FOC Soldier Intro

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Great. Thanks for that. I'll repost what I put in your own threads and add more later today. There'll be info that only you will be party to.

A group of students encountered what seem to be an alien race during a summer camp in Vermont. They were either kidnapped , killed or driven mad with one exception - Mathis Steele.

As an employee of FOC - Federated Oil and Chemical, you are part of a private army serving as a soldier. Your current mission is that of babysitting. You are set up in a base, some way from a farmhouse, on the outskirts of the town of Cobb’s Corners where a group of scientists, students (including Mathis) and your commanding officer, Sam Morrison. The hope is that this group will draw out the "aliens", which your employer, Michael Abelard, has an obsession with. One of the company's engineers, Larry Nekler, is in charge of a field radio at the farmhouse. He is in regular contact and should anything happen, you and your colleagues are on standby, ready for action.

Note that you have never seen these aliens but rumours have it they are real. Others in the army captured one alive though it was stashed in the R and D department. Whether you believe that these things exist or are something more natural to earth, is up to you and depends on your character’s worldview.

Briefing on other assets.


Mathis Steele
Engineering student and survivalist at Misk U and surviving member of last years school excursion to Cobb's Corners. Has supposedly experienced the aliens and even has one of their weapons in his possession. Has shown paranoid behaviour , especially with authority, and had a run in with the local sherriff last year. Described as a loose cannon, you need to keep a close eye on this one.



William Loftus aka Father Bill.
Former Seminary student now studying Philosophy at Misk U. Suspect in the murder of a young woman but never convicted. Considered unstable and possibly addicted to various substances. Ran in with Mathis following the Vermont incident and has helped investigate The Enemy since.



Clive Woolfe
Metallurgy student at Misk U. Also fell in with Mathis after the Incident. Important asset as last person to see Professor Learnmouth alive, a metallurgy expert with knowledge of Pasquallium, a vital mineral that The Enemy are seeking.


Eugene Gruber
Russian/German Lab assistant for FOC, working with Dr Sarah Matherson.
Has joined the team to assist in research


Dr Sarah Matherson
FOC scientist and expert in the Enemy.
Matherson is supposedly the one that interviewed the Enemy that was captured. She is present with the students to research any materials discovered on the trip. Close confidant of Michael Abelard, head of FOC.


Professor David Drake
Psychologist and Historian, employed by FOC to keep an eye on the mental state of the team and assist in historical research of the area.


Doctor Walter "Doc" Crenshaw
Alienist
A friend of Drake, Crenshaw was drafted in on contract to follow the psychological behaviors of the team. Bound to a wheelchair, will need assistance to get around.


Larry Nekler
Engineer
FOC employee and close friend to many of the soldiers employed by FOC. Larry will control the radio on the researcher's side.


Captain Sam Morrison
Security chief of the team and your commanding officer.
Captain has been heavily involved in the hunt for the enemy and is well respected by all the soldiers at FOC. He will act as security for the team for the duration of their visit.

The Enemy

The Enemy as they are referred to in FOC headquarters are supposedly an alien race of flying insect type creatures, also known as the Mi-Go. Personally you know very little about them except they are dangerous, they use technology beyond our current understanding including the ability to transfer minds from one vessel to another. As a result, they have agents walking around in human bodies, indistiguisable from other humans, which makes Abelard incredibly paranoid about everyone, even his employees.
The creatures seem to be fascinated with a mineral called Pasquallium, found in the Vermont hills. Part of the original expedition (secretly funded by FOC) was to locate this material. This expedition (unbeknownst to the students) is to use them as bait, draw out the enemy and track them to their base.

Mission Priorities:

Kill or capture any Mi-Go encountered

Locate and infiltrate base of operations of The Enemy (possibly somewhere in the hills north of Cobb's Corners)

Protect FOC employees

Protect the students

Now....

It seems like it’s been weeks, not just a few days that you’ve been sitting in the camp in the Vermont woods. As beautiful as the place is, babysitting a bunch of scientists and students from a distance is a far cry from your military experience but FOC pay well, even when there’s nothing to do. No-one among the 24 man squad have seen the Enemy, but rumours are abound.
They are from outer space
They steal people and transfer brains into their bodies
They have weird technology
They bleed and turn to green goo when killed.

That last one sticks with all of you, if they bleed, they can be killed, but that doesn’t stop you being on edge that you might have to face something not of this earth.

On the other hand , Mr Abelard, owner of FOC, might just be crazy. He blames The Enemy for the death of his family and wants to wipe them off the planet, but an alien that can look like a human, indistinguishably so, is a convenient conspiracy theory for a crazed mind and his paranoia, even with his own people, is obvious.

Larry Nekler, the engineer at the farm house, remains in regular contact. The house has been reinforced and trapped up the wazoo so nothing can get near. The only excitement came in the shape of a pig wandering into a trap. You imagine they ate well that day.

Although you don’t know everyone well, you are familiar with your own Group.



Group One

Sidney ‘Sid’ Holister - (33) Former Marine from Boston . Group lead and third in command of the expediion
Elijah Hollister - (28) Former Marine from Boston. Sid’s cousin
Michael Hughes - (40) Former Military Mechanical Engineer from Texas
Johnny jones - (25) former soldier from Boston
Barry ‘Taffy’ Evans - (31) driver, former soldier from Cardiff, Wales
David Schonower - (26) Former soldier from New York

After three days of total boredom, there comes a frantic call from Nekler. They need a squad, ASAP! Grabbing weapons, six of you that make up squad one, leap into a truck and burn off toward the farmhouse with Taffy at the wheel.

The truck tears through the night and pouring rain, toward the farmhouse. Drills over the last few weeks have made you familiar with this terrain and though you've not met the students or researchers with the exception of Nekler and Morrison, you are sworn to keep them alive and right now it seems they're in trouble. Approaching the house, you see their two vehicles out front, people hurriedly piling into them. Suddenly you see something looming out the darkness at the back of the house, towering overhead.It looks like a massive tree but it's moving, smashing up the reinforced rear of the farmhouse. Taffy slows as you pass the students and you shout out the window for them to get to home base. Before you get a response, the truck flies down the side of the farmhouse and rams into the base of the tree.

Sid Sanity loss

ooc: What's going on with the game right now?

Frozen in a mixture of fear and confusion, no-one acts. The huge branches of the tree swing like massive flexible tentacles.

Taffy slams the truck into reverse, tearing backwards in a rush of brush and wood. Pulling back a short way he revs then flies forward again.

"Hold on , Boyos!" He shouts as he rams the thing a second time. This seems to do the trick. The thing pulls itself out by its roots, almost massive feet and begins to move away from the house and across the field behind.

Watching in horror, several flying figures appear overhead, in the same direction. It's impossible to make them out in the darkness and rain, but they are definately not airplanes, more organic.

Taffy slowly pulls forward into the field and the "tree" is joined by two others and they lurch slowly across the field, with the flying figures overhead. Taffy's mad ramming seems to have driven them off.

"Looks like they're headed to Broken Mountain. It must be their base! Those things, flying, they must be the Enemy!"

"You got it, Sid," nods Taffy, taking it slow across the field. As the field gives way to farm land, the rain has turned the whole area to mud, making the ground difficult but the truck is designed to hard terrain.

Jones gets on the radio, but all he hears is static. Trying again, nothing, then a click and someone responds. The radio transmits loud screams and yelling, "We're under attack, repeat, we're under attack!"

Sounds of Gun fire then static.

Taffy pulls the wheel around, hitting just the right amount of brake to spin the truck around without getting stuck in the mud, throwing everyone around in their seats, before roaring off back toward camp. There's a reason this man is your driver and no-one in FOC handles a vehicle like Taffy.

The rain is not letting up but at least the sight of the flying creatures is out of view, though some of you glance through the windows to try and catch sight of them.

As you fly over the field, once again reaching the now half torn down farmhouse, Taffy instinctively screeches to a halt, jolting everyone. A woman stands alone, just feet in front of the vehicle, waving her arms. You recognise it as one of FOC's scientists, Dr Sarah Masterson.

We will now move to the main thread over at https://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/7823/?p=441056#p441056

"Sid, still no response from the camp," shouts Schonower, having taken the radio from Jones.