[28th - 31st: Days 2-5] [Artemis isn't sure what to expect with this Draft thing, and falling asleep the night before deployment is harder than it should have been. Which is why when the alarms go off in the middle of the night, it feels as though she's just fallen asleep and it takes her longer to clear the groggy disorientation to realize that something's really wrong.
Once she's on her feet, she joins in the fighting. She's dressed in her uniform, equipped with her bows. Usually she sticks to high vantage points when she can, keeping herself up and out of the thickest of the fighting. Although sometimes the fighting comes to her and while she does her best to stock up, she still has to make several trips during the day to restock on arrows, although she retrieves ones she finds as she can. She uses this as an excuse to catch some sleep and food as she can, checking in on news about what's happening elsewhere. She's not new to fighting, but this is far beyond her realm of experience, the constant struggle, the threat of attackers dropping down at any time, with no real lasting safety to be found.
Still, she does her best, keeping ranged when she can, fighting hand-to-hand when she can't, sometimes calling on every skill and trick she knows to evade the swarms of Cultists. When the Droids show up, she does venture out with a few groups to hunt down the Shifters controlling them and it's a little easier to go shooting at robots than it is the seemingly suicidal Cultists. It only takes one near-death experience to realize that these guys weren't pulling any of their punches and after that, she doesn't either, taking them down with a grim determination born from knowing if one of them was going to die, she didn't want it being her.]
[1st: Day 6] [By the sixth day, she's drained and exhausted and wishing more than anything for the boring uneventful month she'd spent in the village. She wasn't going to be taking that for granted again any time soon. But they had orders today and it's an easy pick for Artemis to decide where she's headed. The mention of the detention centers scattered throughout the other garrisons are a place she can do some good, help people. And while she's not exactly having a crisis of conscience over the actions she's had to take over the past five days, the idea of being able to save people instead of just destroy them appeals to her.]
Days 2 - 6
[Artemis isn't sure what to expect with this Draft thing, and falling asleep the night before deployment is harder than it should have been. Which is why when the alarms go off in the middle of the night, it feels as though she's just fallen asleep and it takes her longer to clear the groggy disorientation to realize that something's really wrong.
Once she's on her feet, she joins in the fighting. She's dressed in her uniform, equipped with her bows. Usually she sticks to high vantage points when she can, keeping herself up and out of the thickest of the fighting. Although sometimes the fighting comes to her and while she does her best to stock up, she still has to make several trips during the day to restock on arrows, although she retrieves ones she finds as she can. She uses this as an excuse to catch some sleep and food as she can, checking in on news about what's happening elsewhere. She's not new to fighting, but this is far beyond her realm of experience, the constant struggle, the threat of attackers dropping down at any time, with no real lasting safety to be found.
Still, she does her best, keeping ranged when she can, fighting hand-to-hand when she can't, sometimes calling on every skill and trick she knows to evade the swarms of Cultists. When the Droids show up, she does venture out with a few groups to hunt down the Shifters controlling them and it's a little easier to go shooting at robots than it is the seemingly suicidal Cultists. It only takes one near-death experience to realize that these guys weren't pulling any of their punches and after that, she doesn't either, taking them down with a grim determination born from knowing if one of them was going to die, she didn't want it being her.]
[1st: Day 6]
[By the sixth day, she's drained and exhausted and wishing more than anything for the boring uneventful month she'd spent in the village. She wasn't going to be taking that for granted again any time soon. But they had orders today and it's an easy pick for Artemis to decide where she's headed. The mention of the detention centers scattered throughout the other garrisons are a place she can do some good, help people. And while she's not exactly having a crisis of conscience over the actions she's had to take over the past five days, the idea of being able to save people instead of just destroy them appeals to her.]