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exsilium MODS ([personal profile] initiates) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2012-04-03 10:50 pm

open log » ❝ mission oo1 briefing ❞

Date & Time: 04.04.3312
Location: Training Gymnasium in the Initiative Hold.
Characters: Everyone.
Summary: Everyone is summoned to a briefing and training, pre-mission for the very first mission.
Warnings: None.

There would come a demanding ping on every netbook at once. An urgent call to arms, a request for each and every transport to return to the Initiative Hold immediately. If ignored, the ping would continue until it reached its full volume -- overtaking the senses only until its owner complied, deafening in its insistence. At the Hold, there were several more Initiative attendees to rush each and every transport into a large training gymnasium previously unseen by all residents of the island of Exsilium. The auditorium was massive -- its walls whitewashed, its ceiling patterned with dim, purple ambient lighting.

There was a stage set up near the very back of the large room. A man, stern and young-looking, stood in the center of the stage and held a microphone in front of his pursed lips. Behind the stage was a set of time travel plates more populated than even the arrival room -- there had to be at least forty-five plates, all attended by a member of the Initiative, who stood beside the plate in wait and with a distant expression. Only once all of the transports were successfully congregated into their auditorium, did the astringent, black-haired man begin to speak. "This is a briefing," he began, his voice equally authoritative and matching the expression of great urgency on his angular features. "Tomorrow, we begin our very first mission. A mission into the past.

You will be sent to the year 115 CE, in the midst of a turmoil between the Romans and an Assyrian village. It is in both ours and imperatively your own best interest to help defend this village, and to send the Romans retreating to their own homes. You absolutely must comply with this mission. Not only for yourselves, but for your families at home in their own worlds. For all of us.

You will have twenty-four hours from this time to utilise this gymnasium. You will find an array of weaponry at your disposal, and will have access to your own chosen weapon. Use them. Train fiercely, as you have no choice in this initial mission to pick a different path. You all must fight. After your twenty-four hours of practise, you will be given your cloaking devices -- they will make you untraceable to the native people to the time in which you find yourself. Do not, under any circumstances, remove your cloaking device. It will not only be detrimental to you, but to your friends and your colleagues here, as well as your friends and family in their home worlds.

You will be summoned back from whatever your whereabouts at the success of your mission. Should you die during your mission, you will be summoned immediately and brought into the Initiative Infirmary and you will be healed. Do not die. Do not turn your back on your colleagues and your friends. Remain vigilant. The imperative nature of the success of your mission will be made clear upon your return to this world. There is nothing more that we can give than our word.

Finally, I will be coming with you. I will be your mentor and your guide during our mission and I will do my utmost to keep you safe, prepared, trained and informed. Slowly, our world here in Exsilium will become less and less enshrouded in mystery. Slowly, we are able to reveal our true selves, and with it we hope we will gain a much-needed trust. We do not withhold information easily, and it comes to us at a great cost. Thank you, everyone, and let your sessions begin!
"
xiaolindragon: (i don't want this to be the way)

[personal profile] xiaolindragon 2012-04-04 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Rai raised an eyebrow, and then took the gladius with a grin.]

Sounds good to me. [He gave it a few experimental spins and then stanced, ready.]
xiaolindragon: (let it all fade out)

[personal profile] xiaolindragon 2012-04-04 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Hey. Raimundo, if I forgot to give that out last time. One of my roomate's is a troll.
fintastic: (Default)

[personal profile] fintastic 2012-04-04 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Who's your roommate?
xiaolindragon: (everybody seems to be getting what they)

[personal profile] xiaolindragon 2012-04-04 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
Nepeta? Got a thing for cats but not in a creepy way. She's pretty cool and makes a mean pot of tea, yo.
fintastic: (EXCITED!!!)

[personal profile] fintastic 2012-04-04 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
Oh!

[ Whoops. She's sort of bouncing a little, and almost loses her grip on her weapons. ]

Nepeta's great, you'll really like her! She's super nice and really sweet and also cute!
xiaolindragon: (but ordinary)

[personal profile] xiaolindragon 2012-04-04 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
[KSJsalkfja he sort of shifts like he's ready to catch them if she lets them fall.]

Yeah, I like her, definitely. Good to have a room with people that aren't, you know, crazy or something.
checksum: (Default)

[personal profile] checksum 2012-04-04 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Osprey observes the young man's stance.] You're trained in Asian-originating styles. Useful, but distinctive, which seems inadvisable for the mission at hand.

[He takes a more traditional stance for the gladius.] Initial attack to the initiator.
boughtabookstore: (neg: do not impress me)

open;

[personal profile] boughtabookstore 2012-04-04 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ Twenty four hours.

Roslyn doesn't make a move to begin training. She's been keeping herself fit and prepared, and while she won't turn down someone who wants to train she's more interested in sizing up the others around her. Some of them she's seen in training before. Some she hasn't.

She stands on the edge, arms folded, her face blank as she watches.
]
bedheaded: (assault with battery)

open

[personal profile] bedheaded 2012-04-04 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jeff stands at the back, not looking up even once from texting while the guy talks.]

[He's listening. Sort of. Someone will fill him in later, right? Hey, can he borrow your time travel notes? Look, he has more important things to do than pay attention to this.]

[He finally glances up when sounds like he's done talking.]
Great, so we can leave now?
thleepy: (O ^ O)

[personal profile] thleepy 2012-04-04 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ When the speech began, Nik had been sleepy and cranky and he'd only listened half-heartedly. But by the time it ended, he was wide awake and frowning.

Protect a village? Okay, he guesses, protecting people is good. But then the man had said "you all must fight"....

Nik wanders over to the first person who catches his eye.
]

Miss? Do we have to fight?

[ To catch her attention, he reaches up to try and tug carefully at her shirt. ]
caligulas_aquarium: (49)

[personal profile] caligulas_aquarium 2012-04-04 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Doo doo doo passing glances across the room, hate everyone here, etc, a-oh shit it's Feferi.

Okay, play it cool Ampora.
]

Howw can you be lookin' forwward to this? This sucks.

caligulas_aquarium: (74)

Open!

[personal profile] caligulas_aquarium 2012-04-04 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[It should be obvious from just looking at the guy that Eridan isn't paying attention.

Occasionally he looks off in some direction, but in reality he's not even focusing his attention on that either.

Keeping up appearances for the most part, really, because if they want him to show up? He'll show up. But that doesn't mean he has to do anything while there.
]

Blah blah blah...wwish these assholes wwould shut up already.
Edited 2012-04-04 14:40 (UTC)
boughtabookstore: (neg: your life choices)

[personal profile] boughtabookstore 2012-04-04 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ If there was something she was expecting, it was not Nik tugging on her shirt. She looks down, freezes a bit, and then awkwardly shifts backwards, shoulders thumping into the wall. Oh man.

She is so not qualified to deal with kids. Or androids who act like kids.
]

I'm sure they can find something else for you to do, Nik. Nobody could expect you to fight.

[ She'll need to be talking to whoever's in charge here about the children they're bringing in. This is unacceptable. ]
stonefaith: (grin | who's a bitch)

open, will match tag style

[personal profile] stonefaith 2012-04-04 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Seeing as Bariyan had a habit of abandoning his netbook for hours or days at a time, it'd been lucky that he'd heard the ping at all. Well, he'd heard other netbooks pinging before he thought to head back to his room and check his own.

He still arrived slightly late, slipping in unnoticed and sticking to the back of the crowd. And there he waited, arms crossed, expression blank as the speech ended.

Hm. Okay. He doesn't like this any but it seems as if they don't exactly have a choice about it.
]

...I need a volunteer.
thleepy: (o-oh)

[personal profile] thleepy 2012-04-04 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He doesn't let go, even after she backs off, too preoccupied by his own thoughts to recognize that he probably ought to release his grip. ]

But they said "you all must fight".

[ Wait, she knew his name. Nik wrinkles his nose and looks up at her. He's seen her around before, but he's not sure that they've actually spoken. ]

Do I know you, miss?
fintastic: (what am i going to do with a dozen)

[personal profile] fintastic 2012-04-04 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ What is that immediate sense of forebod-- oh. Okay, Feferi, remember to play nice...

She just sort of shrugs and and pretends to be keenly interested in a dirt spot on her trident. ]


The sooner we get this done, the sooner I can go back to New Mexico.
fintastic: (herp)

[personal profile] fintastic 2012-04-04 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She knows what she's doing! Mostly. Not really. ]

I know the feeling! I haven't really talked to my roommates much but they seem cool!
caligulas_aquarium: (Default)

[personal profile] caligulas_aquarium 2012-04-04 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Must be nice havvin' somethin' to go back to. I wwouldn't knoww.

[herpderp how do i social civility]

Besides, that's evven if they send us back once they're done wwith us.
fintastic: (that's all very nice)

[personal profile] fintastic 2012-04-04 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
There's only one way to find out, isn't there?

[ Such awkward babes. ]
caligulas_aquarium: (16)

[personal profile] caligulas_aquarium 2012-04-04 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
An' wwhat if they don't?
fintastic: (thankful)

[personal profile] fintastic 2012-04-04 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll figure that one out if and when we get there! No sense in worrying about it right now.
selfloyalty: (Default)

OPEN

[personal profile] selfloyalty 2012-04-04 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[This felt wrong.

She was never meant to be a soldier, she was never raised to take orders. She had been raised to be a leader, or worst case scenario, an adviser. While she didn't look entirely uncomfortable with a longsword in its sheath at her hip or wearing slacks as opposed to a skirt or dress (in fact, she looks pretty comfortable in the ensemble), she did look rather displeased as the man went about talking, instructing them as to what they will do during this mission of theirs.

That should have been her up there, her giving a speech. This was entirely too wrong for her.

After the man finishes said speech, her stance laxes a bit as she fixes her hair into a simple braid. Despite having her sword, she finds herself moving away towards what looks to be an archery area, taking one of the bows and a quiver full of arrows used for practice.

She needed to do something to clear her mind. Perhaps she'll try to find a partner to practice sword fighting with later.
]
theworst: (pic#2478512)

[personal profile] theworst 2012-04-04 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[All the cool kids sit in the back and barely pay attention. Britta had been distracted on and off with her hair a few times, twisting a strand between her fingers and lamenting the inferior hair products. It was the future, you would think there would be some improvement. Although the part about dying did grab her attention. Britta elbowed Jeff, leaning close to whisper]

Wait, so we travel back in time and might die and if we do we just get a giant reset?

[because hipster slackers gotta stick together -- and then eventually find people to cheat off of and then swap notes]
notthatjason: (Unsure of Next Move)

[personal profile] notthatjason 2012-04-04 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not like he had been trying to hide it. Although Martin's voice does jar him from his thoughts. He looks up and shakes his head, "It's okay. Someone was bound to see it eventually." It's not a secret. Jason has spoken of the legion and Rome and while he hadn't exactly gone around flashing the marking on his arm, it was pretty large and easy to spot if he wasn't wearing sleeves or a jacket.

"I am. I serve my own Legion back home. If we're facing Romans that means we're facing another Legion...it's a huge betrayal and I can't see any of the others back home approving of it." Especially since he was the PRAETOR of said Legion. What sort of turncoat would he be regardless of the era?

"I don't mind a battle, I just wish our first one didn't have to be against a group I consider both family and as the army I serve. Do you think there might be a way around this?" Their supposed mentor had left so speaking to him at the moment was out of the question, still, there had to be some kind of plan they could come up with to circumvent this fight.
birdhousesoul: (Default)

okay baryan do your worst

[personal profile] birdhousesoul 2012-04-04 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[by the power of Greyskull Anders is the volunteer! FOR MAGE BROTHERHOOD. Are you going to turn him into a pile of maggots?]

This won't hurt Ser Pounce-a-lot, will it?

[asks Anders, stepping forward to answer Bariyan's request.]

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