exsiliumlogs | EVENT: HERE THERE BE MONSTERS

Date & Time: October 24 - October 31
Location: Throughout Exsilium
Characters: ALL; tag yourselves in
Summary: The Transports return from their mission to find the island crawling with monsters.
Warnings: Violence, possibly injuries (notify a mod if there's cause to add a particular warning!)

The Transports return from their mission to Medieval Russia, but the Initiative Hold is eerily deserted. Normally, their would be a number of Initiative personnel prepared to meet the Transports at the end of their mission for debriefing.

Instead, there is only silence.

That is, until a distant thumping sound can be heard. It is growing closer, and suddenly the beast is bursting into the room. It lets out a roar and charges. Within minutes, it is easily defeated, but damage has already been done -- it collided with the Transporter machine, which is now making a low fizzling sound and lets off a couple sparks. The commotion is enough to draw the attention of the few remaining Initiative personnel who still inhabit the Hold, who arrive immediately afterwards. They are able to tell the Transports two things: that the machine is broken and currently unable to sent anyone back in time, and that the island has been overrun with aggressive, mutated beasts sent by the United Earth. They have been under siege for months, with the island's population reduced to a mere fraction of what it had once been.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Did I do something?

No, no, no! No! Don't worry about it! Are we almost to the medic place now?

Yeah, like a minute. You need me to carry you?

No I can walk. I'm okay. I'm telling you I've had worse. I'm serious.

Well you're the one who's all oh yeah, dying's like no big deal so, uh... Excuse me if I think you got some messed up scale of "bad".

Don't be so dramatic.

I'm serious. You can't let this kinda life get to you.

It's not! What are you talking about?

Edited 2012-11-03 09:06 (UTC)

Talking like life and death's no big deal. It'll mess you up if you think like that. You gotta fight against that kinda thinking.

You haven't been here all that long, right? It makes things way easier.

Just 'cause I ain't been here long don't mean I ain't been in a shit situation before. I know what I'm talking about. You start cutting yourself off from the part of you that cares about life, you're gonna turn into a monster.

...I mean, not - You know. It's the same part of you that cares about doing good. You'll get hurt and you'll hurt other people.

I don't think that's true. I don't want to see any of my allies here get hurt...

[It's just her own life she has come to regard as sort of unimportant.]

I believe you, okay, but it eats away at your head. I seen it happen.

Don't worry about me.

You're a goddamn broken record when it comes to this shit, aren't you.

Only because it's true. No one should worry about me!

Try convincing me sometime you ain't covered in blood.

Don't worry. If I die they'll bring me back. It's not important.

Edited 2012-11-03 19:34 (UTC)

What if their shit's broken so they can't bring you back, huh? Or what if you get brought back and you're all wrong, like Frankenstein? Or like... I dunno. There's a million reasons why you saying that is total bullshit, okay? I mean, even if you don't die, you're hurt. It's important when people get hurt.

I don't think I was all wrong when I got brought back the first time... what if I didn't know? What if I was a completely different person? That would be pretty weird already, don't you think?

I didn't mean - Look, I'm just saying, from now on... You can't just take this shit for granted.

You barely know me! You shouldn't look so worried. You'd meet new people.

What?

You can't seriously think that.

No, no, no, don't look worried, it's not personal. It's just true.

New people don't just replace the old ones we lost. Jesus, you're not a broken iPod, for Christ's sake.

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