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[whatsupcroc]

Date & Time: Mid-afternoon Sunday, May 5th
Location: The Hold and Housing Complex
Characters: All who wish to be in the vicinity!
Summary: The Initiative asked for the Housing Complex to be evacuated starting early morning on 5/5, in preparation for the expected landing of the spaceship stolen from the United Earth. The landing goes horribly wrong when an undiscovered bomb detonates onboard the ship, causing partial engine failure. The ship proceeds to be crash landed into the Housing Complex; no lives, however, are lost.

Warnings: Spaceship crash landings it's all horrible!
Notes: Respond in action tags or prose, as you please!

The ship breaks cloud-cover as a spot of light in the dreary skies, leaving behind the beauty of sunlight above the broken cloud layer as it continues to descend. With the Initiative having instigated an evacuation of the area ahead of time, just in case, those watching in the light drizzle may find it an interesting sight to behold.

Doubtlessly, the United Earth, from its great distance, may have also found it interesting.

The first sign of something going wrong is an explosion visible from the ground. People who hear it might startle; the ship itself goes from a smooth, controlled flight path to one wobbly and filled with dark, flaming smoke. The whine of its remaining engine is slower to reach the ground, though the ship itself seems to pick up a spiraling speed, still controlled to those familiar with watching things that fly come crashing down to the ground.

The Initiative members on the ground are calling for people to get back and take cover. Inside the main Hold, one man at the transport pads hears his radio blast to life and swallows past his own fear, glancing at the active pad waiting to pull in another unlucky soul.

When the ship hits the Housing Complex, it demolishes the upper levels, though the force with which it hits doesn't seem to be the same as what it should be. Combined telekinetic buffering and excellent piloting from a former Guardian of the Universe Galaxy keeps damage to a catastrophic minimum.

Welcome to the fallout. What will you do from here?

Comments

[concealingeyes]

[She trusts that Kano can take care of things whenever she isn't.]

Sure, no problem. I can help you carry some of that stuff if you want. Though, you'll have to show me where you got that sometime. N-Not that... I have much use for anything, but... it looks nice.

[bloodyashes]

It's fine. I'll probably be coming back through here anyway.

[He glances up at the ruined floors - they're going to have to take everything out to fix them, and that includes the mattresses and the rest of the furniture. Good thing, since the apartment over the restaurant doesn't have much that wasn't ruined by fire or rot.]

I heard from someone else that there was a masquerade a few months back. Better to be prepared if they throw another one, or something like it.

[There you go, Kido, there's your excuse.]

[concealingeyes]

[That excuse works for her.]

A masquerade? Those really fancy balls?

[She glances down at herself. Definitely not suited to one of those.]

...I probably wouldn't go anyway, to be honest.

[bloodyashes]

[Hey, it's the kind with masks. You'd be absolutely suited for it, Kido.]

Why not?

[And hey, as they're talking, he's going to start walking off from the gathered crowd so that he can get his stuff safe and dry.]

[concealingeyes]

[She follows, scratching the back of her head.]

I'm not good at dressing any differently than I do now.

[bloodyashes]

[...Really, Kido? That's your excuse? Luckily, Asch doesn't care so much that he'll call you out on it.]

It's not so hard.

[Here, let's speed through the walking until they get to the building.]

[concealingeyes]

[Power walk complete!]

Man, what happened to this place?

[bloodyashes]

Some kind of fire. It's more obvious when you get inside.

[Hey, look, he actually got the door unbarred before bringing her over - no climbing in windows today! On the other side of the door, the fire damage is obvious as promised - Asch has managed to block off the broken window with an old sheet and pull up the rotted boards around there, but most of the floor and walls is still black with ash and charcoal.]

[concealingeyes]

[Kido looks around, hands in her pockets.] You're really going to have your work cut out for you but it's doable... You know, you could probably scavenge some good stuff from the housing units now for this place.

[bloodyashes]

It's a good thing I'm not in a rush. The upstairs is less burnt; it's probably livable now, with some new furniture.

[Speaking of which, he's going to head into the back and up those stairs now, to drop off the things he's carrying into that back room he's taken for himself.]

And hopefully there's at least a mattress to take, otherwise I'll be sleeping on the floor for a while.

[concealingeyes]

[She follows, still looking around to scope out the damage.]

We can find one. We can use one of your tarps to cover it and carry it between us so it won't get wet.

[bloodyashes]

[He nods, swinging his bundle down next to the wall for right now.

The upstairs is a lot less damaged than below; as apparently as the fire damage is the water damage just off-center in the living room. Although the leak is covered by a tarp for now, it's not hard to figure out where it was. Luckily, Asch has hauled most of the ruined furniture out already.]

I threw the extra over a broken window in the back - we can grab it on our way out.