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

[urbanmagic]

You sure? Because you're acting pretty strange yourself. [Then again, her memories of him are fuzzy and kind of old, but she's certain he's a lot chattier and gungho than this.]

[tactile_telekinesis]

[Kon could see his view change slightly as the spectre makes him stand up straighter, whatever it was was building up even more. He was on the defensive now and the smile was struggling to stay there, corner of his mouth twitching.]

Now that is strange. [There's a crackle around his hand as it twists and uses it's own source of power and not Kon's. A small spark arcs up along his arm.]

Funny, never felt better. You're in my way.

[urbanmagic]

[That's all the indication she needed.]

You could have just excused yourself. [She's quick to take a defensive stance though, raising the staff she had, ready to raise a barrier the moment he strikes.] You don't want to fight me in my turf. Get out of him right now.

[tactile_telekinesis]

[The power seems to dissipate and instead he's grinning as if he's just found something out. Which...the spectre has, because small things, little rocks really, are shaking slightly before lifting into the air. Ah hell, it's found out how to use his tactile telekinesis just as easily as it took control. But he's hoping it doesn't know that it's useless against energy based attacks and magic.]

How about you get out of my way, and I'll let you live.

[urbanmagic]

Wow, I'm shivering in my boots. Oh, that's right, I'm not wearing any. [And that's her cue.]

Mecka lecka high, mecka hiney-ho... aaaaand moron says ’what-zap? [Look out, Superboy. That's an electric shock headed your way.]

[tactile_telekinesis]

[There's that smell of ozone that usually happens an usually acts as a warning. It's there and he looks alarmed for a second and then anger. Quickly reaching out to grab heavy objects around him with his ttk and launching them at high speed towards Traci along with an electric shock of his own, just as hers slams into him. Ripping through his shield. Some of the objects still move from momentum most drop to the ground and Kon lets out a scream as his body arches back.

There's pain going through him and while it doesn't go away, he's aware that when his knees hit the ground, he felt it. Not a numb feeling like before. His fingers clench and his fingers scrape on the ground. He's panting with his forehead resting against the ground as well. He's sure it's gone but he wants to take a moment to get over that...well that shock.]

[urbanmagic]

[Traci barely manages to dodge out of the way of those that were still in motion, stumbling in the process before rocks and metal fall just by her feet. She's glad that didn't get closer, even if she won't say it, because unlike Superboy, she can't handle a full-out attack on her person.

It takes her a moment to absorb the situation, and while she doesn't quite run up to him yet, she does come closer.] Hey, Superboy. You okay?

[tactile_telekinesis]

[He groans, moving one hand over to his chest where there's the most pain. His suit is ruined, part of the S-Shield burned away from the attack. His hear feels like it wants to rip out of his chest. Kon pushes himself up to his knees and then falls onto his back, sprawling out.]

Ooooow! I feel like I've just done three rounds with Metallo!

[urbanmagic]

[Who...ops.]

I guess I must have put a little too much zap in that. I'll just take that as a compliment of my skills.

[tactile_telekinesis]

[It's at least two minutes before he's able to drag himself into a sitting position, rubbing over his chest and then he looks up to Traci.]

Damn you pack a punch! Remind me not to get on your bad side.

[urbanmagic]

You already did a while ago, kinda. [Though now she's relieved.] At least it worked, because I was just guessing that.

[tactile_telekinesis]

[He stares at her in disbelief.]

You were...guessing? [A lot of the time that's how he worked but...it was never on him.] Geez! Now I'm even more glad it worked. Woulda sucked to have died like that.

[urbanmagic]

Hey, I take offense to that! [Well, no she doesn't.] I wasn't set to kill-- just hopefully knock you out long enough to figure out a counterattack if it didn't work.

[tactile_telekinesis]

That so doesn't help anything. [He rubs at his chest after getting to his feet and then finds he has to lean against the wall.]

[urbanmagic]

Does magic even work on Kryptonians? [She doesn't exactly spend days with one.] I can heal you if it does.

[tactile_telekinesis]

C'mon, does it look like it? [It should be looking like 'yes'. And if it wasn't the magic it was the electricity because energy based attacks rip through as well.]

My tactile telekinesis is having a field day with this!

[urbanmagic]

I'm thinking positive mojo, actually. Okay, let's see if I can whip something up for that nasty burn. [Yup, trying that healing thing now.]

[tactile_telekinesis]

Wow no, no it's cool. I'll uh...I'll think of it as a battle scar! [He just doesn't want to maybe have that healing thing turn into another zapping thing. But feel free to go ahead still.]

[urbanmagic]

Oh, don't be a baby. [And yes, that is her zapping him with healing energy now.]

[tactile_telekinesis]

Ah! Ah! No stop! [It doesn't hurt and he relaxes, feeling the immediate pain fading away.]

Oh.

[urbanmagic]

Better? [She is so amused by that, she isn't even pretending she isn't.]