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The streets and buildings are abandoned, the tech old and outdated, windows broken out and dust filling the street.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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The normal amount? Pheasant is tasty... cranes are pretty... crows are noisy... white eyes are cute...
[THERE'S LOTS OF BIRDS...]
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[Just putting that out there.]
It was messy, but they were harmless.
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[Asking the important (mistaken) questions.
But at least she's too distracted to remember most of the nausea?]
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He pauses briefly before this part, though, as her question requires him to delve into the memory properly.]
It was the living area of an apartment, actually. They weren't mine, they were being cared for by another... android.
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[She's a bit unfamiliar with the concept of "pets"... beyond like guard dogs or the pampered princesses in the stories that had fluffy cats and stuff. Village life consequences, perhaps, but... Doves were mostly just food, right?]
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Just for the sake of taking care of them. The extent of it was extreme, admittedly, and therefore not normal. But the intention was the same; he thought of them as pets. Likely they provided him with some sense of companionship.
[Well.]
Or so that was how he interpreted the action, undoubtedly.
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[She still finds the idea of keeping doves as anything but food like chickens as weird... especially because how do you keep doves from flying away? By keeping them in a room with doors apparently?
But... if androids were only a few months old...]
I guess I played with frogs and stuff when I was a kid...
[Maybe it was like that???]
You don't have any animals, though?
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[As an android, he technically doesn't own anything at all.]
My partner from work has a dog, however. A Saint Bernard. Have you seen one before?
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[The name sounds too weird to be anything from her homeland... unless they just give all different names to the same things??? That would be confusing-]
One of hunters in our village has Matagi bear dogs, though. Great big ones. But they don't like horses... or jinba, so I don't really go there.
[The owner didn't really like them, either, so.]
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[Ah, the subject of dogs. Note how Connor doesn't just rattle off another question.]
A Saint Bernard is also a very large dog, but with an easy temperament. I doubt they'd have an issue with jinba.
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Do they have problems with "androids"?
[The word still sounds awkward on her tongue, but. She tries to use it. And also to uncurl slightly from her strange position from nearly flat sprawled on to just slightly hunched over her forelegs.]
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Not the one that I've encountered. He was very laid-back.
Do you have a favorite breed of dog?
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[Just types, she guesses. Dogs for hunting bears, for hunting small game, the little ones well bred women kept as pets...
Unconsciously, she rubs her left forearm, the motion pushing up her sleeve and revealing hints of scar tissue. Bite shaped scar tissue.]
As long as it's not a wolf that's good, but... I guess I don't really like dogs. Your friend's sounds nice, though!
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His eyes track her movement, for no reason other than they can, because he'll always be the observant sort. Details reveal themselves in the dim light, shaped like scar tissue in crescents on her forearm.
He frowns slightly.]
Have you been attacked by wolves before?
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Yeah... last month.
[Or... two months, technically, if you count Struxta and all this madness...]
I thought I was a goner but Gonta saved me. [Oh right-] Gonta is one of the jinba I work with. If you think I'm big, you should see him! I've never met anyone as strong as he is- he could probably take on a bear, too. A big one. He drove the wolves off, and-
[The last bit is a bit mumbled, and definitely not said with a slight blush.]
He even carried me for a while when I couldn't walk. Stupid, right? I've always worked in the mountains, but I've never been that close to wolves before...
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I don't think that's stupid at all. I've never encountered a wolf myself, as there were none wandering around the city I resided in. [Detroit doesn't exactly have a wolf problem, per se.] But I know that they can be clever and dangerous, and with a bite that I'm sure was very painful.
I'm glad there was someone to help you. It must have been a frightening experience.
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It was the most scared she's ever been. The first time she really thought she might die. If Gonta had been seconds later-]
I'm glad, too. I wish he'd come with me every trip now, but. He'll probably return to the mountains...
[Maybe he already had. Maybe she'd missed being able to say goodbye. Missed being able to tell him how she felt.
Konoha shakes her head vigorously to ward off negative thoughts... and then instantly regrets it when her head spins... and she forces her eyes back tighter and slumps back down, slowly lowering herself more onto her side, limbs all stretched out while still keeping her face pointed towards the movement.]
Connor... Can I sleep? Can you wake me when we get there... ?
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…Of course you can, Konoha.
[It’s obvious that she hasn’t shaken off all the nausea, but they’ve travelled a great amount during their conversation. And if she’s comfortable enough to try to sleep, it’s better than nothing.]
I’ll be right here if you need me before then.
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She tries to get comfortable, pillowing her head in her arms and nuzzling into the crook of her elbow, muttering softly.]
Thanks, Connor.
[When they got there... Well. She'd face that when it happened.]