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  1. [23:48:54] <Oxford> Everyone who doesn't want to fight has to. Anyone who does want to fight isn't allowed.
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  3. [22:54:18] * Oxford changes topic to 'Don't worry spitty, I'm here'
  4. [23:09:55] * Oxford changes topic to 'DO NOT APPROACH - PRISONER IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS'
  5. [23:14:56] <@Oxford> The glow of a small fire spreads its warm glow across the wooden floor of a small room, throwing out shadows from the bed, desk, and dresser. A flickering candle adds its own light, sufficient to write a letter by. The walls of the small cottage are stone a foot thick. Rosalyne's cell is not the dampest in the world, nor the darkest, but it is just as isolating as any.
  6. [23:16:54] <@Oxford> Twice a day, a tray bearing a hearty but bland meal emerges through a slot cut into the door. If Rosalyne is looking, she can see the black gloves of the Albaean provost holding the tray, but nothing more.
  7. [23:18:31] * Rosalyne_Holst sighs, this wasnt supposed to be this way. Whatever the other girls were planning was definetely traitorous and probably stupid. She hates the Albeans and the Novs just as much as any Cimbrian. She groans and runs her hands through her hair, she could really use a proper bath,
  8. [23:20:36] * Rosalyne_Holst grabs the tray and begins eating quietly.
  9. [23:22:56] <@Oxford> At the beginning of her captivity, keeping her here had taken a signed letter from her father urging her not to try to escape. Soon, he promised, the Cimbrian and Albaean militaries would agree on what to do with her. The former had every reason to want her back; the latter were delaying them with vague murmurings of mental instability and rogue assets.
  10. [23:25:48] * ForestFairyOfAmnesia ([email protected]) has joined #WorldWarBurst
  11. [23:25:55] * Rosalyne_Holst couldnt help but laugh at the mention of rogue assets, she wasnt going agsinst the cimbrian-albean alliance, even thought there were some people that did what thwy wanted and didnt k oe any better
  12. [23:27:40] <@Oxford> It was, she had been assured, just a matter of 'sorting things out'. How long that would take...There is a knock at the door.
  13. [23:28:28] <@Oxford> Rosalyne has to do a double take. The knock comes again, a quick double-rap, sharp and insistent.
  14. [23:29:22] * Rosalyne_Holst stops mid bite into her stale bread and wait his is urgent? She stands up, quickly straightens her clothes and heads to the door and opens the eye slit
  15. [23:34:04] <@Oxford> She finds herself staring at a pair of white dress-uniform pants. The crease in the legs stands out sharp enough to cut glass. Hearing the creak of the slit opening, the man in the uniform crouches, and all at once Rosalyne is face-to-face with Maj. Vestergaard. He smiles at her.
  16. [23:36:10] <@Oxford> "Would you mind my coming in?" he asks, eyes twinkling. "I know it's a prison and I'll have to unlock it from my side, but I didn't want to barge in."
  17. [23:37:08] <Rosalyne_Holst> Her eyes widen in surprise, "Since when do you dress properly sir?" She spits out without thinking and immediately covers her mouth. "I uh, sorry, please come in." Vestergaard is wearing a properly ironed dress uniform? Did the world end while she was in here?
  18. [23:40:48] <@Oxford> His smile disappears from the slit, and the door swings open a moment after. "I know, I know. You'd almost think I'm a proper officer, dressed like this." He sees the tray of food sitting on the table and helps himself to a stale roll. "I've come straight from your hearing, so I didn't have time to change into something less misleading. Have you been well?"
  19. [23:43:47] <Rosalyne_Holst> "Bored out of my mind and needing a proper bath but nothing I can't handle." She says confidently as she glares at him for eating her prison food." How did my hearing go?" She asks hopeful, maybe they will see that what she did was the right thing to do, right?!
  20. [23:47:47] <@Oxford> "Right to the point, eh? No sweet-talk for your dashing CO?" Vestergaard's smirk is as strong as ever, but at least today it doesn't seem to be directed at her personally. "The short version is that you're being transferred back into Cimbrian custody. Those pompous Albs ran out of things to whine about, I guess. And being a general's daughter probably helped."
  21. [23:52:18] * Rosalyne_Holst gulps, that's GREAT but she really hopes she didnt give her dad too much trouble. "Thats good," she says but she cant avoid sounding worried. This is going to be bad for her dad isn't it? "So, what now?"
  22. [23:56:20] <@Oxford> "Now we do what the Albs wouldn't let us 'til now: We get back to winning this war." Vestergaard paces to the far end of the room, reaching for a pocket that isn't there. He scowls. "Got anything to drink in this place?"
  23. [23:58:18] * Rosalyne_Holst points to sink, "Only water. I dont think you can get drunk off that though."
  24. [00:02:24] <@Oxford> "Not to say I haven't tried." He runs the tap, scooping up a mouthful in his hands and drinking. "Your friends went AWOL, by the way. All four of them. How does the expression go? 'I'm not surprised, just disappointed.'"
  25. [00:08:26] <Rosalyne_Holst> "Wait, what?" She sounds confused, though it sounds like something they mighht do considering her last interactions with them. They must have pendants so, "So when are the albeans sending a team to recover their pendants?" She asked, looking at vestergaard drinking water like the louse he really is, "or are they gonna leave it up to us Cimbrians?"
  26. [00:14:41] <@Oxford> "That'd be typical enough, but you're not thinking like the kind of 'soldier' who sits at a desk all day. According to them, only our girls are AWOL. Theirs, Lily and that bitch Henriette, are 'reassigned to other duties', and apparently it's just coincidence they didn't tell me about it until after I reported them missing. In other words, someone over there is covering his ass pretty well."
  27. [00:23:43] * Rosalyne_Holst sighs, of course it wouldnt be that easy, "So theyre leaving that on us? So who is going to be sent there? Its not as if we have a lot of people who can use pendants."
  28. [00:32:55] <@Oxford> "Who cares where they go? Much as I mourn the loss of all that eye-candy, we weren't exactly a top-notch fighting force." A look of frustration gathers on his face. "As long as we're taking orders from the Albs, we're just twiddling our thumbs while the Novs rape our homeland." The Major's voice has gone strangely grim, and his expression is hard to read.
  29. [00:34:09] <@Oxford> He shakes his head. "No, from now on, you work for Cimbria, and no one else. I've been authorized to raise a new flight, all Cimbrian, and I mean to have you lead it. Lieutenant."
  30. [00:40:14] * Rosalyne_Holst looks worried as she hears the major's voice change, wondering what it could be. And then those magical words come out of his mouth, her heart skips a beat. Her? Lead a flight? She couldnt believe it. "I...don't know what to say, it's an honor." She pauses and tries to get her emotions under control, "Do the Albeans know about it?" She asks, expecting the answer to be no.
  31. [00:43:40] <@Oxford> He seems genuinely sad to disappoint her. "They do, unfortunately. As long as we don't know how to make pendants ourselves, they'll have their hooks in us somehow. But this time around, it's strictly a Provision-of-Material sort of deal. We have to ask nicely for them, but we use them however we want."
  32. [00:47:06] <Rosalyne_Holst> "We could steal then from the nov girls to bolster our numbers...maybe then." Damn, "Why me though? I've never held a position remotely related to commanding."
  33. [00:51:49] <@Oxford> "I wouldn't say that. You've been through Officer Candidacy training at the academy, and you've seen more combat than our two other Pendant Users." He shrugs. "I won't lie, we're not working with many options, but you're definately the best among the ones available."
  34. [00:56:57] <Rosalyne_Holst> So she's pretty much the only one that can actually do it. "I won't let you down sir!" She salutes properly. "I take it the Novs have renewed their offensive then?" She doesn't break her salute, "What will be our first assignment?"
  35. [00:57:58] <Rosalyne_Holst> "And regarding the others, when did they go AWOL?"
  36. [01:01:48] * TemporalMech ([email protected]) Quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds)
  37. [01:03:38] <@Oxford> "They've been missing for a few days now. No matter what the Alb brass say about the girls being 'reassigned', those blowhards are actually pretty spooked by this one. Our former friends were up at the top of the Alb's Pendant Program, so to have them bail is pretty damning. I think that's part of why you're being released."
  38. [01:04:52] * ForestFairyOfApathy ([email protected]) has joined #WorldWarBurst
  39. [01:06:05] * Rosalyne_Holst ([email protected]) Quit (Quit: Leaving)
  40. [01:06:29] * Firespitter ([email protected]) has joined #WorldWarBurst
  41. [01:06:56] * Firespitter is now known as Rosalyne_Holst
  42. [01:07:12] * ForestFairyOfApathy ([email protected]) has left #WorldWarBurst
  43. [01:08:00] * ForestFairyOfAmnesia ([email protected]) Quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds)
  44. [01:08:37] <@Oxford> "As for the offensive, you're as sharp as your old man. And a lot curvier," he adds, leering sidewise at her. "They've gotten a bridgehead and the Albs are dragging their feet about the counterattack."
  45. [01:12:09] * Rosalyne_Holst hmmms, being at least glad that the Albean brass was freaking out, "You pretty much told me earlier." She says politely and she completely ignores his lousy behavior. "So about my team when will I meet them? How are they like?" She breaks down to the curiousity. "Are we going to help halt the Novgraandi advance?"
  46. [01:17:42] <@Oxford> "We'll be picking them up on the way to the front. They're like you, more or less: loyal Cimbrians trying to do what's right, or something like that. They're less experienced than you, but I'm sure they'll learn quickly." For once, he decides not to make that sound suggestive.
  47. [01:21:19] <@Oxford> "And our goal," he adds, before she can interupt, "if I can stop you from piling on any more questions, is to make those Nov bastards pay. I don't want their advance stopped: I want it crushed."
  48. [01:22:42] <Rosalyne_Holst> 01:24 Rosalyne_Holst And Rosa is thankful for that, she gulps at her next question, "What about my father? Is he safe? Out of immediate danger?"
  49. [01:30:39] <@Oxford> "Out of immediate danger, yes," the Major says, "but safe, no. He's running liason with the Albs from Wadden. After he turned up alive when he should've been dead, the higher-ups decided they wanted him out of the limelight for a while. Heroes are great when they're dead, but alive they cause all sorts of difficulties. Why, they might even disagree with you!"
  50. [01:30:46] <@Oxford> He puts his hand to his chest in mock outrage.
  51. [01:37:59] <Rosalyne_Holst> "Yeah well, if letting people who know what theyre doing die is heir recipe for victory we jus have to prove hem wrong." She says confidently and then takes a good looks at Vesteergard, "Its going to be until the end of the war before I see you again in anything remotely decent, right? At least shave every few days or drink where we cant see you." Rosalyne complains, "It's embarrasing."
  52. [01:46:34] <@Oxford> He rubs at his unusually-smooth cheek ruefully. "Worried you won't get promoted if your CO isn't popular with the higher-ups? I made it this far, didn't I? It's amazing what a few service medals do to spruce up a sloppy uniform."
  53. [01:48:10] <@Oxford> "But gosh, I'd hate to embarass you," he continues, too amused to let it go. "Tell you what, when we get to the base, I'll let you out of the car early and you can walk in alone, so you won't be seen with me."
  54. [01:50:05] <Rosalyne_Holst> "I will tie you to a chair and shave you if Your beard grows too long, remember that." She says ignoring his mentioning of letting her off the car early, surely he's joking, right?
  55. [01:55:09] <@Oxford> "See, if you tempt me like that, it might just happen," he says with a grin. The lecherous officer in the starched-white uniform gets up and heads to the door to stop her from retracting the offer. "Get your stuff together and meet me at the car in five. We have a lot of work to do."
  56. [01:55:27] <@Oxford> /minisession
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