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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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[bowtography]

[ Having his words feel like they're seeping into her skin, his breath ticklish, is entirely distracting, and March takes a minute to try to calm her everything, far too exhausted to really think much about doing anything else at the moment. Especially when that drop of moisture hits her shoulder, and she shifts a hand to rest on his shoulder, bracing, as she looks at the--

Okay, it's staying open. ]

... Okay. Do you want me to help you lay down? I know you can do it on your own, so it's just in case.

[ Let's not stomp on his pride even though he's slumped against her as it is. ]

[hitokiller]

( honestly, it's good that march is here. she's always got the task on lock. )

Hold, onna—

( the words are accompanied by him straightening up, the threads of whatever conversation he might've been conjuring unraveling like the softer parts of him always did with time spent around her. still. he didn't need to make more of a fuss than he'd already had, the way her voice had been thick and wet with tears near the tail-end of their argument still fresh in a mind that thumped with a new beat every minute. )

I can make it. I've... done enough, already.

( un-slumped, and with a grunt to pick up that water bottle i completely forgot about that magically got discarded in this thread, he shunts towards the very close opening of his room, only glancing back once a hand is resting on inside of the door's frame. only stopping there to... but what else could he possibly say after that, when they were both so torn up and had made that fact perfectly clear? when the familiar comfort of anger had brewed up inside him, to the point that he...

but he can think on all this later, in the cold hollow of the dark and with his head resting and alone, where he won't make things worse. still, he... he really ought to— )

Sorry.

( apologize. always apologizing. and before he can read the response in march's shoulders, izou looks away, stumbling forward on a foot and beyond. )