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 Koreaβs 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 didnβt track down an injured and resting Imugi—they tracked down the Imugiβs 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. LILITHβs 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.
βΆ 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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the more he tells himself that, the more he's able to believe it's true, and therefore he watches LILITH cart away the eggs with his arms crossed. at rover's words -- he recognizes her from the dating show with ratio -- he simply shrugs one shoulder. )
You saw the way they cut up the one we did manage to kill. If they knew these were here, well, I can't say us taking them will do any more harm than the alternative.
[ there's an argument to be made for that, and it's also true that leaving them alone would damage the country further, but rover just sighs. ]
... You have a point.
I am dreading the fact that we'll have to meet it again sometime. [ she frowns in recollection, and then adds, ] In my experience, following the death and grieving of a kaiju unable to mourn its losses, the resulting damage from its grief is usually unable to be contained in one area.
( she has experience in these sorts of things? aventurine blinks, though the surprise and interest doesn't cross his face. how strange. )
Perhaps we won't, given that they don't seem to want us back. Not that I can blame them, but it's hardly going to be good news for them in the future. ( no matter what choice was made. ) This thing happen often where you're from?
... there was an incident I was called to address, in which a tacet discord - what we call kaiju - had its partner die, and was doing its best to restore its life essence despite anything else. The level of its grief had physical ramifications to the environment around it.
Kaiju have different levels of empathy and intelligence. I'm not surprised that it can react the way that it did; I wonder to what extent would it allow itself to feel grief.
[ rather softly - ] After all, if you had come back to your family taken and your partner destroyed, who wouldn't be moved to act? It is the only rational choice, I feel.
( the idea that the kaiju have feelings is not... an alien one, though the closest thing aventurine can think of in his own world are the aeons, and they are so far gone from humanity that they don't function in ways mere mortals can understand. but godzilla exists amongst the outsiders, and he seems akin to humanity enough to fight side by side with them.
but her words strike a cord within aventurine, and there's a flash of something in his eyes before he looks away, back to the eggs.
rational choice? he was still a child, but the instinct is still there, isn't it? or else why would he be on the path that he is, clawing his way to the top only to use it to bring the man responsible down, even if it should cost him his life. perhaps he's no better than these kaiju, considering how many people have met their own forms of ruin in his wake.
including himself. )
Fair enough. ( aventurine frowns, toeing the dirt as if he's trying to uncover something there but finding nothing. ) Though-- if they can feel grief it stands that maybe their attacks aren't all that senseless either. I'm not sure LILITH would want us thinking we were going about this all the wrong way, because who's to say we could have just sent them an email to get them to stop.
( he's not serious, but it's something to think about. )
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the more he tells himself that, the more he's able to believe it's true, and therefore he watches LILITH cart away the eggs with his arms crossed. at rover's words -- he recognizes her from the dating show with ratio -- he simply shrugs one shoulder. )
You saw the way they cut up the one we did manage to kill. If they knew these were here, well, I can't say us taking them will do any more harm than the alternative.
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... You have a point.
I am dreading the fact that we'll have to meet it again sometime. [ she frowns in recollection, and then adds, ] In my experience, following the death and grieving of a kaiju unable to mourn its losses, the resulting damage from its grief is usually unable to be contained in one area.
[ it's very human, in that regard. ]
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Perhaps we won't, given that they don't seem to want us back. Not that I can blame them, but it's hardly going to be good news for them in the future. ( no matter what choice was made. ) This thing happen often where you're from?
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Kaiju have different levels of empathy and intelligence. I'm not surprised that it can react the way that it did; I wonder to what extent would it allow itself to feel grief.
[ rather softly - ] After all, if you had come back to your family taken and your partner destroyed, who wouldn't be moved to act? It is the only rational choice, I feel.
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but her words strike a cord within aventurine, and there's a flash of something in his eyes before he looks away, back to the eggs.
rational choice? he was still a child, but the instinct is still there, isn't it? or else why would he be on the path that he is, clawing his way to the top only to use it to bring the man responsible down, even if it should cost him his life. perhaps he's no better than these kaiju, considering how many people have met their own forms of ruin in his wake.
including himself. )
Fair enough. ( aventurine frowns, toeing the dirt as if he's trying to uncover something there but finding nothing. ) Though-- if they can feel grief it stands that maybe their attacks aren't all that senseless either. I'm not sure LILITH would want us thinking we were going about this all the wrong way, because who's to say we could have just sent them an email to get them to stop.
( he's not serious, but it's something to think about. )