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The streets and buildings are abandoned, the tech old and outdated, windows broken out and dust filling the street.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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[While the car drove through the darkness Tyrion was lost in his own thoughts for quite a while.. He had tried to image what they would see when they arrive at their destination. Yet a part of him was afraid of what they would find and the storm itself. He knew that the forces of nature had their own rules and that everyone was small against them.]
I wonder what we will find once we arrive at our destination. I would be lying if I would say that I am not worried about what exactly we find.
Scouting Mission
[The ruins of this part of Struxta were a sad testimony of the past. Yet these ruins had the odd charm only ruins could have. The were somehow whispering that someone should explore them. But that was something Tyrion wasn't brave enough to do, even through it was tempting. What if he would find any helpful clues in one of the ruins?
He took a closer look at the different buildings. Even this old part of Sturxta had once been odd (at least when he was comparing it to the worlds he knew). The strange breeze that filled the air of this area was giving Tyrion the impression that there was still some living being around.]
It's daunting how one storm can turn a city into a deserted place like this [He's murmuring, not expecting an answer.
The Storm
[In awe he's looking in the direction where the storm is. Never ever before in his life had he witnessed such a force of nature.
Suddenly he was unsure if they would find a way to stop the storm. So far he hadn't heard of anyone who could control nature, unless they were Gods or Goddesses.]
Here we have the proof, that you should never underestimate nature. Do you think that we can find a way to stop this storm?
[He looks up to the Circle member next to him, a worrisome expression on his face.]
The Train Station
We're all different but we all have one thing in common: We all got a magic ability from Astoria. Personally I believe that she gave them to us as a tool we could use to fulfill our missions.
Does anyone of you got an ability you think could be useful?
[He looked at the Circle members who were with him in the old train station. ]
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None of these prompts appeal to you? Feel free to write your own/plot with me via plurk (preciousbrat).
The Storm
Um... Honestly, unless someone has magic for it, no? We can't control storms at home, so I don't even know what we do by ourselves here...
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[Suddenly a depressing thought crossed his mind. Astoria would have never sent them somewhere where all their lives were in danger or would she? He couldn't do anything about the spark of mistrust.
He was sure that for a split second a gloomy expression had appeared on his face.]
We have to find a solution ... I bet someone with some knowledge about weather and nature would be of a certain help.
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I didn't know that. And the city we are currently staying also has a lot of electricity ... hmm am I right when I assume that these two aspects - the heat and electricity - are a bad combination?
[He felt the need to add an explanation or rather an excuse for making this assumption] Before I came to this world I didn't know what electricity is. That is something that doesn't exist in my world.
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[she pauses, thinking that over a second, working out how to phrase things at an everyman level.]
Heat and electronics can cause problems with each other, mostly with things overheating. There's also the fact that electricity can itself generate heat, as in the case with lightning starting fires. An additional issue, with the storm however, is that it's a much stronger, more powerful source of electromagnetic energy, and the city's more delicate systems won't be able to handle it. It's not too different from a human being struck by lightning. And, in some cases, the power surge will, yeah, generate heat that will cause irreparable damage.
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We have lightnings, yes. But when we need light in the evening we use candles or fireplaces. We don't have all these lights in the cities like here. It that common for other worlds too?
[A chill ran down his spine when he thought of the possibility that there would be a fire. It would be a problem within a problem. He tried to push away the thought and asked himself, why he was suddenly getting pessimistic thoughts. It was possible but only to a small degree. At least Tyrion tried to make himself believe that this is the case.]
At least not much here can catch fire easily. Well, at least from my knowledge about the materials here. Some are unfamiliar to me so I am not sure about them. [Everything that wasn't stone or glass was unfamiliar to him.]
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[Or so she assumes. But she's confident in the capacity of humans for inventing, no matter where or when they're from.]
The plastics in eletronics can burn, but honestly I'm not super worried about that. A place this high-tech has to have some kind of fire safety system. Probably gas-based.
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His head was already filled with question and each of them made him ask himself more questions. Tyrion was certain that the impressions of Sturxta and the conversations about them would be on his mind for a long time.]
Forgive me Mylady. I shouldn't bother you with such questions. I am sure the answer would confuse me even more.
[He didn't knew what a fire safety system was and how it would work but he assumed that it was able to warn people within a certain vicinity.]
You mean something like the lookout men you find in castles or on ships? People protect each other so it would make sense that the androids have figured out how to protect each other too.
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[She doesn't know anything about castles or ships, though. But it sounds close enough.]
Yeah! Probably? Something to set off an alarm, and something to start putting the fire out.
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[He added a little laugh to his answer] It seems we have a lot of curious minds in the Circle. It's new to me to meet others who don't mind asking and getting asked.
From what I have learned about this world, I assume that such a system is either visible to everyone and yet you might not really know what it is or it's small and only the ones who installed them know where it is.
Personally I would prefer to see such a system. It would give me a feeling of safety.
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If they don't arrest us, we can definitely go try and find one. This place is pretty high tech, but we should be able to spot something if they've got some. The underground guys might know too.
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I'm sure it's an advantage that we are not from here. We might spot something different easier.
If they know about such a system they might share what they do about it and they could tell us if it is still working. It could be possible that since the last storm it had stopped working.
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[flaps her hand, modern slang, a translation's least favorite friend]
Ohhhh but that's a good point. These guys don't like thinking about troubling stuff, if it stopped working, the new robots might have forgotten it entirely.
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[To forget something was easier than to remember something, that was something every world seemed to have in common.]
Do you think they will be glad when we remind them of it? Maybe we are just causing a panic when we bring up the subject of a warning system?