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Luceti Mods ([personal profile] lucetimods) wrote in [community profile] lucetilogs2012-11-16 09:56 pm

Mission #12 - How The Eighth Was Won

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 Sheriff Williams will open up the town’s outdated but not necessarily meagre armoury to the volunteers, at which point she will also be available for conversation and questions.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!
  • redjacketthief: (-glasses- confident)

    [personal profile] redjacketthief 2012-11-23 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
    Lupin was well aware that the young men and women of Luceti were far more skilled than their apparent age belayed, but he was also old enough to be a parent to many of them. It was the age divide, mostly, that threw him. He sat down on the wooden steps and drew a cigarette, mostly just to have something in his hands. Smoking around young people was just uncouth.

    He smiled in amusement as he watched the young man reload.

    "You're not used to guns, are you?"
    markofthewise: (Judging you)

    [personal profile] markofthewise 2012-11-23 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
    "I could take it apart and put it back together if I wanted to."

    Locking it against shoulder, Sokka pulled the gun up to aim. "... and I can probably hit anything I set my eyes on. Probably."

    He lowered the gun again. "But killing with them? No. Not even hunting."
    redjacketthief: (too bad)

    [personal profile] redjacketthief 2012-11-23 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
    Lupin nodded in understanding.

    "I don't blame you. They're a rough tool, much messier than a blade, and they take away some of the art...if there really is an art in fighting."

    He drew his Walther from its shoulder holster and set it on the deck between them.

    "I use a semi-auto, personally. Only when I have no choice. It's easier, the reloads are faster, but it has a tendency to jam when there's too much debris. Slide action. You know the drill.

    But, you know that there are other strategies to use in a gunfight, right?"
    markofthewise: (And I care because...?)

    [personal profile] markofthewise 2012-11-27 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
    "No, I figured I'd just run at them shooting. And, you know, dodge all the bullets."

    Thick sarcasm. Oh, he had an idea how it might go about. He hadn't even been in a fire fight though. But he could guess at good strategies. Cover was going to be important. A good high location to pick them off would be good too.
    redjacketthief: @ starkxravingxmad (smirk-- twisted)

    [personal profile] redjacketthief 2012-11-27 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
    ...his bad for playing with kid gloves.

    "I meant beyond shooting people, since it makes you uncomfortable. Make some chaos, and use it."
    markofthewise: (Take my hand)

    [personal profile] markofthewise 2012-11-28 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
    "Explosives, smoke bombs, the usual. Put myself in tight quarters, like one of the buildings, where I have a better chance of engaging in close combat than out in the open. Go on the second floor where I have the advantage of the high ground when they come up the stairs." Sokka shook his head.

    "We don't have guns in the world, but I'm not exactly new to fighting people like this. Bullets or balls of fire- you learn how to work with what you have. Or don't have."
    Edited 2012-11-28 00:23 (UTC)
    redjacketthief: @ rerun (casual-- smoke ring)

    [personal profile] redjacketthief 2012-11-28 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
    "...just can never tell who around here knows what." He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Never really gonna get used to seeing young people who know so much about combat, I don't think. It's unusual back home."

    Lupin grinned. "So, smart guy. What's your plan?"

    Because he already had his, and he was curious about any ideas that his neighbors came up with.