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initiates NPCs ([personal profile] initiatesnpc) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2012-10-17 05:36 pm
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MISSION: SALT THE EARTH

Date & Time: October 17 - October 23
Location: Southwest Russia, 1223 CE
Characters: ALL; tag yourselves in
Summary: The Initiative sends all of the Transports on a mission to fight troops of the Golden Horde.
Warnings: war, violence, npc death (notify a mod if there's cause to add a particular warning!)

It is a warm day when the Transports arrive, a breeze blowing and sparse clouds in the sky. Before them is an expanse of flat land interspersed with some short, rolling hills. There are sparse trees, but for the most part it is grassland. It would be ideal for farming, but has not been utilized as such yet. Several miles in the distance is a small town, and the troops of the Golden Horde have made their camp just outside of it. There are about a thousand soldiers present, and the mission is simple: send a message that this land cannot be claimed. They will do this by defeating these warriors who are feared throughout the medieval world. They will then punctuate this statement by ensuring that this land cannot be farmed for centuries.

It is a small expanse of land that the Initiative has their eyes on, no more than ten miles in diameter. But for some reason, they have deemed it to be of a deep strategic importance.

The Transports arrive in the early morning, escorted by several Initiative officers, whose presence is meant primarily to keep things organized while the actual battle is to be left to the Transports. Under the guidance of these Initiative officers, the first order of business for the Transports is to set up a camp of their own. The battle will commence in the late afternoon, six hours after their initial arrival.

The battle will take place halfway between each side's respective camps. Many of the Mongolians will fall in combat. On the fifth day, the remaining soldiers will retreat, surrendering the area. Once the region has been secured, the second portion of the mission will commense, in which the Initiative will oversee the dispersement of a chemical agent over the land to ensure that no crops may be grown there. It will be harmless to all humans and animal life, and some weeds may even be able to take root, but the grain farming that would have otherwise taken place on this land will not be able to be undertaken. The land outside of this ten mile radius will be unharmed, but this small region will be barren, seen as cursed when the legend of the defeat of the soldiers of the Golden Horde is passed on.

A week after the mission's commencement, the Transports will be sent back to Exsilium. Their mission will have been a success. But the fallout of it will remain to be seen...
studieswaitressing: (Mystique - intrigued)

[personal profile] studieswaitressing 2012-10-21 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I asked them what else they had besides the weapons.

[...fighting isn't exactly her forte, okay!]
studieswaitressing: (Mystique - pleased)

[personal profile] studieswaitressing 2012-10-21 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[She'd probably appreciate it.]

Mostly ways to counteract something called 'biotics', and a little hand-to-hand.
studieswaitressing: (Mystique - intrigued)

[personal profile] studieswaitressing 2012-10-21 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[In the grand scheme of things, she's not actually bad company. Being a waitress for so long made it easy for her to at least start conversations with people. Once he sits down and starts poking around at his food, though, she blinks. Oh, she's seen that look before on her brother...]

Did they whip up something that you don't like, or...?

[You can't just not eat when you've been having such long days, Sam. With Mystique's metabolism, she is tempted to snatch up some of his food, but she figures it's polite to at least ask him why he isn't hungry first.]
hungover: (Grumpy)

[personal profile] hungover 2012-10-21 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Better to do that than end up on the surface and dead.

[Heh, 'losing his shit'.]

You're not the only one who was panicking, anyway. I'm sure very few people even noticed.
hungover: (Default)

[personal profile] hungover 2012-10-21 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
[He purses his lips. That might be true, but he's seen enough children die.]

It's funny that this is the sort of reality that it's my understanding people try to keep from their children.
woahwoahawkward: (Default)

[personal profile] woahwoahawkward 2012-10-21 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, but how do you know that? I've always been told that anything we do could have unforeseen circumstances. Who's to say that doesn't hold true for things happening in other worlds?

[He could go back to Ferelden being run by rage demons or something silly like that.

These are the sort of wild things his imagination comes up with, all right.]
strategic_guile: (Is that so?)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2012-10-21 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know anything about the biotics. I'm not even sure what that is. [He waves her forward.] Show me the hand-to-hand.

[Beware; he might counter her counter...]
mentore: (what.)

[personal profile] mentore 2012-10-21 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Templars?

[ . . . What.]
mentore: (cape)

[personal profile] mentore 2012-10-21 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
We are still near to 200 years behind my time and in a very different country.
mentore: (suspicious)

[personal profile] mentore 2012-10-21 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[He recognizes Khisanth and immediately goes to her when he sees that she's badly injured. Glare or not, she needs to get the wound looked at.]

Has anyone helped you already?
caligulas_aquarium: (Default)

[personal profile] caligulas_aquarium 2012-10-21 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Hmm...]

I guess it could. After all you are a human.

But you're askin' the wrong guy, time ain't really my thing anyway. If the rustblood were here you could ask her, but then the initiatiwe apparently don't think we got a need for her here so that's not an option.

Guess you got no choice but to risk doomin' your world in goin' along with these guy's plans then.

[personal profile] fourscience 2012-10-21 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[She's still learning give her a break.]

But I am grateful!

[personal profile] ex_bandai157 2012-10-21 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Maybe it's nice gosh. ]

For an introduction?
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[personal profile] roadkills 2012-10-21 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Sam looks over at the sound of a voice, doesn't recognize the guy that it belongs to. But after the events of the past few days, hell, the past two months, sometimes he's surprised that he remembers his own face.]

Yeah. I got a little taste of that with the pirates. Definitely not fun either.

[He sighs and gives it a toss.]

What about you? Any close calls?
studieswaitressing: (Default)

[personal profile] studieswaitressing 2012-10-21 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[She smirks. Okay, this is something she can -- probably handle.]

Are you sure you can handle it?

[Except she's not that quick with it yet, and if he does counter her the best she'll be able to do is not fall on her butt.]
woahwoahawkward: (Was that an actual compliment?)

[personal profile] woahwoahawkward 2012-10-21 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh jeeze it's not what it sounds like, Ezio.]

-- a sort of warrior. But I'm not associated with the Chantry or anything -- religious!
strategic_guile: (These are not finger touches of evil)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2012-10-21 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[He chuckles at her and settles down into a ready stance; knees just a bit bent and he holds up his hands] We'll see, won't we? Come on and show me~

[personal profile] fourscience 2012-10-21 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! Should I not be? Introductions are important to me! Becoming friends with aliens is essential. For me.
strategic_guile: (Because my eyebrow says so!)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2012-10-21 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
They don't do that in yours?
woahwoahawkward: (You will be wooed by my skillful wooing)

[personal profile] woahwoahawkward 2012-10-21 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
The rustblood?

[Okay, that's what he got out of whatever Eridan was just saying. He has to carefully choose what he gets riled up about in this place, okay.

He glances off into the distance. Soldiers are approaching, but it will be a little while until they reach the spot he's chatting with Eridan.]


caligulas_aquarium: (Default)

[personal profile] caligulas_aquarium 2012-10-21 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, she-

[Though his head turns to follow the direction Alistair's looking in, though once he catches sight of the Soldiers he just turns back to him without that much of a bother really.]

What, them comin' up worryin' you or somethin'.

We can kill 'em first then get back to talkin' if you'd rather.
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[personal profile] roadkills 2012-10-21 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Sam takes a deep breath, and it hurts, different from the way it had hurt to take a deep breath when the city was filled with poisonous gas. But he'll survive.]

[He sits forward again, the campfire flickering and casting shadows across his face. Sam glances back towards the rest of the camp, and that's when he spots him.]

Hi.

[The greeting comes a couple of seconds later, eyebrow raising at him.]

Everything okay?
raisedbybirds: (015)

[personal profile] raisedbybirds 2012-10-21 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
...Sometimes that happens, yes.

[She's been responsible for quite a few missing planets, not that he needs to know that. Also Adam you have a lot to learn.]

No. Planets orbit around stars. [USUALLY...] Stars give them life, and they can take it back too when they die.
priceofpower: (pic#4791468)

OPEN | action or prose both fine!

[personal profile] priceofpower 2012-10-21 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Now this was something she's started to miss. This isn't her war, and these aren't the people that matter to her, but it's still a proper battle, and a chance to indulge in the violence and mayhem that she's become so accustomed and addicted to. She cloaks herself to get in close, lashes out at the warriors from behind once she is with lightning quick strikes from her lightsaber.]

[But she's got an eye on the other transports, every once in a while, particularly when they start to slow, start to stumble and fatigue. That's when she slips to their side, draws the enemy's attention away with sharp, painful arcs of lightning to focus entirely on her, give her allies room to recover. (though more often than not it's accompanied with a harsh "get it together or get off the blasted field!")]

[She's not letting anything break past her.]
heired: ([pb] intent)

[personal profile] heired 2012-10-21 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Rather than return the smile she takes a step forward, moving slowly enough to hopefully avoid startling it into the throwing the boy. Jacen would have been able to send out a few soothing thoughts through the Force, but instead of risking the disturbance she tucks her sharpened spear under her stump, stretching out her hand to the animal. How much harder could it be then riding a rancor? ]

They seem docile enough.