Round 3 [closed]

[sunborne]

Characters: Daylight, Castiel, Cao Pi, Rosinante, Kuai Liang, Vanitas, Riku, Maes Hughes, and Bucky Barnes.
Location: Town hall.
Date/time: February 8. In the 'evening'.
Content: Townhall Meeting 3: This Time, It's Personal. (Or how Daylight and Cao Pi bring the others up to date on Dr. Solis.)
Warnings: Pending.

After some time has passed and information has been compiled and notes - so many notes! - have been reviewed and organised, Daylight decides it's time.

With the help of some spirits he's made friends with, he sends out sealed notes to those who are in the know of what's going on. It's a short and simple note, informing the recipient of a date, a place, and only five words:

Ready. We've got to talk.

Comments

INFORMATION REVIEW.

[sunborne]

Cao Pi and Daylight, at the start of the 'meeting', tell the others of the following information

● The current year of the world is 2054 and the darkness started in 1979, meaning it would have been 75 years since it all began. Despite being born in 1927, Dr. Solis is well and 'alive' at the 'age' of 127. source.

● As earlier finds and discoveries have uncovered, Dr. Solis mistakenly opened a portal into a dead world, one that was being consumed by the World Eaters at the time. Due to the World Eaters following into her world, years later, she believes they had spotted her.

Well before their arrival, her world begins to fall into rapid decline staring 1971 or 1972, shortly after Dr. Solis had been noticed by the World Eaters. They only began to piece the pieces together around 1974 when birthrates began to decline. Mass extinction soon followed and the light began to fade.

By the time World Eaters descended on Beacon in 1978, Dr. Solis assumes she and the few others in Beacon were the only ones left as the sole inhabitants of the planet. A World Eater then made its way to them in 1979, actively hunting them down. source.

● THE TOWN GOT DESPERATE ENOUGH TO USE ATOMIC WEAPONRY!!! Atomic weaponry, for those who don't know its destructiveness, is very bad. If one bomb were to detonate where Beacon stands, the entire town would be reduced to ash in an instant.

Honestly, Daylight flails a lot at this point, clearly distressed by this part, so Cao Pi often steps in to help inform the others of the following: A total of five nuclear-grade bombs were used. One was launched by itself and not only did it have little effect on the World Eater but it gave away the town's location, hence them being hunted down in 1979.

They decided to launch the remaining four missiles all at once in an attempt to overwhelm it. The survivors sought refuge in the mine, hiding there for a week before leaving their shelter to see what had happened. When they came out, the World Eater was... gone. There was no trace of it and Dr. Solis isn't certain of what came of it. source. | source.

● (An aside, since Day feels like the others should know about this: Dr. Solis had made an observation about the weird lantern effects that they had been struck with. The strange changes were here to stay but, at the very least, come and go instead of permanently affecting them. For now, there's no way to predict them.) source.

ooc notes;; - cao pi's player - gemini - is busy due to other affairs at the moment so cao pi's presence is handwaved! but he is there, present and helping out with the discussions.

- please do not reply to this top-level! i'll continue to edit this top-level with more information as the log goes on, and you're free to assume it was mentioned at the start or brought up by either daylight or cao pi during the threads. or will be brought up during threads naturally as it can. time is dead in roleplay land. ours now.

[equinoctials]

[ Mysterious! Riku would have probably been a lot more suspicious if this kind of letter reached him months ago, but having recently achieved a certain level of nihilism-adjacent attitude, he might as well see what this is about. This can't possibly be as bad as some of the other stuff that happens here, those things never have the courtesy of sending a sealed envelope ahead of time.

Besides the fact that it's pretty concerning for very obvious reasons why a small town like Beacon would have access to devastating weaponry, he can't exactly fault them for being desperate. ]

You guys learned a lot...

How is the town here if they used all those bombs?

[evulsed]

OTA

[ Vanitas turns up, maybe much to the surprise or chagrin of everyone at the meeting, with Riku. He doesn't say much in the beginning, but there's a sharpness in his eyes as he stares down Cao Pi and Daylight with almost unblinking focus. His gaze tends to linger threateningly on Daylight, like he's waiting for him to slip up and say something incriminating.

What really seems to catch his attention is the reference to 1979 and when talk of the World Eater picks up. He sharpens, and his gaze darts around, calculating. ]

So, they're on this world already. [ Then, because he apparently can't be anywhere without starting something, he adds antagonistically: ] All those weapons and they couldn't drive them off, so what exactly do they think we're supposed to do about it?

CLOSED TO DAYLIGHT

[ At some point, when everyone seems otherwise occupied in conversation, Vanitas corners Daylight with predatory intent. ]

You sure took your time. [ Again, it doesn't seem to matter that their heights are drastically different. Vanitas looks no edge. ] What happened? Tell me how she was.

[ This isn't about what they discussed— this question seems to be more personal in nature. ]

[worthallthis]

Soldat is not comfortable in here. This is not as crowded as a regular Town Hall meeting, but it's still a bunch of people in an official space potentially making decisions, and they aren't really supposed to be part of those.

Good intel, though. They just kind of wish they could be listening to it from outside under the window, is all.

They do have... something to bring up. Something that doesn't make clear sense. How to say something without suddenly becoming the center of attention, though. Fuck, why are they like this.

They wait for Cao Pi or Daylight to actually be looking at them, hold up the metal hand almost like a kid trying very shyly to get the teacher's attention, and wait to be asked. Then say (hesitantly), "Lots of worlds. Look the same." Especially given this one apparently uses the exact same calendar and some very similar technology to their own, and many other Beacon residents from alternate Earths. "How did the World Eaters find this one in particular? How did they affect it for years before they got here? Did something small or. Hard to notice. Come through first when the portal got opened the first time?" Something that led the big things here, maybe, and started killing people earlier.

And that was so many words. They literally can't make another one come out, at least not right away. That was really fuckin' hard.