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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.

[personal profile] barefootbender 2013-06-06 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[words like that remind her of Aang. for now, she'll let herself be comforted by them, and let Bolin baby her like this. because she's tired, and this is too much, and she realizes trusts him enough to look like a coward at a time like this.

rubbing her face on his clothes, she turns her head just enough for her to talk without being muffled.
]

...I hate feeling like I can't do anything.
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[personal profile] revelation 2013-06-06 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Me too. I guess it was silly to think that way though, it is a war after all but I never...

[ she pauses for a moment, unable to help her sigh. ]

I never thought what they said at the beginning, when we were warned that our worlds could be attacked. I didn't- I didn't think it would ever actually happen.

[personal profile] barefootbender 2013-06-06 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
[His forehead on the ground sends a very very strange set of vibrations through the ground, and it makes her pick her head up. She has no idea what Coby looks like, or what a smile really looks like (much less his smile), but getting such a good "view" of a person's head and shoulders is unusual for her. Normally, she mostly just senses peoples' legs and feet.

She lifts her head and turns it towards him. Toph can't see his smile, but she can hear it in his voice.
]

Uh... u-um... you're welcome.

[normally she'd eat this up, but it's a little bit of emotional whiplash right now.]
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[personal profile] invocation 2013-06-06 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Eh, don't beat yourself up about it.

[Kyouko sighs herself. The only noise on her end is the muffled sound of rain.]

It's not like this has ever happened before. We've been here a long time. Longer than the others. Bad stuff happened, but this is big.

[After a while:]

You gonna be okay?
kungfublackfrog: (You're kidding me right?)

[personal profile] kungfublackfrog 2013-06-06 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh yeah, and you have time for another round?" Adam replied, more than a little worried as he held onto his friend, keeping him steady as he started to move through the crowds.

If any soldiers even dared to cross their path, Adam was not going to hold back. If he had to choose between Billy's life or the enemy's...there was no choice.
showmeyourwreath: (❁ Amy Root)

[personal profile] showmeyourwreath 2013-06-06 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
[The question came instinctively to her when she'd asked it, but at the very same moment she'd sensed that aura, two, actually, but that first one, so chilling and wrathful, set her on edge. It was unsettling. She had a scant moment to decide that before everything started happening so very quickly.

Flora began to glow a bright, shimmering green, as though the stars in the sky were drawn to her aura. Her magic was leaving her, no, it was more than that, she could feel the shape of this, could feel a channel.

It was being taken.

Immediately, Flora added her own questions to the chorus.]


What is going on, here? [She looked between the both of them, then held up her hand, no longer burning.].

What is this?
Edited 2013-06-06 05:25 (UTC)
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[personal profile] revelation 2013-06-06 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not really all that tried, surprisingly. Maybe it's all the adrenaline? [ drawing her knees up, she rest her chin atop and stares outwards over the room the gems illuminated. ] I just didn't want to be a bother to the others, especially the ones that needed sleep. A lot of the other transports dealt with a lot worse things than I did...
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[personal profile] turns 2013-06-06 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ who else, she bites back before it can roll off her tongue. of course oriko mikuni is useless here - even if she had any idea, would she ever say a word? madoka's death... madoka's disappearance would only serve to further the goals she once espoused. ]

No. Of course not.

[ were this any other situation, any other setting, she might have flipped her hair over her shoulder. but this is a dying battlefield, awful and tangible and real, and her hand does not leave the gun. there's a very real temptation to shoot her now - to just pull the trigger and get it over with - but homura forces it out of her mind. it would only be a temporary solution here, wouldn't it?

and besides, it would only hurt madoka even more.
]

Have you seen any other magical girls, or are you really and truly alone?
commentboxtroll: (a golden bridge to retreat across)

[personal profile] commentboxtroll 2013-06-06 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ Now what...? ]

Yeah?
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[personal profile] revelation 2013-06-06 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Mm, I know it isn't not good for me to worry so much. I just... I guess I just wish things could have gone differently, but I suppose that's obvious.

[ there is a pause following kyouko's words, offering a small hum of thought before speaking. ] I wonder where we go from here and yup, I'll be fine. I just needed a little time to myself, I think. What about you though, are you doing okay?

[personal profile] substitutable 2013-06-06 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
[He takes it without thinking, not because he's afraid of getting dropped but because he's just scared of not being on the ground.]

I-I don't know if that's really the problem...
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[personal profile] substitutable 2013-06-06 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
... I don't know. But there's a chance. This one doesn't look like it'll collapse immediately.
alittlesweptup: (c'mon now really???)

[personal profile] alittlesweptup 2013-06-06 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know, I take up a lot of space. [Which is as piss poor a joke as has ever been made, but he honestly doesn't care much. He smelled like smoked bacon.]

Fancy coming back with me? [She may not be a paper pusher, but he can't imagine she's much better off than he is here. If he'd hazard a guess, he'd say they're both probably a little in over their heads.]
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[personal profile] 2leftfeet 2013-06-06 08:21 am (UTC)(link)
[She knows better too, but the easy way Garrus says it makes her grin a little anyway as Shepard falls in a few paces behind Thane, rifle trained directly up the flight of stairs to cover directly above him.

They might not do any good, but this is at least something worth doing.]
Wouldn't that be nice?
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[personal profile] flightybookshrew 2013-06-06 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Rose sinks down into the chair opposite Feferi, smoothing out her robe before she accepts the spoon with a grateful smile and a quiet thank you.]

[She had to admit, the thought of sitting and talking and eating ice cream was hard to resist.]

I haven't seen ice cream in a while. Where did you get it? I may have to see if I can acquire some for myself...
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[personal profile] goinbust 2013-06-06 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
"In my experience, that's usually the case."

[personal profile] bittertears 2013-06-06 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose I could bring you food, or perhaps some additional books for you to read?
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[personal profile] hornedomen 2013-06-06 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ico felt a wave of fear when Maya ran in front of them. The shield protected them from the bullets. The soldier did not falter in the face of this power. Without hesitation, the soldier switched to a hand-cannon.

Ico heard Phoenix, but it was too risky to retreat now and he was not alone. This was an opportunity. He charged again and he pushed the weapon aside. The blast went away from them and it hit a charred building. The fight was brief; Ico temporarily blinded him with the light of his sword and then he knocked him out.

There was little time to rest. More soldiers were searching for them and the sound of gunfire gave away their location. Their droning footsteps were drowned out by a thundering quake. The building had begun to collapse.]
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[personal profile] bikininspector 2013-06-06 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Everything is pain, shooting, blinding, every description he knows runs through his brain and it just yells YES at all of them, not really certain what they mean.

Everything is pain, and isn't that what some sick part of his brain wanted? To be punished for his future faults? Be careful of what you wish for has never seemed more right. He has to keep moving, he knows that without being told, but how the hell is he supposed to move now?

He attempts to push himself up on his good leg, grateful for the cover he's getting. He'd be dead by now without it.

Too delicate. If the situation wasn't so dire he'd snort. Too big of a failure seems far more appropriate.]


Yeah - [He breathes out, realizing that he does want to go back. Back to Dean, to Cas, to Buffy, to Gwen...he still doesn't want to die, not really. But how?]
retraced: (this is the last time)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-06-06 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[He nods and stretches his shoulders back. Something in his neck pops, and only then does he remember that he'd fallen and been injured before. Funny, though. Aside from some stiff muscles, he doesn't seem to be bleeding anywhere anymore. Must not have been that bad of a fall after all.]

R-right, good luck. Try to get out as soon as you can.
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[personal profile] postpones 2013-06-06 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
A taste of what lies in store for them, is all. Didn't work anyway.

[within the spell's range, she has a clear edge over the soldiers, a blur too quick for tracking systems or conventional weaponry. The path she cuts through the throng is a bloody one, though with method replacing ostentation. Unlike the magical girls she used to fight, goading these has accomplished approximately zilch.

It's not even as though they are too stupid to comprehend, or unafraid, Kirika observes. They simply don't care. And in another situation, she might laugh at how well she knows that somebody who cares not will forge right ahead.

But she recognizes this place, feels for it and what it has suffered at their hands. And --]


I hate it when weaklings get the idea to step between us.
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[personal profile] postpones 2013-06-06 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[cocking an eyebrow slightly at the mention of mana; she can't tell whether it's figurative or legit.

Now isn't the time to bother with that]


Wait, are you the one who's hungry here? Coulda just said.
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[personal profile] ringbeast 2013-06-06 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[He laughs lightly, slightly awkwardly.]

I had something earlier, so I'm good. I can't uh.

[He's spent only a little bit of brainpower and effort trying to keep Kirika from figuring out that part of his little secret, but at a time like this, it seems kind of pointless to worry about it.]

I can't make my own mana, I gotta borrow it from Haruto. And he's still out there fighting, he needs it.
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[personal profile] aceordisgraced 2013-06-06 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
... This really isn't good. Ico! Come on, let's go!

[He doesn't wait for the answer, grabbing Ico by his arm and Maya by hers as well, yanking them away from the oncoming soldiers and the collapsing building. They've got to find somewhere to hide...!]
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[personal profile] fantasticforcefields 2013-06-06 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Sue throws up her hands and lets them fall back down to her sides. Today is a mess and she'll be angry later, after she's had a nap and washed the sweat out of her hair.

"Next stop, the portal." She nods in the direction they're headed, where there are a handful of Transports visible manning a perimeter around their own personal hole in space and time.