Oh, @ChaoticFox, I'll provide the High Altitude if you bring the Low Opening. ;D I'll even pack it all up for you.

@Rain Lets do it. ;)

And hell yeah for sexy operators!

I am afraid to go home, add @ChaoticFox on Skype, and possibly be pulled into a Skype group.

I don't know what horrors will greet me if I read messages sent by the doofuses ;-;

Can I join?

You bet

Yay

IC is up! Okay, so to clear up what is going on:

EVERYONE is in Somalia, bar Merlin/Olivia.

Out of those people, you are under Nikolaj's command. He leads Echo in the field there at the moment.

Under that, there are Fireteams Red (Nikolaj's team) and Fireteam Blue, led by Volkov (Monochromatic). This is a temporary arrangement- a 2IC of a 2IC, it won't stick for good. It's basically an all out assault on a low level apartment block on the coast, most of which has been destroyed, walls and shit coming apart if you can sort of imagine. It's heavier sort of loadouts for breaching and close in warfare, and everyone is going to see shit happen.

Also, before you post in IC. Like this post to prove you read that, please?

It's heavier sort of loadouts for breaching and close in warfare, and everyone is going to see shit happen.

So I get to bring my ballistic shield to the party from the get-go? I'm already in love.

iTS HAPPENING

Yep. I will say right now, that wasn't as great as I have wanted it to be (so hence why you have probably seen edits throughout, where I have gone "Fuck, I really wanted to do this a bit more"), but I thought I'd do it early as I've realized that tomorrow, I will NOT be able to write shit, nor for Thursday and Friday either (maybe Friday, maybe). Nor Saturday or Sunday, due to work. So right now, I'm basically starting the whole RP, and you guys can begin your responses, as I know you have been waiting. I want to shift you away from your chat about boobs (as wonderfully comfy as it was :D ), so yep, there we are! I will say that this is the tail-end of an operation, and it's going to be basically last sort of assault work, in and among a really hectic raid, no marksmen loadouts I would say, at the most medium-range stuff for maximum distance whilst having lots of CQC type things- not full shotguns, but the assault or heavier end of your loadouts. I will have all characters doing stuff, as they begin to clear out the partially destroyed apartment block, delegated through Nikolaj to them. Think concrete, most of the inside is gutted and most walls are pretty much gone, bar a few. Lots of insurgents, breaching, and general shock and awe type stuff.

Oooh, I can't choose what to bring! Should I bring my rifle? My Subgun? Both?!

Hmm, I might have to quickly throw together a heavier loadout for these kind of shenanigans, as I don't yet have one. I will do that before I get my post in, and hope that I'm not left too far behind. Be a good test to see if I can keep up or not though.

I don't want everyone wielding shotguns, but carbines, rifles, SMGs, they're preferable to marksmen rifles at this point in time- think that the team have been fighting through the streets prior to this, and this is the tightest it will get, so they're now using their close-in stuff.

Wonderful, this is going to be a grand ol' time.

Debating whether or not the Saiga is better than the AK for this...

But seriously, it is quite a mixed operation, so for this one, I'll probably let it slide, as they're involved in both mid and short range combat.

@kingkonrad Last question for clarification. Have we had this Viking Fighting Vic since the beginning of the operation, enough to have stored gear?

Hmm...yeah. Probably, I would say it's large enough for ammo and probably ONE spare gun, but not a shitload of stuff. It's basically been put aside for Echo amongst the raid force, so throughout the hour of get in, drive to a place, get out, kill people, find no PETN, get back in, drive somewhere else, they haven't lost too much momentum. It's kind of a search and destroy type operation, so I can't imagine why not. The way I have written it is that they are going straight back to one of those peaks on the seismograph, but within say, three to four post cycles, it might have died down again.

Roger, just need to know if Dima could have stored the Shield in preparation for confirmed location or high probability raid on a target building.