GALLIPOLI BRIEFING

[agogemod]

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At 06:00, 24 hours before deployment and the day after the full information packet has been given to everyone, they’ll be called a large briefing room, where they will be given the following run down on the news for their upcoming deployment:

They will be posing as an Australian ( either the Australian Light Regiment or the Australian Light Horse ) relief force to the army that is currently stationed at Gallipoli. After the last attempt to break out of the trenches, forces are depleted. Due to the bad governance of the campaign over all, another group turning up unannounced will be confusing, but not exactly surprisingly so. The line COST soldiers are to say is that they got their coordinates wrong and turned up in the wrong place.

Their transport to the beaches will be on ships, as is standard, a little north of ANZAC Cove/Gaba Tepe. From there they will have to run the rest of the distance to the main campsite. Once arriving, they will follow on sight command, reporting to the Landing Officer with their directions that they are there to help relieve the front lines. COST advises to expect anything once there, but do their best to blend in with the local soldiers as much as they can. They can’t be sure what is going to happen post arrival, but at all costs, they are to lessen the losses on the ANZAC side as much as possible. If it becomes them and someone else, they are advised to volunteer for anything and everything that could be dangerous over other soldiers.

In short: Protect these soldiers, and ensure their survival.

Assembly and departure time for the next day will be at 0600 hours, and a special chronometer app is added to their BCEs to make sure everyone is synchronized to the local time on arrival.

For NEWBIES this marks your second week at base, yeouch, but at least you've had one solid week training to get comfortable in the guns, uniform, equipment everyone has.

After the briefing, training is called to a halt and for the next 24 hours they are allowed rest. There is no training between briefing and deployment the next day, and they are given decent meals and are allowed to be at their leisure in order to recuperate. It might be a good time to go over your kit, get comfortable in your uniform, make sure you're ready.

In addition to this: yes, they will be advised to develop and alias and adjust their appearance to fit in with the average image of soldiers. If your hair is too long? Probably cut it. If you have unusual hair colour, dye it. Is your name unusual? Change it to something that is more common to the people of the time. Something German is alright - Australia had a lot of German settlers in the mid 1800s but during this war? It’s likely to get a couple of looks. They will also be encouraged to pick a city or town to come from. These are the advised places:

Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
Perth
Adelaide
Gold Coast – Tweed Heads
Newcastle – Maitland
Central Coast
Sunshine Coast
Wollongong
Hobart
Geelong
Townsville
Cairns
Darwin
Toowoomba
Ballarat
Bendigo
Albury – Wodonga
Launceston
Mackay
Rockhampton
Bunbury
Bundaberg
Coffs Harbour
Melton
Wagga Wagga
Hervey Bay
Mildura – Wentworth
Shepparton – Mooroopna
Gladstone – Tannum Sands
Port Macquarie
Tamworth
Traralgon – Morwell
Orange
Geraldton
Bowral – Mittagong
Dubbo
Busselton
Bathurst
Nowra – Bomaderry
Warrnambool
Albany
Warragul – Drouin
Kalgoorlie – Boulder
Devonport
Lismore
Mount Gambier
Alice Springs

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Comments

Questions?

[agogemod]

We'll do the research for you!

[pointedlook]

Soooo will the BCE be helping with accents on top of the language? Arthur COULD fake an Aussie accent but it would be embarrassing for everyone involved

[agogemod]

If... you want...

The BCEs are top of the line technology, but they've also been stolen and jailbroken, so there are occasionally glitches and not all data packets download evenly. While command did issue an Australian accent data packet to each soldier, it may not have downloaded on all the BCEs, and even if it did, it might glitch out sometimes. Really, it's up to you; do whatever you think is the most fun / funniest / best for your character.

Also: British accents will work fine, though your character might stick out slightly more (what's a Brit doing mixing with the general soldiers?), it'll raise fewer eyebrows than an American.

[pointedlook]

How many eyebrows would be raised if someone were obviously and unapologetically American in their accent?

(Though to avoid any real strife I'll probably have the data packet download correctly thank you!!)

[agogemod]

Unapologetic Americans would be asked why they're here, how they got here, and more questions along those lines. Have fun coming up with an appropriate backstory!

Likewise, Regency agents are here undercover as well. You're making yourself an easy target for them by sticking out :x

[pointedlook]

GOOD TO KNOW...... sweats gently

thank u modchan!!

[heilt]

angie's gonna be saying as little as possible this event bc accents

[pointedlook]

but angie, a british accent would sound so proper

[heilt]

she's swiss!! i don't think she could do british

[pointedlook]

its ok the BCE will handle it for you ; ) thank god too......arthur's disgustingly american i hate it

[heilt]

but what if it doesn't :)

[pointedlook]

have fun being a. mute or b. faking it

rip

[canadese]

(I'm so sorry about this guy) Would there be any particular confrontation by NPCs or help offered to characters who, uh, both are very bad at blending in and also don't know enough to recognize that they aren't? Ax has never been good at playing human on his own and likely wouldn't adjust his behavior unless it's explicitly pointed out to him. I'm definitely willing to play him without a safety net but I just want to be aware of any resulting risks.

[agogemod]

No worries! This is a creative way to use the setting, so we totally encourage it.

You always have the option of having Ax recieve some help from characters in-game and handwaving it there.

That said, this is early days in this plot, which is planned to last two months. There will eventually be confrontations with Regency operatives, and you will have the option at that point to have your character be 'discovered' if you'd like; at that point, we will give you the full rundown on what that means for your character so you're fully aware of any and all consequences.

For right now, though, play your character as you think is best, ICly and to maximize your own fun with the setting! When it comes time to deal with Regency operatives possibly outing him, we'll leave it up to you, and make sure you know what you're getting him into.

As for non-Regency events... well, an odd soldier is hardly unheard of. People are more likely to think 'touched in the head' than 'alien'. They may even assume he's a little shell-shocked, which might actually give him some modicum of respect amongst the other soldiers-- here's a man who's seen some shit, and it's clearly changed him in the head a little, but he's still here, fighting. You can play with this angle however you'd like!

[bloodings]

what happens if a soldier gets exposed as being a woman? like if mordred's unconscious ass got hauled into the medic tent and searched for a wound or something.

[agogemod]

Nothing good! She'd be hushed up and shipped back to Cairo to be tried as quickly as possible. There she'd either face trial or just put somewhere she can't say anything.

However, if she isn't showing an obvious injury they won't do much. She gets a saving grace by just how under-equipped they really are to deal with the problems. If someone is just unconscious they are left in their uniform to see if they wake up, if they wake up then they've looked over again for further problems. If there is nothing, they are packed up and sent on their way.

No one bothers to address someone unless there is an open injury since its a lot of work and ultimate anything that is done in the CCS units is only really done to keep them alive in the short term rather than really save them. So Mordred might get a bit of a reputation for getting herself knocked out but her cover should be intact!

Unless she goes and gets herself openly shot and half dead of course, in which case we'll need to thread that out so let us know.

[bloodings]

that works!! she'd heal from any bullet wounds/etc quickly enough for it not to be an issue, so it'd just be potential unconsciousness she has to deal with. thanks!

[agogemod]

YEAH unless she's bleeding everyone they'll just dump her on the ground and be like 'yeah see if they wake up in twenty minutes and if not probably dead anyway so still not worth poking around at'

[neutronium]

Not a question, but here is a list of WWI slang If anyone is interested!