Entries tagged with ~x~nita callahan [crau]

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DAY 19 MONTH JELLY

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[Entrapta plants herself in front of the screen, holding eight tools at once in various locks of hair with her protective bug-mask pushed up on her head. She's got gloves now and her orange hoodie is accompanied by a purple shirt (she traded for one early on). Because she's the height of fashion, obviously.]

Hiiii! I know there are some very competent builders and makers out there. I'm still finalizing my chores robot-

[Two little robot clampers reach into the bottom of the screen. They make little 'grabby' motions, then withdraw.]

-Everyone, say hi to Sandra! Sandra, beep hi to everyone.

[Sandra beeps. That probably means 'hello'.]

I collected some data from the last stop we were at, thanks to both on-site observations and salvaged scrap, and I've started to get a better handle on hard-light technology! Think of all the applications! We could make temporary protective shields when you don't have someone with those abilities around. Or even drones that can carry a holographic generator into a place where you wouldn't normally be able to access, and you could work on something through a VR headset. Or you could generate an illusion to hide a location while you rest and plan! And that's just a few examples. The potential for mobile field generators is endless.

But I need some help working out some of the missing information. Some of you even have your own version of that technology or have ways to adapt it to be compatible with magic.

[The links two tools together, because that's the way to symbolize compatibility here one would guess.]

I also wanted to ask some of the fighters what they'd want out of practice, if I were, say, to build something with very specific specs. I was talking to someone about that sort of thing and she's not wrong about training resources.

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Ah...good afternoon. Forgive me, I'm not quite used to doing things in this manner. But that is kind of why I am contacting you all today.

On the previous mission, I realized that this communication device is useful but that we might benefit more by other means. I'm new so I'm afraid I don't know too many of you and so I hope I am not over stepping by asking this.

But I was curious...Is there anyone else that has communicated with others via a more internal method? Where I am from we have these communication arrays that we access using spiritual power. And if you know a person's personal password you can communicate directly with them through your minds.

[That is the most general way he can describe that...he just hopes he is making things clear.]

It got me thinking that during missions that might be monitored by an enemy, it might be convenient to have such a form of communication that they wouldn't be able to track. Granted I haven't been on many missions so I don't know how many times this would be useful...but it is good to be prepared for any situation.

I'm sorry I have rambled on...

Basically I was asking if anyone else also has communicated in that way in the past and if it might be something useful that those of us with that ability might be able to help contribute to missions in some way.

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Backdated to Day 26; from the Dinning Car.

So! Two things here! [Who gave her sugar? She's far more preppy than she has any rights to be. Hopefully, everyone by now at least knows her voice, if not name.]

First off, I've rehauled the Welcome Guide based on what info I've collected since last platform. Anyway, I've got the first draft ready for people to look over, and at this point, the more eyes on it, the better as the Guide needs to accurately reflect train life! [A steadying breath, then:] I'm also willing to take on two helpers with this. I can't keep up with everything no matter what I think. That said, it's not first come first serve.

[Another steadying breath before Eva continues.] Two! Curufin and I're going to hold an Orange Team meeting within the first few days after Platform Day. Not exactly sure when or where it'll be yet, but it'll have snacks and tea at the very least. The meeting's about intra-team stuff and general bits and pieces of housekeeping. Boring but needed given how big we've gotten. We'll remind you all about this on the day, too.

(:OOC: I've put up a Gdoc w/commenting enabled for the Welcome Guide with everything I, Fenix, am aware of OOC. Eva is far more up to date with things, so please treat it as ICly finished!

The Welcome Guide Helpers role will require at most two logs/threads every IC month as Eva checks in to see if anything needs to be added or is out of date.)

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[ VIDEO ] Backdated to 28th of Imagination - All Cars

[ The video flickers on, and it's Gen, smiling deviously, but looking over his shoulder now and again. ]

[ Making certain that someone is still distracted. ]

Good afternoon, fellow VoidTrain passengers! Isn't it a lovely day?

I don't have long, Senku-chan should be pretty distracted - but all of you who know him, he could have a sudden idea and want to share it at any moment.

This is for everyone who does know Senku!

The fourth of next month, best I can guess, is a special day.

[ He holds up a finger and says; ]

You see, my dears, Senku-chan has this habit of keeping a running count of each day in his head. Probably because our time, also, had no clocks! No strange train time going on there, just hadn't been re-invented yet, if you've heard the story from Senku you know why. I digress.

Doing the math, that should make the 4th of next month Senku's birthday!

And I would like to throw a party. I'm going to order a cake - I've gotten a few presents at that faire ...

Who's in? With presents! Decorations! Food!

... There's at least cake in it for you, if you'd like to join? But I believe Senku-chan has helped a lot of us here, and after such a time after being kidnapped ... well, he deserves to have a little party, wouldn't you say?

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[Video] 29th of Imagination - Library to all cars

[After the spark of an idea settles in - and after Nita's discussed it with a few trusted people - and giving the train a heads' up - Nita finds herself making a post in the early afternoon, two days before the turn of the month.]

Hello, everyone. This is Nita Callahan again, and I've got both an idea, and a request.

We've learned the train can communicate with us more directly - but it has trouble doing so. As in, energy troubles, not just the social aspect.

[Which, frankly, she can relate to... and which often made that sense of disconnect, or missed connection, worse.

No matter.]

So I'd like to get as many of those with abilities that can bridge that gap - psychic, technological, whatever you've got - as want to participate, and this next platform day we can spend some time seeing how they fit together.

I'll admit, I haven't had much success in being close - but mostly I was acting alone, and the few times I did joint-work with people were mixed at best. But if we can make a channel, even if it's just through group meditation or similar, then maybe we'll all have less of an uphill battle.

Shared burdens are lessened; we have to remember that.

Nita, out. And... thank you, for listening.

[Because listening counts for a lot, even when it doesn't always feel like it.]

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[Video] Calling all medics (TW: Medical content)

Hey, everyone. I have a question for the medically skilled and the healers on the train. During the question thing that Enna-san did, it came to my attention that there's a passenger who has an implant of nefarious origins that they would like removed. I'd like to see if we can all meet up and see if it would be feasible to work as a team to remove it. We can meet up wherever you like, though you all know I'm usually in the med car anyway. Thanks!

[ooc: Ichigo is proposing the idea of neurosurgery on Rich to remove his Squip. If your healer character doesn't want to be involved, that's totally fine! As far as Ichigo is concerned, if they can do a full eye transplant on Xiao Xingchen and have the eyes work, there's no medical procedure that teamwork can't manage.]

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Imagination 22 | Video

[The feed opens up with... a far-too-close zoom-in on Enna's eye. But then once she's satisfied it's on, she leans back, and nods to herself.]

Hello! So, Vee did that game where everyone got to ask it three questions. And I thought it seemed kinda fun. It would be a fun way to get to know everyone here. So I think it should be a game for everyone to play.

If you can do this.... Caw, ICP? Thingy. And talk to people. Let people ask you three questions and use it to get to know people! And even if you're the kind of person who doesn't care about getting to know people, it's still worth trying, because if we're all on teams and going on missions together, the more we know about each other, the better we can work together. Tactics, battle strategy, abilities, knowledge, strengths and weaknesses... And things like personality, history, all of that. The more we know about each other, the better we'll be.

Ready? I'll start!

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Day Twenty One: Engine Room to All Carriages

You have many questions.

Each passenger may ask three.

(OOC: Please read this ooc information before posting!)

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Imagination 13, calling medical staff and magical healers, video

[ In a very rare network appearance, Wen Qing shows up on the network, apparently sitting on the upper floor of the library. ]

I'm addressing those of you with knowledge of medicine or magical healing. Some of my colleagues and I are planning to undertake an eye transplant by surgery and would be grateful for further expertise.

Several months ago, a combination of medicine and magic proved very effective in healing Xue Yang so we would like to replicate this success.

If you would like more information, respond to me here or seek me out in the library.

OOC: This is about Xiao Xingchen's eye transplant, Wen Qing will be happy to provide further information just not sharing detailed medical information with the entire train. Willow and Ichigo are already signed up for it, others are welcome. This will mostly be handwaved but you're welcome to involve your medical characters in this endeavor and play out all things research & prep & what else at your own leisure. Post-surgery post by Xingchen will go up later.

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Video - Imagination 15

(Gen - in Purple. | Roland - in Dark Blue.)

[ The ICP flickers to life and in video, two individuals stand side by side. One is stern and still, with heavy eyes and crossed arms. The other with duo-colored hair is smiling, but their gaze is sharp and attentive. The announcement seems to be coming from the Dining car. ]

Good morning, everyone! After a rather … difficult … last mission, it seems that everyone’s scrambling for ideas, and answers. It’s … certainly been in my mind. Some have even called for a change in leadership, which is understandable, but I think might’ve ruffled a few feathers.

I really think that after everything we’ve been through, a fight about who’s running what is the last thing we need.

[ Roland transitions smoothly, with a nod in agreement. ]

( Cut for length. )

(OOC: Expect threeways/fourways/whatever-have-you-ways wherever appropriate! The said Open Log will be posted on the 5th of December. This is not a council meeting, but a player-driven initiative :) Come one, come all! Please feel free to throw in stuff OOCly here. )

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Imagination 13, video

[Masumi looks a little tired when the video starts, but that’s not stopping her from doing this once everyone is back on the train.]

That was...a mess. Some of us had to be evacuated from the mission, myself included, and I think the emergency evacuations exposed a major problem with the train layout. As of now, our one medical carriage is eighteen carriages away from Luggage, which is where people evacuate to. That’s way too far, since some people might not be able to make it all the way there on their own and trying to give medical aid in Luggage is unwieldy at best. At this point it might be best to suggest a second medical carriage, closer to Luggage, but if we can’t get that then trying to get the train to move Medical closer to Luggage would be an okay alternative.

[She pauses here, before moving on to the second topic she’d wanted to talk about.]

I also wanted to mention Fight Club. Missions can turn bad quick, as we just had happen on Nion, and earlier, during the mission on Terra. [Don’t ask her about that one.] I think more people should consider going to Fight Club, since there’s going to be more dangerous missions and we need to at least be able to protect ourselves if things go bad.

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MISSION RELATED - After Curufin's Vision Post, Imagination 6

[Well, everything that vision sounds like is terrible. Extremely terrible. Fire, screams, dust...

Emporio comes on the screen looking a little wound up, but otherwise quite focused and determined. He could probably have waited until they got to where they're going but...

He doesn't know that there would be time for this after that.] ...Does...anyone here have the power to change things like the weather, or...stop fire, or clean air..?

...I have something that can, but I don't think that if anything bad happens, I can do that kind of thing alone. I mean...it's...they're really strong, but I don't want to think something like 'I can definitely do that'.

...Where I came from though, I read about a theory from home- there used to be all kinds of giant animals, 'dinosaurs' and things, until a meteor hit the planet. But what killed them wasn't the meteor. I mean...I guess some of them it was, but what happened was the dust from the crash filled the air. It clouded the sky, and blocked the sun, for years. That's the theory at least, but it makes sense- if there was only initial consequence, then the rest of the planet's life should have been fine right?

...what I'm saying I guess is... ...Even though something might hit the planet, maybe we can do something after that too, if that happens. ...I want to try.

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Mission Vision -- very early in the morning of Imagination Day 6 [Video]

[ Curufin falls out of his bunk, as usual when waking from a mission vision. CRASH! He hits the floor, his blankets entangled with his legs, his right shoulder striking the floor with a thud. Luckily Elves don't break bones easily, but his shoulder is going to hurt. He scrambles to the ICP. ]

Wouldn't you know it, I've just had another prophetic dream. [ He shakes his head and drags his hand through his disordered black hair. ]

Didn't like the looks of this one, either.

I was in a jungle, and it was pleasant enough. Sun shining down through the branches, forest sounds, nice. But suddenly the light intensified, and something seemed wrong with it. I ran to the next clearing and gazed up at the sky, and what I saw was ominous. The sky had turned a glaring dark red and was getting darker by the moment. And then everything grew still, as though the world had stopped. I did not have time to react to that, or wonder what it meant. Abruptly the ground shook under my feet, and the dust rose, and there was fire everywhere, and I heard screams, screams, and more screams. And then I woke up.

Damn if this doesn't seem to me like another candidate for an aborted mission! What the hell happens to the mission world? Is it self-destructing, or is it attacked by unknown forces? Or is this some simple natural disaster?

[ Still shaking his head. He grabs for his jacket and pulls it on. ]

Did anybody else have this dream? Or any variation of this dream?

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Video | Imagination 6, ridiculously early

How quickly the months fly, do they not? And here we are once again, with another mission and another puzzle.

We're set for a jungle, this time. Something... immediate, I think. A new problem, though no less destructive for it. One that brings a sudden blast of fire and pain to the world.

[Sighing]

If anyone cares to speculate further at this hour, I'll be making myself a cup of tea in the dining carriage. And if that doesn't work... well. We'll see if we reach that point.

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video; horseshoe 28

Good day, everyone! [ Inigo smiles widely. ] I was wondering if anyone either has or knows of something rare and they wouldn't mind it.. erm, losing it.. probably permanently.

[ He's saying that statement as if he's only now realising how weird that sounds out loud.

But it's too late to go back on that now. ]

In exchange for a favour?

And preferably edible? But maybe not necessarily? Hey-- [ He turns away from the screen, seeming to have some mumbled discussion.

This is a totally normal ICP message. ]

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Horseshoe, Day 21, Early Morning

[Eight switches on her screen, looking a little dour.]

Hello. I'm in need of a significant amount of paper and bottles. I have a project in mind that requires both.

I saw that there is a printer available, would it be possible for me to use some of it?

I would make the purchase myself, but I used it all for clothing.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Uh, hello? I was wondering if anyone could help me out with something. There's something I want to make, but I couldn't find any art supplies in the game room. Does anyone know if there is anything like markers and big sheets of paper anywhere?

Also! Does anyone like playing hide and go seek? Because Guilmon wants to play, but it isn't as fun with just two people.

[Takato moves to close the message, and then pauses as one more thought occurs to him.]

I guess I had one more question. I know there are people from a lot of worlds here. So I was just wondering. Do any of your worlds have Digital Worlds?

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Video; Horseshoe 16, a few hours before new arrivals

That's the second time I've been called to the conductor right before a mission!

[Despite the rather impressively disgruntled face Eva's got going, she just sounds resigned, if not a bit choked with emotion.] If someone could fill me in, I'd appreciate it.

That's not all. I saw the roster and- we've got several team Leads in gold and- in the worst case-

[She doesn't want to bring it up.]

Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong and can bail on these thoughts. But...

[She hates Horseshoe, thanks.]

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Audio: Dressing Car

[ Hello fellow Void treckers, it's been awhile, hasn't it? ]

Uh.. so hi? That was uh... weird.

I don't know how long I've been gone but uh... I'm back? I guess??

Oh, this Peter, by the way. Peter Parker.

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12th Horseshoe - Video

[Her expression is a stoic mask - practiced, commanding attention and respect. She's had years to practice her war face. Only the people on the train who know her particularly well might be able to detect the concern and worry behind it.]

So, I'm about to put in a feedback request to add a new car to this train. They've got us doing some pretty demanding and physical stuff here, and I think we need more help on the therapy end. I'm proposing that we add a therapy and relaxation car to this train.

I'd want it to include at least one hot tub - probably more - along with a cold tub for helping with recovery from injury and soreness. It's the kinda thing professional sports teams have in their clubhouse. The hot tubs could be used for people who just want to unwind, but priority would be given for people recovering from injury or trauma. Maybe throw in a massage table if there's room.

Let me know if this sounds like a good idea to you, or if you have any objections or additions before I submit my request.