((ooc: The following is an action OR comment post open to all. Meryl is going to be in the town square, preparing to do her newscast on the current curse with Excel at the camera. Where do you fine citizens come in? Well!
You know when you watch the news... and there's a reporter out in public... and if you watch the background, you see one douche, or even a pack of them, doing retarded things to the camera? Well, Meryl's a reporter! Out in public! So, you guys can just have your characters, affected or not, whatever is IC for them right now, to pass around in the background if you so wish. Just remember that this is a news report being broadcast over all the televisions in the City, so people will see if you freak out, or decide to give the camera the double-finger salute, or decide to get into a fist fight with a mannequin in a shop window behind her. Even if you want your character to just... walk past, feel free to have them do so. This is shortly before the signal at 11pm, and footage may or may not include this, depending on what happens here.))
[as mentioned above, Meryl is standing in casual black clothes, wrapped in the jacket from Vash because SHE SWEARS IT'S COLD, goddammit, and has a mic earpiece on as opposed to holding one. The audio won't be as good, but Meryl's afraid someone might try to attack her, man. She ain't stupid.]
This is Meryl Stryfe, and I'm standing out in the City center amidst the current curse, where citizens are finding themselves hurled into bouts of irrational paranoia. From accusations that mysterious individuals are out to get them, to turning vio-- EXCEL, HOLD THE CAMERA STILL.
OOC Edit:
One announcement of all hell breaking loose, and an on-screen murder D: