exsiliumlogs | 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Ibin's been administering first aid in the Hold for hours now, and has done his fair share of rapping out frantic orders as he's been tending to two, three, or four people at once. Now he stops for just a moment.]

They do. If only we could persuade people not to run out there and be destroyed over and over.

[He's holding a cup of water, and offers it to Zelos.] Here. You've been a great help, but dehydration will sneak up on you when you're doing fifty things at once like we've had to.

That's not gonna happen, have you seen what it's like out there?

[No way people will stop trying. It's too hellish for them not to]

[But he'll take the cup, taking a drink] Thanks. I'd hate to lose my voice or something.

I haven't, though so many injured-- and such severe injuries-- gives me some idea. Do you mean it's worse than it looks from here?

[He nods a little] Everything's burned or rubble, every street's covered in bodies or body parts...and no matter how much they fight off the UE, they just seem to keep coming.

Seen a lot of bad stuff, but nothing like that.

Everything? The UE troops are destroying this whole world?

[Usually Zelos is good at remaining detached. It was safer that way. But even he can't look apathetic towards the sights he saw. It was one thing to sometimes think it'd be easier if the world was destroyed, it was another to see it.]

Yeah. Seems like.

[Ibin's mind immediately goes to the kind of loss of life from an entire world being destroyed like this and he just. Can't. He can't comprehend it, and he can't compartmentalize it and think about anything else, either.]

I-- I don't understand. Why. Why would they destroy everything?

I've heard they want resources. Easiest way to get that without argument is to just kill everyone, right?

[It's terrible to even think about]

Pretty sick...a group called the United Earth, destroying another Earth.

[You know what? Ibin is just not strong enough for this shit. His face wipes clean of everything except a look of concentration, his Doing Medicine Now look. Because by god and by damn, he will do some medicine.]

I guess so. I'd better get back-- looks like the receiving area's getting swamped again.

[And with that, he'll turn to leave. Sorry for the abrupt conversational cutoff, Zelos, he has plumb run out of cans.]

...Right.

[He'll watch him go, he really can't blame the guy that much for brain shutting off. It's...a lot to process]

[And so, he'll go back to his own work]

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yessss, this exchange is exactly the missing link Ibin needed

mwhahaha exceeelllent /chinhands

After this he runs around all "don't go back, we've lost, don't die for nothing." It's hilarible.

you have so much tact Ibin

it's funny because he used to have a pretty good bedside manner, honest!

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