EVENT#08 VINDESS LIBERATION MISSION LOG

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EVENT#08 VINDESS LIBERATION MISSION LOG

Content warnings: Blood, Gore, and Cannibalism

The Corsairs strike quickly. As soon as Gaurus the Bleeder steps off the Imperial airship, Corsair airships emerge from hiding around the settlement and take to the air, peppering the Imperials with a salvo of cannonfire. Corsairs leap from the deck and emerge from hiding within the settlement, weapons drawn and battle-ready.

For his part, Gaurus the Bleeder meets the charging Corsairs without surprise. The man’s immense bulk is imposing enough on his own, but he carries an unmistakable stench of blood, death and decay about him. His enormous body is toned with heavy muscle, and his hands seem to permanently drip blood as he unleashes a feral belly laugh.

“Take them! Capture them! Flay them alive!” he bellows, his voice ringing out across the city. “Their corpses shall decorate my table, their heads my wall! Come lads, let us punish these rebels and teach them the pain and despair of standing against the Empire!”

The stench of blood seems to spread, thick and metallic as the eyes of the Imperial soldiers seem to dim, blood beginning to trickle from every pore like sweat and seep from their mouths in the place of drool. They surge forward, a beastial hunger consuming them as terror quickly spreads among the civilians who turn to flee. For good or for ill, the battle is joined. With Gaurus at its head, the axe of the Empire descends, and the Corsairs will need to bring their all to bear, lest they be ground underfoot.

All logs have full sign-ups, but characters are still welcome to join any open logs. Additional participants will boost the potential for the log’s success and potential bonuses. Outside of Closed logs, all logs can be as many open threads as the participants desire, involving as many of the total participants as they wish.

Consequences
There is the possibility of consequence, depending on the logs characters take part in and the amount of participants.
Serious Injury: A character is seriously injured and will require bed rest and intensive healing. If they choose to participate in an active and intensive log the following month, their injuries will impede them to the point that it may disrupt the log (but not necessarily make the log fail).
Minor Injury: A character is injured, but not badly. They will require some healing to recuperate but will otherwise be fine for logs in the following month.

MISSIONS

Vindess Raid: The Corsairs face off against Gaurus’s Bloodfrenzied Legion.
Status: Open
Description: Gaurus’s mastery of life ether allows him to manipulate blood within willing and unwilling targets. The Bloodfrenzied Legion are soldiers whose blood and hunger have been set aflame. They fight with more ferocity, move faster, and hit harder. They consume their own blood to fight harder, and thus are overwhelmed with a hunger for more blood, driving them to consume their fallen foes, ripping them apart and drinking their blood.

Bloodfrenzied soldiers are extremely dangerous, while a powerful Corsair may be able to take 3 in a straight fight, more is exceptionally dangerous. Corsairs will need to rely on high pressure and exceptional tactics if they wish to succeed. The Corsairs are buoyed by the local militia, Corsair support allowing some people to fight to the last for their families to ensure they escape.
Current Participants: Donnie, Raph, Rezo, Kanna
Log Leader: None
Anticipated Result: The Bloodfrenzied Legion is held at bay, and the Corsairs emerge relatively unscathed.

Escape Vindess: The Corsairs must cover the escape of the airships as they evacuate the civilians and keep themselves alive against the Bloodfrenzied Armors.
Status: Open
Description: The Bloodfrenzied Armors are armors piloted by soldiers under Gaurus’s Bloodfrenzied Legion. In this case, he uses his magic upon the armors as well as the pilots, so the armors enhance themselves by feeding off the blood of their pilot, compelling the pilots to fight aggressively and target large crowds of fighters on foot or civilians to bathe in their blood and enhance their combat prowess.

Additional details will be sent to the Log Leader.
Current Participants: Shu, Terra, Kanna, Harlock
Log Leader: Shu
Anticipated Result: With the placed traps, the Corsairs will emerge unscathed, their civilian charges maintained safely.

Evacuate Citizens: The Corsairs within the town will evacuate civilians, helping them flee the Bloodfrenzied Legion.
Status: Open
Description: The Bloodfrenzied Legion fights ferociously aggressively, specifically targeting civilians with an aim to tear them open, drink their blood and feast on their organs. They are the core of why Gaurus inspires such fear and obedience within the populace, and it will be difficult to maintain calm.

Corsairs will need to calm their charges and efficiently move them through the town, employing the maze of homes, pulling down break lines, and doing whatever they can to keep the soldiers away from the civilians.
Current Participants: Emery, Matt, Shu
Anticipated Result: The Corsairs will successfully evacuate the civilians, keeping them mostly safe from harm.

Tend Citizens: The Corsairs will need to tend to the wounds of the evacuated civilians, preventing as much death as they can.
Status: Open
Description: It’s rare for a civilian to survive a run-in with even one Bloodfrenzied soldier, but any who do will be brutally maimed. Additionally, in an escape wreathed in fire and devastation, injuries in the flight are common. Corsairs will have a range of injuries, from people torn open by soldiers to people crushed by falling, flaming debris.
Current Participants: Tsuyukusa, Matt, Thomas
Anticipated Result: The Corsairs will successfully heal and save a majority of those who can be saved, although casualties will still happen. Their success frees up the local militia to fight harder, aiding the Corsairs in their fight.

Entrap the Imperials: Before the arrival of Gaurus the Bleeder, the Corsairs set up traps around the town, ensuring they had many ways to entrap both the man himself, and his ships and armors.
Status: Open
Description: Corsairs will spend this quiet pre-battle time laying out traps meant to take down Gaurus the Bleeder and hamper the armors and airships upon landing. Corsairs have access to heavy explosives and enough poison to kill several large monsters, which may even be enough to slow down the man who can manipulate his very bloodstream with his ether.
Current Participants: Ilphyl, Aira, Natalia, Atom
Anticipated Result: The Corsairs will lay so many traps that they can target both the Assassinate Gaurus the Bleeder log and the Escape Vindess log.

Assassinate Gaurus the Bleeder: The Corsairs will face off against the head interrogator and Bloodfrenzied Legion commander Gaurus the Bloody.
Status: Closed, this log will be a single thread between all four participants
Description:Gaurus the Bleeder is an enormously powerful fighter who can manipulate blood on a wide scale. Those who face him in combat can hold their blood to a point, but if Gaurus manages to come in physical contact with a person he can begin to turn their very blood against them. Gaurus is exceptionally dangerous to approach, and must be handled with utmost care.

Gaurus is a huge, barrel-shaped giant who stands at 10’9” and wields cruel cleavers, hooks, knives, and spikes. He wears a bloodied apron over thick, high-quality leather armor, and his body is heavy and muscular. His combat power and ether control are further enhanced by the Empire’s drugs, making his capacity truly beyond belief.

Additional details will be sent to the Log Leader.
Current Participants: Link, Natalia, Atom, Ilphyl
Log Leader: Ilphyl
Anticipated Result: Voting will occur in a sub-thread at the start of the log. Either Gaurus will be captured and the team will be seriously injured or Gaurus will be killed and the team will escape with minor injuries.

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[heaven_rooted]

"In here, hurry!" Tau urges as he directs a couple people carrying someone between them. His nose wrinkles at the gash on that one's leg, nearly laid open to the bone. The Empire only shows more and more of its ugliness with these pushes.

He shakes his head, barking a few more orders to point others off to areas according to serious their injuries are.

"I'll be right there," he promises the trio that had just come in. He taps another Corsair on the shoulder, pointing. "I need to stop the bleeding on this one. See how salvageable the leg is. Keep this area from getting clogged. If people have hands to spare, they can help clean and bandage the ones who aren't bleeding out."

[thirdtenkaistar]

His heart was racing - not just from the adrenaline and fear, but the fact he openly defied his father to rush to the scene.

Thomas' brows knitted, there was so much blood that the smell of overpowers everything else, including antiseptic. As medics and healers scurried, Thomas kneels next to the man with the mangled leg, his voice gentle. "It'll be all right, just close your eyes, breathe..." He touches his forehead as a quiet bell-like echoed around him, as the air around him is colored by a leaf-green aura, flowing around the most severely injured to send them off into a deep sleep.

"There... That should ease their pain while they're being worked on." Thomas started before placing his hand over the open gash intending to cast another spell.

[heaven_rooted]

Tau moves to have a closer look once he's got some help with delegating tasks. He looks down at the injury, nodding at Thomas as he starts to roll up his sleeves.

"It's something," he says, knowing it'd be painful to endure awake. He gathers some cloth and antiseptic to start cleaning the wound up as best he can. Something this deep isn't going to stop bleeding very easily, but perhaps he can coax some healing to help there. He's reserving such methods for only the worst off, knowing an overtaxed healer is useless.

"All right. Give me a hand with this."

[thirdtenkaistar]

Thomas nods, letting out a shaky breath. While he did volunteer for this - and he wasn't going to run, but he was looking rather green around the gills. The young man swallows as he offered his hands to stabilize the area, reserving his own magic for the more grim cases.

He kept his ears open, trying to keep track of what's going on outside and who is being brought in.

[heaven_rooted]

"Sometimes it's a toss up whether it's worse on the frontlines or in the medic's tent," Tau says as he places his own hand just between Thomas's, over the wound. A faint light envelopes it and spreads over the injury, and with it, the faintest scent of an open field, of flowers and greenery.

It's so quick that it might have been dreamed, the glow fading with it. But the bleeding seems to have lessened, things looking less inflamed. Tau wipes at it again, gently brushing away Thomas's hands. "You good with needle and thread? If not, I'll handle this."

He pauses as he looks at the other for a moment. "If you think you need a fresh breath of air or anything to help, do what you need to, when you need to. Forcing yourself to stick around isn't going to make it better. Breathe. Come back. Help who you can."

[blessmefather]

Once he was on the ship, Matt had done away with the dark cloak he used for cover in the streets. Now he rolls up his sleeves to lend a hand where he can. He can already sense the mark of death on certain patients the healers are rushing to help, and thankfully a number of the marks fade with the careful touch of a healing spell.

Tau's patient is firmly in the category of those who can still be saved, though the fate of their leg is still questionable. "I'll follow your lead, Doctor. Heartbeat is racing but stable." Matt puts pressure near the wound with his hands and squeezes his eyes closed as he concentrates on the sound of the patient's body. He adjusts his hands slightly until the sound of the blood flowing into the wound muffles more. Better spare the patient as much blood as possible.

[heaven_rooted]

"Not a doctor," Tau snaps, more out of reflex than anything else. But Matt's already seeing about stopping the blood as much as he can, so Tau moves to clean up around it. It's still a big wound, but keeping the patient from bleeding out is a bigger concern.

He knows he can't heal much less save everyone, but it won't keep him from trying to do as much as he can. So he holds his hand over Matt's to impart a bit of his own brand of healing, accompanied by a faint warmth, and the briefest scent of the forest.

[blessmefather]

Matt's mother is a priestess; he's familiar with the warm touch of healing magic, but Tau's is different from others he has witnessed and even seems to have a smell. Maybe later he'll remember to ask him where he learned his magic just after he asks him what he considers himself if it's not a doctor.

The task at hand allows no time for wise guy remarks though. He can hear the blood flow out through the wound slow further with the healing. Matt nods to himself, slightly relieved. "I can dress this wound. Just need some bandaging."

[heaven_rooted]

Tau lets out a breath, nodding before he adds, "Good." He steps away, coming back with a roll. He pauses as he looks at Matt's hands, stepping away again to grab a bowl of water and a wash cloth, setting them on a nearby table before dropping the wet cloth on Matt's hands. He'll hand over the bandages after he's cleaned up a bit, carefully doing what he can to clean up the patient's leg some as well.

More cries of pain sound from nearby as others are brought over, the kodama looking over at them grimly. "They really weren't caring who they attacked..." How quick the Empire is to turn on their people when they catch any wind of Corsair sympathizers.

[blessmefather]

Matt cleans his hands with the provided washcloth and water, and gives them a shake off to the side away from the patient to get the excess water off.

"Gaurus is talented in blood magic. When he isn't using it to torture individuals in his dungeon, he'll make an entire armada turn into rabid animals. Some patients might be carrying wounds you'd expect more from an animal." Matt has heard numerous stories now from the dead.

[heaven_rooted]

"What a monster..." There's a sneer in his tone, his brow furrowing as he looks back at the rest of those that have come in, injured and bleeding.

"And yet the Empire will say it's what these people deserved, so who's the bigger monster?"

As much as Tau felt a need to punch a blood mage's head in, he knows where his abilities are needed. But there are so many...

He lets out a quiet breath, handing over the bandages once Matt's done cleaning his hands.