The Stellar War - Action Chatroom!

[Dem Taqat]

And so begins the harsh pain of war.

The fighting is intensifying as we move closer to the city. Our advance was stalled by a large group of the enemy, around 42 hostiles in all. It was a long and hard fight. Without our Armour, several of us wouldn’t even be here. One of us isn’t.

We have lost our first man; Private Jonathan L. Frederick. Freddy. He was shot twice, and died within moments of his second hit. Freddy had been with me since the initial landings, him and Jenkins the first men assigned to me for this operation. And now he’s gone. It was a horrible moment. One second he was providing cover fire for Longstern’s attack, the next he was gone. We finished them off with a vengeance after that. But as we all know, vengeance won’t bring back the dead.

We buried him near the battlefield, and paused for a moment to remember him. But the advance goes on. Tomorrow we will be far from this place, and he will have been left alone to his rest. We can only hope it will be undisturbed, in this foreign world we know not what sort of things might disrupt it. I do not relish the thought of writing a letter back to his family to tell them of this.

I had hoped that against such a backwards people, we might manage to make it through the war without losses. But that, it seems, is not the case. Nonetheless, Freddy will always be with us in our hearts, and we can be comforted in the knowledge that he has moved on to another plane of existence.

RIP, old friend.

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It's Personal.

DT
In Mourning

 

[JohannaK]

Another one! I'm on fire!!! "Yippee Ki-yay, Mother******!!!"

Entry 5

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!! I just had to write it. I’m so happy and relieved now! I know that it’s only the momentary rush of adrenaline and endorphins but, hey! I just accomplished a full-fledged badass massacre. With my broadsword. Ugh, that’s a spoiler! Anyway, today it wasn’t the best day for the team. Hormones don’t let me think clearly, but Freddy died and Featherston ... Well, I’ll explain that later.

First of all, I arrived where Crumpet, company, Maria and Featherston had just defeated a huge group of bandits. We just followed the road, and encountered some 40 Havenians armed with rifles and bayonets. They were all at one side of the road, so when Jenkins gave away our positions we had to take cover on the opposite side of it. We were at 50 meters from them, and everyone started firing.

I had been still thinking until the very same moment that a bullet nearly hit me. It just passed a few millimetres away from my ear, and I became enraged, so I snapshot one of them, killing him, and ran to them wielding my sword like madmen do in films. Suddenly, something exploded right in front of me, and a cloud of smoke suddenly hid half my body from the Havenians’ eyes.

I got shot then. There still were more than 25 guys there, so I snapshot and killed another one while yelling something with a maniac look in my eyes. At least I tried to make it look maniac, adrenaline was rushing through my veins and I was out of fury for everything I had gone through in my life. I chopped the neck of a Havenian, and continued with my orgy of fury, blood and death.

Luckily, my fellows covered me and killed a couple of the men with who I was engaged in combat. I got hit again, and after failing to shoot and chop another one, I managed to kill the second when parrying his attack. I got shot somhere there too, but the adrenaline rush wouldn’t let me notice. By then, all the rest were running away and took cover behind a log. Crumpet, Maria, Featherston and Zered, who showed up somewhere during my mad melee fight, took care of all except one, who threw something in the air before I killed him with an aimed shot.

Then, a Ranger appeared, and shot Freddy. He died and now Crumpet is depressed but... well, Zered shot him, and then another Ranger shot Featherston... (or so I think, the last moments were very confusing) and he went mad, calling for an artillery strike when Maria decided to approach the dead Ranger under a shell rain. Anyway, someone shot her and she was left there, wounded. The combat stopped.

Then, Featherston kicked her jaw, and she drew a knife... Maria punched Featherston for treating bad the prisoner, and Featherston aimed his submachinegun at her... Did I say that he sprayed bullets all over the zone where I was fighting back in the last phase of the massive fight? He did, although luckily he missed everything. Anyway, the Ranger tried to stab Featherston, I parried her attack and Featherston shot her... THROUGH ME.

I just stopped paying attention and wrote this entry; we’re moving soon and I just started feeling the pain from all my four wounds. Crumpet is punching Featherston for not caring about Freddy... poor Freddy. I think I’ll go punch Featherston too one of these days. Something is wrong with him, he isn’t just psychotic: he is a mad sociopath. And Jenkins is a mad para. Why do we need a para if we aren’t going airborne?

 

[Nukeknockout]

Eva Hootyen is now an NPC following negotiation with the GM & Havenian players.

Posting new character soon.

-Nukeknockout

 

[Dem Taqat]

What. Was. That?

Who. Was. He?

What. Is. Going. On?

We’ve encountered the impossible. We fought a man who was almost immune to our attacks. He wore no armour, dodged no shots, took no cover, but still kept attacking! He didn’t notice a bullet in the chest! We couldn’t slow him down with a bloody grenade! He refused to die. It was like some sort of third rate zombie horror movie, no matter how many times we shot him he just kept coming! It took more than 5 bullets and a grenade at close range to drop him!

And what he was doing... It was... Impossible! He was blasting us without weapons! It was like magic, but it can’t be! Magic doesn’t exist! There is no such thing as magic! The laws of physics are still in effect! There is no Magic! It cannot be possible! There has to be another explanation. There has to be.

The attack itself was surprisingly easy. Maria and Featherston got lost in the woods, and apparently ambushed, but even without those ground-pounders we were able to secure the city easily. Apparently most of their forces had met us in the open field; the city itself was a pathetically easy target. We were able to reach the enemy HQ unopposed, and according to the other units I’ve heard from they had similarly easy fights.

Zered was promoted to command a sniper team, and he provided cover as Longstern and my squad entered the building. The ground floor was empty, and there were only 7 hostiles on the upper floor. We took them all out easily after the first one. I don’t know what he did, or how he did it, but he took a lot of fire. Gave us a bit of a shock that, and personally I’d be quite happy to never see anything like it again.

I hope we don’t.

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Well that went a lot better, except for all the stuff that happened to the prisoners. But I don't know about that.

DT
Lord Crumpet!

 

[mechaerik]

Journal Entry 31

Seven. While Maria and I were attempting to get information from the prisoners, the others moved on ahead. When we went to follow them a bit later, we were ambushed. Seven of them.

They had been the ones who had fled last time; I knew we should have ensured none of them escaped. We came under enemy fire and both of us were quite badly wounded. Cursed trees didn't allow me to get effective artillery fire on them.

I was shot several times, and so was Maria in her powered armor (although you'd never know she was in it by the way she carried on about it). The male prisoner was shot in the head, and the female prisoner Astoria was hit in the shoulder. The male died almost immediately. One less weight to drag us down.

The round that hit the female prisoner Astoria somehow missed her major arteries, and she is alive, albeit somewhat shaken. It is fortunate she survived; she actually is somewhat useful to us. Our mission would be greatly helped by a native translator. A Malintzin to our Cortez.

Featherston grimaced and closed his journal.

 

[mechaerik]

Take Medic I, II, and III, and Willpower I with 7 of my 16SP.

 

[SamSniped]

Name- Jonathan Lawrence
Age- 25
Side- Haven
Gender- Male
Bio- Having once been a Federation soldier, Lawrence was dishonorably discharged after accidentally calling in fire support on a fellow squad. He escaped his execution, however, and made it to the Havenians, to whom he promised he would pledge his allegiance if he was forgiven of being a Federation soldier and had some men to control again. Now he fights for Haven, and For Augustus, his friend who he lost in the American Uprising to the federation for a false accusation of mass treason and 1st degree murder.

20 HP

0 SP
Command Class: Etharan Warden-Controls 2 Wardens with heavy armor, Orion and Iulius; and 2 Wardens without, Cornelia and Tim (the last 2 are from Presence 1)
Powers:
Rifle I (free) :Wounding Shot (does what the name says)
Willpower I: Mind over Matter (+10HP)
Presence I: Inspiring (1 SP worth of extra troops.)
Medic I: Diagnose (Heal 1 HP)

Equipment: Rifle

Also, when's the next mission?

 

[JohannaK]

You can't tell, when LH is the GM

 

[SamSniped]

Touché.

 

[Dem Taqat]

Haven Missions are usually Monday/Wednseday, with Fridays and weekends having missions depending on who's on and how LH is feeling.

DT

 

[Lighthearter]

Well, yeah. I'm closing SW due to problems managing the rules. I'll be using what I learned here in any future ACs like this.

In the meantime . . . SSD2 is up

-L