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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.
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[personal profile] storm_warning 2013-05-26 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[All hell's broken loose again and Ororo's been working against it since day one. She's tired -- everyone is -- but the winds are heavy enough to carry her when she needs to catch an internal second wind.

She stays up high, avoiding the spectres, but every once in a while she sees something that needs her to drop down and check out.

This time, it's him. He seems to be walking different, like he's not quite sure that his legs are, well, his. Ororo funnels the air around her, dropping down through the vortex until her feet touch the ground.]


Hey, you stable?
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[personal profile] traumatizing 2013-05-26 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh no. No no no. He'd kind of been hoping he could get the thing out of his body before anyone got near enough to be in danger. He's not sure how much danger anything could actually be in his body, even his powers only seem to work offensively about a fifth of the time, but it's still not a gamble he'd like to take with someone else at the helm.

Terry wonders how much of a difference he can make in here - he's not weak like he was with Nightmare, not willing to just give up and let someone else be in control - but even then he'd had help.

Either way he's choosing to believe that when the spectre lunges towards Ororo, it falls short at least a little because of him.]
storm_warning: (Braced to the wind)

[personal profile] storm_warning 2013-05-27 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa!

[Ororo jerks back as he -- it? -- falls short, her eyes wide and her senses shot from cautious idle to full alert.]

That's awful forward of you. [Her eyes glow white and the wind stirs up dust around her, moving outwards as she whips it up.] I'm going to suggest you don't try it again.
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[personal profile] traumatizing 2013-06-04 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Turns out spectres don't really listen to warnings.

He-- It. Doesn't even pay much attention to the dust, making an approximate guess at how best to get to Ororo as it makes for her again with outstretched hands. (If it can just get its hands on her--)]