briefing ♔ and when the darkness comes let it inside you

[wynn]

♬ Truth - Alexander

WHO || Wynn, Sydney, Sylar, Drax, Frankie, Allison [Closed]
WHAT || Antarctica Mission Briefing
WHERE || Knights HQ, the briefing room
WHEN || April 9th, shortly before 5pm [back dated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

Just as before, accessing the secret room where the Round Table is housed requires using the Knight's keycard to open the glass case beside the mural of the War in Heaven, located across from the ballroom entrance. Using the fire extinguisher as a lever to activate the "door" mechanism reveals the long torch-lit hall plastered in artwork depicting the Knight's history. The tenants of the Knighthood hang large and foreboding over the doors at the end of the hall, which stand open to reveal the brightly lit Round Table, and the majestic crystalline dragon statue presiding over it.

Come in, find a seat, meet your teammates if you haven't already. Sydney is already here when you arrive.

Comments

[thetokenaussie]

[Heard as she walks in;] I'm hanging up now Ma. Hanging up. Hanging - and you've stopped listening to me. Okay - love you - bye.

[Frankie stands on the middle of the room, phone in one hand, coffee in the other, just catching the end of Drax's words as she hangs up and slides into a seat.]

I don't know. [Tone dry.] Wouldn't mind shooting a few things myself. [Possibly her phone. Or whoever gave her Mum her cell phone number.]

[watchmaker]

We're already onto violence? [sylar just strolls in like he owns the place, takes a seat in a chair, and leans back so that his boots are on the table. he's like one of those cats that thinks every room in the house is their room, ok. so basically every cat. sylar is a cat.]

[superswank]

I think we've avoided any heavy casualties so far.

[watchmaker]

Gee, that's great. I'd hate for my first mission to be a massacre.

[spinerip]

It will not be a massacre if they surrender quickly enough before our superior might. [Drax you don't even know what the mission objective is yet.....]

[risked]

[Allison enters right as Drax says something about surrendering to his superior might. It makes her lift her eyebrows.]

Is someone already surrendering?

[She has a brief callback to Joey on Friends (pop culture 17) as she thinks to herself 'Woah, short mission.']

[wynn]

Good afternoon. [ no one gets a chance to answer allison's question because wynn follows her in, making his way around the table ]

[watchmaker]

[sylar put your FEET DOWN OFF THE FUCKIN TABLE DADDY'S HOME. that is what he does.]

Hey, boss.

[thetokenaussie]

[So many responses, so little time before Wynn enters the room, Frankie closing her mouth, setting her cup down and focusing her attention on Wynn.

Yep. That's the whole tag.]

[wynn]

I'm asked you here to task you with a rather special assignment.

We've been contacted by the Ukrainian secret service, who ask for our assistance in a matter in Antarctica. He estimates that it will be completed in less than twenty-four hours and involve no bloodshed.

[spinerip]

[No bloodshed? Drax leans forward, frowning a little.] Is blunt trauma acceptable?

[wynn]

[ instead of answering that, wynn opens a laptop on the table, and turns it around, so that everyone can watch the video.

the man on the tape speaks in a gravelly, heavily accented voice. his manner is laconic - almost bored, as he leans back in his chair.

"Adelie 14 is an AgraTech Corporation facility on Antarctica. Although its personnel supposedly do civilian environmental research, we have obtained evidence that AgraTech is also conducting biological weapons research there on behalf of the Russian government, likely using some kind of research into Shadowkind diseases. We want proof - and you are going to get it for us.

We could, of course, just turn the whole situation over to the media or the UN, but where would that get us, eh? The world tires of bickering between Russia and Ukraine - by the time the world takes us seriously, Russians will have cleared out of Adelie 14, and the weapons research will be just another unsubstantiated rumor. No, no, we need proof - undeniable proof.

This man--" he produces a photo and map of the situation, "his name is Vitaliy Prytyka. He is Russian but has worked for AgraTech for long time - many years. He is head of whole project - he will be our proof. Find him and question him. We have video camera for you, with satellite link. Call when you find him and broadcast your interview with him back to us. That way, no matter what happens, we have the evidence. You get out of this okay, I think, but why tempt fate, eh?

After you question Prytyka, you let him go and then meet our helicopter for extraction. In and out - six hours tops. Nobody gets hurts. Oh, and you keep your faces covered on the video broadcast - this is encrypted digital system, but why take chances? No one needs to know that you Knights exist.

Vitaliy Prytyke and AgraTech - they are making new RDHA - how to say - rapid decay haemorrhagic agent. It is a variation of Streptococcus Pneumoniae, a bacterium, but a special strain, from Shadow World. You ask Prytyka about streptococcus when you question him, and look for signs of it in the lab. Include it in your video if you can.

And another thing. This Antarctica situation is very delicate. Many countries have claimed parts of Antarctica, but nobody recognizes these claims. It is illegal to mine or exploit there, but still there are more than one hundred stations. What do all those countries and companies do, eh, if they do not mine or exploit? Making biological weapons there is very, very illegal, but so are military operations. That's why we have you, eh? Keep this whole thing honest. Still, is wise that no word get out about this until we can tell the world what you find. So you disable the station's communications and helicopter before you move in. That way, the Russians can't make up their own story before we can tells ours.

We owe you great debt for this, Wynnefalshond. Ukraine will not forget this kindness." ]

[watchmaker]

[sylar glances around at everyone else like did you just hear that shit??? am i the only one who thinks this is kind of sketchy??? yes?? no???? okay then.]

So we're disabling a communications tower, interrogating the guy, and finding proof of that strep variation.

[thetokenaussie]

All while not getting our faces seen or hurting anyone. [Tone a little dry as if to suggest that's a whole lot harder than whats-his-face made it sound.]

[watchmaker]

[shrug.] That part is the easiest one for me.

[risked]

[Allison listens to the mission details and keeps a mental checklist of the tasks they're going to handle. She helped take down communications on Andres - so it makes sense that she's here.

She doesn't have much to add to the conversation though.]

[spinerip]

["Nobody gets hurt." No fun :( But whatever Drax will play his part.]

Disease is a dishonorable way of conducting warfare. When do we leave?

[wynn]

Fairly soon. If the Ukrainians claims are correct, this is something we cannot ignore.

However, something about it rings uncertain with me. I'd like you to be cautious in how you proceed - and try to learn what you can about any motivations the Ukrainians might have neglected to mention on their own side.

[risked]

Do you think they might have a secondary agenda that our mission being a success will help them accomplish?

[Allison isn't a world leader, but she's pretty sure that taking down a communications tower and exposing a threat could open up a few other options for a country. (Knowledge Tactics 28)]

[wynn]

Whatever damage is done to the tower, I suggest you make easily reparable. It's only important that the tower be down long enough for your mission to be completed.

[thetokenaussie]

I can probably manage that. [Thank you all the ranks in Disable Device.]

[risked]

[Allison nods and looks to her.] I'm Allison, by the way. [Since she was late and everything.]

[thetokenaussie]

Frankie - [Offering a nod and a half grin.] Good to meetchya.