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A question put of idle curiosity while we're all under quarantine.

Would anyone happen to know if the current illness is capable of being transmitted from Outsiders to this world's denizens? While we seem to be immune, I still wonder about our ability to still transmit it to others.

[It's a very quick image of Cagalli standing in front of a random wall at the Kyoto base, looking solemn yet still put together. No crash outs here. She's letting someone else do that.]

As of now, Yzak's name can be added to the list of confirmed rift related disappearances. This matches up with Raidou's list, but please keep an eye on each other anyway. Taking dumb chances now is the last thing we need.

Where are we on finding an exact location in Iraq?

As an important aside, his mobile suit is also missing. Being tied to our machines like this is new, it's not something we dealt with back home.

[ the feed starts with denji facing the screen. sweat and blood mix on his dirt-smeared skin, streaks that trail from a hidden injury behind the messy curls on his forehead. for anyone who fought by his side, they will know why he's a gory mess. his expression is hard to place— his brows furrowed, jaw clenched tight, but behind it all, there is something quieter, something ... brittle; tracks of dried tears curve through the grime on his cheeks, barely noticeable beneath the mess, but it's there. at least he's somewhat sober and not too out of control? well, on screen. an hour ago, it was a different story-

-hence why a familiar face is sitting next to him, the one who had to deal with that mess and knock some sense into him. his tone is a bit rough, a bit shaky. ]

... Katsuki's gone. [ god. just saying those words ... ] I tried to grab him before he got pulled in, held on for as long as I could ... but I couldn't save him.

And ... [ he glanced over raidou. ] ... Yuji's gone, too.

[ raidou is similarly streaked with blood in places, thanks to trying to calm his hysterical friend. quite the feat when he was on the brink of a freak out himself. instead, he sits near denji, eyes away, glassy and distant. when denji mentions yuji's name, his eyes finally refocus. his voice is a quiet croak.]

... I'm sorry. My theory was incorrect.

[ that's it. raidou will not be responding to any texts the next few days, try as one might. if you want to talk to him, you'll have to come find him.]

[When the feed cuts on, it may not be clear who it is the camera is focused on, because instead of there just being regular old happy Yato, there's a raging god with dark wisps emanating from his entire being along with red sclera glaring angrily as he seethes. When he talks, his voice drips with venom, low and dangerous.]

Raidou's theory is being proven right - Hiyori got sucked into a rift as well. I'm going in after her, damn the consequences.

[Somebody may need to sit on him...]

█ █ █ MONSTER DEBRIEF SHEET
NAME: 𒃀𒀭𒂠𒍠𒁠𒇠𒇠𒀀
HEIGHT: 13m
WEIGHT: ???
CLASS: Extremely Dangerous
LOCATION: ???
ABILITIES: Produces a high temperature energy and is capable of using it as a method of ranged attack. Armored Scales, sharp teeth and claws, tail is likewise a dangerous weapon. Intelligent. Amphibious, resistant to extreme climates.
WEAKNESSES: EMP effects can interfere with the creature’s energy attacks. Exposure to music or verse causes confusion that will make attacking easier. Angering it will cause the creature to fight more recklessly, leaving openings that can be exploited.
EXTRA NOTES: Exercise caution attacking the creature from behind, do not engage it should it enter water.
RIFT EFFECTS: ???

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ERROR. . .

The kaiju has an HP ███.
Respond to this post with the following information and receive RNG damage done to the kaiju. This comment will FREEZE once it has taken its final hit. Two characters who hit the highest may receive an IC prize, as well as the character who delivers the final blow. Players have until May 24th to respond or until the kaiju is defeated; whichever happens first. Each character may submit a hit a total of two times. You may implement this prompt within your top levels if you'd like:

Weapon Used: List here the weapon your character used. If they used an ability or natural power instead, list that here.
Aim: Where did your character aim at?
Rift Effect: RNG, None, or Player's Choice.
Anything else: Any other detail you may seem important for us to know.

RIFT EFFECTS can effect your character for as long or as little as you like for the duration of this mission.

<b>Weapon Used:</b> List here the weapon your character used. If they used an ability or natural power instead, list that here. <b>Aim:</b> Where did your character aim at? <b>Rift Effect:</b> RNG, None, or Player's Choice. <b>Anything else:</b> Any other detail you may seem important for us to know.

Hey everyone! As should be obvious already, June's kaiju event is going to be a little different from the regular event on account of Melodie's player plot! You can find a more detailed note about what you'll need to do in the new event log note section, but just to recap:

The June Event is a player plot that is going to differ from regular events in a few ways: Outsiders have to find the location for the next Kaiju fight on their own using hints given in the From Sumer With Love prompt, and correlating them with the past and ongoing disappearance of various Outsiders. They can use LILITH’s equipment to look for anomalies across the globe, however there is not enough time to scan or contact every region in the world. Outsiders need to guess where the anomaly likely is before they can get confirmation.

Furthermore, they will have to reach this destination through their own means as there is no LILITH staff left to fly them there. Vehicles can be requisitioned, but will have to be flown by Outsiders on their own. This also means Outsiders are free to stay behind at the base if they prefer, as nobody will force them to go. Pain-relieving medicines can also be developed if the true nature of the disease is found and the appropriate characters work on it, though nothing short of defeating the anomaly will solve this crisis and save everyone.

Last but not least: this event will have two Kaiju battles, one on each log as well as many different challenges the Outsiders will have to solve on their own if they want to save LILITH and bring home their missing friends! Please use this thread to ask questions and offer your proposals as to what the Outsiders should do (location guessing, transport, etc). Proposals made in this thread will affect the first and second prompts of the first log.

This post is meant to facilitate discussion about all parts of this plot, and it will be the host for all event related questions! Feel free to start your own top levels about certain aspects and plot from there!



Edit: Since this player plot is progressing very quickly and not everyone has been able to keep up, I've created a summary of all the related incidences and posts made so far to get you up to date! All dates mentioned below are IC dates.

The Disappearances

These occurrences were meant to be subtle precursors to the real player plot starting on May 15, so if you missed them, that was partially intentional.

April 15: Ereshkigal disappears during the kaiju battle in Egypt after saving Taryon
May 5: Dr. Ratio disappears, unseen by anyone
May 11: Godzilla disappears in front of Lucy
May 13: Tsurumaru disappears in front of Vash
May 13: Silco disappears in front of Jinx

Future Disappearances (This hasn't happened yet but the info is known oocly)
May 19: As stated by StarSeed on the CR Meme post, Bakugo will be disappearing on this day

The Alerts

All network posts created in response to the disappearances.

Some time after April's fight: Taryon informs the network that Ereshkigal was consumed by a Rift
May 5: Aventurine informs the network that Dr. Ratio has gone missing
May 11: Nyuu informs the network that Godzilla was taken by a Rift
May 13: Aki informs the network that Tsurumaru was taken by a Rift

May 14: Raidou posits a theory about the disappearances being related to Ereshkigal's memory

Current Events

Downtime Mingle #8

May 15-30: LILITH employees are hit by what seems like a regular flu, until it becomes apparent that only they are being targeted, and eventually, all employees across all the branches around the world have been incapacitated, including Commander Yamakawa, Captain Shiro and Seok Dang

May 16-23: Outsiders are on lockdown until it becomes apparent that they aren't affected by the sickness

The Clues

As a reminder to everyone, these clues have been given out OOCly and it's up to players to disperse them ICly. Please wait until the information is given out in the mingle log, unless the player has given explicit permission for all characters to know.

Donatello: Discovers the sickness started from the Neo Tokyo Base and that you can ask SYNTHIA directly about this
Aventurine, Jinx, Rin and Muramasa: Discovers that Ereshkigal is deep under Iraq, but they will need to refine their search to pinpoint her exact location
- Hunter: Digging may or may not be viable, but it's better to pinpoint her location first
Raidou: Drones sent through the Rift lose connection, but not before sending one last image
Astarion: Astarion loses contact with the ghouls he sends into the Rift and becomes unable to summon new ones, suggesting that the ghouls are still alive
- Taryon: The tracking amulets placed on the ghouls will also be cut off, but perhaps if they get closer to where the ghouls are now, the connection might be re-established?
Dante: Connects to Tsurumaru's memories and finds that he is currently not distressed, but there is something very wrong about his state of being before he's forcibly cut off
Tezcatlipoca: Sacrifices his kidney and learns that Ereshkigal has become demonic and a calamity against humanity before he's forcibly blocked out
Yuji: Is apparently going to throw himself into a Rift and disappear at some point. Kid, are you okay???

The clue section may be updated slowly, but it's better if you look directly at the INVESTIGATIONS/PROPOSAL section of this post so you can contribute as well!

WHO: Dante and others
WHAT: Catch-all for May (and maybe June too why not)
WHERE: Many Places
WHEN: May!
WARNINGS: Warnings will be in subject lines as needed

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For those who do not know, several Outsiders have vanished into rifts. The first was Ereshkigal, during the kaiju battle in Egypt. As far as I know, no contact has been established.

Since then, three other Outsiders have also vanished: Ratio, Godzilla, Tsurumaru. I have been investigating but coming up mostly short.

There were no witnesses for Ratio's disappearance, but Nyuu and Hayakawa have confirmed that a rift opened and took both Godzilla and Tsurumaru. Only they were taken, despite not being alone at the time.

I may have a clue as to who is next.

I do not wish to cause panic or alarm, and I am not sure what can be done to prevent anyone else from being taken. I will bring these findings to LILITH as well.

During the mission in Egypt, we were inserted into the dreams and memories of other Outsiders. I saw one of Ereshkigal's. In this memory, she was speaking with several other Outsiders. Seven to be exact. Among them were Ratio, Godzilla, and Tsurumaru.

The other four were Yzak, Hiyori, Kabru, and Silco.

Kabru is already gone, though his name is gone from the network, a glitch. Those taken by the rifts are still listed, but unable to be contacted.

I would encourage those others in then memory to not be alone until this is solved.

If you have any other information you would like to document in this post, please do. We need to share what we can in order to get to the bottom of this. I pray you all stay safe.

[OOC: Raidou's theory on this player plot might be shot very quickly, but he doesn't know that. Go wild with the speculation in the meanwhile!]

[ She's trying very hard to keep it all together. Not just for her own sake either. Lucy's emotions have been chaotic since early this morning and she's not sure how to handle it other than to cry.

Still, in the midst of hiccups, she stammers out. ]

G-Goji-san, he was- Kaede-san saw...uuuu...

[ No, she can't do it. She can't keep it together. She's crying again with a total lack of dignity and sobs leaving her lungs starved for air. ]

[ For anyone familiar with Aki, the lack of proper grammar and brevity might be alarming, as might the content of his message. ]

tsurumaru is gone too.

pulled into a rift.

if anyone knows anything i want to know. i need to find him.

whatever it takes.

This is Muramasa.

Just before we left last month, I was given leave to keep a smithy on the premises of the base in Kyoto. It's functional now, so the lot of you using blades from our employer need to come have a proper edge put on them. Don't dawdle: you're embarrassing me, walking around like that as it is with those things. Same goes for those of you with personal blades that need upkeep.

[ now, time for the announcement of the grand opening of peepaw's sword emporium. Sort of. ]

Now, if you just want a proper blade of your own for our work here, and I've got a finished one on hand, you can have it if you pay me back for those materials. (Don't do anything stupid with it — they're swords, not toys.) Or, if katana ain't your style and you want something special, or you'd like a matching set, I can do that too. I'll have to test ya so I can see what suits you, plus I'll be charging you for materials and time away from my own work, but it's a properly forged sword made by a master, and you can't beat that price these days.

[ nobody would be so shifty as to start selling those swords on an underground, black market, right? definitely not. ]

And before I forget—Kuzunoha, Laios. You two come see me at the smithy when you're free, regarding the work we talked about before.

[ He already talked to you boys about blades, so you're exempt from this decree about payment... but only once.

And lastly, but most importantly: ]

... Tsurumaru-dono, please feel free to come visit as well. I'd like to see how you're holding up, now that there's a proper forge to work in.

[This is sure another giant turtle. Be it one wearing a blue mask instead of Donnie's usual purple. Thanks to his twin for grabbing him fabric for mask based purposes.]

Blabity blabity blah blah we're all conscripted into a war we don't know the true depths of. [Leo waves a hand dismissively.] Whateverrrr. We'll figure it out. We got butt to kick, names to take, insert heroic speech here. I'll cook you up something inspiring after a bit of a gab session, alright?

[A very normal start to a video post right here. The turtle is seated in his brothers' dorm room, just lazily taking up his space. He is Leisuring.]

I'd like to belatedly say 'sorry if my brother pissed you off', cause apparently Dee has been stirring dramaaaa without me.

Which brings me to the real question, whose gonna spill tea on what my twin has been up to? He's tight-lipped about some stuff, sooo, someone fill a guy in?

[yes, he's starting this conversation WHILE in his brother's room.]

NAME

Archer (Billy the Kid)

ORIGIN

New Mexico, USA

DATE OF BIRTH

09/17/1859

SEX/GENDER

Male/Male

SPECIES

Servant

HEIGHT

5'7"

TEAM

Everlight

HOUSING NUMBER

03

SKILL SET

-Firearm/weapons expert
-Horsemanship
-Thief/Guile
-Supernatural marksman
-Able to fire bullets capable of harming incorporeal entities, supernatural beings, and other servants. Empowering his bullets within mana, thereby strengthening them and allowing them to bring down giants ghosts, and other supernatural, and preternatural, beings.
-Extraordinary strength and endurance
-Inhuman speed
-Thunderer

USERNAME

Archer

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One of the best-known gunfighters and heroes of America's Old West. Looks innocent, but won't hesitate to shoot his enemies in the face.

Jovial, yet harsh. The strongest and fastest gunner who is abundant in childishness. That is the ostensible nature of the “boy” named Billy the Kid. A rebellious behavior cannot be assumed from his appearances when he is coming into contact with his Master in an affable manner. However, that is simply his outward appearance. In reality, he is in all respects cold and pragmatic, and his smile is nothing more than something he was born with that has been stuck to his face since then.

Billy is impulsive, but he is not foolish. Having received a higher education as it is from his mother, he is proficient at the part where he judges things rationally. In relation to that, it is often expressed in his most famous shooting episode too.

At first, Billy comes into contact with his Master cheerfully. Meanwhile, he carefully observes them, and if his Master is the type to regard themselves as the “superior”, then there is no need for his smile to disappear. If it is the case that his Master sees Billy as a “comrade-in-arms” or a “partner” however, Billy will drop that mask, and while he is seemingly brusque, one is probably able to see the pride of a cordial outlaw with a sense of moral obligation and humane feelings.

Billy’s wish for the Holy Grail is modest, something like “I want to come across a situation that’s fascinating from the bottom of my heart.”

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NAME

Leonardo Hamato

ORIGIN

New York City, New York, USA

DATE OF BIRTH

??/??/2004

SEX/GENDER

Male/Cis Male

SPECIES

Mutant Red Eared Slider Turtle

HEIGHT

5'5

TEAM

REVELATION

HOUSING NUMBER

007

SKILL SET

-Bilingual (Spanish and english) -Kenjutsu -Strategic Mind -Ninjutsu training -Mutation Bonus (Durability/strength) -Portal creation -Hamato Ninpo

USERNAME

Neon Leon

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16 year old mutated red eared slider. Middle child of four mutant turtles. The family has saved the world twice over from a demonic possessed armor and interdimensional aliens. Recently elected 'leader' of the brothers. Strategist, big talker and jokester. Leonardo whilst capable prefers to enjoy himself than take charge. Protective of his family and people he cares about. Prone to flights of fancy. Originally created to be a weapon to eradicate humanity for the benefit of Yokai kind. A weapon turned would be hero.

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