Musings

[Sunday, 1/9/11, 10 p.m.: The city borders are reopened, and while the Guard is still present, it is only to ensure there is no looting done as property is repaired. Bradley Winters, John Palmer, Emily Eirwen, Douglas Wiley and Penelope Worth are among those confirmed dead. Worth Financials is left to Thomas Brandon, in trust for Mika Jones. The Worth apartment and remaining wealth are left to Tristan Sable. Centro, The Academy and the Magic Store are destroyed beyond repair. Verisimilitude will remain closed to all but newly-arriving Creations. Footage on the news shows Jane Cooper leaving town as one of the early escapees. It also shows Bunny Lucine, Kylie Dawes, Juliet Kino and Radcliff Holland leaving on a chartered plane as soon as the borders open. All other unaccounted for building residents can be considered missing.

Repairs on all three buildings begin immediately. Aubade repairs are completed by the end of the week, Bathos by the subsequent week. Hamartia by the week after that. Roofs and apartment doors are repaired in all three buildings by Wednesday. All Reavers have been destroyed, with the exception of Reavers being kept for research into the phenomenon. The news stations imply it was a vaccine-resistant virus, but ensure the populace that a vaccination is being developed. None of the quarantined subjects are returned home.

Monday AM, life goes back to normal in Seattle. There is no mention of Creations on the news, and there is no manhunt for anything or anyone.]

[Friday, 1/7/11, 6 p.m.: As of Friday evening, all three Creations buildings have been breached. Buildings with thicker doors and better windows, such as Aubade, still offer more safety than buildings like Hamartia, where the fire escapes have been used to break most of the windows. National Guard facilities and private safehouses are popping up all over the city, and anyone found to have been bitten is being taken in and quarantined. The number of quarantined is in the hundreds, and the evening reports state that at least a few of the quarantined are displaying genetic changes consistent with the Reavers. (That just means that the Reavers are Creations, but since that is not general knowledge, the assumption is that bites are infectious.) Beginning Friday evening, fires are being set throughout Seattle. Buildings reported destroyed include: The Academy, Centro and the Magic Store. Verisimilitude has been closed down and is dark, in order to protect the portal, and will not be re-opening or accessible. Casualties number in the low thousands, and names are rattled off every few hours from a local radio station.]

[Wednesday, 1/5/11, 9 p.m.: Reavers enter the city. They look human beneath the dirt, layers of torn clothing, face paint and piercings. Creations will have heard tales about them after coming through the portal, Creations gone mad somehow while crossing and settling in pockets across the southern United States. They do not talk, they will not listen, and they descend on Seattle at 9 p.m. in the thousands. They're unafraid of threats, harm, or weapons. They don't communicate; they don't even try. They can use their abilities, though, which include everything from mind control to invisibility, and their only goal seems to be to find other Creations and tear them apart with their hands and their teeth; they're cannibalistic. Unfortunately, they inadvertently target humans, too, and the stories start running on the news and in the papers by 9:15 pm. The human world doesn't know who they are or what they're after - yet. But it's only time until one of them is captured and medical testing begins.

By 9:30, martial law and a state of emergency have been declared, the National Guard are patrolling the streets, and the city borders have been closed off. This will continue until 1/10/11, at which point all Reavers are either dead, captured or in hiding.]