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Save the Earth Mods ([personal profile] theearth) wrote in [community profile] 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.
elfstoned: (oh no)

[personal profile] elfstoned 2015-06-09 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's not sorry. He's not sorry for any of it.

It takes him maybe half the time it takes Julien to pass out.
]
espigeonage: (☋Watching the ocean curl)

[personal profile] espigeonage 2015-06-09 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[There are worse people to curl up against. In this form Julien doesn't shift positions, really. There's just the slow rhythm of his breathing, rocking gently in and out. Maybe his heartbeat and the leisurely grating of food being ground in his gizzard, if you get your ear to him. His wet dog smell fades back to baking bread, sweet and yeasty.

It's very nice, but please don't react violently when some hours later he wakes, thrashing, trying to remember how this body works again while gasping about what he'd forgotten yesterday.]


-The mushroom!
elfstoned: (if you live at home with your mama)

[personal profile] elfstoned 2015-06-10 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Aaron awakes with a start, thrown away, startled -- he hits the floor, actually, since he's wrapped up in the cloak and can't throw his arm out very far to catch himself. He takes a second to fight free of it, staring up at Julien wild-eyed and confused.]

What? The what -- what is it?
espigeonage: (☋Watching the ocean curl)

[personal profile] espigeonage 2015-06-10 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Julien wallows and flops, wings spreading to near the ceiling, struggling to get up when the procedure he's done that with all his life until the past few months doesn't work anymore.]

I forgot - it's one of the Animals, I got it covered with a glass, how could I forget! I have to get it out!
elfstoned: (and he's looking like trash)

[personal profile] elfstoned 2015-06-10 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's awake enough to process that, but barely.]

Then go -- quickly -- but be careful.

[Aaron knows Julien knows that, but he wants to say it anyway. The words are be careful, but the meaning is, I want you to live through this.]
espigeonage: (ѦI wish I knew a girl)

[personal profile] espigeonage 2015-06-10 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[can't bend at the waist, he has to right himself like this and then push down. Julien lurches to his feet, wings half spread, his pupils pinning. He's hungry and he wants athelas so bad, just to clear his head, he has to manage, he has to go! One thing, it'll be quick.

He dips his head and brushes the side of his beak against Aaron's forehead.]


I'll see you.

[Then Julien is gone, out the door, into a day even worse than yesterday.]