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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.
[voice] 2/2
YOU'RE MORE LIKE TEAM STONER UNCLE ANYWAY
IT'S NOT LIKE YOU WERE A VOICE OF REASON IN MY LIFE OR ANYTHING
OR LIKE, A WAY MORE REAL PERSON THAN ANY OF THE BROGRAMMER FUCKERS OUT WEST
;-; ]
[in any case while the robotic sound is still there when she speaks, she... sounds less formal. More human. There's actual emotion coming through.]
Thank god you're here.
[Not thank Primus but just the reflexive human "thank the nonexistant dude I don't believe in."]
The people who have responded so far aren't like some of the slopeheads we had back in the day, but they still haven't told me as much as I'd really like to know.
[There's a whirring noise as her coolant fans exchange air; she's found it has the same calming effect as taking a deep breath. sometimes, this all still feels really, really weird.]
Okay, I get that we fucked up real bad with the snake, and apparently we fucked up again with a crab, but there's still other animal dudes... somewhere, that are strategic targets we gotta protect, yes?
I mean.
Okay, here's what I'm wondering.
First, what the hell do these aliens even want? Did we EVER find out? No one seems able to tell me, beyond "destroy the earth." What's their plan besides that? Colonization? Why?
I get that the animals are Earth's defense mechanism; do we have... any organization at all? Strike teams?
Which, I guess my last question: there's shit in space. My memories mean that I am a literal goddamn space warfare commander, this was... this was what I was built to do, designed to do. I spent nine million fucking years doing it. Who's in charge of the space strike team, and if the answer is "no one" then I need to know fast who else doesn't need to breathe or has a space ship.
Sorry, that wasn't... coherent. i'm still processing.
[voice]
First, you're correct. The stone animals have been destroyed in Locke City and Las Vegas. They are still alive on Christmas Island; in Santarem, Brazil; in Lapland; in Neuschwanstein, Germany; in London, England; in Tokyo, Japan; on the Galapagos Islands; and of course in space. They are powerful and difficult to understand, but they are allies.
I do not know whether it is colonization, destruction, or both. I have not spoken with them personally; regrettable circumstances have kept me too occupied to seek them out myself.
[whoops the police shut the clinic down and he's gotten all kinds of bad press in Locke City. Aaron Strider is basically a wanted man and is avoiding police capture thanks to an appearance echo and a doppelganger who is making no effort to conceal his identity. Speaking of...]
You may see beings who closely resemble individuals with Numbers but who behave in an unusual way. These are copies made by one of the Animals, the one in Neuschwanstein. They will behave in the opposite manner of the person they resemble. Keep that in mind when you're dealing with them.
[His own is a gun-toting, straight-edge, frothing Fox News poster boy. It's embarrassing.]
I have seen many Network posts with speeches and calls to arms; I have not seen any true organization. Efforts are being concentrated in Las Vegas and Locke City, since those are the most vulnerable places. I do not know who else can take to space; I've heard nothing more than rumors.
Speak to Lazarus Lawliet. He has been collecting information and will be able to tell you more than me about the capabilities of other Numbered. His Network number is -- [blah blah Lazarus's number].
[voice]
And yeah, I've seen a lot of speeches but not a hell of a lot of doing. I'll go contact this Lazarus person.
...
[speaking of being a hobo on the run]
What's going on with you these days, man? I lost track of basically everyone after I left Locke. Existential crisis and all that. Uh. ... you don't happen to know a convenient abandoned subway tunnel or something with electricity in it that I can hide in, do you?
[voice]
As for your subway tunnel, I do -- you may have to share it with a few homeless, but it has power. And if you want to know about me, do a quick search of Locke City's news around February 26th. I went underground after that. I tried to locate the other animals with little real luck, pulsed back a hundred ghosts I have no idea how to command, and am currently in Puerto Ayora, waiting to be cleared to help the relief efforts.
[voice]
As for the cops, you know, I feel like I remember that happening. It was just... when I left the city, a lot of stuff about this, about anyone with a Number, got... fuzzy, you know? Whatever, the point is, if you ever need me to...
[she almost says "punch a cop" but then figures Aaron wouldn't approve]
... cover your ass or get you out of something, you have my number.
[voice]
there's a small handful of cops he'd prefer not be punched but by and large?]
...I'll remember, and I'm grateful. I might need it before the end.
You can get to the tunnel a few different ways. Are you roughly the same size you were before, or has that changed?