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▷ DECISION UPDATE

▶ OUTCOME: BURNING BRIDGES

The decision has been made. LILITH Japan orders the Outsiders to mobilize to pursue the Imugi.

Given that they are in a foreign country, they are largely dependent on LILITH Korea’s resources. In response to the decision, the Korean branch provides some assistance: the Outsiders are given just enough vehicles to help transport them, essential supplies, and only a few operatives to help guide them. This is the most the Korean branch is able to give, as they must focus on relocating people and restoring peace following the attack.

LILITH announces that the Imugi is currently resting near Gangneung on the east coast and they must move quickly. The effects of Rift poisoning will grow stronger as they approach the source; a sign that they are close to a kaiju. Upon reaching the mountains just outside the city, LILITH informs them that they are right on top of its location.

However, there is no Imugi to be found. After searching the area, Outsiders will discover the source of the trace and the poisoning: eggs. They will find about twelve eggs. When they report their findings, Seokdang will curse. In their rush, they had followed the wrong trace. They didn’t track down an injured and resting Imugi—they tracked down the Imugi’s nest. So where is the Imugi?

Not long after, Outsiders will receive an update on their implants: the Imugi reappeared in Seoul. After seeing the corpse of its mate, it went berserk and attacked the city again. While many of the citizens were evacuated to nearby Incheon and remaining shelters, just as many perished, with the death toll at 168,000 and rising. LILITH’s Korean base is destroyed.

The Imugi was last seen flying north, but the Korean government prohibits the Outsiders from pursuing it again through their territory. By choosing to pursue the kaiju, the Outsiders have abandoned humanity and thus will receive no further support. They are ordered to leave the country immediately.

LILITH Japan will order them to collect as many eggs as possible and continue to the abandoned city of Gangneung, where they will arrange pick up and return to base in Tokyo.

▶ AFTERWORD.

Thanks everyone for participating in our first major Event Decision! We hope you had fun discussing what to do both ICly and OOCly.

After failing to capture the second Imugi and also failing to save a large portion of Seoul's population, characters will be shipped back to Japan. The events of the TDM will springboard from there. Feel free to use this post to thread out any aftermath threads if you would like.

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Comments

[ignoreher]

[ HELL yeah!!!!!! ]

I don't care if you don't think I have the right to say anything about this when you're the one who was so desperate to finish a job that didn't need to be finished. Or do you always put yourself above others for your own pride?

[wheft]

What the hell are you talking about?! I've never put myself up above others unlike SOMEONE HERE who's lording it over everyone right now. Go read the fucking room for once.

Whatever. I don't even want to talk to you right now. You win. Good for you.

[ignoreher]

Sorry, but I think those of us who voted to stay have earned the chance to lord it a bit over you lot! If more of you had listened, and thought for a single second, this could've been avoided!

[ don't reply to her, ishmael ]

[wheft]

[ don't tell her what to do ]

You thinks this could all been avoided?! Even if we stayed and helped, it would've come back with twelve other kaiju and wrecked the place even further!! It would've taken over the entire country! It wouldn't be any different from seeing a Wing collapse!

In the end, there's just no good solutions to this. You should know this, as someone who couldn't even bring about change in the City.

[ blocks her preemptively lmao ]

[ignoreher]

[ yeah good block her it


isn't like




...

that stings, and she knows. but what ishmael's saying is ridiculous too. twelve kaiju? taken over a country? as if. still, still--

You should know this, as someone who couldn't even bring about change in the City.

... ugh. good riddance. ]

@mr. viper CLOSING MY EYES

[penaltypoints]

Yes, there was no perfect solution. Pursuing the Imugi seemed to be the more efficient course of action because many of us believed that it would prevent further casualties, but in an ideal scenario, Seoul would not have become the price to pay in the name of the greater good.

You can be certain that Malkuth made her recommendations precisely because she is well aware that nothing will change for the better by creating a future built upon a foundation of sacrifices.

[wheft]

See, I don't usually have a problem with that. She's not the only one who made that decision. Yet here she is, running her mouth just because everyone else chose wrong and ate shit for it like it didn't matter that hundreds of thousands of people died so long as she has the last laugh.

But that's just a mere number for someone who worked for a Wing, isn't it?

I don't want to talk about this to someone who has ties with her. Get out of my sight.

[penaltypoints]

If you are convinced that having the last laugh is her motivation or mine, and that we consider the death toll "a mere number" to forget, then yes. It's best that we end this conversation here.

not here...

[hitokiller]

( not him wanting to step in for malkuth and now,

wanting to step in for ishmael.

but also, getting in the middle of a quarrel between women is scary. so. nevermind. )