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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acatalepsy_logs2018-08-10 10:59 pm
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So many things, Noct, so many things. The weapons you can use, the way you react to things... The fact that you wanted to go talk to the king pretty much immediately that one time?
And... I dunno, just the way you carry yourself sometimes.
[He shrugs.]
It's not a bad thing. But you're not really "ordinary", I don't think. I'm not gonna pretend otherwise.
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I kind of always wanted to be boring and ordinary, but ... yeah. I guess I'm not at all.
[Bringing his attention back to Kou for a moment, before Noct raises a hand and looks to his palm instead, thinking of just where to start.]
My powers before - it was more than warping around. I guess you could say I was sort of a mage. Fire, lightning, ice, I could use all of it. I can use just about any weapon I pick up, because I was trained to, because my ancestors all focused on something different and their weapons have become mine.
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Mage, sure, he gets that--but any weapons? Ancestral weapons? That sounds...]
...What sort of person has ancestral weapons...?
[A beat, and Kou sighs.]
I'm going to ask, but you don't have to answer if you don't want to. It's not going to make me treat you differently, but... Noct, who are you?
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He can believe him when he says he wouldn't treat him differently.]
The Prince of Lucis, though with... what's going on at home, I'm actually King now. Noctis Lucis Caelum, the one hundred and fourteenth in line. [But here, he still just feels like "Noct", more than ever.]
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King? If Noct's the king, then doesn't that mean--
Oh. That's rough, and while Kou doesn't know the entire situation, if Noct is trying so hard to not be treated differently, to just be Noct and not the king of Lucis, then there must be a reason he's not ready to embrace it. Kou can respect that.
So after a long moment of processing that... he just stretches his hands over his head, and nods.]
Got it. So you're a king, and you've got a lot of special magic to go along with it--is that right? [It's a lot more to Kou than he's making it seem, but for now he can be casual. Noct seems to need it.]
Sheesh... talk about a ton of responsibility on your shoulders. Especially since you can't do anything about that here... it makes sense that you'd just want to be Noct. But--I think you'll always have a bit of that princeliness in you too, if that makes sense.
[A tilt of his head, and he elaborates:]
The way that you approached that problem in El Minha, for example--the way you wanted to talk to the king and figure it out that way. It's just a part of who you are, you know? And that's a good thing. At least, I think it is.
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Kou taking this so easily ends up letting Noct let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding, and he smiles quietly. He can accept that much, at least - that all the training and protocols he learned weren't exactly wasted on his lack of attention to the details. Resting his hands behind him and leaning, finally breathing in and out again with a more relaxed exhale, Noctis lets his gaze wander instead, thoughtfully accepting the words.]
I - really sympathized with Kathashun. His situation screamed so closely to my own, and it's... just easier to get a feel for a person by talking to them, you know? [He'd have known in their first conversation, he thinks - and it's still a quiet relief to know he had been a good person. They weren't helping someone who would use his people for his own benefit.]
Thanks. For all of this.
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So he sighs, shaking his head.]
And you were right about that. It definitely makes a lot more sense, the way you were acting back then.
[He gets it a lot better.]
Anyway, I think we're going to need your experience and the things you know from here on out more than ever, but... if you're not ready to tackle things like that, I won't judge.
[It's obvious Noct's got a lot on his shoulders with it.]
Just...whenever you're ready. Know that that'll be the case.
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[He smiles, even if there is a small hint of hesitance in it. Giving another little exhale and slowly sinking backwards to lay across the foot of the cot, Noct finally looks back over with a weight off his shoulders. There's something about this 'talk to someone when you're worried' thing that actually works, huh?]
Thanks for not freaking out. Just ask anytime, and I'll try to advise when I can, if it's... something I can actually wrap my head around.
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[Kou waves a hand at that, flopping back onto the cot as well, stifling a yawn with a hand.]
We're friends. Sure, it's kind of astonishing that my friend's a technical king, but hey. You're still Noctis, kingly or not.
That's not gonna change.
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He hasn't heard something so nice since Prompto ran up and slapped his shoulder and started walking with him in high school. Cracking a smile, then shifting onto his side to draw a leg up onto the bed, he gets himself fitting on the end of the cot with no intentions to go anywhere.]
Yeah, we are friends. Hey, don't let me keep you up if you're tired, you did have pretty busy day and all.
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[Kou mumbles that, words gaining that extra slur that comes of someone fading fast into sleep. He's done his best, but he really is exhausted; maybe someday he'll be better at this magic, but today is not that day.]
... for making sure I didn't get...stepped on.
[It seemed necessary to say.
But then he really is just going to doze off--it's a lot easier now that he knows everyone's going to be okay.]