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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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I'm a reporter for CatCo Worldwide Media. One time, on his Earth, my friend The Flash ran so fast that he accidentally caused a breach between his world and mine. I was out getting coffee, and that's how we met. Because he also wanted some coffee. The CatCo tech team ended up helping The Flash get back home, and he helped us solve a case CatCo had been publicizing for the police department. Ever since then, we've kept in touch.
I'm not a war correspondent, but I do write a lot of articles for alien rights and the Alien Emancipation Act. Which isn't a war but is my main focus within CatCo.
Also their lab doesn't regularly blow stuff up. Lots of bad guys blow stuff up, and their boss blew up one really BIG thing, but I think, on a sliding scale, Cisco is pretty darn safe, and he's ridiculously smart to boot and could probably help us out.
Does that clear some things up for you?
[spot the lies, Tony. there's only, like... three. :D?]
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Also, look, he is really tempted to ask if Cisco will sell him a server domain. Cisco, really? Regardless he settles back in his chair as he thinks over what she's written. There's some things there he's been thinking on himself for his own version of Earth. But he's hardly going to discuss them here.
Eyes drift to his liqueur “cabinet”; he doesn't get up to pour anything. You didn't see that coming?]
We'll pretend for a moment I buy the coffee story. And I'll concede “The Flash” isn't the worst moniker I've ever heard. You said this other dimension is also Earth. What do aliens have to do with it?
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[Kind of a big leap going from society with commercial or private space travel to…Earth. And it's kind of weird she doesn't see that. Tony's not that familiar with space and even he knows Earth's not high in the pecking order.]
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[she's not talking from experience or anything.]
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I wonder about that. Anyway interrogation over. If you were given a pager for your dimensional boyfriend, where is it now? Do the locals have it?
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Only if they can access my kitchen drawers. [which, okay, given the stuff that has randomly shown up in her new house or been brought to her by the natives, that's not entirely out of the realm of possibility.]
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[Okay, no he's just fucking. But also. WHY KARA...]
Alright. Lesson learned. Don't pry into your business. I think that revelation hurt my mechanic heart a little.
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I have a big kitchen. It's a pretty good place to call someone who can then make a portal for you. It makes sense to keep it in the kitchen!
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[Tony's weird, Kara's decided. Super smart and surprisingly patient when she asked really bad questions about solar panels, but... weird. Sure, she gets that crocs are this super ugly shoe, but c'mon, Tony. You're missing the big picture here.]
ANYWAY. Phone, to other dimensions. Do you think you could make something like that? What was that stuff you mentioned earlier... vibratium? something? Would that work?
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[And he would love to have some. But even with vibranium he's never pierced the barrier between dimensions with radio waves. Not that he'd ever been trying. How's he to calibrate for cellphone towers he can't even ping?
Not to mention there's no given he'll hit the right dimension and not one infinitely worse to make contact with.]
I'll need more materials than I have around here. And you have to understand I'm working on ten different things. This is going to be slow. But I'll run some numbers, see how feasible it is to contact your friend. This has to be a 100% shot before I'm willing to sacrifice the palladium the locals found me for this thing. I'm not putting anyone here in danger for an hail mary.
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If there's anything I can do to help, I don't mind. I can fetch materials for you if you think of what could work best for it. Just let me know.
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K.
[Look, he saves people for a living and even he doesn't talk like that. It's weird.]
Niobium. Iridium. Could use some tungsten for an arc welder. Whatever you're putting in your coffee might be good if I'm going to finish some time this year.
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Kara... has no idea what those things are, and Rao she misses Google. But she's going to do her best to find them; that's a promise.]
So, a bunch of chemicals, water, and coffee beans. Gotcha.
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[Lord save him. He cannot get F.R.I.D.A.Y. back online fast enough.]
Keep in touch.
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