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GALLIPOLI BRIEFING: 2
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.
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.
TELL ME NO LIES.
Link: Proof of purchase!
Action: Describe what your characters did or are doing.
no subject
Link: here!
Action: Rey and friends(?) dragging soldiers out of battlefields. She will continue to do this until stopped because of course she will.
no subject
Link: here
Action: savin some dudes and merlin gets hit by a rock
hi I'm dumb and posted this in the wrong place at first
Link: here
Action: Guiding soldiers into tunnels following the most recent attacks!
I GOT US, PEL
Link: here
Action: hei reluctantly helps m save dying soldiers after making a big fuss about how dumb it is to save dying soldiers, aka the power of friendship... so embarrssing... one whole soldier is being rescued i'm dying, i had to add this on here