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[plot] Invasion: Day 2
Who: EVERYONE + Returnees
What: Day 2 of the Invasion!
Where: EVERYWHERE
When: ICLy: The 30th! OOCly: May 5th to May 9th!
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: The first spaceships get through... and strangely enough they land only inside echo boundaries, disappearing somewhere in the Mesosphere and reappearing about ten kilometres above ground. They always operate in exactly the same way: They bomb an area to clear it and then land their spaceship to release roughly a hundred soldiers (they look like humans).
Each group of soldiers is equipped with extremely technically advanced equipment and on top of that has one super power - one could also say that it are all groups of 100 clones of the same person. The super powers range from telekinesis to the control of an element to telepathy and so on, but each soldier only has one. They are stronger than grinches - basically, your character will have trouble with them no matter what their powers are. They are not stormtroopers, they are darth vaders, so to speak. That said, they can be taken down, it will just be hard. A numbered with special talents will find that the troops communicate and will send in an unit that is equipped to handle that specific talent (f.ex: Against a very fast giant, they'll call people who can catch and keep him in place with telekinesis). So no super power works eternally, and they'll have to retreat and do quick surprise attacks on groups that can't hurt them once they've been figured out by the Enemy's troops.
According to what so far has been submitted about numbered battle power, plans and such, the following picture can be painted:
At first, they will land in the areas where the resident Animal was killed or is out of commission: Locke City, Las Vegas and Christmas Island.
Locke City: Due to the fairly high number of numbered defenders, the city will remain in numbered/human hands. It will however suffer heavy destruction. Locke City will be heavily damaged by secure, being entirely defended by numbered and unnumbered humans.
Las Vegas: Due to the in comparison much lower number of numbered defenders, Las Vegas will fall. If numbered decide to turn the mountain and its insides into a fortress, that will hold and be able to shelter pretty much the whole population of Las Vegas and surroundings. The Enemy's troops will slowly start to spread from Las Vegas and conquer the surrounding areas. Las Vegas and Western North America (USA/Mexico) will be destroyed and fallen.
Christmas Island: Due to the low number of defenders, Enemy soldiers will quickly get a hold of the island... until Julien destroys the glass cage over the central Mushroom. As soon as that has happened, the mushroom will put spores into the air that take root in the enemy soldiers' brains and make them fight all further invaders, also following those who have started to cross the ocean to Indonesia and further. Christmas Island & South East Asia will thus be damaged but secure, being entirely defended by the Mushroom.
Once it is clear that Las Vegas is falling, which will be around noon GMT, the Enemy's troops will start to land in areas where the Animal was weakened: Lapland, Santarem, Neuschwanstein, London. In all these areas, the Animal itself will fight, but it will require numbered assistance. Local military and police will help out with fighting enemy soldiers inside and outside of the echo boundaries.
Santarem: The Swarm (literally a swarm of dragonflies) can hold the area, but a couple of troops manage to sneak past them and start to go on a rampage in South America. Local military and the American military that just invaded Brazil itself will cease their hostilities and turn on those new invaders instead. They can for the most part take care of the alien invaders, but there'll be some destruction. South America is damaged but fairly secure.
Lapland: A good number of santas has been killed at the beginning of the year and there are very few numbered there, so while the enemy can be kept at bay, troops still manage to sneak past them (and the horned giant Animal that will rise from the ice to defend the area). Mostly, they wander into Russia, but a few also head down into southern Finland and into Scandinavia. Again, the local militaries will take care of the enemy soldiers fairly well - they mostly aim to capture and not kill, though, so a number of aliens will be in prison around Norway, Sweden and Finland after this. Northern/Eastern Europe is damaged but fairly secure.
Neuschwanstein is in a fairly similar position, with a number of wolpertingers and doppelgängers having died for various reasons or being caught in other echo boundaries/the ghost zone (though all will attempt to return to the Neuschwanstein Area for this. Including those that are ghosts now) and few numbered fighting there. Due to the higher population and country density in the area, there will be more casualties but the surrounding militaries will also manage to contain the danger more quickly. South/Middle Europe is damaged but fairly secure.
London: Cousin Itt will completely take over the underground and parts of the ground - no enemy soldier will manage to leave the area. But that means that the hair can do less about the soldiers that land in the city itself, so they will for the most part be up to numbered to fight - they could of course just give up the whole city, but giving up a capital...? England will be secure, but London itself will be heavily damaged.
In the areas where the Animal remains unharmed, which are Tokyo and the Galapagos Islands, the Animals will be able to take care of the invaders alone, but everything that is there can be damaged in the process. So Tokyo and the Galapagos Islands are secure but damaged, yet the area around them is unharmed
A special area to defend is space. People can decide to assist Jörmungandr with battling the spaceships, but they have to watch out for the serpent so it doesn't trash them in its trashing. At least there are no civilians here?
What this day is for: This day is for fighting, evacuating, helping and organizing. This is the pure battle day, basically; non-combatans have plenty to do with trying to get civilians to safe places, providing medical aid, coordinating things, getting supplies from one echo boundary to the other, getting in trouble... what have you.
How this works:
- Day 2 will have alien encounters. Please NPC these aliens yourself but keep in mind the following: 1. The aliens are strong. They are Darth Vaders, not Stormtroopers, and will give your character trouble. 2. They land in groups of hundred, and like acting as a group to make winning easier on themselves. All aliens in a group have the same one superpower - this power can be pretty much anything, from telepathy through telekinesis to controlling elements, or whatever else you can come up with. 3. If you have any questions, please as them here!
- Space is now an available echo boundary. Just make sure to not fly too low, you don't want to be at 10% of your echoes mid-air, after all...
- 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 2 of the Invasion!
Where: EVERYWHERE
When: ICLy: The 30th! OOCly: May 5th to May 9th!
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: The first spaceships get through... and strangely enough they land only inside echo boundaries, disappearing somewhere in the Mesosphere and reappearing about ten kilometres above ground. They always operate in exactly the same way: They bomb an area to clear it and then land their spaceship to release roughly a hundred soldiers (they look like humans).
Each group of soldiers is equipped with extremely technically advanced equipment and on top of that has one super power - one could also say that it are all groups of 100 clones of the same person. The super powers range from telekinesis to the control of an element to telepathy and so on, but each soldier only has one. They are stronger than grinches - basically, your character will have trouble with them no matter what their powers are. They are not stormtroopers, they are darth vaders, so to speak. That said, they can be taken down, it will just be hard. A numbered with special talents will find that the troops communicate and will send in an unit that is equipped to handle that specific talent (f.ex: Against a very fast giant, they'll call people who can catch and keep him in place with telekinesis). So no super power works eternally, and they'll have to retreat and do quick surprise attacks on groups that can't hurt them once they've been figured out by the Enemy's troops.
According to what so far has been submitted about numbered battle power, plans and such, the following picture can be painted:
At first, they will land in the areas where the resident Animal was killed or is out of commission: Locke City, Las Vegas and Christmas Island.
Locke City: Due to the fairly high number of numbered defenders, the city will remain in numbered/human hands. It will however suffer heavy destruction. Locke City will be heavily damaged by secure, being entirely defended by numbered and unnumbered humans.
Las Vegas: Due to the in comparison much lower number of numbered defenders, Las Vegas will fall. If numbered decide to turn the mountain and its insides into a fortress, that will hold and be able to shelter pretty much the whole population of Las Vegas and surroundings. The Enemy's troops will slowly start to spread from Las Vegas and conquer the surrounding areas. Las Vegas and Western North America (USA/Mexico) will be destroyed and fallen.
Christmas Island: Due to the low number of defenders, Enemy soldiers will quickly get a hold of the island... until Julien destroys the glass cage over the central Mushroom. As soon as that has happened, the mushroom will put spores into the air that take root in the enemy soldiers' brains and make them fight all further invaders, also following those who have started to cross the ocean to Indonesia and further. Christmas Island & South East Asia will thus be damaged but secure, being entirely defended by the Mushroom.
Once it is clear that Las Vegas is falling, which will be around noon GMT, the Enemy's troops will start to land in areas where the Animal was weakened: Lapland, Santarem, Neuschwanstein, London. In all these areas, the Animal itself will fight, but it will require numbered assistance. Local military and police will help out with fighting enemy soldiers inside and outside of the echo boundaries.
Santarem: The Swarm (literally a swarm of dragonflies) can hold the area, but a couple of troops manage to sneak past them and start to go on a rampage in South America. Local military and the American military that just invaded Brazil itself will cease their hostilities and turn on those new invaders instead. They can for the most part take care of the alien invaders, but there'll be some destruction. South America is damaged but fairly secure.
Lapland: A good number of santas has been killed at the beginning of the year and there are very few numbered there, so while the enemy can be kept at bay, troops still manage to sneak past them (and the horned giant Animal that will rise from the ice to defend the area). Mostly, they wander into Russia, but a few also head down into southern Finland and into Scandinavia. Again, the local militaries will take care of the enemy soldiers fairly well - they mostly aim to capture and not kill, though, so a number of aliens will be in prison around Norway, Sweden and Finland after this. Northern/Eastern Europe is damaged but fairly secure.
Neuschwanstein is in a fairly similar position, with a number of wolpertingers and doppelgängers having died for various reasons or being caught in other echo boundaries/the ghost zone (though all will attempt to return to the Neuschwanstein Area for this. Including those that are ghosts now) and few numbered fighting there. Due to the higher population and country density in the area, there will be more casualties but the surrounding militaries will also manage to contain the danger more quickly. South/Middle Europe is damaged but fairly secure.
London: Cousin Itt will completely take over the underground and parts of the ground - no enemy soldier will manage to leave the area. But that means that the hair can do less about the soldiers that land in the city itself, so they will for the most part be up to numbered to fight - they could of course just give up the whole city, but giving up a capital...? England will be secure, but London itself will be heavily damaged.
In the areas where the Animal remains unharmed, which are Tokyo and the Galapagos Islands, the Animals will be able to take care of the invaders alone, but everything that is there can be damaged in the process. So Tokyo and the Galapagos Islands are secure but damaged, yet the area around them is unharmed
A special area to defend is space. People can decide to assist Jörmungandr with battling the spaceships, but they have to watch out for the serpent so it doesn't trash them in its trashing. At least there are no civilians here?
What this day is for: This day is for fighting, evacuating, helping and organizing. This is the pure battle day, basically; non-combatans have plenty to do with trying to get civilians to safe places, providing medical aid, coordinating things, getting supplies from one echo boundary to the other, getting in trouble... what have you.
How this works:
- Day 2 will have alien encounters. Please NPC these aliens yourself but keep in mind the following: 1. The aliens are strong. They are Darth Vaders, not Stormtroopers, and will give your character trouble. 2. They land in groups of hundred, and like acting as a group to make winning easier on themselves. All aliens in a group have the same one superpower - this power can be pretty much anything, from telepathy through telekinesis to controlling elements, or whatever else you can come up with. 3. If you have any questions, please as them here!
- Space is now an available echo boundary. Just make sure to not fly too low, you don't want to be at 10% of your echoes mid-air, after all...
- 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.
Locke City | Open
[By and large, throughout as much of this ordeal as possible, Lily has stuck as close as she can to her most important people. Winter especially. After all, the Precure are stronger together - but of course, her expected biases are at play there too. In this moment, facing down the possible end of the world, what else could she do, after all?
She can let Winter do the talking. Too many voices in the crowd, she's not sure hers right now can add much. Her power, however... that's another matter. She'd gained quite a lot of stamina since battling Wise Snake over a year ago, and that was a fight she held out in all day. She knows she can keep going for a long time, so long as she can stay alive.
Key detail, there.
Still, the battle is large, unyielding, and chaotic. Just as with Wise Snake, there are moments here and there where she gets separated from those closest to her. In those moments, all of her thoughts narrow down, focusing on using whatever force she can to get back to her loved ones, trying to push her sense of panic back.
Still, it's like this that - just as she did in Wise Snake - Lily leaves herself most open, most vulnerable. Nothing matters besides zeroing back in on them, not even her own limits.]
[B - Action | Semi-closed; open to Precure and closely connected, inquire if you're wondering!]
[...but in the end, Lily holds close to her friends. Her family. Her teammates. If she can't keep them safe, then this whole mess isn't worth much, is it?
Yet, as they push on and forward, even she knows they're not using everything they have at their disposal. Which is also smart - they can't afford to expend all their power at once, but the further they push into the city, the more destruction and chaos they see... the more obvious it is that they don't exactly have much of a choice. Memories light up in her mind, and eventually, she has to come to a decision.
At least, that's the thought as one particular alien capable of deflecting energy, specifically, sends a Forte Wave crashing through a wall beside them. Lily skids back, avoiding incoming fire as vehicles and general scenery are torn asunder by it.]
Everyone! We're getting nowhere like this!
[She gives a low growl, slapping the heart brooch on her chest, summoning the Heartcatch Mirage into hand.]
Precure! On me!
B
Seeing the Mirage triggered something in Jasmine, and she grit her teeth. This was what she'd undergone her trial for, wasn't it? It was time to put it into action. She threw a large piece of rubble in the direction of the alien who had deflected Lily's attack, and then flew to Lily's side]
It's about time! I've been waiting for this...!
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So when she heard Lily's call, Rakka knew exactly what was happening. She and Fougere made their way towards Cure Moonlight and the others. Rakka clapped her hands over her brooch, calling her Feather Tact to her hands. Finally, she skidded to a stop by the others.]
Lily, I'm here! Let's do it!
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Which is when he hears Lily call for all the Precure. He has no idea what she's planning but anything has to be better than his failed attempts at holding the aliens back. He blasts a radius around him so that he can fly out of the swarm and land right by her, keeping his fists ablaze with energy just in case.]
So what are we doing now?
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We're turning this fight around. And it's going to be a show. Keep them off us for a second! Anyone that's listening to me, we're going in hot - I'm not sure what this is going to look like from the outside, but... it's going to be at least as good as it looks. Love Heart Arrow! [Holding her hand out sideways, Diamond's Arrow falls into her hand neatly, in a motion she's had quite a bit of time to practice. It's not a Tact, but... it'll be more than enough for this. Glancing to Lily, Winter sighs, before raising her voice and forcing herself to sound as calm as she can manage.]
Kick us off, Moonlight!
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What we're doing... is what can only be accomplished with the power of everyone working together!
[It sounds stupid, and corny, but... well. It's actually true, in this case. She holds the Mirage out, and it floats off her palm, hovering before her.] Danny, if you could buy us a minute...!
Mirror, o mirror! Grant power to the Precure!
[There's a suddenly flash of light then, blinding and all consuming. It envelopes four of the present figures directly - Lily, Winter, Jasmine, and Rakka. The four Precure who had undergone the trial of their own darkness, fought their own shadow selves. It's radiant and all consuming, but... really, there's no telling whether or not it's enough to keep those aliens at bay on its own as it transforms them.]
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The result... the result was like being wrapped in a warm blanket. Metaphorically anyway. She felt the love, the energy, the empowering, vitalizing power of the mirage - the power of hope, life, and light - which balanced and harmonized with her own power of darkness.
As the power surged into her, Jasmine's outfit changed. The flower-like hair ornamentation she wore grew longer and sharper. The cuffs her gloves became more pointed, as did the frills of her dress and her boots. Finally, a glowing wing of energy (yes, just one) appeared over her shoulder as her entire ensemble took on a brighter, more pastel shade.
She'd done it. She'd transformed. And for a brief moment, even amidst this chaos, Jasmine felt uniquely, wonderfully powerful.]
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[The phrase was all Rakka heard in her ears before being enveloped by a powerful light. It was just as she thought it would be like, new-found energy coursing through her arms and legs, making her aches melt away, making everything seem... brighter.
She was filled with light, and it made her smile.]
The flowers shining all over the world! [The urge to pose was too strong for Rakka. Her outfit was changing, becoming brighter, sharper in different places. Her wings flared out, becoming wholly white, as did her halo, which glowed with the light of the Heartcatch Mirage.
Now more then ever, she knew she was a magical girl.]
Heartcatch Precure, Super Silhouette!
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He thinks it's a transformation type thing? But now's not the time to start wondering and second guessing. Lily says they need some cover while they do this, Danny's more than happy to provide it.]
I'm on it!
[He fires up green ecto-energy in both of his hands and unleashes wide, blinding beams from both hands. Once a huge swath of the alien crowd is down, he then pinpoints individuals or smaller clusters with more beams. They're definitely not enough to take any of the aliens out, but it's definitely enough to keep them down long enough for the girls to do what they need to get done.]