Breach of the First Wall

Our wisdom flows so sweet. Taste and see...

TRANSMIT - initiate the emergency broadcast - RECEIVE - initiate Chapter VIII - REMAIN CALM - initiate containment protocols - REMAIN ISOLATED - recite the Countermeasures Act of 1961 - WITNESS - Breach of the First Wall.

ATTENTION CITIZENS OF TOKYO.

Behind his spectacles, he looks like an insect. Or a mantis shrimp staring at the colour out of space. Or an owl, coughing up speeches filled with bones, but spun to look like fuzzy pellets. Does he look like that to you, sweetling? We are unsure. Hominin anatomy is not our area of expertise.

TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF AN UNKNOWN PATHOGEN...

Masao Tanaka is an impossible knot of brain patterns. He covers up the preternatural, must be a practical expert on the preternatural, yet he does not believe in the preternatural. He heads the effort to contain Kaidan. DENY ALL KNOWLEDGE.

COMPLIANCE IS MANDATORY.

The first wall went up around Kaidan. A physical wall. An information wall. Civilians try to escape. BANG! Infected civilians proceed to medical facilities. BANG! They are given radically invasive procedures. RIP! RIP! RIP!

BANG! That awful sound.

COMPLIANCE IS MANDATORY.

Cover ups and walls leak like bullet holes. Eh, sweetling? The pathogen works on quantum foam. The pathogen works on ideas. The pathogen does not care for humanity's boundaries. The first wall is compromised.

And so you must compromise the first wall. You must follow fast and follow faster. That is, unless you trust your institutions to keep everything calm. Everything safe.

THE GOVERNMENT IS WORKING TO BRING THIS SITUATION TO A SWIFT RESOLUTION.