voidtreckermods

LIBRARY

This a double carriage. On the bottom floor there is a corridor running along one side, with a door to enter the carriage itself in the middle of the corridor. Up the stairs on either end of the carriage, the space is open, relatively.

Downstairs appears similar to a public library. The walls are painted brightly and lined with shelves, most of which are empty. Labels indicate that fiction books should be stored here. The wall facing the door is alternating windows looking out into the Void, and posters that seem to be large, blown-up book covers for the more popular fiction books in the train.

Four tables with linked chairs are spaced throughout the car, each one painted one of the team colours, and beanbag chairs similar to those found in the Games carriage can also be seen scattered in a pile in one corner.

A little wooden train with shelves built into it winds its way through the tables, its shelves filled with all of the previously-purchased Merry Little Void Train literature and the first book of several of the encountered but unpurchased MLVT series, including several colouring books. There's room on its shelves for far more than it currently contains. Kheli the rabbit is painted leaning out of the engine window, waving.

Along the far wall to the right are two scanning machines, which can do the following: register new books - as a helpful tutorial on the screen will inform you; provide summaries of books if given a specific title; or check books out if presented with a valid ticket. Passengers can have up to eight books checked out at a time; if someone walks out of the carriage carrying a book not checked out by them, the ICP speakers in that carriage will beep obnoxiously for ten seconds.

Upstairs resembles an academic library. The wall next to the stairs is a similar bank of windows as downstairs, although lacking the colourful posters, instead dotted with landscape paintings of previously visited worlds and unknown worlds both. Rows of shelves divide the space into six smaller workspaces, each with a single-person desk with lamp and bookstand and another window above, bracketed by shelves on either side. The bookshelves muffle sound, creating semi-private spaces around each desk.

The shelves are empty, with labels on each shelf indicating that non-fiction books belong up here.

We will not OOCly be tracking books being checked in and out. If a book is not being returned, please reply to that book's comment to let people know that it isn't available.

Please comment below with any books your character is registering with the library computers, using the following form, to either the fiction or non-fiction top level and under the correct genre or subsection with the book's title as the subject header:

BOOK SEARCHES ~ FICTION ~ NON-FICTION
FICTION: Merry Little Voidtrain ~ Action/Adventure ~ Crime ~ War/Epic ~ Drama/Slice Of Life ~ Horror
NON-FICTION: Void ~ Historical/Travel ~ Educational ~ Entertainment ~ Arts/Sports ~ Philosophy/Religion ~ Health
OTHER: Recipes ~ Passenger Documents

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

* Anan invited everyone to Osiga in system #78961112094711 for a festival. While there we had the opportunity to hear from ministry representative Ten-Nank. Information will be incoming in greater detail about the Ministry, but they also told me that making my world void-active would require diplomacy and bureaucratic work. (source: train, Osiga, Orchestra 21)

Hypothesis: I need to find out how to make my world void-active. I suspect it may not be that difficult, but I also suspect most people won’t be able to tell me, or won’t tell me. I’ll have to seek out as many sources as possible.

* The cooperation with the Ministry begins truly in earnest Poi day 5, as we’re now being recruited on their missions. I’m not sure the Ministry is much more trustworthy than the train itself, but outside of using caution and fact-checking what we get, I wouldn’t advise not to follow them. They clearly have more information than we do. Fortunately we’ve been cleared of being unwilling criminals.

* Disaster struck Poi 21 in an attempt to go home. I’ll write my testimony on a different page about that, if nothing else than to preserve the information about my world. This had a ripple effect of sorts. Voidtears and voidblobs appeared on system #5739. Coincidentally, we’ve been there before. I was under the impression we couldn’t go back to places we’d been. It’s unclear exactly what the train did to conduct the experiment but it sounds possible that it caused damage to the void. (source: Quicksand 7 mission)

* The train finally responded to the questions I asked some time ago.

The answers are mostly satisfactory. It highlighted the restriction to the engine room meaning that a proper captain was needed to gain access, so I asked about the process of becoming a voidcaptain for the sole purpose of gaining access to assist with our mysteries. I just want access temporarily. The train has informed me there’s no way to do that, no test I can write offhand. I may investigate that further.

* On Quicksand 19, Lia Nine contacted the Voidtrecker Express. Lia Nine confirmed that what I know about the void is true, if succinct. She likened traveling to skimming across the surface of the void, and likened the voidtears to dragging someone through it. I reported my personal account of the attempt to return home, and my exploration of the homes of others, for her data sets, including all of the restrictions. I requested of her some books on becoming void active, studying to be a voidcaptain and developing voidtravel.

Lia Nine’s job consists of monitoring the void for anomalies and disturbances. They also work carefully with void nexus worlds or void hubs, making sure the void activity does not grow too dangerous for those living there. They also assist those who are displaced through void activity.

It should be noted that she admitted our actions have turned many void theories on their heads and that’s exhilarating, is it not? The initial outburst also appears to be stable. Our worlds appear to no longer be affected by the void itself.

Notably, this is relieving because the colours and strange impressions in my world were disturbing and unsettling, as well as completely out of the ordinary. I have no desire to see my world swallowed up by the void. Lia Nine reports to commander Orlaith, which means much of this is under their purview as well, most likely, which correlates to the other information we have on the Ministry. This friendly tone and interaction don’t make me feel any better about whether or not they’re trustworthy. The data points require more research and thoughts.

I’ve been thinking about the problem surrounding the train’s missing time and data and I have a few ideas about how to get that information.

If the train will not let us come to see it, let’s see if we can get it to give us the data we need.

Edited 2022-04-25 21:00 (UTC)

Library

Things Involving The Ministry