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[malnosso]

Attention, Region Six. A draft is scheduled to commence on August 25th for five days following. Your location will be the West Central Ocean, en route to Kano Harbour via three ships. Choose a suitable captain for each, and the pilots will be programmed to follow your orders. Don't waste my time with incompetence, either. Put in charge only those who deserve it.

These are the residents who have been selected to participate.

[As usual, the list posted HERE is offered in text form, sans the mun names.]

Your mission is to protect the cargo ship above all else. Within three days you will reach your destination. Opposition numbers, rank, and skill are impossible to predict, however, their equipment often prevents them from attacking at night. Remain on guard, but take advantage of the respite you may receive by night. Upon reaching the harbour, the cargo will be unloaded. You are to continue protecting it until it is safely out of range of their attacks. I would advise against swimming unless you want to die.

For those of you who were involved in the last draft, I have only one thing to say: your performance was acceptable.

Over and out.

[Once again, the commandant will not reply to anything but draft-related questions or particularly inspiring comments, so if you're looking for a response, be sure to give her something worth answering!]

Comments

[lostinmyway]

I promise I'll do my best to protect everyone.

[She hadn't been able to help, the last time. This time, she's going to make sure to give it her all.]

[...not here]

[whatdeheckisdat]

[...alksdjlksj Grune. Dhaos is one of the few people who have seen you cast, but you still don't inspire much confidence. He doesn't want to be in her company, but he doesn't want her or the others to die, either. He just can't imagine Grune fighting wars. She doesn't have the mental capacity for that.

...Of course, she would only say she was protecting her friends.

After all that, Dhaos ends up not contacting her at all. Hmph.]

[Voice]

[lookinforlight.livejournal.com]

[Norma may be in her cushy room in the Lucetiland resort, but this...this takes a lot of the fun out of it. Grune's message, though, has her smiling. Heh, that's our G-Girl...selfless and sweet to the bitter end. You bet your butt she'll be looking out for you, bff.]

Time to put on a show again, huh? [Norma sighs, playing up the part of aloofness.] Another day, another world that needs saving... Looks like all this gloom and doom is calling out to us huh, G-Girl? Just like old times! The Laugh Brigade's stepping out at first dawn! Into battle, lifting morale, fighting the baddies!

Charge!

[Voice]

[lostinmyway]

[Norma will be able to hear the smile in Grune's voice, and is that rustle of cloth a fist-pump?]

Charge!

[Voice]

[talontrot]

[Kazooie is feeling something very foreign right now - mild, nagging worry for somebody.

Worry. It's not something she usually does. But she's used to doing stuff like this with just her and Banjo - and for all the complaining she does about Banjo, he can be pretty level-headed in a pinch. Grune? Grune was spacey at best.

So... Kazooie speaks up, though she's masking any concern she has with annoyance.]

Listen, Gruney, you better get somebody to help you out. You can't do that whole standing-around-all-spacey-like thing here! This is a real battle and stuff!

[Voice]

[lostinmyway]

Don't worry. We can all help each other. That's what friends do.

[Voice]

[talontrot]

Don't get me wrong. I kick butt and all - but even I can't be everywhere at once!

[Split-Up Pads sadly won't help in this context.]

[Voice]

[lostinmyway]

Oh, that's all right. I hope we can see each other while we're away!

[Voice]

[talontrot]

[Augh.]

You're missing the point! Someone's gotta keep you safe. Remember that weird Battle Dome thinger mistake? Where you just stood there and nearly got whaled on?

Well, this is a real important battle thing and these guys are gonna be tough, so you can't do that again or you're gonna make it hard for everybody else, 'cause then we're gonna be rescuing you and not kicking butt!

[This is the nicest way Kazooie can put it.]

[Voice]

[lostinmyway]

Don't worry. I'll be just fine. I'll make sure to work very hard!

[Voice]

[talontrot]

It's got nothing to do with working hard and everything to do with paying freaking attention!

Just... just listen to me, okay? I'm the hero here. I know what I'm talking about!

[There might almost be a note of panic in her shrill, squawking voice. She doesn't want Grune to get hurt and, for once, there isn't any way to guarantee this.]

[Voice]

[lostinmyway]

[Kazooie seems upset. She shouldn't be upset.

And so, Grune gives Kazooie her best smile and says:] I'll pay attention. And I'll be very careful.

It's all right. Everything will work out in the end.

[Voice]

[talontrot]

Right. Okay. That better be true.

Don't get yourself hurt. [It's an order, one that Kazooie gives almost out of desperation.]

... Look. If things get bad, and I'm around, I'll bail you out or something. Like last time. Capiche?

[Voice]

[lostinmyway]

Oh, thank you, Kazooie. That's very kind of you.

[Voice]

[talontrot]

Don't mention it. [Really, don't. She has a reputation to keep!]

Guess I'll see ya later, Gruney. Good luck and all that...

[consultmybooks]

[...Grune.

...well, Giles knows you can protect yourself. Giles knows that, with the right motivation, you're damn good at protecting yourself. That doesn't mean he has to like it, or that he isn't worried.]

Thank you, Grune. We're all very glad to hear that.

Just be careful on the boats, yes?

[lostinmyway]

I will! You should be careful, too.

[consultmybooks]

I'll do my best. I've never really been on a boat before, so this will certainly be...interesting.

[lostinmyway]

Oh, haven't you?

[consultmybooks]

No, I haven't. I'm building a boat, but we haven't reached the point where it can actually, um, sail.

[Despite his and Buffy's very best efforts earlier that day.]

[lostinmyway]

That's all right. Norma and Moses and Walter and I can help you.

[...Well, probably not Walter.]

[consultmybooks]

They've spent a lot of time on the, um, the Legacy as well, I take it?

...Pretend she also said Jay's name. I forgot he was coming, too. orz

[lostinmyway]

Yes, we all live there together.

Consider me pretending

[consultmybooks]

Then all of you should be very helpful. Especially since it sounds as though a surprising number of us have never actually been on a boat.

Thank you. D: /fails

[lostinmyway]

Really? I wonder why.

[Being a woman who lives on a giant ship in a world that used to be mostly water, the idea that many people here have never been on a boat before is an odd one.]