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The Zone: Part Two
Thanks to the distraction caused by the various creatures and anomalies, and the interference from the ever-increasing radiation, pinpointing the fallen 'meteor' and likely source of the attacks may have been difficult up until now.
But efforts to locate it have paid off.
South-west of Haven, there is a ridged valley that did not exist a week ago. In it's center is a massive, sprawling power plant, exhaust towers rising up to the horizon. It is literally crawling with more mutants.
As if that was not ominous enough, it is a nuclear power-plant.
Anyone who has been to Earth or knows their human history - or happen to be from a Tyran universe - may recognize it for what it is: Chernobyl, straight out of some alternate Ukraine. The facility is tucked in the middle of the valley like it landed there, edges slightly off and melded into the landscape, but entirely intact in it's crumbling, ominous glory. Despite being of human-make, the building is devoid of functional electric lights, the very air around it seeming to leech the light out of the surroundings, but it is far from lacking in 'living' activity.
The concentration of anomalies, radiation, and Lambda-like energy signatures is at it's strongest here, surrounding the moldering facility. Any sensors point to the readings only getting worse on the inside.
Any organics or particularly weak-armored Cybertronians are going to want protective shielding of some variety to participate in this attack. The radiation in this valley is well beyond safe levels, and only on the rise. Any attempts to simply attack from the air (unfortunately) do little damage, the majority of any ordnance hitting some sort of storm cloud-like anomaly thundering with increasing intensity above the facility.
It looks like it might be growing. Time is running out.
You will have to enter to find the source.
[[Mod Note: Given modly time constraints, the following prompts are not intended to be NPC'd, but are instead to serve as a vague story-line for the assault. Feel free to use them, pick and chose only ones that interest you, or to thread your own attack as you please! However, once the Source is reached, a final prompt will be posted when it is destroyed, (or when the event comes to a close a week from today.)
And as a side-note, this plot contains SPOILERS to the end of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series.]]
But efforts to locate it have paid off.
South-west of Haven, there is a ridged valley that did not exist a week ago. In it's center is a massive, sprawling power plant, exhaust towers rising up to the horizon. It is literally crawling with more mutants.
As if that was not ominous enough, it is a nuclear power-plant.
Anyone who has been to Earth or knows their human history - or happen to be from a Tyran universe - may recognize it for what it is: Chernobyl, straight out of some alternate Ukraine. The facility is tucked in the middle of the valley like it landed there, edges slightly off and melded into the landscape, but entirely intact in it's crumbling, ominous glory. Despite being of human-make, the building is devoid of functional electric lights, the very air around it seeming to leech the light out of the surroundings, but it is far from lacking in 'living' activity.
The concentration of anomalies, radiation, and Lambda-like energy signatures is at it's strongest here, surrounding the moldering facility. Any sensors point to the readings only getting worse on the inside.
Any organics or particularly weak-armored Cybertronians are going to want protective shielding of some variety to participate in this attack. The radiation in this valley is well beyond safe levels, and only on the rise. Any attempts to simply attack from the air (unfortunately) do little damage, the majority of any ordnance hitting some sort of storm cloud-like anomaly thundering with increasing intensity above the facility.
It looks like it might be growing. Time is running out.
You will have to enter to find the source.
[[Mod Note: Given modly time constraints, the following prompts are not intended to be NPC'd, but are instead to serve as a vague story-line for the assault. Feel free to use them, pick and chose only ones that interest you, or to thread your own attack as you please! However, once the Source is reached, a final prompt will be posted when it is destroyed, (or when the event comes to a close a week from today.)
And as a side-note, this plot contains SPOILERS to the end of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series.]]
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So he just nodded for Skyfire to get the readings and didn't have much trouble for the first bit.
"Shouldn't be a problem. More readings would make the final result far more relia---" the bit of wall that slammed into his side which he'd completely missed was large enough to make him stagger, and Jetfire swore as he straightened up, shooting the next two pieces of far larger than earlier debris that came flying at him and Skyfire.
"I'll handle it," Jetfire said, optics narrowing and mouth flattening out, even as he had to step out of the way of another tossed bit of debris to shoot the ones aimed at Skyfire.
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"Just a little more," he said, almost to himself, as if it would somehow make the instruments work faster. But fortunately it didn't take long until he heard the beeping that told him it was done.
"I've got it!" he called out, already starting to retreat.
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The important thing wasn't getting the debris aimed at him, since he could avoid that after all. It was making sure Skyfire could take the readings in peace.
"Good," Jetfire said, catching a sharp piece of... wall? metal torn from the ground? as it flew at Skyfire, "what results did you get?"
Others might have waited until they were further away from the closest anomalies to ask, who seemed disturbed still with the huge aerials' behaviour as to continue to toss things after them as they retreated. Jetfire, however, didn't see why he couldn't ask and retreat at the same time.
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"I managed to get the frequency," he replied as he moved further from the anomaly. "Perhaps if we can replicate it, they might cancel each other out."
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"Let's start there and try a flipped frequency if matching them doesn't work. Send that data over?" Jetfire eyed the anomalies within sight as they backed up another few steps. They seemed to have calmed down, but he wasn't going to trust that. They had taken particular umbrage to the scanning, after all, and now that they had what they wanted, he doubted there wouldn't be some retaliatory action.
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As soon as Skyfire managed to get himself somewhere relatively safe - or, at least, somewhere he could spend a few seconds looking down at his instruments without getting hit by debris - he transferred the data to Jetfire. Hopefully they wouldn't have to try many different frequencies, but... they were rarely so lucky.
"There. Did you get that?"
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If nothing else because the energy and frequencies of the Badlands and the Lambda had proven to be extremely detrimental to them all. This one, that belonged to these anomalies... well, while they were radioactive, it wasn't anything that couldn't be handled, and the frequency itself didn't seem to have any affect on anyone around the anomalies.
If you didn't count having to duck away from or shoot debris that was tossed at you.
"Let's see if this works then, hm?" throwing a small smile at Skyfire, Jetfire approached the closest of the anomalies after making sure he would be broadcasting the frequency outwards.
He quickly had to duck or step out of the way as things started to be flung again, but onlining the broadcast quickly had the waver of energy twisting around itself, its grip on the debris it was flinging slipping... and then it seemed to simply pop, leaving a shadow of something human-like briefly slinking away before that, too disappeared.
"You... ah, know, I didn't think it would be that... er, simple," Jetfire said with a shake of his helm as he looked back at Skyfire. At least this one had been simple.