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The Hythoria Times

Violent Christian Group Attacks Secularist Leader

HYTHORIA, MARAQUE - Civil unrest has risen in the city of Hythoria after a violent attack of a well-known secular group leader. The group known as "People For The Preservation of Secular Society" have been showing a rather large increase in its member base in this predominantly Christian community of 1.2 million.

The man, 22 year old Gerard Ranson of Hythoria was allegedly walking home from an early morning PFTPS meeting when a group of five individuals jumped out of a nearby utility van and attacked Ranson with aluminum bats. Ranson incurred severe head trauma and had to be air lifted to nearby Kingdom City University Medical Center for emergency surgery.

A group called "The Christian Coalition," took responsibility for the attack, accusing Mr. Ranson and his group of staging several church bombings in the past, including the most recent attack of the 612,000 member Unified Church of Jesus Christ. The Christian Coalition also accuses the government of not doing enough to combat the problem, saying "the government is not doing enough to protect our constitution given right to freely practice our religion. They have bowed to the secularists in an attempt to alienate and degrade us because we believe in our one and true Lord, Jesus Christ." The Christian Coalition leader is currently in hiding, as a warrant has been issued for his immediate arrest for openly admitting to staging several attacks on secularist institutions.

The Lord Governor, in response to the allegations said, "We understand the Christian populations concerns that these violent individuals must be stopped and we're doing all we can at this time to find out who is behind the recent attacks. I must say myself, however, that the way to respond is not by more violence; the Lord preached about peace and tolerance, and your actions to these attacks surely isn't what he would want," The Lord Governor said, in a surprising reference to God, whom he has never outright spoken of before.

Meanwhile the Imperial Government has been engaged in massive crackdowns of known violent secular groups, none of which is associated with the group Mr. Ranson leads. The Imperial Government believes that Mr. Ranson's group is being wrongly accused of the attacks because it is the most widely known group in the city, not because of any hard evidence the Christian Coalition may have.

Hythoria has become reasonably peaceful in recent years, ever since the riots of 2001 left the city in complete chaos. The murder of a Muslim woman sparked huge protests and riots from Muslims and Secularists a like when a self-proclaimed "Man of God" murdered the woman in retaliation for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 in the Federal Republic of the United States of America, of which the Constitutional Monarchy has historical ties to. One of the few times Secularists and people of faith charged together in this deeply divided city.

Oddly enough, Muslims and Christians joined together more recently when the city banned same-sex marriage, and staged a 720,000 member rally in support, with a counter demonstration of 480,000 across the street. The measure was found to be against the constitution and was overturned, and the city was fined $400 billion and the mayor imprisoned.

Bump.

OFFICIAL PRH-TT STATEMENT

The People's Republic of H-Town Tejas condemns the actions of this "Christian Coalition" against the leadership of a peaceful group whose beliefs they do not agree with. The PRH-TT would also like to express to our UCN ally, the Secular Empire of the Democratic Constitutional Monarchy of Maraque, that we have their backs.

Suoh Nobuo, PRH-TT Delegate to the Union of Communist Nations

Although we are no longer a part of the UCN, we appreciate the support in these troubling times, which will no doubt escalate as long as our minority Christian population believes we're not trying our hardest to apprehend these criminals who cause harm to them.

Ministeress of State, Loren Hiles

The Royale Group condemns this act, and shall do whatever Maraque needs to help combat theism.

The Constitutional Monarchy does not want, or need, to combat theism, but thanks the Royale Group for the offer.

Ministeress of State, Loren Hiles

(Sorry for the OOC, but what large denomination (Roman Catholic/Protestant/Orthodox) would the Christian Coalition fit under? This will affect my IC response.)

The Imperial Democratic Republic of Nova Brittanica condemns this attack on a secularist (athiest?). We will do whatever Maraque asks us to do to combat these religous terrorists.

The Kingdom of Bartonstein also condemns this attack and will begin the rounding up and questioning of members belonging to a small group funded by the Christian Coalition.

OOC: Cotenshire: Protestant.
OOC: Nova Brittanica: The vast majority of the secularists groups in my nation are agnostic, then a smaller minority are atheist, and some are even of faith.

Response to Nova Brittanica

We thank you for your support and only ask if there is any such group in your nation which is affiliated with, or a part of, the Christian Coalition, as this group is known to be international.

Ministeress of State, Loren Hiles

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Response to Bartonstein

The Constitutional Monarchy appreciates your support in this time, and will be looking forward to what you come up with.

Ministeress of State, Loren Hiles

Response to Nova Brittanica

We thank you for your support and only ask if there is any such group in your nation which is affiliated with, or a part of, the Christian Coalition, as this group is known to be international.

Ministeress of State, Loren Hiles

Official Diplomatic Telegram
To: Maraque
From: Nova Brittanica
Yes... There are two organizations in Nova Brittanica that are affliated with the Christian Coalition. The Children of Christ and the the Youth of Theism... We will moniter these groups closly.

The Hythoria Times

Christian Coalition Leader Found; Out of Bounds of Government Reach

WEST CORONA, MARAQUE - The Imperial Government has announced today that they have found the leader of the Christian Coalition, Sean Orshane.

Sean Orshane was found by the Domestic Security Ministry early yesterday morning at 3:18am, in the region of West Curona, which is out of bounds of the Imperial Governments reach due to West Curona's semi-autonomous status.

Ministeress of State Loren Hiles is said to be planning a visit to the region to try and persuade the government there to hand over the fugitive so he can face justice. However, the President of West Curona has said he refuses to grant extradition due to his personal belief that Mr. Orshane is innocent and being persecuted simply because he is a Christian.

In response, the Lord Governor of Maraque said "it is a most preposterous idea that the only reason we are trying to capture Mr. Orshane is because he is a Christian. We are trying to capture Mr. Orshane because he is the mastermind behind several attacks on Secularists institutions."

Meanwhile, the Kingdom of Bartonstein has begun rounding up and question members of a small group founded by the Christian Coalition, and in another surprising move, the government of Nova Brittanica has found that two groups known as "The Children of Christ," and the "Youth of Theism," which are both affiliated with the Christian Coalition, and will begin to monitor them.

We find the acts of these separatists disgusting, and would like to ask you if you would like a division of Constantinalian Shock Troops defending the Secularist leaders that may have been targeted.

The local police in Hythoria are under strict orders by the Lord Governor to protect any Secularist or Christian group that requests it. We appreciate the concern though.

Ministeress of State, Loren Hiles

The Hythoria Times

Ministeress of State Heads to West Curona, Cooperation Unlikely

WEST CORONA, MARAQUE - Ministeress of State Loren Hiles headed to the West Curona today in an attempt to try and persuade the President there to hand over Sean Orshane, the man behind various Secularist institution attacks in Hythoria. The Ministeress said after getting off Imperial III that she was confident that she and the President could come up with a solution.

"It is with much confidence that I believe myself and the President can resolve this matter diplomatically without any interference militarily," the Ministeress was quoted as saying, echoing an earlier comment by the Lord Governor that it has a right to nab Sean Orshane through excessive force if it needs to.

Responding to a question by a reporter at a news conference in the News Conference Room at the Imperial Palace, Lord Governor Norris said; "Yes it is my firm belief that if the President refuses to hand over Sean Orshane that we may have to engage the military in an operation to receive the individual."

The President, in response to the threat of military action said "believe me when I say that there will be huge repercussions if the Lord Governor goes along with military engagement."

In Hythoria, another enormous protest was staged in Skythorn Park, with an estimated 90,000 people attending the demonstration urging the President of West Curona to hand over Sean Orshane so he can stand trial for his crimes.

"Hand Orshane over!" Could be heard from the demonstrators all afternoon, with religious leaders from all across the country asking for Orshane's return as well. Similar protests could be seen in the capital, and in Addeisian city, the Imperial Congressional capital.

The Most Serene Republic of Granade Turquesa Isla gives condolences to the poor people attacked by radical groups. GTI has a healthy Church and State Seperation, and strongly belives in the practice of Free Religion expect in the case it promotes violence as a majority. In light of these events we must express concernes, we hope you don't follow the paths of the Cruxium Government and start persecuting and or prosocuting innocent people on the sole basis they are Christian. We understand that you are a secular state, but that is never an excuse to take the rights of law abiding citizens away.

To the Honourable Ministeress of State Loren Hiles of Maraque,

The King and myself are upset at the civil unrest that these events have caused. While we are sure that your government is investigating these issues to the fullest extent, the King wishes that the investigation is fair and that there are no anti-Christian biases.

We hope peace is brought to your realm.

Signed,
The Rt Hon. Jan Sebastien, Lord Chancellor

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Official Government Statement
Constitutional Matriarchy of Reloria
"For a brighter tomorrow."

Greetings to our friends in Maraque,

In our nation's preparations for the Celebration of Light I am afraid that this piece of unfortunate news slipped my grasp. I am sorry to hear about this unfortunate incident, and the loss of life it incurred. My condolences to the family of the victim.

It is disturbing to see a religious group find any justification for violence, and even more so that they have found sufficient support to establish an entire organisation dedicated to that end. Fortunately no Christians have gained a foothold here, but it will certainly teach us to be vigilant if ever they do. I hope that your government is able to bring those responsible for this attack to justice, and, Goddess willing, prevent further attacks of this nature.

Good luck to you!

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Matriarch Zelella Rocca
Leader of the Constitutional Matriarchy of Reloria

The Most Serene Republic of Granade Turquesa Isla gives condolences to the poor people attacked by radical groups. GTI has a healthy Church and State Seperation, and strongly belives in the practice of Free Religion expect in the case it promotes violence as a majority. In light of these events we must express concernes, we hope you don't follow the paths of the Cruxium Government and start persecuting and or prosocuting innocent people on the sole basis they are Christian. We understand that you are a secular state, but that is never an excuse to take the rights of law abiding citizens away.

The Constitutional Monarchy does not intend to ever go the way of the Cruxian government. We believe in the right to freely practice ones religion and we will not persecute innocent people, regardless of whether they are Christian, Secular, or of any religious background.

Currently, we are only after the leader of the Christian Coalition, and the five individuals who attacked Mr. Ranson. The rest of the groups members are not under investigation, and will be left alone.

As you may also know, we have engaged in major operations to crack down on enormously violent secular groups, and have captured more than 70 of these individuals responsible for various church bombings. We would never even think of persecuting innocent people, but we understand your concern.

Deputy Minister of State, Giorgio Anessi

To the Honourable Ministeress of State Loren Hiles of Maraque,

The King and myself are upset at the civil unrest that these events have caused. While we are sure that your government is investigating these issues to the fullest extent, the King wishes that the investigation is fair and that there are no anti-Christian biases.

We hope peace is brought to your realm.

Signed,
The Rt Hon. Jan Sebastien, Lord ChancellorWe assure you that the investigation is fair, and will continue to be; I also assure you that I do not have a bias against any religion, and that I myself am a man of faith. I am a devout Xenthi, a very unknown religion outside of the Constitutional Monarchy, which has historical ties to Christianity.

Lord Governor, Jovan S. Norris

Official Communique' to Maraque
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March to your final victory... or defeat

The Socialist Militaristic Empire of Latica deems it support for the Islamic community. They show an extreme ammount of tolerance un-like their counterparts in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistian. The Socialist Militaristic Empire of Latican is going to be sending four hundred billion USD from their Administration deperment of budget, for the growth of the Islamic message.

We condem Christian Coalition as they are the most hypocriticial people since the time of United States president Bush. We will do everything we in our power to stathe (big word for stop) your growth. Your lies and false aligations shall be met with a stunt in your religionary growth.

To the Secularistic people of Maraque. We have nothing against you, other than you have many violent groups in your 'religion' and would like for you to repeal any support of these violent groups, and that you would arm yourself with the realization that the Christian Coalition is targeting your leaders.
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Two hundred Mayflower Corporation crates fly in Delta Flight 019, from Managua, Socialist Militaristic Empire of Latica to Super City, Maraque.

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Official Government Statement
Constitutional Matriarchy of Reloria
"For a brighter tomorrow."

Greetings to our friends in Maraque,

In our nation's preparations for the Celebration of Light I am afraid that this piece of unfortunate news slipped my grasp. I am sorry to hear about this unfortunate incident, and the loss of life it incurred. My condolences to the family of the victim.

It is disturbing to see a religious group find any justification for violence, and even more so that they have found sufficient support to establish an entire organisation dedicated to that end. Fortunately no Christians have gained a foothold here, but it will certainly teach us to be vigilant if ever they do. I hope that your government is able to bring those responsible for this attack to justice, and, Goddess willing, prevent further attacks of this nature.

Good luck to you!

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Matriarch Zelella Rocca
Leader of the Constitutional Matriarchy of ReloriaWe thank the Relorian government for their words of encouragement, and wish for you to have a good Celebration of Light.

Deputy Minister of State, Giorgio Anessi

Official Communique' to Maraque
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March to your final victory... or defeat

The Socialist Militaristic Empire of Latica deems it support for the Islamic community. They show an extreme ammount of tolerance un-like their counterparts in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistian. The Socialist Militaristic Empire of Latican is going to be sending four hundred billion USD from their Administration deperment of budget, for the growth of the Islamic message.

We condem Christian Coalition as they are the most hypocriticial people since the time of United States president Bush. We will do everything we in our power to stathe (big word for stop) your growth. Your lies and false aligations shall be met with a stunt in your religionary growth.

To the Secularistic people of Maraque. We have nothing against you, other than you have many violent groups in your 'religion' and would like for you to repeal any support of these violent groups, and that you would arm yourself with the realization that the Christian Coalition is targeting your leaders.
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Two hundred Mayflower Corporation crates fly in Delta Flight 019, from Managua, Socialist Militaristic Empire of Latica to Super City, Maraque.

The message from Latican Empire spread throughout every news station across the Secular Empire. The message caused massive disapproval from the 1.22 million strong Christian population, but no rioting or violence occurred. However, the Muslim and Secular populations were in high approval of the message.

OOC: Did they grow?

SIC: As planned by the Mayflower Corporation the plane flew over a mostly Muslim town (Put name here) and dropped the two hundred crates. Each crate parachuted when it was two hundred meters from falling and landed right on the all Muslim street of Muhamid Avenue. Inclosed in fifty crates were a single RPG-7 and ten HEAT rounds each. In the other one hundred and fifty crates were three AK-47s and five magazines each. Enclose was a not for each. "These weapons are for protection of yourselves against the Christian Coalition. Use them as you see fit."

Total Sent:
Fifty RPG-7's
Five Hundred HEAT RPG-7 Rounds
Four Hundred, Fifty AK-47's
Two Thousand, Two Hundred, Fifty AK-47 Thirty Round Magazines
Sixty-Seven Thousand, Five Hundred 7.62x39mm Rounds

OOC: LOL! That's hilarious. Seriously, that's just awesome. Small growth.

IC:

Muslims across Hythoria, particularly Muhammed and Riyadh Avenue were rejoicing, running in the streets with jubilation. The local police department was ordered to watch the streets to make sure no criminal activity would take place, of which none whatsoever did.

Meanwhile across town in the Christian neigborhood, the people in the town were filled with fear that their lives were in jeopardy, and so the local police department there also was ordered to keep them safe.

In the Secular neighborhoods, a huge block party was taking place, loud brash music was played through the night, and the alcohol was flowing.

All armed individuals were finger printed, and undoubtedly sales of firearms jumped 300% that month.

OOC: What's hilaroius? O c'mon. A lil' ol' rebellion never hurt anyone :p.

OOC: Dropping weapons down on a town to arm the population. That's so cool! LOL.

Rebellion! Hmmmm. ;)

OOC: Pa-witty please? Just a lil' one, I promise. that it will crush your nation and lead you into a 3rd world nation, *evil laugh*

OOC:

The Christians would be pwn3d, 'cause there's 122,250,000 of them, vs. 3,504,500,000 Secularists and 244,500,000 Muslims. Muahahaha. Sounds like fun.

OOC: Wanna hear something really funny? I'm Christian/Buddist, haha. I know nice mix :p Shall I go forward with more arms falling from heavan?

OOC: I'm going to have the Christians, Secularists, Buddhists, Muslims and Jews battle it out in Hythria and leave the city in complete chaos.

Time to pick your religion people! Time to battle!

SIC/IC:
Twenty commericial flyers, under the false company name of Arnuldo Fliers, which was actually owned by the Mayflower Corporation was stocked full of crates. Each crate had the same number of amourments as before, and where flying over Hythria, dropping their payloads randomly. The parachutes caused large thumps, but all-in-all the weapons were safe. Who ever got them would make them 'un-safe'.

OOC: Lol, I support Buddism :p

Okay, there are 181,745,00 people in the Hythoria metropolitan area.

The religious breakdown:

Christians: 5,452,350
Muslims: 10,904,700
Secularists: 156,300,700 (74% Agnostic, 12% Atheist)
Buddhists: 3,634,900
Jews: 5,452,350

I control the Secularists. Anyone wanna roleplay another group? This'll be fun.

How about a Buddist/Muslim Eastern Coalition?

I will control the Muslims.....

Okay, a Muslim/Buddhist Coalition, and then the Secularists will act alone, but cooperate with them, the Jews will be against the Christians, and the Christians will be screwed unless a miracle happens. Muahahahaha.

dont count out the christian population... We can be flickel if need be.

Ehh, I think the Jews would work with the Christians realistically.

Alright, the Jews and the Christians will work together.

yea... With judisum and christianity being very slimilar There would be a high possiblilty of a alliance

The new breakdown...

Christian/Jewish Coalition: 10,904,700
Muslim/Buddhist Coalition: 14,539,600
Secularists: 156,300,700

Raven, you in?

Warfare in a New York City type setting, should be awesome. :cool:

Of course I am in. as a muslim.....

Alright. The Muslims have an edge because they were given some crazy weapons earlier, and the Christians and Jews armed themselves so they're pretty decently armed. The Secularists however, are minimally armed and will have to steal some stuff from vacant police departments and gun shops around the city.

So, we're seperate sects, but same alliance. We need a Christian here..

interesting setting... Almost as if you have no internal defence force to help contain the problem...

Yes... we need someone to role play the Christian/Jewish alliance.

I am a Christian... But I like to play as muslims..

interesting setting... Almost as if you have no internal defence force to help contain the problem...Maraque doesn't have a military, so... ;)

Are you gullible enough to believe that God will save you from getting your ass kicked. :p

so yea... this was just waiting to happen

he wont save me from getting my ass kicked... never expected his to...lol

There is only the local police, but they are in on the fighting with their respective groups, so muahahaha, total chaos.

Chaos is my specialty.... but before you said something about I would have an edge... what kind of edge?

The Muslims have the following weaponry times two, courtasy of the Gente Del Agua government:

Fifty RPG-7's
Five Hundred HEAT RPG-7 Rounds
Four Hundred, Fifty AK-47's
Two Thousand, Two Hundred, Fifty AK-47 Thirty Round Magazines
Sixty-Seven Thousand, Five Hundred 7.62x39mm Rounds

[Encrypted Message]

To: Maraque
From: The Avisronite Department of Defense

The Federation of Avisron pledges full support in bringing anyone who instigates religious based violence to justice. Further, it is of our opinion that West Curona is partially at fault for making no attempt at their own investigation.

Thus far that government has done nothing more than declare that Sean Orshane is completely innocent and that he's being persecuted based on his religion. Not once have they offered a counter-argument.

We have military forces capable of assisting in the covert apprehension of Sean Orshane. If you give us the go-ahead, we will go further in detail and begin moving equipment.

SIC:

TO: Avisron
FROM: Maraque

As of right now the Ministeress of State is in West Curona to try and negotiate Sean Orshane's arrest. A covert operation is on the table, but no decision has been made whether to go along with it yet until we hear back frfom the Ministeress.

Deputy Minister of State, Giorgio Anessi

[Encrypted Message]

TO: Maraque
FROM: The Avisronite Department of Defense

We have forces in the region which we would gladly commit to any type of covert mission. Our intelligence of the area definately isn't as good as yours, but we've already formulated the basic outline of an apprehension plan. We'd be more than happy to assist in any mission.

[END]

The Hythoria Times

Ministeress of State Back; Little Progress Made

HYTHORIA, MARAQUE - At a press conference in Super City, Ministeress of State Loren Hiles said she made no progress in the release of Christian Coalition leader Sean Orshane, and that the President was uncooperative and refused to negotiate any type of agreement.

"The visit was very much useless, with him refusing to come up with any type of agreement between us. He was a very sour and thoughtless man," The Ministeress said. She also went on to say that she was able to see Mr. Orshane in the flesh, because he is a guest at the Presidential Palace.

"Yes, I've seen Mr. Orshane in person. He was right there during our talk, and all he could do was grin. He knows he's guilty," Ms. Hiles said.

The Lord Governor said after the Ministeress that he has incriminating evidence that will lead to the termination of the Presidents term and ultimately bring the region back to its former full provincial state, because of a violation of a treaty signed by both parties two centuries ago. He would not comment on what the evidence was, but only say it will be known in time.

SIC:

Lord Governor Norris entered the situation room, where the Minister of Domestic Security & Military Strategy sat with top military officials.

"Good day gentlemen," the Lord Governor said sternly.

"Good evening my Lord," all the men said.

"Alright. It is quite clear that the President is not going to hand over Sean Orshane peacefully, so I have asked you to come in here to ask you what you think should be done?" The Lord Governor said, sitting down.

"My Lord, it is my suggestion that we engage in a covert operation to infiltrate the Presidential Palace and take Mr. Orshane with force," the Domestic Security Minister said.

"Alright. And you General?" The Lord Governor said.

"I've always thought it would come to that in the end, my Lord. I agree with the Minister's suggestion completely," the General said.

"As have I, and so it shall be," the Lord Governor said. "Contact Avisron."

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TO: Avisron
FROM: Maraque

Greetings,

It has come to our attention that the President of West Curona will not hand over Mr. Orshane without us having to get him forcefully, as such I'd like to ask you to engage in a joint operation to infiltrate the Presidential Palace, get Orshane, and then get out with minimal detection.

Lord Governor, Jovan S. Norris

[Encrypted Message]

TO: Maraque
FROM: The Avisronite Department of Defense

We're happy to hear that you have chosen to involve our forces in this operation. Our secret hand in this has been that we have a six man DART Team on a Krieta Class Corvette just outside your territorial waters.

Is Mr. Orshane actually staying at the Presidential Palace? This poses a challenge. Our planning had been based around him being at another safehouse, but we shall adapt our strategy.

Do you have any intelligence on the security of the Presidential Palace? If not, we should probably have forces recon the area before we send in the active element.

As for actually inserting our forces into the country, we've had our eyes on an isolated beachhead for a naval insertion. If you'd like to send our forces in together, however, we could work with that as well.

[END]

SIC:

FROM: Maraque
TO: Avisron

Mr. Orshane was initially at another residence, but has since been moved to the more secure Presidentiall Palace.

From what our intelligence can gather, it appears as though the compound is secured by the usual; rooftop snipers, ground security and the like. There also appears to be amateur booby traps such as invisible laser alarm systems sprawled all across the lawn of the compound, as well as security checkpoints. The interior security is of anyones guess, so we'll have to find out once inside.

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There are 22 guards in all, four of which are snipers.

The rear of the compound is near the edge of a cliff, with beach below it. This could be your entry point. Our team will enter from the gates and make our way inside the compound there.

[ENCRYTED MESSAGE]

TO: Maraque
FROM: The Avisronite Department of Defense

Our DART Teams are excellent at avoiding most forms of detection. We agree with having our forces go in on the beach and scale the cliff, however, this again poses more challenges, mostly in the form of having to carry more equipment.

Further, we feel it may be a challenge for your own forces to simply walk through the front gate undetected.

Also, our DART Team would like to know about just what they're doing once they reach the top of the cliff. Do they have to go over a fence, or what?

[END]

SIC

TO: Avisron
FROM: Maraque

The Elite Imperial Guard team entering through the front will gain access with stolen IDs and passwords that we've obtained through getting access to the main computer in the residence. The guard in the guard station will be taken out with a silent charge that will temporarily knock him unconscious.

As for your team, above the cliff is a stone wall, and you'll have to be careful not to make much suspicious noise because there are three guards behind this wall in the center, and far corners.

OCC: Christians, FTW!

[ENCRYPTED MESSAGE]

TO: Maraque
FROM: The Avisronite Department of Defense

Seeing how there are only 22 guards in total, our tacticians have put together a plan that would allow us much greater operational security.

The plan calls for your forces, as you suggest, to secure the gate. At the same time our forces will cross the rock wall along the cliff. At this point they will use precision sniper fire to deliver tranculiser rounds to the two snipers on that side of the roof.

Then, quickly thereafter, they will take down every other guard within their arc of fire. Your forces in the front should take down the other two enemy snipers, along with the rest of the guards.

If we hit fast enough in the early morning hours, the guards will never realise their comrades are falling around them. Then when will quickly move the unconcious guards to the rear wall just for good measure.

This part of the engagement should not take over an hour. If we move into the area just after midnight, we still have all night to get in. There is no reason to rush the operation. Further, if there is no alarm while we are inside the Palace, our forces don't have to worry about being engaged in a running battle across the yard.

One subject we haven't touched on at all is extraction. If you would like, we could extract our DARTs, your forces, and the target all via the sea, back to our vessel.

[END]

SIC

TO: Avisron
FROM: Maraque

Your plan is very well thought out and thorough, so it has been decided to go along with your plan.

As for extraction, we believe it would be best that way. When we reach your vessel we'd like to be transported to the airport so we can fly him out of the region as quickly as possible, so by the time they realize what has happened he is already safely in our jurisdiction.

[ENCRYPTED MESSAGE]

TO: Maraque
FROM: The Avisronite Department of Defense

For extraction we were thinking of just having our Corvette head out to sea, then arching around and docking at a port in your nation. We can negotiate further on this matter, however.

If everything is set, we should turn the execution of our plans over to the people who are trained to undertake these missions. We are planning to land our forces at 1 a.m. local time in two days. Is this possible?

[END]

SIC

TO: Avisron
FROM: Maraque

Your suggestion for extraction is just as good. We'll go with that.

Yes, as far as I am concerned everything is set, and the plans will be sent immediately. The time of 1am local time is acceptable. We'll see you in two days.

[1 a.m. Local Time, Two Days Later, Beach Below the Presidential Palace]

The waves lap in against the sandy shores. Looking like a normal night on the seldom traveled beach, only the members of the 17th DART Platoons 3rd Squad new it was anything but.

The DART's couldn't risk using a normal boat to make their landing, it would create too much noise. If they were discovered and engaged before even making the top of the cliffs the entire mission could be put in jeopardy. So instead of using the equivilant of a RHIB, the six man squad all came in individually - being pulled by what looked like surfboards with tiny electric engines.

These devices were being put under extreme stress. Some at the Avisronite Department of Defense had wondered if they would even be able to transport their DART's, plus the amount of cargo they had to carry, to shore safely. These doubts were put to rest, however, whem the six man DART team and their cargo emerged from the surf just below the Presidential Palace.

Quickly, the team moved up to the base of the cliff. They removed their gear from the transportation devices and prepared to move up the cliff. The DART's had taken light training in how to acend in situations like this. Luckily for them, the rock wall that was supposed to defend the palace would actually serve to assist the DARTs by hiding them from the view of the guards in the lawn around the Palace.

It didn't take long for three separate grappling systems to be put in place along the cliff. It wouldn't take this many for just the DART's, but they were responsible for the extraction of the allied forces from Maraque, as well. They wanted to avoid a bottleneck which could potentially cost lives.

The first DART to climb the cliff had been chosen while the team was still on the Krieta Class Corvette. It was a petite woman, standing at only 5'4", who had been designated the teams sniper. She was armed with a compact version of the Hali-21 Rifle. She would look through her vast array of thermal and nightvision scopes to attempt to find and report back on any enemy cameras or other survailance equipment on the wall.

The rest of the team prepared for the looming assault at the base of the cliff.

[OOC: I didn't want to RP all the way to the assault because I don't know if you want to have my people encounter some booby traps or what.]

OOC: There are security cameras lining the wall, and there are invisible infrared lasers which will trigger an alarm if passed.

12:59.59 am Local Time, Gate in Front of the Presidential Palace

The black Mercedes-Benz GL450 dawning a West Coronian flag pulled up to the guard station outside of the Presidential Palace compound. The driver let down his window, and the guard asked him for his ID# and password.

"ID#111999847377573, and my password is HHGAGTRONVHEGSGAITYWE," the driver said.

"Alright, you're clear Hank," the guard said.

"Thanks," 'Hank' said, pulling into the compound.

the other two in the back of the vehicle scanned the area, looking at the placement of all the guards in the compound. They noticed two on each end of the Presidential Palace, two more diagonally to the left of those two, and the two guards by the gate. "There are also two snipers just above us as expected," one of the two in the back said.

The team leader radioed to the Avisronite team leader in the rear of the building. "We're in, waiting for your move, then we'll start."







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The commander of the DART Squad, a Colonel, stood at the base of the cliff when his radio vibrated. He played the message from the other team, then responded.

"We're having some unexpected difficulties. More cameras than we expected. Please hold."

The scout on the top of the cliffs was now laying down to present a smaller target to the roaming cameras. She moves slowly and turns the radio on to the open channel her team was using. In a calm, smooth voice she spoke.

"There's too many cameras and other detection things for me to eliminate them all. Plus, there's no way to do it without being detected. I do think we can just charge the wall and covertly assault the guards before whoever is watching the cameras sees us, though."

The team commander apparently agreed, because at that point the rest of the team started up the cliff.

Now with the entire DART team on the edge of a cliff, the attack started. After having the scout point out where the laser generators were so that the team could best avoid them, the team charged the base of the wall. At this point the team leader came on his radio to both his team and the allied forces.

"Go now."

The teams best sniper hopped onto the top of the center stretch of wall and in two fluid motions took aim and fired at the head of the two roof snipers he could see. He didn't have time to check to see if they had fallen. He was in a bad position. He slid off the wall as quietly as possible and took aim at the guard in front of him.

He pulled the trigger.

At this point the rest of the team crossed the wall as quickly as they could manage. After crossing they began firing short bursts at any of the guards they saw. They could only hope that the allied forces were doing the same in the front yard, and that they were moving fast enough.

"Roger," the Elite Guard leader said.

The Elite Guard sniper shot the two snipers on the roof from the window of the car, as to not attract attention by the two guards on each side of the Presidential Palace. After confirming they were down, all three of them jumped out of the vehicle simultaneously and begun their quick assault.

The Elite Guard leader shot at the guard who was standing diagonally across from the car, but missed. The guard noticed the noise and looked down, but before he could say anything he fell down from another tranquilizer that hit him. The guard directly behind him several feet away didn't notice a thing as he too, fell down from the silent round.

The Elite Guard soldier next to him took aim at the three guards closest to the guard station they came from, but knew that they were in too close proximity to one another for the other two not to notice.

"Shit," the Elite Guard soldier thought. "I'm gonna need backup on this one," he said to the Elite Guard team leader.

"Alright, on three you shoot him and I'll get the other two," the Elite Guard team leader said.

"One... Two... Three," and the shot was fired. The first guard fell, but the plan backfired as the other two ran for cover before the the Elite Guard team leader could get the shots in.

"FUCK!" they both thought, and without thinking they ran as quick as thunder across the lawn towards the guard station and pounded them both in the face with so much force it knocked them out cold, possibly dead, and shot them with tranquilizers just in case.

Before the camera could see them, they ran equally as fast back across the lawn, jumping over the trip lasers as they went and made it back to the car safely.

"That was too close for comfort," the Elite Guard soldier said, trying to catch his breath. "That's what a 12 year absence from missions will do to ya," the sniper muttered, as the Elite Guard leader once again ran another communique to the team in the rear of the Presidential Palace.

"All targets neutralized, had small difficulty with two of them, but they are taken care of. What's our next move?"

Things to the rear of the palace were going much more smoothly than they had for the Elite Guard team in the front, though the DART's knew very little of that engagement. The DART's had taken advantage of surprise and engaged all of the enemy combatants in the open field before they could even return fire.

Moving in on the palace was more of a challenge. One DART Rifleman feared for his life when his primary rifle jammed, but he was quickly saved by his comrade-in-arms, who upon realising the situation, instinctivly pumped three tranquilizers into the slow-to-react guard.

Asides from the jamming incident, the rest of the First Stage went off without a problem.

Standing in the now-pacified palace lawn, the DART Team Leader answered his radio.

"All targets violently pacified. I've got my people moving them to the rear wall right now. Should we switch to live ammo? All our weapons are single-shot at the moment, but we can convert easily. I suspect that things won't be as peaceful once we get in the palace."

"We're moving the bodies to a secure location now, and live ammo is a go. We're going to find the best location to enter from."


The Elite Guard leader scanned the area around the palace, looking for the best location to enter from.

"The roof appears to be the best location. Entering from any place down here would be too risky," he said to his team, which was also radioed to the DARTs.

The three shot grappling hooks towards the roof, four stories above. They pulled on them to make sure they were tight and secure, and then began to climb.

Upon reaching the top, they walked around scanning the rooftop for the entrance inside. They also waited for the DARTs to decide on their final entrance plan.

The entrance was a small door that led into a concrete stairway dimly lit with no guards. The palace was a very large residence however, so finding their target would be a chore.

OCC: I find this Thread to be extremely offensive. I have told you that generalizations of any group of people is wrong. Yet it seems like your on a mission to convince the world that christians are bad and need to done away with. I don't like being per traded in this way.

OOC:

How am I generalizing? I have no grudge against Christians, and I haven't once said that I believe they're all crazy fundamentalists, because quite simply I know that isn't the case.

Or is it that you're offended that the group that happens to be violent is a Christian one? Because if it is, I'm sorry about that, but that's the way I wanted it to go. If you haven't noticed, in my IC posts I made the secularists violent too.

I haven't done anything wrong to warrant the closure of this thread. I simply made an RP based around the attack of a secularist group leader by a Christian group, because, as my pretitle would suggest, my country is deeply secular.

OOC:

How am I generalizing? I have no grudge against Christians, and I haven't once said that I believe they're all crazy fundamentalists, because quite simply I know that isn't the case.

Or is it that you're offended that the group that happens to be violent is a Christian one? Because if it is, I'm sorry about that, but that's the way I wanted it to go. If you haven't noticed, in my IC posts I made the secularists violent too.

I haven't done anything wrong to warrant the closure of this thread. I simply made an RP based around the attack of a secularist group leader by a Christian group, because, as my pretitle would suggest, my country is deeply secular.

Lately it seems that alot of people in these forums are trying to convince everyone that just because someone is Christain they can't be trusted and are criminal. You say you have no grudge against Christians. Then why write a thread like this? I have never wrote a story about muslims or any other religious group attacking Christians. All I have ever said was that I don't like the muslim terrorist. Is that so bad? I'll go one futher, I refuse to support ANYONE who uses terrorist methods to get attention to there cause.

Lately it seems that alot of people in these forums are trying to convince everyone that just because someone is Christain they can't be trusted and are criminal. You say you have no grudge against Christians. Then why write a thread like this? I have never wrote a story about muslims or any other religious group attacking Christians. All I have ever said was that I don't like the muslim terrorist. Is that so bad? I'll go one futher, I refuse to support ANYONE who uses terrorist methods to get attention to there cause.

So what you're saying is anyone who makes an RP focused around a specific group attacking another one automatically has a grudge against said group? That's quite ridiculous to be honest.

Like I said before; I made not only the Christian group violent, but I also made the secular group violent as well. Basically they're both at each others throats and attack each other in the city. This is only members of each "group," not their respective populations as a whole. The majority of these Christians and Secularists are quite peaceful people. This RP is based around extremists of both sides.

I'm not trying to prove anything with this. It's just an idea that popped into my head. I have nothing against Christians at all. It's just the storyline I made up. I have Christian friends (yeah, I know people throw this card out every time something like this happens, but it is true), and I don't care that they are, because as long as they're good genuine people, who cares what they believe in? I myself believe in God, just not the Christian God, so I'm seriously not trying to convince anyone that Christians are bad.

So what you're saying is anyone who makes an RP focused around a specific group attacking another one automatically has a grudge against said group? That's quite ridiculous to be honest.

Like I said before; I made not only the Christian group violent, but I also made the secular group violent as well. Basically they're both at each others throats and attack each other in the city. This is only members of each "group," not their respective populations as a whole. The majority of these Christians and Secularists are quite peaceful people. This RP is based around extremists of both sides.

I'm not trying to prove anything with this. It's just an idea that popped into my head. I have nothing against Christians at all. It's just the storyline I made up. I have Christian friends (yeah, I know people throw this card out every time something like this happens, but it is true), and I don't care that they are, because as long as they're good genuine people, who cares what they believe in? I myself believe in God, just not the Christian God, so I'm seriously not trying to convince anyone that Christians are bad.

My point is that there are some who will take it as such. Besides I'm not familair with any christian extremists groups now living. And if I did know of such a group I would have a problem with them because they would be giving people the wrong idea about Jesus' teachings.

Well sorry, but that's their problem, not mine. There isn't any rule stating this type of RP isn't allowed, so I'm going to continue to do this, and will also go along with the civil war I'm planning out with the different religious sects in my country.

A lot of people take offense to a lot of things every day, and if all of those things weren't allowed because someone would get offended, people wouldn't be able to do anything. I'm offended quite often, but I deal with it because there isn't anything I can do about it as long as it isn't breaking any rules.

OCC: Well sorry, but that's their problem, not mine. There isn't any rule stating this type of RP isn't allowed, so I'm going to continue to do this, and will also go along with the civil war I'm planning out with the different religious sects in my country.

A lot of people take offense to a lot of things every day, and if all of those things weren't allowed because someone would get offended, people wouldn't be able to do anything. I'm offended quite often, but I deal with it because there isn't anything I can do about it as long as it isn't breaking any rules.

If you re-read my first post you will notice that I removed the sentance asking the mods to close you down. I have made my point, I will be happy with that.

OOC:

Okay. Good.

"We're moving the bodies to a secure location now, and live ammo is a go. We're going to find the best location to enter from."


The Elite Guard leader scanned the area around the palace, looking for the best location to enter from.

"The roof appears to be the best location. Entering from any place down here would be too risky," he said to his team, which was also radioed to the DARTs.

The three shot grappling hooks towards the roof, four stories above. They pulled on them to make sure they were tight and secure, and then began to climb.

Upon reaching the top, they walked around scanning the rooftop for the entrance inside. They also waited for the DARTs to decide on their final entrance plan.

The entrance was a small door that led into a concrete stairway dimly lit with no guards. The palace was a very large residence however, so finding their target would be a chore.

"We'll enter with you from the roof," the DART Team Leader started, "But we're going to leave a sniper up there to keep us aware of the outside conditions. We're going to live ammo now. Be up in just a moment."

The DART's, who had prepared to have to climb alot based on the very nature of their deployment point, quickly secured three ropes up the side of the Palace. After just a moment they had all scaled the Palace and were in place. The teams sniper got down along one wall where she would have a good vantage point of the yard, and the ropes were pulled up to avoid being discovered.

At the same time, they entered the Palace with their silenced weapons.

[OOC: As for the whole OOC debate going on, I think it's really VERY ridiculous. Koramerica shouldn't be taking offense to this. It's a story. That's all we're trying to do - write a decent story. I don't see you taking offense or fighting in any of the threads here that use ANOTHER group as the basis for a terrorist action.

Grow some skin. Please.

Maraque, could you please request to the mods that all the OOC chatter be deleted, if our little friend doesn't agree to go peacefully?]

OOC: Okay, I've done it.

IC:

The Elite Guard team slowly entered the stairway, descending down the stairs quietly, listening for any other sounds which might signify that they were not alone.

They came upon the first door, leading somewhere on the top most floor. The team leader kneeled down and discreetly placed a spy camera under the door to see if anyone was behind it. A screen in his helmet showed him what was in the view finder, which was wirelessly connected to another small screen to show the others.

The door seemed to be at the end of a expensively decorated hallway, lined with a couple more doors on the other side, the end of the hallway going in two different directions, and a guard standing at the end.

"This is the first door, we could go down another level and see how that one is, or we could try this one. What do you say?" The Elite Guard leader said.

"I think we should split up. This is a big palace, we could cover more ground that way. Oh, and F-Y-I, my DART's have their sidearms set to the non-lethal ordnance. We should take out all the guards we come across so we don't have to worry about them later," the DART Team leader said. He was unsure whether or not the Elite Guard commander was talking to him or not, but he was answering anyway.

OOC: I guess the mods didn't delete anything...


IC:
"Alright. In that case we'll go down another level," the Elite Guard leader said, signaling to his team to follow him to level three.

The team slowly descended down the steps, making their way to the next level. Once there, they once again stuck a spy camera under the door to see what they would be facing.

"Looks like it's the same on all levels; a hallway lined with doors, and a guard at the end, with two different directions," the Elite Guard leader said to his team. "According to these floor plans there is a bathroom down the left corridor. I'll enter first and take out the guard, then we'll hide him in one of the bathroom stalls, anyone going in shouldn't enter the one he is in if they see someone in there... that's the plan anyway."

The Elite Guard team leader put his weapon inside the holster, and opened the door, walking calmly down the hall towards the guard, who has no idea that the person who is coming towards him is an intruder because of his West Coronian military attire.

"Good mor-," was all the guard could muster before he was violently taken out by a quick strike to the head.

"Target neutralized. I'm taking him to the bathroom now, hurry up," the Elite Guard team leader said through his radio to his team, while pulling the unconscious body to the nearby bathroom and placing him in one of the stalls as the two other team members walked in.

"Alright, me and 1991 will take the left corridor and you'll take the right," the Elite Guard team leader said to the both of them. "This way we'll cover more ground and hopefully find the location of Mr. Orshane without getting too much attention... I hope."

The team leader and the agent known as "1991" left the bathroom and walked down the left corridor, a little nervous as to the errily quiet nature of the halls, but they spoke too soon as two men came from a door some way down the corridor they were walking down.

"We'll have to check that room," the team leader said quietly to 1991, as he noded to the two passing guards as they went around the corner. "OK, now."

1991 kneeled down and quickly put a spy camera under the door, revealing that it was a control room of some sort. Possibly a security station.

"A security station..." the team leader thought to himself. "We'd better check it out, see if the cameras reveal any valueable information, and disable it," the team leader said to 1991, as they entered the room.

The monitors sprawled across the wall were showing the interiors of every single room on the floor - bedrooms, bathrooms, other various control rooms, broom closets, nothing too out of the ordinary, except for one camera which had captured 1957 inside a bedroom searching through the dresser.

"Damnit!" exclaimed the team leader. "I should've known they'd have hidden cameras. We've got to disable this before we move on, I'm surprised we weren't seen already! Look, there's the bathroom we were just in... get to work, I'll go back outside and watch the door."

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Meanwhile, the other soldier was inside a bedroom searching through the belongings in a dresser - besides the obviously clothing items, the soldier found various pieces of paper detailing plots to commit mass murder against more secular institutions.

"1988, I've found documents detailing more plots against secular institutions in a bedroom just down from your location. I believe Mr. Orshane is staying in this room, but I'm not certain on that."

"Good job, 1957. We're disabling the security cameras on this level; you were almost caught by the way."

The team often wondered what the DARTs were up to.

(OOC: Sorry about this Maraque, get a Mod to delete it later.

Koramerica what you are saying is absurd and ridiculous. The thread may offend you, though for what reason is beyond me, however you should not be interefering with constant annoying OOC chatter in his IC writing. It is more offensive than what you are doing and shows a complete lack of common courtesy. (Yes I realise the irony of going OOC on this thread to suggest you stop going OOC on the thread.)

I myself have a thread on a similar topic, and I would find it equally offensive to have you interupting the flow with constant comments about how it is attacking a religion. This thread is clearly doing no such things, but is a story. If you do not like it, cease coming and looking, I doubt anyone is going to go down to their local church and burn in down on the basis of this story.

Once again, sorry about the OOC. Good stuff thus far.)

The DART's moved out to secure the 4th level of the Palace.

"Whether or not we find anyone up here is irrelevant. I want every last inch of this floor searched and secured so that on our way out there's no resistance. Sierra, move down that hallway and secure the rooms. Search them too. Able, you're on me. We're going to find any other entrances to this floor and disable them, okay?"

The team didn't understand why the commander had asked for their approval. They were going to do what he demanded or they wouldn't make it out of the palace.

Just a moment after the team commander gave his orders, Sierra Element, which consisted of three DART's [one of which is on the roof,] places one of their own spy cameras under the door to look down the 4th floor hallway.

"Okay, the guard is in the same place. Lets just hit him with a tranc and move him to the roof."

Sierra Elements 2nd Rifleman opened the door. With his primary rifle on his back, he removed his 9mm pistol equipped with tranculiser darts from its holster. Then in one single, fluid motion, he raised it and fired a dart into the back of the guard and returned the pistol to his holster. Then he moved up quickly and stopped the guard from falling hard enough to cause suspicion.

"Sierra reporting, hallway secure."

At this point the other soldier in Sierra Element moved up and placed a camera under the first door on the right side.

"I'm going to go in here and see if theres any documents we could use."

[OOC: Could I get some sort of idea as to what's in the rooms on my floor?]

OOC: classified government documents, personal belongings, top secret research facilities, that sort of stuff. Crazy West Coronians and their lackluster security. Pffft.

I'll make another IC post tomorrow (which is today, or actually "tomorrow" which would be Sunday).

[OOC: Yeah, okay. I'll have the DART's secretly pick this stuff up and like, not report on it or something. Feel free to change up what's happening or anything and throw me a guard group or something. I just hate to take too much for granted with things like that. I'll have another IC post sometime today [Saturday].]

On the 4th floor of the Presidential Palace Sierra Element had hit a litteral stockpile of information. After the teams leader personally moved a disabled enemy guard to the roof for safe keeping, they returned to the secure hallway to search the rooms which provided a stockpile of information just at a glance. While on the roof the Sierra Element Officer retrieved another storage bag from the sniper who was keeping watch over the yard with her array of optical scopes.

Gathering nearly everything that even looked of interest, the two team members snagged computer disks, data storage devices, papers, cameras, anything that looked like it could give the Avisronite government a tactical advantage in the future. The DART's had been given a secondary objective to recover intelligence, and this floor alone would get the team members a nice monetary bonus.

Meanwhile, Able Element secured the floor. Locating three other entrances to the floor, they utilised mico-lasers to melt door locks closed. This should ensure the door couldn't be easily used, but not raise any suspicous to rookie guards who would likely suspect a broken lock or something of that innocent nature.

After roughly fourty-five minutes of poking around on the fourth floor, the DART team had secured three bags of intelligence and moved them to the roof for a quick extraction.

After determing the 4th floor operation complete, the regrouped DART Team sent a radio message to their Elite Guard counterparts.

"Fourth floor secure. Where are you? What do we do next?"

OOC: Things will start to get intense when we move down another floor.

IC:

As the security cameras were being disabled, 1957 was busy going through every room on the floor, as the disabling of the cameras was taking a little more time than they had previously thought.

"1991... the guards are coming back, are you finished disabling the cameras yet?" The team leader said.

"No. This is taking a long time. I haven't seen anything like this before. I'll jam the door lock."

"Roger," the team leader said, as the two guards tried unsuccessfully to open the door.

"Oh, you guys seemed to have accidentally locked yourselves out there. I tried going inside but it was locked," the team leader said.

"No... we didn't lock it. Are you sure no one came in here when we left?" One of the two said.

"Yes I'm sure. I was here the entire time. No one came."

"That's stra-," the same guard said, before he was pistol whipped and fell to the ground.

"SOUND THE-," was all the second could say before he was profusely bleeding from the head from a hard blow.

"Hurry up, I'm going to take these guys to the roof. If more come just radio back," the team leader said to 1991.

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1957 was busy looking through all the rooms on the floor, breaking into safes and taking documents, data sticks, and the odd unidentified substance from a laboratory.

"The floor is clean. I repeat the floor is clean. I've received various items which look to be very important. I'm going to drop off the bags to the roof, then we'll move on."

The Elite Guard leader felt a slight vibration and heard the message from the DART team.

"We're on the third floor. It's secure and we're moving down another level... we suggest you follow, as we believe this is where Mr. Orshane is located. Over."

The DART Team Commander while calmly walking down the staircase and onto the third floor sent out another message to the Elite Guard.

"We're heading down too. Do you want us to enter the second floor at a different location from you to spread our resources out more?"

[OOC: Bump.]

OOC: I'm trying to revive old threads I never finished so they can be finished up. Do you want to continue this?