Scene #974: Poison Pool Party

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Simon Petrikov	The site of the incident looks like Earth, at first glance. Infact, it IS Earth. It can not really be mistaken for anything else. But, by whatever the means of arrival, this city on a version of Earth is also just as clearly not a world where humans rule anymore. Their mighty cities are toppled, buildings fallen and broken in half, streets cracked and worn, and in some cases the terrain just ENDS suddenly and opens up into vast dark pits that one can not even see the bottom of. What lies below the ground? What could have created just gulfs of emptiness beneath the very streets of a modern city? If this planet is not truly abandoned, what lurks in the darkness below? Finding out the answer may not be desirable. Wilderness has already encroached heavily upon the domain of what once was civilization, a carpet of ivy stretching outwards and covering a significant amount of terrain. Vines have wormed their way up walls, and through already-broken windows, or down them in the cases of some. The foliage in many cases looks sickly - blighted. Dirty, standing water is gathered in small pools, where the road has collapsed, or in craters from significant impacts of some kind. Cars are scattered around, but as many as one might expect in what is clearly a post-apocalyptic world. The ones that are around are either rusted and falling apart, or charred and covered in ashes. Given which sides of the vehicles remain unburned, it seems whatever unleashed such intense heat emanated from a central point, towards the middle of the city. There's a cloud of green skulls and faces floating around in the sky over the city, high above - or is that just an illusion and it is actually a cloud that happens to APPEAR to contain such features? - but it seems to be very slowly dissipating. If anyone has equipment or abilities for detecting radioactivity, this entire city is a hazard zone that should not be stayed in for too long, and will probably require receiving decontamination and medical treatment upon getting back from. Though the city seems abandoned, the stores empty, the houses charred and open, the office buildings sagging under the weight of whatever remains of them... But in the shadows... Sometimes... There are noises of movement.

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The site of the incident looks like Earth, at first glance. Infact, it IS Earth. It can not really be mistaken for anything else. But, by whatever the means of arrival, this city on a version of Earth is also just as clearly not a world where humans rule anymore. Their mighty cities are toppled, buildings fallen and broken in half, streets cracked and worn, and in some cases the terrain just ENDS suddenly and opens up into vast dark pits that one can not even see the bottom of. What lies below the ground? What could have created just gulfs of emptiness beneath the very streets of a modern city? If this planet is not truly abandoned, what lurks in the darkness below? Finding out the answer may not be desirable.

Wilderness has already encroached heavily upon the domain of what once was civilization, a carpet of ivy stretching outwards and covering a significant amount of terrain. Vines have wormed their way up walls, and through already-broken windows, or down them in the cases of some. The foliage in many cases looks sickly - blighted. Dirty, standing water is gathered in small pools, where the road has collapsed, or in craters from significant impacts of some kind. Cars are scattered around, but as many as one might expect in what is clearly a post-apocalyptic world. The ones that are around are either rusted and falling apart, or charred and covered in ashes. Given which sides of the vehicles remain unburned, it seems whatever unleashed such intense heat emanated from a central point, towards the middle of the city.

There's a cloud of green skulls and faces floating around in the sky over the city, high above - or is that just an illusion and it is actually a cloud that happens to APPEAR to contain such features? - but it seems to be very slowly dissipating. If anyone has equipment or abilities for detecting radioactivity, this entire city is a hazard zone that should not be stayed in for too long, and will probably require receiving decontamination and medical treatment upon getting back from.

Though the city seems abandoned, the stores empty, the houses charred and open, the office buildings sagging under the weight of whatever remains of them... But in the shadows... Sometimes...

There are noises of movement.