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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.
flyguy: (Explanation)

Busts in here like the koolaid man

[personal profile] flyguy 2018-03-01 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Anyone else getting a bit of a Wonderland vibe? Anyone? Just me? Okay.

So. Item #1: how do they need us. Let's open the table for discussion.
Edited 2018-03-01 01:47 (UTC)
justbeingknife: (yelling)

[personal profile] justbeingknife 2018-03-01 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
What the fuck.

[ And then, slightly more helpfully: ]

Not feelin' real good about crawling out of that red dusty shit right now.
whists: (pic#11441327)

[personal profile] whists 2018-03-01 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
It makes you wonder about how the dirt works and where the Sound Eaters came from originally.
clarius: (033. ❀ MY FAULT.)

[personal profile] clarius 2018-03-01 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps they view us as supply or fuel in a way? Food?
justbeingknife: https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=1873928 (...!)

[personal profile] justbeingknife 2018-03-01 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe that dirt is some kinda connection.

I ain't mean that like a 'clue', either. I mean we came from other worlds, right? And the people in that footage sure as shit hadn't seen those Sound Eaters before. So maybe it's possible for things outside this world to show up through that dust.
flyguy: (Take a look)

[personal profile] flyguy 2018-03-01 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
You sure? Could make for a good party trick.

You seem to be taking this . . . like a normal person. That's something going for you?
justbeingknife: (what was that?)

[personal profile] justbeingknife 2018-03-01 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
I can get why the guy makin' those observations would want us around, but if he meant them monsters, I ain't got a clue.

Unless they are us.


[ yeah

wait

he doesn't actually want to think about that ]
warfares: <user name="recadreuse"> (Default)

un: socorro;

[personal profile] warfares 2018-03-01 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Did anyone gather samples of the red dust either at the tower or during the recent storm?
justbeingknife: (....!)

[personal profile] justbeingknife 2018-03-01 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
I am a normal person!

[ I mean. Universally speaking. Forgive him, it's been a long... weeks. ]

This is bullshit. If I was gonna get sucked into some alternate universe, it fuckin' figures it had to be here and not some cushy sci-fi space station.
twoaffirmations: (game | soft boy)

un: nines; video attached

[personal profile] twoaffirmations 2018-03-01 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[It was awful. Seeing the humans flee in panic and be torn to shreds...

It made him so angry that he felt his hands tremble, but there was nowhere to direct that anger. He couldn't lash out, or he'd be killed. It could only boil inside him. There was no answer here. No way to defeat them. He couldn't even take joy in finding out new information, not when it was like this.

It was so vivid. Another endless war, pushing humanity to extinction.]


We came out of the red dust too. So what, are they trying to contaminate us? They even look so human at first... They're just toying with us.

[Or could it be that they were human once? No, how could that even be possible? They were just an imitation, that's all.]

Since we're sharing information, I have a video of A2 attempting to fight the Sound Eaters. I'm not sure why, but it cuts out before you can see them destroy her. 2B's video is from a different angle, and it cuts out in the same spot.

A2 v. Sound Eaters.avi
Edited 2018-03-01 02:27 (UTC)
whists: (pic#11433874)

[personal profile] whists 2018-03-01 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
No, it's what I meant as well. We showed up here, so I think that's the best answer we have right now. Whatever the dirt is, it's a portal.
A tunnel?
skyofreverie: (☆ Zeus I Can't Figure This Out ☆ Confuse)

[personal profile] skyofreverie 2018-03-01 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Pinged by one word.]

The darker version of Wonderland, maybe. The other one was bad but not this much.

My question is: they look awfully human, don't they?
warfares: <user name="avali"> (to watch his woods)

[personal profile] warfares 2018-03-01 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Does anyone know what became of the groups that came before us?

It's clear that whatever the Sound Eaters are they were human once.
flyguy: (To compare with pure imagination)

[personal profile] flyguy 2018-03-01 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
They don't seem to eat anyone. But that doesn't necessarily preclude us as a commodity. Like their groceries, their ham & egg in the morning, their

[It can't be seen, but he's long since programmed his device to read sign language of his design. A combination of what the locals use, signaled morse code and a few other physical languages he knows. His hands stop here though as a thought occurs to him.]

Didn't they use an human body the other month in some kind of ritualistic sacrifice/rebirth pageant? One of the found footage above is a pile of bodies. Like a grave

Or a depository. Their own personal grain silo.
twoaffirmations: (game | alone)

[personal profile] twoaffirmations 2018-03-01 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
What do you think it means?
flyguy: credit <user name="boys"> (Fly away into the sunlight)

[personal profile] flyguy 2018-03-01 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Funny you mention that.


Do you want the red pill or the blue pill?
flyguy: (be one)

[personal profile] flyguy 2018-03-01 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Next you're going to tell me you've been inside the mainframe.

I'm beginning to wonder if they aren't human. Or used to be. Did you get to experience that fun trip with the red dust coming off the island in the Seine?
justbeingknife: (....!)

[personal profile] justbeingknife 2018-03-01 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but where the hell does it come from? Did someone make it? Can't see anyone managing that with the technology back home.

Didn't seem like anyone on the news had any idea, so was it some black ops bullshit?

And how come sometimes it drops in those monsters, and sometimes it's just us?


[ wait maybe don't answer that last one ]
justbeingknife: (....)

[personal profile] justbeingknife 2018-03-01 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Best case? Maybe the closest 'world' to this one is the one them monsters are from, and we're just a bonus.

Like when ya get two prizes in a UFO catcher.
whists: (pic#11441711)

[personal profile] whists 2018-03-01 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
I've only ever experience another world once, and it wasn't what I could call a world. It was just, the Void. Where we go when we're gone. So I don't think I can answer how this could be made. But if that's where we come from, can we go back?

[Look, Emily has been thinking about this ever since that dust storm blew in and choked them all out. The Sound Eaters come from the red dirt, they come from the red dirt.]

Maybe the people that came before us didn't disappear. Maybe they are Sound Eaters now.
Edited 2018-03-01 02:38 (UTC)
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[personal profile] flyguy 2018-03-01 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Not much. All I've heard is they either left or died and never reappeared in the reset room.

If we're just fuel to increase their numbers this fight just got an hell of a lot more complicated.
skyofreverie: (☆ Let's Think Of Something Else ☆ Unsure)

[personal profile] skyofreverie 2018-03-01 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Where Tron lives? Yeah, I've been there.

They might have been. I've seen humans turn into monstrous figures before. Yep, the red dust made everything so loud. Only way to make it stop was to wash it off with water. Do you think that's how the Sound Eaters hear the world?
justbeingknife: (the f?)

[personal profile] justbeingknife 2018-03-01 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Is this an American thing, or a future thing?

[ Because while he's fairly sure Tony's making reference to something, The Matrix doesn't exist in 1988 :') ]
flyguy: (Tell me what you want me to say)

[personal profile] flyguy 2018-03-01 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
I have some from the storm and examining them conveniently just moved to the top of my priority list. If anyone wants to join me we can make a social event of it.
justbeingknife: (smoking shadow)

[personal profile] justbeingknife 2018-03-01 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe. Or maybe not all of 'em.

When we were explorin' Rosa-chan's new route the other day, we ran across someone. They booked it before anyone could get anything out of 'em, though.

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