a storm approaches.above ground.It is early when you wake up to a message on your watches. Those underground will not receive this message, due to the complications with service. It is a simple line of text, with no further explanation given. You’re not sure how it even came through, or how they found a way to connect to the watches. Either way, a message comes across the screen.
All newcomers to Struxta are instructed to remain in their rooms until further notice.
It’s the middle of the day, on the 17th day in Struxta, that the notification rings out. Not through your bracelets, which might be your first assumption, but through what had previously been an unused announcement system. It doesn’t take much though to realize the announcement is for you - why would thousands of minds all connected to a singular consciousness need any kind of mass announcement system? No, they are talking to you. Whoever they are.
The announcement echoes through every building, street, hallway, and room in what feels to be the entire city - perhaps the entire world, and everyone above ground can hear it. It’s inescapable, really, the mechanical voice that calmly but firmly surrounds you.
All newcomers to Struxta are instructed to remain in their rooms until further notice.
Please return to your room if you haven’t already.
For those of you who are in your room, if you choose to venture out the Hostel itself will seem eerily normal. It is not until you get to the door that you see the figure - an imposing, large, mechanical figure armed with two devices. It takes up nearly the entire door, only moving aside if there is another Circle member being brought inside. Then it will return to its post. You will notice that if you approach the figure, it will not acknowledge you except to repeat the announcement.
Please return to your room.
They are impossible to sneak past, but more creative means could provide you with a way to get through. However, if they do catch up to anyone attempting to leave the premise, all they will need to do is touch a Circle member, and an electric shock strong enough to make any and everyone pass out will be administered.
If you do manage to make it past the Enforcers, the streets will feel oddly calm - like nothing has happened at all, despite the echo of the announcement around you. Do not waste time here, once you are free - the Enforcers will be chasing down any members who have gotten free, as made obvious if you choose to stay in any kind of public (and most private) spaces for more than an hour or so.
Where will you go? below ground.Whether it is a tip from another Circle member, or by coincidence alone, you might be able to find yourself underground. There seems to be more openings, now - all centered around the area of the Races. Doors and passageways with BG’s beckoning members in, taking them down below where even the sound of the announcement can’t be heard.
They will offer safety for anyone who was not originally part of the Tunnel Exploration, while also explaining what their fellow Circle members are preparing for. About the Storm, about their history - any of the previous questions asked here will be explained to anyone who makes the trek underground. It will take a day to get all the things in order to transport everyone to The Storm, and this will be a chance for all Circle members to regroup once they make it inside the tunnels.
They press you not to wander too far, and to instead simply wait with them in the industrial tunnels below the city, a never-ending interlocking maze of wires, pipes, and metal. It’s dark, dusty, and definitely not comfortable. But one thing it is, they explain in their glitchy half-sentences and partial thoughts, safe.
The Mass Consciousness has apparently deemed you a threat, and are systematically working on a solution to the problem. There’s no telling what they might do. wildcard.This is your world to explore. Something has tipped the Mass Consciousness off to a possible issue, a possible threat. What you do with this new status is up to you. Outside of the Hostel, the natives will completely ignore your existence, like you have been entirely erased from their reality. The only ones who seem to notice you are the Enforcers, and the BGs.
For those who have decided to investigate, and hopefully put an end to, The Storm, the log will be posted tomorrow (July 28th 11:59 PM EST). ICly and OOCly you will have one more day to prepare. Please be on the lookout for that log, as the description will include what you will find and what you can assume! We will also continue to take questions over at the OOC Post through the course of the event. |
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acatalepsy_logs2018-07-27 11:58 pm
(text) - same lock
[ he hesitates, at that, his fingers lingering over the holographic keyboard of the watch before he continues. ]
Riza first. Alphonse next, if he's stuck in this building. I'm going last.
(text) - same lock
[He isn't sure if Riza will go for that. But now might not be the time to argue that. Besides, if he's acting as transport he'll have to stick around anyway, stay close.]
Just don't get into any trouble while I'm going back and forth. I'll try to spread out the escapes, though I imagine some of the others among us will find their own ways as well.
(text) - private to hughes.
[ ;)
but then, roy shifts the conversation, just a little -- a private one, just between them, so alphonse and riza can't see it. ]
I'm sure people will have preferences. If they insist, they can make their own way. People who can't hold their own in a fight should get out first, after Riza and Alphonse. They can manage the civilians on their own.
Try not to appear in her room without announcing yourself. I'll tell her you're coming.
(text) - cont. private message
[You DO get into trouble Roy. All the time. Even more so since he left you it seems. And he's still not sure if he's heard ALL of it. Not the point now though so he won't press about it.]
Right. Wouldn't want to startle her.
(text) - cont. private message
[ there, mom. ]
She'll be fine, once she's out of this building. I'm going to go talk to her now so you don't have to convince her otherwise.
[ riza will likely argue with him regardless, but once roy convinces her to leave first, she won't argue with maes. ]
(text) - cont. private message
Thanks. That should make it easier.
[He has some ideas of what to add to help with the convincing as well, but he doesn't want to exactly share that with Roy at the moment.]
(text) - cont. private message
I'll be waiting for you when you're ready to get me out.
[ and 150% get caught, whoops. ]