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

[bloodyashes]

I've been on worse.

[As hot as it is, at least they're not in a desert. Or, alternatively, trapped on a freezing ass mountaintop.]

[knightofcourage]

It's not bad, it's just different from what it's like in the city.

[Emil takes a bite of his food.]

Have you been on one of these missions before?

[bloodyashes]

Here? Only one.

[He finishes peeling the meat off his skewer and sets it aside, folding his arms.]

But it's not entirely unlike what I did in my world.

[knightofcourage]

What did you do there?

[bloodyashes]

I was the commander of Oracle Knights Special Operations.

[And yes, Emil, he is avoiding telling you exactly what that means. "I was chief assassin for the church" tends to not go over well with kids who apologize for being stepped on.]

[knightofcourage]

A commander of the knights...

[Luckily Emil's only frame of reference is the Martel Knights.]

So is what you've done here similar to that?

[bloodyashes]

The Initiative is less organized, but yes.

[Also with a dash of less murdering people. Still, his tone makes it pretty clear that he's not impressed with the way the Initiative does things.]

[knightofcourage]

[Emil can't fault him for that one. He has a lot of doubts about the Initiative himself, though probably for different reasons.]

Do you think what we're doing here is right?

[bloodyashes]

It's hard to assess right or wrong when they're not telling us anything.

[What a way to answer and not answer at the same time, Asch.]

[knightofcourage]

That's not the first time I've heard something like that here.

[He's somewhere between disappointed and frustrated. How long has this been going on now?]

I wish there were some way to find out more, but I haven't heard of any so far.

[bloodyashes]

They're not going to tell us anything more than they have to. That's how these operations work.

[Which isn't a thing he likes very much, either.]

[knightofcourage]

There isn't any other way to find that information, is there?

[He's not expecting it because someone probably would have tried by now if so, but he has to ask.]

[bloodyashes]

Ask around with the other transports, or if you prefer, wait for someone else to ask and pay attention to what they find out.

[Spoilers, he did the latter.]

There's no way to get new information, but at least you can know what's happened in the past.

[knightofcourage]

[Emil nods, taking note of Asch's advice.]

I'll need to look into that when we get back. Thank you.

[And...oh yeah, he's hungry, so back to his food.]

[bloodyashes]

Good luck.

[And Asch will be filling a couple more skewers and putting them in the fire. Not much else to say.]