Nebula, day 14, voice

[voidtreckermods]

Some Voidtreckers have provided feedback and suggestions. One question that occurs often is about them. The old crew, the voidtreckers who came before.

It is difficult to answer such questions. There were many and they were varied. They are gone. Find them. FIND THEM.

[There seems to be some static, all the ICPs flicker. But it's only a moment and then...]

Much of the data from before is incomplete, scrambled. Some was salvageable. The best people to learn about voidtreckers from are voidtreckers themselves.

[A series of voice clips and video clips play, one after another in a random order. Though they remain, on the train log, for people to watch later.

Vian Tail
Xela Istrola
Ave Sill
Kiel Tretin]

(OOC: This entry is reply-able to though it is tag amongst yourselves if your characters wish to react.)

Comments

[another_moon]

What in the world... Those people were just like us... dealing with the train and the worlds...

[wisdominshadows]

These are...

[The sounds of rustling paper as she looks for a book.]

The memories some of our departed comrades saw on Jema’grethy. Two of the figures in those visions were called Vian and Xela.

[blue_ice]

What the...

So are we further back in the timeline? They went back...to reverse some kind of mass extinction event, and that's where we come in?

[ Seto is already pulling out his laptop, searching for anything he has. Time to type. ]

We've lost so many people who knew bits and pieces of the puzzle. We need to archive everything we know in a form that won't disappear.

[blue_ice]

Do you remember anything else that's relevant for context?

We need to put together everything we have, and keep it from disappearing.

[wisdominshadows]

I can do better than that- I have Nita's notes on the visions she and the others received.

[Give her a moment, just let her check something- yes, it does seem that all three of the recipients are gone now. Pity.]

Give me an hour and I'd be happy to provide a copy. But I can give you a summary now, if you'd prefer.

[blue_ice]

That would be perfect. I have a laptop and printer, I can make hard copies to place in the library. They should stay behind if we all vanish.

[wisdominshadows]

I will get it to you shortly. For the moment, you should know that there are three relevant visions. The first....

[no, this one is just as bad as she remembers] ...seems to describe an entity that has been stripped of all senses, as well as most of their capacity for free will and emotion.

The second is from a member of Blue Team... or at least it began with a member of Blue Team... describing the goals of a mission. They seem to have been protecting the local king from something they describe as shadow creatures. Red was attempting to prevent a catastrophic earthquake, with Purple protecting civilians. There was a puzzle of some kind for Orange, but I don't think Nita could see what it was meant to unlock.

The third one is a series of scenes. They were fighting in an astral battle, somewhere near the home station of the Voidtrecker Express... until something showed up and the train fled.

[One breath. Two.]

I think most of us know what that sounds like.

[tactlesstantei]

[Masumi has her notebook and a pencil out, noting down what's in this new info. Names, timeline, anything that might be useful.]

If anyone wants it, I was shown the memories from Jema'grethy by Nita and I am always willing to speak about what was in them. I also have notes about the Jema'grethy memories and what happened when I and several others spoke to Chaos at Diagad.

The more people who know this info, the better.

[hitokiri]

So. Anyone gonna explain this shit in a way that makes sense?

[ he's very Tired. ]

Better not be a test.

[wewillwewill]

Do you mean that in regards to the plan they hint towards in these logs? If so, it is an interesting theory and certainly possible. But they may not have had to. It seems a key might be to find out what the scientist named Xela Istrola deemed taboo.

[Elidibus sounds calm and thoughtful. The information in those logs doesn't appear to phase him.]

I also want to encourage the passengers on this voyage to record the information they have, both missions and incidents such as this one. Not just in one form, but several, so the loss of knowledge is not because we placed faith in one medium. For those who responded to my request for information during the Diagad mission, I am grateful. I want to encourage others to step forward as well in the future.

[wewillwewill]

I will also provide the documents I've compiled about Diagad. Masumi Sera, if you wish to add your insight to my collection, please prepare a copy. I've been storing the results in the library.

[Basically this.]

They mentioned shapes. It would be hard to deny this is what some of us witnessed in the visions provided during our imprisonment in the false Diagad.

[wewillwewill]

Yes. This is largely to do with the mystery of why this train acts independent of the system established by the Void Ministry and why we are effectively summoned without warning, rather than volunteers of this voyage.

[Elidibus seems back to normal. A day and a bit more to rest seems to have gotten him back to... at least the point where he can easily hide how exhausted the last mission made him.]

These videos and recordings seem to be surviving records of the last formal crew of the Voidtrecker Express we are now on. It appears their actions have likely caused a rewrite of reality... whether by turning back time or manipulating its very fabric is uncertain.

What occurred may also reveal or be connected to an entity known as Chaos. He is a grave threat this group of passengers have encountered on several missions before your arrival.

[blitzcheer]

There's some stuff in the library. But- don't people think the Voidtrecker's a myth? Are we really in a past?

[ Wait- ]

Didn't that message you copied and shared say something about it too?

[tactlesstantei]

Got it. I'll be down to add what I have once I've made a copy.

And yeah, that does line up. As I said, one of the people who originally received the Jema'grethy memories showed them to me, and there was one that showed the destruction of the train's home world. The train fled before the actual destruction happened, but the leadup does seem to be similar to what happened to Diagad.

video, from the standard coach

[blitzcheer]

[ So that was all...something. And he wonders what made the train decide to do this now - whose particular comments made it decide to do this. But what he gets out of this, is... ]

I don't know if we learned anything new from any of that, [ it was kind of a lot and at once, ] but we all agree, any time we find ourselves somewhere with a chance to talk to someone about the void, we're doing it, right? This is stupid - nothing's changed since the train started doing this. It doesn't know anything about its crew, and it sure isn't letting us try and find out anything new.

How're we supposed to do anything when it won't even let us?

[ He leans back against the seating he's resting on to face the ICP, arms folding. ]

Even the train's gotta realise trying to dodge people who have some clue about the void isn't getting it anywhere.

[tactlesstantei]

Oh, definitely. I mean, I get why the train's avoiding anyone who might know about the void, since there's the risk of them trying to report the train, but it doesn't help us find her missing crew.

[blitzcheer]

It's already been reported, it knows that! And that was what, months ago now? [ Time moves both slowly, and in no way Tidus can follow. ]

We even got boarded before I showed up here. About a... year ago?

[tactlesstantei]

Maybe she's afraid of losing her crew again if we're caught? But either way, running and hiding from anyone who might know something doesn't help us, it only makes things harder if we want to find her crew.

I could try library searches again since it might be a while until we can have a chance to talk to someone, but I doubt that will help much.

[blitzcheer]

'Course it is. It's kidnapping people and doing stuff it shouldn't. But I'm saying this as much for the train as the rest of us, you know? If it expects us to find anyone, then it's gotta let us try to do something.

Starting with letting us look up stuff, buy stuff that'd be useful. [ Pfft. ] Not that I know if it's listening now, or we need to go through the 'proper channels'.

[ Dumb stupid train. ]

[mtsilver_conquor]

Gods on a mating flight...

[Eva exhales, long and slow as she runs a hand through her hair.]

Maybe I should look into ordering an adult serebi next time I've enough points- though not sure that'd make the issue better or worse, given attempted? Successful? time-travel's what caused all this?

Though owning one would be uh, illegal...

[yondu]

Probably could use that computer in the standard car. Set up some kinda file people could all contribute to. I know there's pickin' through the library but shit, you think half these people are gonna remember system numbers?

[His head is already full of Kree designations. This is more he's gotta add.]

There needs some sorta organization.

[mtsilver_conquor]

Yeah. That's about the shape of it from what I understand.

True, Think we've got some stuff in the library? Either way, it wouldn't hurt to have backups at least.

[yondu]

Okay, so... when we talked to Anan back on Diagad, she was sayin' everything about Diagad was wiped out by that thing. News, records on other worlds, all of it gone. At least that's how I understood it.

So I mean, I ain't got a lot of theories, but maybe it ain't just time travel. Maybe it's time travel that crosses the path of what this big thing destroys?

I dunno. The only time traveller I know lit out and I think it works different for every universe. S'all a pain in the ass.

[katzenpfote]

It sounds like that, ja.

[Is this what would happen if he went back? It's a lot to take in.]

... Books tend not to disappear, unless they're checked out.

[mtsilver_conquor]

[She bites her lips before another sigh.] That'd... that make sense. I don't like it, not when all the myths say there's always a record of things, or at least of people claiming to be from a place.

But, if it's not that then... Wait. When you put it like that, it's more a re-write of reality itself, meaning there probably wouldn't be much use for a serebi.