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The streets and buildings are abandoned, the tech old and outdated, windows broken out and dust filling the street.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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[which explains one or two things, honestly. but.]
What's the abnormal kind, then? You don't really strike me as the type to go around sticking forks in electric sockets.
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Yeah, no, I'm not that dumb. But...
[ ... ]
I mean, you run into that sort of thing when you're running around fighting monsters.
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[Dave doesn’t really seem surprised by that. but then, it might have been hard to tell if he was, anyway.]
Same, I guess. At least, that’s how I know how to fight.
What kinda monsters?
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[ She also doesn't appear all that surprised, but maybe this is just how things are. ]
They're called Greeds. They kind of look like a bunch of different things-- plants, reaper-looking things, skeletons, statues, harpies...
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[he pauses, though, seemingly considering something, turning a few details over and over in his head, trying to figure out how to say he can relate without having to go too far into detail about just how completely off-the-wall the past three years have been for him.]
There was enough variety of monsters back home, too, I guess. But a lot of that was by our own design.
Not saying that I had a hand in making them — more like I had a hand in how they ended up looking.
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[ well, she can't say he's wrong, that this isn't what idols typically do. Because it isn't. But that's a story for another day, especially when they're still testing the waters here. ]
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They were part of a game, and how they end up looking depends on how you set the game up. Pretty much every single one I ever saw was wearing a goofy jester hat thanks to John.
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[ that's kind of fun. ]
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Yeah, pretty much. As long as you didn't do anything completely stupid, the fights turn out easy enough.
[guess which group of kids did something completely stupid? because he sort of sounds like he's speaking from experience.]
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Why do I feel like you did something completely stupid?
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Hey, I had no hand in the creative process here. Both my chances to contribute got sniped by someone else.
[which is probably a good thing, honestly. he's done some pretty idiotic stuff on a whim before, and prototyping wouldn't be any different.]
Anyway, you're not just playing dress-up with these guys, either. If you're not careful with that sorta shit, you might wind up with a completely invincible final boss. [there it is, that's the stupid thing they did.]
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You made an invincible monster?!
[ DAVE!!! ]
I mean, not you, but--
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[........]
We made two.
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Dave...
[ DAVE... ]
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[Dave gets the impression that he's said enough — because two invincible magic puppies are kind of located in the middle of the list of Ways That Session Went Wrong. so the wall goes back up, and he starts mentally rummaging around for a way to play it off.]
It's cool. Invincible or not, there's a way to handle 'em. [it's not a lie, anyway.]
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I mean, I'm glad for that... so you can't defeat them, but you can still get them to back down?
[ Hold off on that wall, young man. ]
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[redact a few details, though? absolutely.]
Yeah, kinda — I mean, one person can get them to back down.
[he pauses, almost awkwardly even, like he's weighing whether he should elaborate or not.]
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[ You can't stop now. ]
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One of my best friends. The, uh. Monsters are also kinda part her pet dog — so, they won't hurt her, far as I know.
[also, her pet dog had these insane reality bending space powers, which is why the two invincible puppies are invincible in the first place. also, also, because of convoluted shenanigans, she also has the same insane reality bending space powers. which means she's also part dog.]
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... So you have invincible monster dogs.
[ Well. She sounds rather calm about all of this. ]
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[that seems like an important detail to throw in there.]
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[ this is also an important detail. ]
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[okay, so there's actually invincible boss monster aesthetic Dave is roundabout responsible for. it's that one. and if they're starting to sound like really unfortunate, bizarre abominations, that's because they are.]
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Maybe the first question should've been "with all of this, are you actually okay"?
[ Making your own monsters? Invincible dog-like things with swords that they may or may not be impaled by? Dave had always come off as an incredibly chill person... but then again, Kou always came off as an incredibly deadpan person and he'd gone through a Lot. So Rion's concern is definitely genuine, if quiet. ]
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[there's almost the tiniest tinge of surprise in his answer — like maybe he doesn't get asked that very often. he's the one who always has his shit sorted, or at least he goes out of his way to make sure he looks like he does. Dave aims to be the one his friends don't have to worry about, because he's the one who's always there to bail them out of trouble, not the other way around.]
[that hadn't really been working out so well, before he came here. that's why he's actually not okay, but it'd be really tough to see that on his face, aside from that little tiny bit of surprise. but maybe Rion would understand better than he thinks.]
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