EVENT: The Calm Before the Storm

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Characters: Anyone heading to Costa Rica
Location: San Jose, Costa Rica
Rating: PG
Time: September 1st, all day
Description: It's the day before the attack and now is the time to get the lay of the place, maybe help set up some traps and mingle with your allies.



The city is, quite honestly, a mess.

There had been that whole thing with the Black Blood before, causing citizens to turn on each other and cause destruction everywhere they went. The fact that the city had been abandoned for a couple of months as Shibusen sorted everything out didn't help. At all.

Added to all that, there's a lot of fog and by the afternoon it was raining pretty hard too.

Which means visibility is low and made worse by the fact that all the rubble more blind-spots than some of you are probably comfortable with. Still, any disadvantage can be made into an advantage. Probably.

You're all handed a poncho when you arrive via magic mirror before you're lead to where the citizens have made their main camp. There are tents and people around the monument built to honour those who died during the Black Blood Incident as well as to commemorate the citizen's return. It seems like this is where they've chosen to set up camp around...even if it's not the most strategic position.

The volunteers that stayed are all grim faced though at the very least, they seem to appreciate your coming here.

Either way, it's going to be a long day.


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Comments

[ Eve || OPEN ]

[nolicenseyet]

[Rain. Why was it always rain?

Eve just doesn't get why their luck is always this bad. She brings a hand up to pull on the poncho hood so she could stare up at the monument without it falling down.

She frowned at it and said, mostly to herself.]

I didn't know so many had died...

[starfruitfrog]

[It was always rain because his partner was just that good at picking missions.

Sober despite the rain, Keroro takes hold of her hand.]

[nolicenseyet]

[Or maybe because someone somewhere was laughing at them.

She continues staring at the monument even as she closes her hand over Keroro's.]

I don't like war.

[starfruitfrog]

I don't think there is anyone who likes it, Eve-dono.

[But he gives her hand a reassuring squeeze.]

But Eve-dono is a kind girl, de arimasu.

[nolicenseyet]

But there are people who start them anyway.

[She understands cruelty and greed. She had been born and raised in a world dripping in it, after all.

She still can't understand why though. It all seemed so pointless.

She squeezed Keroro's hand back, though she frowns a little.]

I am?

[starfruitfrog]

Because Eve-dono doesn't like war.

If only everything could be resolved peacefully. That would be great, wouldn't it, de arimasu?

[nolicenseyet]

Are people who like wars unkind?

[She nods though because war was pretty awful.]

Then no one would be hurt.

[starfruitfrog]

It depends on why they like it, de arimasu.

[nolicenseyet]

...there's a reason that makes them kind?

[starfruitfrog]

Sometimes it's inevitable and they have to protect the ones they care about. Sometimes, there's no other way, de arimasu.

[nolicenseyet]

[No other way...yeah, she kind of gets that.]

Because the person they're fighting has to be stopped.

[starfruitfrog]

Exactly, de arimasu. But of course, it would be great if we could just all talk it out peacefully first, de arimasu.

[nolicenseyet]

[She nods.]

You should always try that first.

[starfruitfrog]

It's usually the thing everyone tries last, de arimsu.

[nolicenseyet]

[Hmph.]

Someone should change that.