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!
unetrustworthy: (uncertain)

[personal profile] unetrustworthy 2014-05-02 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't want to go back."

She'd made the declaration multiple times in the past, but somehow, in the here and now, it almost sounded wrong to say. Hadn't she just been telling Jack about her family? The ones she loved more than anything else? Whom she genuinely did wish to be able to see again someday.

Her eyes lowered, guiltily.
wintershepherd: (disjoint)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2014-05-09 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Jack was thoughtfully quiet for a moment before shrugging, as though to put the sudden read of guilt from Midii at ease. "I've considered it before," he admitted.
unetrustworthy: (incoming transmission)

[personal profile] unetrustworthy 2014-05-10 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
She glanced upward.

"...you've thought about staying in Keelai, too?" Midii knew she wasn't the only one, but she assumed the sentiment was unique to those who came from horrible worlds like hers. Not people like Jack. "Why?"
wintershepherd: (uncentered)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2014-05-13 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Well..." Jack dragged the word out as he tried to order his thoughts. "You know how you couldn't see or hear me at first? That's basically... the whole world, where I left. There are a handful of kids -- really amazing, incredible kids -- who can see me now. And as a Guardian, eventually more kids will start believing in me too."

He let that sink in, trying to put into words that anxiety that hadn't fully left after all this time.

"But being able to make friends like I can here, and just... be myself? I don't think... that's going to be possible, back in my world. It just doesn't work like that for spirits."
unetrustworthy: (in the rain)

[personal profile] unetrustworthy 2014-05-13 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
It wasn't an entirely unfamiliar sentiment. Even if Jack didn't come from a war-torn world, there were several things that--from the sound of it--would make his life considerably less happy than he always seemed to be in Keelai. Friends. People who cared about him.

Midii had some of those too. Now. Maybe not as many as Jack, but it had been a very, very long time since she'd felt comfortable enough to trust anybody who wasn't Papa or her brothers...enough that she could be herself. Not just a cover story.

"Do they want to stay, too? The friends you've made."

An important question, in her mind, if they were the driving force of his desire not to return.
wintershepherd: (stranger)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2014-05-16 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
He pondered on the question for a moment before he had to shrug. "I'm not sure," he said honestly. "Some of them want to go home and some of them want to stay because they don't have a home to go back to. And some--"

Where did certain people (a person) fall in all this?

He didn't know and abandoned the sentence. "But I've got people counting on me back home so... for me it's not really my decision."
unetrustworthy: (listening)

[personal profile] unetrustworthy 2014-05-16 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
She nodded in quiet understanding.

"But...if it was your decision, what would you do?" Little more than hypothetically speaking, but her curiosity won out. She wanted to know what he truly thought. "Would you want to stay? I mean, is there any one thing about Keelai that would keep you from wanting to leave?"

For Midii, it was the freedom. The weight of her past life, her responsibilities, were gone. Mostly. She was able to live the way she wanted to. People still came and went. Bad things still happened here. But the good far outweighed the bad.
wintershepherd: (gangly)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2014-05-18 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know," Jack said frankly, and the speed with which he replied indicated not that he wasn't giving the question due consideration but that he'd given it too much consideration over the past months.

"It's kind of a weird thing, you know? Not being able to make a decision like that, in your head."
unetrustworthy: (sad smile)

[personal profile] unetrustworthy 2014-05-18 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't think that's weird at all. Just...sad." She empathized. It was clear enough in her expression. "I used to feel the same way, back home. Everything was so out of my control. Even if I knew what I wanted, I could never have it. So there was no point in wanting."
wintershepherd: (jest)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2014-05-18 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sad," Jack echoed. "Yeah, I guess that's the best way of putting it. I don't agree about the part of there being no hope, though. It's a shame you didn't get to meet Bunny while you were here, he'd tell you that hope's as much a requirement as food and water for people to live on."
unetrustworthy: (pic#6421346)

[personal profile] unetrustworthy 2014-05-19 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sorry I didn't get to meet him, too."

And she really meant it. Even if she didn't believe what he said about hope being so necessary for life. Then again...

"I never said I didn't believe." Now. "I said that's how I felt back where I came from."