Event: Core [Day 61]

[bastionmods]

For more details, or if you have any questions, please see the OOC post.

For this event, Player characters will be split into two groups: Group A and Group B. Group A consists of any characters who arrived in the Bastion before Day 61. Group B consists of any characters who arrived in the Bastion on Day 61. Please keep your posts to the threads that have the heading that corresponds to your respective group.

There are two goals that need to be met:

1: Group A must locate Group B and safely bring them to the Bastion.
2: Someone must bring the Core back to the Bastion.

The second goal is time sensitive. If the Core is not found in time, it will disappear from the Skyway.

This event will consist of free-form tagging. There is no set tagging order, so feel free to have your characters respond to occurrences as you see fit.

All important threads are listed below:

Group A starting thread
Group B starting thread
Group A: at The Melting Pot
Group A: searching the stalls
Groups A and B meet up
Boss battle

Comments

[buildingthefuture]

Yeah... [Once he hears the creatures, he's instantly on alert. While aliens are unknown to him, he's dealt with bioengineered creatures in the past, and it's... not usually ended well. With the brilliant feathers on those birds, he's definitely on alert.

Which is great, because that means that he notices when Alucard moves off on his own. It's actually pretty rare that he's the one who has to follow, so for a moment, he's shocked. He follows quickly, though, and he notices that glow. Hopefully it's something good. Hopefully. If not, he's ready for the worst.]

[superdrowningskills]

[Anything that glows brightly enough to be noticed in the middle of the day is certainly worth investigating. Whether or not it happens to be dangerous, it will at the very least likely provide a clue to one of the many questions the duo has about the nature of this place.

Upon reaching the boxes, he takes one last survey of his surroundings. The birds have yet to become aggressive - a matter of time, he's sure - and Alucard would like to keep it that way as long as possible. Osahar has followed as expected as well. Good.

After a moment of consideration, he opts to simply walk around the boxes to investigate, prepared to take action if it happens to be dangerous. Any other way might draw unwanted attention, after all.]

[buildingthefuture]

[It's a hope, at least. There are a lot of questions, and not very many answers that they can find. Hopefully that glow will provide some answers. Then again, knowing Osahar's luck, he'll only find more questions.

Still, he follows behind Alucard, keeping an eye on the birds and keeping his weapon drawn. Just in case. One can never be too careful. He keeps an eye on Alucard, though, and what he's going to find. The last thing he wants is to have someone conceal something from him, and he doesn't know Alucard well enough to know whether he would or not.] What is it?

[bastionpc]

[It is a rather large crystal of some sort. It is big enough that one person would have to use both arms to carry it, though it seems to be floating and would likely be very light.

It is also giving off an electric field of some sort. When Alucard and Osahar approach, any electronics on their person would be instantly powered up to 100% just from the ambient energy it is giving off.

It's also worth noting that, as soon as the birds see the crystal, they caw loudly and fly off. They may or may not be planning things.]

[superdrowningskills]

[The crystal is like nothing Alucard had ever seen before. He'd seen plenty of precious stones in his time, but none of them had been more than a fraction of this one's size, and even less of its power. He may not have any electronic devices, but that certainly doesn't stop him from noticing how the air here feels like it does during a lightning storm.

He looks up abruptly at the sound of the birds leaving, and narrows his eyes at their retreating forms. That's never a good sign...]

...Something that whatever may hold control here likely does not want found.

[buildingthefuture]

[Cryptic, but not surprising. It's glowing in daylight, that must mean a lot of energy. And as Osahar approaches... he's not disappointed. It's a crystal, albeit of an odd shape- definitely manufactured, and definitely a power source of some sort.

Alucard might not have any electronics, but Osahar's got more than his fair share. When all of them start charging up, he freezes. For normal people, that's probably not going to be too much of a problem. For Osahar? He's worried that getting too close might short out his arm, let alone any other havoc that much energy might wreak.]

Whatever it is, it's got a lot of power in it. Normally I'd think it's electric, but I don't know...

[He squints at it.] Wish I had my tools with me. That's important, whatever it is, but I don't want to move it unless I know what I'm dealing with and what it's for.

[Pause. Blink. Frown.] ...and how it got here. This is tech more like I'm used to, not what I've been seeing until now...

[bastionpc]

[Suddenly a group of people come running up. Things are happening down here now.]