Rebels With a Cause

[Everblack]

Faction Name: The Deadman Cabal
Leader Name: Zoya Gorchakov (aka Nickname: Corpse Puppeteers)
Background Trait: Gangster
Starting Grid Coordinates: (03, 06)
Symbol:

Spoiler :

 

[Ahigin]

As a Russian political animal, I have a weird feeling joining this game, but oh, well... Sorry, I didn't have time to proof-read the background story.

Faction Name: Заводские [Zavodskiye] / Factory Boys
Leader Name: Сергей «Болт» Заболотин / Sergey “Bolt” Zabolotin
Background Trait: Industrial Worker
Starting Grid Coordinates: Дрожино / Drozhino (Location: 03, 10)

Background:

Spoiler :

I’m a steelmaker, and my mates from the foundry call me Seryozha the Bolt. They’re a wicked bunch, my mates, so my nickname is sort of a compliment. I got it for screwing up one hog of a man in an underground fight last winter. But that’s a long story, so let me start from the beginning…

Ugh, right. The beginning. My father, Makar Zabolotin, was sent as a convict to Chernorus under the Sovok [1] to build a foundry here, in a Working Camp 251. He never told me what for they put him into the colony, but I guess it doesn’t matter. Don’t forswear never becoming a rich man or a convict, as they say in Russia. After he’d served his sentence, he stayed there, in the same old barracks of the Camp 251 that the authorities now decided to call Drozhino. That’s where he met my mother. That’s where she gave birth to me.

For all his life, my father was giving something to other people. To my mother, he gave his heart, and she suck it dry like an old plum. To the authorities, he gave ten precious years of his young life. To his fellow countrymen he gave steel and cast iron, warm and heavy with his sweat. To the foundry, he gave his lungs, all full of grime and smoke. To me, he gave one valuable life lesson. Never cave in.

Since I was sixteen I have been working on the same factory that killed my father. I saw two countries collapse, first the Union, then the Federation. Our rotten world was crushing down, but we kept pouring molten iron in our casts like wicked devils. Our salaries grew smaller, while the people our labor fed grew richer and greedier. Even when they stopped paying us, we kept working, believing that the crisis will pass and our efforts will be repaid. Thirteen months… For thirteen damned months I kept working in credit, feeding my family from my wife’s food stamps and my mother’s trinket pension. Some of my friends started drinking, others joined local robbers and ended up in jail. My life’s end seemed predetermined like the flow of metal in a sprue. Until one day a man from Zelenogorsk approached me.

He was a sly demon, that man. Introduced himself as a manager for some underground cage fights they had down in Elektrozavodsk. Said he saw me crush a punching bag in a local boxing club. Said the money was good, and the fighters were soft and weak-willed.

The lad was right. The fights were bloody, but I’d seen worse in my brawls with the local shpana [2]. After the first victory, I could buy a new winter coat for my wife and a color TV for my mom. After three good beatings, I got myself a brand new pickup truck. My mates from the foundry learned about what I was doing, so soon I was helping them feed their families. Quickly, I was turning into a hero for these folks.

Until one day the Zelenogorsk man approached me again with a new offer. He told me I have to fight some heavyweight from Solnechniy, and that I had to get down in the second round. The money he promised were good. Better than I ever expected to earn.

But how…? How, I ask you, could I do this to my folks? The factory bunch lived in expectation of my fight. They promised to bring ten boxes of vodka to celebrate my victory with the whole workshop. Now you see that I didn’t have a choice.

My mate Mitya Koldobin knew some baryga [3] who promised to get some sturdy guns for the whole workshop crew. We hid them in my truck and drove to Zelenogorsk to my fight.

Nobody expected for me to win. Everyone had put their money on the hog that I had to let knock me out. Everyone but me and my factory boys.

When I was done with that hog in the cage, the bookmaker’s people tried to meet me on the street. They thought I was theirs to cross. My factory boys blew their guts to shreds. We left with black plastic bags full of money and with clear understanding that we’re not going to slave away at the factory anymore.

[*1 – a slang nickname for the Soviet government and society;
*2 – slang for small-time street thugs;
*3 – black market trader]

 

[TheLastJacobite]

Faction Name: Chernarus Free State
Leader Name: "Wild" Bill Walker
Background Trait: Mercenary
Starting Grid Coordinates: 01, 06
Background: One morning, former U.S. Marine Corps Colonel William "Wild Bill" Walker received a message from The Central Intelligence Agency the Archangel Michael telling him to go to Chernarus and create an American friendly regime Heaven on Earth. With this holy mission from the House Intelligence Committee Almighty God, Walker rounded up a number of former U.S. soldiers other Chosen and journeyed to Chernarus. Now, he and his American mercenaries missionaries work tirelessly to bring a prosperous, business-friendly God-fearing republic to the good people of Chernarus.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Name: Most Christian State of Chernarus and the Black Sea
Leader: Sasha Soborskiy
Background Trait: Priest
Location: (05,07)
Background: Sasha Soborskiy (believed by Western observers to be a pseudoynym) was, prior to the fall of the Russian Federation, just a particularly radical and fundamentalist Chernarussian Orthodox priest. However, to Soborskiy the fall of the Federation was a harbinger, a signal that the end of the world was approaching, and that the Second Coming of Christ was near. In order to bring about the Second Coming, the Antichrist must reign supreme over the earth, and Soborskiy saw it as the holy duty of all Christians to bring about the onslaught of Satan and unite Evil against Christianity in order to pave the way for the second coming. Splitting from the Orthodox Church to form his own sect and bringing adherents from across all Christian denominations in Chernarus together to incite the West - whose influence he saw as the purest form of Satan on Earth), Soborskiy's Most Christian State of Chernarus and the Black Sea has but one mission; either to destroy the West and bring about the Holy Rule of Christ on Earth, or to sacrifice their lives to their enemies to pave the way for the Ministry of the Antichrist.

Two beheadings of foreign aid workers and a suicide bombing in Chernogorsk later, the Most Christian State begins to attract Western attention as Chernarus collapses around them.

S'nami Bog!

boo I bet you can't even heal an orphan

 

[Ahigin]

boo I bet you can't even heal an orphan

Why heal'em, when you can kill'em?

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

Update 0: April, 2036

National News Reports​

ARMY ANNOUNCES SECURITY CHECKPOINTS ON WESTERN ROADS. According to the local labor unions, a militant force claiming to be fighting for a Romanov heir to the Russian throne has been attacking innocent truck drivers in western Chernarus. Truck drivers have found their livelihoods and assets stolen by these marauders who have sought to deprive them of their cargo. In response the government has announced the establishment of a series of heavily armed checkpoints along the western roads, at key intersections and bridges throughout the area. Army officials have announced that papers will be checked at each stop, and regular patrols and armored reinforcements will patrol the roads between the checkpoints. The unions have praised the general for these efforts to bring security and prevent the rise of lawlessness which has gripped other parts of the former Federation.

Faction Reports​

Brotherhood of the Ten Scorpions

Spoiler :

Scouts cleared area around base camp, no sign of any hostiles in area.

Spies infiltrated Drozhino, successfully identified possible target.

Turn Stat Changes
-No Changes

Opportunity: While we were unable to identify any weaknesses in the defenses of local military units in Drozhino, we did discover that the local police forces are isolated from military support. The police station is on the opposite side of town and could be struck with minimal interference from the local army garrison. They have a small stockpile of assault weapons and ammunition that we could appropriate, but the local population probably would not be happy about an attack on their law enforcement.

Cell 60

Spoiler :

Command console online – Input data.

Turn Stat Changes
-No Changes

Chernarus Free State

Spoiler :

Mobile Command Console Online – Input data.

Turn Stat Changes
-No Changes

Chernarus People’s Army

Spoiler :

Scouts successfully delivered food supplies to Pavlovo, receiving grateful support from the population. No local garrison, no opportunities found.

Area around base camp cleared, no sign of any hostiles.

Turn Stat Changes

Spoiler :

-1,000 Credits for construction
-300 Credits for arms purchases
-50 Credits, +5% Popularity in Pavlovo from food donations
+50 from farming revenues

Chernarusan Social Liberation Front

Spoiler :

-Mobile Command Console online – Input data.

Turn Stat Changes
-No Changes

Deadman Cabal

Spoiler :

-Mobile Command Console online – Input data.

Turn Stat Changes
-No changes

Factory Boys

Spoiler :

Mobile Command Console online – Input data.

Turn Stat Changes
-No changes

Greater Slavia Revival Movement

Spoiler :

Mobile Command Console online – Input data.

Turn Stat Changes
-No Changes

Holy Russian Empire of Chernarus

Spoiler :

Field team reported attempt to kidnap an American businessman. Unspotted bodyguard and escort team repulsed kidnapping attempt, heavy casualties for our team.

Vybor Scouting Reports:
-Local garrison has several hundred soldiers, with ample heavy equipment and armored vehicles. Commander has no family in area.
-There is no local police chief.
-Bank security scouted: see Opportunity

Checkpoints successfully established on road between Lopatino and Vybor, local truckers forced to pay cash for protection.

Turn Stat Changes

Spoiler :

+1 RPG Launcher from Royal Chernarus Militia gift
-6 Personnel, -6 Assault Rifles, -50 Ammunition, +5 Notoriety, -5% Fear in Vybor from failed kidnapping attempt
+100 Credits, +5 Notoriety, -5% Fear in Vybor and Lopatino from highway extortion

Opportunity: Our scouts have identified a weak link in the security of the Vybor bank. There are few guards and a large number of foreign safety deposit boxes with a variety of riches, including cash and security bonds. The bank is somewhat near to the town garrison, but scouts report response time is likely to be delayed in the streets. Plenty of credits could be achieved with a successful heist. On the other hand, hitting the bank will be bad for the local economy and will not exactly win us any popularity contests.

Jess’s Angels

Spoiler :

Mobile Command Console online – Input data

Turn Stat Changes
-No Changes

Liberal Army

Spoiler :

Mobile Command Console online – Input data

Turn Stat Changes
-No Changes

Most Christian State of Chernarus and the Black Sea:

Spoiler :

Mobile Command Console online – Input data

Turn Stat Changes
+8 Personnel from Stary Sobor volunteers

Royal Chernarus Militia

Spoiler :

Team sent to Pustoshka to kidnap businessman were unable to find any foreigners to kidnap, and were turned in by a loyalist citizen. All were arrested and weapons confiscated.

Scouting Reports:
-Oil Refinery and nearby fields guarded by full regiment, over five hundred with heavy weapons and tanks and helicopters. Facilities are managed by the military and overseer is unknown.
-No police chief, area under military law
-Contact made with local influential priest: See Opportunity

Roadblocks established at 0208 intersection. Constant problems with local truckers, most found to have been emptied by earlier roadblocks. No trucks captured, torn apart by machine gun fire.

Turn Stat Changes

Spoiler :

-750 Credits from arms purchases
-1 RPG Launcher from gift to Holy Russian Empire of Chernarus
-5 Personnel, -5 Assault Rifles, +1 Notoriety from arrested in Pustoshka
+80 Credits, -250 Ammunition, +10 Notoriety, -10% Fear in Pustoshka and Myshkino from roadblock

Opportunity: A local priest in Pustoshka has offered his support for our cause if we raze the local Tatar part of town. He suggests a direct attack probably would not even be opposed by the army, if we choose to do so. If we succeed we will likely get a popularity boost over what remained of the population of Pustoshka. On the other hand, we will not likely receive any material gains from this operation.

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Spoiler :

Scots rerrpotts that local beer in Dolina ish versy tasty. Four shtars.

Scouts survey 1107 factory, found new opportunity: See below.

Turn Stat Changes

Spoiler :

-1,000 Credits from construction
-5% Fear in Dolina, +4 Personnel from aggressive recruitment
+3 Personnel from Dolina volunteers

Opportunity: Scouts have surveyed the factory to the north of our encampment and Dolina. We have discovered that there are no guards beyond a few poorly armed private security. Hundreds of workers travel to the factory and within is plenty of cash used for payment of the workforce, not to mention fuel and trucks for transport of produced goods. We could easily hit the factory for all of the supplies it is worth, but this is likely to make us unpopular with the workforce out of Orlovets and Polana.

The Eye

Spoiler :

Mobile Command Console online – input data.

Turn Stat Changes
+8 Personnel from Krasnostav volunteers

OOC

Some of you may recognize some of the updating format from the XCOM game that I lost all my information to thanks to a technical mishap. I’m definitely aiming for a less detailed player reports beyond Opportunities and so forth that you receive. Details will be retained in the larger National News Reports as information provided by the State News Service.

Late edit: Added full article to the National New Report.

 

[Shadowbound]

Why kill 'em, when you can strap explosives to them and martyr them?

Allah akbar.

 

[Zappericus]

Because losing valuable manpower when facing an insanely larger force is bad.

but blowing up is cool nonetheless so idc, allahu akbar!

 

[Ahigin]

Stats in the beginning of the turn:

Spoiler :

Factory Boys: Ahigin
Leader: Sergey “Bolt” Zabolotin
Total Personnel: 50
Legitimacy: 0
Notoriety: 0
Funds: 2,000
Drugs: 0
Ammunition: 100
Fuel: 50
Bases:

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Headquarters: 03, 10 (Rural)
-Garrison: 50
-Arsenal: 50 Carbines, 4 Trucks
-Structures: None

Orders:

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Pasha, hold up pouring me another shot, we gotta moot something up here. Alright, fine, one more shot for your son, you smelly devil, and then let’s f***ing talk business, mates.

Budem! *chugs a triple shot*

Ugh, what a crappy moonshine. To hell with it. Listen up now.

The country’s in deep sh**. The president’s a f***ing crook, other politicians are dumbasses. The army just sits there, feeds the generals and protects their dacha’s [1]. The journalists are sluts, the police is corrupt, bratva [2] and shpana rule the place like they own us and our lives. Calm down, boys! Calm the f*** down, I’m still talking! Anyway, this sh**’s gotta stop. Nobody’s gotta help us fix our lives. The factory owners? These pigs owe us a year worth of salary. The bookmakers? After our heist the pit fights are off limits for me, and you know it. Now, bratishki [3], the game rules gotta change, and change big. The Factory Boys gotta be a power on its own.

Zhmyh, shut up! What do you mean, “what do I suggest?” We’ve got the trucks, we’ve got the muscle, we’ve got some new barrels. See what I mean, bro? First of all, you, Zhmyh, take a couple of dozen mates from the foundry and a couple of trucks with… I dunno… a dozen barrels and some knives or hatchets… and start patrolling Drozhino at night. Know what I mean? Robbers and muggers and thugs think they are f***ing kings here. Rapists, too. The police? They don’t care. They just protect those who pay them. The officials, right. So, show the shpana who really owns this town. Make sure the streets are safe to walk at night. Break some bones, maybe shoot some tw**s in their knees, y’know. Don’t be too brutal, but don’t be too soft either. Beat some info about local drug dealers from them, while you’re at it. You got this? And don’t mess with the police just yet. I mean, you know what I’m sayin’. Those wankers have too much of a backup.

Now, that’s not all, boys. Let’s get one more round of shots and talk over another biz. *chugs another triple shot* I heard some nutjobs are robbing truck drivers near Vybor and Lopatino. You heard it too, Nikitos? Yeah, some monarchist idiots. Anyway, the people are crazy nowadays. You, Nikitos, take some guys… I dunno, five or six young ones, with plenty of free time… yeah, with carbines and sh**… Take a little camping trip to the Kurgan hill. Just hang out there like tourists or hunters or something, and check if there’s any suspicious activity on the Pogorevka-Zelenogorsk road. Don’t intervene, you hear me? Just observe, like f***ing boyscouts. Get a cell phone with good connection, mate. Call me anytime if you see something, got it?

Alright, the last one. Vasilyich, you, come here. You’re the oldest one. You’ve been working at the foundry for thirty years, right? Every f***ing rat knows you there. Even the managers respect you. Try to sniff out if there’s anything valuable in the warehouse or the garage and how they’re guarded. Ideally, figure out where the boss keeps his money. I mean, the world’s a small town and is full of rumors, right? Thank you, old man.

That’s it, mates. Pasha, let’s get another round and call it a night.

[*1 – suburban house or villa;
*2 – lit. “confraternity,” or mafia;
*3 – little brothers]

Orders summary:

Spoiler :

- 20 people with 10 carbines and cold weapons on 2 trucks patrol Drozhino against local small-time crime. They don’t engage in conflicts with local police and try to beat some information about local drug dealing network from the thugs;

- 6 people with 6 carbines camp on the Kurgan hill north of Drozhino and scout the Zelenogorsk-Pogorevka road for any strange activities. Don’t engage in any conflict;

- gather as much information about the factory management, valuables, and finances. They owe us a lot of money for our labor, and we should prepare for a heist. No aggressive actions should be undertaken.

 

[Omega124]

Spoiler Cell 60 Orders :

Cell 60: Omega124
Leader: Sofyia Umarova
Total Personnel: 100
Legitimacy: 0
Notoriety: 0
Funds: 2,000
Drugs: 0
Ammunition: 100
Fuel: 0
Bases:

Send 5 women to the docks in 13,05, to scout any potential opportunities that might be there. In particular, see if there might be any good shipments that we could plan on "borrowing" for the cause.

Send 15 more followers to establish a one-off series of women's self-defence classes, obstinately to protect the fairer sex against the increasing lawlessness in the land. Use the oppritunity to try to evaulate dedicsated, strong feminists, and actively attempt to recruit them into the cause.

Otherwise, creep low and hang a while. We don't want to attract undue attention to ourselves from the local law enforcment just yet

 

[Ahigin]

Spoiler :

"Zhmyh, it's f***ing six in the morning! The hell is this rubbish?"
"This rubbish, Seryozha, is called radio."
"Turn it down. Don't you ever have a hangover?"
"Turn THIS down? Naw, that's some real sh**, man. A pirate station. Just listen to the words..."
https://youtu.be/4FmpVjCk38s

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Jess’s Angels:

Spoiler :

Total Personnel: 50
Legitimacy: 0
Notoriety: 0
Funds: 2,000
Drugs: 0
Ammunition: 100
Fuel: 25
Bases:

Spoiler :

Headquarters: Base Location 06, 03 (Rural)
-Garrison: 50
-Arsenal: 50 Carbines, 1 Light Helicopter
-Structures: None

Orders:

Spoiler :

Use the Light Helicopter to scout a safe route from headquarters to Grishino, then to the Airport.

Build 1 Farm.

Build 2 Trucks.

Once we have the route to town scouted out, use the trucks to begin shipping food and medical supplies down to Grishino, to distribute to those in need/displaced by . The food/medical supplies should come either from our farm, or be purchased. Allocate 250 funds to that purpose. Accompanying the convoys will be 20 people armed with Carbines.

If we come across small bandit bands, which surely roam the countryside, try to take them by suprise and take their stuff.

 

[christos200]

Free Press​

Welcome to "Free Press"! "Free Press" is an online blog reporting the activities of the Liberal Army of Chernarus. Among other info, here is an interview given to us by the leader of the Movement, Alexander Matviyenko.

- Alexander Matviyenko​

James Fox (J): Thank you Mr. Alexander for accepting our invitation.

Alexander Matviyenko (A): I should be the one thanking you for giving voice to the free people of Chernarus.

J: My first question is about you as a person. You certainly do not look like a guerrilla fighter.

A: (laughter) Indeed. I am a politician after all, not a soldier. And indeed most of our members are university students, young people and even a few businessmen. Only three of our members have been soldiers. Of course, this does not mean that our members have not undertaken military training during those few months. But I wish to insist on the fact that we are educated people and that I am a politician, not some warlord who wishes to take over the country and make it his own feud. We have our solutions to the country's problems which are democratic and capitalist.

J: Indeed. In fact, you have even been accused by some political opponents of being a neoliberal. So, I have to wonder how a liberal (if not neoliberal) movement can take hold in a society like Chernarus?

A: I am a classical liberal and democrat. And the ideas of democracy and liberalism appeal to all people: from the workers and farmers who want individual liberties to the businessmen and middle class who want a free market and the university students who want to model the new Chernarus after the Western World. That's why the West should intervene on our behalf: we represent what it stands for; Democracy and Free Market.

J: Although it is early to say so, what would you do in case you took power?

A: Firstly, stabilize the economy through privatizations, simplification of the taxation system, less taxes and cuts in state spending, especially subsidies going to corrupt state officials. Secondly, formation of a national army and police to restore law and order to the nation. Third, entrance in the UN and cooperation with the EU and US. Once those goals are completed, after two or three years I guess, free elections will be held.

J: Thank you for this interesting interview. Good luck in your struggle!

 

[gay_Aleks]

It's just "s nami bog". No apostrophe nonsense allowed in the Cyrillic languages, unlike certain other languages.

 

[Everblack]

Deadman Cabal

Spoiler :

Leader: Zoya Gorchakov
Total Personnel: 50
Legitimacy: 0
Notoriety: 0
Funds: 2,000
Drugs: 0 (+20)
Ammunition: 100
Fuel: 0

Order:

Spoiler :

-Send a group of 5 unarmed thugs to go and scout out Vybor to see if their isn't any criminal enterprise we can pursue so as to set up in the town when drug busy start up.

- Send another group of 10 unarmed thugs to Lopatino.

- Send a third group of 5 unarmed to check on the western checkpoint to see if their any corrupted individuals willing to take bribes for passages

Buy Order:

Spoiler :

2 Trucks 500 Credit
1 Farm (cover for our drug lab) 1,000

 

[Shadowbound]

Spoiler :

Orders for the Brotherhood of Ten Scorpions

Continue to scout surrounding villages, dispatching unarmed two-man teams to Pogorevka, Rogovo, and Pulkovo.

Continue to patrol Green Mountain with three-man teams armed with Assault Rifles.

Investigate the radio transmitter at the top of Green Mountain.

 

[Ahigin]

It's s'nami bog you heathen.

Also I can't remember if that's correct Russian or not coz my Russian is super shaky.

1. What Tolni said.
2. I think Shadowbound has an Islamist faction, so "s nami Bog" is probably not applicable to him. If he chooses to switch from Arabic to Russian, he may say "Allakh velik" - "Allah is great".

 

[Omega124]

I really hope CFC doesn't get put on a watchlist for this.

If Nedim hasn't put us on a watchlist, nothing will.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

Remember, the positive side of being watched by the government: It's like having an alarm system without any of the cost!

 

[Ahigin]

Remember, the positive side of being watched by the government: It's like having an alarm system without any of the cost!

An alarm system that's plotting to kill you. Pretty much like my cats.