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The streets and buildings are abandoned, the tech old and outdated, windows broken out and dust filling the street.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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[ They can make suppositions all day long, but that won’t really help them until they truly know what they’re up against. ]
I admit I’m out of my depth when it comes to the sort of technology in the city, but I think there’s a few among us who would know how to guard against something like this.
[ Provided they don’t get themselves fried by the Storm in the first place. CoughConnorcough. ]
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[As much as she'd like to be more prepared, that's what this part of the mission is all about.
She nods as they walk— being from Eorzea, of course he feels especially out of place here.]
Even for those of us from more advanced worlds, this place is pretty overwhelming, but you're right. We have to have someone who has a knack for this kind of thing... back home, I have a friend who would have known exactly what to do here.
[Maybe not exactly, but Futaba would have been better-suited than the rest of them.]
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[ It’s all he can do especially. His power has no use here, and even if his Echo weren’t gone, he’s not sure how that would even help. (Unless it, fickle give that it is, decided to show him the exact piece of information they need, but he knows better than to rely on it for anything.) ]
Do you have a lot of technology where you’re from, then?
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[Doing their part, however small, is what's most important here. All they have is their best, and Ann believes they're both willing to give it.
She nods again, and she reaches to pull her phone out of her pocket. She'd managed to get a charger for it in the city, and while there's no service and it's not particularly useful, she's so used to carrying it on her person that she couldn't quite bring herself to leave it behind. She holds it out to him in offering as they walk along.]
Plenty! It's a part of everyday life for most people, but not to the extent that it is here. Still, I have to admit, it was pretty rough when I first joined the Circle and saw that my phone wasn't working anymore.
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This is a… phone? What does it do?
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[When you think about it, they're not all that different!]
You can use them to talk to other people across long distances, or send text messages— people do that more than actually call each other these days. You can also play games on it, or access the internet— pretty much anything you can think of, you can look up there, and there's an app for everything. It has a camera in it, too, so you can take pictures of yourself or your friends or whatever you want with it.
[All that and more in one little package!]
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I’m not going to pretend to know what half of that means, but it is remarkable that such a small device is capable of so much.
[ Alphinaud would probably enjoy learning about it, but for him, it’s a bit much to take in. Gingerly, he hands the device back over, like he’s afraid he’s going to break it if he holds it wrong. ]
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It is kind of a lot, huh... sorry, I forget how overwhelming stuff like this can be if you're not used to it.
[She takes the phone back from him and pockets it, the device making the transfer without a scratch— he doesn't need to be so careful, she invested in a good case!]
Maybe a better way to explain it is that it's like having a library in the palm of your hand.
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[ Not that he's been in many libraries – or possibly any libraries – but at least he knows what they are. ]
I'll be pleased if I get the hang of those devices that Astoria gave us.
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Well, if you ever need any pointers, I can help you out. They're really not so bad, just takes a little bit of practice— like anything else.
[The wind around them is picking up as they continue to forge ahead, however, and she frowns as she realizes they might not be able to get much further without taking some strategic cover against it.]
Hm... this storm is even stronger than it looks. We'll need to be careful if we want to get closer without getting blown over. We didn't happen to have any kind of like, grappling equipment in the train car, did we?
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[ He knows he would do well to take every bit of help he can get when it comes to technology. Being here in Struxta has only driven home just how out of his depth he really is with a lot of this stuff.
Ah, but that wind is really trying to knock them off their feet, isn’t it? Arenvald has to raise his arm to keep from getting blasted in the face by dirt. ]
Like ropes and hooks and things, you mean? Nothing that I saw. Let’s swing a bit wider and try to use some of the ruins to shield us as we go.