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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Both options had their pros and cons. I thought pursuing the kaiju would prevent further tragedy. I was wrong. Is that what you want me to say? Do you think I don't know this?
What is there to say? The time for words has passed.
We all knew both sides had consequences. I didn't care what anyone decided as long as they stood by their choices and made sure to bear whatever burden came from it.
But look at you now. Playing pitiful games like hide and seek. Running to the make believe fortress of your room. Were you playing pretend before? When we were making decisions about lives?
I followed the missions and fought to the best of my ability. And in the last three missions, I have failed to keep up. I have failed to make the correct decisions.
I take this seriously. Many lives are on the line, and my failures have helped cause countless deaths. How am I to carry with this burden, then? Continue on, and make more mistakes that result in the collapse of more cities and the deaths of hundreds of thousands? What I have learned from these mistakes is that I no longer have a part in this. Staying out of it like I did in Las Vegas was probably the only smart decision I've made.
LILITH can decide whether or not this is sufficient, and if they decide to send me back, so be it. It was their decision to bring me here in the first place. I will meet an end there as much as I would do the same here.
I had given up my entire life back home to my position. My own wants, needs, even my name. It's hardly different here. I have done everything in my power to maintain those ideals here, and all its done is gotten people killed.
I am more than willing to sacrifice my life if it meant saving even one person. Yet when I throw everything I have into the battle, I am told I am being reckless.
It seems I can't win no matter what I do, so why not choose the option that would cause less lives and less stress in the other Outsiders?
Every single time. "I." Did you fight all of those battles alone? Were you the only one who failed? Are you the only one who made sacrifices? Do you truly believe no one else gave their all? No one else here has gotten people killed? I didn't know you were the only one in this world who carried burdens, Raidou-kun.
[Well, good job on getting him to feel something that isn't just overwhelming grief and guilt?]
I never said that no one else had made these mistakes, or that I was alone in this. As the fourteenth of my name and I understand that one never stands truly alone. But I cannot take responsibility for the actions and choices of others, only my own.
This is taking responsibility? Hiding away, giving up, and just becoming another burden for others to deal with. How can you be strong enough to help others when you aren't even strong enough to carry yourself right now?
(Ah, but he's become cruel. He's being cruel and he bites back his words,)
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The time for words has passed.
We all knew both sides had consequences.
I didn't care what anyone decided as long as they stood by their choices and made sure to bear whatever burden came from it.
But look at you now.
Playing pitiful games like hide and seek.
Running to the make believe fortress of your room.
Were you playing pretend before? When we were making decisions about lives?
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I take this seriously. Many lives are on the line, and my failures have helped cause countless deaths. How am I to carry with this burden, then? Continue on, and make more mistakes that result in the collapse of more cities and the deaths of hundreds of thousands? What I have learned from these mistakes is that I no longer have a part in this. Staying out of it like I did in Las Vegas was probably the only smart decision I've made.
LILITH can decide whether or not this is sufficient, and if they decide to send me back, so be it. It was their decision to bring me here in the first place. I will meet an end there as much as I would do the same here.
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So this is what it is.
You're being self-centered.
Well, I suppose you're the right age for it so I'll forgive you.
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That's how you see this? As selfishness?
I had given up my entire life back home to my position. My own wants, needs, even my name. It's hardly different here. I have done everything in my power to maintain those ideals here, and all its done is gotten people killed.
I am more than willing to sacrifice my life if it meant saving even one person. Yet when I throw everything I have into the battle, I am told I am being reckless.
It seems I can't win no matter what I do, so why not choose the option that would cause less lives and less stress in the other Outsiders?
If that makes me self-centered, so be it.
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"I."
"I."
"I."
"I."
"I."
"I."
"I."
"I."
("I" for every time it was mentioned.)
Every single time. "I."
Did you fight all of those battles alone?
Were you the only one who failed?
Are you the only one who made sacrifices?
Do you truly believe no one else gave their all?
No one else here has gotten people killed?
I didn't know you were the only one in this world who carried burdens, Raidou-kun.
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I never said that no one else had made these mistakes, or that I was alone in this. As the fourteenth of my name and I understand that one never stands truly alone. But I cannot take responsibility for the actions and choices of others, only my own.
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This is taking responsibility?
Hiding away, giving up, and just becoming another burden for others to deal with.
How can you be strong enough to help others when you aren't even strong enough to carry yourself right now?
(Ah, but he's become cruel. He's being cruel and he bites back his words,)
Fine.
Be pitiful.
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