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The Quiet Place Mods ([personal profile] bequiet) wrote in [community profile] quietplace2018-02-28 05:37 pm

MOD EVENT POST

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.
justbeingknife: (concern)

[personal profile] justbeingknife 2018-03-02 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ he was right

it was creepy ]


Don't suppose there was any easy way to beat 'em back that'd also apply to our situation?
magnes: (pic#12102090)

[personal profile] magnes 2018-03-02 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
It'd make our lives easier, yeah?

Unfortunately, I don't remember any creatures that were attracted to sound. Well, more than they would be normally.
justbeingknife: (attention)

[personal profile] justbeingknife 2018-03-02 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

They kinda seem like somethin' outta a horror movie, don't they? Wonder what made 'em. If anything made 'em.
nishizono: (08 - qWal95Q)

[personal profile] nishizono 2018-03-02 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ well, that's fair. tetora can give him that much in the meantime. ]

what bothers me the most is the part about the matured ones. they're smart, and clearly, they're still around.

makes a guy wonder what they're waiting for, and what's keeping them.
nishizono: (( clr ) 022)

un: nishizono

[personal profile] nishizono 2018-03-02 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
it means they have brains enough to get smarter.

this just keeps getting better, fuck.
nishizono: (( clr ) 024)

un: nishizono

[personal profile] nishizono 2018-03-02 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
could be they have the biological version of an EMP bomb that transmits whenever they kill.

i mean, we exist. this theory's possible.
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un: nishizono

[personal profile] nishizono 2018-03-02 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
considering the pool they feed from's thinned out, we can probably count that as a weakness.

they're getting hungrier, i bet.
nishizono: (( clr ) 007)

un: nishizono

[personal profile] nishizono 2018-03-02 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
what's wonderland?

[ because clearly this is the important take-away to this. ]
nishizono: (2 - IKie94O)

un: nishizono

[personal profile] nishizono 2018-03-02 09:51 am (UTC)(link)
has anyone considered moving to the catacombs, or are those infested too?
maybe i'm repeating something that's already been covered before, but it's something to consider.
where else can they survive other than out in open air?
list_maker: (faces)

[personal profile] list_maker 2018-03-02 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe, but hungry Sound Eaters are probably angrier and more dangerous than they would be normally. So unless they manage to starve to death, they'll probably be even more of a problem.
list_maker: (faces)

[personal profile] list_maker 2018-03-02 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
I agree. Perhaps we could take turns? [If it's not permanent, Arya's not afraid to die. She's nearly done it once already.]
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[personal profile] nishizono 2018-03-02 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
angrier doesn't mean smarter. if they can be smart enough to plan, they're intelligent enough to get desperate at some point.
list_maker: (which way?)

[personal profile] list_maker 2018-03-02 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
yes, I see your point. It may give us an opening. we'll have to monitor them to try and find out more. maybe get close to their nest again, i wasn't here when they went on that trip. I can be quiet. you want to come with me?
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[personal profile] nishizono 2018-03-02 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
of course i would. at the very least, it'll be a change of scenery.

but we don't know the landscape yet. did any of the guys who went first shared their updated maps here?
list_maker: (faces)

[personal profile] list_maker 2018-03-02 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gosh, ruining Arya's beautifully laid plans with pesky logic. How dare.] I'm sure someone did. We'll have to ask around.
nishizono: (( clr ) 010)

[personal profile] nishizono 2018-03-02 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ someone's gotta do it!!! ]

you wanna split the list, cover more ground? i'm in if you are.
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[personal profile] twoaffirmations 2018-03-02 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Knowing 9S, probably.]

What's a flick?

There's no way they're human. They're just grotesque imitations. If it was a disease, wouldn't it have already transmitted to everyone here? The natives and everyone who's arrived since are perfectly normal.
Edited 2018-03-02 15:08 (UTC)

Re: un: wyman

[personal profile] criticality 2018-03-02 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it possible that the people who don't reset are actually resetting.

[ Please tell him that is a crazy person thought. ]
justbeingknife: (what god hands)

[personal profile] justbeingknife 2018-03-02 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Y'know, a movie. A motion picture.

Anyway, you can't really say that for sure, can ya? Not like we've exactly got state-of-the-art medical technology around here, and that's assuming it's not some magical curse bullshit. We don't actually know what sets off the changes.
dryeyes: often far more serious mistakes (sure i made mistakes when i was younger)

un: eraserhead

[personal profile] dryeyes 2018-03-02 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
A group of us from the first wave went to Paris. We saw one of those things rising from a corpse.

The youngest ones look just like humans, from a distance. Only the face is wrong. There's nothing there.
justbeingknife: (straight face)

[personal profile] justbeingknife 2018-03-02 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Critical mass?

[ he was having all kinds of happy thoughts today, this was great A++++ would recommend to literally no one ]
dryeyes: of chaos and revelry [<user name="if">] (denny's is absolutely)

un: eraserhead

[personal profile] dryeyes 2018-03-02 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
They seemed to be much more relaxed about being captured on film. They seem to be faster now, easier at escaping our notice.

[Whether it was behavioral or built in their genetics... that wasn't anything he was an expert in.]
dryeyes: like a fucking coma (believe me)

un: eraserhead

[personal profile] dryeyes 2018-03-02 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm still not confident in their level of intelligence. Hunting tactics don't guarantee a plan or a motive or any mental capacity capable of creating something like the reset rooms.

Then again, we don't really get to see much from those "Matured" ones.
[So maybe they were the brains, while the feral offspring went to killing and silencing.]
twoaffirmations: (game | scanning)

[personal profile] twoaffirmations 2018-03-02 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, we are... But because the device is relatively simple, it should be able to excel in its area of expertise. Something about the Sound Eater's attack on A2 made them glitch, but I can't figure out what.

It was during the rain and we were a few hundred feet away. If I had to take a guess, that would be why we were able to capture them on film.
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[personal profile] shotfired 2018-03-02 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Arya is Lup's new favorite person. ] You're speaking my language. We'll need to pick a spot a little out of town, so no one else kicks it.

But with any luck, we'll get some useful info.

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