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!
wingedwarrior: (I didn't so shut up)

[personal profile] wingedwarrior 2014-04-26 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
(WELL AREN'T YOU A LITTLE BALL OF USEFULNESS she doesn't say out loud.) Hey, be careful, okay? I don't want to have to scrape you off the walls!

(Shayera, meanwhile, will be putting all of these buckets to use and putting out the fires. Anything that could make Walker's task even a little easier. Saving people is, after all, much easier to do when flames aren't violently lashing out at you.)
burnseternal: (Default)

[personal profile] burnseternal 2014-04-26 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Thankfully, Shayera won't have to be scraping Saint Walker off the walls anytime soon, but that doesn't make her efforts any less appreciated. Saint Walker may be able to bear the brunt of the flames, but those he seeks to help cannot; if not for Shayera, he doesn't doubt that some would have burned to death before he was able to reach them.

He doesn't often wish that Blue Lanterns were in possession of the power of their green brothers, but today is one of those days. There are so many to save, and so many already lost. If she cares to check in with him after she's through, she'll find plenty of survivors just outside the building, but no Saint Walker - he's still inside, combing the building for that one last survivor that his ring insists is still in there.]
wingedwarrior: (did I fucking stutter)

[personal profile] wingedwarrior 2014-04-29 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
(Shayera can only pour so much water on a burning building, and escort civilians to safety at the same time. It won't be long before the building will come crashing down on Saint Walker, and she curses under her breath at seeing everyone except him out of the fire and safe.

She's reaching the end of her rope here, and the supports are getting weaker by the second. Frantically, she calls out to him.)
Walker, this building won't hold much longer, you've got to get out!
burnseternal: (spirit will not be broken)

[personal profile] burnseternal 2014-04-30 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Then I will make haste! There is still another survivor here!

[Which is to say, Saint Walker has absolutely no intention of vacating the building until he's done all that he can to save the life inside. Who's to say that his own life is more valuable than a life of another?

Instead of running out, Saint Walker plows determinedly through the building until he reaches the survivor, hidden as she is behind a pile of debris. If he were a Green Lantern, it would be a small task to simply shove the pile aside, but his own powers are dwarfed by those of his brother Corps. He scarcely spares the creaking building another glance and instead shoves the debris aside in large, frantic armfuls.]
wingedwarrior: (did I fucking stutter)

[personal profile] wingedwarrior 2014-05-02 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
(She knows he heeded her warning, but he obviously isn't going to make it out of there anytime soon. Shayera ditches the buckets, instead going for the hands on approach and flying through. The flames have died out considerably, but the building itself is already starting to give way.

Mere moments later, she spots Walker trying to dig someone out of the debris, and she rushes over quick as she can to throw those chunks of building out of the way. She picks up the last survivor like a feather pillow, then gestures to an opening.)
We need to get out now.
burnseternal: (affable)

[personal profile] burnseternal 2014-05-02 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
[It's a relief to see the last survivor safe and secure in Shayera's arms, but there's no time to talk about that now, or do anything beyond nod at her. One blue construct is enough to knock through one of the damaged windows, ridding it of broken glass that would be liable to scrape across Shayera and the survivor alike, and just in case, he forms a second as support to keep the window open in the wake of the building's inevitable collapse.

Once they do make it out, Saint Walker reaches out to place his hand on the survivor's forehead, brushing his hair away to see the sizable lump on his head - painful, yes, but nothing that some rest and cold compresses can't fix. He lifts his gaze to meet Shayera's, and there's little more for him to say beyond a quiet, earnest,]
Thank you.