September 30, 2009 - Thursday

[pedo_sun]

[Today's temperatures are 77/63F (25/17C) - yeah, that's a drop of as much as ten degrees from yesterday. Looks like the weather is finally turning in Nevada.]

[Some of the locations have been changed or renovated in light of past and recent events. The zones have been cleaned of anything too dangerous, although they're still littered with trash and debris, so anyone thinking to check them out should still be careful. Damaged buildings from previous attacks have also been repaired, though they don't feel quite the same anymore...

Have you guys posted to the Activity Check for November? Get to it if you haven't yet. There's also the open training log and the find-a-partner dating log.

... Heheheheh. That last one sounds interesting. Wonder if there's a way for the sun to peek in on you guys...]

[Also, for those who don't know where they're going with the upcoming mission, please reply to the OOC Coordination Post and decide what you're going to do so the mods can put your names in!]

September 30 morning | video

[snipingyourfail]

[Ahem.]

[Azusa is sitting primly on her desk, with the communicator on the table in front of her and the minimalist lines of her office as her background. Observant viewers might notice that she's looking even more inscrutable than usual--she's had a trying couple of days. Colleagues being difficult and all that.]

The mission to Michigan will commence tomorrow. We need to know who's participating so we may draw up a list. Please say so in this post, and I will take down your names. As always, we prefer that volunteers be partnered, as resonance will boost your offense and defense and help protect you from grave injury, but we understand that there might be those of you who wish to help, but have been unable to find their own partners.

Therefore, we are also opening this mission to unpartnered guests, provided they are capable fighters. We will be distributing reinforced conventional weapons, and you will be armed appropriately for the duration of the mission.

[Her voice turns just the teeniest bit disapproving at the last, as if she isn't particularly happy about the inclusion of unpartnered (and vulnerable, in her mind) guests in the mission, but what can she do? There are times when men must step forward and risk breaking their necks for manly causes.

This next bit... she actually inclines her head subtly so that her glasses film over slightly, obscuring her eyes.]

Our scouts conducting surveillance operations of the Michigan factory have stumbled across a pile of corpses, of civilians kidnapped from two dozen other cities around the United States. All dead for about a week now, roughly beaten, spines removed. We have been attempting to retrieve them, but we can't get to all of them and risk alerting the enemy to our movements.

[pause] We intend to finish retrieval operations once we have cleared out the factory and eradicated any danger, and give the victims proper burials.


[OOC: Please post to here, as well! Replying to Azusa is more for IC purposes, while the OOC mission thread in the mod journal is for OOC record purposes. Thank you!]