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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.
oathwalk: (yet it is on these two charges)

[personal profile] oathwalk 2013-06-27 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Just a superficial wound. If you could keep an eye out for a moment...

[Richard stops (can't run and cast) long enough to gather the eleth for Antidote. The burn on his shoulder disappears.]
jirk: (pic#6107917)

[personal profile] jirk 2013-06-30 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Excuse him. He's staring.]

-- Okay, what just happened?
oathwalk: (071)

[personal profile] oathwalk 2013-06-30 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
[He takes in Jim's expression, and then answers with a reassuring tone.] I used a quick healing arte. It's something that is not out of place on my world.

[It isn't common, technically; healing is very, very rare. But he does not want to get into 'and then an artificial lifeform from space gave us all new magic powers.']

If you feel comfortable with it, I would be willing to heal any burns you have as well.
jirk: (pic#6431786)

[personal profile] jirk 2013-07-04 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's watching Richard kind of like your average person watches furry porn. Or maybe a rattlesnake that's giving off clear intentions to sink its teeth somewhere tender. But he holds out his hands, cautiously. Let it never be said there's anything out there he won't try once.]

Fly at it.
oathwalk: (070)

[personal profile] oathwalk 2013-07-04 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[He can't be too surprised at that look, but they have higher priorities. Richard checks around just to be certain that they are not going to be interrupted by an attack during the casting. Then he draws in the eleth once again. When the brief light disappears from around Kirk, all of Kirk's less serious burns should be healed.]

How do you feel?
jirk: (pic#6198954)

[personal profile] jirk 2013-07-04 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
['Creeped out'. 'A little like buying you a drink'. 'Better'. He's got more answers to that question than he knows what to even do with, so instead Richard just gets a vaguely flummoxed smile.]

It'll do for now. Come on.

[Where's Spock when you need him? He kind of wants Science to explain these shenanigans.]
oathwalk: (while you were pleading)

[personal profile] oathwalk 2013-07-04 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, well. It may be odd to Jim, but he will have better chances on the battlefield now. That takes priority.

It probably is best to take a break from this now, so he nods in agreement to Jim's command and follows after him. No small talk; just a hand on a sword and a readiness to face any threat that comes their way.]