MOD EVENT POST

[bequiet]

All teams have decided to share their footage and/or findings during routine supplies missions. It was compiled in chronological order and posted to the Bulletin Board for everyone to see.



Arrival Footage:

All over the world - in the middle of busy streets, empty homes, department stores - red dirt blew in and fell haphazardly into centralized mounds. The dirt settled. The footage begins as someone gets as close as they dare, zooming in and out repeatedly, the camera shaking in their hand as they move. The Matured come first. They climb up and out as asphalt and tile no longer exist beneath the red dirt. The young and the shifting come next. A matured Sound Eater raises its hand and points. They attack. The device falls to the ground and the owner's scream is silenced.

Attack Footage:

In standard news report fashion, a series of videos were compiled by Wall Street Journal reporter Maria Fillian, and her voice can be heard describing what she's seeing. Starting with clips from BBC News, LA Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, and even Google, the footage shows the Sound Eaters attacking Paris, London, Los Angeles, New York, and other cities - both big and small. Police and military forces are brought in but are no match for the Sound Eaters. They attack anyone and everything, seemingly at random and with brutality, leaving nothing moving in their wake. What was supposed to be a fight becomes a rescue and survival mission, groups of people evacuating and heading for less populated areas.

As the footage comes to an end, Maria focuses in on a clip from Times of India. A group of Young Sound Eaters are swarming and killing in any way that they can, completely ignoring a young boy who stands in the middle of the crowd frozen in fear. He doesn't move and they don't attack him.

Look at the way they avoid the boy. Why are they leaving him alone? Is it because he's a child and not a threat? It's clear that the reporter isn't sure but believes it's important. Wait. There. Did you see that? Now what was once a crowd of over a thousand, is down to the boy, the Sound Eaters and a woman kneeling on the ground. She rewinds the footage and plays it back. The Sound Eaters stand there aimlessly, breathing heavily, waiting for something and then the woman yells for the child to run and all the Sound Eaters converge on her. Maria gasps. They can't see.

The footage ends.

Reset Room Footage:

The attacks have begun to spread out, giving some survivors the chance to group up in areas outside of the major cities. A woman, using the webcam on her laptop, is recording the inside of a Macy's. While her and her group were looking for supplies before heading to her family's cabin, they noticed the red dirt in the men's clothing department. The footage pans from left to right slowly, showing how the floors and walls of that corner of the store are completely covered. One member of their group sticks their hand down into the dirt and yells back that the floor is gone. Rather, that where they should be able to find tile it's just dirt. The battery dies before anything else is filmed.

Mass Grave Footage:

By this time, the 7.442 billion people in the world has been knocked down to less than a million, spread out and all in hiding. Some have come to realize that sound attracts the invaders and others have not. The recording starts out zoomed in way too close to a group of pigeons that were all (violently) killed. The footage pans out and the person recording follows a trail of dead that leads to a mass grave. Carefully, they hold the camera up so that it can film quickly - inside are people, animals, radios, wind chimes, and many other bits of tech and machinery. The footage ends abruptly.

Biologist Notes:

From a bunker, Hendricks has recorded notes and opinions on the Sound Eaters, Reset Room, and the apocalypse. The recordings are corrupt, but some has been cleaned up enough to be read and watched. It's clear from the beginning that Hendricks believed that the 'end' was inevitable and had made preparations for this. He has a French accent and there are notes describing how the Sound Eaters are attracted to noise and have built a nest at the Eiffel Tower. Since the recording cuts in and out, it's unclear as to why he makes all of his assumptions. The native who compiled everything for the Bulletin Board, has written out what he could (Hendricks questions and comments), and it plays across everyone's devices.

- The Sound Eaters and Reset Rooms came at the same time.
- Hendricks is alone and possibly unwell.
- The Matured are in charge but rarely come out or if they do, they are better at hiding.
- The shifting are grotesque.
- The young are violent and lash out at anything.
- The Sound Eaters kill and attack everything; animals, cars, people.
- If it makes noise, they go for it.
- Their methods have changed.
- What was once an all out attack has become more calculated as people have learned to hide and be quiet.
- People are coming out of the red dust.
- Everything has grown so quiet.
- Even the crickets are gone.
- I'm alone now.

They seem to need us, but they don't want us.

Comments

[warfares]

I would have thought study if it weren't clear that they lacked the facilities for it.

[ It's difficult to know which is more alarming, really. Either they're running down t he clock on some kind of terrible mutagenic virus or the dead are rising. ]

The red dust seems a common link, regardless.

[whists]

They might know something we need to know.

[flyguy]

But just think of all the solar radiation exposure you're saving on. Might be adding ten days to your life with all this gloom and doom weather we've been having.

Also I'm selfish and I much prefer if I'm suffering not playing space poker you get to suffer with me. Probably makes me a bad person.

[So much caring about that over here, yup.]

un: kyouken

[justbeingknife]

Didn't know A2 tried to fight those things. Any theories on how the hell they got her?

[warfares]

A shame no one thought to collect any from the tower trip, a comparison of the two would be interesting.

[justbeingknife]

Well, we can try and track 'em down.

There's always that other possibility, too -- that some of the old arrivals stayed.

[flyguy]

[Shakes fist at Majima, put a decade on yourself bro!!!]

When I fix my assistant we're going to have a movie night. It's going to be me, you, my great(x5?) grandmother and probably half locals. The cultural wasteland around here is just killing it.

What I'm saying is do you want to hear the freaky shit that passes for checkers at lunch around here or should I just keep my mouth shut?

[justbeingknife]

[ For whatever reason, this jarred Majima out of his initial shock. ]

I'd say that makes ya human.

If you're gonna be looking at that dust under the microscope, I'd be interested in what ya find.

[whists]

I wonder if they would have as much to say as someone who willingly chose to live outside of the community.

[clarius]

They did. I was there in Paris when it happened.

[ she doesn't like to think about it a lot. not really. there are some things the human mind should not be objected to and seeing those things crawl out that time...

hmrpm. it's something she'd like to forget someway, somehow. ] Perhaps that's why there's so many of them.

They were using the bodies as hosts or storages. Like you said- Silos and depositories. Is that why they need us?

un: willthewise

[deadboywalking]

to get where they want to go.

[He says this like there's no other possible reason.]

[justbeingknife]

[ All u have to do is ask buddy ]

I'm with Richie on this one. Silent movies are the pits.

Anyway, ain't anyone going to benefit by dancing around here. Go ahead and lay it out.

[flyguy]

You know, I don't know whether to believe you, but regardless I'm beginning to feel I had an underutilized childhood.

That's 100% how I think they hear. Of course I am using some shoddy god knows how old news footage and the theorems of a man who definitely can't play guitar to back me up here. I don't particularly want to wait until I'm the next contestant on Sound Eater Body Snatchers to find out though, do you?

[justbeingknife]

Dunno. But that first one might be long gone by now. Didn't seem like they wanted to be found.

un: liaison.laurel

[clarius]

7.442 billion. I had no idea that many people could exist on Earth at once. I can't imagine what it'd be like to have it drop down to a mere million.

I also find it unnerving we found this now. Just now.

[flyguy]

At this point I'd take an highschool chemistry lab. I feel like I'm going to be telling my children about foraging methane uphill both ways in the snow.

Do we think the red dust is a biologic creature or some kind of spacial phenomenon? My jury's still out, but I'd be very interested to know what can seemingly create portals and restructure the cells of living organisms. It's kind of a diverse skillset.

Frankly I'm jealous I didn't create it first.

[flyguy]

You think they're just passing through? That's an hell of a roadtrip.

[flyguy]

Putting you at the top of the list. I have a feeling I'm going to need a normal perspective. Or just someone to curse with, that's always fun.

[flyguy]

I still want to collect some samples from the island in the middle of the Seine itself, but. If anyone's up for a latecomers trip to old Paris, I'm game.

[Also it scares the piss out of him. He doesn't even have a suit and the Sound Eaters have beaten down everything to come against them so far with extreme prejudice. Tony's under absolutely no delusions on how he'd fair against one.]

[twoaffirmations]

What's a UFO catcher?

Anyway, I guess that would explain how we got here, but I don't know... Something still bothers me. Why do the young ones look like humans?

[deadboywalking]

no like
they want to get from their world to ours
but they can't do it in the bodies they have
so they're using ours

[twoaffirmations]

I don't know. I was looking right at it, but I didn't see it.

I thought maybe some kind of EMP was involved that took down our devices, but we didn't feel anything, so it's unlikely.

[warfares]

I meant their need for us, specifically.


[ Still, needs must. ]

You weren't on the trip to the tower,
were you?

[flyguy]

That's both incredibly deep and incredibly creepy

I think I'm going to have to start a blood drive.

[skyofreverie]

Let's just leave it at the lesson of: you shouldn't piss off an AI.

Then we're in serious trouble. I'm willing to believe it as the worst-case scenario because dying is a whole lot better than turning into one of those things - at least in my opinion. Yeah, no. But leaving isn't an option we can choose right now so we have to learn how to avoid it.