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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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Nothing else they've told us about this place has proven to be wrong. There would be no reason for lying about something like that, either. But if we deny it, even if it's only a possibility, more innocent people may die. Is that okay?

No, it's not okay. Even so, killing and violence never solves anything.

And I'm sorry if I'm having trouble believe the people who said they wouldn't send me here; because I told I didn't want to come because I would not kill for them. [He adds that second part because he means it. He will not kill. He's also a little tired, stressed, and depressed beyond his normal limits.]

Edited 2010-07-30 00:58 (UTC)

Then don't kill for them. You are free to remain here and not lift your weapon again. Maintaining that attitude and arguing with others on the battlefield simply prolongs the danger they are exposed to.

Right. [Caesar takes a breath.] Stay here. You could even be our guard, if you like. Keep us out of trouble.

[...not that they particularly needed one. But at least he'd be doing something.]

There are people out there, they're dying! [And he cannot ignore that.]

And they will be revived outside of the battlefield and collected by their brethren.

Like I said, I don't like it, either. Your points are valid, but if we continue to waste our time like this, it won't take much for those guys to overwhelm us. I don't know what else to tell you.

[Very angrily at Albert.] Just because they revive again doesn't give us the right to kill them! What if it's not the same for them?! What if they don't revive!? And if they do, they'll lose something! They could lose a part of themselves!

You misunderstand, Sir Vash; I am not saying this to comfort or placate you. Once they are revived, they will rearm themselves and attack another settlement. They initiate the fight knowing full and well that they may die, and they use the cycle of life and death in this world to their advantage.

Argue for nonviolence all you wish, but it doesn't change the fact that they will kill us without hesitation. And they have no intention of listening to us out here. Their invasion of Luceti proved that all too well.

We're not asking you to change your opinions, but you must realize that it's inevitable. He's not wrong. The only way to protect the others is if we fight. [He looks over to Albert. He doesn't care that he stepped in anymore, but it has proven they're going nowhere with this. Caesar decides to attempt to wrap this up.]

You're free to do as you please, but stay out of the way of the others. There are people out there who won't think twice about having to subdue you in your efforts to help the enemy, and that's one of the last things we need. Understand?

[And, like Albert earlier, that's a bit stronger than a suggestion.]

[It's the same thing over and over again.] Maybe we do need to fight to protect others right now, but it won't end it. It will just keep growing. Killing is not the answer.

I know they won't. [Not that knowing that will stop him. He will head back out into the fray when the talking is done, maybe not to find his group, but to try to subdue more of the fighters as long as he knows you guys are safe here.]

[Albert will just look at Caesar, as if deferring to him. He remains silent and unmoved.]

We should get back inside before we draw their attention. [He hadn't planned to stay out so long to begin with. Stupid Yuber. Caesar stretches his arms as he turns to head back into the building.] I don't think his team is going to take that very well.

[Albert walks to the makeshift base, giving the area one last cursory before heading in.] His team is better off without the liability.

I know. [He doesn't sound very happy admitting it.] It's not even a matter of him being unable to kill - there are others who'd make up for it just fine. But...

[He didn't need to say it. Once they're inside, he rolls up the sleeves to his shirt and sits down somewhere. You know. Where there's no blood or anything.] Why is it so hard to understand?

Bleeding hearts. [Albert looks down at Caesar while he sits.] Some bleed for so long that there's no stopping them, even in the worst circumstances.

It just doesn't make sense. Thinking that way at a time like this... [He shakes his head.] I hope he'll at least stay out of trouble.

[dryly] Were this the Harmonian army, he would likely be sedated and arrested for treason.

They really don't mess around, do they? We don't even come close to a real army. [So hopefully they'll never have to do things like that. Oh Harmonia.]

It's an efficient means to get rid of a possible disturbance; that kind of dissent affects morale.

It's hard enough when most of them don't want to be out here from the start. But we couldn't do things like that even if we wanted to.

Sedation would have kept him from proving to be a danger to himself and others out there. Though it would only be a temporary solution.

It'd just cause more problems for us later. But I guess if his team chooses to deal with it, we won't have to worry at all. [He shakes his head.] Can't say I didn't try.

One less useful unit on the field.

Just what we need. [He sighs quietly. He knew they'd be fine, with or without him, but it was still troublesome.] Did you have to deal with anything like this?