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

[labsmokes]

[ The ceiling's shaking-- sign that there's another detonation topside. ]

When was the first?

[commentboxtroll]

Back in early Fall sometime. I wasn't here for that one. [ And with all the history he's had to sift through already, that actually fell under 'minor events not worth worrying about immediately'. ] The time after that, the United Earth sent an army of monsters... mutants? Mutant somethings.

[labsmokes]

Don't suppose they left the place standing in one piece after either.

[ eyebrows raise, but somewhat non-committal tone. ]

Makes me wonder if all the rebuilding's worth it, if they're gonna tear it down again, that's all.

[commentboxtroll]

You say that like there's a choice. The ones who live here, there isn't anywhere else for them to go, so what can they do besides pick everything up all over again and again?

[labsmokes]

[ She raises her hands halfway in a reconciliatory gesture. ]

...true enough. It's just a depressing kind of life to have, that's all.

[commentboxtroll]

It really is. [ Can't argue with that part, that's for sure. ] But I'm sure that also means they have more than enough experience with rebuilding to get it all back together quickly.

[ If they're so used to it! ]

[labsmokes]

If they have the resources to, of course.

[ She glances off to the side for a bit, chewing lightly on her lip. Maybe time to take it back to topic. ]

Heard that they found a cure for that bug, though.