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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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[gimu]

[ despite everything, marcille’s eyes remain the perfect green of new spring growth, and choso cannot help but watch how they flit and flicker as she speaks. he only averts his gaze when the warm touch of her palm settles over the cold of his knuckles.

if he wants. if it’ll help. he doesn’t know if it will, if anything could, if he should try to banish these jagged memories. he could tell her of them if he wants.

only if he wants. ]

Do you remember, when I told you what I have done? The underground train station of Shibuya is where it happened. We came through the tunnels.

[ it feels wrong, to take this comfort with that memory on his tongue, but choso is a selfish thing, shameless in how he twists his wrist to curl heavy fingers around hers. his eyes remain on the crisscross of their hands. ]

We were on the tracks when the killings began.

[picky]

[ Marcille filters away the flustered feelings. Embarrassment is improvement's biggest enemy, she'd said to Laios once, and it's a code she lives by. When Choso turns over his hand and folds them over her fingers, she withstands the leap in her pulse. She focuses on him, his words, his ever-tired eyes. This is healing, she hopes, in a different way than sliding blood back under skin, knitting together wounds, reforming the bones. She wants to help him.

She nods, firming her grip, squeezing his hand for a little while. ]

I remember. It was you and your brothers?

[gimu]

They were both dead by then, so it was just me. I chose to throw my lot in with true curses. The plan was of their making, and I was only there to exact revenge.

[ the squeeze of her little hand is such a comfort, it stings, like a little needle of guilt stuck under the bed of a nail. ]

[picky]

Mm. [ She nods, keeping her eyes lowered. What can she do for him? Give him natural sleep aids? Put him to sleep with magic? Would he just have more nightmares? ]

You must feel really guilty about it. This wasn't that long ago, right? Just a few months?

[ She covers their folded hands with her free one, as if it would anchor him while he opens his memory to her. ]

You haven't had one good night's rest since then?