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Strange things did happen here No stranger would it be
Who| All those on the breakout mission and all those being made to fight against them.
What| The liberation of District 6.
Where| District 6.
When| This week.
Warnings/Notes| War, violence, death. Please warn for more in headers.
District Six stretches out for miles, a wide expanse of red and brown dirt with only the slightest hint of mountains in the distance. The air is starchy and arid, sucking the moisture right out of the eyes and mouth. The sun pummels down. Everything about the District screams of harshness, of elements cruel in their intensity and exposure being a serious concern. Combatants are advised to hydrate and try to avoid heatstroke in the temperatures rising above a hundred and fifteen fahrenheit.
People in District Six are too poor to consider their safety, already risking it every day in their jobs at the auto manufacturer with huge under-kept machines and toxic exhaust as they build cars and hovercrafts. Though they know they’re the epicenter of another attack, they go back to their assemblylines, under the watchful and paranoid eyes of Capitolite foremen. There’s an anxious air about the place. People drop their wrenches sometimes and make their screws extra tight, as if fortifying the vehicles against the coming storm.
They’ve been told that there are Rebels attacking, and so the residents here have diligently placed landmines throughout the desert; the wind has already erased all traces of where they are. Other than that, there are machine guns at each factory, aimed towards anyone - anyone - who approaches.
Between that, and subservience, there's not much in the way of propoganda. Most of what's done are the chalk drawings of children. A watch. A coin being flipped. A very small arrow with flame.
Vultures circle high overhead.
What| The liberation of District 6.
Where| District 6.
When| This week.
Warnings/Notes| War, violence, death. Please warn for more in headers.
District Six stretches out for miles, a wide expanse of red and brown dirt with only the slightest hint of mountains in the distance. The air is starchy and arid, sucking the moisture right out of the eyes and mouth. The sun pummels down. Everything about the District screams of harshness, of elements cruel in their intensity and exposure being a serious concern. Combatants are advised to hydrate and try to avoid heatstroke in the temperatures rising above a hundred and fifteen fahrenheit.
People in District Six are too poor to consider their safety, already risking it every day in their jobs at the auto manufacturer with huge under-kept machines and toxic exhaust as they build cars and hovercrafts. Though they know they’re the epicenter of another attack, they go back to their assemblylines, under the watchful and paranoid eyes of Capitolite foremen. There’s an anxious air about the place. People drop their wrenches sometimes and make their screws extra tight, as if fortifying the vehicles against the coming storm.
They’ve been told that there are Rebels attacking, and so the residents here have diligently placed landmines throughout the desert; the wind has already erased all traces of where they are. Other than that, there are machine guns at each factory, aimed towards anyone - anyone - who approaches.
Between that, and subservience, there's not much in the way of propoganda. Most of what's done are the chalk drawings of children. A watch. A coin being flipped. A very small arrow with flame.
Vultures circle high overhead.
Battlefield
The factories, by contrast, are busy and crowded, a complete opposite to the desolate and majestic works of earth nearby. The air is busy with the sound of industry. Workers scurry around, covered in motor oil and grease, inside machines that seem almost tomblike. They give a wide berth to the soldiers, hiding under assembly lines and behind models of hovercraft vehicles, under desks and behind machines. They're nothing but potential collateral damage.
Mad Capitol: Rebel Road
The goal, for the Rebels, is to get into one of the five major factories in the region and discover which of them is holding the computer drive with the information regarding the Capitol city’s booby traps, and then to take that information back to District Thirteen. Naturally, the Capitol objective is to thwart that at all costs. The workers in each factory are more amenable to the Capitol, not because of any ideological reason but because the Capitol Citizen foremen are literally the only ones allowed to carry weapons. They’re coerced into aiding the Capitol over the Rebels.
The factories themselves are a rife area for combat, with tools that could become weapons easily available (screwdrivers, wrenches, fire extinguishers) and worse, machinery that could become deadly at an instant. These assembly lines become battlegrounds as Rebels and Capitol combatants meet in search of this fabled thumb drive, which is hidden somewhere in someone’s desk.
OTA with a closed prompt for Sandy
Seeing a friend back in the Capitol's army is always bittersweet. At least there's the confirmation that she's alive and (relatively) well, but there's also the knowledge that her life isn't going to be too fun here. Still, if she has to be in the Capitol, Firo's glad to be paired with Sandy for the mission. That way he can keep an eye on her and he's with someone he knows.
Firo turns back to the materials he's been given to guide the car. He's not sure where anyone got the idea that he could be good at giving directions, but he figures it's more likely that they just didn't want him working with explosives. He glances over at Sandy. "You got this under control?"
He hasn't ridden too often in cars--much less a car like this--so it's an honest question. Then again, he wouldn't be able to help her at all if she didn't have it under control, so perhaps he shouldn't have asked.
Factory | open
The machines remind Firo just a little of the saw that caused his demise back a few Districts ago. Both the death itself and his friend's tears after it; the pain of the saw biting through him and the pain that he caused to someone close. He tries to shut both out of his mind, with little success. It's only when he hears movement over the cacophony of the factory that he's fully brought to the present. He whirls around, knife ready.
Are you a friend or an enemy?
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Instead this new person who moved with the sort of smooth fearless grace Sandy never climbed inside and adjusted the seat so her tiny body could reach the pedals.
Firo might just have to take that as a yes. She's waiting, starring blankly ahead for someone to join her. Anyone will do she has her mission.
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Teasing, he continues, "You know, I thought we were friends. That's some way to say hi."
Come on, just laugh or something, buddy. He wonders if it's the tension of their mission and despair at being back at the Capitol. That would be enough to make anyone a bit crabby, so he hopes he can lighten the mood somehow.
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"We are friends. Hello."
So much for that. The vehicle lurched forward with a start and her little hands fumbled with the controls for a moment before she smoothed out and began rolling along the road towards their battle slowly picking up speed.
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What did the Capitol do to her? ...Did District 13 do something to her? Firo couldn't imagine they'd be very kind to an enemy soldier.
His voice firm, he nodded, trying not to let his discomfort show. "Yeah, we are." He held the map and their directions. He wasn't really focused on them, but it was a useful distraction as he wracked his brain for a possible way to get through to her. "Looks like there's a rough patch ahead, so be careful."
"In the meantime, you wanna tell me what's goin' on with you?"
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"I've been training every day." She reported back and then tried to think what else there could be worth saying.
"Preparing to do battle with the terrorists who are trying to ruin everything."
Well that wasn't what she wanted to say, but it's what came out. She'd blush if she was able but instead the voice that was hers but using words that weren't added "And you?"
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"Me? Just listenin' to my friends not answer the questions I ask."
He wonders if he should let it slide--chalk it up to nerves or something--but he doesn't. "I meant what's wrong, not what you've been doin'. You're actin' weird."
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Roland stands a little ways back, waiting for Firo to notice him. Once he does Roland moves closer, his pace even and unhurried. He's got his hand on the butt of his gun, and he's keeping it there. Pointless, he's been fast enough on the draw since he was a boy that it doesn't matter where his hand is, and if Alain were here he'd know the gesture for the oddity that it is.
Doesn't matter. Alain isn't here.
"Listen to your surroundings, Firo. Some of these rebels are as dangerous as me. Where've you searched?"
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Oh god, any friend but this one right now. He’s sure that if they were in this place—though they’re not, and Firo’s grateful for that—any of the Martillo capos could watch him die. They wouldn’t like it and they’d do anything to prevent it, but it is a thing that they’re all prepared for. He’s sure Roland’s no stranger to death either, but after seeing how he reacted the first time Firo died, Firo knows he doesn’t want to put him through that again.
He adjusts his grip on his knife, nodding quickly. “Right. Sorry. I wasn’t—“ Trying to be reckless. He really wasn’t, but he supposes they should focus on business first, so he stops there.
Indicating the hall back where he came, he replies, “Just this way so far. Didn’t find anything. How about you?”
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He pauses to scan as much as he can of the stairs and their surroundings before moving to start down.
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It's a relief, being in the presence of a friend who, Roland's fairly sure, can not see something which has happened to Roland fewer times than he'd need all his flesh and blood fingers to count on. He starts down, and the butt of his gun stays too close to his hand.
The mission. Think on that. "This machine we're looking for. Have you seen one like it? I'm fairly sure the soldiers thought we all knew already what to look for."
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It's nowhere near quiet or peaceful, but he doesn't yet see any enemies on the factory floor ahead of them. He keeps moving.
"Never in my life. I've got no idea what they were talkin' about." But at least Roland's here. Roland's pretty good at most things. ...Except things that have to do with technology. Firo's relief immediately evaporates as he follows that train of thought. It's a good thing they both probably don't care much about this mission, he reflects, trying not to laugh.
"...And I'm gonna guess you know just as much about it as I do?"
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Please do not share that train of thought with Firo, Roland
but doesn't firo want to have a THIS ISNT GAY freakout while pinned down by gunfire
He never wants to have it and this is probably the single worst time
now i'm almost sad roland didn't say it
he's a resourceful man; he'll find time in the future to say weird stuff like that
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And possibly your next comment can end this thread, or maybe mine after that?
Yeah, I think that's good!
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with Laia
"You, do you know how to fire this? Because we have less than five seconds before I turn this thing on and haul ass," Cora certainly hasn't lost his brand of people skills, that's for sure. More and more he wished he was working for Coin, especially with his own participation in whatever Jet Link has planned. But for now, appearances.
He's counting down the seconds as he gets the machine running, "Five, four, three, an answer NOW, two, one.."
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Irritable teammates, though? Irritable teammates are the same everywhere. "YES I know how to fire this! Cram it sideways and get this thing rolling!" Her people skills compliment his quite nicely. She's already been able to make sense of the firing mechanisms, and has a feel for how to aim... though she knows it's going to take a shot or two before she's really certain that she can blow the hell out of whatever they're going to need to blow the hell out of.
"You'd better know how to drive this!"
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Three opponents seemed to spawn out of the environment, but Leo knows that if they get to the target, the Capitol will lose and more Districts suffer for their failures. So yes, he might be a bit...brash in sideswiping one of them to the right but the ends justify the means.
"Get to the one on the left!" Because this was turning into a lethal instance of bumper cars for Leonidas.
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...damn it, he just purposely crashed into something, didn't he?
"On it!" But Laia will reserve her complaints for later, too. She grits her teeth, takes aim with the unfamiliar controls as best she can at a spot that should hit the general area of the approaching vehicle, and launches the explosive. Which ends up being not a dead-on strike like she'd have preferred, but it blows out the other vehicle's wheel, so that's got to count for something. "There's still one on our six! Get some distance on it and I'll take it out!"
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Leo slammed his foot on the pedal and switched gears, letting the car roar with life and energy. It was enough to jolt the chassis into the telltale skip but this vehicle was getting to the finish line and slaughtering everything in sight.
"Far enough for ya, lady!?"
Hope Off The Ground
The Rebel hovercraft is in worst shape from first appearances, but most of the damage is superficial. The landing gear has been destroyed, and black chars streak the exterior. The hovercraft is nose-to-the-ground like a grazing animal, and the pilot is bleeding heavily. He needs immediate medical care, and the actual engines that propel the craft will need to be fixed by hand. The materials are heavy, and the effort will take coordination.
The Capitol hovercraft appears fine, but the shockwave from the explosive knocked out all the electronics and reduced the pilot to unconsciousness. He’ll need immediate medical care to survive, if anyone cares about saving him over the more pressing concern of fixing the control panel. It’ll take cooperation to get the damn thing up and running again.
On the Capitol hovercraft
"You! Get the medic kit." She points to where the duffel with the basics is stashed beneath the seats. "Hurry."
Results
(frozen comment) Mad Capitol: Rebel Road
(frozen comment) Hope Off The Ground