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]

You know such profane language but you can't figure out what I meant by that?

[wolfchild]

[ She shrugs. ]

Like an accident?

[wilder]

Or intentional, whatever.

[wolfchild]

Why would I want to kill you? You gonna try raping me?

[wilder]

No.

[Great, the kid knows about that too. ]

It's just not unheard of in my world for kids your age to be killing for whatever reason. But if you aren't into that, then it's fine.

[wolfchild]

[ her life has been lovely :') ]

I don't—there was one. [ The lie she makes obvious, all childish bravado as she had seen other children on the streets do. ] But that was only because he grabbed me. I had a knife on me a Lyseni sailor gave me so I killed him. I got him right in the heart. And I'll do the same to anyone else. I'm not afraid. I know to take care of myself.

[ The direwolf behind her snorts. It almost sounds derisive. ]

[wilder]

[....]

Your wolf there seems to disagree.

[wolfchild]

[ She only walks a little straighter, chin raised. ]

She's a wolf. She can't disagree. Just like she can't agree.

[wilder]

Whatever you say.

[his roommate's pet is a ball with wings that seems to know when to wake people up and Sophie's rabbit turned out to be a zombie. He gives up making assumptions. ]

[wolfchild]

How come your sword hasn't got a name? Swords should have names especially ones that have seen combat. Something fearsome.

[wilder]

Hm?

[he shrugs]

No reason, I just never bothered to name it.

[wolfchild]

Why don't you do it now?

[wilder]

I dunno, got any suggestions?

crying why am I always the one stuck naming things

[wolfchild]

[ The girl screws up her face as she thinks. Be glad, this means she's actually quiet for a bit. ]

Are you very good at killing quick? Or quiet? Like they don't even notice because you're that good.

Because Zelos is a math nerd, what creativity do you think he has??

[wilder]

[oh good some quiet, but he'll scrunch his mouth a little at the question]

Actually people would tell me I'm loud and annoying.

hey. math nerds can be--yeah no I'm screwed.

[wolfchild]

[ But he barely talks... ]

I was thinking mayhaps Green Wind. Because it's green. And if you're quick. [ But mostly the green. ] Or Ghost. Since you can see through it. I like ghost. Ghosts are also supposed to be annoying. I heard a story that there is an entire ghost army in the ruins of Valyria. And no one who ever goes there returns because they die and become another one.

[ She hurries around so she can stand in front of him and beam up at him. ]

You can claim you slew a real ghost with it! And now its spirit lives in the blade and it's cursed and only you can wield it.

e x a c t l y

[wilder]

[He'll stop in his walk and consider it.]

Ghost, huh...?

[Well, it is a bit fitting in a way. That sort of what he was, and the blade was the one he died with. Plus yeah, see through]

I think I like the sound of it.

[wolfchild]

[ She looks entirely too proud her suggestion was liked. A smile is expected so her smile crinkles the corners of her eyes. She waits expectantly. A thank you wouldn't be too much, just saying. ]

[wilder]

[Finally he'll nod]

I think I'll go with it. Thank Cat.

[wolfchild]

You're welcome.