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

QUESTIONS

[ironwood]

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[bindsthedead]

Does magic work on the spectres? I'm assuming it counts as a type of energy.

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[amonfire]

Amon still has a shitload of electrified gloves and a set of electric kali sticks

will this be a useful thing that should come up

[fatedchaos]

Vanessa's powers are molecular based, so she can charge the air around her basically and use energy attacks. Would that be useful against the apparitions?

[imaginate]

How effective would constructs be against the creatures?

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[wintershepherd]

Does magically created frost!lightning count as a kind of energy?

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[notdreaming]

About how much flying debris would you say could be deflected with a good couple of punches?

[fatedchaos]

re: possessed people

How would they act, exactly? Would the people possessed still like, exist in their mind somewhere, totally unable to gain control of their body again, or are they completely squashed out by the apparition inside of them?

[sophos]

....is the name of this satellite system/debris to be found anywhere on them? Like is this something that will come to be known through salvage?

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[dungfu]

Can spectres be purified outside of a body?

Also also also more questions I just thought of now:

Will Ammy be allowed to fix any damages to the city with Rejuvenation? And put out fires with Water Spout?

QUESTIONS

[wallcrawler]

So uh, two part question here:

1.) Spidey's going to be punching them, personal safety be damned. When you say more vulnerable to conventional attacks, does that mean that after contact they can be hit? How's that work, and how would they be taken out by such a method?

2.) Pete's probably got willpower enough to expel these things, but what happens after? Any lingering physical effects? would they be vulnerable to conventional attacks, like in the first scenario, after they've been expelled? How does the person who just spent a while as a timeshare feel after they've evicted their phantasmal tenant?

Because if he can be a complete idiot and just electrocute the bajeezus out of himself in the name of public safety, he's gonna do it. Lord knows lightning butt Sparky Electro gave him enough practice.

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[angermanaging]

Comics canon has it that Hulk is immune to pretty much all kinds of possession, if I remember correctly. Does this mean that he could fight them effectively, physically hand to hand? Or would he be completely useless? ... Or would he not be immune to this kind of possession? :|a

I'm totally fine with any of the above. Whatever way this goes there will probably be a Hulk out, though. So uh. I'll let you know on the mass property damage scale? haha

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[notamachine]

SO this might be a dumb question but for people who are possessed, would the actual possession leave any kind of injuries/marks on them? You mentioned specifically that electricity is the spectres' main offensive technique, but what if someone comes into contact with one largely accidentally?

Questions~

[alphatar]

Is the full moon on the 25th going to be in-game as well?

And would fire damage them? I don't know if it qualifies as energy.

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[queenoftheseas]

Okay so potentially dumb question and I'm sorry if it is BUT:

Carol can absorb a million different kinds of energy and store it in her body. This includes electricity. What would happen if she touched one of the spectors?

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[crotcharrow]

Would tommy's atomic destabilising dissipate the spectres? ALSO im assuming the rationing went back into effect?

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[afirewithfashion]

Would you consider Cinna of sufficient mental fortitude to expel a possessing spectre on his own?

Because he is such an understated badass hold on trying to say that with a straight face.

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[aenseidhe]

okay so uuuuh roy will be wanting to try to do some tech upgrade stuff. would it be possible to make a wireless signal for the network or make portable consoles? idek 8|a

[traumatizing]

POSSIBLY A SILLY QUESTION but if the spectres possess someone with powers, would it have access to them or is that very much a "use your discretion" type of thing?

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[sureisaguy]

Can I get Mikey's residence destroyed? We'd like to work it around a bit of plotting we're planning, is that doable?

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[virginprice]

Can I get Alcuin's suite in the Earth sector destroyed? Not necessarily any of the other suites, just his.

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[trainwrecked]

SO provided the possessed person is sort of along for the ride, will there be any knowledge that the creatures will/might leave in the minds of the possessed, after 'liberation'? Other than "GET THE TECH GET WHAT IS TO BE PROTECTED GET IT GET IT GET IT," obviously.

Like, history, who built the satellite, who put them there/created them/etc., why the satellite crashed...

(Even if it's just glimpses/limited.)

I r curious.

[oathwalk]

one question and one double-checking, all for one:

1. Based on what I've read above, I'm assuming attacks that specifically target spirits are not particularly effective and electricity is the name of the game?

2. Nova energy is ridiculously unexplained because this game is really vague its world building sometimes, but I'm pretty sure nova energy is hyper intense right-from-the-source-of-all-energy-on-the-planet energy, and nova damage attacks are even more intense energy!! from the same source to counter them. As I said, not much explaining is done in this game. Would you say nova energy would pack a hard enough punch to work like electricity?

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[faceofthe4]

who has two thumbs and is super late to the party?

Question: Will Johnny's intense heat energy affect them or is it strictly electrical energy?

...or are they all gone because Kate is bad at reading dates?

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[duelkatana]

Would it be all right if we caused some moderate fire damage to 2k3 Raph's and Leo's suites? Not the whole building, just their side! We'll be sure to pop the other residents of the building an OOC note as well.

Also Re: the spectres. Would they be at all inclined to speak to anyone they fight while possessing a host, or even display any particular personalities or emotions of their own? Or are they for the most part impassive?