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exsilium MODS ([personal profile] initiates) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-05-21 10:29 am
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Other Worlds: V 2.0

Date & Time: May 21st, beginning at 0900.
Location: The Initiative Hold and all throughout Elmer's world
Characters: Anyone participating in the fighting, anyone staying behind.
Summary: Elmer's world is fought for and lost.
Warnings: Violence, death.

They reopen the portal at 0900, May 21st. The first scientist who stepped through was killed within thirty seconds; the rest who followed made it back through to Exsilium, albeit not unscathed. The portal was shut again by a panicked operator, although a second operator knew to keep the coordinates locked.

Within ten minutes, the alert had been sent out. There's no time to wait for the Transports to gather en masse; as soon as they have a sizable enough force to stand a chance at fighting through and clearing their gateway's location, the door is opened again.

Immediately inside the door is a desolate, grim scene. What had previously been the coast of Japan is now scorched earth, blasted sand, and little else. As the first point of contact for this world, it has undoubtedly suffered the worst. Here, the UE didn't stop at governments, financial centers, and capitols — the UE destroyed everything in sight. There are enough UE soldiers remaining in the broken country to give the Transports a difficult battle, although by now the bulk of their forces have moved on.

The Initiative will soon realize the necessity of opening more gateways, just as the UE had done. Transports will be deployed to London, Berlin, Paris, DC Washington, Moscow, Beijing, New York City, Hong Kong, Madrid. Through each of these windows, the destruction is staggering. Buildings are more husks than structures, everything that can burn is alight, and the death toll is off the charts. Blackened bodies seem to line every street, while pieces litter the ground among the rubble. There's no doubt that the UE has no need of the people of this world. They're after resources only, and anything and anyone already here is to be removed.

You can find UE soldiers everywhere. They move in coordinated squadrons of 20, and each of them carries a small arsenal. Even without their incredibly advanced and destructive weaponry, they're fearfully formidable. Each soldier, while still only human, is a genetically perfect clone, further enhanced by technological implants. They're all highly trained in physical combat. Even if you can disarm one of them, don't count on close-range attacks being any easier to handle. They've brought along cannons, small flying craft, and lightweight tanks. Each of these is the top of the line in terms of technology, geared toward destroying as much as it can, as quickly as it can. The United Earth is here to destroy, and they won't stop to wonder why their targets go from being civilians and scrambling, off-guard, comparatively primitive militaries, to trained and powered Transports.

For anyone staying at home, they'll find that any Initiative presence has withdrawn fully to the Hold. All Initiative employees are needed, and most of them in the med bays. The majority of the Initiative focus is on recalling and resurrecting fallen Transports, but attention is still needed for the living-but-wounded. Any Transports who stay in Exsilium and offer their help will have it immediately accepted; they'll be put to work in the medical wings, runnings supplies, or simply set at a machine and told to keep an eye on the numbers: Transport vitals, UE movements, and maps upon maps of changing statistics and colors.

At 1500, the Initiative will recall all Transport soldiers back to Exsilium and seal shut the gateway. The UE numbers are too great, their soldiers too powerful, and Elmer's world is lost.
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[personal profile] hejhej 2013-05-27 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Using her foot, she drags her bag over to her. Lisbeth takes out her computer and squeezes in beside him on the bed. She starts it up and continues what she'd been working on when the explosion happened.

Jules always asked too many questions whenever she saw Lisbeth on her computer. And she wasn't ready to leave Jesse just yet.]
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[personal profile] nobleminded 2013-05-27 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
What?

[Veinpop. Why did so many people think he was clueless?! He went to a good school for crying out loud!

...Then again, she is trying to apologize and does seem to be having a pretty rough time of it, so he'll force himself to hold back from yelling.
]

How are you supposed to know something no one has told you? Even if you had taken the time to think about it, you couldn't know for sure. Until I came here, I would have never suspected I could encounter people who had already died.
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[personal profile] onblackwings 2013-05-27 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Knocking a building over does sound sort of appealing, though she's not sure she sees how it would work. Still, he has her attention. She pauses completely, drawing up into a hover. She waves a claw, muttering under her breath in that spidery language, and instantly there's a shimmering barrier around them. None too soon, either — one of the soldiers below has fired off his launcher, and the explosion blasts harmlessly against the shield. ]

What line? [ She glances between him and the building, trying to envision it. ]
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[personal profile] khajidont 2013-05-27 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Jaime jerks his head around when he hears a voice behind him, the sound of someone speaking calmly almost more foreign than the lingering sounds of explosions, gunfire and screams at this point.

It's something to anchor onto in the face of all of this at the very least. There are no atheists in foxholes, his father used to tell him, and seeing this? He can tell where the saying comes from.]


No kidding, [he says, voice still a little distant, a little stunned. The way he tries to put himself back together and steel himself is almost visible in the way he straightens up and squares his shoulders.] So this is it. They're just throwing us in here.

[He doesn't even know where to start.]
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[personal profile] debtor 2013-05-27 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
[He immediately, predictably, tries to protest;] No, Lenalee--

[But apparently they're not being given a say in the matter. He keeps up with Kaneis, eyes fogging slightly. The clinic almost doesn't feel real, he finds it difficult to focus on anything but what they've just left behind. He would hold Lenalee's sleeve, to pull her forward, to have someone to hold onto, but he doesn't have another arm to spare yet.

...This exam room is familiar, somehow! How weird.

Once he finally sits down, he deactivates completely. His sword breaks apart and his arm takes shape, reattaching smoothly to his shoulder. The belts wrapped around his limbs pull back and fade away, and he hisses through his teeth, gripping the edge of the exam table.]
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[personal profile] controlledvariable 2013-05-27 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
Fifty meters seems like a hell of a lot right now. [There are so many of the United Earth soldiers, and this is probably the most enemies she's fought in one go, but she's trying not to get overwhelmed. Hence:]

I'll see what I can do.

[She sticks to his right side, but starts edging towards the rubble he pointed out, trying to clear a path. It gets easier when she snatches up a gun from one of the fallen soldiers, using that instead of her staff.]
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[personal profile] copia 2013-05-27 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ She rolls her eyes lightly as she shakes her head, although there is a small smile on her face. He is definitely helping some of her anxiety go away. ]

I suppose so. Maybe I'll be one of those "chicks" when I'm older, but that is doubtful.
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[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2013-05-27 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
[And shall we skip to the apartment? Galadriel opens the door and holds it for Celebrían.]

You will rest better here.
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[personal profile] imperfect 2013-05-27 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, I'd be fine. This is me we're talking about. It's just... [...that Al hasn't been the only one who's noticed tiny discrepancies in their methods of alchemy by now, and that there's absolutely no way he could live with himself if he unintentionally caused the worst to happen with his own hands - even though indirectly it'd be his fault either way, of course. But after a second of mentally wrangling with that phrasing and failing to make it sound better, he slumps a little and leaves all of that unsaid.] Well, it was just a thought.

[Absently, with a small grimace, he flexes his bandaged arm at the elbow a couple of times.]

Can't say I missed this kind of place... Forget the noise, the smell in here's giving me a headache.

[In an unnecessarily roundabout way, it's almost another apology.]
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[personal profile] alittlesweptup 2013-05-27 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
[That's what he thought. Charlie gives her a flat look in return, one eyebrow cocked as a silent question mark. But he's not planning to push her either; secrets are secrets.]

Seems like you're managing alright. [He smooth out the medtape to the best of his ability, then tears off another piece with his teeth. Does the same with that, hissing low at the sting. Hurt's like a motherfucker with the pressure on it.]
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[personal profile] oldsoldiersneverdie 2013-05-27 08:26 am (UTC)(link)

[Nate nods, expression grim] Cattle for the slaughter, it feels like.

[He shakes his head a little, as if to clear out the thoughts, and draws his pulse rifle, looking more determined] We can pull what civilians are left, try to get them somewhere defensible - or hit the enemy straight on and think their numbers.

[personal profile] substitutable 2013-05-27 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
There's water around here? I don't...

If I stay in one spot I'll get shot.

[personal profile] bittertears 2013-05-27 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
[She'll assume credits are a form of currency for him.]

Certainly can't be helped if they've all things to do. Speaking of, do give me some good news, as I'd like to get back on my feet.

[personal profile] bittertears 2013-05-27 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
Would there be anything I could do to hasten your recovery? Or at the very least, make your stay here all the more tolerable?

[personal profile] bittertears 2013-05-27 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Screw that. Besides, his constant smiling is reminding her too much of a certain mangy Cat.

Ugh.]


If that's the case, and then I am perfectly content to shooting back.

[despite the fact that she doesn't appear to be armed with much.]
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[personal profile] worldswillburn 2013-05-27 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Try to be on your best behavior. Because you're gonna be in big trouble if I find out you've gotten yourself killed." She says, forcing herself to smile while fully realizing what she had just said. "Got it?"

[personal profile] painfeels 2013-05-27 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Wouldn't be surprised if they did it anyways." She says, closely following Mokou. "These guys don't seem to care what happens as long as they take us out." Painwheel had thought the the United Earth was... bad, but not nearly to this degree. One heck of a way to have underestimated them, definitely.

[personal profile] painfeels 2013-05-27 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Painwheel shook her head. "I'm alright. The people that uh... changed me made sure that I'd be a durable enough weapon." She wasn't often particularly grateful for what she was, but today at least, Painwheel felt relieved that she was still up on her feet and in no real danger. At least, not anymore.

"Besides, I gotta make sure that everybody's doing alright. Especially my friends!"

[personal profile] painfeels 2013-05-27 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, you're right." Painwheel didn't feel comfortable flying when they were under such heavy fire. Not a lot of good she'd be able to do if a batch of soldiers literally shot her out of the air. Looks like it was gonna have to be done the old fashioned way. Unless...

"Don't suppose you know some fancy way to get us out of here."

Hey, if Dagger could make some old guy use lightning on everybody, it was definitely worth a shot.

[personal profile] bittertears 2013-05-27 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Very good then. [Alice nods in approval, impressed with Lenalee's resilience.]

We've two options available to us right now, though I'm sure you already know of this.

Stand and fight? Or make as hasty a retreat as we are able to?

[whatever the choice, it had better be picked soon.]
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[personal profile] theguideless 2013-05-27 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"I..." I never went, he wanted to say, but that wasn't the right answer, was it? He bit his lip, frowning.

"I don't know where my friends are...some of them. I'm trying to find them."
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[personal profile] theguideless 2013-05-27 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Martin swallowed, as if swallowing would relieve some of the pain he felt. She's been doing a lot more than I have... Again, a spark of feeling he didn't wholly understand. He didn't know what to make of anger.

"Y-you're right," he uttered, finding it hard to look at her all of a sudden. "Finding them is...is most important."

Everyone went to fight except me. I keep running around, trying to find them, but...
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[personal profile] theguideless 2013-05-27 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[each step implies a much greater movement he wants to make – run over, hug her, be certain she's really alright. biting at that bit, he walks over, fingers clenching and unclenching, and all of him ultimately stopping to stare blankly at the question in a way not unlike her own a moment ago.

Madoka?]


I...yes, she...[he licks his lips anxiously.] She's here, I saw her. I don't know for Sayaka...
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[personal profile] firstroar 2013-05-27 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[at least two horrified people catch Oz's drift right away and are already running, to Blue's surprise. himself, he keeps his eyes trained upward, peering through layers of chain that had to be for protection. friend, then.

he steeled himself with a breath, knees slowly bending til he was at a crouch. the next breath he held, and, in the midst of the motion of standing up again, vanished.

the ship that had come bearing down on them sharply veered, then rattled with an explosion from its middle, plummeting in a spiral a short distance away.]
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[personal profile] firstroar 2013-05-27 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't the time to wonder, yet chances to dig his memories free from those pits they were lost in were rare and well sought after. Blue stared back, not minding the radiating concern that came from the boy.

"You were there," he realized, more and more certain by the second. "One of the masks in that city..."

There were others. A different one. Something to do with steel? Or iron...