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( WORLD #2 - THE CHANCE TO END IT ALL. )

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a storm approaches.

This log is for everyone who signed up for the various stages of saving Struxta and defeating The Storm. If you have any questions, please feel free to refer back to the OOC Post. Otherwise, it is up to you - Circle Members - to save Struxta from imminent destruction.

For those returning to the Storm, you may notice something is a bit different about it. It seems a bit more wild, a bit more unwieldy. Is it...stronger? Does the wind seem to have picked up? You might want to hurry.

group one: the preparation.

The BG's are sure to meet with everyone who volunteers for this position, explaining that you will be deployed first, out of all the groups. You are to head back to the area of the storm, and set up the The Pins - which are about a foot long, but just about 3 inches in diameter. They will explain just how they need to be wedged into the ground, how far, and at what points. There are 5 Pins, and they will be divvied up between all those who volunteer.

The distance between the points in which the Pins needs to be placed will be massive - the Storm is about 5 miles in radius, which means that the circumference is about 34 miles around. These five pins need to be placed equidistance around the circumference, and they need to be done so relatively around the same time - as they need to be placed in the right position before the storm continues to move. The people in these groups will need to be fast (to get to those places quickly) and strong (to wedge them into the ground), and then will need to quickly return to the cart to be brought back into the tunnels.
PROMPTS:
1.) Get to your selected area, and find a way to get the pin wedged into the earth. Because of the proximity to the storm, you cannot use anything too technologically/electrically powered, as there is a high chance of shortage if the storm gets too close. It is not dangerous for those who are electrically powered, but smaller devices might have a difficult time.

2.) Get back to the cart as quickly as possible - the Storm seems to be stronger, now, and the winds more intense. You may experience your route to be hindered by falling debris and pieces of the abandoned area of the city. You don't have too much time to get back to the cart.

3.) Maybe you decide to hold down the fort near the cart - to make sure that none of the wind or debris damaged it, or just to make sure it doesn't leave before the entirity of Group One returns. It will be up to you to get things moving once everyone returns - but remember, your time is tight. Everything needs to be moving as quickly as possible. And you definitely don't want to leave anyone behind!

group two: the deployment.

This will be, arguably, the group in most danger, as they will need to go to the eye of the storm and set up the device. As you will be going into the storm, there is high risk of being struck by lightning, and with all the information gathered, the BGs will let you know clearly and simply that you will die. There is no if, or high chance - if you are struck by lightning, you will be fried beyond a place where they will be able to revive you.

The other issue, here, is that the device must be activated. This is extremely tricky, as the activation takes a computer, or an understanding of computers, that have been connected to the Mass Subconscious or Archives in some fashion. The BGs are extremely wary about explaining this part of the plan, as they are hesitant to ask anyone to risk their lives to this degree. However, without someone to complete this part of the job, no part of the plan will work. For those built/dependent on their electronic interface, they will be able to build a temporary guard that the Circle members will be able to wear, but it will have a time limit, as explained here.

You are brought out in a group, dropped off in the same station that you were dropped off in before. You, and everyone in your group, will have about five hours to set up the Device and activate it, but be careful. The Storm is more intense than it ever has been before, with smaller lightning strikes spreading out with a smaller interval of time in between. You and your group will need to take the device to the center of the Storm, set it up, and then evacuate as quickly as safely as you can.

This group will be dropped off after the first group, and will have to remain behind for a bit longer than the first group as well, as their cart will require a reboot to take them back through the tunnels

PROMPTS
1.) Getting to the eye will not be an easy task. As the Storm is more intense, getting further and further into the Storm will be more and more violent and more and more difficult to traverse. The wind will become dangerous, as will the smaller strikes of lightning, but you have to find a way to get to the center, and set up the Device.

2.) Setting up the Device will take a few separate steps to get it set up. Not only will you need to have it set up directly in the eye, you will need someone with knowledge from the mainframe of Struxta to set it up. It will take either those who have connected to the Archives, Mass Subconscious, or other forms of the main systems of Struxta to be able to work the Device and to finally set it up in a way that it will connect and be able to translate the electrical shock of the Lightning Strike to the rest of the planet.

3.) Find a way to get back to the cart. When the Lightning Strike is dissolved, the Storm itself will dissentegrate, leaving about an hour of absolute chaos and mayhem with nowhere for it to go. After the hour is up, everything will be calm once again, but until that point it will feel as though you are caught in a tornado of strong winds, extreme thunder, and very little light or way to move. For those who have stayed back at the cart, the cart will need to be rebooted and brought back online. Good luck.

group three: the aftermath.

For better or for worse, you are the first of the groups to know for sure that the plan has worked. Because as soon as the Lightning Strike hits the ground, the entire world of Struxta seems to spark, an uncontrollable power surge moving through every inch of what you can see. Lights flicker and go out, giant holographic advertisements go dark. Androids and robots all around you surge, spark, and go dark. For about a minute, everything is completely dark, and you are unsure if you have just murdered an entire planet in one go, or if the plan actually worked.

Then, slowly, everything comes back online. It's a slow process, and definitely not all at once. Some things come online right after, and others take time, and others still will require help to be completely rebooted. You've been prepped by the BG's on how to help get everyone back online, but it will take some time. You have thousands of people to check in with, to plug in or help rearrange wires, or any other manner of ways to help bring them back online. The issue? You only have 12 hours to bring the entire city back online. Move quickly.
PROMPTS
1.) Because of how much of Struxta is electronic and mechanical, much of how it is run depends on the use and functionality of the buildings. Without the electricity, some of the buildings may even begin to sway, or creak, as if they are about to collapse. These will need to be dealt with in by their "breaker box" of sorts. Some are much easier to find than others, but you will want to act quickly, as there is no telling when those buildings, and all of the androids inside, may collapsed and be lost for good.

2.) There are - to put it simply - thousands and thousands of bodies around you. These were normal, everyday kind of androids and robots who were simply living their lives, before the surge took them all out. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to who or why some are able to bring themselves back online, but many are not. The BG's have prepped you with a battery of short that you can use to go around and help bring these others online, but still the situation is tense. There is about a 75% chance that they will come back online without issue, but some may not - as the surge could have fried their mainframes. To help with these, you will need someone who is either very adept as working with technology and computers, or you will need to take these to a kind of 'First Aid' tent of sorts that has been set up with the necessary materials to help bring these more complicated cases back online.

3.) The 'First Aid' tent is a production held up primarily by the BG's. It had been their plan from the beginning to help find a way to reroute the Storm and provide safety to the rest of Struxta. They have some older materials, as well as some tools, that they bring up with them and the rest of Group 3 to help set up a hospital of sorts. They will need help, as their units are glitchy and shaky as well, but they have the knowledge to help guide any other members who may be interested in staying back and helping them reworked the more complicated cases.

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[Dave, for his part, would feel absolutely horrible if she got hurt on account of him being out here searching for a pair of sunglasses — preventing people from getting hurt was the entire reason he came along on this mission to begin with. you can only imagine how mad he's going to be at himself once they get back to the cart.]

[so it's that thought, it's that original goal, and it's his usual intense knightly instincts that drive him to act without thinking, to turn Rion right around and shove her as hard as he can out of the way of the incoming urban debris.]

[it might not initially look like he escaped taking a direct hit as the building chunk crashes between them, but luckily, the force of that shove and the unrelenting gales of wind were enough to send him sprawling. he's escaping this disaster with only the slightest of sideswipes. didn't even feel it, on account of the adrenaline — he's way too busy scrambling past the wreckage to get back to Rion, yelling all sorts of expletives into the wind, despite the fact that no one can hear him, hoping that she didn't get hit, too.]

[ She did not, in fact, get hit! Although that shove was fierce enough to knock her back and to the ground, and she'll have a few scrapes to show for it, but that is infinitely better than getting crushed by Chunk O' Building.

Not that she's thinking about that right now, because as soon as Rion can pry herself off the ground, her heart hammering away at the approximate level of her throat, she can't see Dave. Just the wreckage, and no sign of him, but she can't stop to dwell on that. Maybe he avoided it. Or worse, maybe he's trapped, so while Dave is yelling curses that no one can hear, she's making a beeline for the wreckage to try and find him.

They'll find each other at some point. ]

[... so, there's a concept that Dave has always been very keenly aware of, as someone who has done a lot of looping around the timeline, nudging everyone toward the intended end goal by virtue of having created the need for the nudging in the first place. time loops are stupid.]

[it's that the correct reality, the flow of time, is rarely ever extraneous. things happen, and people are where they are, doing the things that they're doing, because they were meant to all along. and he's well aware that if Rion hadn't charged into the storm after him, if she weren't there right at that moment, he wouldn't have seen that debris coming. he kinda owes her his life now.]

[but here's another thing, though: Dave may certainly be capable of changing around events, but that isn't exactly a thing he can do on this world. and he's not about to accept any timeline that doesn't include her in it, so ... escape without further ado is what it's gonna have to be.]

[he catches sight of her running toward the debris right as he manages to scramble past it, and turns on a heel, reaching out to grab her arm again to catch her. there's blood blooming on the front of his shirt, but he doesn't notice it — right now, getting the both of them safely hell out of storm dodge is the only thing on his mind.]

[ She's so focused on the debris that she misses his presence right up until he catches her arm and all but drags her to a sudden halt. Luckily for both of them, Rion's instincts swing more towards "don't hit it" this time around, but the look of sheer relief and worry on her face is hard to hide.

Not that she's trying to hide it. She'll fuss later, though; for now, Rion's moving closer again and pulling, because she's of the same mindset. They need to get out of here. ]

[it's not an easy trek, when it's two kids against winds powerful enough to knock anybody much heavier than them to their asses, and when there's more than enough lightning shooting around them to power ... well, pretty much everything.]

[and maybe the odds of them actually making it through are a lot lower on paper, but. maybe it's more likely that a future where they both turned out just fine has already been established.]

[because that sure is the cart, and the promise of safety and a little bit of quiet, up ahead. Dave looks over at Rion, as if to make sure she's still with him, even though he knows damn well that he still has a death grip on her arm.]

[ That is indeed a Rion he's pulling along with him, and not just an arm, because this is not a horror movie. Sure, she looks incredibly disheveled at this point. Not even bothering to try to yell anything when the wind's strong enough to steal a breath, to say nothing of actual words. But she's present and she's doing her best to assist them in struggling forward, and once they reach the cart, she's only collapsing inside once they've both made it.

And wheezing. ]

Ugh...

[okay, cool. they survived — this is cool, Dave is completely cool. he always is, he's the one who is always in control of the situation, calm and blase about pretty much everything no matter how outrageous, because he sure as hell has seen his share of completely idiotic scenarios, because he is just.]

[cool.]

[yeah no, Dave kinda flops down nearby, fighting to get back the air that disaster outside had decided to take for itself. and when he does find enough to speak:]

All right?

[because that's one hundred percent the most important thing to him right now.]

Y-yeah... but do me a favor and maybe not go... storm sightseeing for awhile.

[ She's largely gasping this out as she manages to roll over onto her back, chest still heaving. ]

Are you okay?

[ Well, that's also important to her. ]

You're bleeding. [ SO PROBABLY NOT OKAY. ]

... Yeah. Think I've definitely seen enough.

[he doesn't really mean that as a joke, but there it is. but the adrenaline and available air are sort of inversely moving, here, and then Rion goes ahead and points that out, and he glances down at himself, to — huh. it's sort of looking like the front of his shirt is now matching the sleeves.]

Oh. [it looks a lot worse than it actually is. cotton's absorbent. Dave just kinda. shrugs?? he has had a lot worse, and he'd rather just roll with it instead of worrying too much about it, because he's an idiot, probably, and his instinct is just to play it off like he always does.]

Don't just "oh", let me see it!

[ Well. Winded or not, Rion's still going to be fierce, apparently. She can't even tease about making him strip, not when the memory's entirely too fresh of getting shoved sprawling, looking up just in time to see that building chunk slam into where Dave had just been standing.

She'd known this would be dangerous, but that was why she'd vowed to keep everyone safe. This time, though, it was definitely a little too close for comfort. ]

What? No, seriously, it's —

[it's fine. sorry, Rion, he's so bad at this. what is getting fussed over? what is allowing someone to fuss over him? is there an instruction manual? help him out here.]

[he does pull his shirt away from his front with something like a muted grimace, though. and there's something that nearly escapes there, a comment on how he doesn't know what he was expecting to happen, standing out there in the middle of a storm so strong it took the wind right out of you, like a total jackass.]

[and he's the type to just blurt out whatever, so refraining probably says something about how he's currently out of his element. he doesn't exactly move to let her see the damage? but he could be convinced.]

[ She'd at least offer a tease or a joke, something to lighten the mood when Dave is so clearly too distressed or shell-shocked to take up that mantle. But injuries during natural disasters strikes a little too close to home, a fact she won't mention or bother to display beyond the worried darkening of her expression.

Rion still can't see all that much with his helpful shirt pull, and she slowly shakes her head, lips pursed. ]

Let me see it, okay?

[he's going to run out of arguments before she straight up takes him out over being a cagey little asshole, isn't he? maybe ... maybe you should do as you're told for once in your life, Dave.]

[so he does. he sucks in a breath and peels off his shirt.]

[it's true that it looks a lot worse than it actually is. but that sure is a gash that's gonna smart for good while, assuming they don't bump into one of the Circle healers first.]

...

[ well, she sure did suck in a sharp breath. ]

Um, hold on, I think there's some water we can use to clean it, at least--

[ DAVE WHY ARE YOU A MESS ]

[just call him Disaster David. IT COULD BE WORSE?? it could be a lot worse.]

Yeah, okay.

[at least he's being a bit more cooperative? he'll probably insist on taking care of it himself, though.]

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