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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!
backwordscompatible: (pic#5193447)

[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2014-04-21 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
[It was like he didn't even notice until she pointed it out. Hopefully, that was a good sign? Maybe?]

Are you hurt at all? Or did the costume take most of the damage?
unobtainableredemption: Scarlet Spider (Roxxon. Huh.)

[personal profile] unobtainableredemption 2014-04-21 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Shakes his head.]

I'm fine... [Looks down at the city on fire.] which is more than I can say for a lot of people right now.
backwordscompatible: (Hexing your sorry butt)

[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2014-04-21 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[I'm fine was usually code for exactly the opposite, but there wasn't really much time to argue right then. Because the guy was right.]

[Brows furrowing for a moment, she tried to think of a solution. One that might help, even a little. There were just too many fires. Too many people. Only two of them. For now.]

[One hand lifted up towards the skies.]


Ekam ti niar

[The clouds above darkened, and a moment later, a downpour emerged. Aimed specifically for the smaller brushfires. It wouldn't put everything out, but it was something. A start.]
unobtainableredemption: Scarlet Spider (...)

[personal profile] unobtainableredemption 2014-04-21 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kaine's most definitely not okay, but his problems aren't physical. He's running off someone else's instincts at this point, and with a lack of something bad to punch and a complete lack of knowledge when it comes to day saving 101, there's only so much adrenaline he can run on before the knowledge he's in waaaaay over his head overtakes him.

At the appearance of rain, caused by what he can only imagine was whatever the hell the girl just said, seems to confirm his suspicion that all teenage girls secretly had superpowers.
]

Got any rubble removing tricks up your sleeve? [Yes, it's a magician pun, and not a very good one, but then again he isn't his brothers... but he's trying.]
Edited 2014-04-21 20:16 (UTC)
backwordscompatible: (just like home (except not))

[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2014-04-22 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
How much rubble are we talking here?

I could probably lift a few boulders. You?
unobtainableredemption: Scarlet Spider (Now now...)

[personal profile] unobtainableredemption 2014-04-22 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Well, the whole damn city exploded, so I'm going to go with "a lot."

I can lift a wall, but that's not exactly easy, and with everything as unsound as it is, I could just make it worse by trying. I was kind of hoping you could just make it disappear or something.
backwordscompatible: (Considering)

[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2014-04-23 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
I might be able to disintegrate a few. Or transform them into something else.

Need any clay jars for your apartment?
unobtainableredemption: Scarlet Spider (I'm going to kill you)

[personal profile] unobtainableredemption 2014-04-23 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Why the hell are you asking me about clay--[Aaand lightbulb.]--oh.

With the amount of stuff that just exploded, I'm sure someone will.
backwordscompatible: (Hexing your sorry butt)

[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2014-04-23 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Good enough for me.

[She lowered herself down until she was a few feet above the nearest pile. Waving a hand over them and calling out a spell. The twisted concrete and metal seemingly melted away into...sure enough, a series of lovely clay pots.]

Not my best work, but hey. Better than anything I could've pulled off in art class back home.
unobtainableredemption: Scarlet Spider (I see it coming)

[personal profile] unobtainableredemption 2014-04-24 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Great. One down, only a million destroyed buildings to go.

[As if on cue, he can hear screaming nearby. He fires a webline and starts heading in that direction, calling over his shoulder.] Hope you're in the mood for more pots.
backwordscompatible: (new girl)

[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2014-04-24 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I can make myself a new cauldron at this rate. Joy.

[Her voice was dripping with sarcasm at the cliche, rolling her eyes before she elevated herself into the air once more and took off after him.]

[For a guy basically swinging himself along on some kind of string, he was moving pretty fast.]
unobtainableredemption: Scarlet Spider (Beating the crap out of you!)

[personal profile] unobtainableredemption 2014-04-25 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
I thought you were going with a magician theme. You can't change halfway through. [Halfway through what, he doesn't know. The disaster, maybe?

Yes the joys of being cloned from someone for whom this is second nature.

Kaine swings to the source of the screaming, and starts moving rubble, using his powers to stick to the debris and lift it with the entirety of his hand, rather than picking it up the conventional way, then chucks it behind him.
]
backwordscompatible: (blew up the kitchen)

[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2014-04-25 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Excuse you, she does what she wants.]

Well, pulling things out of hats isn't exactly going to help in this situation.
unobtainableredemption: Scarlet Spider (Thwip!)

[personal profile] unobtainableredemption 2014-04-25 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know, some giant bunnies to help evacuate the survivors might help.

[Goes to pull another piece of debris, but stops when it feels like if he pulls it further, something beneath it will collapse. He looks over at Zatanna as he attempts to web the debris together to keep it standing.

Help?
]
backwordscompatible: (On the move)

[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2014-04-25 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[She was actually already in the process of magically trying to break down the rubble in a different area. Using gusts of wind and levitation to break everything apart for better access, and alternating between disintegrating the more useless elements and transforming them into things like steps or rope for climbing.]

[If you want her attention, you're going to have to ask for it.]
unobtainableredemption: Scarlet Spider (Stop this now)

[personal profile] unobtainableredemption 2014-05-13 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Turns back when he sees she's got her hands full as well, and focuses on webbing as much of it up as he can.]

Hey! You got a way of seeing where exactly someone's under here while you're doing that? [He could ask the spiders, but that requires more concentration than he can spare right now. His webbing is holding up the debris precariously at best.]
backwordscompatible: (crockblocked)

[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2014-05-13 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
You mean, like X-ray vision?

Sorry, that's Superman's territory. Did you try calling out and seeing if you can hear anything?
unobtainableredemption: Scarlet Spider (And there's no mention of a missile?)

[personal profile] unobtainableredemption 2014-05-13 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Who?]

I can hear screaming, I just can't make out where. I pick up the wrong piece of debris, there's a good chance I'm crushing them.
backwordscompatible: (doubt)

[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2014-05-13 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that might be a problem.

[She thought for a minute, before an idea came to her.]

I could try a tracking spell. It wont give an exact location, but it might at least give you a clue as to where not to crush.

[There were two different kinds, and she was hesitant about them both. It had a been a long while since she'd attempted to track anything. Even if the proximity here was significantly closer than Klarion had been at the time...she'd spent nearly a near and a half in Keelai with no way to continue her formal training. Everything she knew now came from independent study and keeping up with her reading. Reading non-specific to her family's craft.]

[Not for the first time, she wished Robin were here. He had instilled just enough confidence in her to compensate for the uncertainty she'd felt at even attempting it then. There was nobody to be confident for her now.]


No promises, though.
unobtainableredemption: Scarlet Spider (The ones that are all about to die. Damn)

[personal profile] unobtainableredemption 2014-05-14 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[His expression softens a bit under his mask.]

Hey how about this? You got a way to hold this crap up?

I can get a look or I make sure this holds. I can't do both.
backwordscompatible: (concentrating)

[personal profile] backwordscompatible 2014-05-15 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[She nodded. Her expression melting into a more neutral expression.]

I can do that. Stand back.

[It took two deep breaths, but she raised her hands and summoned a spell. Different from her usual levitation spell. This one was far more focused. Even. She had to lift as much of the rubble simultaneously as possible. Not willing to risk part of it collapsing in the process.]

[Almost immediately, she could feel the strain of the weight. Even magically. Her eyes closed, and she focused as much energy as she possibly could.]


Go.