Hailfire

Task Force Hephaestus

Andrew grimaced as his fears were confirmed, no jobs to do, and listened as Huscarl elaborated on the situation. The more Huscarl said the more Andrew was reminded operations here were being wound down in scale and the less likely it seemed a job would pop up. This situation, whilst great for the moral wellbeing of the world, left Andrew in a mildly frustrated state. What good was a soldier without a battle to fight? He reasoned. The offer to visit McKinnon was one Andrew accepted gratefully by saying "Yeah. That sounds good to me." Before adding a polite nod and thank you to Patterson for the food.

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

It's all goood. You have my apologies for the delayed response. Been a bit tangled up in stuff.

Task Force Hephaestus

Nice post king! I'm glad you went into detail on the camp if we're gunna spend a while there. Also. I'm loving the maps you've provided. Gives everything a sense of scale. Hopefully my post is up to scratch.

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

Ashers blinked, surprised at Kensington's apology. She hadn't been annoyed at the wolf at all, just the idea of being delayed. "It's ok dude." She'd replied casually as he passed, not really getting a good look at her fellow wolf before he was gone (403 error on the image). The wolf had seemed super revved about the job and Ashers decided he might be a pretty cool guy to get to know. As such she sat beside him in the briefing.

"Sooo... You get to drop the pedestrians in. Lucky you." Ashers quipped when the briefing was done.

In truth Ashers was nowhere near as laid back as she made herself out to be about this exercise. The fact live munitions weren't to be used meant a fair bit of her role as engineering was inaccessible. Smashing down walls up close was likely not an option either as the last thing she wanted was a genuine blue on blue casualty in what was supposed to be a training exercise. That being said it wasn't all bad. At least Ashers had the opportunity to "get in GEAR" now. Something she had been itching to do since graduating the academy and she would be working alongside her new team. Ashers kept an ear on the swivel for information regarding what squad she would be assigned to once the team was divided.

Blackout 2030

Ok thats cool. I'm going to leave plans in terms of what to do and how up to you guys. Ultimately I had planned to just gen the environment, run the npcs and provide the plot. How you guys react to what is provided is totally up to you. I may (as I've said) make a character at some point but i feel now is not the time for introducing new characters.

Speaking of characters. The three "empty" characters are up for the taking by any of you who want to play them. It'll be more or less first come first serve who gets who although feel free to discuss it.

Task Force Hephaestus

Andrew Marshal, aka Khukuri, sat at the edge of the mess area slightly isolated from the others with music playing loudly into his ears via a pair of ancient, battered looking earphones. Up till now he had been completely absorbed into what he was doing, performing maintenance on his FN Five-Seven pistol and reminiscing on past missions, but now he dropped what he was doing in the hope of receiving some good news from Huscarl.

The recent quiet had been tormenting Andrew. Truly what was worse the the fighting for him was the long periods of waiting between it. In fact Khukuri had often found that there was a certain thrill that could be found nowhere but at those times he was closest to death on the battlefield, not that he wasn't careful. He stood from from the bench he had been sat on, removing the skull candy headphones, holstering his now complete pistol and slinging the olive green gas mask he had worn for this mornings run under his arm before approaching Huscarl for a morning brief.

"Yo Huscarl." Andrew said cheerfully with a grin on his face. "'Any word from the brass as to why we're still sat here with our thumbs up our asses?" He asked as he sat beside his boss and friend. Obviously here with this many yanks present he didn't expect anything more than a yes or a no answer but something was better than nothing. He pulled the forward brim of his boonie hat up so he could see better now he had entered a shaded patch on the roof.

Blackout 2030

Creativity :) Hailfire approves.

P.S. Hailfire must sleep now for he is tired.

Task Force Hephaestus

*grins* sounds like my kinda party. I guess we'll see what happens on the whole CS front.

Anyways I gotta sleep. I'm knackered. What timezones are people in? GMT here. England.

Blackout 2030

Ok. Was gunna post this IC but I am ridiculously tired and shall be asleep soon.

Buses are heavily dependent on computers to co-ordinate their various systems, the data from which will have been wiped by The Blackout. What this means is that even if the lighting, the pneumatic suspension and the power steering systems are operational they will not activate. The vehicle would be drivable but only just (this would be true of lots of vehicles unfortunately). Due to our criminal/army friends visiting overnight it also be low on fuel, not that you need much for your current mission and a resourceful team should be able to find more.

If you wanted to make use of the vehicle long term as a sort of base of operations your team should have the skills to fix it up and even upgrade it if they're willing to put in a little time. I would defo recommend upgrading it if that is the plan however as a bus isn't exactly low profile and those things are flimsy as hell, not to mention there'd be something of an excess of chairs...

Elder Scrolls: Terror of the Padomaic

Yeah. I can't really post unfortunately. I don't know enough about the setting to run the next scene at all. On the other hand it's partly that lack of knowledge that makes Allaina roll!

New Yorker. I sent u a pm about 4 days ago and was just wondering if you had read it through? I know PMs' have become a lot easier to miss since the new site launched.