Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-27396384-20170703182714/@comment-26854056-20170703205807

Oscar stared at the surveillance screens from the pristine safety of his laboratory, unable to tear his lilac gaze away.

The ground tremored and shook as if the earth itself was swallowing its inhabitants whole. The screams of pedestrians echoed through the surveillance cameras, creating a macabre symphony of pained shrieks and final prayers. From camera 31-A, a child was crushed by a falling brick of cement through the stomach like a pestle to a mortar, their intestines oozing out of their fragile, bird-like frame while it's mother crouched by its side, silently begging for their child to live on. Only for them to be crushed by the second piece of construction work that fell suit.

He punched the mute button on the screen, desperately trying to turn it off, but the hellish inferno of the furious volcano still burnt a picture in his mind. Even though he was miles away from the scene and in an air-conditioned room with food and water at the press of a button, he could feel the lavas heat radiating from within, the smoke embracing his lungs and suffocati-

ENOUGH.

Oscar shook his head, trying to rid himself of his worries and began to put the laboratory into lockdown, all of the surveillances cameras and drones easily hidden away for their safety, choosing to blind himself in order to not face the problem at hand.