greenisthenewblack: (Facepalm)
greenisthenewblack ([personal profile] greenisthenewblack) wrote in [community profile] savetheearth2014-09-26 12:03 am

[NEWS STORY + followup network post, backdated to 9/20]

Media Coverage

[A few days after this incident at Locke High School, a news story breaks during primetime on a popular local station. And gets snapped up quickly, so anyone who misses the initial story might see it (or similar broadcasts) online, on other news stations, in print news, and even a few tabloids. And since it concerns the numbered, it will likely even get some attention in Vegas.]

Earlier this week, a local high school teacher was confronted with evidence that she was part of the organization that calls themselves the 'Numbered'. Her reaction - recorded by an onlooker - has brought new urgency to the questions we've already been asking. Are these people safe? Stable? How many of them are working among us and our children undetected?

[They play the scene, recorded by what is almost certainly a smartphone camera, with a few appropriate comments from the spectators - bleeped out expletives, mostly, although one voice wails "my locker!" at a certain point.]

No one was reported injured during this incident, partially due to the brave efforts of students Daniel Fenton and Robyn Lyre in distracting and restraining the agitated and destructive former faculty member. Police arrived quickly on the scene, but the men shown escorting her out are none other than the deputy superintendent and the homicide supervisor. It's unclear how they're related to this case - neither position would normally respond to a call like this one - but they clearly seem to be familiar with the perpetrator. Could the numbered be influencing the local police? We've brought some experts in to discuss.

[The 'experts' are well-known anti-numbered advocates, and the discussion revolves mostly around how dangerous and volatile the numbered are. They emphasize what a threat numbered might be to children. Ideas about how they need to be tracked and locked up are bandied about. Danny and Robyn are talked up as heroes, and Nick and Karl as either co-conspirators or victims of manipulation. Later reports - especially the tabloids - take these rumors and run with them. The teens are celebrated, and Nick and Karl are accused of sleeping with the Numbered - and each other - more than once, labelled as obvious sympathizers.]

((OOC: All PCs mentioned in this post were added with full permission from their respective players.))

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Network Post, video

[Before the first broadcast is even finished, Sheila opens the network. To video, because why not. It can't get any worse. Can it? She's in sweats and has her head buried in her hands at her kitchen table.]

Yes. That's me.

What they didn't say is that I was fired on suspicion of being numbered, right before the video starts.

[Not Here]

[personal profile] scramasax 2014-09-26 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, that's... depressing news.

He would like to say something, he really would, but he's at a complete loss in right and otherwise. Everything only keeps getting so much pointlessly worse...]
purestambition: (062)

video;

[personal profile] purestambition 2014-09-26 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Unwarranted persecution or not, that's little excuse for such a display.
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Grr...)

[video]

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2014-09-26 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, that's Locke High confirmed for not being Numbered friendly at all.]

What is this câcat? They're going after people that might be Numbered now?
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Not happy)

[video]

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2014-09-26 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[At least all that stands out is her skin. Emilia, on the other hand, has a large pair of black bat wings, blood red, slit pupiled eyes and if someone looks carefully as she speaks, fangs. So far, though, her skin tone is normal...]

Land of opportunity my foot... Don't we, as Numbered, have rights?

[It's not like Emi didn't already stand out due to her accent.]
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Not happy)

[video]

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2014-09-26 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Private schools aren't safe from this nonsense either, and neither are students! I used to go to the Starling-Chandler School... [A deliberate twitch of her wings here.] ...Until my Numbered status became obvious. [Before, she could just wear contacts, but now...]

They had the gall to say it was for my own safety!

Ungrateful wretches, all of them.
abhero: illbillyou @ lj (grumpy)

video

[personal profile] abhero 2014-09-26 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Welp. This Locke High student knows of the incident, of course, but now it's on the news, and hearing those "experts"...]

This is bullshit.
ruleorserve: (of all the idiotic...)

[voice]

[personal profile] ruleorserve 2014-09-26 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Just on a suspicion?

[He'd hoped that things hadn't gotten quite that bad, just yet. Not that he's been anything less than aware of the turning tide of the opinions, but if this how things are turning out he's not certain what to make of it.

He's not pleased about it, though.]
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Silent)

[video]

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2014-09-26 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Robyn's at LHS, isn't she?

[It's fortunate that Emilia isn't as miserly as her past self was. If a fellow Numbered were to ask for monetary help, she'd likely give it.]

Hmm? Oh, I'm afraid I haven't...
abhero: (annoyed huff)

video

[personal profile] abhero 2014-09-26 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Well--yeah, but it's not like you hurt anyone, right?

[He had an unfortunate incident of his own recorded a few months ago. It's kind of a sore spot for him.]

These people on the news are just talking shit now.

abhero: illbillyou @ lj (hmmm)

video

[personal profile] abhero 2014-09-26 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Deadpan, like he's reciting a grocery list:]

Numbers are a danger to society, violent, unstable, lock them up, shouldn't be among normal people, would someone please think of the children, and uh—

[His voice is now something between confusion and wanting to crack up.]

Something about Mr. Aurion and the other guy falling victim to your uh, wiles.
gogoghostpowers: ([F] waitin for an invitation to arrive)

[text]

[personal profile] gogoghostpowers 2014-09-27 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
[He wants to say something but he doesn't know what. So he just settles for something simple.]

I'm sorry.
charcoalfeather: (My halo?)

[Video]

[personal profile] charcoalfeather 2014-09-27 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Miss Go...

[Well, Rakka had already suspected the school to be not in favor of the numbered. This just confirmed her suspicions.]

I'm sorry...
boxingbuff: (What're you saying?)

[Video]

[personal profile] boxingbuff 2014-09-27 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Quite the situation you've gotten yourself into.
purestambition: (013)

video;

[personal profile] purestambition 2014-09-27 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
All I mean to say is, their doing it on suspicion doesn't give us a lot of ground to stand on when that suspicion is thus verified. Quite explosively, it would seem.

[She closes her eyes, shrugging mildly.] It makes a bit harder to try and leverage the press or public to our side when things like this continue to occur, but... Perhaps there is still a way to spin this. After all, what hurts one of us in this way hurts us all, does it not?

[She frowns. In actuality she's not here to sit around and admonish the other woman, but... It is troubling, all the same.] Have you spoken with the press yourself or consulted a lawyer?
Edited (typos) 2014-09-27 03:48 (UTC)
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Neutral)

[video]

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2014-09-27 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ah yes, he mentioned he goes there...

[If Emi pouted at her parents enough, they'd allow Sheila to tutor her...] Thankfully... my parents are fine with me being Numbered. I might be able to convince them to let you teach me.
buildyourworld: (silent observation)

video

[personal profile] buildyourworld 2014-09-27 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, it's as if they are not infamous enough as it is. Unlike Sheila, Eugen's ex-colleagues from LCU seems to have a better impression on the Numbered due to their close proximity to the FBI unit posted in their campus. But even so, he understands the frustration she felt and could only frown at the backlash this video will have on other employed Numbered. ]

What's done is done. Hopefully, other industries wouldn't start the same prosecution with the rest of us.

Are you alright? What are you planning to do now?
gobybessie: (→70)

[Cellphone]

[personal profile] gobybessie 2014-09-27 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yeah, he's calling her rather than going with the network. Patiently waits for her to pick up, tapping his fingers against his desk. ]

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