Survivalist Plot: The Envy of Eden

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Day One

Stacy calls Cedric Diggory, Diana Ladris, Guru Clef, Howard Bassem, Karis Needleteeth, The Master and Maxine Hunkel to the deck.

Planet Designation: Eden
Status: Terrestrial, H-class.
Non-sentient life: Sparse levels of flora, no natural fauna
Semi-Sentient Life: None
Sentient Life: Small human colonies created to mine Eden's limited precious elements. As of last Eden 'year', population 300. Settlers do not typically make permanent stays.
Water: 75.6% of the planet's surface.
Climate: Dry and moderate during the day. At nights temperatures drop to below 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Infrequent rains, risks of flash floods.
Landscape: Desert and sedimentary rock mountains. Most water is retrieved by wells or from cargo ships. Sparse vegetation.
Air: Type I (breathable)
Sky: Grey
Warnings: Electrical storms may interfere with omnicomm function.
Mission: Investigate source of distress signal picked up on Stacy's sensors.

For the most part the trip down to the atmosphere goes uneventfully, even if it is a little cramped in the shuttle, but as soon as they get within a few thousand feet of the ground things start to go wrong. Communication with Stacy cuts off; Stacy herself is cut off mid-sentence while warning the crew to use iodine in any tap water they find. The omnicomms go similarly blank. The shuttle lurches through the sky and tilts sideways. One of the engines blows. The automatic seatbelts unlock. A section of the shuttle's roof rips off, letting in thin, hardly-breathable air.

More terrifying still, the superpowered members of this crew may have time to notice that they no longer have their abilities.

About thirty feet above the ground the shuttle tips into a barrel roll, the autopilot fritzing out as it tries to right things, and the crew goes tumbling out and scatters amongst the town moments before the shuttle crashes into a far cliffside.

[OOC: Tag into your designated subthreads! In a little, once we've established what's going on a bit more, while I'll put up a thread for them all to reconvene. I will be NPCing monsters in these threads, so please drop me a line if you want the monsters to do anything specific or if I'm being slow on a tag.]

Comments

Maxine and the Master

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Maxine and the Master end up hitting the ground in the courtyard of an abandoned church. A thick layer of dried, yellowed grass breaks their fall. The church itself is in a state of considerable disrepair; the steeple leans to the side like some frail person favoring a leg. What might have been a garden is now only withered and trampled flowers. The stained glass windows that might have once been glorious are now busted in.

Once Maxine and the Master have a chance to get their bearings, they might notice that one of the doors to the chapel is resting ajar, and a slick, slight trail of grease leads in.

Karis and Clef

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Karis and Clef land about four hundred meters from the Master and Maxine, although they can't see their crewmates from this location. They've hit the ground in a rock quarry, though thankfully nothing vital was broken on the hard earth. The reddish rock lies in stacks and piles around the quarry, as well as various worker's tools, although they've all been gathering dust.

The dried bones of a human hand sit close to a basketball-sized hole in the ground. The whole travels back at a slant, too far back for anyone to see what's in there from the surface.

Cedric, Diana and Howard

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Diana, Cedric and Howard end up crashing through a roof onto heavily-carpeted floor. Thankfully, as the last to fall from the shuttle they don't have far to fall to the second story of a house, and the roof they fell through was structurally decrepit. It shouldn't leave them with more than cuts and bruises.

The room they end up in is covered in dust. Aside from the hole in the ceiling, there's also a sizeable chunk of the floor missing, with pieces of carpet and wood strewn up on the floor as if something burst from under the floor and up. The room clearly was a sparsely-decorated room for a young person; a few young adult books still sit in an old bookcase, and a poster above the bed, while faded, still bears the likeness of some pop star. The wallpaper is ripped up, but once had five-point stars on it.