Phase 3: Mission 153

[soul_mods]

Characters: Grand Canyon mission goers, victims, medics
Location: Grand Canyon
Rating: R
Time: Feb 5, 2009, mission starts at dawn
Description: Event links list.


The scouts had done their jobs well and the mirror deposits its travelers just at the end of the area Shibusen has closed off as their mission target. It's still dawn, the sun barely visible over the horizon. The witches hasn't noticed them there yet, the scouts say, so it's still possible to take them by surprise.

This is what the agents are told: In the rock face of the Grand Canyon is a cavern system made up of many small caves and three large ones. The large caves contain a kishin egg pit, the kidnapped agents and civilians, and what appears to be a machine at one end. There are about five dozen zombies crawling the area, and an equal number of ants, spiders, and ravens on top of it.

Worst of all, the scouts report that they had sighted a few of the agents patrolling for the Witches. The scouts hadn't been certain if these ones had soul perception or other abilities, and had given the area as much space as they could in order to avoid an early confrontation. Still, it's bad news and it looks like a fight with some of the kidnappees themselves is inevitable.

Not much time is given to the agents after the briefing before they're being ushered into place. A few scouts are going to be causing a commotion some distance away to distract the familiars and zombies, clearing a path for the agents. After that, it's all up to them.


[ooc: Just put up your own threads with the subject line [Characters][Feeding Cave/MMM Cave/Kishin Egg Pit/Elsewhere][Open/Close]
Kidnappees can go thread in the caves while waiting for the rescuers, too.
For those who want to thread with a witch, please add it in the subject line so we know where to go!
This day change will be one week irl.
The mirror will stay open for anyone who needs to be rushed back to the medics.
For those handwaving, please put your summaries here for the meister points and soul tally record.]

Comments

[of_the_faint_smile]

She was quickly reminded of Yuuri's naivete with his question, and this business of killing Kishin Eggs was hard enough on him. She shrugged her shoulders, not certain of the reasoning either. "Some humans just do that for a purpose we may never understand."

She stepped in under another sweep of the claws before cleaving the Kishin Egg in front of her in two. She then moved on to the next.

[a_royal_flush]

He fell silent for a moment while considering what she'd said. Glancing away, he watched the few Kishin Eggs off in the distance while he considered it. Yuuri didn't think that he'd ever understand why someone would want to do anything like that, and then shuddered lightly as he remembered Doctor Crane and what he did in the city.

"I guess it would just remain a mystery," he muttered lightly.

[of_the_faint_smile]

Teresa nodded her head in regards to Yuuri's agreement, and she knew that the minds of those who felt such needs would always elude her. In some ways, she just accepted that it happened, which was also probably why they were on this mission to begin with. Clearly the witches were experimenters who were using citizens from Death City for the purpose of completing some kind of research.

She didn't bother herself about it though, and she continued to do what she did best. She fought, moving through more of the Kishin Eggs with the help of her Weapon.