( world #2 - the storm. )

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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.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 The streets and buildings are abandoned, the tech old and outdated, windows broken out and dust filling the street.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!

Comments

[flyingsolos]

You're definitely lucky. I think that's the one I hate the most.

[ Of course. ]

[purrtagonist]

What does it feel like?

[he can't help himself, he's curious]

[flyingsolos]

[ the look she gives him is highly dubious-- though she sighs after a minute. Might as well. ]

It's like suddenly catching a super high fever, except with every minute that goes by, you feel a lot weaker. You know, dizziness, chills, pain, having a hard time breathing...

[purrtagonist]

So like contracting the flu, except right in the middle of a battle.

[AWESOME]

That's a low blow.

[flyingsolos]

It sucks. I don't recommend it.

[ very succinct. She's sighing just thinking about it. ]

[purrtagonist]

Noted.

[like he had any plans to purposefully get poisoned mid-fight. . .]

You know what my least favorite status effect is? Brainwash.

[flyingsolos]

... Brainwash? Yours could mind control??

[ Ew?? ]

[purrtagonist]

[SURPRISE]

I don't want to talk about it anymore than that.

[bad experiences with brainwash: getting punched in the face by Makoto fucking Niijima]

[flyingsolos]

[ Don't you like ladies who can kick your ass, Akira-- ]

... That's fine. I think I get the idea.

[ No one likes having to fight their friends. She knows that well enough. ]

[purrtagonist]

[NOT IN THIS CONTEXT!!]

It is pretty self-explanatory.

[but! he waves a hand; despite his grumpiness, no brainwash incident had ever ended with serious injuries, so he can at least still be somewhat light about it]

What about forget? Do you have that one?

[flyingsolos]

Nope. [ thankfully. ]

But we've got one that weighs you down. It's not even like paralysis, it's just-- heaviness?

[purrtagonist]

. . . does it hit right after you've been struck by a large bolt of lightning? Because that's Shock.

[SHOCK IS MISERABLE, TOO]

[flyingsolos]

No, the lightning is usually Paralyze. Which is also a major pain.

Um, there's Blind too. It's... about what you'd expect.

[ missing entirely and running into walls, it's... Unfortunate. ]

[purrtagonist]

[a groan]

You've got my sympathies.

What about Confuse? Or Despair? Despair's totally my second least favorite, by the way.

[three turns and you're out, that's how bad it is]

[flyingsolos]

Yours... kind of gun for the psychological damage, don't they? Despair? Do you just-- stop fighting?

[ well, now she's grateful that theirs tend to go for the elemental issues. ]

[purrtagonist]

[some of them are rude enough to systematically target team weaknesses, too. SHADOWS SUCK]

Yep.

[that's. . . the easy way of putting it, and there's a noticeable line of tension on Akira's shoulders when she asks for clarification]

Or. . . worse. [he isn't going into detail about that, though] Despair and Brainwash are the two status effects that need a heal spell immediately, or else we'll all be suffering a whole lot of damage.

[flyingsolos]

...

[ She's just going to rest a hand on his shoulder and squeeze lightly. ]

I can imagine. Sorry.

[purrtagonist]

[despite his somber attitude, it's hardly the worse thing Akira and his team has been through. so after a moment (and after a deep exhale), he adds, far more lightheartedly]

Your concern is pretty cute, Rion. Thanks.

[HE SAID HE WAS GONNA DO IT]

But we're all okay, obviously.

[flyingsolos]

... You are like, the only person I know who'd call concern cute.

[ ARE YOU TRYING A BIT TOO HARD, AKIRA. ]

[purrtagonist]

[YES SHUT UP BUT HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO DO IT]

I--

[. . .]

Nevermind.

[flyingsolos]

...

[ Give her a minute to press her palm to her mouth. Judging from her lightly shaking shoulders, Rion is trying her utmost not to burst out laughing. ]

[purrtagonist]

[just]

[makes a discontent noise and gently bumps his shoulder against hers]

[flyingsolos]

[ A laugh escapes, even as she nudges back affectionately. ]

Sure you're not the cute one here, Captain Tryhard?

[purrtagonist]

I'm beginning to think that depends on the time of day.

[considering she vacillates back and forth between calling him "cute" and "not cute."]

[flyingsolos]

I think it's more based on how masochistic you're feeling.

[ because he sure deserves those times. ]