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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 - alone)

[personal profile] studieswaitressing 2012-10-21 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, he needs to stop being nice. This is ruining all her perceptions about him and she doesn't ... like it.

She just shakes her head, trying not to look too saddened herself. Family is a touchy subject for her: she doesn't know what happened to her parents once they forced her out of their home, and that's a sort of pain that never really heals.]


It's just my brother and me, and he's a -- student at Oxford.

[So he got out of fighting, is what she's saying.]
paracosmic: (the world ❦ don't hold back)

[personal profile] paracosmic 2012-10-21 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[her cool demeanor changes when he approaches her, wariness setting in once again. men were a mystery to her. she didn't trust many of them, and she was only just starting to thanks to the kind men who had been around her, who had treated her like a human being.

but no matter how good a judge of character she was, it was still hard for her.]


Hi. Who are you?
studieswaitressing: (Mystique - transforming)

[personal profile] studieswaitressing 2012-10-21 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[She can't help the soft laugh. Oh, Ashraf -- only you would actually admit this to people]

The first time I tried to hold a person's appearance for more than a few seconds, I ended up looking like something out of a horror film. I think we all have to start somewhere, right?
caligulas_aquarium: (Default)

[personal profile] caligulas_aquarium 2012-10-21 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Look pal, I pretty much spent the majority a' my life preparin' for intergalactic war an' all it entails only to hawe the chance taken from me by bullshit uniwersal interwention.

Ewen if it's all primitiwe as fuck an' not near the sort a' what I was expectin', it's still the closest thing I got to gettin' that chance back.

I wouldn't really expect a human to understand anyway. You're all pretty soft about the topic from what I'we seen.
strongeralone: (don't want to lose anyone else)

[personal profile] strongeralone 2012-10-21 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Stop being nice. It's not something said about John. Ever. He's got no sympathy for those who didn't fight, sees no reason other than illness and insanity anyone should get away with not serving their country.

But at the same time, he knows what a relief it must be to her, especially if he's all she's got.

Just like Sam is all Dean had when he died. Of course he'd do anything to bring his brother back. Goddammit if anything happens to them on this mission he will bring down the damned United Earth and the Initiative alike single handed, and damn the consequences.]


Good for you.
studieswaitressing: (Mystique - more like naked and proud)

[personal profile] studieswaitressing 2012-10-21 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[She isn't sure how they ended up jogging, but she'll go with it for now. She's keeping up with the jog just fine, it isn't as if she's out of shape ... but if they end up going faster, she'll have to figure something out for her feet.]
studieswaitressing: (Mystique - shocked)

[personal profile] studieswaitressing 2012-10-21 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Having him beside her makes it easier for her to do a direct comparison, so she mirrors the motion once -- then a second time, a little faster.]

How was that?
caligulas_aquarium: (Default)

[personal profile] caligulas_aquarium 2012-10-21 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[Now he remembers.]

You still under the impression this is all some big fabrication or what. Cause that's a pretty fuckin' idiotic mindset to take onto a' battlefield of all things.

Y'know, assumin' you did ewen fight.
speakveryclearly: Kanaya looking down with shades on and a thin, grim glow. (Displeased)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2012-10-21 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[LITERALLY NOBODY HERE HAS ANY IDEA THERE WAS A PLAN.]

Maybe Karkat and Sollux were right about us all being doomed from the beginning. [There's little else she can add to this. It doesn't seem fair to her, but that's just how it is. How she is -- doomed.]
studieswaitressing: (Brushie brushie)

[personal profile] studieswaitressing 2012-10-21 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[It wasn't as if England had much direct involvement with the war itself, anyway -- they provided some support, certainly, but nothing on the scale that America had provided. Most people didn't assume she was from England, she'd found, because of the lack of an accent.

She glances over at him, curious. This would be a good time to glean genuine information off him...]


I'm guessing you had family back home worrying about you.
allsongs: (nothing new)

[personal profile] allsongs 2012-10-21 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Die.

Not the first concept learned, but one not long in learning. War, death...die. She knew.

"I will not die."
mach_n_roll: (Thumbs up!)

[personal profile] mach_n_roll 2012-10-21 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[And that is the whole idea! He picks up the pace, grinning like crazy and curious to see how she can handle actual speed.]
strongeralone: (all my failures)

[personal profile] strongeralone 2012-10-21 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[His dad, left all alone...those days must have been rough. But they never spoke of it.

Winchester men don't speak of feelings.]


Made it back.

[That's all that matters. When so many people didn't, it's really all anyone could ask for.]
caligulas_aquarium: (pic#5000216)

[personal profile] caligulas_aquarium 2012-10-21 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe.

[He's just running out of things to say here at this stage, so he leaves it at that.

Unless she has anything else to say, of course, but even then...
]
strategic_guile: (I need a pimp chair for this shit /o/)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2012-10-21 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't think you would drop it in. It's still okay to eat that way, just a different texture.
studieswaitressing: (Mystique - uncertain)

[personal profile] studieswaitressing 2012-10-21 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[She wants to say that he doesn't look much worse for the wear, either, but that seems insensitive even to her -- so she just manages a half-smile.]

Best you can hope for in a situation like that.

[Things like having to struggle to survive weren't unfamiliar to her. She'd gotten all the way overseas without so much as a dime to her name, so she understood what it was like to adapt.

...hopefully they'll be back to camp soon, because this conversation has the potential to get really awkward.]


I mean, not that I really know. Not exactly.
whatsupcroc: (☇ surprise: you stole the cookie?)

[personal profile] whatsupcroc 2012-10-21 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Collette yelped, twisting around to get a good look at who'd popped out over her shoulder. "Blaine!" Her heart was racing and she was half laughing, eyes widened in surprise. The reference he was making almost slipped by her.

"You surprised me! And no eating people." She stuck her tongue out at him. "That's just rude."
studieswaitressing: (Default)

[personal profile] studieswaitressing 2012-10-21 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[She does what she can and glances down to try and get a good look at what his feet and legs are doing. She hasn't fallen yet, at least.]
healplz: (smile | aww you think you'll survive)

[personal profile] healplz 2012-10-21 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Trying to imagine that, and... oh, creepy. This huff of a breath out could totally be a laugh if you look at it right. ]

I'm sure you're right, but it certainly doesn't seem it, sometimes. The archbishops at home look as if they were born healing others. [ There's a little note of admiration in that. SOMEDAY, SOMEDAY... ]
strategic_guile: (There's that chip on my shoulder again)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2012-10-21 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Not bad. More like- [He demonstrates again, faster this time.] Make sure you bring your hand back to protect your face between punches. They might take the hit just so they can get you one better.
strongeralone: (intense look)

[personal profile] strongeralone 2012-10-21 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[No. No she wouldn't, how could she, a girl in 1962? Of course, the things John experienced, very few could come back to talk about, especially with any sanity left.

Vietnam feels like child's play when compared to hell. And that's without even touching losing Mary and hunting...no. He's convinced no one actually knows what it's like, to live inside his head, to know what he does, feel what he feels.]


What were you doing charging in if you've got no experience? [No, it's back to a safer subject. Winchester men do not speak of feelings. It's better to keep telling her off. It's for her own good; she doesn't know what war is like.]
studieswaitressing: (Default)

[personal profile] studieswaitressing 2012-10-21 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not that I don't have any experience. Just -- minimal, I guess.

[She furrows her brows. Okay, subject change it is. Why is she not surprised that tall, dark, and kind-of-crazy doesn't talk about his feelings?

She shrugs just a little.]


I ... thought I was being quieter, I guess. I just wanted to stop feeling -- helpless with all this.
strategic_guile: (Mmhmmm; I see what you did there)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2012-10-21 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Blaine just laughed, sitting back on his heels and grinning at her. He was twenty-nine, there was nothing at all odd about him popping up and scaring the shit out of little girls. Nope. Not at all. "It's only proper, waste not want not."

He duck walked a few steps so he could crouch at a spot where it was easier for her to see him, since she couldn't exactly turn around so easily on the ground. "And what are you doing down here? Surveying your domain like a lion? Waiting for ancient Russian gazelle?"
strongeralone: (weapons)

[personal profile] strongeralone 2012-10-21 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[The not talking about his feelings thing is part of what makes him kind-of-crazy.

Wanting to stop feeling helpless, to have some sort of control...it's something he knows well. He also knows the consequences of acting too rashly. Other people paid dearly for his rookie mistakes.]


You really wanna stop feeling that way? Train. Under someone who knows what they're doing.

[Like him, for instance, but he won't offer. Not yet. Not while he has no idea who or what she is.]
studieswaitressing: (Mystique - angry)

[personal profile] studieswaitressing 2012-10-21 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I have been training.

[She just hasn't had many people offer to teach her how to sneak, or how to blend in. She knows how to do that under normal circumstances, but she hadn't been sure of how to approach this situation.

She has to start doing more research before she goes out in the field. She bites her lip, though, and sighs.]


Obviously not enough.