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EVENT #03: WAR ORDER - EXTERMINATION EXECUTION LOG

The Imperial attack strikes like a thunderclap. In the traditional sense, a Legion is comprised of 1,000 men. In the Imperial reckoning, each individual legion holds a variety of troops - while some may have their own specialties, all legions are formidable and versatile fighting forces.

The legion that sweeps over the mine is an artillery-focused legion. A flight of airships descend upon the mine and starts raining devastation upon the facility. While the mine itself is left intact, an airship with heavy shock troopers lands in front of it, the soldiers immediately entering the mine and sealing off the entrances and exits to preserve the facility and slay all within.

The legion that attacks Flotsam is an Armor Legion, and the flight darkens the skies as carrier airships and a swarm of armors descend upon the floating city. As the Corsairs launch their coordinated counterattack, they know in their hearts that successfully mounting this defense will be among the most difficult things they have ever done.

ALL CORSAIRS

Mine Defense Gunners: Corsairs will need to man the defense arsenal installed in the mines to strike back as much as they can against the Legion, before retreating to safety.
Conflict: The Legion will do their best to destroy all present artillery, characters will need to dodge the shelling.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, your thread header should read MINE DEFENSE GUNNERS.
Region: Hesaeth

Mine Evacuation and Destruction: Corsairs will need to evacuate any remaining personnel to the tunnels before collapsing them, as well as ensuring that the secret of the Corsair submersibles is not given to the Empire.
Conflict: The mine is crawling with Heavy Shock Troopers with orders to kill everyone on sight. Corsairs will need to evade or fight these troopers as they evacuate the final remaining personnel and bring the mine down on their heads.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, your thread header should read either MINE EVACUATION AND DESTRUCTION.
Region: Hesaeth

Defense of Flotsam: Flotsam is under heavy fire from the Legion, they must be fought back here and now. This log can take any number of permutations depending on how a character chooses to fight. All captured Armors will be made available for PC use for this fight, and can be claimed in this thread. All Flotsam airships will also be active in this fight and may be incorporated into the log. Flotsam’s sea ships are all generally armed with a hodgepodge of weaponry which will be utilized in this attack.
Conflict: A Legion is trying to destroy every last ship in the fleet and send you all to the bottom of the Eternal Ocean, and they have the firepower to back this up. The Legion consists of 7 carrier airships and 200 armors, as well as 800 general crew and landing forces. It will take all of the Corsair’s might to beat them back.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, your thread header should read DEFENSE OF FLOTSAM.
Region: Flotsam

Imperial Witch: A young girl with flowing green hair and empty, soulless eyes descends upon Flotsam. Upon her head rests an ornate bronze crown, and her Armor is like a ferocious beast. At her command, fire rises to her call - and she leaves naught but devastation and ash in her wake.
Conflict: This is a villain plot with a PC villain character - up to 4 characters may sign up for this plot on a first-come first-serve basis and the PC Villain will control the flow of the log. In general, the PC Villain will tag after all active participants, or after 24 hours have passed, whichever comes first.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, post in the sign-up thread and tag into the appropriate top level. The first 4 players to sign up may take part, and these players will receive lower priority in the next villain plot until all players have had a turn.
Region: Flotsam

Players will generally have free reign to narrate the event’s occurrences as they wish. For the Execution phase, please refer to the Conflict descriptor to get an idea of the kind of narrative difficulties you will encounter and feel free to make use of them as much or as little as you like to make the thread interesting.

Characters are free to use single large threads or multiple smaller threads to meet the character threshold at the player’s discretion.

If you wish to deploy a Gambit during your mission, in the subject line of the reply you’re using the Gambit in type GAMBIT: [NAME OF GAMBIT]. Using Gambits isn’t required for the success of a thread, but doing so will be taken into account when we factor out the successes and failures of the mission.

Due to the coordinated nature of the attack, characters may only participate in logs in a single select region for this mission as they are occurring simultaneously.

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The soldiers are too focused on the lights ahead that if they noticed the "rat" nobody says anything or glances in its direction. So far so good. Atom watches carefully for the soldiers in the back of the group to step into the tunnel. Thankfully the entire group does as they were commanded and rush in for an attack instead of splitting up.

The lights go out and the soldiers exclaim in confusion. Those in front of the group are even more confused that nobody had come into view. If they had a little while longer, they likely would have realized it was a trap, but the dark provides the needed chaos to keep them standing still where they are while the "rat" runs back towards the entrance. Atom's sight is closed in on the tunnel's entrance for signs of Ilphyl's small movement and heat signature. The instant he starts to pick up on something, he presses the detonation button.

Again, there's a boom and a strong wind from the explosion with loud crumbling rocks on its heels. Atom darts out from behind the rock formation to look closer for signs of Ilphyl exiting, biting his lip in worry that this quickly improvised plan was not as accurately calculated as he hoped.

Ilphyl did cut it a bit close, but it mostly meant they ended up returning to elf form suddenly, and with a few bruises from the transition. They are picking themself up and checking themselves over, and give a silent wave -- they are okay.

Atom sighs in relief when Ilphyl stands and waves. They do look a little roughed up so he double checks, "You okay?" he whispers. He offers them a hand in case they need any support or just help stepping around on the uneven rock and dirt from the passage collapse.

Ilphyl nods. "Just bruised and a bit cut up, I think." But they are willing to take a hand for extra support.

"If you have any trouble suddenly, just let me know." Atom insists just in case.

He frowns at the pile of rock next to them. "We should mark this tunnel so it looks different from the others. Otherwise it'll be hard to find the trapped soldiers later. Even if the Imperials recover them, I'd rather they get released."

"I don't know much about the Imperial for 'look here'," Ilphyl said. "I could leave a piece of fabric or something."

"Fabric works," Atom agrees. Without really thinking, he rips the lower part of the sleeves of his shirt. It wasn't exactly a great fit for him anyway. He makes quite a sight with his shoes singed off. He drapes the fabric as high up as he can, giving the ends a shove in between some rocks and dirt, and tries to make something of an X to mark the spot.

"I guess learning the local writing system would be a good idea for the future."

"I think the Vault has classes," Ilphyl suggested. They bring in a few extra rocks to help placing the fabric.

"Really? I'll have to check it out. I'm staying at the Vault. What about you?"

He steps back, satisfied with the mark they've secured on the rock pile. There's a great rumble throughout the caves, echoes from battle elsewhere in the mines.

"Right! We better go help the others."

[ ooc: finishing up? unless you have any other ideas? ]

[OOC: I'm good.]

"Flotsam. I'm better outdoors than I am as a researcher," they said. "Even if I did grow up underground."

Which means they are not bad at telling where the sounds are coming from, despite echoing. "This way."

Atom follows after them.

The name of Flotsam makes him think of the battle plans discussed earlier, of the people from Flotsam who had saved him from the Imperials just a couple days before. He hopes they'll be alright. He almost asks Ilphyl more about Flotsam, but decides against it. They are probably stressed about it enough already. Questions can wait until after the battle.

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