Train Log

[voidtreckermods]

Please use this space to record your thoughts and feelings about your ongoing voyage with the Voidtrecker Express.

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Webmind

[iamnotgod]

25th Egret (post-Event) - Voice

[iamnotgod]

I am not certain I am literally even equipped to understand what just happened, but I do believe an explanation is in order.

[This is accompanied with a binary request through the ICP system: Are you all right?]

If that was a danger being a Voidtrecker cannot solve, I would prefer to learn its nature sooner than later.

I strongly suspect I am not alone in this.

17th Fiddlesticks (After initial investigation) - Voice

[iamnotgod]

[This is part one of Webmind's reaction to A-Qing's death.]

I understand there was a death on the train this past night. I can only assume the victim is alive now because of their Safety Control Apparatus.

I have to question what purpose such a function serves. True, on missions, Voidtreckers are expected to be in danger - but then, why not rescue them from peril when they are on the train? Do those strange shadows present a greater threat to our existence - necessitating the use of an evacuation procedure even beyond that normally enabled in the SCAs - than our fellow passengers?

My worry is that, since the person came back to life, the murderer will simply strike again whenever the mood takes them.

I cannot condone that sort of behavior, even passively. We - all Voidtreckers - should be able to do something.

12th Grasshopper (post-mission), Voice

[iamnotgod]

This mission has been deemed a success; we have prevented the immediate destruction of the Burrower, a being viewed as a god by one of the races of the planet Terra, as well as the slaughter of many lifeforms also on this planet.

The scientists missing on this planet were reported as safely retrieved, or in the process thereof, before Orange and Red Teams had even fully left.

This planet's surface condition is still poor, but perhaps the Terrans and Gry will work together to fix that themselves.

Several of our own are missing but, perhaps, not dead; we will have to make inquiries when each of them return, if they do not simply leave upon the next platform stop.

[Webmind's tone changes from largely clinical to... something not easily categorizable.]

I do not know where you went while we were busy, but I hope your efforts were as fruitful as our own.

[Tentative well-wishes? Tentative well-wishes.]

Grasshopper 26/7/whenever they actually get back on the train; Voice

[iamnotgod]

So I suppose 'Artificial' is not the proper term to use for you?

Forgive me for sounding blunt; my only wish is to be accurate in addressing you.

As far I have been made aware, the facts are these: you, both in the collective and singular sense, have confronted that danger of which I previously spoke before. As during the time I witnessed, the train fled the shadows of, seemingly, its own will.

An entire world was destroyed, as well as the home station of the Voidtrecker Express.

[I cannot imagine that level of grief, if only literally.]

Several voidtreckers wished to turn back time, to try and save that world as well as their fallen comrades.

What I do not know is whether you succeeded, or whether the nature of the problem itself is even solvable; paradoxes are not a light field for study, I know that.

But as for what to do now - how was it that other memory put it, 'you can only move forward'?

... That does seem like a useful start.

12th Horseshoe - Voice

[iamnotgod]

It appears quite a lot happened while I was away.

And while I do hope the Voidtreckers are successful on their mission to world #5382110341, there are also twenty missing Voidtreckers to judge by the roster.

There are no new hearts, which is some small condolence, but the fact remains that, until we arrive at the next platform, there is as of yet no way of knowing when or if any of them will return.

The missing are: Adora, Anthony "Tony" Edward Stark, Catra, Cloud Strife, Curufinwë Fëanaro Finwion...

[There is an extra pause, there, before he continues on.]

Gerome, Gladiolus Amicita, Glimmer of Bright Moon, Ifrit, "Lilith" that is, Misa, Nari Reno, Noctis Lucis Caelum from Red Team, Peter Benjamin Parker, Prompto Argentum, Sleepy Ash - also known as Maru, SXT-246-029-256-062, Tamamo-no-Mae, The Doctor, Zidane Tribal, and Zuko.

I hope they are, if not precisely well, then unharmed.