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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.
trainwrecked: (Leather jacket glare)

[personal profile] trainwrecked 2013-06-24 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Except now his attention zeroes in on her.]

You are unwise.
Edited (Punctuation I can has.) 2013-06-24 14:22 (UTC)
magicalpadawan: (yup i'm a badass)

[personal profile] magicalpadawan 2013-06-24 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
No, pal, that's you. No one messes with my friends. [She's stalking forward, reaching out with her magic to see if she can kick whatever it is out.]
trainwrecked: (Reach)

[personal profile] trainwrecked 2013-07-01 09:19 am (UTC)(link)
[That is an experience that Bucky will recall as singularly unpleasant (not that he won't be grateful for her trying!), and his back arches, his limbs flailing slightly at the sensation, but it doesn't budge the spectre.]

This one is useful. Leave.

[And there is more electricity channeled Molly's way.]
magicalpadawan: (not entirely there)

[personal profile] magicalpadawan 2013-07-07 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
[To which she quickly pulls up a shield, staying right where she is.]

No. You get the hell out of him.
trainwrecked: (Mild surprise)

[personal profile] trainwrecked 2013-07-08 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Bucky's expression creases into surprised annoyance as the electricity doesn't reach her. And the spectre ups the attack. There is no cruelty twisting the features - it is simply doing its job, and this human is in its way.]

There is no reason to.
magicalpadawan: (yup i'm a badass)

[personal profile] magicalpadawan 2013-07-13 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's keeping the shield up, brushing again for a moment at the edges of Bucky's mind, tentative. She won't do anything else just yet, but her response is more thought, not really heard.]

I said get out.
trainwrecked: (Too much of a good thing)

[personal profile] trainwrecked 2013-07-17 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Inside the mind, the creature is much more incomprehensible. A snag and snarl, and, under that (feeding that), is a wall of steel will. The kind of indomitable that is not very Bucky in any way. Uniform. Dull. Subjected to only few basic directives.]

[There is nowhere for Molly to get a foothold.]