007 ⌥ VIDEO

[femshep]

[Welp, here's Shepard. She's got a lovely pair of parallel gashes across her cheek with the hintings of an attempted third, and the deepest spots may or may not be emanating a little bit of a red glow, but that's the least of their problems, because:]

I know we've got eyes and ears out west. Anyone want to tell me what the hell's going on? Whatever it is is driving everything with some kind of survival instinct straight through central. We've got wildcats, we've got oversized wolves by the pack, we've got-... shit, never thought I'd see the day that 'dinosaurs' were a plausible theory.

You'd think something like this would call for a goddamn status report.

[Shepard is Not Happy with the general lot of you. She's vaguely wondering what the use is of having so many goddamn military-men if they're all gonna circlejerk on one end of the city and leave their collective flank wide open.

Also? Liara, Kaidan, that's your cue to report in.

To all telepaths! She noticed the distinct lack of AU!Charles and it's making her antsy, so she's swallowing her pride and putting out a 'where the hell are you' sort of wordless ping to see if she can't locate him. She needs to know if he's in trouble or just idk brooding or something. Any and all telepaths can probably pick up on this ping if you'd like them to, though she may or may not bitch at them for it.]

Comments

[hunt4commonwealth]

We should get an evacuation plan ready just in case our efforts to keep the fire away don't work. If those flames hit the city, the whole place is going to go up like a tinder box.

Maybe we should break up into three teams. One to deal with the predators, one to work on fire control, and one to prepare for evacuation so we're not caught flat footed if the worst should happen.

[femshep]

[She shakes her head.] It won't work. It's ideal, sure, but there's no way to get everyone's ass in gear on this short of notice. By the time we got any kind of organization in place, the fire'll have half of the city.

And besides, the predators are too widespread to just up and 'deal with them', and there's no real evac prep besides 'get the hell moving'.

[A contemplative pause as she mulls over some sort of plan of action.]

We need everyone who can't fight the fire to grab whatever supplies they can get ahold of and head for the ship. The combatants can guard the door and keep the rest of them safe. That way, the predators are only incoming from one direction--that'll cut the danger in half.

[Feel free to amend the plan if you see the need, this is just how she brainstorms.]

[hunt4commonwealth]

If we've got a real major forest fire heading our way, fighting it with the limited resources we've got would be like trying to put out a bonfire with an eyedropper. We should send up Wing for a quick recon to see what we're dealing with and if it's even possible to fight it or if we should just pull everyone back into the ship.

[femshep]

But people will try either way. That's unavoidable. If it helps, or even diverts it, that's that. If it doesn't, they can turn tail and head for the ship like everyone else.

Wing's en route. And so am I. Got a couple of allies near the flames, a little too close for comfort.

[hunt4commonwealth]

I'll gather up as many people as I can and head for the ship. A lot of the locals probably won't want to leave their homes, but I'll do what I can to peacefully convince them. [He hates the idea of leaving civilians in the path of a wildfire or predator invasion, but he can't knock them all over the head and force them to flee either.]

[femshep]

For all we know, they've got somewhere better to hide, anyway. God knows how long they've been here. [So don't worry about it too much.]

[hunt4commonwealth]

I hope they do. [Dylan worries a lot about things like that. But he doesn't have time to worry now, so he'll set it aside for the moment and focus on the task at hand.]

I'll be at the ship within an hour.

[femshep]

And I'll send everyone I find your way. [She'd like to be able to say she'd join him, but she knows she'd be out running all the fuck over anyway, with her track record.]