MISSION: RELEASE THEM BACK INTO THE WILD

[initiates]

Date & Time: April 27th - May 1st
Location: Wollongong, Australia, 2464.
Characters: All voluntary transports + maybe a few drafted ones.
Summary: Make those stay-at-homes leave their nerdcaves! My god, do they even know what sunshine looks like???
Warnings: none planned, will be updated accordingly!

The city is old, dark, and very, very quiet. A good deal of the buildings are crumbling and old, but the ones that are actually inhabited glow like candles in the dusk the Transporter has dropped you into. All of these buildings are infested by wiring pouring in from every angle, ensuring that each inhabitant in his or her little block of a room has every modern convenience available in 2464.

There is no one on the streets, no public transportation, and even cars look scarce. But that doesn't mean there's no movement. Maintenance drones, controlled remotely, run deliveries or work repairs. Armed law enforcement drones patrol on rounds through the city, although their mechanized attention is mostly turned outward. Still, they might come to investigate a ruckus within the city limits. And if the persons causing the ruckus don't respond to peaceful attempts to get them to cease, the drones might attempt to subdue them with paralyzing technology and haul them in for a night in the city jail — another dark, unused place.

If you get hungry, there are entire warehouses dedicated to the production of foods. It can't be that hard to sneak in and collect a meal, right? Or you can hack into the system and order whatever you want, if you're good with that kind of thing. Or you can just scavenge—or fast for four days, maybe—if thieving and hacking aren't your style.

And somewhere around here, in those glowing, secluded towers, behind the legions of automated drones, live the reclusive citizens of Wollongong. The methods are up to you, as long as you can get them to come out and breathe the fresh air somehow.

[[ ooc; Mission details are here! This will run from 27th of April to May 1st, with those on the mission returning to Exsilium at the same time that the new arrivals show up. It's an optional mission, but if you'd like your character to go along that would ICly sit it out, feel free to say that the Initiative drafted them for this one.

There aren't any teams or structured threads to this one, so go wild! ]]

Comments

[wilder]

Huh?

What doesn't your normal salary cover all your food?

[wolfchild]

I have to feed her too. [ She nods to the wolf. ] The Initiative saddled me with her. In that weapons place, she jumped me and the woman said she was to be my weapon. I've been stuck with her since. There's not a lot to hunt except the animals outside and those all look wrong. So I have to get us both food. She'd eat a cow a week if I could afford it.

[wilder]

Funny, I don't remember any animals in the weapons room.

[wolfchild]

Mayhaps there weren't any when you were brought.

[wilder]

Or you're lying to get me to pity you.

[wolfchild]

[ If he's looking for any signs of lying, there are none. ]

If I wanted pity, I'd say I was sleeping in the streets. I don't need anyone's pity.

[wilder]

[he isn't really. He's just very cynical and have heard a thousand sob stories in his life. ]

Really? Uh...you do know they give you a room to sleep in right?

[wolfchild]

Yes. I live in one.

[wilder]

Huh.

Well, good luck with feeding that animal friend of yours I guess.

[wolfchild]

[ She shrugs. Clasping her hands behind her back, she waits for him to continue destroying things. ]

[wilder]

[And continue he will! He starts using lightning against the power generator, until it gets overcharged and blows]

[wolfchild]

[ Pretty lights *^* ]

Can everyone use magic? [ Everyone from his world, she means. ]

[wilder]

[oh she's still here? He wipes his brow as he answers]

No. Just people with elven blood.

[wolfchild]

[ You're interesting. dwi. ]

You don't have an elf's ears.

[wilder]

[...what does dwi mean? Because I swear it only means driving while intoxicated here so I'm so confused here. ]

That's cause I'm mostly human.

[wolfchild]

[ deal with it, woman. deal with it. ]

Mostly?

[wilder]

Yep.

[wolfchild]

Like your mother or grandmother is an elf?

[wilder]

Some grandparent or great-grandparent or something like that. I never knew my family well enough to know.

[It feels a bit dirty, lying about his own family. But what choice did he have? ]

[wolfchild]

How come?

[wilder]

I'm a bastard.

[Well...in one sense of the word]

[wolfchild]

[ She had loved a bastard once. He had been the best man she ever knew. ]

What do you do? Are you a sellsword?

[wilder]

[Yeah that Ned Stark's Bastard is pretty great]

A sellsword?

[wolfchild]

Um, a mercenary.

[wilder]

Oh. Yeah, that's right.