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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.
relentlesstide: (for atlantis!)

[personal profile] relentlesstide 2013-05-31 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
A what now? [Arthur's a little worse for the wear, all things considered, but he's fighting on, firing off bursts of energy and lightning from the prongs of his trident - lighter blasts at the possessed, full on bolts at the creatures by themselves. He himself has some electrical burns, and scorch marks dotting the scales of his shirt, but he's not that bad off.

He fires off another blast of lightning when he sees another spectre coming toward them, the electricity dissolving it with an unearthly crackle.]
Neptune's beard, they just keep coming.
quipster: (◌ but you never really had a doubt)

[personal profile] quipster 2013-06-05 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
A rave, grandpa. [It brings a small smirk to his lips, a small laugh despite the fact he is hit by one of the electric waves from the spectres dismissal from the others hit, wincing back before lashing out to another that comes his way. He exhales evenly and hurries to aid the other, leaping to his side and putting him a small forcefield to deflect before moving in to attack again.]

It's like a dance party with a lot of lights! Kind of like this, but the only dancing we've got is creative at best. [A beat.] Are you one to lead a good tango?