cherrywood: (10. LANTERNS)
ᴄʜᴇʀʀʏᴡᴏᴏᴅ ʜᴇᴀʟᴇʀ ᴍɪʟʏɴ ([personal profile] cherrywood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2014-04-17 01:02 am

Event | Console Crash Chaos | Phase One

Characters: ALL!
Date: April 17-30, 2014
Location: Keeliai
Situation: In an unexpected and bold attack by Malicant, the console system is completely shut down while food and supply locations all around the city are targeted by bombings.
Warnings/Rating: Explosions! Possible descriptions of related aftermaths, injuries, death, etc.

Shortly after eight in the morning of the 17th, the consoles experience a strange glitching effect. They'll display 15-20 seconds of static, interrupting anything being done on them at the time, before going utterly dark. No power, no signal, completely offline even to detection of their normal bio-mechanical signatures. No amount of energy influx will get them going again, though taking them apart (or trying to) will still cause them to melt into goo.

Within minutes of the console shutdown, explosions will begin ripping through Keeliai. The bombs are all timed as close to simultaneous as coordinating a city-wide attack can be, with many going off within seconds of each other, throwing the thriving morning rush into chaos. They tear into businesses and across public spaces, collapsing walls and blowing piles of debris into the streets. Places of high traffic quickly become evident as prime targets: marketplaces, hospitals, schools and cafes. The streets take only moments to fill with panicking, screaming kedan trying to pull their injured fellows out of harm's way. All told, the explosions take place across approximately a 10-minute stretch and their explosive yields are fairly high.

In addition to the bombs that cause destruction through their blasts, smaller bombs are going off around the city that specifically target food and water supplies, particularly where large stocks of it were kept such as grocers, produce markets, and the like. Rather than cause mass damage, these explosions spray out a fine mist of spores. Any perishables in their immediate area that are splattered develop an oozing black mold within minutes, eventually breaking down organic substances that turn to foul smelling rot and release their own mist, perpetuating the cycle. While skin contact with the mist doesn't harm, inhaling or ingesting it will produce shakes, fever, vomiting with a cumulative effect that has the potential to be fatal. It is much slower to infect the water supply but the sheer volume of rotting perishables will eventually put enough of the spores to taint water sources, approximately 6-8 hours after the original bombings.

The police force are out as soon as possible and within the hour are helping move the injured to safer locations with Evandau in charge, right in their midst and shoulder to shoulder with his subordinates. Not being stockpiles for any of the apparent targets, many of the Foreigner residences have been left undamaged and, wary of putting them in further danger by collecting large groups in public spaces, Foreigners may even be asked to take in a few individuals or a kedan family.

Despite the number of explosions, there are far more reports of injuries as opposed to casualties. The person or persons (or That Bad Guy) responsible for this were, for this attack at least, more intent on damage than on death.



LINKS
Fire Sector | Earth Sector | Metal Sector | Water Sector | Wood Sector
Treating the Injured & Safe Houses | Investigations | OOC Plot Post


OOC NOTE: Remember that the consoles and network will be completely offline for the duration of this aspect of the the plot running April 17-23, though Foreigner tech is not affected. Plot questions can be directed to this comment. Have fun!
wintershepherd: (flinch)

Fishing Shop - Open!

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2014-04-18 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Jack always worked the morning shift at the shop because he so rarely slept and he'd been there for almost two hours already, working on various orders while Baby Tooth helped. He'd had a few regular customers come in already, helped them and sent them on their way; just another day so far as he was concerned. As there was no console in the store, he had no forewarning of anything about to happen and when the first explosion several blocks away rattled all the windows in the shop. In tandem with the alarmed trill from the faerie at his side and he dashes to the doorway...

... just as an explosion centered against the opposite wall of his store goes off, blowing the side of the building inwards towards him.

A few moments later, his vision swam back into awareness and he croaked, "Baby Tooth?" and thankfully, felt the warm flutter of wings and chirp tucked against the side of his neck. He pushed the fallen rubble away from his face and stood shakily, making his way unsteadily outside through the new hole in the wall.
hisbabygirl: (broken glass)

[personal profile] hisbabygirl 2014-04-21 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Sarah's got a soft spot for Jack. He's one of her favourite people on the turtle and the closest thing to a big brother she's ever had. So it's no surprise that she's on her way to visit him at work, just because she can.

Or at least that had been the plan. Sarah is just across the street from the fishing shop when the bombs go off. The sound is deafening, the building exploding from one side and all foundation around it crumbling. Amongst it all she can hear Baby Tooth and that confirms her worst fears that Jack is in there too.

For a moment she's stuck, frozen and staring with a look of terror on her face. This isn't meant to happen. This isn't something she even though possible. "J-jack?" she calls, but her voice catches in her throat. A little more frantic she tries again, this time with a desperate shout. "Jack!?"
wintershepherd: (faerieeight)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2014-04-23 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
His ears are ringing so badly from being near the explosion that he can't hear anything for a moment and his vision swims, turning Baby Tooth into a shining but blurry jeweltone in front of him. She tugs him by the string of his hoodie towards the door and he emerges onto the street.

Baby Tooth lets go of his string and flies over to Sarah, chirping worriedly to ask if the girl was all right.
hisbabygirl: (bright lights a comin')

[personal profile] hisbabygirl 2014-04-23 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Immediately she holds her hands out for Baby Tooth to land if she wants to. Sarah does her best to keep them still. "Are you okay?" the girl asks, worry clear on her face.

As she starts for Jack, Sarah looks to Baby Tooth. "I'm alright, don't worry."

Just scared and shaky.
wintershepherd: (winter child)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2014-04-25 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Baby Tooth lands on the girl's hands and takes one of her fingers in two tiny hands. Jack shakes his head again, trying to get his vision to clear and when it does, he gives Sarah a weary grin. "Yeah, I'm good," he replied. "Just caught in one of those. Don't recommend that, by the way."

The joke is light and he reaches out to settle a cool hand on Sarah's shoulder, giving her a reassuring smile to prove that he wasn't hurt, just disoriented, intensely grateful that she hadn't been in the store when the bomb had exploded.

"Let's get you somewhere safer than out here in the street, okay?"