KAIJU FIGHT #2

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KAIJU FIGHT #2

CONTENT WARNINGS: electrophobia, body horror, death/injury, gore, violence.

▶ 001. IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL

On the 1st of April, Outsiders will be rudely awakened by the sudden voice of Captain Yamakawa:

"Angels of Lilith. I require your immediate attention. Through your efforts at extracting information from our captives, and intel collected by our intelligence team, we have located the culprits who have stolen our specimens and are conducting illegal experiments. Your mission briefing will arrive shortly. Take caution, however. The Neo Tokyo Meteorological Agency is reporting strange abnormalities in their readings. We will look further into this. For now, stay sharp and be prepared."

The alarm will sound in the base, urging all Outsiders to suit up, bring their weapons and get ready for the mission. A location pin will then be downloaded into their implant, along with an associated mission briefing. The location will lead to an abandoned amusement park that might be familiar to some - Tokyo Disneyland. The brief will report that according to intel, there is an unauthorized research facility hidden within the premises. Outsiders are to locate it, storm it, and seize any lab specimens they can find.

To get to the theme park, characters will be able to take trains to the edge of Neo Tokyo where they can then be transported by armored trucks through what remains of old roads. Eventually, when the terrain becomes too destroyed and overgrown with brush, they’ll have to travel by foot the rest of the way. However, they will have to be careful because it looks like someone has laid out traps. Some of them are designed to capture animals but others are clearly booby traps meant to deter intruders.

From the outside, nothing looks out of the ordinary in this old park - there are classic attractions such as Cinderella’s castle, the Haunted Mansion, Alice’s Teacup ride, the Western River Railroad, and many, many more. While most of the rides are weathered down and no longer functional, there are plenty of old gift shops and carnival game booths with prizes to take home for free (if you don’t mind a really old Minnie Mouse doll).

LILITH was not able to pinpoint exactly where this secret laboratory is hidden within the enormous park, and it’s now up to the Outsiders to find it. All implants will be fitted with a heat-seeking function to allow Outsiders to detect anomalies within the park.

The first part of the mission is simple: Scour the rides and attractions and find the entrance.

Outsiders may encounter more booby traps while searching the park. Traps will range from making parts of attractions and buildings collapse on intruders to more elaborate and high-tech ones like electric fields or explosive traps. Players are more than welcome to come up with their own traps so long as it fits the setting.

▶ 002. BOO WHO?

Eventually, Outsiders will find themselves drawn to the Haunted Mansion, where there appear to be several abnormal signs of life. While the mansion would hardly have been scary to anyone but children several hundred years ago, centuries without any sort of maintenance have turned the place into a real nightmare. Pitch darkness, decrepit fake graves that look like they could be real ones, and the mysterious chatter of – is that a ghost? There are flickers of life within the old animatronics, and ever so often you might see a skeleton or zombie twitch. They might even take a swing at an unsuspecting Outsider.

The deeper into the mansion you travel, the more power it appears to have, until the Outsiders reach a door that appears to be heavily guarded by a group of humans holding vicious chimeras on a leash.

Once LILITH receives this intel, the next order is given: Storm the lab immediately!

▶ 003. LET'S GECK-GO!

As the Outsiders infiltrate the lab, the air buzzes with electricity and everyone's hair begins to stand on end not from fear but from the sheer amount of energy generated. There may be a lot of machines generating a lot of power and some of it may be spilling excess electricity into the air but this feels different. It feels more potent.

Suddenly, the park comes to life. Old generators buzz to life, staticky music begins to play on the worn out speakers, and the lights begin to flash. From the overgrowth surrounding the park, trees begin to topple over. It is obvious that something is approaching and whatever it is seems to have a lot of energy. From the trees, a giant, gecko-like creature emerges. The air around it sparks and each step it takes generates a wave of electricity that follows the many wires and systems laid out underground.

The energy at the park seems to be drawing the unknown kaiju towards the park and more geckos appear from the forests behind it. They move quickly through the park and climb over the buildings and attractions. When they see a hybrid or a person nearby, they will stun them with their electric fields and try to eat them. As they begin to swarm the park, they go into a feeding frenzy that infects the air around them. Rides begin to spin faster, the music grows louder, lights explode, and the more electricity and power the geckos absorb, the bigger they become when they shed their skins.

One gecko in particular grows faster than the others. This one will keep growing with no apparent end in sight and begins climbing over the highest rides until they topple under its weight. Outsiders will have to avoid collapsing rubble and climb over ruined attractions to take down this kaiju while also stopping the other geckos from growing to the same size.

After dealing with the gecko kaiju for some time without any information, a report will finally come in:

█ █ █ MONSTER DEBRIEF SHEET
NAME: Yamadenki
HEIGHT: 3 metres- unknown (does not stop growing)
WEIGHT: 1,500-70,000 kg
CLASS: Dangerous
LOCATION: Kanto, Japan
ABILITIES: Stores electricity within its body. Uses static electricity to climb up and stick to objects. Can use electric shocks to stun and injure prey. The more energy they absorb, the bigger they grow. When close enough to a human, it kills them by biting into their flesh and absorbing the electrical currents within the cells, disrupting the heart rate and nervous system. It then eats the flesh.
WEAKNESS: Attacks to the head and body. Ice and extreme cold (they are cold blooded).
EXTRA NOTES: Can regrow appendages. Their severed appendages and bodies can retain electricity for an unknown amount of time so proceed with caution.

█ █ █ MISSION OBJECTIVE:
✖ Cut off the supply of electricity at the park by disabling all generators
✖ Bring back the Yamadenki (alive or dead) for research purposes
✖ Bring back the hybrid specimens
✖ Capture all suspicious persons for interrogation

█ █ █ ATTACHED PHOTO:

The Outsiders will have to cut off all energy supplies to stop feeding the newly named Yamadenki and then defeat them.

▶ 004. A RIFT IN SPACE-TIME

"MAYDAY, MAYDAY! Unknown energy signal detected! Reaching maximum output! Our sensors are detecting a breach in the inter-dimensional fabric!"

An hour into battle, Outsiders will receive a sudden warning signal, urging them to complete their mission and eliminate the Yamadenki before it’s too late. All that concentrated energy generated at the park is being corrupted by the Yamadenki, and it’s not long before a rift bursts through from beneath the Haunted Mansion, causing a huge explosion and a rain of rubble and mysterious energy. It’s the first of its kind. A rift has never opened this close to Neo Tokyo!

Energy from the rift seems to affect anyone standing too close to it, transforming any unprotected human into a snarling, groaning, human-reptilian hybrid. These hybrids have electrical qualities similar to the Yamadenki and are just as ferocious. The plugsuits issued by LILITH should protect characters against any nasty transformations (unless there is some damage to them or they have taken them off), but exposure to the rift can still result in increased headaches, vertigo, irritability and impulsiveness.

The rift is growing larger by the minute, and from the other side of it - the growling of a number of unknown beasts can be heard. Even the higher ups within LILITH are anxious about this. The only way to stop the rift is to cut off its power supply.

"Angels of LILITH! We must act fast! Disable all generators and subdue the Kaiju before it’s too late!"

▶ 005. AFTERMATH.

As the Outsiders shut down generators and take down the Yamadenki, the rift shrinks in size until finally it closes. Everything at the park goes still now that there is no more power to run things. Some of the corrupted humans and hybrids still linger and will have to be taken down or captured but they are in weakened states now that the rift has closed.

Outsiders will be tasked with capturing the Rift-infected humans who will then be transported to LILITH base for treatment... if they can be treated, that is. Outsiders will also need to report for treatment. Characters may experience the lingering effects of the rift such as the vertigo, headaches, shorter tempers, and impulsive behavior. The LILITH medics aren’t sure what to do other than prescribing bed rest and maybe offering some medication for their headaches. The worst cases may be prescribed sedatives.

Normally, LILITH would order the Outsiders to retrieve specimens from the field but given the events that unfolded, they are told to standby until a special research unit can inspect the area for contamination and give the all clear.

▶ 006. AFTERWORD.

Welcome to our second Kaiju log! As before, all prompts are highly encouraged but OOCly optional. ICly, any characters suffering negative effects from the rift will recover within a week, though you are welcome to determine the severity of their symptoms during that time.

Feel free to NPC your characters' fights with the smaller kaijus. The main fight with the largest gecko will be determined via a HP-based system (See below).

All tags in this log count for 2 reward points each. Ask any further questions below!

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wildcard.

[eyescar]

[ Yuji can't really say he's looking good; he's worn down, exhausted, clearly in a lot of pain and seems to have had what looks like an attempt to bite a chunk out of his shoulder. His arm is wrapped up, peeking out from the curve of his shoulder under the shirt he's wearing, and he keeps absently tugging it higher to try and hide it.

Probably not enough to keep it from Megumi's keen eyes, but he tries all the same...

Using their rings helps him to track down his friend and make his way over to him, and his eyes widen as soon as he sees Megumi. They both were wounded, but Yuji's own hurts slip out of his mind immediately: rushing over, he almost skids to a stop as he stops down beside Megumi, reaching out to grab at his hand. ]

Megumi! Why didn't you come and find me? I could've healed you!

Re: wildcard.

[seaurchin]

[ Finding the other boy was one of his top priorities, actually, but Megumi had simply expanded too much energy fighting off the multiple kaiju and hybrids that it was difficult to make the trip. The other boy will find him sitting there with stray bunnies hopping all around him, the aftermath of an intense battle between a large kaiju and his various shikigami. The kaiju itself has been slaughtered, with the Divine Dog feasting on its flesh, but Megumi has seen better days after that long and tiring battle. He's got several broken ribs, evidence of gnashes he had taken from the kaiju's claws, and burnt skin over the left side of his body from the electrocutions. He doesn't have a special body or anything, even if he's able to use cursed energy to protect himself from some blunt force. It really hurts. Still, after this rest, he was wanting to go find the other boy and their other friends ...

Yuji coming here saves him the trip, but he can't get too excited seeing the other boy's state. ] Heal yourself first ... [ There's a pointed glare at that shoulder he's trying to hide. ]

What happened to your shoulder?!

[eyescar]

[ Yuji has definitely seen better days and easier fights, but he's doing his best to shrug it off - even if he had come close to losing the limb, to losing all control over his hand with the electric currents from the geckoes. It doesn't matter to him right now because he knows he can heal it, he just needs a little help - someone like Gojo-sensei or Choso to guide him through the proper way of doing it.

Shaking his head, he squeezes Megumi's hand gently, trying to get his healing touch working. It's been a little funky since he was electrocuted, but he can deal with that; he'll make it work. ]

It's fine, I just got bitten. I'm dealing with it. [ Don't look at it, it's gross. ] Let me take care of you.

[seaurchin]

[ He can't not look at it, how a good chunk of the other boy's shoulder appears to have been mauled off. Megumi's worse for wear as well, a few ribs broken, his chest cut in several places, and both hands fried from attempting to grab a kaiju, but the state of his own body is far from a priority. It hurts to move, so he doesn't push the other boy away, but he does give him a disapproving look. ]

Use your energy on yourself ...

[eyescar]

I've already been to the med bay, don't worry about it. Choso took me.

[ It's fine, see! He was taken care of! Sort of. He's rested enough. Leaning into his friend, he hums softly, closing his eyes and relaxing into the warmth of his body. ]

Let me use my energy how I want for once, okay?

[seaurchin]

[ Though he feels like he wants to protest, given how badly the other boy's injuries appear to be, Megumi would be lying if he claimed to hate it - lying close to his friend, and the warmth of the other boy's body heat as he focuses on healing him. He can feel that itch that comes with healing, but also a sense of ease as more and more of that pain is soothed. He scolded the other boy harshly for doing the surgery, but it's probably good for everyone that he did.

His lips thin in a pout, but he does lean against the other boy's chest, letting out a huff. ] Fine.

But don't ... overdo it. Or I'll hit you.

[eyescar]

I know. You’d bonk me right on the head.

[ He sighs, bringing Megumi closer. It feels safe, comfortable here, and he knows that as long as he’s at Megumi’s side they’ll be okay. Nothing will get to his friend if he can help it, and he shifts to wiggle, to hold onto his hand gently.

He’ll protect him. He has to. ]

This is fine.

[seaurchin]

[ It is fine. And the longer he stays here, with people that seem ... invested in his happiness, the more he finds himself allowing himself to chase it. Leaning against Yuji right now feels so good. His heart is so warm, his head feeling giddy, and he feels safer than he's ever felt and not only because the other boy has capabilities. They cuddle in bed sometimes, and each time, Megumi allows himself to express just a little more of his affection.

He leans against the other boy's chest, feeling a blush settle on his face as he shifts his fingers and clasps their hands together. ]

I'll come to your room tonight. [ He does not know Choso is there lol ]

[eyescar]

[ It’s hard for them to accept any kind of happiness, Yuji knows that, but he’s trying. He goes out, he spends time with his friends, he trains and fights and he goes back to his room and he tells himself that he’s completely happy. That nothing will stop him from feeling happy, that maybe he deserves it… Then the nightmares remind him that maybe that isn’t true.

He nods, holding Megumi closer before he stops, tilting his head and laughing nervously. ]

Ah, well… You can come, but Choso is staying with me.

[ Like. In the same bed. ]

[seaurchin]

... Oh. [ Somehow, this is slightly discouraging because Choso's presence will probably unnerve him or make him feel awkward, but he knows he is important to Yuji. ]

I guess he can sleep on the other side.

[eyescar]

So I'd be in the middle? If you're fine with that.

[ Not like he cares. ]