Commander's log - day 1 continued
I have had a chance to meet with some of our ground troops and I have been left with... "mixed" impressions
First on the list is Myroc. He gave me the impression of a grunt who knows what its like to be in the thick of it, his first request was a weapon, his second request was a gernade. i suspect he'll make sure to have both of these in every mission possible. he appears somewhat intelligent for a grunt as he also requested a flare, a stun rod and a med kit if possible. he appears to want to be well prepared for anything. i like this. i will have to order in some flares and stun rods as the report i received from storage was... concerning to say the least, more on that later though.
Next is "Razorwire", his nickname was all that was on the record form. he tells me he likes to sit back and take opratunistic shots at his opponents. he was quite cross with the available ground weapons and with good right. as he put it, "these are the safest guns I have ever seen, you couldn't even kill yourself with them if you tried!". I smirked, its good to have a soldier with a bit of wit and even better to have one who examines his weapons before he has to use them. after a short one-on-one talk with him i have learned that this is not the first time he has been in a fight with the "alien menace" which is either comforting or... concerning.
The third soldier's name was Spartan. he was not much for words, he made his place perfectly clear, "I'm here to put our bullets in their heads and for that, I'll need a gun". a straight forward soldier, i hope to see good things from him.
The fourth soldier was a "Mr. Apple". he was listening to music on his earphones so loudly that he had no idea I was trying to get his attention as I entered the room. I learned at that moment what the note on his file had meant, i grabbed his shoulder and he calmly turned around and smiled, he looked me over, taking longer than a trained solder should I will add. and said "whats up commander?" No flinching, no worry. his file said that he scored perfect on a psychological "fear" test. He was reported to be "unshakeable" and eager to jump into danger. however he seemed to lack discipline, as if he was plucked right out of high school in the USA. He seemed to speak almost another... annoying language but it was obviously "street" language from where he grew up. He wanted a stun rod and a pistol, anything to get "up close and personal" (if you don't give me more info, I'm going to imagine you as a wigger in the military. no i wont get you killed on purpose for that
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Next up is Cerapa. I caught him starring at his lighter and smoking in his quarters. I reminded him that this is an underground facility and that we will all need to "share the air". he put out his cigar with a smile and introduced himself. He is a decorated demolitions expert and i could see on his desk that he had the schematics of the autocannon out and data sheets on the test results of it's high explosive rounds. "I see you like artillery" he nodded and said" sometimes when you shoot someone, they blackout. sometimes when you walk past them, they get back up. my enemies don't wake up again." I knew then and there who i would assign to the explosives, this "self proclaimed" soldier had a resume more fitting of an engineer, he not only knew how to use explosives but how to build them. it seems he is a bit of a pyromaniac, i will have to see to it that this does not become a problem later on...
lastly there is Steve, "just Steve" he says. his requests were fairly typical but his personal quarters were... odd. He had managed to bolt his bed to the wall and had restraints across it he had removed his chair from his desk and it was nowhere to be seen. His computer had been secured to the wall near his bed and lastly every square inch of his walls were covered in detailed maps of the moon and other "nearby" planets and moons. it was unnerving but not completely unexpected, he had been in space with both NASA and Russia several times. he was very excited to meet me, told me that "this would be just like one of his lunar missions but on earth and not in a space shuttle!" I'll class him as "interesting"
ooc: i will add pictures to go along with these once i get home and get the game actually started. let me know if you prefer a gender. also i appoligise in advance for errant misspellings.
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