[EVENT POST] I FEEL STUPID, AND CONTAGIOUS.

[dishearten]

CHARACTERS: Open to all!
DATE: 3/11-3/12, ICly
WARNINGS: Zombie attacks? Violence? Shopping???
SUMMARY: Lockdown at the mall! Grab your CDs and your soft pretzel, it's about to get bad.

LET'S GO TO THE MALL LOCKDOWN Business has been rough for Woodhurst Shopping Center ever since riots and unrest about the Bristol Virus have shunned most to their homes. Perhaps ill-advisedly, in attempts to draw a few more customers back into the polished halls of the grandest shopping experience Woodhurst has to offer, a weekend of big sales, great bargains, and fun family activities was widely advertised in the Woodhurst Watch. There was even a scheduled public concert, performed by the University Choir. The turnout was smaller than hoped, yet the air was quite optimistic. Shoppers enjoyed the day of activities and fun, and the sense of security was bolstered by the increased security detail. There was even some members of the press on hand to document this return to normality in a troubled time. Everything was going well, until a scene broke out in the food court. Security tried to quietly remove members of the choir that suddenly seemed to snap, plowing into one of the food stands and starting to feed on raw meat. However, a good handful of them escaped instant confinement, and while many of the visitors fled the mall as soon as they could, soon Police Detail arrived and put the entire building on lockdown. Nobody in and nobody out until the situation was resolved. 18:00 TO 23:00 HOURS Anyone unlucky enough to be trapped in the mall is left to their own devices, with very little knowledge to go on. This includes many civilians, as well as a small number of Audentes agents. This also includes a small number of infected, more than just the university choir. There's a voice over the loudspeaker imploring people to hide in stores, barricade doors, and stay put until help arrives. The majority of the infected seem to linger in the Food Court especially. Bad news for anyone trapped and starting to get hungry as the hours pass by, without any obvious assistance from the outside. The members of ALASTAIR have a choice, help protect or just do their best to avoid the infected themselves. Characters can get into the Security Office for a camera feed on what is happening in the mall, and potentially use it as a base of operations to work from. 00:00 TO 02:00 HOURS It becomes apparent that the number of infected in the mall are somehow increasing, despite the lockdown. It means that those that have squirreled away into stores and outlets are growing less and less safe as infected numbers multiply and they begin attacking barricades. To make matters worse, anyone that hasn't found cover will find the infected extremely reactive, and willing to give chase around the mall. The security feed indicates the infected seem to be coming in from the Parking Garage. Investigation will reveal a sewer outlet on the bottom floor. Characters will have to decide whether they should utilize the tunnel as a means of escape, or if sealing it off would ultimately leave the remaining hours of lockdown a little less violent. 04:00 TO 09:00 HOURS It's been an agonizing 12 hours, and with surprisingly little aide from the outside. With time to make preparations and put plans in place, now it's time to end this lockdown once and for all. Audentes is tasked with neutralizing the remaining infected as well as escorting any remaining civilians to safety, by any means they decide on. It is up to Audentes to decide how the end of this event plays out, be it removing or otherwise drawing away the lingering infected, or putting them down once and for all. There are plenty of civilians that have been bitten and attacked, leaving the question in the air as to whether they are infected as well. What should be done with those that could be bringing the virus back to their families? The team is going to have to decide on the answer to that.

Comments

[prodigism]

[ He knows and it was a minor slip up that he had managed to maintain throughout all of this. Of course people happened to catch him doing it. It wasn't the right thing to do, and he'll take full responsibility for it, but he's not going to apologize for doing it. Not when the situation had called for immediate action. The reaper of the ccg mentality is a hard one to change, especially when it came to dealing with beings like this.

He doesn't say anything for a few moments more before he turns around to address Emma. ]

So are those uninfected. I simply used the best course of action available at the time. [ It's not the best of replies, and it makes him sound cold, but he had to protect those he knew weren't infected yet. ]

[sheriffing]

Did you?

[ Emma will always put children first, she'd never apologize for saving a life. It's a line of logic she gets, honestly, yet the best course of action is a dangerous stance to take here. The best course of action when there's no other way is one thing, but what about the rest of the mall? There are dozens of infected here and the best course of action to keep the uninfected safe would be to arm the Audentes and wipe them out.

It'd be safer, but it wouldn't be right. Not when they're working on a cure, and these people can still be helped. There's no coming back from death.]

If we can do better, we need to try to.

[prodigism]

I do what I must to ensure that innocent lives are kept safe. Unfortunately there wasn't much time to formulate a plan to make it so all four of them made it out alive. [ He's just saying it how it is, sorry Emma! ]

I will do so from now on, depending on the situation at hand. But I'll try to use nonlethal methods a bit more.

[ meaning he can't ensure that he won't in serious circumstances outright kill the infected, but he's going to try. ]

[sheriffing]

None of those people asked for this. We need to do what we can to protect everyone.

[ Even on instinct alone, a kid deserves more protection than any of the infected, yet she can't bring herself to acknowledge that yet - maybe she hasn't been through what he has, in her mind all of this is still preventable.]

Do you need any help?

[Any backup from someone with a talent for hitting things?]

[prodigism]

[ He's silent a few moments longer before he looks back at her. ]

If you want. [ Hopefully she can hold her own, but if not Arima is more than capable of handling the infect as they are now. ]

There's more then enough to do. [ So he will continue to help put down infected, non-lethally, as much as possible. ]