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The streets and buildings are abandoned, the tech old and outdated, windows broken out and dust filling the street.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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Hang on, one sec- [He disappears back inside for a moment before popping out again a moment later, something small wrapped in a scrap of cloth in hand.]
You good at catching?
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But before she can protest they're gone and she's left staring up slightly bewildered yet and then they're back, but-]
Wait, wait- Is it breakable?
[She is good at catching, (she thinks?), but from that height even if she did catch it... just in case, she's already pulled her hands from the harness about her waist and finds herself hovering nervously.]
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I mean, maybe? Just make sure to catch it, I don't know! It looked kinda tech-y?
[He has all the faith in you, Konoha! Especially because he's lobbing the bundle out the window without much more warning.]
You got this!
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[He's thrown it before she even has half her protest out, and despite the fact that she has no idea who he is or what he's thrown at her... Konoha still moves to catch it, lurching forward-
Actually, too far forward, shit, shit-
In a panic, she rears up on her hind legs, forelegs kicking out for balance as human hands extend...
And grab the thing out the air, just barely, before she gets all four hooves back on the ground in a nervous clatter, clutching it to her chest.
... Phew.
Wait.]
... What is this?
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She's got a good question though.]
I dunno! Looked like some sort of data-pad or something when I found it. I figure maybe if we can get it booted up it might have something on it? Or not. Then I guess it's just a really cool looking thing to put on the coffee table.
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Konoha's expression is... (she thinks understandably) shocked, pulling the pad-like object from its current clutch against her bosom to extend her arms and look at it properly. It's... metal? No. "Plastic"? No, she's... not sure. But wait, that's not the point here.]
Next time, don't just throw it out the window! What it I'd dropped it?
[Also, what's a coffee table?]
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[With a quiet grunt he manages to vault over the windowsill and out the window, landing heavily a few yards away without so much as a moment of concern. Admittedly, without his Light it does
Who knows, maybe this breaks everything wide open. You're a hero, you know that?
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[WHY DID HE JUMP OUT THE WINDOW???
Konoha starts, unable to even try and catch him she's so shocked by the sudden movement. Yet though she trots away belatedly, clutching the tablet back to her chestand averting her eyes afraid to see his broken body...
A look back reveals that he... seems... fine?
Was she hallucinating?]
oh my goodness i just saw the giant errors in my other post i am so sorry!
Hey, hey! Give me just a second, I'm coming I'm coming. [He settles into a light jog, trying to catch up. When he's able to fall into line, he looks up at Konoha with interest.] So. You find anything cool on there? Or did we strike out?
np np!
Konoha can't even think of how or why, so instead... she just thrusts the thing he'd thrown at her his way, shaking her head.]
You take it back. I don't know how to use these things.
[... Not even the watches. (There's a reason no one's seen her on that thing. You either meet a centaur in person or you never meet one, apparently.)
Also "we"? Were they a scavenging team now???]
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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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