The Disease II: Plague Done Right

[Whoha]

He posted in this thread didn't he?

[mrmitchell]

if he is, then, anyways: the update:

Breaking News: Forum Game Times
THE FALLOUT IS STILL COMING. AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN IN THEIR HOUSES AND BREATHE AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE.

LONDON, NEW YORK CITY, LOS ANGELES, CHICAGO, LAS VEGAS, AND DALLAS HAVE ALL BEEN HIT. ANY SURVIVORS HEARING THIS BROADCAST ARE TO REPORT TO THE NEAREST RED CROSS EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR CHEMICAL SHOWERS.

ALL CITIZENS IN THE STATE OF NEVADA ARE URGED TO BE READY TO EVACUATE AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE.

President Edwards is now on the news, live:

"My fellow Americans, after much thought, I have given word to the Air Force to launch a retaliatory strike upon major Russian military and industrial targets."

The Federal Government releases and starts up Emergency Plan X. All citizens are required to wear gas masks being passed out around the country. Those in Texas, California, and the Northeast are being shipped to undisclosed locations. In theory, anyways. In reality, the whole nation is a big frigging mess.

REPEAT: STAY IN SAFE ROOMS UNTIL FALLOUT ENDS. OVER.

News from across the pond: The British government disintegrates. British Army units have militarily enforced law in some cities in the North, but no command exists above them.

Iraq as a whole collapses into anarchy. As American troops rush to escape the country by plane or ship, the Iranian army marches in from the east. Kurds, Shi'ites, Sunnis, they're all just killing each other. Syrian chemical sprays wipe out numerous villages along both sides of the border, but, XJ15 doesn't spread in Syria.

The Union of Concerned Researchers has called a last-ditch effort to the nations of the world to set down their arms and pitch all funding possible into finding a cure for XJ15.

Iceland, Cuba, and Haiti and the Dominican Republic have sealed off their islands completely, with army troops shooting anyone who tries to enter (no one, yet).

A Hurricane forms in the Atlantic in the middle of Spring. What?

Saudi Arabian economy starts to falter as huge reserves of oil build up.

American and South Korean soldiers comb NK for any location at which Kim Jong-Il's bunker might have been located.

BREAKING NEWS
The first intercontinental missiles have landed in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Both cities have been obliterated from the face of the earth. More nukes are expected to fall across Russia, and conventional troops in Central Asia have crossed the border to attempt to seize known nuke stores.

All South American and most African countries plus India form an alliance of peace and mutual self-defense come the time when chaos spreads to them. Kashmir trades hands between Pakistan, India, and China until no one cares any more.

XJ15
STATUS: MAJOR WORLDWIDE DISASTER
FALLOUT FROM BLASTS IN EUROPEAN RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES MAY CARRY XJ15

Governmental leaders across the world agree: The Soviet Union is a little pr*ck.

[Whoha]

Belize is not participating in the non-aligned movement.

[Whoha]

also the government is rounding up as many ships as we can, we are going to do a raid on saudi oil holdings.

[:) Smiley]

To quote a famous Kuciwalker city, oh ****.

[FlameFlash]

1. Begins selling oil to peaceful nations only, rigging the stockpiles to blow up if anyone attempts to capture them.
2. Dumps all funding toward finding a cure for the disease.
3. Frowns on the US and Russia.

[joncha]

Burkina Faso continues to sit blissfully unaware of any global problems.

[joncha]

Too late.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Send an ambassador to Russia with a colostomy bag.

[DaShi]

Japan keeps to itself. Continues study on disease. With the information about the UK's industrial contamination, the government discourages the release of pollutants. Nonessential factories are closed. Automobile use is discouraged. Energy and water conservation acts are enacted.

[Frozzy]

Prime Minister Dlimah flees to Indianapolis and declares the city a free-city, and promptly closes the borders.

[:) Smiley]

Syria:
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continue chem spray program, this time along the Turkish border as well.

encourages citizens to dig fallout shelters.

Disperse and stockpile food, water, weapons, alcohol, hashish, etc.

[mrmitchell]

Breaking News

The nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union has ended.

On the Western side, London, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas, St. Louis, and an unnamed military base in Nevada have been obliterated. The estimated immediate death toll is around ten million, with many more dozens of millions of people exposed to fallout and other blast effects.

In Russia, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vladivostok, and a couple other cities; I don't know that much Russian geography have been hit. Reports from there are still coming in, but are considerably less than those in the United States.

In both nations, there is regional loss of communications, and certain cities that are not yet back under national or any control. Lost in the exchange include several Congressmen, the governors of California and Texas, and Secretary of the Treasury Paul Goodenrich. Russian leadership losses probably total much higher due to the fate of Moscow.

If you are a citizen in the affected areas around blast sites, stay inside and do not travel. All hospitals in the nation are being used for nuke emergencies only. Chemical shower stations have been set up in many suburbs. Again, do not travel. All roads must be cleared for emergency personnel to reach victims.

Do not clean up destroyed areas. Government safe teams will clean and remove contamination from hit cities. Do not stir up large amounts of debris, and while outside or in cities marked by XJ15 indication "Code Green" wear your issued gas mask.

[DaShi]

In response to the results of the Russo-American Nuclear War, Japan proposes the Osaka Accord. It states that all developed nations must reduce their nuclear arsenal to one short range bomb. Developing nations will be exempt from this restriction until they are at level with the developed nations of the world.

[:) Smiley]

Syrian Cartography Society (SCS) maps are altered to label the USA, USSR, and parts of Europe as "here be dragons".