Mission #12 - How The Eighth Was Won

[lucetimods]

Who: Peggy Carter and Amelia McFly (experts); Jane Maxwell, Adell, Richard Sharpe, Phil Coulson, Lupin III, Ororo Munroe, Clove, Remy LeBeau, Bucky Barnes, Ivan Vorpatril, Rudy Roughknight, Clint Barton, Sokka, Michael Blanc, Nathan Spencer, and Astrid (combatants); Mia and Trafalgar Law (healers); Pinky Pie, Aang, Panda, and Fenimore (quartermasters)
What: Mission #12: How the Eighth Was Won
When: November 18th - 20th
Where: Depot 8 and surrounding environs.
Summary: Luceti volunteers are defending Depot 8 from an FTSA-led attack. Or possibly participating in the attack themselves.
Rating: W for Wild Wild West (except gun-violence and strong language)


For the past few months, an FTSA militant known as Hoi Hidekan has been causing scenes around Depot 8 and the small town that shares its name. Although he began by merely handing out pamphlets and sermonizing outside the saloon, things soon escalated into outright threats against the depot, its personnel, and the town as a whole. The local administrator for the area, Sheriff Lyca Williams, contacted the Malnosso Organization in search of reinforcements. Fearing a full-scale attack against the depot which is integral in keeping two whole enclosures -- O’Connell and Pagoda -- supplied, she insisted that they send someone to support the town’s already committed inhabitants. With the MSF already stretched thin due to increasing FTSA action in all regions, the Organization looked to Luceti to balance out the numbers.

November 18th: Volunteers will arrive in the small town in the early evening and will be advised to set up a temporary camp on its western limits. Ideally, the remainder of the day should be spent by settling in and arming up. Sheriff Williams will open up the town’s outdated but not necessarily meagre armoury to the volunteers, at which point she will also be available for conversation and questions. Additionally, Foreman Hidekan will be visiting the Lucetian camp in the late evening to try and recruit for his cause. Curious volunteers may want to take this opportunity to have a strictly verbal interaction with the FTSA representative. Both NPCs will have threads at the top of the mission log.

November 19th: This is the day to use in preparation for the battle. Depending on which side your character chooses to support, they will divide up and spent the day in the company of the Depot 8 personnel or the FTSA activists. Once a side is chosen, it’s inadvisable (but certainly not impossible) that characters should run back and forth between the FTSA encampment and the town. Learn your way around your gun, do some target practice, or else search your soul in the desert heat to decide which side will earn your confidence. This will also be an excellent time for volunteers to talk among themselves and debate over which side has the most merit. However, once everyone is settled, it’s up to you folks plotting below to how either side will approach the oncoming battle. Will you set up traps? Will you assign positions?

November 20th: On the twentieth, at high noon with the sun beating down on them, tumbleweeds rolling in the distance, the battle begins. Foreman Hidekan and his posse of FTSA activists ride into the town to begin the battle. Their goal will be to plant dynamite at the heart of Depot 8’s power generator, which will cause a chain reaction that will take down the entire facility. The job of the Sheriff and her crew iis to defend the town at any cost or to die trying. Gunshots will fire and a shootout will begin. FTSA gunners will take cover and try to take the town by force. The battle itself may seem brief, likely taking place over the course of thirty minutes, but it will be a fierce battle.

NOTES:

This mission is being POSTED EARLY, although it still does not ICly begin until the 18th, in order to allow characters ample time to thread with the mission NPCs as well as amongst themselves on the first and second days. This should help them make their choice between Depot 8 and the FTSA.

HOWEVER, the thread for the third day (the 20th) will not go up until after at least one mod has set up shop in the aim chat (lucetiplot) to roll a die in order to determine the battle’s outcome based on how many volunteers are on each side. This chat will take place at midnight (EST) on the 19th. Once the outcome has been determined, mods will put up a thread for the third day that will essentially set the stage for this outcome.

For more information, please refer to the original plotting post and don’t forget to sign your characters up for a side!

Comments

Sheriff Lyca Williams; Day One

[redjacketthief]

Just a quick question, Ma'am.

[He echoed her business-like demeanor with his own in a show that even a man in a flashy suit could be serious. His red jacket concealed his own piece-- a Walther P-38, semi-auto-- but he was also taking stock of the weapons on hand. Just in case.]

I understand your situation here but I was wondering if you had any idea about why they would choose this place? No offence, but it's a little out of the way to make a statement.

[malnosso]

[She turns away from her gun cabinet.]

On the contrary -- we supply two sizeable enclosures. What makes you blieve that would ever be out of the way? [If the personally took offense at the insinuation, it doesn't show.]

[redjacketthief]

We're in the desert here, ma'am, and a little isolated. You had a hard time getting aid; whats to say that they'll have as easy a time as they think?

[malnosso]

Careful, friend. You're perilously close to mistaking an isolated operation as not worthy of -- as you say -- making a statement. I suspect Hoi and his hoodlums see us as the perfect statement. They attack the outlying enclosures because they think they can uncover some distant mistreatment.

They're wrong, of course.

[redjacketthief]

Of course. I figure you guys take care of your own, especially out here.

...do you have any idea about the kind of people they are? The methods they'll use?

[malnosso]

They've hired mercenaries. That's the problem with these bleeding-heart hippies; they can't do their own dirty work. Oh, their are hard men and women in their ranks but you don't win friends by advertising that fact.

[It wasn't fair. Williams was well aware of Hidekan's record. But it was hard to disassociate from a lifetime of prejudice against th FTSA.]

It's almost impressive that they've recently grown so militant.

[redjacketthief]

...yeah, hippies are like that in every world.

Apologies for all of the questions, ma'am, but this is the second time I've heard of them. Do you know what caused the change?

[malnosso]

...The same thing that always prompts change, friend. A lack of success. It shows how very mad they've become, if they'll attack who and what feeds their group's main cause: the enclosures.

It's a bit backwards. Wouldn't you say?

[redjacketthief]

Everything's been a bit backwards since before I arrived last year, ma'am. But people always do stupid things when they're desperate.

...do you have any back up plans for the off chance that they do get past us?

[malnosso]

[Williams glances across the room. As if there's something, but she dare not discuss it. She's no fool; she knows Hoi will try to snatch her new allies from her.]

Every eventuality has been well considered. That's all you need to know for now.

[redjacketthief]

[There was the inevitable wall that Lupin was expecting. He nodded in polite gratitude, knowing that he wouldn't be able to get much more out of her.]

Then I thank you for your time, Ma'am. I'm sure we'll all do our best to protect this depot.

[malnosso]

...You have our gratitude. And the Organization's.

[And with that, she moved on to converse with someone else.]