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Island in a Sea of Death

There seem to be about of things that aren't covered though, Polyphemus. Like all of Captain Ishida's opinions. And others.

the more I have to go on to make my next post, the better.

Island in a Sea of Death

Here's the thing though, Captain Hisashi is probably going to do things his way most of the time and take what the council says as only 'suggestions'. He has to, as he's what would be considered 'the government' in the old world, considering that the local one is gone.

EDIT: Oh, and I forgot to mention the American Soldiers who were taken as POWs. But he didn't mention that to the council though. I've edited my post.

Island in a Sea of Death

Posted! I hope Captain Hisashi sounds like he has a commanding presence :)

Island in a Sea of Death

As Captain Ishida Hisashi was walking towards the conference room in the Halliwell Administration building that the civilian messenger had told him to come to, he realised that he was a little late. Part of that was due to indecision; he wasn't sure what the refugees holed up in the college was capable of, what principles they were operating by. For all he knew, it could be an elaborate plot set up to ambush him, or to wrestle away his new headquarters on the top floor of the Stilles School of Education. The building was perfect strategically; it was huge and tall.

As such, he had brought half his squad over, and left half his squad back in HQ in anticipation of a possible raid or ambush. As he approached the conference room, he could hear chatter. It took him a while to switch to English, and from the confused look of his men (and woman) he could tell that they were suffering from the same culture shock. One of them couldn't even speak English. The rest of them, the medical officer included, weren't star students in the language either.

Their boots trampled the wooden floor as they entered the conference room in force, the captain gripping the handle of his katana tightly with his off hand (it was a common habit in his unit) while his 'personal guards' held their rifles at the ready. Upon entering, he removed his visored helmet and hugged it with his left arm as a form of manner. From the chatter, however, he could tell that his worries could be unfounded. War weariness settled in for a moment before he banished it. Non-verbally, he got the non-English speaker and a storeman soldier he brought along to guard the outside, and settled at a corner with Sergeant Maiko and an Infantryman.

Nothing short of amateur, was the first thing that came up in Captain Ishida Hisashi's mind. Even before the bare essentials were provided for, they were already talking about laws and government and leadership. What was worse was that such things should already be in place - but he couldn't blame them. They weren't a unit with an SOP ready at hand, where everything is set in stone and parceled out forcefully. When there was silence after most of the people attending the conference had said whatever was in their mind, he decided to step up. He knew that he may not stay in the college for long, but he couldn't let these people flail in the dark while he was around. It was, after all, a secondary mission of the UN US mission, to provide relief wherever possible.

"We cannot-" The English words that came out of his tongue felt weird, but the medical officer press on, "rally the entire group in one task. We cannot think about rhetoric and laws until we serve basic needs."

"I do not know if I, or my men, would ever be part of this group. But- Basic needs and basic tasks first. We should gather everyone into one place. Easy to guard." The medical officer continued, drawing his material from his own SOP. Adapted to fit the needs of a random group of strangers, of course, "The- School of Education is large. My soldiers and wards occupy it. It is good. We could guard it."

"Water and food- My men stand ready to provide relief. We have enough in supply convoy to last group comfortably for a few days." He made a few calculations, visibly using his left hand to aid in his mental effort, before coming up with more sums, "9 or 10 days if food is rationed strictly. Water, 5 days even with rationing. But water will be harvested. We sighted lake nearby, and there could be rain or dew to drink."

"The only things we have in much quantity is medicine- I am medical officer, and I have medic with me." He waved a hand to introduce his second in command, "Sergeant Maiko." Before moving on, "Electricity is worse problem. Each of my men and I have solar panels on fieldpack, to run electronics on our equipment." He pointed and gestured to the camera on his helmet and forearm mounted PDA. Each individual electronics could actually gather their own solar power, but on a tiny capacity, "but they will not even be able to fully charge phones and laptops."

Realising he might be sidetracking, he went back straight to providing suggestions on how to run the group, "We cannot help alone. We need civilians to pool their own resources. But my men willing to provide all of security and whatever aid needed." Looking out the window, he realised that daylight was burning, "it is martial law. No one should go out of relief zone when sun goes down. We must hurry and do everything before darkness comes."

"Should we really help them, sir?" Sergeant Maiko politely interrupted Captain Hisashi in her native Japanese, cutting his speech short.

"Yes, it's what we always do. It should be what we must do." Captain Hisashi replied in Japanese. However, the medical officer had his own agendas. A search and rescue mission- who knew how many of his men are still alive out there? Already, upon checking his GPS, he could see that there were a few blips nearby. Whether they were coming from living or dead soldiers, however, was another matter altogether. And of course, the US wasn't their country- sooner or later, they would have to find a way back to Japan. They had retreated too far, and what recon by air and ground from their people would never find them; this was Captain Ishida Hisashi's biggest worry. But he did have a few ideas to counteract that.

((EDIT)) Then there was another problem. The two American POW soldiers. Most of the squad wants them dead for their war crimes, but Captain Hisashi did not want anyone to die. There were already enough death in the world, enough to walk around and create even more deaths. Yet, his hands were tied - what options he'd come up with for the POWs were either risky or impractical. As inhumane as it was, the death penalty seemed like the best solution, as Sergeant Maiko would say.

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Oh, and by the way, this reminds me of this game: http://armorgames.com/play/12389/rebuild-2

Enjoy! :)

Uh oh! I hope I didn't just sign this RP's death certificate XD

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Ouch... Get well soon :) I know how it's like to get sick to the point of being bedridden/not being able to do anything.

I had a serious flu once that gave me a fever and body aches, choked me up with fluid so bad I had to suffer for an entire night because it was so bad I couldn't sleep. I cried when I showered in the morning :(

The good news was that my immune system is so awesome the battle was won after breakfast was had.

Get well soon man :) At least you'll enjoy good health once it's over.

Island in a Sea of Death

lol grimdark goodness! Always makes a good cereal.

Anyway, 18 children would do. Hisashi would be delighted, since he was a pediatrician.

Man, I should've created my 10 year old dictator XD. 18 out of 54 is quite a large minority. That's 1/3 of the population.

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Hypersnip!

@Polyphemus

Might not last though, but who knows? My idea is that Japan being an island nation, they could've moved to the more deserted islands, such as Hokkaido, which is actually huge, and cold and sparsely populated, which is a great advantage. The main islands would be left to rot though.

But of course, it's a little early for that. It's still a mess if it's only 2 weeks.

Island in a Sea of Death

Awesome. I won't be as lucky, but me being a student helps. That's ending soon though.

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@Polyphemus

Oh, my idea is that they didn't. With 80% of the world dead (and probably lots of world leaders and bureaucrats), everything's done in a slipshod manner probably owing to the quagmire that resulted. No UN security council (The UN building in New York's probably overrun), no quorum, no meeting with a hundred or so other reps. Just a few countries deciding things, then settling on Japan sending a unit over to United States. Here's my idea:

They sent a unit over to the United States to reestablish communications because the United States is a permanent member of the security council. I don't know how many other members of the security council has fallen, but the United States is. So this is done as part of a plan to rebuild the UN and take back the Earth. I can imagine though that it's going to take a while.

So maybe China and Japan's governments were still running? And they want Russia, UK, France and the United States back again? At the worse though, maybe they're hoping that those other members of the security council are completely gone, so they'd take over the UN. I can imagine China being that power hungry and not getting the hint from the dead rising XD

Japan could divert some resources due to some vocal groups (aka overseas US Armed Forces personnel), and maybe they wanted something out of it? They were probably hoping that the US government was still standing and could send aid back in return.

Don't mind me writing more stuff. I'm just trying to create a lore to make my blue helmet character fit better XD XD XD

I don't mind criticism, after all, it has lead to me brainstorming lore so that it wouldn't be so difficult when this thing gets going.