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The streets and buildings are abandoned, the tech old and outdated, windows broken out and dust filling the street.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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day stays where he is, wanting meddy to get taken care of first in case they or he had missed anything during their earlier slapdash repairing. ]
Yeah. I'm glad too. The storm is pretty mean from what we've been able to tell, before we had to turn back. [ and he's having a hard time believe that this will get worse because how else can it get worse? ] I think the storm is at its worst when the lightning strikes. It felt like my processor was going to melt off...
[ a pause. ]
... again.
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A concentrated burst of whatever makes up the Storm then?
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meanwhile, daylight is struggling to remember details that he thinks could be important for the conversation- ] Definitely. It has to be what's making the storm so dangerous.
I think the issue... I think... I think what could be going on is... [ nope. the memory file slips from his fingers before he can properly utilise it, much to his frustrations. ] Urrrgh! Stupid processor.
[ daylight gives the side of his helm a mean whack. a whack that meddy does not approve, judging by their sharp trill. ]
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I am fairly certain you will not rattle any information loose with such a gesture, Day.
[Again she concentrates on the hands settled against his own. It has the added bonus of being a soothing feeling, something Meddy can attest to now Elizabeth imagines.]
It is enough that we understand the dangers of the storm. You have done very well to find as much out.
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it isn't long before meddy is looking back at her gratefully, since they've both managed to get daylight to reconsider his actions. if the contrite expression and worried wiggle of his winglets are anything to do by. ]
... Right. I'll try not to do that as much from now on. [ he sighs in relief when he feels the pressure he's felt building up in his head start to dissipate. ] Don't want to give you and the others more work while we're here.
[ he grins at her but its a touch softer, a shade lighter than the usual exuberance. ] And, um, thanks. Happy that I could lend a hand while we're trying to get a feel for the stuff.
Wish I could help out more but limits, you know? I'm glad we're working together.
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I would be quite pleased it you didn't. More work means more injuries after all. No one wishes for that.
[That said, she sobers some.]
We all have limits to what we may achieve. I am no fighter so unfortunately what I may do against the Storm is grave little indeed, beyond this. [She gestures with the hands against his own.] And yet we must all do what we can.
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his winglets flick up in shock, optics blooming a bright blue light as he protests for elizabeth. part kneejerk reaction, part genuine belief how elizabeth is needed for this mission. ] You're doing great, Liz! Amazing! Fantastic!
You're really important for this. Really! A lot of people would be out for the count if not for your giving a hand, I bet. [ seriously. if daylight has to be honest - and he is! he's very proud of the fact he's an honest bot - a lot of the folks in the circle are pretty reckless at times.
(which is saying something, if daylight can feel that.) ] ... And I bet a lot of people above will also need help when we come back up to check the damage.
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You are far too kind. Fear not, however, I certainly do not mean to disparage my efforts and I would not have you disparage your own either.
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That's good! That's great! [ he clears his vocoder, looking sheepish but glad all the same. ] ... Sorry if that seemed weird, Liz. I just- You're really important to the team. I think a lot of us would be in a pinch or worse if you weren't around.
Isn't that right, Meddy?
[ beep beep beep! ] They said, 'Yeah! Most definitely.'
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Believe me when I say, Day, that that is by far the least weird thing I have encountered since our travels together began.
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[ oh- that definitely intrigues him. ] If you don't mind me asking- What’s the second weirdest thing you’ve heard so far then, hm?
[ why second weirdest?
it's to gauge what could be the weirdest thing, period. ]
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And then she laughs again. She can't help it.]
The communication devices. You might doubt me on this but the time I hail from does not have anything even close to them. We are proficient letter writers and hiring riders to deliver one's messages with more haste is the closest we might have to such instant communication.
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he seems pretty surprised by this news and he thinks for a good reason too- ]
I thought you were from a, um, distinguished family. With how you talked and acted and stuff. [ it makes sense to him. distinguished families have this weird thing against technology.
which was, um, justified where he was. so. ]