Let's be war buddies...

[initiates]

Date & Time: 18th, beginning at 2100 hours, through to the 20th.
Location: All around Exsilium.
Characters: Everyone!
Summary: The United Earth decides Exsilium had obviously not learned its lesson back in October, and does another round of humble-making bombing for those impertinent exiles. OOC info can be found here.
Warnings: Violence, death, general gloom and doom.

The warning had gone out approximately two hours before the bombing began, broadcast to any available receptor on the island: UE aggressions incoming, bombs expected; please proceed to Catacombs immediately. It repeats over and over, right up until the first bomb, aimed at the Hold itself, silences the signal.

The air is thick with smoke and worse. Every one to two hours another bomb shakes the island. Buildings crumble and shatter, but the focus is on the Hold and the native hospital. Initiative employees, some sick as anyone else, are steadfast in their escorting natives and transports alike into the underground catacombs. For two days the bombs continue ceaselessly, dropped by their cloaked and invisible carriers overhead.

The United Earth is nothing if not thorough.

Comments

b;

[labsmokes]

[ That's really-- not the best place to be reading. Shion pauses, shoulders slightly hunched.]

Bright enough for you?

b;

[oncearanger]

[He closes the book and looks up, shaking his head slightly]

I manage. I have stronger lights that I can power for a little while, but I'm saving them for an emergency. And I don't exactly have a safe place to put a fire.

[labsmokes]

[ She offers the wryest of chuckles. ]

It's too wet to light anything in this place anyway.

[oncearanger]

That's not helping the cold situation much.

[He joins her in a chuckle, shaking his head.]

I have enough backup power on my other lights for a little while, but that's all. I guess it's left to the people with light and fire-related magic.

I never thought I'd say that!

[labsmokes]

Why not? Not a fan of [ here she gestures vaguely— around them ] magic?

[oncearanger]

It doesn't bother me. I suppose it just astounds me, even after being around it for over a year.

My home world didn't have magic---the only one wielding it was an alien invader and my enemy. So to see everyday people using it to help them in their lives is still a little strange.