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lucetilocked2013-09-21 02:10 am
voidseeing) wrote in lucetilocked2013-09-21 02:10 am
[LOCKED TRANSMISSION TO RESIDENTS] (backdated to the evening of the 20th)
[The following transmission is both dictated and typed.]
Attention all residents of Luceti. This is Gai Tsutsugami, transmitting this over the secure network that is concealed from the Malnosso. Doctor Trafalgar Law is also with me. We're reporting in on the mission that took place from the 7th to the 11th of September.
As some of you may know, those of us on that mission were sent to a desert to investigate and report in on the activities of a mercenary group known as the Iron Eye. The Malnosso wanted us to ascertain whether or not these mercenaries were a threat to them, and if so, to take steps to neutralize that threat. What we found was far more than any of us had bargained for.
The Iron Eye had convened in the middle of a desert subject to powerful natural Shifts that made venturing outside of the camp a risky affair. The group itself was led by a man named Hoi Hidekan, whom some of you might know from the mission at Depot 8.
Law.
Over six months ago, a group of us were sent to Depot 8 to protect the underground factory that shipped supplies to two enclosures – Pagoda and O’Connell – from Hoi Hidekan, the FTSA, or Free The Test Subjects Association, and the hired Iron Eye.
Who’s Hoi Hidekan you ask? He used to be a MSF Foreman serving under Specialist Davis. I encountered him the first time during a mission before Depot 8. However he left the service after the Moon Draft. It was the last straw. He had always hated how the people inside the enclosures were treated and he saw joining with the FTSA as a way to put real change into action. However, by destroying the factory at Depot 8, the enclosures were at risk of starvation. His gamble was that the Malnosso would either release the people in there or move them to other enclosures. In short, draw attention to the conditions in the enclosures and create a rallying point.
The Sherriff of the town disagreed with that. The Malnosso weren’t going to move anyone – not unless they absolutely had to. They didn’t have the resources. For the people on that mission, it was too great of a risk to allow.
We fought and they lost. And that was that until now, when we found out Mister Hidekan was now leading the Eye.
But he wasn't the only person of note there. Bil, or Sir Catherine to some of you, was also present. He claimed that he'd hired the Iron Eye and that he wasn't going to be turned over to the organization. That was our first clue that there was more going on than met the eye.
I had a conversation with him, and in it he revealed that the state of the war against the cultists is worse than we'd originally been led to believe. According to him, the original estimate had been that we had five more years before we'd lost all of the outer regions like that desert to the Third Party, and three more after that before total annihilation. But after TERRACE and Vaskoth, that estimate was lowered to two more years at the most. Things are desperate. Desperate enough to require drastic measures.
He also told me that the Third Party had a base out there in the desert, which explained why the Iron Eye was there. It was a large city, larger than the one some of our residents encountered on the draft in the mines. They were still searching for the entrance when we arrived.
Law also made some discoveries while in the process of treating the Iron Eye's wounded.
They had a massive amount of wounded among them, mostly battle causalities and contagion. However there was a group suffering from radiation poisoning - in some cases quite severe - and Shift Afflictions. While it initially didn’t look related, the causes of these injuries on their charts were blacked out, which suggested a connection and caused us to look deeper.
Turned out that the patients there were predominantly of two types - guards and scientists – and their care, at least for some, wasn’t being handled by any medical doctor, but Mister Bil himself. They didn’t want to speak with us - or anyone in fact. They were being bitter and resentful towards their own people and that raised some serious flags.
Between that and the conversation with Mister Bil, we suspected a weapon of some sort was being developed. Further investigation revealed just that.
I confronted one of the members of the Iron Eye with our suspicions and learned that their objective was to find the entrance to the cultist city so that they could destroy it with a Shift explosive that was developed in collaboration with Bil.
[Let that sink in for a moment.]
We were then faced with a choice: did we help the Iron Eye gain ground in the war against the Third Party, or did we do what we were sent out there to do and report their activities to the Malnosso, and lose a potential ally in the process? Whatever decision we made would have repercussions. The question was whether the potential benefits outweighed the risks.
In the end, we chose to side with the Iron Eye and help them find the entrance to the city. It was uncovered shortly before our departure by a group of Iron Eye members. The bomb itself was still being built when we returned here, but now they had a target on which to use it.
We were told when we left that the Shift Bomb would take at least one more week to complete, meaning that it should be deployed any day now. Let's just hope that it ends up being as effective as they seem to believe it will be.
(OOC: Open discussion post for the mission aftermath! Gai and Law will answer questions, and anyone else who was also on the mission can feel free to do so as well. Start your own threads, threadjack, do whatever you want.)
Attention all residents of Luceti. This is Gai Tsutsugami, transmitting this over the secure network that is concealed from the Malnosso. Doctor Trafalgar Law is also with me. We're reporting in on the mission that took place from the 7th to the 11th of September.
As some of you may know, those of us on that mission were sent to a desert to investigate and report in on the activities of a mercenary group known as the Iron Eye. The Malnosso wanted us to ascertain whether or not these mercenaries were a threat to them, and if so, to take steps to neutralize that threat. What we found was far more than any of us had bargained for.
The Iron Eye had convened in the middle of a desert subject to powerful natural Shifts that made venturing outside of the camp a risky affair. The group itself was led by a man named Hoi Hidekan, whom some of you might know from the mission at Depot 8.
Law.
Over six months ago, a group of us were sent to Depot 8 to protect the underground factory that shipped supplies to two enclosures – Pagoda and O’Connell – from Hoi Hidekan, the FTSA, or Free The Test Subjects Association, and the hired Iron Eye.
Who’s Hoi Hidekan you ask? He used to be a MSF Foreman serving under Specialist Davis. I encountered him the first time during a mission before Depot 8. However he left the service after the Moon Draft. It was the last straw. He had always hated how the people inside the enclosures were treated and he saw joining with the FTSA as a way to put real change into action. However, by destroying the factory at Depot 8, the enclosures were at risk of starvation. His gamble was that the Malnosso would either release the people in there or move them to other enclosures. In short, draw attention to the conditions in the enclosures and create a rallying point.
The Sherriff of the town disagreed with that. The Malnosso weren’t going to move anyone – not unless they absolutely had to. They didn’t have the resources. For the people on that mission, it was too great of a risk to allow.
We fought and they lost. And that was that until now, when we found out Mister Hidekan was now leading the Eye.
But he wasn't the only person of note there. Bil, or Sir Catherine to some of you, was also present. He claimed that he'd hired the Iron Eye and that he wasn't going to be turned over to the organization. That was our first clue that there was more going on than met the eye.
I had a conversation with him, and in it he revealed that the state of the war against the cultists is worse than we'd originally been led to believe. According to him, the original estimate had been that we had five more years before we'd lost all of the outer regions like that desert to the Third Party, and three more after that before total annihilation. But after TERRACE and Vaskoth, that estimate was lowered to two more years at the most. Things are desperate. Desperate enough to require drastic measures.
He also told me that the Third Party had a base out there in the desert, which explained why the Iron Eye was there. It was a large city, larger than the one some of our residents encountered on the draft in the mines. They were still searching for the entrance when we arrived.
Law also made some discoveries while in the process of treating the Iron Eye's wounded.
They had a massive amount of wounded among them, mostly battle causalities and contagion. However there was a group suffering from radiation poisoning - in some cases quite severe - and Shift Afflictions. While it initially didn’t look related, the causes of these injuries on their charts were blacked out, which suggested a connection and caused us to look deeper.
Turned out that the patients there were predominantly of two types - guards and scientists – and their care, at least for some, wasn’t being handled by any medical doctor, but Mister Bil himself. They didn’t want to speak with us - or anyone in fact. They were being bitter and resentful towards their own people and that raised some serious flags.
Between that and the conversation with Mister Bil, we suspected a weapon of some sort was being developed. Further investigation revealed just that.
I confronted one of the members of the Iron Eye with our suspicions and learned that their objective was to find the entrance to the cultist city so that they could destroy it with a Shift explosive that was developed in collaboration with Bil.
[Let that sink in for a moment.]
We were then faced with a choice: did we help the Iron Eye gain ground in the war against the Third Party, or did we do what we were sent out there to do and report their activities to the Malnosso, and lose a potential ally in the process? Whatever decision we made would have repercussions. The question was whether the potential benefits outweighed the risks.
In the end, we chose to side with the Iron Eye and help them find the entrance to the city. It was uncovered shortly before our departure by a group of Iron Eye members. The bomb itself was still being built when we returned here, but now they had a target on which to use it.
We were told when we left that the Shift Bomb would take at least one more week to complete, meaning that it should be deployed any day now. Let's just hope that it ends up being as effective as they seem to believe it will be.
(OOC: Open discussion post for the mission aftermath! Gai and Law will answer questions, and anyone else who was also on the mission can feel free to do so as well. Start your own threads, threadjack, do whatever you want.)
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[She says this tiredly. She's perhaps thinking back to that thing with the people fro Kin'cora.]
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[Considering all they seem to know about the cultists is that they want to sacrifice everyone for some reason.]
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[In a way, she can, academically. She doesn't know how she could ever believe in it, but...]
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[But it does make sense, in a way. It actually rather fits when you consider the cultists to be insane -- maybe they really think they're doing the right thing?]
I still don't think 'love' is the right word though. Maybe pity... but even that feels worse somehow.
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[In a really uncomfortably creepy way, but given their actions didn't seem to be anything less than bloodthirsty before now, it's not that much of a step up.]
...what do you suppose happens to a world where someone's been taken and sacrificed anyway? I mean, time stops while we're here, right? But a world can't just be frozen indefinitely. The whole thing would just fall apart.
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[The Infinite Universe Theory. Or part of it, at least. But in that vein, there should be infinite copies of this world out there too, which seemed incomprehensible given how many other worldly influences there are here...]
That's the only way different worlds and universes can impact each other. And the reason they're normally kept apart.
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But then again, if it wasn't permanent, what'd be the point?
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