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The streets and buildings are abandoned, the tech old and outdated, windows broken out and dust filling the street.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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[It's the truth, and he shrugs, unbothered by everything as he starts to poke around to try to get it to start up.] I mean, for all I know this is some sort of doomsday device that's going to melt our skin off. Or maybe it's just someone's diary. Who knows? Exciting, eh? A mystery to be unravled.
[Welcome to the fireteam, Konoha.]
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[She's starting to recognize that static sound, and in the other people she's met it usually meant "robot" (whatever that really meant, she's still not sure), and that usually meant "good at the tech things she didn't understand".]
This isn't exciting at all. Aren't you scared?
[Fireteam sounds awful??????]
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Scared? Why? I mean, if it is a doomsday device I'll eat my cloak. But really, maybe there's something juicy on here. That's definitely exciting, right?
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[He looked... tech-y. Far more so than she did, in her homespun cloth clothing and rustic stitched leathers and harness. And with her ignorance, all tech was basically the same, so...]
Not of that thing! Of all the things!
[The tablet wasn't scary, sure, but. The Storm, this whole alien place... He just seems so cavalier about it all.]
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Why would I be? [There's no snark, no condescention, he's honestly befuddled by the question.] We're here, there's nothing we can do about it. Might as well try to have fun, yeah? And think of it, we've got this omnipowerful lady in the sky vouching for us. It'd be in her best interests to keep us safe.
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[Maybe it's because she hasn't known the witch long, but though she's heard some people say they trusted her... All she can see yet is the woman who kidnapped them.]
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... Does that thing not work after all?
[So quick, distraction.]
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I got it to do something, not really sure what, for a hot second. [He'll give her an out.] Might be the electricity around that's shorting it out? Hell if I know. You sure you don't want to take a look?
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The... what shorting?
[Maybe he means the... lightning? SHE SURE DOESN'T KNOW, shout out from 1620.]
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I think the lightning might be messing with it? [Maybe?] Either that or it's just a hunk of junk, which would be really disappointing.
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[Okay, see... That makes sense. Why didn't he say that in the first place??? Gosh.]
Then... you could use it as a plate? Might be nice... we don't have that many.
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That's not a bad idea. If we look hard enough, I bet we could scrounge up a whole set, and it's not like anyone would miss any, right?
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[He's... flickering. His face is kind of like Simon's... so... he must be... a "robot"? Or- "android"? But, if that's the case-]
If you, um, eat food.
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[There's definitely excitement in his voice at that prospect.] Please tell me the answer is yes, please please please.
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[She would much rather talk about cooking than try and figure out an abandoned city that makes no sense ANYWAY-
Oh, right. She said that like it was common sense and it... wasn't. Right. Okay. She's still getting the hang of this.]
I mean- I can cook. But... more than that, I can, um. "Make"... or- "Summon"... food?
To... then cook with. Yes.
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[Back when... She was normal??? Don't get her wrong, of all the powers to have she certainly loves this one, but.]
Do- Do you eat food, then? I thought metal people didn't...
[And he... looks... kind of like Simon and Simon didn't eat, so- ???]
I can make you something if you want... back at the camp?
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The question throws him off for a moment though, but thankfully he recovers pretty quickly with a laugh and a quirk of one browplate.]
I know, I know, it's the face isn't it? [He even taps the curve of his jaw with a finger to illustrate his point.] Believe me, I get it, seems like it would be impossible, no? I promise though, I love eating. I definitely can eat. And honestly, I might take you up on that when we get back, if that's too forward of me.
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But Konoha blushes a bit under the praise, always feeling a bit self conscious when she gets compliments on the power. After all, she didn't really earn it... It had just happened.]
It's really convenient, but it's not anything I did. I'm just lucky.
[Especially since she has two stomachs.]
We can head there now if you want. I can make anything- or, well, anything I've tried so far.
[Has this whole thing just been a plan to get him to agree to go back to camp with her so she doesn't have to go alone or is she just simple??? U decide.]
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Hey, lucky is always a bonus so don't knock it. Truth be told? You've got something really useful there. [Coming from a world where everyone has superpowers, the ability to create food is actually really impressive. Fancy tricks and magic were all fine and good, but they couldn't stop a village from starving. People's welfare first and foremost, that's the most important thing.]
[Cayde gives one more futile effort to get the tablet working and is met with the same momentary flicker of the screen, and so he shrugs.] That might be for the best. I think there were a few more of these up in that apartment, room, whatever it was. You feel up to carrying a few back? Worse comes to worse and they don't work, we'll have more plates just like you said.
[Wink!]
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[Bad enough she was kidnapped and that they'd come to this place... but having to eat that grey goop would have just been awful icing on an awful cake. Not to mention, she could easily imagine what would happen if they went to a world with... no food, or something.
And she's definitely keen to go back away from the Storm, so-]
They don't weigh like anything, so I'll carry them back for you.
[Compared to the logs she's used to hauling, even a whole bag of tablets would be nothing.]
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Okay, if you give me a sec I'll see if we can find something to stuff all these in? You sure you're gonna be okay hauling everything?
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When he returns Konoha just nods. That much, when sling over her withers, wasn't much to worry about at at all. Especially if there was a proper basket or at least a sack.]
Leave it to me!
[In preparation, she twists a bit at the waist to begin undoing a few of the ropes on her harness in anticipating of lashing the load down.]
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It takes a while, but his search is sort of fruitful; when he returns its with some hollowed out drum of some sort. All in all, it's not the best and it looks as though the metal has degraded a bit, but it's the best he's been able to do.] Alright, I'll be honest, I'm not really sure how this is going to work but whatever's got to be done, you just let me know. Put me to work, coach.
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