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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[With intimacy borne of temporary relief, Nihuang reaches up to clasp Konoha's fluttering hands with her own, willing some measure of reassurance and calm to carry through touch. Harder to do when she's experiencing the same nervous itch, but stillness is an old lesson, as is waiting.]
That was pretty close, wasn't it? How are you feeling?
[The nerves are a given, but the tremors are worth watching. Nihuang is no medic, but some symptoms are familiar and she automatically seeks Konoha's pulse like this could tell her something.]
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I can't believe that worked? It worked, didn't it- ?
[She still doesn't understand how putting those pins into the earth helped to actually solve the problem, to help these weird robot people, or save a world, but...
Never mind how she's feeling. She's addled, wounds from debris along her rump are stinging, her two hearts beating a mile a minute and likely a bit confusing to feel in her pulse, but.
They were alive, right?]
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I'd heard that some of our hosts are reviving. I believe the worst of it has passed. [Glancing behind them further down the tunnel,] Should we get you looked at? There may not be a good opportunity later.
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[Not that she understood... how that worked. Robots and androids and all their workings still baffled her completely despite a few attempts at understanding how no flesh and blood meant you could still think and feel, but. Apparently they were "alive"??? Not wanting to mess anything up she'd stayed away from those efforts, but...
She almost looks behind her at Nihuang's offer, almost glances back to see her "pants" ripped and torn across her hindquarters, see the blood leaking from cuts and glancing impacts of debris. Nope-]
N- No, I'm fine! If you don't look, it doesn't hurt as bad, you know, so- !
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So it sounds like you'd best let me do the looking for you.
I'm not truly a medic [and they should certainly find one later] but I have some experience. There should be more private spaces further down. Won't you allow me to have a look? [She's not prepared to encroach on the young lady's modesty without urgent need, but she will project her best concerned big sister expression.]
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She'd follow her somewhere less public. After all, she might have a horse's rear, but she had more human sensibilities on nakedness. Another woman was perfectly acceptable, but.]
Alright... Looking is fine... I'm sure it's mostly fine.
[And it was, mostly. She hasn't examined herself, but with the exception of one true cut, most of the wounds were more superficial, bleeding like a scraped knee or elbow did without much real damage beneath. ... Laundry was going to be difficult though. Cleaning blood out of cloth wasn't the easiest...]
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[Nihuang tucks Konoha's hand into the crook of her arm the way she might escort a noble cousin and doesn't look back until they settle somewhere out of the way. She has (rarely) personally tended to young soldiers before, and she has more often tended to horses, so the confidence she's projecting isn't entirely unwarranted. Although it would be better if her aunt were here.]
Here. Let's see... [Some blood has begun to cake, and no matter how gently she peels back Konoha's skirt some of the clotting will be disturbed. Nihuang hums to herself and doesn't touch, smiling quickly for Konoha who may or may not be observing.] In my assessment, it really isn't bad. I do you need you to do something to help me, though.
Are you familiar with fifteen-fifteen or rock-paper-scissors?
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She winces in pain as the peeling cloth disturbs some attempts at clotting and pulls at her dark brown coat, one back hoof stamping instinctually, tail rising in alarm, but she tamps the reactions down best she can, wringing her fingers for distraction.]
Y- yeah? That's good-
[She doesn't... get how helpful those things are, but. Helpfully, she tries to go along despite.]
I know the fox game... I think that's the same. Why?
[The mystic fox defeats the village head. The village head defeats the hunter. The hunter defeats the fox. Easy.]
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I need a few supplies and I don't want to hunt them down. [Or, she doesn't want to leave her post yet, for all that she isn't able to help with anything. Konoha and the others lingering behind likely feel the same. Besides, there isn't any need.]
My ability allows me to grant simple wishes if my opponent beats me in a game. [In a matter-of-fact and reasonable voice, as though this ability isn't as alien as anything else here.] If you show me the motions of the fox game, we can play a few rounds and generate what we need.
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The second thing, that she has to remind herself not to do, is to be surprised. They all had "magic" now, and with her background and education, she knew there was little point to trying to figure out why or even how. So. Just accept it. Just... believe it.]
Ah... on the count of three... you choose either the village head, the hunter, or the kitsune. The hunter obeys the village head, the village head can be tricked by the fox, and the fox can be killed by the hunter. You do your arms like this...
[A bit awkwardly, she tries to demonstrate. The village elder was hands on knees, (or, equine shoulders for her), to mimic an elder sitting in council, the hunter was a pose that appeared to be drawing a bow, and the fox was both hands raised and curled as if they were magicking paws.
Even if it feels strange to play right now, for... supplies, she doesn't mind, but-]
Nothing bad happens to who loses, right?
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No, nothing like that. [She rearranges her sleeves as she speaks.] If you win, what you are wishing for should appear, and if I win, nothing will happen and we should continue playing. [Although if the wisher gets distracted, who knows what kind of junk they could wind up with?]
I think we could start off with some fresh snow.
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[It still sounds crazy, but... this whole world was, to her, and if nothing bad would happen if someone lost... Then Konoha is willing to try it. Her expression is almost comical in her concentration as she tries to focus.
Fresh snow, think about fresh snow. After the harvest, with the white ice on the trees and the reed snow shoes her father made to fit her hooves, and the way snow felt whe she crunched through it, bounding through and forcing her way past the cold.]
One... two... three... go!
[Her arms go up, curl... The fox.]
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Her hands fly up again quickly in order to catch the snow that materializes, not as scattered flakes drifting down, but as a substantial clump that could have been knocked from a bough. It arrives with a sudden breath of cold air with it with the scent of northern trees--not quite the mountains Nihuang remembers, but maybe the place Konoha is from.
She can't keep herself from grinning, always surprised and pleased by the evidence of the impossible, holding it out for Konoha.]
I'm going to pack this around your wound to slow the bleeding... Unless you would prefer to do it yourself?
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She can't hide the surprise on her face for... it appearing in general, let alone because of that game, but. It's just one more unbelievable thing on top of another, and. She has to believe it, it's right there.]
Ah... no, that's fine.
[Jinba were more flexible than they looked, there would be little point to her biology if she couldn't reach her own hooves or sides, but even with that it was hard for her to reach her rump.
Also, it looked cold, so- she braces a bit, knees shaking.]
butt-touch
Nodding once, she begins, applying it with deft hands and and murmuring comforting sounds. It's not something she does often--very little of Yunnan sees snow at any time of year--but she grown up with Jinling winters and she can manage. For horses, that is.]
All right, leave that there for a moment. We'll need suturing materials, ointment, bandages. [Confessing,] I should have thought to bring some with me, but I'm used to relying on others. Are you doing all right?
iyan ///
But it does help as it starts to numb the stinging sensations and meltwash the blood away, so she tries to not move too much, wringing her fingers instead. This part seemed easy, but she's looking forward far less to sutures.]
I'm okay... Here, we can play again...
[She says she should have brought some, but Konoha can't imagine thinking that you'd need that sort of thing... except this place had turned out so insane.
So she plays along, making sure to think hard on what they needed. Suturing materials, ointment, bandages.]
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Between the two of them, they manage to create what is needed, and Nihuang is somewhat relieved that the forms each item takes is familiar and appropriate; in spite of appearances, it's clear Konoha is from a region (and time) more similar to her own than many of the others here. It makes for one less complication.]
I never asked. What sort of ability did you receive when you arrived?
[Making conversation as she begins to close up the worst of the lacerations, hoping to distract her... colleague, and to stay calm herself.]
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But Nihuang was one of the few that didn't seem to think that was weird, so... That was nice.]
Oh, mine is, ah-
[Konoha doesn't look at what she's doing, because if she doesn't it's easier for her to handle the pain. She's used to strain and hard work, less to actual painful injury... but she bears it rather well, just biting into the side of her lip when she has to, withers jumping and twitching each time the needle goes in.]
I can "make"? Summon? Food...
[She doesn't know the word for it, and begins to ramble in order to not focus on the medical treatment.]
It always comes raw, though, so I have to cook it all still, not that that makes it bad, it's a great ability... You know, I eat a lot, and everyone else needs to eat, too, except for the metal people... I'll give you some! I mean, I would have even if you didn't help me just now, but-
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Even well-bred horses can be delicate, but it really seems as though Konoha is bearing up well as Nihuang flushes more grit out of a scrape. She waits until Konoha trails off, thought unfinished, before speaking.]
Why then, that's too helpful. It's true, the mechanical people here don't seem to eat anything. I think it would be such a shame to lose ability to enjoy food or the traditions that accompany it. Do you cook often, here?
[Although the scent of the salve rather takes away any appetite.]
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Oh, yes-
[Thinking food is making her hungry. But that was probably a good sign? Right?]
My mother taught me a lot of dishes, and all you need besides the ingredients is a fire and a knife, and I have both of those things. At least I can help feed everyone.
[The small knife visible in a sheath on her work harness, beside a tool belt of sorts that included flint and tinder.]
Mushroom hot pot... rice dumplings... deer jerky... salt fish... herb porridge...
YOU ARE MAKING ME HUNGRY
There are clearly many advantages to tending an injured jinba, and the entire process is reminding Nihuang a little too clearly of Wen, still stabled (she hoped) with Astoria at the Temple. Were there jinba soldiers? From Konoha's performance with just today's task, Nihuang could think of only too many tactical uses for such a force.]
Stuffed bun, bean curd, rice cakes... [Nihuang continued, dabbing away water and blood from Konoha's rump to dry it before rearranging her skirt. Sounding barely dubious at all,] I'm done.
You've been excellent, Konoha.
I MADE MYSELF HUNGRY
Ah... that sounds good...
[It was almost obon, wasn't it... ? There should be rice cakes-
Oh. All done?]
Thank you, Nihuang-jie.
[Now that she's finished Konoha twists at the waist to look back at her rump, nibbling her bottom lip as she reaches back to adjust the skirt, somehow much the way a human girl might twist about and try to fix her clothing despite the considerably different acrobatics involved.]
I can't really reach well, so- ... I appreciate it.
I KEEP THINKING ABOUT DORAYAKI :L
While Konoha fusses, Nihuang wipes her tingling fingers and wraps the extra supplies into a neat package with the bandage-cloth for some future use. Konoha's thanks seems to embarrass her somewhat although she only dips her head in acknowledgement.]
They should hold for the day. Possibly two if you have to wait. You can find me if you want help changing the bandages. I--[
have some experience] Also, I'm afraid I can't do much more for the pain, but if it becomes a problem, we'll find a solution.STOMACH RUMBLES LOUDLY
[She tests herself gently, leaning her weight onto her back legs one after the other with only a small grimace- and really, that was more from anticipated pain than actual.]
I'm pretty tough, so- It will be fine.
[Maybe it's partly to just assure herself, and not just Nihuang, but! At least it was true.
And... that sound that suddenly rumbles out was definitely her stomach.
Probably the lower one, judging by the volume.]
... OOPS
Shall we see what preparations the others have made by now? [More doubtfully,] And lend a hand?
/wraps this up?