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

[relentlesstide]

[He doesn't think the instruction was absolutely necessary, he's fairly confident that Kaldur wouldn't purposely put civilians in danger, but this is really their first trip out into a fight together as Aquaman and Aqualad. He's worked with Arthur's counterpart, and Arthur has seen Jackson in action, but today they really take each other's measure and start to build trust. When they're out on the field, though, Arthur slips easily into his role and giving orders and instruction.]

Civilians first, we get them unpossessed and safely out of the way. Then we can focus on an en masse attack. [A couple of dark clouds are brewing in the sky - the beginnings of a lightning storm, brought on by the Trident, but he won't let it loose until it's safe to do so. Which will probably be a while.

A spectre comes barreling toward them, and he thrusts the prongs of the trident into it and fires off an energy blast of his own, then another, lighter one at the kedan that tries to lunge at them.]

[apologiesmyking]

[In the months since he arrived, Kaldur has come to trust Arthur a great deal, but this situation is different. Here there are meant to complement and support each other. It is the first time he has seen Arthur fight and the trident certainly does give him an advantage.]

We are disrupting their whole, but I cannot tell whether or not these...creatures are being banished or merely moving to another host. [Kaldur dodges a spectre and swings a water-mace right through it. Kaldur throws a kedan to the ground with a rough hand to his chest, letting a quick current go through him to try and force the spectre out. He can't hold too long, quickly bringing his other hand back up to block a strike.]

[relentlesstide]

[They're vastly outnumbered, but Arthur tries to give him the support and room he needs to keep safe, firing off blasts from the trident at whatever gets too near.] We'll be able to tell as we start to get the area cleared, I think. [The wind whips past as a lightning bolt strikes the ground several feet off, disrupting a group of specters.] The electricity could be overloading their systems-

[But he's cut off as one gets in behind him, traveling on wires most of the way and appearing just feet from Arthur. He whirls to attack it, but it leaps up the conductive metal of his trident and into him, leaving electrical burns where it touches his hands.]