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the HUNTSMAN | Gʀᴀʜᴀᴍ Hᴜᴍʙᴇʀᴛ ([personal profile] dishearten) wrote in [community profile] epidemiology2017-03-11 04:07 pm

[EVENT POST] I FEEL STUPID, AND CONTAGIOUS.

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.
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[personal profile] daimeinashi 2017-03-18 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
[whoops...this is a slight Problem]

ah...i am unable to read english
can you provide an alternate landmark?
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[personal profile] daimeinashi 2017-03-19 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
[oh, perfect. bless ur practicality, graham.]

very well, i will be there shortly

[Sure enough, he reaches the security office in under ten minutes. ...and after confirming via the jewelry tracking that the person he was speaking with over the magitek is the one currently there with him, doesn't bother with pleasantries, like the rude child he is. he simply sits down cross-legged on the floor in front of the office, removes a scroll from his bag, draws what appears to be a stylized monkey on it, and...slides the paper under the door. which probably seems really fucking weird, especially with the way he closes his eyes and brings up two fingers to his chin.

but within the next five seconds, there's a click, and the door opens from the inside.]
Edited 2017-03-19 11:57 (UTC)
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lmfao ... quietly efficient characters, pls

[personal profile] daimeinashi 2017-03-20 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
[The answer to Graham's question is perhaps apparent by the ink-forged monkey that lingers nearby. Sai doesn't dismiss it immediately, as there may yet be further use for it, but he does pick up the scroll and pack it back in his bag.]

Any door can be opened easily from inside.

[He says, by way of answer when that's done.]

If we could not get inside without damaging the door, I simply needed to place something else inside to give us access, instead.
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[personal profile] daimeinashi 2017-03-21 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
The monkey can remain, in our stead. I have more than enough chakra to sustain it.

[As an extension, more or less, of Sai's will, it effectively accomplishes the same as either one of them remaining inside, but leaves them free for other tasks, such as rounding up infected.]

As to the gate release, I am unfortunately unfamiliar with this level of technology, so I cannot be of service in that regard. However, if an alternate solution cannot be found--once all the infected are corralled, I could offer a more direct means of escape. We could blame any damage on the infected.
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[personal profile] daimeinashi 2017-03-23 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
We could use it as a safehouse for our own number.

[That was more or less what he thought Graham's intentions with asking Sai to open it for him were, tbh]

There are plenty of locations we can take the civilians, but no others where we can maintain track of their positions, correct?

As for escaping forcibly, there are various options I could offer. I can create explosive tags to blast open the gates, or use fire, or ram it with another ink animal...
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[personal profile] daimeinashi 2017-03-25 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
I am aware. [He gets on Naruto's ass about not using the rasengan or his shadow clones too publicly all the time]

That is why we keep the civilians clear and blame damages on the infected afterward.

Unless you have another solution, at least.
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[personal profile] daimeinashi 2017-03-26 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
No, but they can set combustible material alight in the midst of a rampage. There is enough of it within this mall to be believable.

[But he shrugs. He'll get out of this mall one way or the other, and Sai is somewhat naturally submissive, due to his training with Root.]

In the meantime, it will be best to prevent the infected within this building from escaping with us, by whatever means we ultimately use.
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[personal profile] daimeinashi 2017-03-27 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
...I could find it. [A pause.] But it will be a tradeoff between efficiency and discretion.

[It's a huge mall, and the most discrete creatures he can draw are really fucking small. Rats would be the best bet, but also he has to avoid too many, or they'll be easily noticed.]
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should we wrap up around here?

[personal profile] daimeinashi 2017-04-07 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
My name is Sai.

[He settles down on the floor, then, and pulls out his scroll and brush again.]

There is no need for me to leave here to search.

[He draws up some rats, and in the service of discretion, releases them in waves. First five, then ten, then twenty. It's far less than his standard capability; he has enough chakra for hundreds, but that many could not go unnoticed for long. He releases a few more at sporadic intervals and sends them in different directions, such that it would be difficult to trace the source of them back to this room.

While he searches, eyes closed in concentration as he tracks the movements of his rats, it'll give Graham time to look over the security feeds.]
Edited 2017-04-07 21:35 (UTC)