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!
6collegecredits: (Oh joy)

[personal profile] 6collegecredits 2014-04-28 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Fair enough.

[Grinning, she took his offered arm. She might not say it, but it was a comfort to have someone close when things were getting so crazy.]

Where are we heading, then?
trainwrecked: (Have my orders)

[personal profile] trainwrecked 2014-04-30 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Metal sector. It's where most technical things can be found - and was actually not very disrupted by explosions.

[ Because those went after food. ]
6collegecredits: (well that's not unusual at all)

[personal profile] 6collegecredits 2014-05-05 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
That's odd. You'd think that would get hit pretty fast.
trainwrecked: (We-ell!!)

[personal profile] trainwrecked 2014-05-06 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
They were going more after food and water, than after damage. When people're starved and exhausted... I guess the rest'll be easy picking.
6collegecredits: (mhm)

[personal profile] 6collegecredits 2014-05-06 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's a logical step for them to take. [She nodded and shrugged. Cut people off from the things they need to survive.]

Hopefully we can find enough supplies somewhere to keep us going.
trainwrecked: (Leather jacket faraway)

[personal profile] trainwrecked 2014-05-14 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It's war. Cutting off supplies.

But we've been close to starving before, too. We made it then, we'll make it again.

[ The level of confidence that sounds in his voice is copied pretty firmly from Steve. Whether or not he fully feels that optimism is a different matter - but keeping the morale up is important. ]
6collegecredits: (i see what's going on here)

[personal profile] 6collegecredits 2014-05-17 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's a comfort to Darcy, at least. She knew it wouldn't be easy, but hearing some optimism about things went a long way.]

It'll suck, but we'll make it work, right?
trainwrecked: (Arrival)

[personal profile] trainwrecked 2014-05-23 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly.

[ His face is still tired, but the smirk is cocky. Confident. ]

You up for dealin' with that?
6collegecredits: (Okay yeah)

[personal profile] 6collegecredits 2014-05-23 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't really have much of a choice now, do I?

[But she looks relatively optimistic, despite her words.]
trainwrecked: (Handsome)

[personal profile] trainwrecked 2014-06-04 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
There's always a choice, [ Bucky murmurs quietly. He's seen a lot of choices, in how people react to war. He's not fond of many of them. ]

You got people here? To check on, and such? Your friend that you mentioned when we were drinkin'?
6collegecredits: (not paying attention)

[personal profile] 6collegecredits 2014-06-05 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, Jane? [She shook her head, looking sad for just a moment.] Nah. She went home a while ago. A lot of people have, actually.
trainwrecked: (Chill)

[personal profile] trainwrecked 2014-06-06 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[ Quietly. ]

Though some of them sometimes come back.

[ He's glad Steve's here again, he is. But he's not sure... he can't be sure, anymore, how long that'll last. But that's not anything he can do about, so he tries to be - hopeful. For Darcy. ]
6collegecredits: (riding along)

[personal profile] 6collegecredits 2014-06-09 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[She makes a low hmmm noise at the thought. She wasn't really sure if Jane and Thor coming back would be a good thing or a bad thing.]

Maybe. Seems like we're getting fewer people around lately though.