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

[velveteened]

No, I'm not offended.

( it's quiet enough that he doesn't notice kano's move, or realize to turn his head appropriately. )

I didn't realize I looked that tired.

[duplicitoussight]

[Ah. Now it makes sense.]

It's understandable. It's hard to tell how you look when you can't see yourself, right?

[velveteened]

( caught! he stills for just a second before leaning backwards with a laugh. )

That's right. Of course, I could just ask someone. But I'm sure Gil would say something like, "Don't worry, you always look fine!"

[duplicitoussight]

[Kano joins in the laugh, his own dwindling down to small giggles.]

He'd be right! You don't have anything to worry about, except for that giant mark on your face. [Nothing wrong with poking fun of the situation, right?]

[velveteened]

( WOW AWFUL )

Ahahah, isn't that a little contradictory?

[duplicitoussight]

I don't know, I don't know. Some girls find burns as signs of attractive and broody types, to tell the truth!

[velveteened]

Good point! Well, if it attracts girls, it can't be a bad thing.

[duplicitoussight]

Right, right? It'd be even better if you had a heroic story to match it!

[velveteened]

A heroic story...

( he considers that and gives a slight headshake. )

In that case, I probably am out of luck.

[duplicitoussight]

Ah. [He can guess broadly at what had happened--he'd seen what the bombs had done. But it's nicer--and easier--not to confront the problem directly.] What about a villainous one, then?

[velveteened]

Ah! Do I look like someone who'd have a villainous story to tell?

[duplicitoussight]

The best sort of villain is the one no one expects! They make for the best plot twists.

[velveteened]

That's true! But it has to be foreshadowed properly, or else it isn't very believable.

[duplicitoussight]

In that case, we'll let them tell a sympathetic story on their own.