horseshoe 22, voice

[blitzcheer]

Okay, so, favour. Last time before the storm we got one of those info briefs, it was about the voidsickness, right? And it said it gave it to us because a bunch of us asked.

Can people take a minute to ask on the feedback option for info telling us why we get called to the conductor, and why those people end up getting to leave. See if it works? It put the stupid clocks up for polling, so...

[ There's a muttering here before an exhale. ]

That's it. If anyone wants something else asked about a bunch, share it I guess.

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voice;

[adregem]

Credit.

[ An instant answer. If he has to ask one more time...! ]

I'll do that, and ask why we can't know how to get proper credit for points around here. A working criteria for what acts warrant how many points.

[blitzcheer]

[ Credit? --oh. ]

Alright, sure, I'll ask that too. [ A beat. ] Why not just ask how the teams work in general at that point.

[adregem]

[ The two requests are noted down for Roland as well; combining both of their feedback. It's worth a shot. ]

After we do that...Betting pool's open for what the train will actually put up to poll. If it does.

[blitzcheer]

If it puts up a poll for info I'll scream. And then find some actual way to hurt it!

[ Just, done. Done! ]

[adregem]

[ ... ]

Yeah. You should.

[ Hey, a protest's a protest if it's warranted, right? Roland, for once, isn't kidding around here. ]

Scream to the Feedback post and see if that doesn't do anything.

[Voice]

[iamnotgod]

Certainly.

Something else I would like to know is how the train is able to avoid the Void Ministry. I am not convinced mere luck is on our side, there.

[Whether it be good or bad luck.]

[blitzcheer]

Sure, but I don't know how lucky we're gonna get on 'So why are you doing this' type questions.

But, worth a shot anyway, right?

[iamnotgod]

As much as anything else is likely to be, yes.

[Nothing ventured, nothing gained, and all.]

voice; shows up two days late with starbucks

[flatteries]

I can't believe you're calling the clocks stupid after I put in so much effort to help you ask for them.

[ Is this a productive conversation to have over the ICPs? Probably not.

But the point matters, so he's going to do it anyway, dangit! ]

thanks bro

[blitzcheer]

Who's gonna vote for clocks? And we can't even get the clock Rol got to sync up to the train. It's stupid! I hate this dumb train!

[ whine whine whine whine whine ]

[flatteries]

[ Inigo doesn't even bat an eye as he listens to this, probably just so used to it.. ]

I voted for clocks. For you.

[ Petulant child mode is on. TWO CAN PLAY THIS WHINING GAME. ]

Besides, I'll do this for you too, but are you sure it won't backfire somehow?

[blitzcheer]

[ what a waste of a vote, dude. ]

How? It'll put it up on a poll? Kick me off the train? Tell me to go see the conductor? [ His voice becomes more and more smarmy. ]

Seeing if it listen's the point of this. And it's a reasonable question. [ Reasonable! From him! ] I'm thinking this is something that might happen on other void rides.

[flatteries]

[ He starts, almost saying something, but it instead ends up just being a half-choked sound as he swallows his words right back up. Tidus is being so huffy that he'd just feel stupid for saying he's worried about Tidus. He knows Tidus would just make fun of him!

It leaves his cheeks a little pink though as he says something else instead. ]

We asked it plenty of stuff before though that it's never replied to.

Voice

[barenakedspirit]

Done and done. This is something I want to know too. How many times have you all asked the same question like this? Or this the first time?

Voice

[blitzcheer]

Dunno! Never seen or heard about a list somewhere. I think I talked about doing it with Nita once, but that was a while back.

[ He actually forgot about it 'til now. ]

But I'll keep a list now, ask a few other friends. See if we get anything in the next month or whatever. Ahhh, [ the sound is exasperated, ] I shoulda put down everyone I asked about the clocks...

Voice

[barenakedspirit]

Could ask everyone who replies that you know was here before! Might not get everyone but has to at least be a few that remember. [Maybe. His tone is as cheerful as ever despite what happened recently.]

...so the void sickness came from one of those storms?

[blitzcheer]

Actually, I don't have a clue. [ Huh. Now that Galo asks... ] All I know about it is when we got the info about it. And it came up in the message the ministry sent out?

Doesn't it say it can get onboard if the doors aren't closed properly? Something like that.

[voice]

[singerofspells]

I could also try to talk to the train. Perhaps at the next station. I don't know if that's the same as the conductor, but knowing that it troubles us that we don't know why people leave...

[Granted, the last time Nita mentioned that, things ended poorly for everyone involved.]

The train knows we're concerned.

[blitzcheer]

[ Is that...? Oh, it's S'reee. Neat. ]

Could you try with the ... [ ... ... wait. ] Can you use the feedback post...?

[ can whales leave feedback............. ]

[singerofspells]

Yes. Either I use wizardry to press the keys or talk to the machine into translating, or I shape-shift to human and manage that way. I'm getting very good at working with this sort of technology.

[given her baseline is... not at all]

[blitzcheer]

Oh. Well that's good! You should be heard too.

[ Okay, what were they actually talking about? Oh right- ]

Anyway, uh- if you leave the feedback, can you let me know? And... have you tried talking to the train before?

[so_dark_a_road]

Yes, the train sometimes does respond to requests by granting them. I believe it does help if as many people as possible ask on the feedback post.

I'll ask that question too, the one you mention. Why do people get called to the conductor, and why do they leave the train after that?

I've been wondering about that, too. I'm not sure that they get to meet the conductor, because I'm not sure there is a conductor. The train entity probably manages all train functions on its own. At least, that's my theory. But I don't understand why the people who leave are held in some unknown place or state until platform day. And as they go towards the turnstyle, why can't they respond to the attempts of the remaining passengers to get their attention? I'm going to ask that question, too.

[blitzcheer]

I don't think it's a real conductor either. But I'm thinking, like you said, it's something the train's got in its system - and they have void trains out being used for travelling, right?

So if the train isn't writing these info posts it gives us but it's something it already has, maybe it has something for what visiting the conductor means. Who gets called to a train conductor in the first place, you know?

Maybe it's got something to do with that train tethering. All I can think of.

[so_dark_a_road]

Some of the information we've received via the books and other media, and also from the inspectors from the Ministry of Void Travel, strongly suggests that there are many other Void transports, that the Voidtrecker is not unique.

Yes, I wonder if the train entity is writing these posts, or whether it is just posting information that was written in the past by others? And right, if there is a conductor at all, is it the train entity? And why does it call people and then dump them?

Hey Tidus, have you ever heard of anybody being called to the conductor for any other reason? Has anybody returned from such an interview without being dumped at the next platform? I might have missed something.

What does train tethering mean? Again, I might have missed something.

[blitzcheer]

They're not always dumped though, right? Sometimes they show up on the train again, even before the platform day. What's that about, yeah? Like, where do they even go? Are they actually in the engine room?

[ That's some confusing stuff there. ]

Uhh, I haven't heard about people being called before. You've been here longer than me, I think. I just know that people sometimes end up in the luggage room or somewhere...? [ Something like that. ]

Oh, the train tethering? That's uh... I think that's what lets us void travel. We're connected to the train, or something. It was in the void sickness doc - or the maybe that ministry message? One of those two.