Event | Satellite | Spectres!

[ironwood]

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.

Comments

B-) too cool

[wintershepherd]

[ He blinks for only a moment (it's strange to be able to understand the words of a spell; he never knows what Zatanna is saying when she casts hers) and then he grins, his fingers lacing around the heft of his staff, light and ice dancing across its surface as another trio of apparitions spots them and changes direction. ]

Incoming.

And then everyone will want a staff to join the coolest club

[urbanmagic]

I got dibs on the ugly one. [Not that they can tell the difference, but she zaps the one on the left nonetheless, the other two making their way over.]

they're rocking the cool block

[wintershepherd]

Ladies always get first call.

[ Cheesy but somehow the way Jack said it came across as sincere, like he really would give her choice of targets if that was what she wanted. Frigid lightning-carried frost darts out from the staff and slams into the rightmost one, leaving only the one apparition left and Jack grins merrily. ]

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

[urbanmagic]

Aren't you sweet?

[Ooooh yeah, that's much better.] On the count of three? One, two-- [That poor apparition won't know what hit it.]

[wintershepherd]

[ Their combined attacks make a precision strike and the apparition seems to almost shatter. ]

Not bad, impression and all!

[urbanmagic]

You're pretty impressive yourself. So, where'd you learn that trick? [Poor apparition never stood a chance.]

[wintershepherd]

The cold fire? Discovered it kind of by accident.

[ When Sandy had "died", though he's not volunteering that part. ]

It surprised everyone else who'd been there too.

[urbanmagic]

Not a skill you'd find from a normal human. Mage, then? [Unless it's a metagene or tech or other things, but she doesn't believe it's tech. Metagene might be the case if he's from the same world, but what were the chances of that?]

[wintershepherd]

Spirit, actually.

[ Another apparition appears and is caught once again by the crackling ice-lightning emanating from Jack's staff. ]

[urbanmagic]

That explains why your aura feels different. [Though uh...] Most spirits I know aren't quite as tangible as you. [She's looking around again though, this time trying to sense any hostile or malicious intent. It was easier with the apparitions because they tend to project that in floods.]