Event | Satellite | Crash Landing

[ironwood]

Characters: Any and all!
Date: May 21, 2013
Location: In and around the city of Keeliai
Situation: The early morning hour brings unexpected devastation to Keeliai and the outlying areas. Emergency response and damage control follows!
Warnings/Rating: Fires, minor violence; please put CW in your subject lines

Satellite Crash Event

Crash Landing | Salvage Party | Shocking Spectres

Questions | Fire Sector | Earth Sector | Metal Sector | Water Sector | Wood Sector | Outlying Areas

The early morning hours of May 21st are broken by the sound of a low lying explosion and a veritable rain of fiery bits and bobs such as molten hot metal and space debris. Those out and about in the very early morning (three hours before dawn) see a meteoric shape streaking overhead and leaving a debris trail. Those interested in following it may find themselves distracted by the debris raining down across Tu Vishan, starting fires and damaging buildings turtlewide. Tu Vishan certainly is, for the great turtle grinds to a halt amidst all this and a trace of concern for the little ones on his shell can be felt in the minds of many.

Comments

[shorttempered]

[Nods at that. He knows the feeling.]

Sometimes I wonder if they'd learn if we started doing did that. Probably not.

These kind of idiots never are. [Picks up a piece of large debris that makes a boulder look light and glances over at the looters. Do you really want him to throw this at you? Because he will. No, no he really won't but he's hoping you won't figure this out.]

[alpha_squad_leader]

If experience is anything to go by, they'd only learn to wear some ridiculous looking helmets or jaw-armor.

[Victor looks a little surprised by the size of that debris chunk but he ends up smiling. He watches the looters hesitate and then start running for it before turning to Mark.]

Well, maybe they're not as stupid as I thought.

[shorttempered]

[Bursts out laughing. Oh man, that's too true. Still laughing, he puts the debris down, out of the way.]

The odds were no longer in their favor. If they didn't, they knew they were going to get hit by a rock.

Except they totally wouldn't, because I don't do that. [To low-level thugs.]

Invincible.

[alpha_squad_leader]

[Victor grins as Mark starts laughing.]

It's alright. Punching them is probably a better idea that smashing them with big rocks anyway.

[He offers his non-clawed hand.] Anole. Or Victor.

[shorttempered]

Yeah but big rocks are scarier. Until they know who you are and can do, anyway.

[Shakes it.] Am I the only one with a secret identity here?

[alpha_squad_leader]

True, true. I don't really use big rocks though. No super strength.

[Vic arches a brow and gives a little smile.] Does it look like I can keep identity secret? Some people keep one still but some don't bother.

[shorttempered]

Well use what you got.

I didn't mean... Sorry, I thought it... turned off or something. Like Monster Girl.

[alpha_squad_leader]

Yeah.

No, I'm perma-green. [He waves it off.] Don't worry about it.

[shorttempered]

[Pulls his mask off. Fair's fair. Besides, this Anole guy's clearly a superhero (or close enough) so he can be trusted and between the disaster and his debris stunt the street is pretty empty.] Mark Grayson.

[alpha_squad_leader]

[Victor's surprised when the mask comes off, not expecting Mark to just reveal his ID. His smile returns quickly though.]

It's nice to meet you, Mark.

[shorttempered]

[Mark is from the universe where characters follow the sound logic of "you knocked, only good guys knock so you must be cool."]

Likewise. [Puts his mask back on and looks around.] So it seems like whatever was raining down on us has stopped, so that's one less thing to worry about. Have you been running into a lot of looters like those guys?

[alpha_squad_leader]

[Vic nods, turning his gaze towards the sky. He watches it for a few moments just to make sure nothing else is going to fall.] Something definitely fell. If it were an attack, a second shot would have come our way by now. [He looks back to Mark and offers a slightly embarrassed smile.] No, they were the first. And I think I may have overreacted to them.

[shorttempered]

I pretty much had the same train of thought. I was up high just in case any debris started to fall, but I think the worst has passed...

[Mark just shakes his head. He understands all too well.] You consider that overreacting?

[alpha_squad_leader]

Saying it that way is like asking for it to get worse. [He's joking.] Did you see how bad the damage was from up there?

For me it kind of was. [He rubs the back of his neck.] I don't usually let my temper get the better of me like that.

[shorttempered]

[Snorts at that, because it's true. He probably shouldn't have said it.] It's pretty bad, but these buildings are ridiculously sturdy so not as bad as it could have been. Looks like the other sectors got hit worse.


Then never see me mad.

[alpha_squad_leader]

It makes sense considering what they're made of. [He frowns.] Oh man...I hope people are okay.

Unless you pop razor sharp claws from your fists and go berserker or turn into an enormous green rage monster, I've seen worse tempers.

[shorttempered]

[Stares at the ground.] Yeah, me too. But I know there's a lot of other heroes out there, and we need to have faith they're also helping.

No, nothing like that, but I've caused my fair share of accidental damage. [Shakes his head a little bit and looks up.] We should keep moving. You wouldn't happen to have superhearing, would you?

[alpha_squad_leader]

I'm worried about them too. [He nods.] You're right though.

{Vic nods and lets it go. When asked about super hearing, he shakes his head.] Sorry, no.

[shorttempered]

Then we're going to have to do this the old fashioned way. Hopefully there aren't that many trapped...

[alpha_squad_leader]

Looks that way. [He stretches slightly.] Let's get to work then.

[shorttempered]

[Nods before flying ahead slightly as he keeps an eye out for looters or any semi-destroyed homes or businesses.] So what can you do powerset-wise?

[Stops to lift up another large chunk of debris. Nope, nothing there.]

[alpha_squad_leader]

[Vic jumps after Mark, not being a flying lizard. He lands when the debris is lifted, looking a little relieved when there's no one under it.]

Lizard-like agility, wall crawling, healing factor, and the big arm's on the super strong size.

[He's got another power or two but he really can't imagine how his tongue or camo would be useful right now.]

What about you?

[shorttempered]

Flight, super-speed, super-strength, superhuman reflexes, accelerated healing, invincibility.

And for the record, I don't have super-hearing. People lately have been assuming I do so I feel like I should lay that out there.

[Though he can hear the sounds of more looters with his regular hearing just fine.] ...Seriously? [Sighs and flies at them.]

[alpha_squad_leader]

[Victor lets out an impressed whistle as he uses a flagpole as a springboard to follow after Mark.]

Probably because people are expecting everything about you to be super after that list of powers.

[His smile fades a bit as the sound of looters reaches him too.] It's like they want to get their butts kicked. [He's just going to leap and kick at the nearest one.]

[shorttempered]

[Shrugs] They were inherited.

This is just ridiculous. [The one Victor kicks goes down, but two more go to defend him. Mark grabs one of the ones not running at Victor and tosses her at another looter.]