Event | Satellite Crash Landing | May 21 - 26, 2013

[ironwood]

Greetings, chelonauts, and welcome to the planning annoucement for the upcoming Satellite Crash Landing event! Read on for details, then have at thee for plotting and any questions you may have.

Details below the cut,

Satellite Crash Landing
May 21 | Keeliai, Tu Vishan shellside
The early morning hours of May 21st are broken by the sound of a low lying explosion and a veritable rain of fiery bits and bobs such as molten hot metal, space debris and a side-order of plot! For those who are out and about in the early morning (the very early morning) they'll see something roughly meteoric streaking overhead, leaving a debris trail anyone could follow. Several houses are going to be damaged or destroyed outright, others will catch fire and burn. If you'd like your character's residence trashed, let us know and we'll work it out!

Tu Vishan is going to grind to a halt at this sudden commotion. His increased awareness of the population on his back has him a little concerned for their safety.

The object in question is roughly a three hundred tonne satellite cluster, and when it crashes it'll do so with a sonic boom and the rough equivalency of a 6.0 Earthquake. (Anyone living in a Wayne Enterprises building, ie: kedan orphans, will survive intact. He builds those things to last!) It's actually an ARSHEPHELIOS orbital defense platform, which was mentioned briefly here.



Satellite Salvage Forays
May 22 - 26 | Tu Vishan shellside, open sea
Hopefully at this point, the fires are under control and the damage control has begun. And you know what that means, don’t you? Time to haul in salvage! Some of our Atlantean heavy hitters might be interested in dragging pieces of the platform shell-side, while others will be able to find pieces littered throughout the turtle. There will also be kedan salvage expeditions out into the ocean, in case anyone cares to hitch a ride with them if those mean Atlanteans aren't sharing the action.

There is considerable salvage to be gleaned from this, and the technology is on par with a roughly Star Trekian setting. There's enough there to repair any damaged equipment your character might own, or start a make-work project.

While there's definitely a lot of debris, most of the satellite pods themselves are still intact. Which leads us to...



Spectral Enemies
May 23 - 26 | Keeliai, Tu Vishan shellside, open sea
But not all is well on board these satellites. The first time someone cracks open one of the pods, they'll be flooded with energy-based apparitions hellbent on, well, world domination. These nasties are protecting the technology aboard the satellites and will stop at nothing to do so. They are 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, it also makes them briefly vulnerable to more... conventional methods, but physical contact has one dangerous side-effect.

Possession.

These creatures can invade someone's psyche, take over their body and cause them to attack friend or foe alike! If the person's body is subjected to sufficient electrical shock, the possession should fade... but are you sure you want to take that chance? Also, characters who are in possession (mind the pun) of a very strong natural will can theoretically oust the spectre all on their own.

And, despite the fact that the spectres are vulnerable to electricity, it also happens to be their main offensive weapon. They'll leave deep-tissue burns on anyone they fight, and you might want to read up on the symptoms of said injuries, just in case.

There will be approximately ten thousand of these creatures released in a veritable flood into Keeliai. It's kill or be killed, cowboys!

And for those who would rather stay indoors (and rightly so!) during this event, some of these spectres have gotten 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.



Tech Impact

Also: the consoles are now eligible for upgrades from the technology that fell out of the sky. We aren't going to limit it to what our imaginations can come up with, so feel free to suggest whatever your character might try and we'll let you know if it would be successful or not for a wide-spread implementation!


As always, feel free to ask questions, come up with your own character plots and generally have a ball. Peace out, intrepid chelonauts!

Comments

TURTLES CAST (& friends &/or any CR-seekers) ITT

[anything_it_takes]

As tempting as possession is, I think I'm going to give Leo a bit of a personal break. He can stay in one piece for a little while and fend off the hordes with his bros. Or fend off one of his bros.

UP TO YOU GUYS whaddyawant

[sureisaguy]

You know me, I'm always up for a good game of Break The Cutie.

And considering I'm gonna be gone all next week, maybe it'd be fun to have Mike get hurt right off the bat and holed up healing for the rest of the event?

[anything_it_takes]

OH GOD YES. Any feelings on who should hurt Mikey? Two options, naturally, are possessed fellow Turtles (I'm not sure when the '03s are coming off hiatus but I await them with bated breath) or we can toss him into the incoming path of a possessed super-human/other foreigner.

I'm SURE we could find a volunteer.

[michaeljangelo]

*slowly raises hand*

I was thinking that maybe Mike would help with the firefighting, because that seems like something he'd be good at. (Movie Canon AHOY!)

But...if we need a turtle possession....

[sureisaguy]

OKAY SO WE HAVE PLOTTING AND STUFF.

Raph is gonna tell Mikey to stay put because he's a dick and he underestimates his baby bro. Mikey's suite is gonna get destroyed and if Mike wants to come help put out the fire with Jack Frost and the other bros that would be unbelievably awesome. |D

[michaeljangelo]

I would very much like to tag along on the coat strings of this plot.
Just tell me where and when to be, and I'll be there!

[sureisaguy]

Hotttt.

[anything_it_takes]

I ENDORSE THIS PLAN

which is of course is the important part

[duelkatana]

OKAY SUPER LATE.

Ash and I were talking about the event last night, and we have An Idea. How would the 2k12 turtles like the chance to face off against the 2k3 turtles? This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is possible through the magic of possession! And if Mirage Mike is still in for being possessed too, all the better! We can be the three evil Musketeers. And the 2k12 turtles will have really work to kick our ASSES.

Like I said, we just came up with this last night, so if there are already plans in motion, s'all good! Just let me know what you guys think /o/

[sureisaguy]

Ooooooh, I like! Even better since Mikey got pretty badly hurt in the fire!

Where's the easiest place to plot? Should I link everyone here?

[duelkatana]

Here or the cast post? Either would work, I think!

[sureisaguy]

Linked everyone.

[anything_it_takes]

ummmmmmmm YES!!! I really wanted Leo to get in on the Spectre portion of this event one way or the other and getting 2k3 cast involved will make it extra awesome.

I think Leo might be able to hold his own for a while, but he's going to need help to actually take Big Leo down 'cause WOW he has a hell of a lot more experience than Baby Blue. I mean, Battle Nexus anyone? My Leo hasn't even tackled Fishface yet.

Also HURT LIL' LEO Y/Y/YYYYYY

[sureisaguy]

Yeah, the 2k12 turtles are really inexperienced, all things considered. Hell, they don't even really know how to use each others weapons. This'll be interesting~

[duelkatana]

I ALWAYS VOTE YES ON HURT TURTLES

It's p. cheesy but Leo himself is probably going to be fighting against the spectre in his miiiind, so that might give Mini Leo and the other 2k12 turtles more of a fighting chance? Big Leo is fairly strong spiritually, after all, but I really doubt he's experienced enough to force it out on his own. So yes. Please pummel him mercilessly, he'll try and help you out best he can.

GOOD LUCK WITH BIG RAPH THOUGH

[meanandgreen]

Yeah, Raph? Not so good with the whole fighting with the mind thing. He'll probably be the last to be un-possessed because wow, he is a hair's breadth away from losing control when he's not possessed by an evil space ghost bent on world domination. He will be going completely fucking nuts and it will be awesome.

Anyone who wants to get their kids hurt... look no further. I can smell the angst from here.

THAT SAID. Wow, he's gonna be a wreck afterward. Someone will need to be around for after to put him back together. Either way it's gonna get really interesting.

[michaeljangelo]

How much angst are we talking about...

*merely grins*

[anything_it_takes]

YEP that will give him the edge he needs I think

AND THEN THEY CAN SPAR LATER AND WORK OUT ANY RESIDUAL ISSUES AND HAVE LEO!THERAPYTIMEZ OR SOMETHING AWESOME LIKE THAT yey breakin' boys & putting 'em back together

Yeeeeeeeah Big Raph hmmm. Maybe after Big Leo is freed up, taking down his bro can be a team effort :3

I can't imagine lil'Raph would appreciate this situation very much

ALSO READ THIS RIGHT NOW

[seriouslytwisted]

Actually this would be a super super badass opportunity b/c as much as I love the tension lil'Raph cannot keep going around all butthurt about Big Raph, especially since a lot of his butthurt is his own internalized doubts and fears and anger and such and such

ALSO I KIND OF WANT THEM TO GET ALONG EVEN IF IT'S UNLIKELY ;A;

[michaeljangelo]

Clearly what needs to happen is that Leo, Leo, Mike and Mikey need to duct-tape Raph and Raph to chairs and then leave them in the room to shout it out.

Clearly.

[michaeljangelo]

<3

That's what I think about this.

[seriouslytwisted]

DUDE MIKEY POSSESSED WOULD BE FUCKING TERRIFYING NGL

an evil space ghost using all that natural talent he almost never bothers to focus hoooohhhhlee shit

[michaeljangelo]

I know right? It'd be like White Queen taking over Iceman's powers temporarily.
(...cripes, I hope that reference makes sense.)

On the one hand: ONE TURTLE KILLING MACHINE!
On the other...ONE TURTLE KILLING MACHINE!

Which...kind of makes me worry for the 2k12 turtles. I have no doubt in my mind that the three of them could take down Mike, but could they also subdue 2k7 Leo and Raph?

I completely defer to the collective when it comes to this.

[seriouslytwisted]

It might be a good idea if we stagger the bigguns since the little ones will get their asses kicked if all three of them show up at once. Maybe like, start off with one or two, subdue one and then another shows up?


OH DUDLFISDF DUDE YES OKAY WHAT IF WE STARTED WITH 2K3 RAPH AND LEO, THEN LEO GETS SUBDUED AND THEN FUCKING MIKE JOINS IN

OH MY GOD IT WOULD BE LIKE THE ROOFTOP SHREDDER FIGHT FOR THE KIDS ALL OVER AGAIN

SO MUCH ANGST AND PAIN!!!!!

[sureisaguy]

Oh goddamn yes that would be terrifying :D