[plot] Invasion: Day 3.1

[theearth]

Who: EVERYONE + Returnees
What: Day 3.1 of the Invasion!
Where: EVERYWHERE
When: ICLy: The 1st of May! OOCly: May 10th to May 15th!
Warnings: Please warn in your subject line if anything that deserves a warning occurs; this includes R-rated things as well as things worthy of a content warning/trigger warning.

The Central info post



Description: For the most part, the activities of day 2 continue. All locations are still under attack; more and more things get destroyed by aliens and defenders (especially the Animals) alike and there are more and more casualties, injured and refugees that are on the run from their homes. In the areas where enemy soldiers managed to get past the numbered and Animals, local militaries and police units are engaged in combat along with trying to provide relief. Inside the echo boundaries, numbered fight and help with evacuations as well as worldwide hectic attempts to create a joint military and political response to the invasion.

The only area that sees a massively worse situation is North America: Having established an inroad to America in Las Vegas, alien troops are quickly gaining the upper hand on the continent, leaving only death and destruction in their way - though their primary goal don't even seem to be humans: The soldiers burn forests and plants and kill all life but with even more determination blow deep holes into the ground and drill deep, fairly wide holes, leaving a complete wasteland behind ...and after a couple of hours of doing so a few very active new or newly awoken volcanoes. Everywhere in Mexico, the USA and increasingly Canada also people are fleeing the combat areas. Streets are overcrowded, airplanes overbooked, ships board whom they can and leave behind many. The wildlife is fleeing as well as fire spreads. Though the native armed forces of the areas that get overrun do their best, they are slowly but surely decimated and forced to retreat, their actions mostly serve to buy the refugees more time.

The alien attacks in Locke City seem to have stopped (and the invaders from Vegas aren't headed for New Jersey), and people have started to move into the city because there are rumours that it will along with the mountain in Vegas soon be the only safe place on the continent - but the lull is false: Shortly after 4pm GMT, attacks on the city will start anew, with renewed force. Faced with this, and having had time to evacuate the area during the lull, Aaron blows up Geoff&Co.'s spaceship. This flattens the houses in the area and bars all who came with it from ever leaving Earth again. It also changes the behaviour of the aliens that came with this ship.
-Geoff will go around and try to charm political leaders worldwide to please negotiate with the invaders: His promise is that they and their people will, if they surrender, receive safe passage to a new place to live in, and that they will be allowed to bring parts of their natural and cultural heritage. What remains of the North and Middle American nations at this point will join talks, desperate to at least buy time. Where ceasefires can be established despite the disparate communication situation, Geoff, alien leaders and human leaders will form conferences. If any character is interested in getting in one of these, they must be a citizen of an involved country.
-For all others, please refer to the threads below.

The numbered will have to combine what knowledge they receive from the aliens and what powers they have, and if they manage to do so, they will be able to get to invaders' boss.

What this day is for: Fighting, but more than that dealing with refugees and destruction and all that follows from that. Also diplomacy. Though the diplomacy both among Earth nations and between those nations and the invaders will mostly be carried out by NPCs, if people want to send their numbered character to chip in, they can contact Kira-mod for an info bundle regarding what will be talked about.


How this works:

- Day 3.1 will have alien encounters in all echo boundaries, yet not go beyond Earth's boundaries yet (this will happen in 3.2). Please NPC these aliens yourself but keep in mind the following: 1. The aliens are strong. They are Darth Vaders, not Stormtroopers, and will give your character trouble. 2. They land in groups of hundred, and like acting as a group to make winning easier on themselves. All aliens in a group have the same one superpower - this power can be pretty much anything, from telepathy through telekinesis to controlling elements, or whatever else you can come up with. 3. If you have any questions, please as them here!
- Day 3.2 will also have encounters with named alien NPCs. Please refer to the starter posts for them regarding whom those encounters are open to.
- Space is now an available echo boundary. Just make sure to not fly too low, you don't want to be at 10% of your echoes mid-air, after all...
- There will be no toplevels on this post. Please start your own threads freely! Please format the subject line like this: "Location(s)/Network | ota/closed/etc". Please keep in mind that each character may change location twice per day (= a maximum of three different locations) and that the moon/space location is still off limits on the 1st Day.
- This post can be used for both network and action threads.
- Keep in mind that returnee characters must have checked in and must request their echoes if they get any.
- Please direct all questions to this thread on the General Invasion Guide
- For the returnee registration, please go here.

Comments

Everywhere | Semi-open, please see below

[bridgeburning]

Badri will seek out anyone who will take his information and cause damage. It doesn't matter what those people think on him, he wants them to wreck havoc. So if he can reasonably assume that your character will use information about the enemy in ways that cause destruction (be it for anger management issues, be it because they have strange though patterns and/or are incompetent, or any other reasons), he'll go find them! He'll even seek out people who he just thinks are funny. Examples of people that he might seek out are Raye and the Dians.

He'll suddenly show up near them and throw paperplanes at them. Don't worry, they're perfectly normal paperplanes, no exploding things or anything.

[guitar_case_vagabond]

Raye hadn't exactly had a lot of downtime since the fighting began. She didn't really want it. He wanted to be on her feet, diving into the battle headfirst and taking out as many of those alien bastards as she can.

Despite all that though, even she needed to rest sometimes. Which was what she'd been doing, sitting on a broken piece of concrete when... a paper plane came out of nowhere and smacked her in the head. She looked up to where it came from and....

She crumpled the airplane up and threw it to the ground. Stomped it to when she get up to her feet.

"Seriously? Oh, man, you've got some fuckin' balls to show your face to me again after last time, you piece of fucking shit!"

[bridgeburning]

"Do you want to "fuck their shit up"?"

Look what great vocabulary he has learned! He's pretty proud of it himself. Also he's pointing towards the sky while talking, to where yet another spaceship is slowly descending.

"...I'm not sure why you would want to fuck up the shit of someone and not the person themselves." Humans are a bit weird.

[guitar_case_vagabond]

Yeah, great vocabulary and everything. For her part, she's learned not to run full steam and try to cave in this asshole's face this time but that doesn't stop her from taking a few angry steps forward.

It's his question and what he points toward up in the sky that gets her to stop, blinking in mild surprise for a moment or two there before she frowns cautiously and folds her arms.

"Yeah, and you're still on the list too, jackass." She glances up at the ship and then goes back to glaring at him. "And it's just an expression, moron."

[bridgeburning]

"But you could do a lot more damage to them if you attack our place of origin. ...not to me though, because I'm stuck here now, along with that bore Geoff."

[guitar_case_vagabond]

"Cry me a river, dickhead." Still that point about attacking their place of origin is an interesting one. Her frown doesn't go anywhere but at least now she seems slightly interested in talking.

"You got something to say or are you just fucking around?"

[bridgeburning]

"I just said something. But," he points to the sky again, "if you fly straight up, teleport from the place where our ships appear again to the place where they vanish higher up, and then continue on in a straight line, you will reach the entrance to our," he searches for a better word for a moment and then shrugs, "place of origin."

[guitar_case_vagabond]

She's gritting her teeth now, half from frustration at this guy's attitude and half from resisting the urge to try to bust his face again. Maybe in a second.

"And that's where I gotta go to fuck your buddies' shit up, huh? Sounds great but you guys've been full of shit from the start so why should I listen to you now?"

[bridgeburning]

"Because you have no other chance." He strikes a pose and spreads his arms wide. "You will die if you continue to act as you do now, so you should be desperate enough to believe me on this."

[guitar_case_vagabond]

His attitude only serves to make her more irritated than ever and she bristles when he mentions their imminent defeat.

"Okay, but you're on their side so I don't see why I should believe a fucking word out of your mouth right now."

"I think we can." Senketsu interrupts, fixing Badri with a sharp glare. "He said it himself, he and the others are stuck here now. If the invaders destroy the planet they'll die as well... he's betraying them to save himself."

Raye blinks, frowning at the idea but it's the Kamui who continues.

"If we did follow your advice and flew 'straight up'. Exactly how would we teleport to this place of origin?"

[originaloddcouple]

Been kind of a weird few days, all in all. For the moment, the couple was attempting to enjoy a sandwich in between helping the evacuation efforts. It was a little difficult, all in all, what with the raging guilt at not being able to do more, the horror of the situation around them, and general fear of the future to come.

They're pretty surprised when a paper airplane lands on their meal before they could take a bite. They glance over to its spot of origin and spot the dastardly culprit.

And proceed to wave happily at him.

[bridgeburning]

WAVING BACK AT THEM JUST AS HAPPILY

and coming over.

"If you give me a sandwich, I can tell you something about the attackers as payment." Because let's face it, these sandwiches look delicious (and also he came with this plan anyway).

[originaloddcouple]

"Oh, sure thing!"

"Help yourself!"

They pretty easily hand over a sandwich to their alien pal.

"How have you been, anywho?

"Seems like we haven't seen you in forever!"

[bridgeburning]

"I have been busy." He starts munching on his sandwich and settles in next to them. "Though now I'm stuck in any way possible, so there isn't much that I can do anymore. How have you two been?"

[originaloddcouple]

"Dang..."

"Sorry to hear that, pal."

They give a whimsical shrug at the question.

"We've been alright!"

"Trying to help out the best we can."

"Kinda punched my mom in the face."

"Could be worse, all in all."

They could be a lot better too. But that's a downer topic and downer topics make them uncomfortable.

[bridgeburning]

"Isn't it generally frowned upon to punch ones parents in the face in your culture?"

He wouldn't know, his culture doesn't really have parents.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Even if Willow Ridge seems mostly secure at this point, it still bears wisdom to check the parameter from time to time. Which is the precise thing Lily's doing, when she can suddenly feel her tension rise, eyes narrowing at the sight of one particular individual.

"...well. We're not dead yet. I do rather hope you're not coming along to try and fix that."

[bridgeburning]

"Why would I?" That'd be far less entertaining than a lot of other things. "I'm here to help you." Things are very uneven right now, and he has come to fix that.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

That one's going to get a quizzical raise of one eyebrow. She's still on guard, but she cocks her head to this side and that, examining him.

"...I think the better question is, why wouldn't you. But... what do you mean, exactly?"

Far be it from Lily to dismiss such a thing right off, even amid all of this death and destruction.

[bridgeburning]

"I can tell you what way to take to the place where we originate from, so you can take the battle away from Earth, or at least a part of it."

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Lily's breath hitches a bit at just the mention of such a thing, and where she was reaching for her Precure Seed, she instead relaxes ever so slightly. To move the battle away from Earth, at the very least... that would be a start, wouldn't it?

"Alright, Barkley. I'm listening. Just how are we supposed to do that?" A beat. "And... why are you wanting to help us now...?"

[bridgeburning]

"Fly straight up." He points to the sky above him, one hand straight up.... then alters his stance after a moment and takes the position of the Statue of Liberty instead, though the finger is still pointed upwards where he's not holding a torch. "Teleport from the place where our ships appear again to the place where they vanish higher up, and then continue on in a straight line. It won't work if you don't teleport, because you're missing the path. At the end of the path is the entrance to our," he shrugs, "place of origin."

"And things are very uneven at the moment, aren't they? So I'm levelling the field a bit."

[alilyinthemoonslight]

"...flying and teleporting are definitely things we can do."

She frowns and studies him for a few moments. "And I'm going to guess your 'place of origin' is even more dangerous than what's been thrown at us so far, isn't it?"

That does seem to always be the way, really.

[bridgeburning]

"It's different." He flashes her a thumbs up. "But you'll have fun!"

[alilyinthemoonslight]

". . ."

She just stares, long and impassively, for several moments.

"Oh, yes. I'm sure it'll be a blast. Giant punching goddesses and explosions and the whole nine yards."

To think, she was once just a bookworm. She still is, but that used to be it.