(I got bored of typing down every roll result I had so, you won't see any of the rolls here, just read what I've written and figure it from there)
The Great Larton Riot
In Larton City, what was once just a prison riot has escalated dramatically, as the prisoners continued to run amok about the city, drawing in yet more and more citizens from the street attempting to take their anger out on the Viceroy, as years of resentment begin to boil. Citizens flock out of their homes to join up with the former prisoners, soon the numbers begin to swell until nearly 23000 citizens are out and about rioting in Larton City.
A large number of the rioters rush at New Larton Prison to aid their friends inside, soon the 642 Enforcers of New Larton Prison find themselves under siege by over 4000 angry citizens. The Enforcers reap a bloody toll with their handguns and rifles as the rioters assault the prison, when they reach the prison however the rioters begin to brawl with the defending enforcers. And even when they begin to attack them there the enforcers hold out, however numbers begin to tell, and the enforcers find themselves being worn down, then the tide shifts even further to the rioters, when a red Haired woman enters the fray with a bodyguard of skilled fighters, leading the rioters shouting "DOWN WITH THE OPRESSORS" and "DEATH TO THE VICEROY" and eventually the enforcers are all dead, butchered to a man by the angry peasants, who lost over a thousand of their own in the assault, dead or wounded, but manage to free 4600 prisoners, most of whom immediately join the riot. The red head meanwhile leads some more rioters to break down the doors to the armoury, looting a large number of rifles and handguns before they flock back to the streets.
With the prison and other local enforcer buildings torn down the citizens then move out into the rest of Larton, and it becomes chaos, the Enforcers Clash with the rioters as they push out of Downtown Larton and into Larton Proper, finding themselves under attack from behind as more citizens rush out to take their vengeance, the main force of the Enforcers is broken by the Rioters, as they lose nearly one third of their remaining forces, and soon combat in the city devolves into gangs of enforcers clashing with large mobs of Rioters as the Enforcers desperately try to flee to safer zones and the city itself falls into total chaos, with only the military district and the docks holding, as the troops inside find themselves under siege.
Harvey and his men run about in the alleyways, ambushing small gangs of Enforcers, the first ambush goes rather well, and soon they are running about with handguns, rifles, clubs and the occasional blade, some men surrender at the sight of so many armed men, other attempt to fight, in such fights Harvey loses 7 of his men, yet by the middle of the night, they are all well equipped with swords, handguns, and the occasional rifle, but armour is hard to come by.
Followers are now equipped with weapons
Anders is one of the many citizens in Larton to try and take advantage of the chaos in he streets, with actual physical assaults and robberies, with the chaos on the streets, it goes rather well as he is able to get some few rioters and convince them that these men are with the Viceroy which leads to those stores being occasionally burned down, though for the most part he is able to essentially 'seize' the businesses.
Gained control of a large number of Middle class businesses for a 200 Draks per week boost
John seizes the opportunity provided by the riots to dispatch some men off to deliver uniforms and weapons to his house, before giving the order to his servant to open the door only for Niel Harkem, fortunately being inside the protected zone the mansion itself wasn't damaged or attacked. And Dodger himself was able to reach the mansion with little worry.
Down by the docks things started to become more interesting as the marines desperately try to hold off the rioters while the sailors get to the ships, at first the marines hold of the rioter quite well, as only a much smaller amount of the Rioters were attacking them, and in the tight streets and large warehouses, the Marines were able to set up kill zones and firing lines to wipe out assault after assault that was thrown at them. But then the battleships guns began to open up, and sadly for the marines, the Battleships hadn't been equipped with shells for ground targets, they had shells meant for naval combat, so the barrage did little damage. However the marines were able to escape on the battleships which continued to shell the city, which did little more than rouse even more people up against the Government forces.
In the Military district, the defenders felt this increased rage most fiercely, as the troops were forced to roll out their Gatling guns in order to hold back the tides gunning down the rioters in droves as they alone cause the deaths of over 5000 rioters before they pull back, however they too are suffering losses to the now armed civilians assaulting their compound, at a rate of attrition that cannot be tolerated. John is able to place himself in a meeting of the local commanders as they desperately attempt to hold back the tide.
He walks into a room of surprisingly calm commanders as they review the situation, he nudges one of his fellow officers in the shoulder, "shouldn't we be worried, these rioters could break in at any minute."
The officer turns to look at him, a smile of satisfaction on his face, "don't you remember, reinforcements have been on their way here for days now, they should be arriving at any moment."
John takes a moment to seemingly calm himself, "Yes well, are we sure they'll be enough?"
The officer stares incredulously back at him, "are you kidding, we have 22000 vickies on their way here, and the VAC have brought 42 guns with them, won't be any problem they'll just be seeing combat early."
Then, as if waiting for that moment, there is a sound of thunder in the distance, not from the docks, but from the north, soon followed by a dreaded whistling, and then the sharp crack of explosive shells hitting the ground.
2800 more enforcer casualties
400 VIC casualties
5500 civilian casualties
36000 civilians rioting
22000 VIC, 2000 VCC, 42 VAC guns, have arrived
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Topic: Rebellion and Revolution (Read 15559 times)