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!
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[personal profile] animosus 2014-06-07 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
[It's a nice sentiment, but Hal has found that he often doesn't get the luxury of that. Other people tended to pay the price for his weakness, Parallax being the biggest example and even more recently his actions towards Arthur and his counterpart in the bottle. However saying so just isn't worth it.]

I didn't much fancy being a mindless angry zombie for the rest of my life.
burnseternal: (bitch pls)

[personal profile] burnseternal 2014-06-07 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
[The word 'zombie' is wholly unfamiliar to Saint Walker, but like so many other words people use here, he is able to skim over it to get to the heart of the matter.]

They are far from mindless, [he murmurs.] To say such a thing is a deep underestimation.

[An underestimation of many things - their cunning, their intellect, their ruthlessness, and in one special case, their willingness to grow and to change.]
animosus: (( ɢʟ ) and he's not quite hip)

[personal profile] animosus 2014-06-13 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
[No, he's pretty sure they're mindless. Unless they were talking about Atrocitus.]

I didn't have it on for long, but those power rings go out of their way to make you unable to think. They're essentially just servants to Atrocitus.
burnseternal: (puzzled)

[personal profile] burnseternal 2014-06-14 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
The longer we speak, the more I begin to realize how very different our universes truly are.

[Red Lanterns becoming nothing more than shells of their former selves, doomed to serve a man whose grief has been twisted into unconquerable rage is an unsettling one. It's impossible for him not to think of Razer, and all that he has accomplished in such a short time.]

That is not the way of things as I know them. Our Red Lanterns heeded Atrocitus' will, but they heeded him as soldiers, not as slaves.