UPCOMING PLOT: Bombs Away

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✕ BOMBS AWAY PLOT INFORMATION ✕
WHAT'S HAPPENING

Basically, there is a spy for the United Earth inside of the Initiative's walls. He's been keeping an eye on the developments and, most notably, he's been documenting the Transports—he's made contact with the United Earth and shared with them his findings; "There's strange people here, not like us, with all manner of capabilities." Having been in the Initiative's custody, they have the fleeting chance to catch wind of his correspondence but no hope to intercept it—the United Earth knows about the Transports. They do not know why they're there, or what the Initiative is planning.

They don't know everything. They have an inkling about how they've managed to make their way into Exsilium, but it's going to take days of work. Days of attacks.

The Initiative will warn the Transports on the Network that they have been compromised in some way, and that the repercussions are unknown at this time. Then, a bomb will drop. The Initiative will react accordingly—air raid sirens everywhere, with Initiative members staffed on nearly every street corner. "We must get underground!" they're crying, shuffling Transports and citizens alike into the sewers and adjacent catacombs of the City's underground as sleek, invisible war planes drop bombs on the City and its Outlands for three straight days; they will destroy many buildings, but the Initiative Hold will be spared—after all, that's where this technology is, and that's what they want the most.

Well, that's their secondary plan. Kill the strange new mutants and vigilantes and aliens that have somehow made their way into this prison of an island is their primary goal. Find out how they're getting there is their second. There will be ground troops of heavily-armored Masked that will come into the City and surround the Hold, swarming it in search of their prize while all Transports and citizens are required to remain underground in mazes of sewers and dark, moist hallways of concrete.

Even after the bombs have ceased, the air raid sirens have silenced, and the ground troops have left the Hold, the citizens and Transports will be urged to remain underground for a remaining week. The Initiative will explain this to everyone—essentially, "we need to make the United Earth think they were successful in eliminating or culling our population". The UE will be keeping an eye on the destruction to ensure their success for a mere week, before considering the mission accomplished and turning their backs on the island again as they had before. Surely any survivors will be left subdued, won't they? Surely.

After a week, the Initiative will be helping to rebuild all that's been destroyed. They'll be repairing damaged sections of the Housing building, and working in particular on the streets and businesses that both Transports and citizens own. They'll help everyone from the catacombs and the sewers and they'll return them to their homes, but only when they're certain that their coast is clear; life in Exsilium will go relatively back to normal, though the Initiative will warn their citizens and their Transports to remain vigilant. The threat might not be over yet.

BONUS POINTS: These bomb planes and their bombs are coming from a stockpile that the United Earth has been saving toward other military endeavors—waiting, really, for an end-day emergency. They're not exactly in high supply, so this entire excursion of theirs will do much to dwindle their existing supply for endgame events.

SOME THINGS OF NOTE

✕ While underground, everyone will still have access to the Network. The Initiative will regularly bring water, food, and blankets and clothing for everyone to ensure their safety.

✕ The planes will be invisible (think the Avengers' Helicarrier reflective technology) for the most part and highly protected—one attempt to destroy them will send them immediately out of range, and then they will come hurtling down into the ground. Basically, the planes are unmanned, and are booby-trapped. Say your character shoots a lightning bolt up at a plane? It's going to disappear, then drop straight back down to where your character is standing and explode. I HEARD YOU LIKE BOMBS SO I PUT BOMBS IN YOUR BOMB PLANE SO YOU COULD BOMB THINGS WHILE YOU BOMB THINGS.

However, the planes are not impossible to damage. If you're quick enough and powerful enough—or there are enough of you—you could subdue a plane before it has a chance to launch into the sky for its final descent!

✕ Bombs will be dropping roughly every hour at the fastest, to two hours at the slowest. So, all day, every hour to two-hours. Your characters will feel them like earthquakes from their safe spot underground, and sometimes, the concrete ceilings will begin to crack in precarious ways. Be vigilant!

✕ The catacombs will look like this and they feed into the sewer system. Basically it is a giant maze of unpaved, undeveloped mining tunnels that extend in several directions off of the existing sewers; moist, wet, humid, and incredibly dark.

✕ If one ventures out while the bombs are dropping, they'll be subject to intense smog and gas; their respiratory systems will come close to failure, and they'll have difficulty seeing or breathing. In rare cases, and with rare bombs, characters will begin to hallucinate from the fumes. Note that some characters can find themselves immune to the dangerous effects of the bombs, and will be able to help out in the event that some Masked troops need displacement by Transports!

✕ IF ANY OF THIS sounds like stuff you'd like your character to do, rather than instead just reacting to what's going on, let us know here and we can give you necessary details! Characters will be able to interact with ground troops of Masked and will, if powerful enough, be able to take out or at least damage some of the planes and bombs as they fall, for example.

TIMELINE OF EVENTS

SEPT 24 (Early Morning) — The Initiative will make a post on the network warning transports that something is afoot at the Circle K they've been compromised, and something bad is going to happen, but they don't know what.
SEPT 24 (Late Evening) — A bomb will be dropped in the Marketplace of the Initiative Hold, destroying the shops there but sparing the bulk of the building. The Initiative will station members at every other street corner and will sound air raid sirens—they will come to every apartment in the housing building and they will try to get everyone to follow them underground.
Bombs continue until the 27th of September.
SEPT 27 (Evening) — The bombs have finally ceased to fall. The periodic air raid sirens have stopped, once the Initiative is certain that everything is safe. The ground troops have left, and the air will take days to clear.
Everyone will remain underground until October 3rd in a bid to make the United Earth think their mission was a success.
OCT 3 (Mid-Day) — With assurance of their safety and the disappearance of the United Earth's forces, the Initiative will gradually show everyone out of the catacombs and make a network announcement to let everyone know that the coast is clear and safe, but to remain vigilant and inconspicuous as best they can.
OCT 4 — OOC post will go up that details the after-effects of the plot, the Initiative and the United Earth's successes and failures, and any other information that will need to be made clear!

WHEW. If anyone has any questions or ideas or comments, you're welcome to leave them here! The plot will kick off with the Initiative announcement on the network on the 24th, so keep an eye out!

Thanks in advance everyone!

Comments

[freezerburned]

ISAAC.... doesn't really have any cool plans ;w; Honestly, his first priority will be running underground with everyone else until he remembers that oh hey, he kind of has allies here. So then he'll move on trying to save like, Scott and Collette (and maybe maybe Stiles) and basically making sure that they're not doing anything stupid like THE REST OF YOU GOSH.

BUT HEY THERE'S A FULL MOON SEPTEMBER 29TH.

So this little werewolf will probably try to be as far away from people as possible, including trying to get up top, despite the warnings not to. If anyone tries to stop him, he'll probably try to fight them- the full moon pulls on his emotions and makes him far more volatile.

SO who'd be up for maybe doing that? I'm totally fine with him being knocked out and chained up or whatever until the moon is done since, with all the stress and the masses of people in such close range, he'll probably be hard-pressed to control his violent nature.

[workout]

WEREWOLF FISTICUFFS

[freezerburned]

HE WILL GUT YOU LIKE...

A THING THAT IS GUTTED REALLY VIOLENTLY

[workout]

W/E W/E

YOU AIN'T NO ALPHA

IT'LL HEAL

[gained_a_level]

...../bolts the door behind you two :|

[boughtabookstore]

OKAY SO LIKE for werewolf shenanigans in general I can offer up Ros she's been keeping an eye on the lunar cycle in general now that she knows werewolves are in Exs JUST TO BE SURE YOU KNOW

so she would probably at least track down Scott and be like OKAY so this is not very great and try to make sure that him and any others were safely away from others during the full moon

[workout]

YES GOOD I think general gameplan right now is that Isaac's going to try to get to the surface so he doesn't eat people, Scott will try to stop him; they'll both be extra feisty so end up fighting each other, which is preferable to fighting random bystanders anyway.

I would love for Ros to be involved - like maybe Scott could reach out to her while he's trying to corral Isaac, help find somewhere for them to hole up? Or she can just encounter them and try to run interference! Either way Scott would have the presence of mind to try to work with her.

[boughtabookstore]

GOD YOU WEREWOLVES

whichever way works better for you works fine by me! she'd probably specifically go looking for him, because she'd want to get involved as soon as possible just to make sure any damage is minimized.

[whatsupcroc]

Hey Isaac so she won't ignore you either if she will get into stupid stuff she has a problem staying still and she'd be happy to try and keep him off topside, particularly when she'll be testing topside limits close to the start. Any which way! I'd be glad to thread however works best for you, whatever way you like.

Isaac you're totally going to introduce her to your friends right that's so a plan YOUR PACK it's so adorable you have a pack. :D

[freezerburned]

AW SWEET OF YOU. But yeah, he'll definitely try to disobey everyone and go up top- so if she wanted to try to keep him off, maybe we could have a small gater on wolf fight aw yeah. OR like, idk, maybe she could find him in the day before the transformation and they could have a cute lil' thread where Isaac is just wigging out and Collette is like DUDEBRO OMG CHILL. Or both!

And... WELL UH MAYBE Scott isn't in his pack tho okay X-( X-( X-( grr

[whatsupcroc]

I vote both but there's this problem I have it's called loving all the CR -- and seriously, I would enjoy doing both if you're up for it, or if up for just one, either or!

Oh yes sure he's... totally not.... /unsure face sure seems like he sorta is PACKS ARE HARD TO FIGURE

[freezerburned]

Haha! Well, I'd prefer the thread where he's freaking all over her, and maybe that can turn into her trying to keep him from going up top- I'm doing a lot for this event and in other-game, and I'm worried about putting on too many threads! But we can definitely do the first thing and then see where that goes? I LOVE THE CR TOO the two of them are super wicked great.

it's simple. Isaac is part of a pack and scott is a stupid lone wolf X-(

[whatsupcroc]

Then let's do that thread! I definitely don't want to add weight to a heavy load, especially with more than one game doing plot intensive runs at the same time! Would you like me to get that set up, or should I be on the lookout for a general thread from you?

so statistically scott's a wildcard and only hunts the scrappy small stuff okay good to know

[freezerburned]

Sounds good! Thanks <3 And, erm, if you want to do it in the immediate future, it might be best if you set it up? I'm racing to catch up on everything pre-plot tonight, and I don't want to make you wait until I remember to throw something up in a general thread ;w; Sorry! I promise I'm not normally so unreliable, there's just a looot going on rn. ;w;

yep scott is scrappy doo and isaac&thepack are p. much meddling kids and their dumb dog

[whatsupcroc]

I will try and do so tomorrow! Hahaha no worries, you really are quite fine and reliable, even with a lot going on! ♥ I'll send a link your way once I have something up!

imagining them all in the van now and laughing hysterically

[freezerburned]

Awesome, thanks! I'm sorry haha. <3 <3 I really do appreciate it.

lmao. WE'RE HERE TO SOLVE A MYSTERY