Day Twenty One: Engine Room to All Carriages

[voidtreckermods]

You have many questions.

Each passenger may ask three.

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[knifewithnoname]

It do be being a stupid train. [She sighed, but listened for the second answer before asking any questions of her own.]

[voidtreckermods]

You were recruited in exceptional circumstances. The Voidtrecker Express apologises for the lack of training.

[enthunder]

Sorry doesn't do much. [ It's muttered, but it's an agreement with the kid, really. ]

Want to ask something?

[radishlobbyist]

Sorry really doesn't do much [ Wen Qing responded dryly from her position sitting next to Lightning. ]

I want to say we should all coordinate our questions but... there is no saying how long we have, or if any attempts to coordinate with people in other carriages would be taken as breaking the rules.

[ She thinks, trying to figure out how to maximize these three questions for herself, at least. No asking if, only how, maybe. ]

Tell me, Voidtrecker Express, for those of us who have died at home and can't return, how can we go to another world when you are done with us?

[voidtreckermods]

You could continue travelling the void. You could become re-tethered to a voidcraft and through that live in another world. It is a complicated process but not impossible.

[knifewithnoname]

[She nods, but then sees Wen Qing and promptly shuts her mouth, to allow the doctor to speak. She wrinkles her nose at the answer.]

And if we did be going back to our worlds. Would you be explaining to people were we did be going? Because no one will be believing that I did be being kidnapped by a train.

[voidtreckermods]

That would not be possible. Your world is not void active, passenger Unnamed Female Human.

[enthunder]

[ While they ask their questions, Light stands up and leans to try the door. It starts to open, and she relaxes a little at knowing they're not trapped like they have been in other incidents.

Re-tethering. Alright. It's something to keep an eye out for. ]

... And none of our worlds are void active, otherwise we'd have some idea of what's going on. Convenient. [ Back to sitting with them, she scowls at the ICP. ] Five questions left.

[radishlobbyist]

[ She flashes Little One a small smile after that disappointing answer she receives, as a small consolation. ]

That's very convenient. I don't think I've heard of anyone on the train yet that they come from a world that knows of the Voidtrecker Express.

But let's see, what else to ask... It would be so much easier if we knew what others have asked already. [ She chews on her bottom lip as she ponders it. ]

What will become of us when the Void authorities catch up to you?

[voidtreckermods]

You would be arrested and the Voidtrecker Express confiscated. Unknown what the result of such a trial would be but it would not be in your interests.

This would not be a desirable outcome.

[knifewithnoname]

She isn't took happy with her own answer and even less so than the one to Wen Qing. She looks at them both. "We do be needing to be being smart about this."

[enthunder]

Don't know if we can assume all the obvious things'll get asked. Still, you'd think Orange would have that covered.

[ They all talk enough for it.

She completes the trifecta of disgruntlement. ]

On the run again, huh. Should I ask about the 'exceptional circumstances', or do we think we'll get another non-answer.

[radishlobbyist]

[ Wen Qing ponders on this for a moment, but in the end, all she has a helpless little shrug. ]

I say it's worth a try. We still have four questions, all of us together.

[knifewithnoname]

Yes we do still be having four. So we can be asking that, priestess Lightning.

[enthunder]

Right. So let's go with... [ hi engine room ] What exceptional circumstances affected our recruitment?

[voidtreckermods]

You come from non active voids. Your worlds do not have the technology to allow Void Travel. They do not have Void access points.

Thank you for your questions, passenger Claire Farron.

[radishlobbyist]

So we are from places which the Void authorities aren't keeping track of. That does at least explain why there is nobody here who has heard about Void Travel before.

I'm not sure what to ask next. Maybe if there is any way to convince the train to bring specific people here.

[knifewithnoname]

[It did explain why no one knew about the void. She tilted her head at Wen Qing.] Do you be having people you do be wanting? We can be asking that.

[radishlobbyist]

[ She nods, albeit a little sheepishly. ] I do. I have family who has died back home, like I did, and if there's a chance to bring them here...

Voidtrecker Express, how can we convince you to recruit specific people for the train?

[voidtreckermods]

Suggestions and feedback can be given on the Feedback and Suggestion post.

Thank you for your questions, passenger Qing Wen.

[enthunder]

[ she doesn't kick the ICP, but it's a near thing. Instead, she tamps down her own disappointment at that answer, and nudges her shoulder against Wen Qing's. ]

Good try. Two left.

[knifewithnoname]

[She wrinkles her nose again and sighs.] Why do you be making people be leaving? We would be being more effective if we did no keep losing people on every platform.

[She asks before asking Wen Qing and Lightning, but she hopes they think it is a good question.]

[voidtreckermods]

That is not the doing of the Voidtrecker Express.

[radishlobbyist]

[ Wen Qing pinches her lips in annoyance. ] That's extremely unhelpful. Whatever willingness to answer questions it had seems to be running out, I doubt we would have gotten more than three answers out of it even if that hadn't been the rule all along.

[ But she has so many more questions! A sigh, a small shake of her head. ]

Never mind. There is one thing I need to ask. Voidtrecker Express, there has been concern voiced in the past that the symptoms of Void Sickness would be mistaken for mental health problems. How do we reliably discern a patient suffers from Void Sickness?

[voidtreckermods]

[There is no answer]