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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.
refusing: (still alive and breathing)

[personal profile] refusing 2013-06-05 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
If there is, I dunno what it might be.

[She manages to get out in between gasps for air, and she turns to slide down the wall to sit.]

I'm too tired to keep running. Don't think I can fight 'em right now, either. Just rest for a bit, that's not gonna hurt in the long run, is it?

[She hopes not, because she just needs a good five or ten minute sit break. Then they can go back out there and keep running and fighting.]

Everyone's in over their heads with this, yeah? Nobody seems sure of what to do.
fatedchaos: (☾; this is what I need)

[personal profile] fatedchaos 2013-06-08 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[With a shaky hand, Vanessa runs her fingers through her hair nervously, trying to think. She doesn't know what could stop them either. Maybe nothing. Maybe they'll possess everyone and they'll all kill each other off and...

With a huff, she just sits down where she is, cradling her head in her hands. Her body aches, from her toes to her head.]
No, it can't hurt. Either we run until there's nowhere to run or we hide until we figure this out. Not many choices.

[She is the worst harbinger of hope, but there's a dark whisper that reminds her that she's chaos. A sigh escapes her lips.] We're the very definition of screwed. [A small smile.] But at least we know that possession can be fought off. That's more than we knew before.