Post by Wispah on Aug 1, 2022 23:32:32 GMT -5
Whispah had expected a sudden awakening when his pod entered Earth's atmosphere. What he had not expected was to be torn from stasis to a blaring alarm and red emergency lights as his pod fell to the surface of that little blue orb, completely out of control. Highly trained reflexes and senses, and a few augmentations that helped him clear the stasis-sickness from his brain, allowed him to quickly begin fiddling with the controls. Why weren't the automated systems working? The emergency jets? The parachute? All had failed to activate when the drive initially failed. Bad... this was bad-bad-bad! He couldn't see much out of the pod's lone window, except for a constant spin of blue and green. The green was getting closer, and quickly taking up more of his view. Oh, and there was a lovely hue of orange that indicated he was moving fast enough to burn through the air... No time!
The parachute was deployed, as were emergency jets that pushed against the ground. Even with the sudden slow-down, however, the pod wasn't going to land gracefully. Whispah checked himself, braced for impact...
BOOOOOOOOOOMPH!!!!
The earth shook as it was struck by the little pod, and dust and debris was launched high into the air in a sort of pillar that slowly fell back to the ground. And yet... after a moment... the door to the pod popped off with a hissing noise, launching off to the edge of the crater that the pod had created.
Then, out clambered a tall, lanky thing that was vaguely humanoid... Whispah. He sniffed the air a few times, silently taking in the smells. He appeared to be in the middle of a clearing in a forest. A very recently added clearing to an ancient forest full of very tall trees. It was full of life, and he could see things moving here and there, smell things on the way... He could still see quite well, piercing the darkness, but when he looked at a small furry thing with four legs and a big, bushy tail, he couldn't see its Power Level. So that was damaged. He would need replacement parts to fix his augments, and until he got them, he wouldn't know how strong anyone was.
He had to hide. The pod was cloaked against conventional scanners, but a sonic boom and an earthquake caused by some small object falling to the ground wasn't going to go unnoticed for long.
Whispah levitated towards some branches of a tree near the edge of the clearing, silently taking stock of his supplies and peering about. Was there a road? Something close that he could latch onto? A city?
The parachute was deployed, as were emergency jets that pushed against the ground. Even with the sudden slow-down, however, the pod wasn't going to land gracefully. Whispah checked himself, braced for impact...
BOOOOOOOOOOMPH!!!!
The earth shook as it was struck by the little pod, and dust and debris was launched high into the air in a sort of pillar that slowly fell back to the ground. And yet... after a moment... the door to the pod popped off with a hissing noise, launching off to the edge of the crater that the pod had created.
Then, out clambered a tall, lanky thing that was vaguely humanoid... Whispah. He sniffed the air a few times, silently taking in the smells. He appeared to be in the middle of a clearing in a forest. A very recently added clearing to an ancient forest full of very tall trees. It was full of life, and he could see things moving here and there, smell things on the way... He could still see quite well, piercing the darkness, but when he looked at a small furry thing with four legs and a big, bushy tail, he couldn't see its Power Level. So that was damaged. He would need replacement parts to fix his augments, and until he got them, he wouldn't know how strong anyone was.
He had to hide. The pod was cloaked against conventional scanners, but a sonic boom and an earthquake caused by some small object falling to the ground wasn't going to go unnoticed for long.
Whispah levitated towards some branches of a tree near the edge of the clearing, silently taking stock of his supplies and peering about. Was there a road? Something close that he could latch onto? A city?
Whispah enters the thread with no items! His pod is destroyed, and he can't sense PL!
Thread PL: 8,000 (no transformations active)
KP: 6/6
MP: 0/6
WC: 446