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KingDiamond
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Reged: 04/12/03
Posts: 689
Loc: Germany

Encounters

#142315 - 12/23/06 07:47 AM (128.176.216.116)

Lt. Kimball surveyed the rough terrain of the battlefield, easing his Firestarter up a wooded slope to get a better look at things. He observed a few creaking noises, where armor plates got damaged, making him uneasy. A look at his damage control screen told him that everything was fine, nothing major – just a few scratches in the armor actually. His uneasiness, he told himself, was just the usual paranoia veteran Mechwarriors tend to develop about anything acting not quite normal in their priceless machinery.

He counted the shredded remains of at least a dozen Scorpion tanks in his immediate vicinity. Thin wisps of smoke rising straight into the still air, and an occasional red glow lighting up the trees in the growing dusk marked other spots further away, where about twenty more Scorpions got destroyed.

The Firestarter came to a halt on an open ridge. Apart from the silent humming of his systems, complete silence was around him. The adrenaline level in his blood slowly subsiding, he started thinking over the events of this long day. Those tank crews must have been really green. The clumsy way they moved between the trees, through narrow gorges and up steep hills, the awkward wobbling of the autocannon barrels trying to get a shot at him – apart from a few lucky hits hardly one of them even got a lock on his Mech. He wondered who was responsible for sending a whole battallion of inexperienced tanks into this terrible terrain, and if that person would get away with it. Probably will, as always, he thought. The big heads always do.

Something crackled in the brush a little lower on the slope where he stood. Immediately, he threw around his mech, aiming his Machine guns at the source of the noise. Peeping at his IR scanner, he saw the outlines of a single man, working his way through the thick brambles. When the man cleared the brambles hardly 10 metres away from his mech, Kimball looked into a face pale as the moon. A face so young, he wondered if it ever had close contact with a razor. A thin line of blood trickled down his forehead, darkening the collar of his cadet’s uniform. Apart from that little head wound, he seemed unharmed. The figure froze, eyes wide open, mouth gaping in shock, suddenly aware of the Mech looming over him. For a few seconds he didn’t move at all, a dark stain slowly growing on the front of his trousers. Then the young man fell to his knees, clutching his breast with both hands, as if to hug himself. Through the external microphone, Kimball heard silent sobbing. He stared at the young man for a few seconds, then turned his mech away and moved north, where his lance commander was waiting a few kilometres away. He hit the comm button.

'Harry, you hear me?‘
'Nice and clear', Captain Conklin’s voice came through the intercom. 'What’s up?'
'Did I ever tell you that I hate this job?'

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Markon
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Reged: 02/19/04
Posts: 578
Loc: Australia

Re: Encounters

[Re: KingDiamond]
#142377 - 12/25/06 05:33 AM (144.138.21.73)

Well written, look forward to reading more.

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KingDiamond
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Reged: 04/12/03
Posts: 689
Loc: Germany

Re: Encounters

[Re: Markon]
#142444 - 12/27/06 05:16 AM (128.176.216.116)

Well... actually, I don't really intend to write more. Not about this particular incident, that is. It is just that I complained about the lack of roleplay in public mail a few days before Christmas. Only complaining and doing nothing won't help, though. So I thought that it might be nice to take a noteworthy situation I encounter now and then, and write a short paragraph about it here. A fun LW battle, an arena, whatever. A loose collection of "Nev moments" if you want. Everyone is of course invited to do the same, so that I don't have to cough up stuff every week all on my own, hehe. Come on, guys. The book of encounters needs more chapters. You know you want to :-)

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KingDiamond
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Reged: 04/12/03
Posts: 689
Loc: Germany

Call for contributions

[Re: KingDiamond]
#142456 - 12/27/06 09:24 AM (128.176.216.116)

Thinking about it... maybe I am naive, but I'll try anyway:

Inspired by the HoC archive... lets make 'encounters' a real book. Not a history account, like the HoC archive. More like a collection of remarkable moments I am sure everyone has had on Nev. All of you who like to, write short flicks of any noteworthy incident that comes to mind. Send them to me, hit me up in chat (KD) or post them here, together with a short outline of the situation/conflict in which the incident happened. I will volunteer to edit them together (without changing the actual text of course - authenticity is more important than perfect style), and I'll write a short foreword to every contribution. Lets see if we can get a nice compilation together. Already existing roleplay texts like the DeeDee stuff would be incuded, with your permission.

As I said, probably a naive call, but worth a try anyway. Up to you, guys. Show me how creative you can be :-)

Edited by KingDiamond (12/27/06 09:35 AM)

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