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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerooc2021-12-31 06:00 am
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January 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 Poi. Days can be found here.

The thought of the month is "If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your own path".

This means: Any thread where you tag into another character's post or top level in January or February will earn you two bonus points.

Threads that fulfil this criteria can be submitted during February 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 Corned Beef. 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:

Orange: Cleaning bedrooms and passenger areas
Blue: Meal Preparation
Purple: Laundry
Red: 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!

Important Dates

This month’s event will be an mission from the 15th to 28th of January.

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

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

Other Info

~ The roster has been updated with points for this month.

~ When at the shop terminal the Voidtreckers will find a button in the corner that reads 'VOTING'. Selecting this will switch the page over from the shop to VOTING POOL. Exactly how it works is explained in detail on that page but it is a way for passengers to band together to buy larger or longer term items, including carriages themselves.

Every IC month (every two OOC months) characters will earn 5 votes which they can use to vote on additions to the train. If they wish they can spend points on additional votes (one vote is five points.) From February new characters will be allowed to swap their initial 3 points for a vote if wish in their first month only. To keep things fair everyone in game from 1st January and the launch of the voting pool will start with 6 votes.

Characters can also submit things for the voting pool. Everything is subject to mod approval before it is allowed to be voted on. Anything that reaches its vote goal will be fulfilled at the next station stop just like purchases from the shop.

~ The Story So Far has been updated.

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]

mystic_mongoose: (Default)

[personal profile] mystic_mongoose 2021-12-31 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Knux
Contact info: [plurk.com profile] AshBlaze
Edited 2021-12-31 06:05 (UTC)
monkeyinthewrench: (Default)

zoki's orange bois (jake peralta/seto kaiba)

[personal profile] monkeyinthewrench 2021-12-31 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Name: zoki
Contact info: [plurk.com profile] kharamagic zokiblu#5949, or PM

someday I will learn to comment properly...
monkeyinthewrench: (little lost here)

det. jake peralta

[personal profile] monkeyinthewrench 2021-12-31 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Character: Jake Peralta (Orange)
About them: From Brooklyn Nine-Nine. NYPD detective with a pop culture addiction, unhealthy diet habits, unorthodox case-solving methods, and far too much to say about everything. He's a little immature but he means well, promise.

Plans: Between my two he'll be the one actively greeting newcomers on platform day. He tries to be friendly and welcoming, but definitely crosses the line into obnoxious sometimes. Beyond that, he's a curious thread-puller and investigative type, so he tries to go for missions involving that. So many questions about what they're going through, so few answers.

Also, he's sorry he accidentally caused all that bother a few days ago. He's going to try to make it up to people. Let's find things to cheer up about?

CR wanted: Friends please? Plot-solvers? Rein in his impulsive blathering! Give him kids to watch out for. He really does want everyone to pull through together.

Things to avoid: Nothing comes to mind.
Edited 2021-12-31 06:07 (UTC)
mystic_mongoose: (Default)

[personal profile] mystic_mongoose 2021-12-31 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
Character: Mina Mongoose (AU)
About them: An alternate universe version of the character where her super speed awoken much earlier than expected, causing her to be an adventurer rather than the Betty to Princess Sally's Veronica and Sonic's Archie. Outside of super speed, she also has a robotic arm and amazing magical potential thanks to the awakened speed power.
Plans: Not much at the moment. She'll be trying to get herself settled on the train and ignoring the fact she may or may not be a clone? Right now, she's more worried about her world since she thinks her world's Sonic and Shadow are dead. (Also, planning on gathering points so that she can get a Chaos Emerald or two on the train.)
CR wanted: Any and all! She might be a two-foot humanoid mongoose, but she's lightened up since she arrived. She's fluffy, too!
Things to avoid: Not much...?
blue_ice: (could it be)

seto kaiba

[personal profile] blue_ice 2021-12-31 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Zoki
Contact info: [plurk.com profile] kharamagic, zokiblu#5949 @ discord, or PM either journal

Character: Seto Kaiba (Orange)
About them: From Yu-Gi-Oh. Former big tech CEO and sneering rival person, now team tech support and begrudgingly cooperative most of the time. Will be a little less friendly this month, see below:

Plans: Alright, so some context here: a few months ago on the fake Diagad mission, Kaiba ran into another version of himself. The other Kaiba sneered at this Kaiba's insistence that he had crewmates he cared about, because they're all going to leave you and then you'll be left incapacitated by a hole of grief that you dug yourself into, you idiot.

Well, guess what's happened and who's the idiot now? :D He hasn't lost everyone, but a steady drumbeat of heavy losses has finally broken the dam. Basically, platform's going to be one giant meltdown followed by some desperate dragon zen.

For newbies, don't worry, he'll be more back to his old thorny self and able to forge CR the normal way by mission time. He's just going to be a little more canon-typical cynical and wary for a while.

Combat training will follow a few days after platform. He has lightning powers from the Diagad mission, some formal martial arts training, and darts skills. He wants hardcore, painful training to be ready for real world situations.

CR wanted: Please build things with him, or play some board games? But he'll largely be focused on train work and staying useful. He'll usually be accompanied by either his dragon apple Pokémon, an Applin called Snapper, or a shade of his Blue Eyes summoned by a glove a departed friend gifted him a while back. Please talk to him about dragons, it's a joy.

Things to avoid: Don't say the 'adoption' or 'family' words around him unless you want a long lecture about how forging those bonds is a mistake and only opening yourself to further pain. At least for now, it's a big sore spot.
Edited 2021-12-31 06:24 (UTC)
cureofmanyworlds: (Default)

[personal profile] cureofmanyworlds 2021-12-31 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Character: Nozomi Yumehara (CRAU)
About them: A digital copy of the real Nozomi Yumehara, a ditzy yet well-meaning magical girl. She's been through various worlds, is a real girl but still suffers from cloning blues.
Plans: She's still recovering from the revelations dropped at everyone's feet and she's really hating the idea that she may be a clone of a clone. Beyond that, she's moving in with Kairi into one of the double rooms! Please don't nag, Hera.
CR wanted: Any and all!
Things to avoid: No relationships, she's taken!
Edited 2021-12-31 06:14 (UTC)
another_moon: (Default)

[personal profile] another_moon 2021-12-31 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
Character: Usagi Tsukino (AU)
About them: An alternate universe version of the character where only she and Minako Aino awoke to battle the Dark Kingdom, Usagi taking in the power of the other Sailor Guardians and rejecting the idea of rekindling a romance from another time.
Plans: Ahahaha, well...! Between an accident having Kyoko possessed by the spirit of Mars and the revelations recently, Usagi is trying to think of her next plan of attack. Even more so, she isn't so sure she should be keeping so much power, even if she can't give it back at the moment. She'll also will try to see how these void tethers work, too...
CR wanted: Any and all! Hit me with your best shot!
Things to avoid: No relationships. She's taken!
silver_eyes_rose: (Default)

[personal profile] silver_eyes_rose 2021-12-31 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Character: Ruby Rose (CRAU)
About them: A variation of Ruby who went through the events up to Volume 7, then sidetracked to a world where people were made to help repower it through various physical affections.
Plans: Ah, not much with her. Just be her adorable, affection-giving self. People still need it, jeeze! She's also pondering about relationships and how to go about that because you think a place like Prismatica would be that kind?
CR wanted: Any and all!
Things to avoid: Not at the moment.
worthallthis: (smilesad)

[personal profile] worthallthis 2021-12-31 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Gail
Contact info: cacopheny @ plurk or PM this journal

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 Person again. Soul/life force/whatever is in a lantern that they carry around all the time, which I sometimes forget to mention in narration, but it is Always There. They're on Purple team, but always swap for somebody on the kitchen chores so they can cook instead (hey Yondu, you wanna do laundry this month and let Soldat do your cooking? also taking other offers to swap :B ), and often do missions with Red team.

Plans: Mission month! Soldat is READY. They have been working hard to get their meal stocks back up to snuff to pass out before they all disembark. They're not really upset about the current revelations since they kinda knew a lot of it and don't have a particular attachment to their actual body-- they're dead, after all-- though they're kind of worried now about if Beacon (the setting of their last game) is still around, if their body is just lying there being fussed over. They'd like to get their tether to the train safer, but not at the risk of the train herself or any of the other passengers.

CR wanted: Soldat is good for teaching people self-defense, teaching people cooking, teaching people origami, teaching people dancing, teaching people languages... look, they like teaching things, okay. They need somebody to poke a little at their personhood issues (or I not I suppose, they're pretty comfortable with their "not really a person but that's okay, can still live a fulfilling life and help people" belief) and could always stand a friend.

Things to avoid: If you tell Soldat you have the power to control minds or take away memories and that you're willing and ready to use it, and there hasn't been a solid amount of CR built up first, Soldat will drop you. No questions asked.
wishalone: (045 ≬ anime)

[personal profile] wishalone 2021-12-31 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
Name: mala
Contact info: [plurk.com profile] Malathyne, Malathyne#3688
wishalone: (065 ≬ manga ≬ color)

kyoko sakura (au) - purple

[personal profile] wishalone 2021-12-31 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Character: kyoko sakura (au)
About them:
- just coming off of hiatus! the holiday season, amirite?

- a tsundere tough-gal magical girl from a world where magical girls' emotional energy is exploited without their knowledge (most of the time) or consent (all of the time) to prevent the heat death of the universe. she can turn into a Bad Monster (a witch) if her soul gem -- which is literally her soul removed from her body, as well as her source of magic -- collects too many impurities, which happens when she uses magic or gets too emotional. she can't keep it clean normally because the doohickeys used to do so don't exist out here
- she has a good heart, deep down, but she's covered it up with sarcasm and jadedness after the trauma of losing her family (which she blames herself for)
- content warnings and magic permissions stuff here

- so, kyoko's upward character arc kind of crashed and burned back in september/october, and now that a little time has passed, her regression has stalled out and she's just kind of treading depressed water
- she has a bracer from usagi that will keep her soul gem from breaking into a grief seed if it gets too dark
- her current purifiers are nozomi and elidibus
- her train parent is yondu
- tbh, taking the latest revelations... not really in stride? but, like, apathetically. she looked at the information, looked at her situation (soul is a gem instead of in her body, and on top of that, she's dead anyway, which means not only is her body gone, but her soul gem is shattered too), and kind of shrugged. she's a bit like, "i already knew i was screwed, now i know i was right." she's having trouble with that whole "where do you see yourself in five years" concept anyway, y'know?

Plans:
- if anyone wants/needs follow-up on the whole, "that teenager almost turned into a monster and publically asked for help" shtick from back in september/october... which i definitely majorly dropped the ball on the resolution of... lmk and we can talk out what we need to
- i have something planned with elidibus to where he'll block the accumulation of emotional impurities in her soul gem
- kyoko is going to be interested in figuring out how to purify her soul gem without relying on other people, but failing that, she'll definitely take more people who can purify her soul gem. she doesn't want to put her eggs in one basket again, if she can't keep them in her own basket (... okay not the best metaphor i guess)
- otherwise, she's going to largely be maintaining her status quo: training in the gym, time training in the gym, playing video games (especially DDR) in the games carriage, and sitting around snacking pretty much wherever

CR wanted:
- handwaved CR; kyoko's hiatus was on autopilot, and she'll have been alternating between being depressed in her cabin and not sitting still. (see her status quo listed above)
- also top of my list are roommates, bc i havent ever gotten around to actually doing anything with them this entire time and like, i finally should. points at eyes, points at sleeper lower 3 cabin A folks
- also, OTHER KIDS / TEENS. she needs more CR with peers, and younger kids are great too bc she used to have a younger sister, and there's an urge towards responsibility deep down in there that i think would be good for her to tap into

Things to avoid:
Edited 2021-12-31 07:02 (UTC)
quixotically: (game ♧ take it easy)

elle days (courier six, au) - purple

[personal profile] quixotically 2021-12-31 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Character: elle days (courier six, au)
About them:
- my new gal!

- the malleable protagonist of fallout: new vegas, so she's from a post-nuclear-apocalyptic desert wasteland where there was just recently a war over hoover dam and the surrounding area. uh, elle won. she didn't START OUT trying to win, but listen, a lot of things happen sometimes that just end with being the leader of an entire region! it's fine. no pressure or anything
- she only has about a years' worth of memories, due to having survived being shot in the head around then
- she's been through Some Pretty Weird And Wild Stuff during that year, so she can roll with weirdness punches fairly well. that said, things that are new to her are very exciting, and... well. there's. there's a lot that's going to be new to her, not because the train is full of weirdness, but more because she doesn't have a lot of experience or education with things more modern characters will take for granted
- fairly cheerful and energetic by default, but underneath that she's insecure about herself and deeply just wants people to Like Her. her hobbies are helping people, pulling risky stunts because they seem like a good idea at the time, playing poker, scavenging, poking her nose where it doesn't belong, and wearing pretty dresses
- while sensitive, awkward, and coming across as doormattish at times, there's a hell of a backbone hidden under all that fluff, and an ability to step up and be a leader. and she's got a knack for inspiring and bringing people together
- no powers, just a girl with a gun. or... rather... WITHOUT a gun, now. hm. awkward

- she's AU because she handles a particular NPC off the rails -- there's an AI who doesn't have free will, and her AU involves her making sure he gets free will before asking him to help her out
- she loves AI and robots... i joke about her being a Robots Rights Activist but she absolutely is. having had to start over from scratch with her own identity, she is huge about others' personhood in general
- info here: app, permissions (incl. opt out for canon content warning-worthy topics)

Plans: none, aside from roommate stuff. she'll be newly arriving and i ain't got nothin' in mind

CR wanted:
- honestly tho i will take anything. elle is a social butterfly who is easy to throw around at people, and she loves exploring and new things, and despite not being CRAU this is not her first rodeo waking up somewhere weird with no idea how she got there
- if you have a cranky/distrustful character who you want to get out more, elle is a great option for tossing at them. cranky/distrustful people are her favorites, and she has a lot of experience befriending people who don't think they want to be befriended

Things to avoid:
yondu: (1 4 4)

[personal profile] yondu 2021-12-31 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
He's always fine with chore switch, boo. He got you.
yondu: animated (2 7 1)

[personal profile] yondu 2021-12-31 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
Team no-big-d here. (That joy when you know you shouldn't have a body so wtf is he even now.)

Stuff he wants to propose to her this month:
-Maybe she should learn some magic from his universe 'cause it wouldn't rely on her gem
-Maybe she should go be a bad influence on Nell
-Make friends, girl! And if you can't make friends make allies 'cause those are important too.
Edited 2021-12-31 07:08 (UTC)
wishalone: (134 ≬ fanart)

[personal profile] wishalone 2021-12-31 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
- re: magic, i mentioned that she'd need to think about it (mostly bc she's got that whole identity-attached-to-her-magic thing we've talked about), but i think she's going to go for it? it appeals to the whole diversifying and eggs-baskets mindset she kind of has going now

- bad influence is what she's good at!! (... and fighting. that's what she's best at)

- but mooooom >:( gross, socializing. honestly, the allies talk would be interesting, because she isn't used to thinking that way, since, like, magical girl alliances are always extremely short-lived?
kumoko: (arachne - no way around it im weird)

spider

[personal profile] kumoko 2021-12-31 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Elle
Contact info: [plurk.com profile] evildoers / Elle#2335

Character: Unnamed "Kumoko" Spider (/ Arma,Ede,Webs,Ms. Spider,Stinger,Seamstress,wretched spawn of Ungoliant)
About them: Cabin Lower 3-A, Orange team. My classroom was destroyed by dimensional magic and so I reincarnated as a monstrous spider in the most dangerous labyrinth in the world??? What's happening! What's happening! Saint-level magic user trapped in the body of a half-human all-spider the height of a grown man and the width of a car. Once she spent every moment fighting for her life, now she lives in a lil spider house and makes bespoke clothing for the other passengers in exchange for snacks and/or their adoration. Canon is So I'm a Spider, So What? (Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?)
Plans: SO MANY THINGS HAVE HAPPENED people gotta fill her in. Then she's going to relocate her lair to somewhere out of the way, by which I mean she'll build a large web in the upper section of a double-height carriage. Which carriage? Whichever gets the least objections when she starts the webbing probably.
CR wanted: people to get her involved in the plot, missions etc instead of just chillin.
Things to avoid: No sexualising the spider etc etc also she has a permissions post.
kumoko: (arachne - cute!!!!!)

[personal profile] kumoko 2021-12-31 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
points to eyes points to you points to cabin etc

snacc friends
kumoko: (arachne - !!!!!!!!!!!)

[personal profile] kumoko 2021-12-31 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
please befriend kumoko, she needs to get out more and also can make pretty dresses
wishalone: (130 ≬ fanart)

[personal profile] wishalone 2021-12-31 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
SNACC FRIENDS!

kyoko probably has herself a little hoard, lbr....... i need to go and dump a bunch of points retroactively into just "snacks for the past almost-year"
quixotically: (manga ♧ SPARKLES)

[personal profile] quixotically 2021-12-31 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
yesssss

and it is occurring to me just how much elle wouldn't blink at a giant half-human, all-spider person. she'd only blink because she hasn't seen one before, but otherwise will be like, "yeah, seems legit to exist." thanks, irradiated wasteland!

and, because of elle's personhood thing, she's just gonna talk to kumoko like normal right off the bat, too
wewillwewill: (Default)

[personal profile] wewillwewill 2021-12-31 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
You. Elidibus. Authentic (Final) Fantasy Fruits.

Also he'll be interested in the spider as a return passenger to the train. He's going to be doubling down on studying tethers and such this month so he'll definitely be by to ask questions.

And also discuss crafting.


kumoko: (Default)

[personal profile] kumoko 2021-12-31 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
ldfgfd yeah that's what i do for spider too...

kumoko returns to the train and her points have reset, she's so sad but at least she still has a storage dimension full of snacks. roommates can have some, as a treat and as a diplomatic gesture.
stonefvced: (o15.)

[personal profile] stonefvced 2021-12-31 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
Training, lets go. Also, Tobirama will gladly argue with him about family and friends and love. Buck up, people leave it doesn't change the bonds!! >:[
stonefvced: (o25.)

[personal profile] stonefvced 2021-12-31 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
Hello pider. i have a similar desire for missions/plot. grips hands. lets do this shit togetherrr.

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