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𝚂𝚢𝚗𝚏𝚕𝚞𝚡 𝙼𝚘𝚍𝚜 ([personal profile] synfluxmods) wrote in [community profile] synflux2024-01-28 11:13 am

KAIJU FIGHT #1

KAIJU FIGHT #1


CONTENT WARNINGS: thalassophobia, natural disaster, drowning, body horror, violence, blood & gore.

▶ 001. SEAS THE DAY.

On the morning of the 1st, sirens will blare, forcing every Outsider and Neo Tokyo civilian awake. While it hasn't been activated for a while, every citizen within the city knows this alarm all too well - it wails through the city whenever a Kaiju has been detected, ordering everyone to return to their homes immediately and stay there until they receive further information. Outsiders gazing at Neo Tokyo will see the armored city in its full technological splendour for the first time today. Once the civilians have returned to their homes, machinery within the buildings will work like clockwork, sinking each and every LILITH-augmented building beneath the ground. Just in time, too, because the waves are starting to roar again, crashing beyond the shore and flooding the city once more. Observant Outsiders may note that not every building has been modified. The older ones remain standing, vulnerable to the impending flood. Does anyone live in those buildings? The answer is yes, but that's not a priority at the moment.

Every Outsider will receive a summon, ordering them to prepare for battle. The Kaiju has been identified and located. It's show time.

"Angels of LILITH. We have located the Kaiju coming from beyond the sea. A full mission brief including the information we have gathered will be sent to you immediately. For now, make your way to the bay where your transport will be waiting. Be prepared for anything, but mostly, be prepared to swim."


Waiting for the Outsiders at the bay appear to be ... expensive-looking, personal yachts? This has to be a mistake, right? It's no mistake. Through intel LILITH has exchanged with international companies, it appears that this particular Kaiju has a fondness for overturning civilian yachts, and there's no better way to attract it than to leave it its favourite bait. The goal is to attract these Kaiju towards the boats and then attacking.

The ships may look like they're outfitted for a fancy yacht party. In fact, some exploring down below deck in the lounging room, one may find caviar on fancy ritz, oyster tower, little finger sandwiches with the crusts cut off and bougie smelly cheese that nobody in LILITH's pay grade can identify. On another table, there is fancy ramen spoons filled with microgreens, crystal jelly vinegarette, and a thin slice of parmesan cheese. Some further looking may find some fine aged wine, but you're not here to drink and party, you're here to fight a Kaiju! Right? Right.

Despite the fact everything about these yachts just look like... fancy yachts... they are actual warships that are mounted with naval artillery such as swivel guns, missiles and torpedos. Spears, harpoon guns and fishing nets can also be found and used if an Outsider is more comfortable getting extremely close to the monsters. There's no time for a proper seafaring course, so Outsiders will be given a quick run down on how the controls work, and be sent on their way. They will also be given a special jewel-like implant that attaches to the skin, right along the forehead, and told to wear it if they need to go into the water. "Don't worry about it," the LILITH crew says. "But it'll be one hell of a ride if you use it."

Alongside the crew, Seok Dang seems to be also assisting (?) though he's gotten a hold of the reception food down below. Did he smell like fine wine? Possibly. But that's definitely a fancy, half eaten cracker in his hand. He's also got on a bright, neon life preserver. Maybe someone doesn't know how to swim.

"WHOOO HELLA YEAH, MOTHERFUCKERS. Don't know how to swim? Don't'cha worry. Daddy Dang has got you covered. I know CPR! I give the best CPR! 💖 I'll rescue ya. TONIGHT, WE BALL!"


Nobody uses that phrase anymore, but you know what? You do you, SD.


▶ 002. WHALE WATCHING.

Minutes into their ship's course, the boats will rock violently, as if those already violent waves have somehow come alive. There is something in the water! The mission brief would have been shared with them sometime during their trip, but maybe Outsiders want to pull up on their implant the image and debrief shared once again now that there is some action. The orca-like Kaiju trying to reach the shores of Neo Tokyo is called Shachimon, and she's been the cause of the violent waves and flooding we've seen for the past few weeks. Alongside of her and are her children orca who love to mimic everything their mother does. The biggest one, the matriarch of the pod, is over 60 meters in length - large enough to swallow a boat whole. The younger ones are smaller but just as ferocious, spanning from the size of a car to the size of a bus. The youngsters are a size small enough that they can leap out of the water, sometimes crashing down onto people and ships. Beware!

Shachimon will be fighting to knock over boats, or climbing on boats with their amphibious legs. Once they get their hands on humans or Outsiders, they pull them into the water, tearing them limb from limb to feed. Their control over the waves are no joke, either. With a powerful swing of their tail, they can conjure up tsunamis capable of overturning ships. The matriarch, if left to her own devices, seems bent on submerging Neo Tokyo to make food of all its citizens.

█ █ █ MONSTER DEBRIEF SHEET
NAME: Shachimon
HEIGHT: Younger whales are 4 - 18 metres. The matriarch is 60 meters in length.
WEIGHT: 1500kg - 5000kg
CLASS: Highly dangerous.
LOCATION: Large bodies of water
ABILITIES: Use of sonar to detect any water movement. Fast swimmer. Very sturdy body thanks to all that whale blubber. High intelligence - commonly works together as a pod to take down prey. Capable of creating tsunamis that overturn boats. The largest Shachimon can sink a city if not stopped.
WEAKNESS: Electricity (since it will be inside water), dissection, spearing its eyes or blowhole. Loud vibrations within the water can stun or confuse it.
EXTRA NOTES: Dislikes and will attempt to overturn civilian yachts. Carnivorous, eating marine life and human flesh. Sadistic personality, may play with their food prior to eating.

█ █ █ MISSION OBJECTIVE:
✖ Lead the Shachimon away from the shore.
✖ Extermination of Shachimon in the water and if they reach the shore.
✖ Protection of nearby fishermen's boats and civilians within those boats.
✖ Teamwork to destroy the matriach Shachimon.
✖ Bring back specimens (live or deceased) for research purposes.

█ █ █ ATTACHED PHOTO:


As a note, Outsiders who wish to remain on land and help civilians there may do so. There are waves flooding the city, and some of the smaller, quicker Shachimon will have made it to shore. They will need to be taken care of before they can terrorise the city.


▶ 003. OCEAN GEMS.

Shachimon are most deadly in the water and their go-to strategy is to pull others into their turf, where they have the advantage. That's where those jewel-like implants come in. These implants, called OCEAN GEMS, when attached to the skin, temporarily modify the body. Once activated, nanobots will invade the bloodstream and alter the user's lungs, giving them a set of breathable gills. Their legs will also be altered, giving them fins and the tail of a fish. This is a recent invention by LILITH ever since the first Shachimon was spotted a few years ago, and the technology is still experimental. This means that the transformation process will be significantly uncomfortable, feeling a bit like being asphyxiated and having your legs sewn together at the same time. Deactivating the gem and turning back feels just as uncomfortable, and being experimental technology, it can take a while before the user can successfully revert back. Those who want to fight in the water and lack any weapons or abilities that can be used can request Seok Dang for a weapon. There's a limited supply, but they will be given a special trident. Directly driving the spear into one of the kaiju will electrocute it, giving a higher chance for higher damage. These tridents will be handed out to those who want to use their Ocean Gem and ask.

It's up to Outsiders whether they want to use this new technology or not. Being able to fight the monsters on their own terrain is certainly an advantage, so LILITH would highly encourage it.


▶ 004. MEDICAL BAY.

Healers and those with medical experience will be placed on the warship with a red flag on it. Dr. Spim & Alex will also be present on this ship to assist any major injuries to both LILITH and civilian fisherman alike. This ship is bigger than the others, and while stocked up with the same artillery, it is also stocked with beds and medical supplies. This will be the Outsider's naval medical bay during the siege on the Shachimon and all injured Outsiders or civilians will need to be transported there. This ship will also need to be protected heavily, because once the Shachimon catch on that all the injured, vulnerable prey are being transported to the larger ship, they will start to target that ship in particular. Characters that need immediate medical help should be transported to this ship via a dataportal. Each yacht has a dataportal that can teleport anyone instantly to the medical ship. The dataportals are also located down below deck to prevent them from getting damaged.



▶ 005. THE CALM AFTER THE STORM.

It's a bloody, soggy and gruesome battle and the seas' waves begin to calm down, the sea filled with kaiju carcasses. LILITH's clean up crew is working hastily to collect these corpses, but with the Outsiders' occupied and recovering from their fresh battle, help is limited. Search and rescue scavenges the sea to find any civilians who didn't make it or may need medical help. Meanwhile, the valiant teamwork and effort has paid off. After many hits from many different weapons, artillery, natural abilities, etc. the matriarch kaiju has been downed and sank to the bottom of the ocean floor. LILITH's team will work to retrieve the massive carcass, though it will take awhile. Those who put in notable effort will receive praise and a little extra payout. Outsiders will see an instant transfer of funds to their account: 340,000,000 KRYPTOS. This is roughly about 2500 USD.

The intense battle will have lasted several days and Outsiders are free to go from land to sea as little or as often as they like. It is all over, though, and Outsiders will be called to return to the MAIN BASE for rest and recovery. LILITH will also be searching for the rift where the kaiju came from while Outsiders recover. A message from an unknown voice will pop up an hour or so after all Outsiders have returned to the MAIN BASE. Outsiders may use this time to socialize in a commons area, wash up in the showers, get a meal in the cafeteria or rest.

"Good work."





▶ 006. AFTERWORD.

Welcome to our first Kaiju log! All prompts are highly encouraged but OOCly optional. ICly, characters can choose to fight in the ocean, on the ships or stay behind on land and protect the city. At the end of the siege, characters who accepted an Ocean Gem will be asked to return it. It's experimental technology, so LILITH will need to do more tweaking before they can properly release it. Outsiders who use the gem may have whatever fish tail they like, as long as it is a sea creature.

Feel free to NPC your characters' fights with the smaller kaijus. The main fight with the Shachimon matriarch will be determined via a HP-based system (See below).

Please note that all tags in this log count for 2 reward points each. Ask any further questions below!

Below is also the month at a glance. We understand the CALENDAR has been a little inconsistent, but the mod team is sorting all of this out. Expect a FEEDBACK POST this month as well so we can check in with the playerbase and make any adjustments to the game. This log, even if the time stamp says JANUARY, will count for FEBRUARY AC.
FEB 1st: Kaiju Fight Log in LOG COMMUNITY
FEB 15th: Text Post in NETWORK COMMUNITY
FEB 25th: Mod posted MEME COMMUNITY; FEEDBACK POST is live.
Thank you all for being a wonderful and understanding playerbase!


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CLOSED TO DENJI.

[personal profile] lifeprice 2024-02-06 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ Aki is tired.

His arm is aching, the cold of the salt water leaving him miserable as he tries to keep warm. A shower helps, but he still feels the chill, the way his muscle complains from the sudden overuse after months of nothing being there. He’s used to nothingness, to being without a limb, and the new weight of it has been an adjustment - a good and necessary one, but still hard to stomach.

A little warmer, back in his civilian clothes and with his hair loose, hanging around his shoulders, he heads out on a new mission: find Denji and make sure he’s safe.

He doesn’t really anticipate his friend being hurt beyond what being Chainsaw Man can heal, but that isn’t the point. Denji is all Aki has right now, a solid place in his heart that’s immovable, irreplaceable, and he knows he’d risk a lot to keep him safe. Pointlessly, maybe, given his own mortality, but the sentiment remains the same. He wants Denji to be happy, to be safe, to find some measure of comfort here. If he can do something to help that…

The route to Denji’s room is familiar, at least, and he leans against the wall for a moment before knocking on the door and waiting, fighting a yawn. ]
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[personal profile] nutkick 2024-02-08 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ they finally get to see what's the big deal about the kaiju's they've been hearing about, and they have surely been a handful— nothing too extreme for devil hunters, though. after being deprived of embracing the identity of chainsaw man, enduring long months of being threatened, and getting mindfucked by the church and public safety at the same time, it was freeing to be able to pull out his chainsaws again and have people call him by the name he missed so much.

today has been a bliss, and it felt amazing, every second of it. in fact, he's still relishing the aftermath of all that gore and feeding, holding a crooked smile as he opens the door for aki. ]


I guess the arm works.

[ he steps back, subtly welcoming his old friend to make himself comfortable. thanks to the gift card bakugou offered him a few nights ago, denji managed to buy an extra bed. there is no formal agreement between them, no pressure, but the bed is here just in case someone didn't feel like being alone. ]

How's your first big mission? Aside from slapping the control devil ...
Edited 2024-02-08 15:33 (UTC)
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[personal profile] lifeprice 2024-02-08 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Aki isn't going to say that it was nothing, or that he didn't find it difficult - but it was familiar. Aki is accustomed to fighting curses of all sizes, and he's adept enough to manage here with the Future Devil and Curse Devil still connected to him. A small part of him wishes that he still had Kon as well, but that connection might be a little more strained. Would Kon even be able to find him here?

Denji's smile calms some of his tense emotions, and he shakes his head as he steps inside, letting the door close behind him. His friend likes to fight, sometimes, so maybe this was all okay with him... But Aki's not sure, a little uncomfortable. He doesn't want to push, but...

Nodding, he leans against the wall. ]


It does. I was able to hit the mother kaiju.

[ Wincing at the reminder, he loks at the extra bed and fights the urge to smile a little wider. This is... ]

It was fine. Almost what I expected, if I'm honest. Have you eaten?
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[personal profile] nutkick 2024-02-11 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ aki summarizing it to 'his friend likes to fight' is one way to go at it. if only he knew why and how bad it is— but, it's best he doesn't. denji settled down, sitting on the edge of his bed before he hunched forward. there's not a single scratch, bruise, or any indication that he was out there fighting for hours. the exhaustion is there, fated to come out once the high is subdued. for now, he's eerily content. ]

I'm not hungry. I ate well.

[ fed and healed, aki is spared from making him any dinner tonight. he watched the other from where he stood, and at that moment he realized it was— hard talking to aki. hard in an odd sense that he could not explain. he couldn't joke around and force the normalcy they used to have, so it felt like he had to get to know that man all over again. he cleared his throat and decided to be honest. ]

I ... don't recognize you anymore, you know? I don't know if you changed or I changed ...
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[personal profile] lifeprice 2024-02-11 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Aki hesitates, leaning back as he watches. Denji is different now, he thinks, but he can't place why - he can't figure out what's changed, what's different. What had happened, in the time between Denji seeing him last and the two of them meeting here? What experience has coloured Denji so deeply that there is a rift between them that's impossible to close?

He doesn't know how to fix this, he doesn't know how to make it better. It's going to take more than just some food and a handful of hours together to repair this. Add to that his knowledge about what Makima is - or always was...

Rubbing his hand over his face, he groans quietly. ]


I don't know, Denji. I am trying to treat this as if it is normal, as if nothing has changed, but obviously something has. Something is different.

[ He sinks down, sliding down to the ground, resting his hand on a lifted leg. ]

I don't know what to do.
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[personal profile] nutkick 2024-02-15 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ god. he didn't know how they reached a point where aki, someone denji deemed as the one who would take care of everything, is now helpless around the shit they need to deal with. then again, it's not his fault he was so confused. his fate was kept hidden from him, from both denji and makima. at this point, who's the bigger evil here?

denji sighed as if he knew what he had to do— but he didn't have the energy for it tonight. he will have to tell aki the truth, eventually. ]


I think ... maybe we should acknowledge it's different now. We're different. I was a lot younger when we last seen each other. I'm going to school now. I have my own place.

[ a pause. ]

It's been hard. Really hard. But, I'm okay. I don't need you to take care of me. I just need a friend ...
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[personal profile] lifeprice 2024-02-15 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's hard; it's hard for Aki who spent months taking care of Denji, being his caregiver, looking after him, and now he has to give it all up. There's a gulf between them, a distance that he can't conquer, and he doesn't know if Denji even wants him to. Things have changed, and he isn't the man that Denji needs him to be. It makes him hurt, aching, and he rubs at his face.

Maybe they'll get there one day, able to repair this, what they've lost. But for now, he feels exhausted from the misunderstandings. ]


You are? [ That's a surprise. He wonders if the Aki of Denji's time is proud of him, helping him. He wonders why Makima-san is letting him go to school instead of fighting.

It's... Confusing, and he nods his head. ]
I'll try to be better, Denji. I'm used to taking care of you, so it'll be hard for me to let go of that. But you're more important to me than any role I had.