GALLIPOLI BRIEFING: 2

[agogemod]

GALLIPOLI: THINGS GET WORSE

the shells start falling

TIMELINE & PLOTTING

Due to the nature of RP and events passing, our timeline for this mission is a little...wonky. Nothing too serious; we're still going to give you guys lots of time to plan and plot, but just for the clarification: characters arrived over the course of the last week of December (depending when you were accepted in, etc!) and the below events on the night of January 8th.

A log will be following soon, but we wanted to give you guys some time to ask some immediate questions with the plot, or anything else that might come to mind, etc so here is a brief overview as well as a place to ask any further questions you might have!

TRENCH DAYS

Despite the general conditions of Trench life, there is a real sense of merriment come New Year's Eve in the trenches and onwards; everyone is keenly aware that they might be going home very soon. Especially when everyone is given confirmation of a final date: by January 9th, everyone should be evacuated from the Peninsula onto the navy ships that are waiting for them in the bay.

The retreat begins in the days leading up to the final date, except for what is called the Rear Guard. It is a strict volunteer-only group. All characters will receive an order from Grothia: they are to sign up to the rear guard. Granted, they are only a small part; the rear guard is roughly 500 men per front line Trenches, so they're stationed with roughly 1000 men in their section of Lone Pine, over Trenches and tunnelling that covers roughly 1 kilometre.

The orders on the ground are very straightforward: keep up the appearance of the war. That means every so often, fire off a volley, do rounds of machine gun fire, and/or fire off shells. Cheer loudly like there are quite a few men still present.

SHELL, SHRAPNEL AND GUNFIRE

This all changes in the later hours of the 8th and the early hours of the 9th. The bombing will begin on the location of the characters in Lone Pine.

In particular, the characters will notice that it focuses on either side of their position and begins to direct inwards. It's time to run for cover and get as many men as possible into the tunnels. Find ways to use your powers discreetly if they're available, regroup to come up with plans to save as many of the ground soldiers per the overall mission goals as is possible from the barrage of mortar fire.

If you have threads where characters work together to save lives, please drop them into the subheader here. If you have a question about an idea you might have, post it here!

INTO THE DARK

Characters will have a few hours hiding in the tunnels before they can finally emerge safely. In the Tunnels they will find quite a few interesting things: namely in this section, in particular, the tunnels go on well into a No Man's Land in a way that isn't seen in other parts of the Trenches. In here there are a few interesting things to discover, for those willing to look.

However, the tunnels aren't exactly...secure. There is a lot of gear left from previous activity here. If inquired after, the local soldiers will tell you that it was from the first and last major attempt to break out and they used them to mount a surprise attack on the Turks.

They can wander pretty far into the tunnels, and there are all sorts of interesting things to find there. Interested in your character finding something? Ask here.

WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS

After a few hours, the bombing finally stops. Characters will be able to emerge through the rubble and come out into the trenches - to face two things:

Huge sections of the trenches they previously resided in are completely destroyed. Different from cleaning up after the mudslide, the ground itself has just been torn apart. The supplies of food and ammunition have either been destroyed or left strewn about across the ground, or perhaps buried.

Secondly: it seems in those few hours where everyone else had to run and hide, the rest of the rear guard that formed the Trenches is gone. For whatever reason, it seems they decided to get the hell out, headed after the rest of the army and towards the ships.

Amongst the items characters can retrieve from the wreckage, however, are:

• Maps of the trenches with key locations mapped out.
  
• A crate of water containers. (40 ltrs of water)
  
• A crate of 40 tins of cheese.
  
• 300 rounds of ammunition.

As well as an assortment of weaponry, Lee-Enfields, the Machine Guns and the Mortars that can be retrieved, though the ammunition for that is even scarcer.

TOWARDS THE SHADOWS

Should characters strike out too far on their own, they'll quickly become aware of the problem.

That's right, the Regency have arrived. Though they'll be hanging back and not engaging for now, this marks the first time characters have seen them. They're distinguished by a very distinct mask and uniform, but little else can be told about them at this time:

They'll be hard to attack due to their own protections, but they're there. Watching.

Commander Grothia will give explicit orders not to engage; COST is in no position to give away their identities and their first priority remains the lives of the retreating soldiers.

NAV. NETWORK LOGS OOC MEMES PLURK

Comments

ASK ME A QUESTION.

[agogemod]

[trample]

is the regency made of furries

[neutronium]

*waves hand*

Can we engage with the Regency? Aka talk to them, ask about their amazing clothing, where one might gain a nice pair of boots like that, beg them to give them all that nice black clothing and take them on Hux needs his black clothing fix he's desperate help him help him Regency you're his only hope?

[verumdicit]

I'm interested in Meliorn finding some stuff in the tunnels!

[ergosphere]

Kylo would also be interested in approaching the Regency. This would be independent of Hux, because they're not really... friends right now...

[northerndragon]

Also interested in having Jon find something in the tunnels!

Unless it's a furry mascot suit. That's for Eren.

[cutlery]

Sebastian will definitely be going into the tunnels to poke around, so if he can find something, that'd be rad! Even if it's a furry suit. it'll just be a solid "well ok" and leaving it though

[widow_of_the_crag]

I'd love for Jeyne to find some stuff in the tunnels. Anything is good!

Re: ASK ME A QUESTION.

[chariotry]

What can Achilles mordred sieg and Chiron find if they work as a ghost team

[dorzalta]

So if Dany's gonna haunt those tunnels with her spider monster, what will she find? :>

[canadese]

I am interested in Ax finding things! Bonus if it matters: he can turn into a mole.

Also, a similar question to the ones I asked when Ax first showed up: what would happen if he attempted to spy on the Regency despite COST's orders by, say, discreetly morphing fly and doing the espionage thing?

[mylawn]

Hello yes Scavengers R Us™

[ryuji]

i'm probably going to have ryuji weaving in and out of the metaverse to sneak around, with some unintended exit points. i imagine that, since the metaverse takes the shape of what people think the world is like, that the tunnels are crazier, deeper, and somehow all connected, even though they might not be in reality. if that's the case, are there any interesting things that he and whoever he's traveling with would come across? assuming he doesn't somehow crit fail and come out in pure earth and suffocate

[handsomefoil]

Henry is a total snoop I would love to have him find anything in the tunnels too o/

[raisedbybirds]

y can't metroid crawl

Just kidding, she can crawl through tunnels just fine; what might she find?

[trample]

okay LILY
could eren find an officer's sword on a body somewhere? Or even just lying around? I've been thinking he'd be most comfortable with a sword and gun since that's basically what he's worked with all his life but I'd like to ask for a little more info on equipment and such because whynot

[courtintrigue]

Exploring's better than sitting around and waiting. What can Morrigan find in the tunnels?

[whitehair]

Heine will probably go wandering around in the tunnels. What can he find?? o/

[garbagepilot]

How can you expect the scavenger to go in and NOT scavenge? I even have an icon for it...

What is there for Rey to find?

[chariotry]

Hello! Achilles and Heine are currently going to spy on the Regency operatives. I imagine they won't be able to get too close, but what will they see them doing?

[crownless]

he regularly dumpster dives for clothes, of course travis will be scavenging for some shit in the tunnels. what's he gonna find, mods?!

TELL ME NO LIES.

[agogemod]

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[garbagepilot]

Characters: Rey (garbagepilot) & Chiron (horsepowered) ; Henry (handsomefoil) ; Heine (whitehair)
Link: here!
Action: Rey and friends(?) dragging soldiers out of battlefields. She will continue to do this until stopped because of course she will.

PLOTTING (general + servants)

[bloodings]

get in here you guys.

servants: where is everyone on their mana situation? are we gonna have any collapsing/passing out happening here, etc. i know everyone's probably too knackered by now to use too many powers and stuff, which is why...

scouting/exploring seems like a good idea. they can go into spirit form and phase through blockages/walls/etc, and it obviously uses less mana. mordred will be doing this in the tunnels, so if anyone wants to come with her hmu, servants or not.

[gerechtigkeit]

I hate phone tagging lmao BUT

Siegfried is starting to feel the lack of mana pretty badly- even with what Achilles gave him, it’s still not enough. Also Siegfried is probably gonna be a Big Damn Hero(TM) and use his immortality to at least be useful somewhere, which is gonna make it drain faster.

If Mordred tells him of the idea, he’d be willing! It’d make it easier for him and helping other people is important, so.

[verumdicit]

I'm still trying to get Meliorn out there and this seems like a perfect chance - He's fairly small, just 5'8", but I'd love for him to scramble to the tunnels and literally pick someone up and bring them to safety, or at least have someone witness he's slightly above average in strength, or possibly help him rescue some poor sod.

[twojedisticks]

Jaina has telekinesis, and could move along with him to try providing cover as Meliorn does cool things.

PLOTTING

[canadese]

I typed that as potting originally ANYWAY

I have been looking for an opportunity to poke holes in his "cover" (not that it needs to help) for a while AND SO: if anyone is interested in being the first to discover that Ax is, if not outright a telepathic alien centaur, at least capable of shapeshifting, being nearby for a major shrapnel injury would be the easiest way (because he'd rather morph to heal himself than trust early 20th century human medicine)!

Also, he'll definitely be tunnel exploring and possibly turning into a mole to do so, so that's another opportunity there. Other than that I would also love a buddy to possibly just get up to shenanigans and attempt to spy on the Regency in defiance of COST orders, and all the consequences that might come from that.