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Of the Inebriated, only those who remained above ground or away from the sinkholes rapidly forming were spared.
Much of the Middle, the general area uniting every district of Kloa, was sunken. Collapsed, as the underground did, bringing streets and floors across the city down under. The metro station and tunnels were all under rubble, and the sewers and access ways were all caved in. Buildings toppled, blocking off many paths and streets. The Rotgut released like air from a bag or a pocket. Many stragglers were unfortunate enough to be caught in it.
Now, there was no way out of the city via the underground where the Damned came, and collecting bodies across the city became an arduous task, with so many being lost in the ensuing collapses. The only portions of the underground still left intact were those protected directly underneath the Wei's grounds, sealed off. Yet, they could never hope to distribute enough gas masks to the populace in order to save them from the oncoming clouds of Rot. There weren't enough to go around...
Rot. It ate everything. What erodes and eats the man from within can erode and eat everything without. The human was the pillar. Inebriation was the destruction of his faculty, and the death of his organs.
The Damned could now control the city, wherever in it they went about, capturing those lost among the streets. From where things had been left in one piece, they found new resources to fuel themselves on. Kloa was won.
The Wei had no choice but to retreat. Using the Dropships still at their disposal, they began to ferry people out day and night, pulling back all their forces to hold down their position. They could transport almost a thousand out every hour, but not to Easterlind City, or even other areas of the Siran Region. These people had witnessed the Final War too long, they were undesirables now. They qualified for judgment, to be tested in their faith in the Emperor and given their final rites by the Temple when it arrived, for this life. They would not see a proper city of the Trinity, relegated instead to a refugee encampment not far from Kloa, but far enough to be out of danger's way. One they were expected to set up themselves, of the three million left that the Wei had secured.
