KAIJU FIGHT #4

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KAIJU FIGHT #4

CONTENT WARNINGS: natural disaster, acid rain, destruction of city, blood, gore

▶ 001. BE READY.

Despite having two targets, LILITH struggles to get a trace on them. Reports of sightings come in and often follow the same trend: They always appear before heavy rain, can be spotted dipping in and out of the heavy clouds, and always disappear by the time the sun comes out. Gradually, they can paint a more accurate idea of what they’re dealing with as more witness reports start to come in.

What starts off as reports of a large serpent-like creature in Seoul and Busan evolves into definitive reports of pair of dragons. Both are reported to be blue in color before they seem to fade to a dark gray or green color into the clouds. Based on reports, LILITH believes they may be able to camouflage themselves which would explain why they have been difficult to track.

However, LILITH’s Korea branch announces that by tracking the weather patterns and tracing them with residual rift energy, they can predict when the kaiju will appear next. All agents are told to be ready to mobilize at any moment. This means practicing timed emergency drills and sleeping in shifts so they can be ready to move out at any moment.

LILITH Korea decides to save time and reduce workload, they’ll have their own military assist with civilian evacuations. They will work with LILITH Japan’s agents to track the kaiju and provide support while the “specialists” (Outsiders) take care of the main threat.

▶ 002. KAIJU FIGHT - SEOUL.

In the early morning hours, agents in Seoul will wake up to an alarm telling them that an anomaly weather pattern has been detected and a kaiju is due to appear at any moment. Because the kaiju is airborne, they will be sent to one of the highest points in the city: Seoul Tower on Mt. Namsan and Lotte World Tower in the center of the city. Outsiders will be granted permission to go up to the rooftops to strike the dragon.

LILITH Korea will provide air support through nearby Incheon Airport and Seongnam Airbase. Should any Outsiders want to join in, they are welcome to if they can provide credentials… or manage to take a plane.

Eventually, the kaiju will be downed. It will crash into the city and deal heavy damage to buildings as it thrashes around on the ground at first. It will begin to run across the city at high speeds and climb whatever buildings it can. Anyone stationed at Lotte World Tower will have to evacuate quickly as it tries to bring the entire building down. However, it looks like the city is so densely packed, there’s no room for it to take off into the air.

█ █ █ MONSTER DEBRIEF SHEET
NAME: IMUGI ♂
HEIGHT: 1000 feet across, 30 feet high
WEIGHT: 2000kg
CLASS: Extremely Dangerous
LOCATION: Seoul, South Korea
ABILITIES: Control over weather conditions, including summoning of heavy storms, lightning strikes and hurricanes. Can fly up to 1000 feet. By flying amongst the clouds, Imugi releases chemicals into the atmosphere that bring about acid rain. Armored scales, sharp teeth and claws.
WEAKNESSES: Piercing it in the gaps between its impenetrable scales. There is also a particularly weak spot under its chin that will deal significant damage if pierced.
EXTRA NOTES: Despises humans and hunts them for food and sport. The scales on the male Imugi also seem to have a different color sheen to their scales, but only under a specific type of light.

* Due to its appearance in Japan, as well as Korea, it does have other names in the database.

▶ 003. KAIJU FIGHT - BUSAN.

Meanwhile, Outsiders in LILITH will have to deal with less assistance from LILITH Korea. With the railway out of commission and their air forces focused predominately in Seoul at the moment, there’s just not enough to share with Busan right now.

All seems quiet for now. Civilians and agents tune into broadcasts for updates from Seoul. As they learn more and more about the growing destruction in the capital city, everyone can’t help but wonder… There are two kaiju, right and one of them was last seen in Busan… so where is it?

Finally, around evening, the kaiju appears not in the sky but in the mountains outside Busan. It’s strange but LILITH will order the Outsiders to move out. If it’s on the ground, it may be injured so exercise caution. The mountains are difficult to travel through but eventually, they will find the Imugi.

It is extremely violent and will thrash out at anyone who gets close to it. It downs trees, spits acid, and summons lightning strikes to keep the Outsiders away. It uses it’s camouflage to escape into highway and railway tunnels. Outsiders may be able to infer that despite being unable to fly, it is trying to travel to Seoul.

To make matters worse, Outsiders may run into… traps. It looks like someone has tried to set out hunting traps out here. They drop electric nets, shoot tranquilizer barbs, and more. Is this what has been keeping the Imugi down? Who put them out here?

█ █ █ MONSTER DEBRIEF SHEET
NAME: IMUGI ♀
HEIGHT: 1000 feet across, 30 feet high
WEIGHT: 2000kg
CLASS: Extremely Dangerous
LOCATION: Busan, South Korea
ABILITIES: Control over weather conditions, including summoning of heavy storms, lightning strikes and hurricanes. Can fly up to 1000 feet. By flying amongst the clouds, Imugi releases chemicals into the atmosphere that bring about acid rain. Armored scales, sharp teeth and claws.
WEAKNESSES: Piercing it in the gaps between its impenetrable scales. There is also a particularly weak spot under its chin that will deal significant damage if pierced.
EXTRA NOTES: From its initial appearance and behavior, specialists believe that this female Imugi could be in preparation to give birth or may have recently given birth. This appearx to be the female counterpart to the kaiju in Seoul— despite them both being the same type of kaiju, likely derived from the same rift, this kaiju seems slightly more agile and openly aggressive.

▶ 004. NO TIME TO REST - SEOUL.

It’s a two-front battle in Seoul and Busan.

Finally, in the late evening hours, the Seoul Team will successfully defeat the Imugi. Lotte World Tower collapses to the ground, bringing down more buildings with it. The water systems in the city are damaged and the streets begin to flood, mixing water with kaiju blood and turning acidic. Some of the evacuation centers were attacked in the chaos so Outsiders will have to rush to evacuate them again.

While it all seems like a standard aftermath, there is no time to rest. Scavengers emerge and try to plunder goods from the destroyed stores. They go into dangerous areas to retrieve luxury goods and expensive electronics they can resell for more Kryptos later.

However, some people have come and are trying to pick the Imugi corpse. They collect blood, rip off scales, hack off claws, and try to take whatever they can get their hands on. They may try to bribe an agent for an organ or to just look away while they pick at the remains. Some agents accept the bribes and others seem to be participating for themselves.

There has always been a black market for kaiju but this is a dragon. Anything they can get will surely sell for a lot of money.

▶ 005. NO TIME TO REST - BUSAN.

Meanwhile, in Busan, since the battle started later. It is still ongoing. Fortunately for them, they don’t have to worry about buildings collapsing on them. However, around evening, something happens. Everything goes still in the mountains. The air becomes electrically charged, the clouds grow darker, and suddenly the kaiju takes off into the air.

It lets out a loud, high-pitched screech that summons a sudden heavy downpour of acid rain and the sky flashes with lightning that touches down all around the outsiders. The air becomes heavy and some Outsiders may recognize it as a Rift opening up. They may also notice that the Imugi in the sky… is growing? It grows longer and larger and it looks down on the Outsiders with glowing eyes before it disappears into the Rift.

The female kaiju has escaped.

The mountains have been heavily exposed to the Rift which means characters can fall to Rift poisoning. Exposure to the Rift can result in increased headaches, vertigo, irritability and impulsiveness. They will be ordered to retreat for their own health and safety.

▶ 006. DECISION.

With the fight in Seoul completed, and the other Imugi having escaped, all Outsiders will be prompted to return to Seoul in order to regroup. Agents in Busan will have to tend to themselves and make do with what they have until help arrives. With the rail destroyed, aircraft will arrive from Seoul to provide aid and pick up agents in Busan. They will swiftly return to Seoul. With parts of Seoul devastated by the attack, there won’t be much time to relax in leisure, especially as the higher-ups within LILITH seem to be under several discussions on their recent failure in allowing the second kaiju to escape. While it is the Outsiders who risked their lives on the front line, it isn’t to state that they’re only met with appreciation from the general public.

The branch in South Korea seems to be firm on the Outsiders and all borrowed LILITH operatives to remain in the city and help. Not only has the kaiju left ruin to a lot of the infrastructure in the city but crime has skyrocketed as a result of people trying to capitalize on the destruction. Without assistance, the entire city could fall into anarchy. On the opposing end, the Japan branch wants to prioritize tracking the kaiju while they are still able to, especially considering the Imugi's natural ability to camouflage and move stealthily from one country to another. They fear not acting swiftly will result in losing whatever trace they have.

…

A few hours after team Busan touches down in Seoul, all Outsiders will receive a message on their oculars. It will briefly explain the current situation and ask each Outsider to cast a vote on their next steps. There are two options that will be settled before them, either to: ASSIST the city of Seoul as best as they can before moving onwards, or to immediately CHASE after the recently escaped Imugi.

While that is happening, Seok Dang will have also disappeared. Considering his long history in the country, he naturally has the most connections. As a result, he is ordered to go out and seek specific pieces of information that the Japan branch isn’t privy to as a whole. While he’s firm on publicly stating he is staying around for a specific idol event (that is most definitely canceled), it’s clear he is attempting to look into the LILITH operatives that have been found dead in South Korea.

While those Outsiders in Busan were hit heaviest by the rift effects, the instability of the dual nature of two kaiju coming and going from Seoul and Busan have led to the presence of rift poisoning in Seoul as well. Because of this, Outsiders will be prompted to sit tight and await further orders while their peers recover.

▶ 007. AFTERWORD.

Welcome to fourth kaiju log!

Below will be two choices available, either to stay and ASSIST the city in its efforts to stabilize, or to CHASE after the escaped kaiju. Both results have their own pros and cons. Please keep in mind, this would be an IC decision, and so please keep that in mind before casting a vote. If you have multiple characters, you may cast a vote with each character. Additionally, while this does impact the aftermath or the following log's contents, it will not impact the general schedule. Voting will close at 12:00 AM GMT on August 22nd, to allow mods enough time to draft the next log.

As there are two kaiju, please comment below in the correct thread to get your hit in! In fairness, since only one kaiju is defeated, the final hit winner will be from Seoul, while two of the heaviest hitter will be from Busan, and one from Seoul in order to keep the numbers even.

All tags on this log are worth 2 points and will count towards August AC.

EVENT BREAKDOWN/RECAP (CLICK TO EXPAND)

1. BE READY: The kaiju have been identified as a pair of dragons. Outsiders must participate in training drills to be ready at a moment's notice.

2. KAIJU FIGHT - SEOUL: Outsiders must take to the air or other high places to bring down Imugi (male). If they can use it, they may have access to aircraft. When the Imugi is brought down, it will take down Lotte Tower with it. The battle will proceed on the ground.

3. KAIJU FIGHT - BUSAN: Outsiders will track the Imugi (female) to the mountains outside Busan. It will not take to the air but Outsiders will run into odd traps that may deter their progress.

4. NO TIME TO REST - SEOUL: After being defeated, scavengers will try to raid the destroyed buildings and remains of the Imugi (male). Some law enforcement, including LILITH agents, seem to be involved.

5. NO TIME TO REST - BUSAN: A Rift opens and Imugi (female) escapes. Characters may be effected by Rift poisoning.

6. DECISION: Outsiders in Busan will sit tight until aid comes by air from Seoul. Busan Outsiders will be transported back. LILITH South Korea wants the Outsiders to help with recovery and keep the peace. LILITH Japan wants to pursue the Imugi (female) while they still have information.

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Comments

4A

[undrowned]

[ rover's exhausted, too. she feels like she can just collapse anywhere, anytime, like she can sleep forever and wake up again after a hundred years.

he catches her attention with how the normally lively beast is quiet, ponderous despite his injuries. she moves towards him and pats the closest limb she can that's not injured. ]

Hey, big guy. You alright?

[30storieshigh]

[ She certainly manages to get his attention, patting at his arm like that. Muscles tense and spines pulse pink on pure instinct, but once he glances over to see a familiar face he relaxes. ]

I am... keen as a peach, as they say.

[ Peachy keen. And he's not, but he's not about to admit that.

Godzilla looks back out over the destruction, reaching up to scratch behind his head with a claw. And also take some pictures with his ocular implant, he doesn't want to give any chance of forgetting this. ]

It is very different to see your kinds' lairs collapse from amongst your streets. I was caught off my guard, that is all.

[undrowned]

Well, not all monsters are as considerate as you.

[ and rover hasn't encountered a lot of them with enough intelligence and self-awareness to move in between human dwellings, let alone have spacial awareness to do it. ]

Co-existence isn't really a thing in my world either. I've yet to encounter a place where we make room for both species peacefully. And I don't see that happening here anytime soon.

It's unfortunate, but the destruction's inevitable.

[30storieshigh]

This I understand. I am very old, small one, I have seen many battles like this. Titans clash, destruction follows, people die. Yet countless more continue to live because of the fight. That is the duty, it will never change.

[ Even when he's taken effort to minimize the damage back home it still resulted in what he now knows had to be large amounts of injury and death. Best not to dwell on it, Rover's given him a decent enough way to completely change the subject. Something he does unsubtly, like most things he does. ]

Tell me of your world. Humans there are in conflict with beings like these kaiju?

[undrowned]

... there's a lot of effort made in trying to understand our monsters and see if co-existence is even possible. It's an ongoing debate. I can't say we've made any progress.

But for the most part, we are in conflict.

[ rover finds his presence rather comforting to be in. she pats him on the side. ]

I like that sentiment, and the way you describe duty. I believe in it, as well.

[30storieshigh]

You have wisdom then. Maintain that belief, it shall see you through the future well.

[ Humans and their touching. He doesn't mind the patting though, it makes him feel somewhat reassured. He glances down at Rover for a moment before turning his attention back to the cityscape he's been observing. ]

My own world, I do not know what the humans there think of the others like myself. Some assist us, some seek to use us, yet others to destroy. It all changes on circumstance and location. I do not believe your kind to be united there, much as it seems to be the case in this world as well.

[undrowned]

It's hard work to maintain it, but I do try. I feel it's easier to give in to nothingness than to maintain hope.

[ and that's the bottom line of it for her. hope is a challenge, as much as it is so difficult to maintain, but she's eager to keep it going. ]

It's hard for us to agree on anything together as a species, much less figure out who to work with.

Perhaps, in time, things will change. [ that's all she can say about it, really. ]

[30storieshigh]

As long as there is life there can be change. Thus there is always hope.

[ Which might be an odd sentiment from the actual king of all kaiju but given his spouse is a symbol of hope, he tries to keep a good outlook. ]

I have seen much. Continents form only to break again, empires rising and falling, the world turned to ice. There has been one consistent through it all, since they first emerged you humans have always found a way to keep surviving. You will achieve unity one day, I am sure.

[undrowned]

It'll certainly solve a lot of problems if we were to stop killing each other. And resolve a lot of hurt feelings as well, I hope.

[ she sighs. ]

You're not hurt at all from the fight, are you? [ he seems to be moving and talking fine, so ... ]

[30storieshigh]

I have spilt my blood on the ground, my bones are rattled, my muscles ache, though I am not the worst thing to be wearing. [ Worse for the wear. ] Nothing rest will not heal, I assure you.

[ He sighs himself and... yeah he's resting his arms on his hips as he looks down at her , a very human gesture that he's trying out. ]

What of yourself? You are whole?

[undrowned]

[ oh .... that's so cute .... rover just beams at him as he puts his stubby lil t-rex arms on his waist, which absolutely doesn't exist, but she'll let it pass because he's trying his best. ]

I am very much whole. Bruised and exhausted, but who isn't?

I'm sure the next mission won't be too far away from now, so really, all we can do is rest. How do you plan on taking care of yourself?

[ is it just napping or eating ...? she doesn't know what he would do for 'resting'. ]

[30storieshigh]

[ Stubby arms?? Godzilla has never received such shade before wow. Good thing he's blissfully unaware of that thought. ]

Sleep is needed, I have lacked it since we arrived, food as well will let me heal. Afterwards, coffee. It shall keep me ready for the next battle.

[ And that last comment should answer why he's been awake for several days now... ]

You are welcome to join me for the latter. Caffeine can only help your kind. [ Which is so wrong but cut the dinosaur some slack, he's not an MD. ]<

[undrowned]

... you're drinking what?

[ wait! rover frowns at him with Concern. ]

That can't be good for you. It's barely good for humans at all. Who said you can drink that?

[30storieshigh]

I did. I am king, I eat and drink as I please.

[ Godzilla really said "I do what I want." ]

The concern is not necessary. I battled well enough with its aid. In the future I shall attempt the drinks of energy to see their results. I am told they are far more powerful.

[ he will drink an entire case of redbull one day, it's going to be a problem. ]

[undrowned]

... but those things are addictive. Even humans have difficulty enough kicking the habit.

They can also cause problems with your heart. I don't believe you should be toying with these substances at all ....

[ king pls listen it's not good for you. ].

[30storieshigh]

[ Of course humans have issues with something, they're human. He's Godzilla. He'll be fine. He fully intends to argue that point too but he recognizes her concern comes from a sincere place, it wouldn't be becoming to brush off an ally like that. ]

Very well. I shall consider moderating my intake. I do not wish to cause you undue distress.

[ His idea of moderating and Rover's might be completely different though... but hey at least he's trying. She gets a big scaley hand laying comradely on her shoulder for her troubles]

It is good of you to look to the well being of others so keenly. We are fortunate to have one such as you in our midst.

[undrowned]

... do you know how to pinky promise?

[ she raises her pinky. ]

Children usually do it amongst each other to signify a promise has been made, but there's no reason why we can't try as adults, too.

If you raise your pinky like this, and then we lock it together like this, [ she makes the other gesture with her other hand, to 'lock' her pinkies, ] then you've made a promise to be careful, or take care of yourself.

Would you like to try?

[30storieshigh]

[ He looks at her hands, then down at his, then back at hers. And there it is, the mouth parting slightly, the halting rumbling chuckle that passes as a laugh for Godzilla. He's not laughing at her of course, just the situation. ]

Ah! The excessive fifth claw. That is its name, "Pinky."

[ Another little chuckle as he holds up his own hand and wiggles his digits. He's got a thumb which puts him ahead of a lot of the game, but then it's one, two, three fingers and done. ]

I understand the spirit of such a physical bond to a giving of word, I can respect it. However I lack the required digit. I am willing to make an oath of blood in its stead to alleviate your concerns.

[ Well he escalated that pretty quickly. At least it's coming from a sincere place? ]

[undrowned]

- I don't need your blood.

[ let's just get that out of the way. ]

But here, let's use this one instead.

[ so she points at the thumb, which is the biggest one and probably easiest to make a substitute pinky promise with. ]

[30storieshigh]

Very well.

[ And there you have it, the 10ft lizard is now offering Rover his thumb so they can make the reptile friendly version of a pinky promise. ]

I shall honor this clawed compact to moderate my coffee consumption. [ His idea of moderation is still going to be excessive... but after the spiked energy drinks in the near future he'll definitely be on the wagon. ] It is a promise.