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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!
solo_patria: (canony: let others rise)

[personal profile] solo_patria 2014-05-02 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
A good idea.

[Enjolras is in motion already, getting himself secured quickly as possible, skills practiced with the armee training so far. He'd never thought that they would have to be used in these circumstances, but, well...he IS prepared enough, he thinks, for most outcomes.]

We'll find her. [His voice is rather firm at that point. Because Iskierka cannot be anything but all right in this, can she?
dracobin: (flight)

[personal profile] dracobin 2014-05-02 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Temeraire pauses only long enough to admonish the kedan to hang on, and then he is aloft, the earth dropping dizzyingly away from under them.

He makes straight for Fire Sector, unpleasantly aware of yet more plumes of smoke rising from the stricken city. But there is no time to stop: he flies straight as an arrow, faster than he has flown in some time, and in less than five minutes has dropped with unerring instinct into the street in front of his apartment.]


My harness, [he manages, sides heaving with the effort.] It is in my quarters--I did not think to wear it, this morning--pray bring it out, and help me put it on; it will be easier for everyone else, later.
solo_patria: (sc 6: girls are scary!)

[personal profile] solo_patria 2014-05-02 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Right.

[Enjolras, who had been attempting to help stabilize the wounded as he could, is now leaping from the dragon's back and racing towards Temeraire's quarters, seeing the need for both the harness, and that he hurry himself.

Not much longer, and he's returned, and luckily, has learned a fair bit of harnessing by now so that it should not be too much of a struggle. He's gasping himself a little as he returns, but still certainly going strong, urged on by the thought that he must hurry now.]
dracobin: (Default)

[personal profile] dracobin 2014-05-09 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[As distressed as he is by this attack upon his friends, Temeraire is grateful enough to appreciate that Enjolras is one of the most experienced members of the new Corps, at least in terms of airtime. It saves his having to explain how to put the harness on, at least, and while it is difficult with only one person manoeuvring the leather straps around, the entire thing is buckled and tightened in comparatively short order.

He rears up once, hurriedly, on his hind legs, and drops back down hard, shaking the harness as per Corps protocol to ensure it is secure.]


All lies well; now pray hurry, we must away.
solo_patria: (canony: fighting)

[personal profile] solo_patria 2014-05-09 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[While more of his experience lies in fitting Iskierka, adjusting Temeraire's harness is, at least, something that is almost second nature to him now. Enjolras does wish he could be faster with it, given the need to hurry, but it does not take much time, really, to get the harness on, and the wounded seen to before Enjolras is pulling himself back aboard, thoughts racing through his mind now.

Iskierka. If he's done anything to her, and if some ill fortune has descended on Joly or Bossuet as well...At least he knows that Combeferre is safe for now, which does a little to negate the tension, but still, considering the obvious perpetrator of this act, he does feel rather as if he might be sick.]


Then let's do so at once. The sooner we find out, the better. At least I hope it's to the better.
dracobin: (flight)

[personal profile] dracobin 2014-05-10 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
[It is a little odd to have Enjolras aboard, when he is so clearly part of Iskierka's crew, but some selfish part of Temeraire's mind decides it feels right.

But even that thought flies in the face of the impending danger to their friends. Temeraire takes a deep breath, crouches, and kicks off into the air again.

He corkscrews into a sharp turn as he turns to face the rest of the apartments in Fire. Iskierka, he knows, lives in one of the buildings down the street, but there is no guarantee she is still there now. Still, it is as good a place as any to start, and he darts forward, wings beating furiously.]
solo_patria: (canony: flag)

[personal profile] solo_patria 2014-05-10 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
[At the moment, in terms of going to seek Iskierka, why not? After all, Temeraire is a trusted friend and companion, and Enjolras regards him as one of les amis, at least in spirit.

Still, it takes some getting used to, being with Temeraire instead, and if it takes Enjolras a few moments of experimenting to find the right position to do this safely, well, at least he is secure enough that he doesn't fall.

And then, they are up again in the air and once he's found his footing, Enjolras is moving about, attempting to see anything that could be of use in explaining what's just happened.

At any other time, flying like this would be amazing, but for the moment, other priorities do rather take over.]