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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

[zauneyete]

[ The sound of an egg shattering is a particularly wet, squishy sound. A crack and then a squelch loud enough that it catches the attention of quite a few people. He doesn't approach at first, but some time after, once she's been backed down from cracking them, someone speaks up from leaning against a surface. She's probably familiar enough given the outburst on the plane, but he isn't. ]

Didn't it feel good? I wonder how much angrier she will be, knowing that at least one will not survive. It's a shame we can't destroy more.

[ are you tired of being nice? don't you want to go apeshit? ]

[saudadist]

[ The interruption has her whipping her head around, but rather than turn on Silco and attack him like her visage suggests, she actually has a moment of pause. Careful thoughts. Consideration. Has she been going nutso-bonkers? Maybe a little.

Regardless, she lowers her rifles and grinds the heel of her palm into her forehead as if to stave off a headache. ]

If I ever see her again...I'll use everything. Every last bullet, all my vectors, everything. [ She'll make that dragoness into so many steaks. ] She'll regret the day she destroyed that fucking city.

[zauneyete]

[ and here he wanted to encourage it 😞 ]

Far be it from me to discourage revenge... but why are you so upset? Do you think we will miss out on the chance to slay it? Is it important to do so?

[ His tone isn't as acerbic as it had been when he'd heard the reports come in, less mocking, less nastiness, more... general curiosity. There was a brief flash of Something in that violence from her. Sure, it was impotent, against an egg of all things, but that had been violence. He knew a great deal about violence, and how it was necessary. ]

Not that I don't think a little egg slaying is bad... mind you. Just call me curious.

[saudadist]

[ Her eye twitches as she runs her hand briefly over the healing acid burn scar on her cheek. It's too similar to that time. A time that all at once wasn't very long ago yet was a whole lifetime away. ]

I'd rather not die the same way twice. Or...a similar way.