[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

Lapland/network | ota

[siesinddasessen]

A - very shortly pre-pink moon light: action

[A titan is wandering into the southern border of Lapland and... well, does exactly what you would expect.

Currently, it is going after a man on a snowmobile who is trying to get away from it at the highest speed possible.]

B - post-pink moon light: network, text

[Blaine has a problem, that can most easily be described as: Where am I, what am I doing here, damn I'm hungry. This leads to her breaking into a cabin and finding something to eat there, and then checking around to find pen and paper to address the network.]

This is Blaine. I'm back.

What is the fastest way to get from nowhere in Finland to somewhere in America now?

B

[dead_black_eyes]

Where in Finland? Are you close to Lapland?

[If Lazarus sounds stressed right now, well... it's because everyone is.]

[siesinddasessen]

[The answer comes with some delay, but finally-]

...In Lapland, likely. [Since the only maps in the house are of an area in, or centred around, southwestern Lapland.]

[dead_black_eyes]

If you are near or can get to the Santa Claus Post Office, there's a sigil on the back of it. It resembles a hooved humanoid with curling horns, and if you touch it, you can be in Locke City in a heartbeat.

[siesinddasessen]

Do you have a city name? These maps say nothing about Santa Claus.

[dead_black_eyes]

Yes, the city name is Lapland... you said you were likely there?

[siesinddasessen]

[ooc: I'll assume that you typoed Lapland there and meant Rovaniemi?]

Rovaniemi.

[Hm. Going to check this map... uh. That looks like it is a good distance away.]

Are there no other ways to get around?

[dead_black_eyes]

[OOC: Honest mistake of not reading in-depth enough on the travel page or being familiar with Finland, sorry about that. :| I learned something new today, but for IC purposes I'm grateful if we can treat it like a typo. ]

There are the Ghost Zone portals as well, but they can be difficult to navigate. I use the teleporter when I have to travel for convenience and predictability's sake. If you can find transportation to Rovaniemi then that is likely your best option. You must have gotten out there in the first place somehow...

[siesinddasessen]

[ooc: That's the awesome thing about RP imo, you learn all the random new tidbits |D]

I entered through the boundary border. [Noooot gonna explain that further here. NOPE.]

How do I find those ghost zone portals? [Because there is no means of transportation around and ...it is a bit far to walk, even for a titan.]

b

[espigeonage]

[ohgodohgodohgod he should go to Galapagos, that's the only place he can get to where things are happening yet oh. huh.

u didn't fall into a pit or get abducted by evil russian scientists wow.

[siesinddasessen]

You sound awfully sure of that; did you hack into any Russian security cameras?

[espigeonage]

maybe

i am a hacker now after all

[siesinddasessen]

How good?

[espigeonage]

can you even measure that okay im a 70th level black palaidn hacker

[siesinddasessen]

Out of how many levels?

[Yes, this is exactly the kind of conversation that family separated for many months should have, after so much happened.]

[espigeonage]

70. theres things i cant do but its a class thing.

you may have noticed im not dead either.

[siesinddasessen]

Not dead and also not in a coma. Congratulations.

[She's really glad to see him not dead or in a coma, really. But how to express affection without seeming attached? Because she totally isn't. At all. In the least. Not even a little bit.]

b

[charcoalfeather]

Oh, uh.

Hi again.

[she remembers you.]

[siesinddasessen]

[She's still busy sorting her memories, so it will take a moment for her to recognize anyone past close family.]

You can help me more if you tell me how long it has been.

[charcoalfeather]

Uh... A few months?

[God she doesn't even know, she forgot about you.]

[siesinddasessen]

...I shouldn't be surprised.

[Okay, let her dig around this tiny hunting cabin some more.

She finally turns up again.]

At least nobody blew up the planet while I was gone. I wouldn't have been surprised.

[charcoalfeather]

Yeah... that would have been surprsing...

[Hahahaha... haha... ha.]

Are you... okay? The last time I heard about you, you turned into a monster and ran off...

[siesinddasessen]

Seems like I wandered around a while and ended up in Finland.

[Just ....nnnnot mentioning that she's not sure if she ate anyone after accidentally reentering the echo boundary and her echoes thus going up to 100% all of a sudden.]

[charcoalfeather]

[Yes. That would be better off not mentioned... Just leave Rakka to her imagination.]

You're okay... at least. sorry you had to remember everything now. We're kind of in the middle of a crisis.

[siesinddasessen]

Maybe I just couldn't leave all you pretties alone in such a situation.

So what kind of crisis is it?