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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2013-05-23 08:01 am

Event | Satellite | Spectres!

Characters: Any and all!
Date: May 23 - 26, 2013
Location: Keeliai, turtleside, ARSHEPHELIOS cluster remains
Situation: Repairs and salvage operations operating innocently have triggered an invasion of spectres that possess and wreak havoc upon all they see.
Warnings/Rating: Please put CW in your subject lines

Satellite Crash Event

Crash Landing | Salvage Party | Shocking Spectres


Questions | Keeliai | ARSHEPHELIOS


Salvage is sweet, but not all is well on board the ARSHEPHELIOS cluster. The seamless cylinders salvaged from debris and the cluster, now being frequently traded, turn out to be pods the first time one is penetrated or cracked open. Each breached pod releases a flood of energy-based apparitions hellbent on world domination -- or, more accurately, person domination (and it's not the fun kind).

These apparitions -- spectres, if you will -- are driven by a need to protect the technology of the satellite cluster that their pods are associated with. They will stop at nothing to see this through. Each is immune to physical attacks, but seem to be injured or dissipated entirely by things like electrical shock or other energy-based projections. If people touch them, there is also a brief window of vulnerability, but it acts also like a door that swings both way. Through contact, these spectres can and will invade one's psyche, take over their body and cause them to attack friend or foe alike! Should the possessed body be subjected to sufficient electrical shock, the possession should fade. Strong natural will can also drive the spectres out, but it is no walk in the park to do so. Possession is not the only tool in the arsenal, for these spectres use electricity as their main offensive weapon. They'll leave deep-tissue burns on anyone they fight, and show no degree of fatigue after constant use of it.

Ten thousand of these creatures will be freed from pods, resulting in a veritable flood of Keeliai, the turtleside, and the satellite cluster. With such a driven enemy, it comes down to killing or being killed.

Meanwhile, those taking shelter indoors may notice that the spectres will get into the biomechanical functions of Keeliai. Consoles will be malfunctioning during this time, with lines of mysterious code and strange, ghostly images. One might hear people screaming for help or hours of patchy radio static.
refusing: (never fearing)

[personal profile] refusing 2013-05-26 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
[She's roughed up a bit, mostly from trips and falls, and getting caught up in things while trying to run. Her clothes are a bit tattered and dirty, and there's a small gash on her forehead, but it's nothing too bad at all.

She's left in awe of the fact he's actually able to have so much power, and is standing there mouth agape as he looks her over. When he asks if she's alright, she dumbly nods, staring at where the spectres had just been.
]

Is it always this dangerous? Fat lot of good I am with all this.

[She wonders in a small voice, before about facing to look him over. Her fingers instantly go to touch at his shoulder, where his outfit is torn. She frowns, and then tips her head so she can make eye contact with him. And despite everything going on she smiles, so happy that he's okay and was there to help her. She softly laughs and hops forward, embracing him in a hug.]

Thanks for all that. I probably would've gotten one of those in my head again if it wasn't for you.
imaginate: ([lantern] see the other guy)

[personal profile] imaginate 2013-05-26 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Dangerous? Sweetheart, this is Tuesday. Probably for you too.

[Satisfied that she's not too badly injured, he smiles, casual, light, to put her at ease. And it's also recognition that she encounters (and has beaten) things that are equally dangerous, if not more so.

The hug is a surprise though, and for a brief moment he stands awkwardly before returning it, and then rings up an electrified axe for her.]


One of these'll be more useful than what you've got.

[Because she can't not help people, he's at least going to make sure she's safer than she was just now while doing it.]
refusing: (aha~)

[personal profile] refusing 2013-05-26 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, you're good. [She's very pleased with the weapon he's made up for her, and she takes it from him and steps away to give it an experimental swipe.]

I think things'll go a lot smoother with this. You and me, we're gonna get things done now.

[Yes, she is holding up the axe and speaking to it. But she quickly realizes this isn't the time or the place, and she lowers the weapon so she can look back up at Kyle.]

So! Where to next, exactly?
imaginate: ([lantern] big damn heroes)

[personal profile] imaginate 2013-05-26 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[He's scanning for any more of them that might be in the area. There's thousands, and the static from the consoles is an irritating distraction.]

Wherever you can keep people together, and safe from those things. You know they can possess you, right?
refusing: (come again?)

[personal profile] refusing 2013-05-26 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that might've happened a bit ago.

[She shrugs it off as if it's a perfectly casual thing to be discussing.]

Maybe it's not permanent? Or just...you gotta refuse to let it stay inside, yeah?
imaginate: ([lantern] eep)

[personal profile] imaginate 2013-05-26 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
It's not permanent; you can drive them out, but I'm guessing not everybody can manage that in time.

[He nods at her approvingly.]

Anyone you want to check up on?
refusing: (pout)

[personal profile] refusing 2013-05-26 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Don't think the Doctor's here, not anymore.

[That gets her to look entirely miserable, especially when she realizes that she doesn't know very many people still; apart from him and Jim Kirk, and Jack Frost. She's got a suspicion that Jack can handle just about anything that's thrown at him though.]

I was gonna say, let's find a safe place to start rounding people up in. I can stay there with this - [She raises up the axe.] And wait for you to get back.
imaginate: ([kyle] corner of my eye)

[personal profile] imaginate 2013-05-26 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry to hear that.

[He genuinely is, especially with that expression. It's more than missing someone, it looks like complete heartbreak.]

One of the buildings in Wood Sector, that's still standing. Your neighbours know you, and you know them, so if any of them aren't acting like themselves you'll know where to start swinging that. [He points to the axe.]
refusing: (hope)

[personal profile] refusing 2013-05-26 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[All thoughts of the Doctor are gone as she realizes that she might have to swing her new special axe at someone and potentially harm them. Her eyes go a bit wide, but she nods. She knows she'll have to do whatever it is that needs to be done, even if she doesn't like it.]

Right, yeah. I'll just...I'll go do that. [She bites at her lip, even as she tries to smile a little.]

Promise you won't go and get yourself hurt?
imaginate: ([lantern] surprise bro)

[personal profile] imaginate 2013-05-26 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Gently:] It won't hurt them, just whatever's inside them.

[He almost viciously says thing, but he remembers, starkly, saying to Costigan that he'd been in the war too long.

He smiles at her, his usual, self-assured smile. The one that says Are you kidding? I've got this.]


Tell you what. Promise I won't do anything stupid.
refusing: (are you sure?)

[personal profile] refusing 2013-05-26 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, she doesn't like his choice in wording there. He gets stared at, and then she uses her free hand to lightly hit at his arm.]

Nothing stupid, and no getting hurt or dying. I'm not gonna accept anything less than that.

[She is incredibly intimidating, she knows.]
imaginate: ([lantern] heroic)

[personal profile] imaginate 2013-05-26 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yes'm. Lantern's honour.

[Then, more seriously-]

You take care.
refusing: (dance with me)

[personal profile] refusing 2013-05-26 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Pleased with his response this time, she gives him a little salute.]

Always do. See you in a bit, then? Wood sector, can't miss me, I'll be the one with the electric axe.

[She laughs at that, and offers him a final glance before spinning about to take off toward safety as fast as she can.]