Extraction (TWS)
03-10-2016, 07:56 AM
It's been a dark two decades since-
the Tempest rose to prominence, the proverbial ill wind; of obscured powers and thus-purported patron of forces unknown and unknowable. His once-in-a-generation vision, ambition - physically represented in this story by an honest-to-god city in the clouds - drew admirers and dangerous freethinkers. Back then, his storms still sufficed with thrilling and rattling the bones of the unscrupulous souls who'd chase him.
His influence rose meteoric, settling comfortably into ubiquity just in time for his flying city to vanish, which in twisted retrospect might've suited Finn Tangible just fine. Finn hated the spotlight, fixated on an ethos that he restrict his conscious impact on the world to doing right, so his disappearance stirring up a fearmongering media frenzy wouldn't have suited his ideals.
So you assume, anyway. You never met the guy, he was active in the Association while you were just a kid, and nobody outside the Association appreciated him. Not, you assume, that Finn would've minded.
Anyway-
You grew up under the leaden, jagged skies of the Tempest, joined the Uprising (your Uprising, now) after the near-miss where Tempest's enforcers came for your parents. What purpose a flying death-fortress would have for a minor telepath and a carpokinetic, you stopped thinking about years ago.
The important thing is, you made it, Tempest is as dead as you could ask for, and Buddy Scope is on Line 3.
The Vault's back, opacity's creeping up as it looms over Gale City, they tell you. Right where Buddy pegged it, but finally visible to those without super-vision. It's in bad shape - a gun mount the size of a bus has already fallen off and crushed Gale City's (mercifully abandoned) City Hall.
Buddy Scope's already coordinating evacuation out of Gale City in case the Vault's generators give up the ghost, but there's barely a soul alive on Earth without loved ones somewhere in that Vault.
You, third leader of the Uprising, are in for a final mission.
Who are you?
What's your power?
Who are your crew members, and what are their powers?
the Tempest rose to prominence, the proverbial ill wind; of obscured powers and thus-purported patron of forces unknown and unknowable. His once-in-a-generation vision, ambition - physically represented in this story by an honest-to-god city in the clouds - drew admirers and dangerous freethinkers. Back then, his storms still sufficed with thrilling and rattling the bones of the unscrupulous souls who'd chase him.
His influence rose meteoric, settling comfortably into ubiquity just in time for his flying city to vanish, which in twisted retrospect might've suited Finn Tangible just fine. Finn hated the spotlight, fixated on an ethos that he restrict his conscious impact on the world to doing right, so his disappearance stirring up a fearmongering media frenzy wouldn't have suited his ideals.
So you assume, anyway. You never met the guy, he was active in the Association while you were just a kid, and nobody outside the Association appreciated him. Not, you assume, that Finn would've minded.
Anyway-
You grew up under the leaden, jagged skies of the Tempest, joined the Uprising (your Uprising, now) after the near-miss where Tempest's enforcers came for your parents. What purpose a flying death-fortress would have for a minor telepath and a carpokinetic, you stopped thinking about years ago.
The important thing is, you made it, Tempest is as dead as you could ask for, and Buddy Scope is on Line 3.
The Vault's back, opacity's creeping up as it looms over Gale City, they tell you. Right where Buddy pegged it, but finally visible to those without super-vision. It's in bad shape - a gun mount the size of a bus has already fallen off and crushed Gale City's (mercifully abandoned) City Hall.
Buddy Scope's already coordinating evacuation out of Gale City in case the Vault's generators give up the ghost, but there's barely a soul alive on Earth without loved ones somewhere in that Vault.
You, third leader of the Uprising, are in for a final mission.
Who are you?
What's your power?
Who are your crew members, and what are their powers?
peace to the unsung peace to the martyrs | i'm johnny rotten appleseed
clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow
clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow