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

[aloadeddie]

Guilt? [He does feel a little guilt, she's right about that, but he's not going to admit that to her. Certainly not now.]

I didn't kill Mal.

[build]

No. But I know who did. [ she hums in some perverse amusement as she looks up at him, letting a sly smile tug at the corner of her mouth. ]

[aloadeddie]

She killed herself, Ariadne. [He went through that song-and-dance with Cobb, still remembers the look on his face when he asked the man if he'd actually had anything to do with it. So yeah, in hindsight he probably shouldn't have asked it, but what else was he supposed to think?]

[build]

[ she snorts, amused. (it's cute that you think she's ariadne) ]

Don't you want to know why? [ she casually asks as she bats her eyelashes up at him, clearly showing him that she knew so much more then what he knew. ]

[aloadeddie]

I know exactly why. What I want to know is why you're doing this.

[build]

Someone sure seems to think that you don't. [ and Ariadne would like to keep it that way, but that clearly isn't going to happen. ] They also seem to think that your feelings should be taken into consideration.

[ which only has her rolling her eyes. Because like hell did she care what this man thought or felt. ]

That Cobb fellow sure didn't care about your feelings when he kept lying to you like he was.

[aloadeddie]

Cobb's life is his own business.

[Scowl. The mirror is within sight, but the forge isn't changing. Weird.]

Who the hell are you, and how do you know this stuff?

[build]

[ of course the reflection isn't changing - she's not a forger - and she can only smirk at her reflection as she notices just what he was trying to do. ]

Oh, but it became your business the moment he started putting you all in danger. [ she lightly pointed out as she looked up at him, a mock expression of innocence crossing her face. ]

And does it really matter who I am? [ she asked, tugging lightly on his tie as she looked up at him with something almost primal. ] I'm only sharing things that should have been shared long ago.

[aloadeddie]

It matters very much who you are, because you look like Ariadne, but you're not, and I need to know what you've done with her. Now.

[His voice is low, dangerous, his face set in hard lines.]

[build]

Oh, don’t try to threaten me, Arthur. [ she lightly states as a sly smile settles on her lips. ] You’re not about to hurt this little girl – she’d be heartbroken if you did.

[ which is a complete and utter lie, that only has Ariadne screaming on the inside to make it all stop. ]

[aloadeddie]

I'll do what I have to do to get the real Ariadne back. [As though to demonstrate, he reaches out, grabbing her arm roughly - not enough to hurt, just enough to give her a little shake. He's stronger than her, after all, one of the disadvantages of being in that small body, he figures.]

You will tell me who you are, and what you're doing with Ariadne.

[build]

[ she blinked in surprise by the sudden action, quickly composing herself to look back up at him, her big doe-eyes searching over him briefly, before that sly smile spread across her lips. ]

I'd love to see you try. [ she was starting to like this game after all. And even with the annoying girl screaming in the back to stop, she wanted to press on and see just how far she could get ] Kill the girl -see if she wakes up - let her become a shade of your guilt.

[ she snorted, her hand trailing up his chest once again, as her words came out light, simply hoping to throw a verbal blow. ] Or maybe you could just plant one of those fun little ideas, you folks seem to think you are capable of in my head? Maybe one like Cobb did that pretty little wife of his? [ a beat, and she yet again is snorting in some sinister amusement ] Maybe that will stop me? Or maybe it will just drive the poor little girl mad like it did Mal.

[aloadeddie]

[Her words only begin to make sense after a moment of confusion, and then Arthur studies her angrily, giving her a shove.]

What the fuck are you talking about?

[build]

[ she stumbles back, letting a smirk appear on her lips as she stands up and shifts her weight from one leg to the next. ]

Are you really going to play dumb? You think you know so much about everything, but you really don't.

[aloadeddie]

You're talking about things you don't know a goddamn thing about. [He's angry, now, but he doesn't make any move to hit her or anything like that - Arthur is nothing if not civilized. He doesn't use violence for anything other than self-defense, so for now he's still just angry, and standing there.]

[build]

[ she smirks, rolling her eyes as she sighs dramatically.]

Ones memories are a precious thing. [ she easily points out as she glances over towards the mirror, letting a faint laugh in amusement slip out of her at the refection. ]

Ariadne's poor little heart when she learned that Cobb incepted his own wife... it was priceless.

[ and now she is just exaggerating the truth, but she was honestly just trying to get arthur to snap after all. ]

[aloadeddie]

[He narrows his eyes at her, trying to decide if what she's saying is true or not - or if it even matters, right now. Either way, she's clearly just trying to get to him, and that is something he can't abide.]

You need to get out of Ariadne, right now.