[plot] Invasion: Day 1

[theearth]

Who: EVERYONE + Returnees
What: Day 1 of the Invasion!
Where: EVERYWHERE
When: ICLy: The 29th! OOCly: April 29th to May 4th
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: A minute after midnight EST, some people around the world who used to be numbered yet have lost their echoes since suddenly have all their pulses returned to them.

At 4pm EST, a child's laughing voice resounds in the air all around the world, remaining for over a minute and staying longer where it gets caught in the echo between buildings, mountains, or other echoing surfaces. Not long after, people in areas where the moon is visible (like those in Europe) will see pink lights on the moon, like a pink aurora borealis from above going all the way around the moon, and then the whole moon changes shape. Literally. It unfolds into a giant serpent that soon can be seen from everywhere around the world as it moves to wrap around the world, tossing and turning head and tail as if trying to hit and bite nasty flies. ...And if someone gets out a telescope, they'll realize that the serpent is doing exactly that: There are tiny spaceships attacking it and trying to pass by it, but for now it is holding up. ....You might maybe rather get to safety than get your telescope out though, because the serpent sometimes smashes down into the earth in its tossing and turning, and while it doesn't hit inhabited areas that still causes tsunamis and earthquakes. Giorgio A. Tsoukalos and Erich von Däniken will announce that it's totally aliens!!! SEE THEY CALLED IT. Ancient astronauts that gave the earth culture are coming back to us!

What this day is for: This day is mostly for reconnecting with returnees and dealing with the last wave of plot echoes. It is also for catastrophe relief efforts for areas that are hit by tsunamis or earthquakes. The only echo boundary that will be devastated in this way are the Galapagos Islands. Characters that can fly or have special swimming abilities are especially invited to help with rescuing people and delivering first aid. (Icly, the talks with the first wave aliens also happen here and they will be wrapped up or dropped after the 4th of May. You are still welcome to jump in and talk to an alien!)

How this works:

- Day 1 does not have any alien encounters past those in this log.
- 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

audio/action; Galapogos Islands

[feastorfamine]

[audio]

[when the audio comes on, you can hear the hum of machinery in the background]

To everyone else with access to the GNX-III's, I'm deploying to help in the relief effort there. These things may be made for fighting, but I figure they can deal with the conditions there and provide the support people need. We can get there through the Ghost Zone.

Anyone else... I'd like it if anyone could help me keep abreast of the situation. I don't want anyone catching us by surprise. There's way too much going on for us to be caught with our pants down.

And... stay safe. We can't afford to get hurt before the real trouble starts.

[action]

[Amy sighed to herself; she tried to talk a big game, and show herself as authoritative and supportive, but deep down she was incredibly nervous. These past few weeks training in the GNX-III had refined her reflexes and her abilities, but at the same time, she couldn't calm the part of her that was still incredibly nervous deep down.

Something was coming. Her thoughts kept straying towards the threat looming on the horizon. And yet, there was debris that needed to be moved, floods that needed to controlled, people that needed to be protected from the surf and earthquakes being caused by the so-called savior wrapped around the earth.

She needed to focus. She needed to concentrate on the task at hand. But though she was managing, it was still incredibly difficult]

[highly_gifted]

I'll come over.

[London is safe at the moment, and to do anything at all, he'll need the mobile suit anyway.]

[feastorfamine]

Good. You remember how to move the machine through the zone, right?

[because that's something they would have covered in training]

[highly_gifted]

Yes, and I know the zone better than most.

I'll head to London after, though. My parents live there. [And he'd rather have the means to defend them there.]

[feastorfamine]

... If you need to get them somewhere safe, do it before you come here. The fighting will likely begin soon, and it'll work out better that way.

[highly_gifted]

I will fight in London.

[A pause, and then he frowns.]

Unless space is an option now. These should work there, shouldn't they?

[feastorfamine]

Right, but disaster relief comes first. It'd be better if we can switch gears and locations easily.

... They're space capable, yes. Unfortunately, I'm not sure we can launch from the Earth in these things yet.

[highly_gifted]

If they attack all echo locations as the woman [he means Saretha] said, there will be a need of disaster relief everywhere. But I will stay on the Galapagos Islands until that happens.

...If we're near the Orbital Tower, we might be able to launch from it.

[feastorfamine]

... That's an option. But let's wait and see if there are ground forces, first.

audio;

[purestambition]

[Saretha has... not left Locke. She's wanted to, she's wanted to pursue assistance in the disaster areas, and especially to help Amy. But... it has not happened. Because there are things she needs to have done, for everyone's sake.]

Amy.

You had better be careful out there, but... go.

audio;

[feastorfamine]

... I will, Saretha. I promise.

...

You be careful too, alright?

audio;

[purestambition]

At the moment, my greatest danger is walking into a building full of men in business suits. My danger will come, but...

We will prevail. Do what you must; you have my faith.

Re: audio;

[feastorfamine]

And you have mine, Saretha. And my love. All of it.

Heh. Still... good luck on that particular battlefield.

audio;

[purestambition]

I don't much believe in luck, Amy. Yet with this, all of this...

I am starting to believe we may need it.

audio;

[feastorfamine]

I believe someone once said that success is part perseverance, part skill, and part luck. Maybe there's some truth to that.

audio;

[purestambition]

If that is true, we must hope that it is in our favor.

audio;

[feastorfamine]

Ah yeah, hope, that's the other part.

... When did I start talking like an action movie?

audio

[dragon_blossom]

Hey Amy! Me and Seles are here already, so we'll have to coordinate when you get here. It's rough - I'm not gonna lie - but I think we can do a lot of good here. See you soon.

audio

[feastorfamine]

Oh, I can finally see what this so called dragon god of yours can do, huh? I look forward to it.

audio

[dragon_blossom]

He can fly now is what! I'm not doing anything flashy with him though, that'd be more harm than good right now.

audio

[feastorfamine]

That sounds about right. We can't distract ourselves by showing off.

audio

[dragon_blossom]

Showing off with this much power would just make things worse anyways.

audio

[feastorfamine]

Yeah, exactly.

audio

[dragon_blossom]

...got anyone else coming along?

audio

[feastorfamine]

At lease one of the others I've been helping are on their way too. I've put the call out.