Action Central Network Newsfeed for 10-3-04

"News" from the past! More information on how it all ends and this year's game begins. These events take place after the Archon 2004 Montreal LARP,

"10-3-04

In a shocking statement North Korea's chairman, Kim Jong-il, has publicly claimed full responsibility for the catastrophic detonation which occurred yesterday in Montreal, Canada. Making a brief public appearance in full military regalia he was quoted as saying,"Let no nation of the global community continue to doubt the might of North Korea or its military forces, unmatched by the forces of other nations. North Korea has demonstrated itself a superpower and will no longer tolerate the interference of the corrupt NATO governments nor of their imperialist puppet states. All nations are cautioned to remember this." Although asked whether the Montreal weapon was nuclear or conventional, the Chairman has thus far declined to specify the nature of the weapon or the means of its delivery.


With calls still flooding Montreal's overwhelmed emergency services and with hospitals filled far past capacity, the sheer extent of the atttack upon the city center is only beginning to become apparent. Authorized estimates of damages are shocking: between 40-60 percent of metropolitan Montreal wholly leveled, with a rising casualty count in the tens of thousands and property losses of at least 75 billion dollars (Canadian). There are still few comments from the city or the national government, but a local hospital director has offered a grim estimate of the human toll of this event. "We don't have a reliable figure for the total count dead yet, and in spite of our efforts many are still missing or in hospitals too backed up to treat them in time," the director, who wished to remain unidentified, commented further on the casualty count of the affected downtown areas so far. "Decimated at least, in the literal sense."