Attack on Sanctuary

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It’s just after midnight when the column arrives outside of Sanctuary, shrouded in darkness under the pitch black of a new moon. Bordered by mountains to the north, the city has two primary gates to the West and the East, both of which are shut tight with massive oaken doors, centuries old and further secured with an antique portcullis. The city itself is surrounded by walls of stone, easily one-fourth the height of those found in Union and about twice the height of many of the homes, sturdy stone buildings with triangular roofs, about the same size as Calderan homes. Like Union, there are many towers within the city, but unlike Union, the towers are cold, aloof structures that stand alone with no connection to the other towers. The city itself is stone, cold, gray, and unfeeling, with small drops of light from streetlamps which line the streets, emitting an eerie blue-white glow. This is Sanctuary. Home of the Magi, conquered by Gigas for forty years. This is the city that must be reclaimed.

[OOC: If you did not choose to take the Pokeballs (you don’t have to have affirmed in an NPC thread, it’s entirely up to the character), they may have either 1 large Pokemon or 2 small Pokemon. A large Pokemon is classified as any Pokemon that is 4’ tall or long per the official Pokedex guidelines, anything smaller is considered a small Pokemon. Without the aid of Pokeballs the Pokemon will be required to be out and active throughout the log, and will not be able to be recalled or sent away if they are injured and must be carried if knocked out. As always, please limit yourself to 2 major actions in the log, and declare all Pokemon accompanying you in your first tag to a log. As always, to keep the logs moving, we will be responding every 24 hours.]

Comments

[bnw_sheepy_npcs]

I think I just did, bro.

[ Maeve sighs as well, in much the same manner. ]

About as well as we can, given the circumstances. I've got someone from Sanctuary here, which helps a bit, but right now things aren't looking great. I kind of feel like we've been had here. There's a lot going on I wasn't aware of.

[bnw_wighty_npcs]

Well. It has been a while since we've been here.

I'm guessing you don't mean someone built a new opera house while we were gone, though.

[bnw_sheepy_npcs]

[ Maeve could blow this off like she normally does. "Eh, it's nothing much, just Sanctuary creating abominations. You know." But she was all out of jokes on this one. This was Cielto, and while she was in the presence of the rest of her team, somehow coming up with some chipper way to talk about crimes against humanity just didn't seem worth it. If it were anything else, she'd be a barrel of mankeys, but this was a bit too much. Maeve was quiet, terse, her voice measured and, for once, level.

Maeve was angry. ]

We're listening to negotiations right now.

Sanctuary has been experimenting on Gigan soldiers, living and dead. Homunculi, Valeria called them. They've been picking them up from the front lines, doing... things to them, turning them into monsters.

[bnw_wighty_npcs]

Oh. ...Good.

[Ceilto's tone is blunt as he hears what Maeve has to say. To his sister, who knows him so well, the fact that he has no immediate dry wisecrack on hand is certainly indicative of his anger as well.]

So we've got monsters on every side. Glad we stuck our necks out for this.

[bnw_sheepy_npcs]

I was just thinking the same thing. Too late now. We've got a rapidash in this race.