RETRIBUTION Event 05 Characters: Spider-Woman, Invisible Woman Setting: Colombo Sri Lanka Content: Descriptions of destruction Summary: A devastating earthquake has hit Sri Lanka and someone has to help pick up the pieces Objectives: [Rescue people from the wreckage] [The President of Sri Lanka is one of several citizens unaccounted for, last seen in the Presidential Secretariat. Find him.] [Survive a massive aftershock]
Somewhere, beneath the rubble and the wreckage, between the skeletal shells of once towering buildings, there were the cracked remnants of streets. On the remains of streets were the remains of people who had perhaps died in terror as the very earth rebelled, buckling and bending, below them. Others survived, trapped, able to do no more than call feebly for help and hope they would be found. The city had been beautiful, a paradise by the sea. Heat shimmering white facades and sun baked red roofs, no more than rubble and debris. Serene patches of green and wide avenues, toppled and buried. All of the city's beauty was lost now, gone in just under five minutes. The beaches were swamped by ocean waves and the once clear skies were full of helicopters arriving and departing, bringing aid and taking out survivors. So many people loved here and lived here and lost their lives because they hadn't expected the tremors, hadn't anticipated the destruction. It was for them horror and decimation and for the wider world it was just another disaster in a long line of recent tragedies.