Woods Random Legacy: Chapter 56 - The Morning After

Transcript of the President's Address to the Nation

Greetings.  It is with a heavy heart that I stand before you this morning, after the longest night in recent memory.  It breaks my heart to think of the hundreds, perhaps thousands, who lost their lives in the acts of senseless violence that took place across the world last night.  Rest assured that those responsible, living or otherwise, will be found, and brought to justice.

How can we fight spirits, you ask?  That is the question that the most talented minds of our generation are working to answer, even as I speak to you now.  Our resources have been mobilized, and no expense will be spared once the solution is found.  Our military is prepared, strong and determined to stand against this new menace.

Remain calm and stay strong in this time of fear.  If we stand together, the people of this world united, we will not fall.

The Daily Times volume 95 issue 191: Thousands Dead After Supernatural Rampage (excerpt)

...It seems that supernatural creatures were the main targets of these attacks.  For many, such creatures were known only as legends, but it has become known across the world now that they walk among us.  Werewolves, lupine shape-shifters, and vampires, nocturnal blood-drinkers, were the most easy to identify, and comprised the majority of the supernatural creatures killed.  Some of those originally classified as human have been revealed as spell casters by those who knew them, so it is possible that more than two categories of supernatural creatures were targeted in the attacks.

Most victims were located in the capital city of Bridgeport, due to its size, and Moonlight Falls, likely because of its large population of supernatural creatures.  The recently-opened University Town, attracting many young supernatural creatures from their rural homes to study, was also strongly affected, though official counts have not been received.  Despite the majority of attacks happening in those three isolated areas, nowhere was spared, with almost every town having at least one incident...

The Daily Times volume 95 issue 192: Letter to the Editor

In all my years of reading the Times I never would've thought that this fine publication would be on the side of those creatures!  You were so busy talking about those things that you barely mentioned the HUMANS who died that night.  How am I supposed to keep my family safe when there's those vampires and werewolves stirring up trouble and getting innocent HUMANS murdered?

The President said we need a solution, and I agree with the man.  Get rid of the vampires, the werewolves, and all those things that hide in our towns and cities, there's a solution for you.  We'll not be safe until we do, you mark my words.

Frank Delaney
Twinbrook

~ * ~

Short update today, just chilling in between proper generation stuff and adding a bit of context for what's going on in the larger world.  This next generation is going to be darker than the first two, if this chapter wasn't warning enough.  A lot of people are pretty angry, for all different reasons, and while the politics aren't a major focus of my heir their effect will obviously still be seen.

I did not intentionally make the president resemble Bill Clinton.

That is also not Not-Bill Clinton writing the letter to the editor, even though it looks like him.  I was not very creative with my elder male character design the night I took these pictures.