a storm approaches.This log is for everyone who signed up for The Storm investigation. Feel free to use the here to plot further on how you plan on approaching The Storm, and the issue. The mod questions thread is also open, if you have anything you would like to run by us.
the investigation.It takes a day of preparation, and a day of discussion, before you are led further down into the tunnels. It's pitch black, but one of the BGs who you have become familiar enough with turns on a low light and continues further. You walk for ten, fifteen, twenty minutes, and then turn a corner into a large, open cavern. The BG explains that at one time, this had been an underground transportation system - old and unused for centuries, now, but still in working order.
They file each of you onto a single car - it seems to be large enough to fit nearly a hundred, possibly more, bodies - so everyone has a space. The BG explains that they have already input the coordinates into the system, and that once they close the door, you will be transported to the last known location. The car will be programmed to wait for 72 hours, and then will return to this location. There is food and water supplied, and already packed, in the car. If you are not back in the car by that time, it will leave you behind. They then give their farewells, thank you for your help and readiness, and step away from the door - letting it close behind them. The car travels down a pitch black tunnel, and while the inside is dimly lit enough for the Circle Members to see each other and move around without hinderance, you can see nothing through the windows. It continues for a few hours at this rate - nothing to see, no idea where you are going. That is, until it seems to break through the surface, the track running through buildings and another, unknown area of the city.
The streets and buildings are abandoned, the tech old and outdated, windows broken out and dust filling the street. The sky, like back in the city you knew before, is cloudy and grey. But these clouds are different - these clouds are dark in a way you haven't seen before. You travel for another half hour above ground before the cart comes to a stop, and during this time it happens twice. A low rumble, seeming to come from everywhere at once, and then a few heartbeats after, a disasterous flash of lighting - miles away, yes, but threatening and gigantic, brighter and more violent than you've ever seen lightning before. The crash shakes the ground under you, and the damage is immense.
But the buildings are abandoned, the streets empty save for crates, old mechanical bits, dusty remnants of a society long forgotten by the Struxta you came from just a couple of days prior.
This is The Storm you've been warned about. the storm.You have been asked to find out information that will help the BG's, and Struxta, to stop The Storm.
From what you can gather, it does seem to be a naturally occurring weather phenomenon, as far as weather systems seem to work on this planet. However, rather than scattered thunder and lightning strikes, it seems to almost recharge and strike with epic proportions. It can damage, or destroy, buildings. It shorts out any and all items (and people) who depend on electricity in any form to function (Sorry Daylight and Conner, sorry to anyone who brought along technology) within a three mile radius.
The 'darkness' the BGs were talking about does follow this storm, but they seem to have been referring to this electrical shortage that comes from the storm and it's strikes. If this storm does reach any of the still-occupied areas of the city, it will shut down the entire grid, as well as any of the robots, androids, or electrically based figures that exist there - essentially ending the life of every Struxta citizen that is effected.
Plot, plan, theorize, and see if you can find a way to stop The Storm. If not, be back on the train car in 72 hours time, to return to the BGs and report what you have found.PROMPT IDEAS
1.) Discussions on the train - do you have any ideas for what to prepare? Any discussions you may want to have? You and your fellow Circle Members are caught here together for a few hours, driving into a situation you know very little about. What do you want to make sure you're prepared to handle?
2.) Scouting missions - the heart of The Storm is very much in the distance, and it is not moving quickly, giving Circle Members plenty of time to set out and check out the surrounding city. What you will find won't be much - this is a robotic ghost town in every turn of the phrase. Buildings have been abandoned for hundreds of years, covered in dust and left entirely undisturbed, except for the breeze that now seems to flit through this entire area. There are stores, warehouses, apartments, and buildings you can't even tell what they were used for, cleared out. Whenever, or whoever, lived in this part of Struxta had evacuated, quickly but efficiently.
3.) The Storm - The Storm is still a distance away from where the cart has dropped you off, enough that when your 72 hours are up, the heart of the storm and the lightning strikes shouldn't reach the car, or the track. This does mean that to do any closer investigation, you will need to go to The Storm itself. But be careful - the electrical output from these lightning strikes are dangerous, and can have all sorts of effects on both natural and mechanical beings. The wind, the closer you get to The Storm, will also pick up - making any kind of flying or air travel impossible.
4.) Planning - the car leaves everyone off at an old train station, which a large room attached. This room can be used as a kind of home base, as well as a meeting location. What do you plan on doing? Simply taking down information, or trying to take the storm head on? How do you plan on doing that? Will your abilities help? This room attached onto the train station is a safe location - no effects of The Storm will make it inside. Use as you would like! |
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acatalepsy_logs2018-07-29 11:52 pm
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[A small plus for electric shock damage, but.]
Um. I do appreciate that, but don't try to like... get struck by lightning or anything?
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what the hell is a lichtenberg. ]
Ah, it's fine. I've been struck before. I'd rather ensure that the rest of you are safe.
[ he already died it's cool. ]
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[ as she catches the food(???) and arches an eyebrow, slightly scrutinizing. ]
Have you rested yet?
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[ which is 2 hours, give or take. the bags are perpetual. ]
Exhausting ourselves won't do us any good right now...we don't know what we're up against.
...You didnt answer my question, though.
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He's awful at sitting still for too long, so he does begin to fidget—foot lightly bouncing one minute, fingers tapping in his lap the next—but otherwise, 9S stays fairly silent.
Until he gets something wrapped tossed his way. ]
Wha— [ He does catch it, thanks quick reflexes. But 9S does shoot Nier an expression bordering on confused. ] Er—you're gonna need this more than I do. Did you eat?
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as a result, he warrants extra care and attention. ]
I did. Why wouldn't you need it? [ he folds his arms. ] You're going to be out there with the rest of us.
[ there's a tilt of the head. ]
You shouldn't neglect your wellbeing at a time like this.
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You misunderstand. [ Pointedly, 9S holds the little package of food out, expecting for it to be taken back. ] Androids like me don't need to eat. I'd... prefer it if this went to someone else.
[ He's seen the mush they were left with for the past few weeks, after all. There's got to be someone more desperate for this than himself. ]
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[ yet another tilt of the head, as though the gears in his head are clearly...working at their typically slow rate. ]
So long as you're alive, you need energy. You won't lose anything from eating it.
[ he really wants him to eat it. ]
When...did people like you start existing? The automatons I fought were different. They couldn't even speak.
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[ 9S huffs out like a child begrudgingly obeying their parents, turning over the small bundle of food in his hand. He has no idea what it is, but he'll likely end up eating it anyway.
Just not right at this moment, because Nier poses an utterly puzzling question. ]
Huh? Um... You don't know? [ Shouldn't he? ] It had to be when humans were around—they created our kind, after all. But that was so long ago that I don't think anyone could give you a better answer than that.
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[ "good grief! are you trying to expose this lad to the brutal reality of his world? that knowledge could destroy him!"
weiss!? you aren't even here!
"and yet you imagine me so. think upon those documents you read long ago. this secret is not yours to share." ]
..........
[ words cannot describe the expression on his face as of this moment, but he's been silent for some time now. ]
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...I only knew of two.
[ his expression darkens. ]
Their names were Popola and Devola. Any others...I wouldn't know.
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Too bad for 9S and fortunately for Nier, the latter drops a pair of very familiar names, causing a mental derailment so intense 9S is, likewise, left only able to stare back. ]
You can't be serious.
[ First Emil, now those twins?! ]
Devola and Popola's models existed alongside humans? [ How old does that make the ones he knows, then??? (And haha yeah guess who doesn't know about Replicants.) ] That's... wow.
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I am. I grew up with them.
[ models — so there are more of them. they'll never be the ones he knew, will they?
despite everything, there is no fire, no resentment, no bitter taste at the back of his mouth. there is only the harsh pang of sorrow. they fought for their reason to live, just as he did his. they had no reason to have tended to him since childhood, to have stood in place of the parents he lost long ago, always answering his questions, always trying to find a way to help him...but they did.
despite everything, they did. ]
Models, you said...so they — they're still alive.
[ a beat. ]
...I'm glad. But they have to be together. If one of them dies, the other will...
[ just forget it, nier.
... ]
Hey. Your world...our world, what was it like before you left?
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With their memory wiped, though, perhaps he wouldn't have gotten much more. Not as much as he could potentially get out of the person standing before him. The more they speak the more 9S wants to pick at Nier's brain; there's... so much he could ask, but it seems like Nier wishes to do the same.
In turn, 9S lowers his head out of uncertainty. The fate of their world hadn't taken a turn for the better, and he'd hate to deliver such unfortunate news, but... ]
Well, it... could be better. [ It's delivered rather flat for such an airy comment. ] Everywhere is war-torn from thousands of years worth of battles, and humans have been gone for a long time now. [ True ones having vanished even further back in time than 9S would have imagined. ] Everything they've left behind from the old world is nothing but ruins and rubble these days.
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She's seen what lightening can do- or rather, seen the fires it can leave behind. To say she was loathe to go out there...]
You can count on me to help with the camp!
[So she tries to smile, to put her energy into something useful.]
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so her statement warrants a small, subdued smile accompanied by a gentle pat of the head. nier nods. ]
Thank you, Konoha. I know you'll give us a good place to rest once this is over.
[ don't venture into the storm, he seems to imply. ]
How are you feeling?
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Konoha pauses for a moment, spine arched into a low dip she usually adopts to speak to humans. People didn't... usually do that. At least, ones that weren't her parents.
Maybe she'd made an awful impression after all... maybe he thought she needed to be reassured all the time. (... Maybe she did, when it was time spent in a world like this.)
So she smiles wider.]
Me? I'm totally fine-
[She definitely hadn't spent most of the train ride over on her side on the floor of the train car burying her face in a bag of supplies trying not to get motion sick, either.]
You?
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there's a tilt of the head. ]
I'm glad you're alright. I'm fine — I've already dealt with something a little like this this, but...
[ there's a beat. ]
I'm worried about everyone else. I don't want anyone to get hurt.
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Something similar?
[Her gaze drifts upwards slightly towards the direction her above average hearing indicates the Storm is, but she forces herself to bring her focus back down to him. Try to keep smiling.]
I've been through my share of typhoons, but... this seems worse somehow.
[She supposes it's not worth questioning, but.]
You're going to go out there... ?
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[ he notes the way her gaze waves. ]
Of course. [ it's said calmly — as though it's a fact and nothing more. ] Protecting you all is my duty. I'm not afraid.
[ and then a smile. ]
Everything'll be okay. Try not to worry, alright?
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But you were alright? You're... too fast for lightning?
[She's trying to stretch her imagination, she's had to, coming to the Circle like she had, but... she's not quite at "surviving lightning strikes without drastic damage and/or scars".]
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I guess I....
[ he freezes, just a bit, trailing off. ]
Yeah, I was. I wasn't too fast, unfortunately, I guess I...just endured.
[ there's a pause. ]
I had something to live for. Something I wanted to protect. Now, I want to protect all of you...so I'll be fine, no matter what.
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