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savetheearth2015-04-29 06:33 pm
theearth) wrote in savetheearth2015-04-29 06:33 pm
[plot] Invasion: Day 1
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.
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.
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Still... We were all manipulated. Led to think that we were to destroy these creatures beneath us. Even as much destruction as their wakening causes, it is not their fault that we humans built on top of them. In spite of that, twisting our beliefs into thinking they were a long term danger was not difficult, so none of us can well be blamed on that end, unless we are blaming the lot of us collectively.
[Which Saretha will take.
They all screwed up, to some degree.]
Some of that manipulation is in question, however. Allies of the alien ambassadors' chief speaker, Geoff Benwick, speak as if he is trying to help us all even now... But at the same time, we know he has the power to manipulate those around him into trusting his word as well.
As for where that leaves us now, beyond the immediate threat, I am uncertain.
[An exasperated sigh.]
My name is Saretha Kaiser. My Numbers woke with the rising of the snake in Locke City last year.
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[mental sound of brakes screeching. Possibly, a physical sound of a few gears very abruptly halting in surprise]
My sincere apologies, this is likely a pure coincidence, but you didn't mean Kaiser Solutions, did you...?
[HA HA. PROBABLY NOT. THAT WOULD BE A CRAZY RANDOM HAPPENSTANCe. ]
In an case, erm. ...
[lol THESE ARE PETTY HUMAN CONCERNS focus]
I will never trust the aliens. They've hurt too many people I care about, proven themselves nothing but untrustworthy. ... curious, really, I think I left just before you awakened.
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One in the same; my parents were the founders before it was absorbed by... other interested parties.
[Ah, even in the face of alien invasion, she doesn't sound the least bit bitter about that, no.]
No, of that much we are agreed. Trust is hard, yet at the same time... One does not have to trust a source in order to use them.
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Oh, she likes you.]
Wise, very wise. What have you managed to learn from him so far, if anything? I suppose my next question after that would be... have we organized teams to protect the animals? And, if so, who's dealing with the moon?
[Maybe not now, because, well, war to fight. But she's filing away that bit about the company. If she could help this girl to re-take her company, using Chris' own newfound knowledge of ridiculous alien tech... well. It could be very profitable indeed.]
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Much like the Animals were where they are before us, I suppose we on this planet are just an unexpected calculation for all parties involved.
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Well, if that's truly their intentions, it does make it easy. We like this planet, we live here. Destroying it would be harmful for us. So, no hesitation, no mercy toward the invaders. Simple. I like simple.
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Simple, yes. On the outside of matters, anyhow. In the long run, our own forces are marginal compared to a year ago.
Anything to balance that is, of course, appreciated.