quietplace | 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

angrier doesn't mean smarter. if they can be smart enough to plan, they're intelligent enough to get desperate at some point.

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?

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?

[Gosh, ruining Arya's beautifully laid plans with pesky logic. How dare.] I'm sure someone did. We'll have to ask around.

[ someone's gotta do it!!! ]

you wanna split the list, cover more ground? i'm in if you are.

I am 'in'. Let me know if you find anything.

will do.
try not to die in the meantime.

You're no fun.

not on the first date, no.

[asdfdslhgfkldjgh! Arya stares blankly at that message. Is he flirting? No one's ever flirted with her before that she can think of. Likely due to the fact that she'd spent her formative years either dressing like a boy or training to be a cold blooded killer.]

I'll keep that in mind?

...have you never been flirted at before?
it's cool, i was just ribbing you.

No, I haven't. People don't usually notice me like that. [Unless one counted men being generally crude or threatening to do certain things to her. Ever since she'd left the protection of home she'd run into that. Westeros and Essos both had been a treacherous thing for a girl alone.]

[ oh. tetora eases back a bit from where he's reading the texts coming through his device. ]

don't worry about it.
i mean you no harm. i just like edging people out of their comfort zones from time to time.

I'm not afraid of you. Even if you tried to stab me with a fork at that fighting club. [Maybe she should be afraid of him, But Arya's known to have more bravery than sense.]

I didn't think you meant any harm. If you want to flirt more... I don't mind. [Maybe she liked it, okay? It's a new experience for the seventeen year old]

i like that in a lady.

[ he's not even lying anymore; he really does. girls that aren't afraid of his fighting skills are rare where he's from, and those who fight back are even rarer. ]

you're sure guys haven't done this with you before?

I'm not a lady.

If they did flirt with me, I didn't know it. But I haven't really spent that much time around people my own age in... years.

oh.

doesn't mean you can't be a lady, though, you know? it's like... what's that term, an endearment.
guys think girls like those all the time, so they always have one for girls they like.
or something like that.

i haven't really been around people my age in forever, either.

Lady has a very specific meaning where I'm from. It's a girl or woman who's high born. That is meant be married off to the first Lord who will have her and watch the Castle while the men go off to battle. And that's not me. Even if my father was a Lord. [But there's something else there that she's focusing in on.' For girls they like'. Did that mean he actually liked her? That puts a warm feeling in her gut. It's not a sensation she's had in a long time, much too focused on completing her list, killing everyone who'd wronged her or her family, to worry about much else. It's interesting.] If you really want to call me Lady, you can. But overdo it and i'll stab you. I've gotten my sword back, so I could do it.

Why haven't you? I've been on the run for a long time, traveling... and training.

[ so it's a thing where she's from. tetora can see why she's particular about the use of the word. ]

i wouldn't call you it if it makes you uncomfortable.
maybe just sparingly? would that be all right with you?
'cause lady does fit you.
you've got a handle on knife fighting that's really cool.

and ha, same thing really. i've been running for years. it's gotten exhausting honestly.

If you really want to, sure. Why do you think it fits me?

I have a sword now and a knife! I can show you sometime. If you want?

Yes. It is. I finally got back home after a really long time. Only to end up here not too long after. I'm beginning to think I'm not meant to go back home no matter how much I want to.

you're good with the weapon you chose
didn't need to see you fight with a sword to know you're good at handling blades
ladies i know, they all did the fighting for themselves
that's why i think lady fits you.

don't let it bother you.
home is wherever you want it to be.

you wanna go another round again?

If it means that where you're from then yes. You can call me that if you want.

Perhaps home can be anywhere you want. But what about the people we care about? The work left to do where we were?

And, yes. I'd like that. I always have my sword and dagger on me. so perhaps the next time I see you.

you're lady then
glad to meet ya

and i don't know, you don't always have to leave them behind either
my world is a mess, i know i have shit to do when i get back too

when are you free for it?

Nice to meet you.

I have family still left back home. And people I mean to kill.

I'm free now. I'm free tomorrow. Any time. [She's not exactly going to her assigned job with any frequency.]

[ that makes two of them being proper delinquents. this is a match made in... nightmare town, tetora supposes. ]

you remember the place from last time we met?
i'm headed over there now.

Edited 2018-03-10 11:40 (UTC)

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