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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.
wintershepherd: (burden)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2013-05-27 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jack returns the grin, looking slightly harried. He's flushed, cheeks and ears faintly plum-coloured -- not an especially great sign since when he was the proper temperature, his blood was static in his veins. ]

These things, they're everywhere... there must be thousands of them. My ice goes right through them but they don't like the cold fire one bit.
iron_ego: (Mark VI | Visor Up: Regard what?)

[personal profile] iron_ego 2013-06-29 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[An eyebrow arches at that, his eyes taking in signs that Jack's body won't be too fond of that cold fire one for too long either.]

Ten thousand, give or take. [JARVIS has been tracking and extrapolating the data as he moves over Keeliai.] It's a party crashing worthy of the frat history books without the booze or the babes.

[Alas.]

Guess that leaves it to me to flush them out. [Tony looks up and around as he says it, thinking that over.] You, Frosty, look too rosy around the cheeks to keep up that cold fire parlour trick.
wintershepherd: (curious)

[personal profile] wintershepherd 2013-06-29 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, well. Fantastic. I guess if they wanted it to be a round number, that was as good a one as any.

[ He couldn't help but laugh a little at Tony's frat party reference. ]

Says the guy who looks like he's about to catch electrical fire. Something's, uh, sparking.