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 Koreaโs 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 didnโt track down an injured and resting Imugi—they tracked down the Imugiโs 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. LILITHโs 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.
โถ 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 point of speaking up wasn't to gloat โ what would anyone gain from that? The quarreling helps no one. Yesod has said what he felt needed to be said, but it isn't enough. None of these discussions were, and the consequences are familiar yet again โ he's certain that the thought has crossed Malkuth's mind, too.
[ she's not hard to find, laying against a tree outside the base with eyes aglow as she
doesn't even respond to what rolls in now, reading over the replies and then waving her good hand as if turning a page to read other news. there's plenty of reporting to be done about the damage in seoul. beside her is a bottle of soju to match the one she'd bought izou, face lightly flushed with evidence of how much she might have drunk.
not that much, honestly. she's always been a light weight.
yesod is familiar behind the "screens" her eyes show though, and they return to their natural brown as she exhales loudly. she'd deserve a good chiding if he had one in him. she wouldn't blame him a bit. ]
The total's still rising. There's a lot of people they haven't found yet too.
[ Though Yesod frowns upon catching sight of the bottle and Malkuth's flushed cheeks, all the more concerned, he doesn't scold her. A few more steps take him to the tree, where he lowers himself to the ground to sit beside Malkuth, head turned in her direction. It lets him continue to study her expression, his own somber. ]
...Yes.
[ They both know that it isn't a mere number, just as the employees of Lobotomy Corporation were people with names, individual identities, nothing to forget. ]
What are you thinking at the moment, Malkuth?
[ He won't scold her for the network post, either, because he does think that Malkuth knows better than to derive satisfaction from "the last laugh" at a time like this, much like he knows that lecturing others right now would achieve nothing โ still, he didn't refrain from it as he replied to Ishmael.
The Malkuth he has come to know in this world has changed, he thinks again, or she wouldn't be out here, keeping track of the updated reports in this manner. ]
[ she knows her limit, at least. it's why she's not touching the bottle anymore, rubbing her face and closing her eyes as he sits beside her. ]
... If I'd been more convincing with my points, or maybe if I'd tried harder and reached out, I could've changed enough minds. But I'd given up on most of them when I saw who was saying what -- we have a lot of headstrong people, myself included. It wouldn't have ended well, and even if the Imugi came to Seoul like it did now there's no guarantee we'd be ready enough as a whole to have downed it.
[ even if they're stronger, or more prepared, if they'd stayed and helped... they might've ended up as a part of the statistics too. malkuth plays with her sling, turning her head towards him with a smile. ]
I'm certain we still could've found the eggs. But the Imugi still wouldn't be resting, and she still would've been angry that her mate was dead. It just... would've made the Korean branch more sympathetic to us, if we'd helped them -- the same amount of people might have died, maybe more, but they wouldn't have felt abandoned. What's done is done, and I don't know if our branch has any plans of reconciliation with their sister branch.
[ Listening, Yesod waits for Malkuth to finish her answer before he nods. Yes, while pursuing the Imugi may have seemed the more efficient choice to many at the time, even succeeding wouldn't have changed the implications of the decision as far as LILITH's Korean branch and the people of Seoul were concerned. ]
You and a handful of others contributed reasonable arguments, despite the vocal majority opposing your stance. It's unfortunate that the counterargument was largely formed on the basis of what we now know was unreliable information... and a number of votes were evidently motivated by the need to rectify our failure to defeat the female Imugi in Busan. Ideally, we would have confirmed that the trace to follow was indeed the Imugi's trail prior to committing our forces in their entirety to the pursuit of a creature that was already elusive and exhibiting peculiar behavior.
[ In a "Please, we are the 'Information' Team. Make use of it." tone, meant for LILITH's tracking methods, before Yesod has to admit that it's pointless in hindsight, easier said than done, just like seeking a third option. Perhaps it's hypocritical, besides โ in the past, he and Malkuth might have made the choice to prioritize efficiency themselves, if a decisive strike truly meant eliminating the risk of further destruction and casualties. The arguments making a case for just that considered logical conclusions. ]
...And of course Seoul would resent being treated as expendable. That much is certain.
[ Malkuth was right to present relations to foster as one of her original points. ]
[ where most people brushed off as less important, and she would have herself once upon a time. that doesn't solve a problem in an efficient manner; relations with others was nothing but an unnecessary timesink, put to better use elsewhere. like creating power.
but that was then, and this is now. malkuth waves her good hand dismissively. ]
Oh, well. We'll figure something out. Let LILITH and the rest lick their wounds and suck on that sour feeling for a while, they'll think twice about rushing in without confirming their info. For now... maybe a memorial or vigil, or... something sentimental, to give our consolation at their loss. What do you think? I'm no Hod, but I've got some ideas.
[ ... the other thing is how everyone claims to feel a scapegoat, but that's just how it is. there's no point in being angry over that. ]
[ Like Malkuth, Yesod is no Hod, far from it, although his secret gestures were as meaningless as her overt ones in the facility. Ever since he spoke with Gebura, saw Kali's final moments in her relived memory, he has thought of Michelle from time to time, however, absent from that scene of carnage. He has thought of Hod, and of their disagreements.
He tilts his head slightly, prompting Malkuth to continue. ]
This is all with the stipulation of LILITH's permission and endorsement, of course... but we could do care packages, go in small groups to aid where we could -- especially with healing and rebuilding, fund a memorial with the names of those lost or yet to be found... Something to show them that we hadn't meant for it to come off as abandoning them, and that their sorrow is shared.
[ something like that
while there's still people who feel slighted by the Korean branch itself, and the people there. a soft huff. ]
Once everyone calms down, it'll be easier to suggest stuff like this to the base as a whole -- and maybe they'll have some ideas themselves.
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He sets out to look for her. ]
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doesn't even respond to what rolls in now, reading over the replies and then waving her good hand as if turning a page to read other news. there's plenty of reporting to be done about the damage in seoul. beside her is a bottle of soju to match the one she'd bought izou, face lightly flushed with evidence of how much she might have drunk.
not that much, honestly. she's always been a light weight.
yesod is familiar behind the "screens" her eyes show though, and they return to their natural brown as she exhales loudly. she'd deserve a good chiding if he had one in him. she wouldn't blame him a bit. ]
The total's still rising. There's a lot of people they haven't found yet too.
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...Yes.
[ They both know that it isn't a mere number, just as the employees of Lobotomy Corporation were people with names, individual identities, nothing to forget. ]
What are you thinking at the moment, Malkuth?
[ He won't scold her for the network post, either, because he does think that Malkuth knows better than to derive satisfaction from "the last laugh" at a time like this, much like he knows that lecturing others right now would achieve nothing โ still, he didn't refrain from it as he replied to Ishmael.
The Malkuth he has come to know in this world has changed, he thinks again, or she wouldn't be out here, keeping track of the updated reports in this manner. ]
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... If I'd been more convincing with my points, or maybe if I'd tried harder and reached out, I could've changed enough minds. But I'd given up on most of them when I saw who was saying what -- we have a lot of headstrong people, myself included. It wouldn't have ended well, and even if the Imugi came to Seoul like it did now there's no guarantee we'd be ready enough as a whole to have downed it.
[ even if they're stronger, or more prepared, if they'd stayed and helped... they might've ended up as a part of the statistics too. malkuth plays with her sling, turning her head towards him with a smile. ]
I'm certain we still could've found the eggs. But the Imugi still wouldn't be resting, and she still would've been angry that her mate was dead. It just... would've made the Korean branch more sympathetic to us, if we'd helped them -- the same amount of people might have died, maybe more, but they wouldn't have felt abandoned. What's done is done, and I don't know if our branch has any plans of reconciliation with their sister branch.
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You and a handful of others contributed reasonable arguments, despite the vocal majority opposing your stance. It's unfortunate that the counterargument was largely formed on the basis of what we now know was unreliable information... and a number of votes were evidently motivated by the need to rectify our failure to defeat the female Imugi in Busan. Ideally, we would have confirmed that the trace to follow was indeed the Imugi's trail prior to committing our forces in their entirety to the pursuit of a creature that was already elusive and exhibiting peculiar behavior.
[ In a "Please, we are the 'Information' Team. Make use of it." tone, meant for LILITH's tracking methods, before Yesod has to admit that it's pointless in hindsight, easier said than done, just like seeking a third option. Perhaps it's hypocritical, besides โ in the past, he and Malkuth might have made the choice to prioritize efficiency themselves, if a decisive strike truly meant eliminating the risk of further destruction and casualties. The arguments making a case for just that considered logical conclusions. ]
...And of course Seoul would resent being treated as expendable. That much is certain.
[ Malkuth was right to present relations to foster as one of her original points. ]
no subject
[ where most people brushed off as less important, and she would have herself once upon a time. that doesn't solve a problem in an efficient manner; relations with others was nothing but an unnecessary timesink, put to better use elsewhere. like creating power.
but that was then, and this is now. malkuth waves her good hand dismissively. ]
Oh, well. We'll figure something out. Let LILITH and the rest lick their wounds and suck on that sour feeling for a while, they'll think twice about rushing in without confirming their info. For now... maybe a memorial or vigil, or... something sentimental, to give our consolation at their loss. What do you think? I'm no Hod, but I've got some ideas.
[ ... the other thing is how everyone claims to feel a scapegoat, but that's just how it is. there's no point in being angry over that. ]
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He tilts his head slightly, prompting Malkuth to continue. ]
What do you have in mind?
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[ something like that
while there's still people who feel slighted by the Korean branch itself, and the people there. a soft huff. ]
Once everyone calms down, it'll be easier to suggest stuff like this to the base as a whole -- and maybe they'll have some ideas themselves.