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

[duplicitoussight]

[He sends them to her (along with some others) before putting away the tablet.]

See, see? It's not so bad. We should do more things like this.

[concealingeyes]

[She looks through the before glancing back up.]

At least while we're here, yeah. There's not as much fun to do back there... So I guess we'll have to put in for more missions, huh?

[duplicitoussight]

Shouldn't we call them vacations? Ah, but that's a great idea! We should sign up for one right away when we get back.

[concealingeyes]

All right. Hm... when we get back... the newbies should be arriving around then. So let's settle them in and then sign up. Even though I was gone a long time on my mission, it wasn't long to you... so we shouldn't need to worry about anything here while we're gone.

[duplicitoussight]

Got it, Leader!

[Ah, right...] I don't think you told me how that mission went, by the way. Did you get into a gunfight?

[concealingeyes]

[She scratches the back of her head.] ...Yeah. It was weird. And kind of...dirty. I learned a lot about, uh, brothels, I guess. And alcohol... I got to try some, too. But the music was really good.

[Kano the things you missed.]

[duplicitoussight]

[He would've wanted to tag along...! Alas.]

Brothels and alcohol? Wow, it sounds like you had a wild time! Heehee!

[concealingeyes]

You probably would've had more fun than I did. Sorry I didn't bring anything back for you. I couldn't really find anything.

[She still hasn't gotten to say she missed him. Oh well...]

[duplicitoussight]

Kido coming back in one piece is good enough! She'll have to make it up for me next time, though, when she goes on another mission by herself.

[concealingeyes]

If I do another mission like that, it'll be a shorter one.

[duplicitoussight]

Ah, don't be like that! Wouldn't you want to have time to explore and sightsee~?

[concealingeyes]

[She can't put her hands in her hoodie, so she just folds her arms over her chest.]

...That sort of thing is something you do with closer friends.

[duplicitoussight]

[He tilts his head at her, grinning.] Is that so? You have a point, though. Enjoying the sights with someone else is a lot more fun than doing it alone!

[concealingeyes]

What's with that look on your face?

[I-It's not like she meant you, b-baka!]

[duplicitoussight]

[Completely innocent here.] I don't know what Leader's talking about~

[concealingeyes]

Your face is just stupid sometimes then.

[Maturity!]

[duplicitoussight]

You're being a bully! That's no way for a leader to act!