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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( But permission has been granted, and it's clearly been a long day. He still peels off the plastic carefully, taking his time. ) Hm. Colours dark enough to be black? I had a rich plum one once. I thought that was very shocking. ( A smile that almost shows teeth. ) A navy would be fine. Some dark green? I avoided lighter colours for the most part, unless the girls wanted a guinea pig. Sometimes they would, when they were very young, though it would be my fingers more than my nails. We had Hello Kitty polishes. I don't think I'd do that here though.
( He takes a cigarette out, turns it over to place back into the pack, then removes another one to bring to his mouth. Patting down his pockets for his lighter is easy, and only when he has it lit does he broach the subject again. )
[ she forgives him too easily for a lot of things, anyway. even when she ought not to. ]
... That's all just one shade. I don't know why you even bothered distinguishing the colours.
[ rover thinks his question, and then says, ] You know, I'm very upset at the damage and the deaths, but also, I chose to run after it.
I don't think I'm wrong. I would've done the same back home. I understand people's frustrations at the outcome, but things are always easier to assign blame to in hindsight and after a failure.
I can live with it. [ and that's it for her, really. ]
( Not that he'll indulge if she chooses something wild, but he is interested. It's a nice dichotomy from the seriousness of the rest of their conversation, though he's a lot more curious about that. Geto smokes and watches her and mulls over her answer for a long moment, holding in his inhale. )
That was my answer, though yours was a little kinder. We chose, it went wrong, but a singular person cannot be blamed, in fact I think even as a collective we shouldn't. This isn't our fight. LILITH should be better prepared.
( But as always it's the work of the foot soldiers that gets scrutinised. It's too reminiscent of Jujutsu High. The elders, upon high, the children, dying. )
I think black is good enough. It's the colour I associate most with you ... but I guess you can try all the others if you really want to be adventurous.
[ as far as 'adventurous' goes here, anyway. geto's aesthetic kind of pigeonholes him to one type (awful goth man).
she thinks over his response in the meantime. that they shouldn't be blamed slipped her, actually - she had been thinking about the seoul branch's response, and she wonders if it were done as a bargaining chip between them and the japan branch for the future. ]
I agree with you. [ rover sighs as she stares at the destruction before them. ] I hope LILITH makes better plans in the future regarding the missions.
( Maybe the next time he sees her he'll have gone back to his terrible monk roots, and then there will be no fun ever. )
They probably won't. Higher ups never do. Not when they have enough foot soldiers to carry out the work for them. And sometimes even a lack never factors in to their consideration. I think this will be something we'll have to be aware of, from hereon out. Either the possibility of loss, or that we might need to harden ourselves to it.
( He still sounds a little bored, flicking ash. It's entirely possible he's already hardened himself enough. )
[ it reminds her of the midnight rangers who were desperate to continue fighting the threnodian. despair is a potent rot. it kills morale and drags hope through the mud. in rover's mind she remembers the desolate fields and the rain that gives a voice to such anger; each soldier a phantom before they are dead.
she says nothing, because she had been with general jiyan when she ordered the soldiers and rearranged them on the battlefield. in a way she had shouldered the same burden geto is criticizing LILITH for. and it's a valid criticism. not much she can do about it.
( It doesn't matter that he left that kind of life behind, it always finds him again. At least when he was in charge of his own people he'd tried harder to make sure they all made it out alive. His family were important to him. He knew to weigh up the cost properly. LILITH doesn't, doesn't even try to shoulder their fair share of responsibility.
He keeps that to himself though, instead glancing at her in curiosity. A pause, another inhale of smoke, and then. )
I can't either. ( He hasn't admitted that to anyone yet, but Rover brought it up herself. ) My theory is they're not like the things we know. ( Another beat, and then he changes his mind. ) Actually, that's not it. I think LILITH has control over us, and does not wish us to get more powerful than they can contain. My cursed technique has changed, been tampered with. Something has shuffled the ones I've been in charge of, lessened them. Or brought ones that were exorcised back from the dead.
( He thinks of rainbow dragon, once long gone, smaller now. )
I think we pose a threat if we can do the same thing here, and they've done their best to stop that.
Ah. [ rover sighs a sigh of relieve when he says he can't. at least it's not just her who's struggling with these things. ] Good to know.
... I feel the missions would be less difficult if we were operating in full capacity. [ she pulls her knees towards her, leaning her chin over them as she looks at the destruction before them. ] In that regard, without having full control of our powers, should we fail, you're right in saying we're not to blame.
I will still do my best, of course. But I'll keep a closer eye on some of my friends who may be a bit too hard on themselves.
[ she's thinking of eresh. and while geto is smoking, he gets a friendly pat on the shoulder. ] And I will always bother you. It comes with the territory.
[ it occurs to her that maybe she is the one who needs new hobbies. but anyway ... ]
They would be less difficult. But we would also find it easier to say no.
( He understands the need to cripple its army, at least a little bit. At his full power Geto was nigh unstoppable. If he hadn't chosen to go after Yuta, if he hadn't split his forces three ways, he would very much still be alive. His own folly. Or maybe he'd been looking for that end. ) We have literal gods among our midst. This could all be over very fast. I have to wonder what the true angle is.
( A shrug, a puff of the cigarette. )
Oh, you have no need to worry, Rover-san. I won't be hard on myself over this.
[ but rover just shakes her head. ] You're hard on yourself about other things. I think you can handle burying yourself in work well; it's the quiet and the past that tends to get to you.
[ she just sighs. inhales the smoke he has, exhales. things could be peaceful like this too, despite the destruction, and it often is. it's like walking in the long-abandoned ruins in jinzhou or huangloong. the silence can be comforting. ]
Maybe there isn't an angle at all. Bring the most powerful they can manage to bring with their resources, make sure they don't cause trouble, and put them to work. Perhaps that's all there is to it.
That's why I keep dragging you to restaurants, you know.
... and it's not a bad thing to be. There's reason to suspect their every move.
[ and that's all she has on that.
that being said, rover remembers that she's been obtaining some highly valuable information from certain people, and she decides to ask geto now: ] By the way, when is your birthday? Do you have one?
( Of course. Repayment and not socialisation. He absolutely believes her. He does at least snort a little when she asks him about his birthday, singular eyebrow raising. )
Why wouldn't I have a birthday? It's February 3rd. I'll be twenty-eight.
( He can practically hear Mimiko and Nanako wailing that he's ancient, somewhere. ) Yours?
[ rover gives a slight hum at that, determined to remember. so now she has three people's birthdays to remember. (well, she'll have to figure out what the exact date is for one of them, but at least, she knows three people's birthdays now.) ]
Let me know what being thirty's like. Apparently you become less fun.
[ like she has any room to talk. anyway - ]
I don't know. I've lost my memories.
So I've been asking other people's birthdays instead.
( Cheerful about it, a stupid brightness in his usual malaise. ) Maybe I should make some good out of my death, I can die young no matter how long they keep me here.
( He flicks ash over the other side of the wall, away from her. ) It's a starsign. Some people believe whenever you were born you get a sign based on the position of the stars, and then it tells you facts about yourself. ( He is ... mangling ... astrology. ) Scorpios have a tendency to want to uncover secrets. Intuitive.
( A pause, then in explanation. )
My secretary liked to read the family theirs. I'm an Aquarius. They're talented. ( A strange grin, one he used to wear more often. ) Charming. Modest.
[ rover just raises an eyebrow at his definition of an aquarius - ] That's funny.
I feel like just picking any date is such a terrible way to do it. I have to put a lot of thought to make sure I don't end up at the wrong star sign, if that's the case. Or it has to be a date that's meaningful enough to me to begin with ... it's a lot of pressure.
Well, do you have a day that's important? If you're going to remember my birthday I'm going to have to remember yours, it's only fair. And I wouldn't like anyone to say I don't give my all.
( Contrary to popular belief he's not actually a bad friend to have, he likes to make sure the members of his family are safe and cared for, acknowledged and nurtured. With the notable exception of his actions upon his defection, he enjoys being a good friend. Rover's wormed her way in well enough. )
I still think scorpio, but if you find something more fitting by all means.
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( But permission has been granted, and it's clearly been a long day. He still peels off the plastic carefully, taking his time. ) Hm. Colours dark enough to be black? I had a rich plum one once. I thought that was very shocking. ( A smile that almost shows teeth. ) A navy would be fine. Some dark green? I avoided lighter colours for the most part, unless the girls wanted a guinea pig. Sometimes they would, when they were very young, though it would be my fingers more than my nails. We had Hello Kitty polishes. I don't think I'd do that here though.
( He takes a cigarette out, turns it over to place back into the pack, then removes another one to bring to his mouth. Patting down his pockets for his lighter is easy, and only when he has it lit does he broach the subject again. )
Not torn up in guilt over what happened, then?
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[ she forgives him too easily for a lot of things, anyway. even when she ought not to. ]
... That's all just one shade. I don't know why you even bothered distinguishing the colours.
[ rover thinks his question, and then says, ] You know, I'm very upset at the damage and the deaths, but also, I chose to run after it.
I don't think I'm wrong. I would've done the same back home. I understand people's frustrations at the outcome, but things are always easier to assign blame to in hindsight and after a failure.
I can live with it. [ and that's it for her, really. ]
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( Not that he'll indulge if she chooses something wild, but he is interested. It's a nice dichotomy from the seriousness of the rest of their conversation, though he's a lot more curious about that. Geto smokes and watches her and mulls over her answer for a long moment, holding in his inhale. )
That was my answer, though yours was a little kinder. We chose, it went wrong, but a singular person cannot be blamed, in fact I think even as a collective we shouldn't. This isn't our fight. LILITH should be better prepared.
( But as always it's the work of the foot soldiers that gets scrutinised. It's too reminiscent of Jujutsu High. The elders, upon high, the children, dying. )
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[ as far as 'adventurous' goes here, anyway. geto's aesthetic kind of pigeonholes him to one type (awful goth man).
she thinks over his response in the meantime. that they shouldn't be blamed slipped her, actually - she had been thinking about the seoul branch's response, and she wonders if it were done as a bargaining chip between them and the japan branch for the future. ]
I agree with you. [ rover sighs as she stares at the destruction before them. ] I hope LILITH makes better plans in the future regarding the missions.
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( Maybe the next time he sees her he'll have gone back to his terrible monk roots, and then there will be no fun ever. )
They probably won't. Higher ups never do. Not when they have enough foot soldiers to carry out the work for them. And sometimes even a lack never factors in to their consideration. I think this will be something we'll have to be aware of, from hereon out. Either the possibility of loss, or that we might need to harden ourselves to it.
( He still sounds a little bored, flicking ash. It's entirely possible he's already hardened himself enough. )
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[ it reminds her of the midnight rangers who were desperate to continue fighting the threnodian. despair is a potent rot. it kills morale and drags hope through the mud. in rover's mind she remembers the desolate fields and the rain that gives a voice to such anger; each soldier a phantom before they are dead.
she says nothing, because she had been with general jiyan when she ordered the soldiers and rearranged them on the battlefield. in a way she had shouldered the same burden geto is criticizing LILITH for. and it's a valid criticism. not much she can do about it.
instead, what she says is, ]
... I tried taking in the kaiju, after it died.
I couldn't do it.
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( It doesn't matter that he left that kind of life behind, it always finds him again. At least when he was in charge of his own people he'd tried harder to make sure they all made it out alive. His family were important to him. He knew to weigh up the cost properly. LILITH doesn't, doesn't even try to shoulder their fair share of responsibility.
He keeps that to himself though, instead glancing at her in curiosity. A pause, another inhale of smoke, and then. )
I can't either. ( He hasn't admitted that to anyone yet, but Rover brought it up herself. ) My theory is they're not like the things we know. ( Another beat, and then he changes his mind. ) Actually, that's not it. I think LILITH has control over us, and does not wish us to get more powerful than they can contain. My cursed technique has changed, been tampered with. Something has shuffled the ones I've been in charge of, lessened them. Or brought ones that were exorcised back from the dead.
( He thinks of rainbow dragon, once long gone, smaller now. )
I think we pose a threat if we can do the same thing here, and they've done their best to stop that.
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... I feel the missions would be less difficult if we were operating in full capacity. [ she pulls her knees towards her, leaning her chin over them as she looks at the destruction before them. ] In that regard, without having full control of our powers, should we fail, you're right in saying we're not to blame.
I will still do my best, of course. But I'll keep a closer eye on some of my friends who may be a bit too hard on themselves.
[ she's thinking of eresh. and while geto is smoking, he gets a friendly pat on the shoulder. ] And I will always bother you. It comes with the territory.
[ it occurs to her that maybe she is the one who needs new hobbies. but anyway ... ]
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( He understands the need to cripple its army, at least a little bit. At his full power Geto was nigh unstoppable. If he hadn't chosen to go after Yuta, if he hadn't split his forces three ways, he would very much still be alive. His own folly. Or maybe he'd been looking for that end. ) We have literal gods among our midst. This could all be over very fast. I have to wonder what the true angle is.
( A shrug, a puff of the cigarette. )
Oh, you have no need to worry, Rover-san. I won't be hard on myself over this.
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[ she just sighs. inhales the smoke he has, exhales. things could be peaceful like this too, despite the destruction, and it often is. it's like walking in the long-abandoned ruins in jinzhou or huangloong. the silence can be comforting. ]
Maybe there isn't an angle at all. Bring the most powerful they can manage to bring with their resources, make sure they don't cause trouble, and put them to work. Perhaps that's all there is to it.
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( It isn't even irritated, more amused than anything else. )
Maybe. I could be being paranoid.
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That's why I keep dragging you to restaurants, you know.
... and it's not a bad thing to be. There's reason to suspect their every move.
[ and that's all she has on that.
that being said, rover remembers that she's been obtaining some highly valuable information from certain people, and she decides to ask geto now: ] By the way, when is your birthday? Do you have one?
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( Of course. Repayment and not socialisation. He absolutely believes her. He does at least snort a little when she asks him about his birthday, singular eyebrow raising. )
Why wouldn't I have a birthday? It's February 3rd. I'll be twenty-eight.
( He can practically hear Mimiko and Nanako wailing that he's ancient, somewhere. ) Yours?
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Let me know what being thirty's like. Apparently you become less fun.
[ like she has any room to talk. anyway - ]
I don't know. I've lost my memories.
So I've been asking other people's birthdays instead.
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( Cheerful about it, a stupid brightness in his usual malaise. ) Maybe I should make some good out of my death, I can die young no matter how long they keep me here.
( The rest of that is ... interesting. )
All right, pick one. You strike me as a scorpio.
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[ haha.
also rover just looks at him in confusion. ]
... that's kind of silly, isn't it? Also, I don't even know what a scorpio is.
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( He flicks ash over the other side of the wall, away from her. ) It's a starsign. Some people believe whenever you were born you get a sign based on the position of the stars, and then it tells you facts about yourself. ( He is ... mangling ... astrology. ) Scorpios have a tendency to want to uncover secrets. Intuitive.
( A pause, then in explanation. )
My secretary liked to read the family theirs. I'm an Aquarius. They're talented. ( A strange grin, one he used to wear more often. ) Charming. Modest.
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I feel like just picking any date is such a terrible way to do it. I have to put a lot of thought to make sure I don't end up at the wrong star sign, if that's the case. Or it has to be a date that's meaningful enough to me to begin with ... it's a lot of pressure.
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( Contrary to popular belief he's not actually a bad friend to have, he likes to make sure the members of his family are safe and cared for, acknowledged and nurtured. With the notable exception of his actions upon his defection, he enjoys being a good friend. Rover's wormed her way in well enough. )
I still think scorpio, but if you find something more fitting by all means.
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[ rover sighs. ]
If I come up with one, I'll definitely let you know. But for now, I guess I have nothing.
That being said, I can also just celebrate my birthday with my friends' ... that's also just as fun.
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( A hum, thoughtful. )
I'll get two cakes on mine then. If we're both still in LILITH's service. Then you'll have to tell me what kind of flavour you like.