( world #2 - struxta event log )

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I ▫ main IV ▫ premise       XI ▫ applications XIV ▫ activity II ▫ logs V ▫ rules VII ▫ bestiary   IX ▫ canon updates XII ▫ taken XV ▫ drop/hiatus III ▫ ooc VI ▫ faq VIII ▫ setting   X ▫ mods XIII ▫ reserves XVI ▫ players 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.

Comments

[unrecovered]

[Lotor is currently filed under "people that Wash may have seen in passing but doesn't know in person." There are a few too many of those in the Circle for Wash's tastes, but that's a problem for another day.]

[...depending on how the rest of this conversation goes, Lotor might also get filed under "says dumb shit."]

Wow, is it that obvious?

[But multitasking is Wash's forte - which is to say, he can snark and be productive at the same time. He moves ahead and gestures for Lotor to follow, keeping his voice down - not that any of the citizens of Struxta are listening to him anymore, or that there are any around in this particular area to be listening.]

I'm fine. We need to get off the streets - there's an entrance to the underground this way.

[unpatriarchal]

[ lotor can appreciate the attitude, and he lets the snarky comment slide in favor of what wash says next. an entrance to the underground sounds like a good plan, and lotor, indeed, is inclined to get there. however: ]

I have people I care about above ground, still -- but I will follow you there, to remember where to go until I can locate them. Being in pairs is smarter than being alone, at any rate. We have no idea what we're dealing with.

[ allura, though, is likely off doing the same thing this person is. heroes and good people are the worst. but lotor quickly follows after wash, his sword in hand. just in case. ]

Have any of the androids attacked you, or has anyone caught you being above ground and punished you for it?

[unrecovered]

Join the club.

[They've all got people that they care about, but as far as Wash is concerned, this is an airplane oxygen mask situation; you get yourself set first before helping anyone else.]

As far as we know, what we're dealing with is a conflict-avoidant hive mind that's decided it doesn't like us. It's unpredictable, and that's what makes it dangerous.

[He ducks down one alley and swings around the other. It's a circuitous route - if Lotor is good at directions, he may notice that they've doubled back several times and gone in a circle at one point. Being paranoid has kept Wash alive more than once, and he's not afraid to use that.]

Not yet - the few that have seen me have ignored me, but that doesn't mean that the Mass Subconscious isn't watching.