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quietplace2018-02-28 05:37 pm
bequiet) wrote in quietplace2018-02-28 05:37 pm
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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:
Attack Footage:
Reset Room Footage:
Mass Grave Footage:
Biologist Notes:
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.
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.
- 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.
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You are right though. It isn't natural. I know of it happening on my world. But it's a rare thing. Performed by witches and red priestesses. And not all of you comes back. Something is always missing. I don't know if it's the same here.
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If ya get brought back again, does even less of ya come back? Or does it just not work at all? On your world, of course.
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UN: MadMax
[Like a Sound Eater.]
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Second of all... well, ain't people died here already? So the fastest way to find out is to find 'em and figure out if they changed any or seem off. Otherwise we're just scarin' ourselves for no reason.
That Tony fella's thinking of doing some blood tests, that seems like a good place to start.
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But you have to admit that some version of those things looks pretty human.
Wouldn't he need a sample from before someone dies for comparison though? [Science really isn't her thing but she does pay attention in class. Usually.]
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If we really do have some weird alien shit inside us, it might show up without a before and after... but probably the best we could do right now is take samples from people who have and haven't died. Maybe people who got caught up in that red dust or not.
[ I mean he wasn't going to say wait for people to die so u can retest but ]
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[It made her think vaguely about the zombies from Dawn of the Dead. Except the things here were even more grotesque. It all makes her pretty glad she's not seen any of them up close and personal. She'd rather not, thanks.]
There might be other differences, too, since we're all from so many different places.
[And not everyone was human to begin with.]
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I mean, the people here, they're immune to that mind control guy's powers. And even if we look human, that don't mean we actually are. Like the androids.
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[ he probably shouldn't have typed that ]
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True.
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Yeah, you might be right.
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Perhaps we should talk to those who've been reset. See if they feel different. Do you know anyone who's come back?
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Yeah. A couple.
[And wow if they're right, she's already very upset.]
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As far as weaknesses go, though, water's a pretty weird one to have. If this Earth's like my Earth, then about two-thirds of the planet's water.
What about it bothers 'em, anyhow? Is it because it interferes with the dust...?
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It's a thought. They don't like the rain. And the dust can be washed away. There may be a connection.
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Plus, it ain't like they go around covered in the stuff, and they don't have a problem moving where it's not.
But hey, you don't wanna ask any questions, you do you.
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There is some reason for the dust, though, it was around those piles of afterbirth in the island at the river. Maybe it has something to do with how they're created?