more familiar with this train she's on.

CR wanted:

Any and all! She's sort of gained a 'spare dad' in Wei Wuxian, but she needs more people in her life!

Things to avoid:

Nothing that I can think of.
shadowcourage: (So it goes)

Shadow Link | CRAU | Blue Team

[personal profile] shadowcourage 2021-08-01 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Sair
Contact info: [plurk.com profile] alwaysterrible Sair#6121

Character: Shadow Link
About them: Team Blue, U1:A. Former villain, weird soul shadow creature thing, looks like Link. He usually tries to be civil with people, but snark and sarcasm are likely. Absolutely hates to be looked down upon. He's also rather smart himself, even if he comes off as the delinquent type. He has a special love of books.

Plans: There is the family drama with Link and Clef and also getting to know the train. See what people are like, what he needs to do, all that good stuff.

CR wanted: Open to any and all CR, both negative and positive. (He has a hero leash for negative CR, but any mercy on his part is Solely Due To Loved Ones Leash.) Anyone with person issues is fun just because he's got Opinions on the whole thing. Other reformed villains could also be fun.

Things to avoid: OOCly, I'm pretty good with most things. ICly, dehumanizing Shadow or talking down about shadows is a quick rage button and he is prone to violence.
Edited 2021-08-01 02:24 (UTC)
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Agent 8 | Purple

[personal profile] consider8 2021-08-01 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Argent
Contact info: [plurk.com profile] argentbast or Argent#9074

Character: Agent 8
About them: A refugee from the Octarian military that still has fond feelings of her family back home. Left it all behind for the pursuit of art, freedom, and broadening her horizons. Steadfast, shy, diligent, hard-working, loyal and mostly friendly (unless you're a layabout).
Plans: Whoa boy did the last month did a number to her, in a lot of good and bad ways. Through experiencing a human life with (mostly) human parents and experiencing the memories of a youth she didn't have. She also had the opportunity to be with a person from her world encouraging her to continue her journey on the train. As a result, she is going to be much more open and huggy, trying to be the supporting person that she can be for the people on the train.
CR wanted: Anything and everything! She's pretty positive overall, but is strong-willed and stubborn. She's also looking to expand her CR and get to know people more.
Things to avoid: None offhand! I will let you know if anything comes up~
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[personal profile] wewillwewill 2021-08-01 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Maruah
Contact info: [personal profile] wewillwewill, Everyworker#8128

Character: Elidibus

About them: Cabin Lower 1: B, Red. Ancient being with a mission who seems to be considering being a train passenger a small respite from his usual tasks. A primary villain of the Final Fantasy XIV Online game. Many spoilers are tied to his story but I do my best to navigate lightly around them if you are planning to play the game yourself, so let me know!

Plans: Elidibus plans to collect and consolidate as much information as he can about Merriment's mission. He also is providing subtle comforts (for instance, his variety sandwich platters or general organization. Of course, he will also be getting insight into various people he observes and a stock of their condition with all this moving around. Multiple advantages. Needless to say he'll be in a lot of spots, ostensibly (and practically) to step in to help with support while others recover.

CR wanted: All kinds. Seriously, as long as it makes sense or is interesting, I'm down for discussing ideas.

Things to avoid: Not really much to avoid though I do like story being appealing to all parties and communication.
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[personal profile] renegadeprince 2021-08-01 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Leilah.
Contact info: Dr_PannCakes#5103

Character: Vegeta (Red Team).
About them: Smol, grumpy, punchy monkey prince.
Plans: With the out come of the last mission, Vegeta will be working on healing his own injuries to his tail slowly over the rest of the year (or until I get to a good stop for him to test it out again). I do want to have him learn/continue learning to train against illusions (I have a certain someone I wanna hit up over that). And as always, he will be training, as he always does.
CR wanted: I will plan to reach out to said above person regarding Vegeta doing more illusion training. Other than that, open to all, both for good and bad CR, depending if they clash or not.
Things to avoid: OOC nothing comes to mind, but if something does happen later on, I will contact the person so we can sort out how to handle it and continue a thread. IC, also open for pretty much anything, even if Vegeta won't like it.

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Character: Idia Shroud (Orange Team).
About them: Shy boy, will freak out if anyone talks to him. A tech-head, gamer, with a permanent slouch and horrible diet which consists of 99% snacks. A nerd, weeb, otaku, good for nothing, who just happens to be a genius when it comes to technology and magic related to it.
Plans: Since Idia is new to game this month, it will mostly be him 'settling in' and him stressing over the lack of private space and him lacking his normal technology he's used to having. I imagine he will spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to hide away, and also being obsessed with both the lab to make items, and the gaming carriage about all the board games in it.
CR wanted: Idia will hate all CR his way for a long while, however anyone with similar tech or gaming interest to him will help him open up a bit more towards them.
Things to avoid: As above for Vegeta, both OOC and IC. Idia will hate interacting, but he's just going to have to put up with it.
subcircuits: (encouraging)

[personal profile] subcircuits 2021-08-01 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'd love to have Dev and Vegeta interact more if you're interested.

And when it comes to lamenting over the sad state of technology on the train, Dev's your man. He's ALWAYS lamenting the sad state of technology on the train!
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[personal profile] renegadeprince 2021-08-01 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yesss, we need to do more of them along the lines. I do wanna take up Devero's comments regarding Sanzo in regards to learning that meditation, so could start with talk about that and go from there.

I also need to check on what tech stuff is allowed for the game, with building stuff and accessing electronics around the train.

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subcircuits: (250 pounds of adorable)

[personal profile] subcircuits 2021-08-01 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Nella
Contact info: [plurk.com profile] Nellasaur, Nellasaura#3047, or PM

Character: Devero
About them: OC from a socially liberal, tech-forward sci-fi setting. Purple team. He's the queer, compassionate cyborg dad/uncle/buddy that you didn't know you needed, with a problem out advice that he still needs to learn to follow himself. Dev is one of the physically biggest regular-human types on the train, and is almost always seen wearing this dingus on his face; he also has hover-skates and he is NOT afraid to use them!! He is frequently accompanied by his pet robot, Sir Beepers, or accompanying Koumyou Sanzo, with whom he is grossly affectionate in public. For those already on the train, he's been kind of reclusive for the past IC month, since Kamakan, and when he has been out and about he's seemed distant and/or stressed.

Plans: There are some people leaving this platform that he's going to be very upset about. He's also still recovering from both anchoring and just running himself absolutely ragged in general on the mission so there will probably be a lot of laying around from him into the second half of Merriment for him. That said, he's going to be doing that laying about more in public than in hiding, which is a change from the last month or so.

I've been thinking about doing an open log/mingler for the SCIENCE!-inclined, if folks would be interested in that?

Chances are also good that there will be spontaneous and uncontrolled dog transformations in his future, thanks to Mission Consequences.

CR wanted: Anything!
Things to avoid: I'm good for anything, but if in doubt please reach out. Also, Dev has significant sexual trauma in his backstory; see his permissions post for more info and to opt-in if you're okay with it coming up appropriately.
its_dad_sanzo: (this icon kills the Devero)

[personal profile] its_dad_sanzo 2021-08-02 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Du nu nu nu, du nu nu nu, dun nu nu nu DOG MAN!
its_dad_sanzo: (time to get started)

[personal profile] its_dad_sanzo 2021-08-01 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Aro
Contact info: [plurk.com profile] Aroihkin, Aroihkin#4667


Character: Koumyou Sanzo ( [personal profile] its_dad_sanzo | BLUE TEAM )
About them: From Saiyuki, a Buddhist high priest whose last memory on his world is his own death to save his adopted son's life. He's a total troll, and loves to act the fool. "I can't tell if you're a genius or a moron" is something that's been said to him more than a few times in canon. You can get more info about him on his journal, including his app!

Plans: I have not been around nearly as much as I used to be, due to working 50+ hour weeks right now... so my current plans are mostly with Koumyou's boyfriend, Devero. (And most of my tags have gone toward threads between the boys... I'm sorry everyone but I need my emotional support boys. ;; Hopefully I can get back to normal tagging soon.)

In general, Koumyou's going to be a bit subdued after this mission, even though he didn't get physically/magically drained nearly as badly as he did on Erda. Different kind of drain in play this time. He got to meet/hang out with his grown-up canon son, which is great and will be great for him in the long run, but it's a lot to process. And he's low-key mourning the illusory version of himself / the life the illusion seemed to have. He got to be a normal guy briefly, even if it wasn't perfect. He never had the chance for that in his actual life.

And his general mental state has been in a slow descent-withdraw for a while, so it's just... still doing that. His spooky demon cat will be with him a lot more often than normal.

He won't know the extra powers are still around until after others discover them, since he doesn't normally even doodle. (His power in the illusion was that anything he draws becomes temporarily real.)

Plans with Dev: Ongoing meditation lessons, possibly touching on the very beginning of Dev learning to access his own chi. Dancing is sort of a standing plan if/when they're both up for it.

Plans with Yondu: Yondu's talked him into doing priesty shit for blue team members who need it. For grief, etc. He made no promises as to his own competence, but he's agreed to at least try. If it goes well, he might offer that to the rest of the train.

Plans with Siebren: Possibly teaching him meditation too oh lawd.

Plans with LO: Haven't discussed this as an actual plan yet but I can't imagine these two won't talk about the whole 'sooo now we have memories of being father and daughter' issue...

CR wanted: All! Especially anything that might help him form some connections.
Things to avoid: I can't think of anything, but I'm not shy about speaking up before something's a problem if that changes!
Edited 2021-08-01 10:36 (UTC)
knifewithnoname: (Default)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2021-08-02 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Absolutely won't talk about it. Talk around it a whole lot though. That they can probably do. :/
its_dad_sanzo: (sitting with the sun)

[personal profile] its_dad_sanzo 2021-08-02 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Or they can talk about it.

I mean, probably.

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Haneul Min | OC | Orange Team

[personal profile] killer_rhythm 2021-08-02 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Zoe
Contact info: [plurk.com profile] fireplacecat

Character: Haneul Min
About them: Former dancer (and human) who was kidnapped and used in an illicit experiment that left him permanently fused to a captive spirit and no longer remotely human. Has light-based abilities, touch-activated postcognition, and the ability to see and interact with supernatural entities who can't normally be perceived by humans (and unfortunately no training whatsoever in how to interact with them, or not interact with them, which has gotten him into a lot of trouble in the past). Despite (or possibly because of) this, he has still managed to mom a bit in in the direction of Death of all personifications people. Team/Car/Cabin: Orange, Sleeper Upper Four, Cabin C
Plans: Resting up after the last mission, trying to get to know his teammates and other people on the train better, and looking for ways to actually be helpful on missions, because he feels like he hasn't really done well with that so far. The last mission did a number on him, which he is doing his best to ignore because other people had it worse.
CR wanted: He could stand to get to know his fellow Orange Team members better. Also fellow musicians/dancers would be good, as well as other supernatural or part-supernatural people. But really, people in general, although he does have an aversion to mad-scientist types thanks to past unfortunate experience. (He continues to avoid the medical and lab carriages like the plague.)
Things to avoid: ICly, attempting to restrain, manipulate, or control Haneul or Lucy will be taken badly. OOCly I'm not great with photos of arthropods (although more stylized art is okay).
Edited 2021-08-02 06:00 (UTC)

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