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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.
[Video]
[There's some delightful news in the middle of a whole lot of crappier stuff. Though it can't keep him completely distracted from the news, no.]
Everyone saw the news. Hey, hey, we're proud of you, alright? And thanks for not ratting me out while you were up there.
[He laughs. It's better to laugh about this than have to consider the rest.]
...it's not going to keep them out forever, is it?
[Video]
[But wait, that second bit...]
Proud? Seriously?
[He sounds relieved at that. But he sobers up quick.]
Probably not.
[Video]
[Jack, you nerd.]
And yeah. Proud. Maybe it's all a little weird, sure, but you're doing good, right?
[It is easier to talk about this than the moon or aliens. And he seems to realize this, settling back in his seat with a sigh.]
We can both do some more good here, when whatever happens happens. We have to.
[Video]
[He is probably not making this any better.]
I...guess so. I don't know that I thought about it like that. I just...needed to do it, you know? Like it was something I had to do.
[He nods.]
There's going to be a fight soon, yeah...
[And he brightens a little.]
I've got awesome new armor, though. I can use that.
[He can just show off all the cool stuff, surely that is an easy topic of conversation that won't make either of them get weird, right?]
[Video]
[Yes, he is still a little drunk and it is still a little late. It takes passing his hands over his face to get some composure back.]
You're a good guy, Hajime. A really good guy.
[Talk of awesome new armor is pretty encouraging, though. Jack brightens, too.]
Seriously? Aaah, you're lucky. I've gotten... well, uh, never mind what I ended up getting... can I see?
[Video]
[Jack, please sober up, this is not the time to be drunk, Jack, there are alien spaceships going to attack soon once they've gotten past the GIANT MOONSNAKE.]
I...uh...try, I guess.
[What is he supposed to say to that? He does not know what he is supposed to say at that. Dealing with praise is hard. Easier to show off his armor.]
Yeah, just watch.
[He's not one for fancy transformation poses, so he calls out his transformation belt and swipes a card through the buckle. His form ripples, shifting to the Chalice armor he hadn't used much when Jack had been Numbered. He pulls another card and swipes it. There's another ripple, and he's got red, gold, and green armor that looks much more impressive.]
[Video]
Damn! That's...
[He's grinning widely and seems about to say something more, but then his expression shifts and he's leaning back away from the camera. He hadn't seen that armor before, the base one, before the second transformation. Having seen it, there's that feeling of a memory coming back to him, stunning him briefly silent.]
[Video]
[But wait, there's some concern.]
Jack? You okay?
[A long pause.]
You're not going to do some kind of drunk puking, are you?
[Video]
[He waves a hand dismissively and settles back to the forward-leaning posture that he had before.]
...Chalice. I remember that. Him. He's not really you, though...
[It's a funny thought, right now. More sober, he might have been worried that he had, apparently, not immediately known that Hajime was Joker, but at the moment it didn't matter much.]
Anyway! That's nice. I think I'm jealous.
[Video]
[Why should this conversation be weird? It's just how things were, he was just using that form like any other...]
Who knows, maybe you'll get some flashy birdman power-up.