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
( the hostel: ota )
(text) - same lock
Hostel. I already have a few places in mind I can take us within my radius that are pretty empty.
[After a few days of walking to the library, Maes had started working on his teleporting to the library. And then he'd started working on teleporting everywhere else. It was important to have escape routes or exit strategies planned in advanced after all. He knew his teleporting had a limit, but he could make multiple jumps if he needed to get them really far out.]
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[ the sheer amount of salt that is in roy's general being translates over text. somehow. ]
Good. I'm currently trying to find another way out. Not having much luck.
How far can you teleport, and how draining is it?
How many people can you take with you at one time?
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Haven't noticed any exhaustion yet, but my range is about 8 kilometers give or take. I have to be touching the person or object, unless I'm really familiar with them and then I think I can teleport them at will.
[He hasn't tested that part much. Mostly with objects. He'd called his dagger to him, but it wasn't until he'd been studying a book for awhile that he was able to call it to himself. He's not sure how that translates to people.]
If it's by touch though...probably four?
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[ 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.
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I have some blank paper with me, I can possibly help if you get a plan going. There's....7 sheets with me, so 7 spells.
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[ he misses his alchemy. ]
We may need those seven spells to move people out, if an alternative isn't found soon. Stay away from the hostel for now.
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I can absolutely stay away for the time being.
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[ that had gone about as wrong as it could go. ]
Being on the outside is more advantageous to our position, anyway. If we can teleport people out, without the guards knowing, that would be best.
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Who is it with the teleporting skills? I can at least try and provide cover for getting people to whatever the agreed upon escape point will be.
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checking in for trapped in the hostel
this blows!!
[ His friends are out there. :( ]
you got a plan?
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[ this FUCKING SUCKS PROMPTO!!!! ]
I have the beginnings of a plan, starting with finding people who can teleport or move through walls to move people out of here as quickly and efficiently as possible. People who can't fight go first, people who can hold their own can wait in case these beings decide to attack for whatever reason.
Have you tried to walk out, yet?
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that's my ability btw if that helps!
i can run
like really, really, really fast
[ Which...means if he's going to help anyone else get out, they're getting a piggy-back right, but you know, whatever it takes. ]
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That's your ability?
How fast is fast?
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i mean, i've never watched myself run but according to other people, it's really hard to see me going when i hit my top speed
those guard wouldn't know i've slipped past until i'm long gone!
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You know me well.
They repeatedly told me to go to my room, so I'm currently in the lobby. Brigadier General Hughes has the ability to get some of us out of here, but there are a lot of us stuck in here. Not everyone went to explore the underground.
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If there is something wrong, we're much better suited outside with more space to navigate than stuck in here.
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[Keith may have been watching this exchange, waiting for Roy's escort to leave before piping up. Keith is pushing his luck as well, and trying to figure out the best way to make a break for it -- and get everyone else out in the process.
Because staying in their rooms on house arrest does not sound okay at all.]
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No, it seems not.
[ how annoying. roy tugs his (useless, but still on out of habit and a sense of security) gloves a little more firmly on his hands before sliding his hands into the pockets of his coat, irritated. ]
They want us to remain indoors, at all costs.
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[Shockingly, Keith doesn't like being told what to do. And he doesn't like being put on house arrest or any of that for their own good crap. The fact that there are a bunch of Circle members who went exploring right before all this happened. Including Shiro.]
The others who went exploring underground... we need to make sure they're okay.
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[ which is good. waver is capable, and will keep roy in touch with what is going on outside until he figures out how to get out of here. ]
How many of your people are outside?
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