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Who: All Draftees
What: Killing Third Party members and taking names
When: 7/26 - 7/31
Where: Sirry Crags
Summary: Mass-interaction for those out on the battlefield. Feel free to make team threads along with individual ones or however you wish. Action tags are fine here along with prose. For those plotting mischief, this is the place to do it.
Rating: R for the likely violence since killing will most definitely happen, but this is more for interactions during the battles.

[And early on the 26th everyone gets sent out. Thanks to Caesar's organization, most everyone has been placed in groups, even if some people plan on leaving their groups at some point. Check out this post for the details. If you haven't posted to this post and want your character on a team, please do so.]

Special note: Ignore the comments that said there would be 400, that has been retconned and we were told 1200 Third Party members from the start. Enjoy killing them off and taking names.

Special note 2: I asked Akai if any of the Third Party will be coming and dealing with their incapacitated allies, and they will. So assume that unless something is done to prevent this, those injured Third Party members may come back later healed and ready to attack again (though possibly not as effectively).

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[Yeah, sorry there Caesar, Yuber tends to forget what it is like to work with a strategist who isn't going to expect him to randomly show up and even have a moment's warning. If Albert is nearby, Yuber will not acknowledge him, since Caesar is the one in charge.]

This pathetic idiot is leaving the enemy on the battlefield knocked out. [He motions to Vash, though it should be obvious who the pathetic idiot is now.] You might wish to know of this and the fact that the enemy is sending people to rescue fallen allies. Something needs to be done so he and others who feel they don't need to kill don't hinder us.

[Vash stand warily looking from Yuber to Caesar. Is Yuber really not attacking him? Not that he's lowering his weapon at all.]

I-I see... [Caesar nods. They didn't have a lot of time to waste on things like this, so he might as well get straight to the point. He waves to Yuber, letting him know that he can go. You know, if he wants. Since there's no telling Yuber what to do. :|;] I'll take care of this.

[Oh, Yuber wants to get back to killing, like those two Vash left, though they probably are dead by now since the other demons didn't join them.] You probably should have him stay with the other non-fighters.

[And having given that insult to Vash, the demon will vanish again via his teleportation, and likely leave Caesar and Vash both very confused, but Caesar is now aware of the issue in area 1 and that is all that is needed.]

[Vash actually tenses up more when the demon vanishes. Looking around him as if expecting the demon to pop up somewhere else. After a few minutes he lowers his weapon slightly, finger still on the trigger. He still thinks Yuber could be nearby and he's not sure he wants to trust the man Yuber felt the need to leave him with.

The last few times he's been teleported it's been over a lake in winter and right in front of a giant wolf god who hates him. Sorry Caesar, but he's giving you a hard look right now. He's not really sure what to say either.] This is... rest stop five?

Edited 2010-07-29 03:09 (UTC)

[Sob. Caesar is small and scrawny and very obviously couldn't hurt a fly. But he understands that, because of Yuber, just about anyone would be thrown off, so he isn't really bothered by this. He lets out a sigh.]

That's right. I'm Caesar Silverberg, a strategist.

[Lowers his gun a bit more.] How are your defenses here?

We're all right. There are only a few of us here, but we haven't had much trouble so far. As long as the others in this area continue to do their part, we'll be just fine.

Uh... Are you all right?

I'm fine. [A few scrapes and bruises, but otherwise he's not too bad. He's quiet for a bit as he calculates if he can get back to his group on his own from here.]

Glad to hear it. [There's a pause. Caesar didn't exactly have a way with words, and he knew it, so this could be tough. How did he go about this...?] If those Third Party jerks are coming back to take care of their fallen allies, we really don't have much of a choice in what we do. You understand that, don't you?

We don't have to kill them. [That would be a no.]

We do. The Malnosso's purpose in sending us here was to completely rid the area of these jerks. We will not be sent back to the village until we do so.

Look, I don't like it, either. In most cases, I'd say that killing the enemy means losing them as a valuable resource. But we can't get anything out of these guys - they're of no use to us. The fact is that if we don't do something about these guys first, they'll be more than willing to get rid of us. For the sake of all the villagers here, those who want to be here and those who don't, I can't let that happen.

They're people too! The have lives! We don't have to kill them we just have to stop them!

The Malnosso aren't stupid. They aren't going to settle for something like that.

We don't know anything about these guys, but they made their choice. They chose to attack us, and we have no choice but to defend ourselves. If we don't, we're dead.

But it could the same thing for them! They they just don't know anything about us and saw us as a threat! Maybe if we could talk to them we could end this peacefully.

We've fought these guys two times before - do you think that hasn't been tried? They won't speak to us.

Maybe they can't understand our language, we could try something else! There is always another way besides killing.

If there was, I'd have thought of it by now. Trust me. [He shakes his head.] If you can't bring yourself to kill anyone, that's fine. But remember that those you leave behind are only going to come back for more, and that will put your allies in further danger.

Maybe they'd be grateful that we showed them kindness.

And if they aren't?

Then we'll find another way.

[And here comes the other strategist, frowning at the two.]

Perhaps Sir Vash should be told what we discovered in this rest stop, Caesar.

[It comes across as something stronger than a suggestion.]

[Caesar frowns, too. Yeah, thanks for the hint, bro. He motions toward the building.]

If you recall, we were told of the possibility that there might be survivors here. If the mess inside is anything to go by, it seems that this was true, at least at one point in time. The people here before these jerks took over were tourists. I can't imagine they were the particularly violent type, either.

[Vash's look goes hard. He gets what you're hinting at.] If you can believe what they told us.

Would you rather not believe it and deny the idea that there may be other victims involved? Then who is the one passing judgment on what you do not know?