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Post by Kaotic on Feb 8, 2014 21:49:37 GMT -5
"i think it's the perfect thing to laugh at." Leena stated. "And i figured you'd decline the information but i'll give it anyway." The child in question is called by Aiden. He lives in the Air territories floating capital with the high ranking counsel member Ninnatta. The only one who knows the details about the where, who, and how his spirit animal was removed is that boy." She smiled. "So if you decide you can't control yourself any longer I suggest you find the boy." She laughed. "I believe he was around twelve or thirteen. Honestly still a child." She turned as her brother entered the tent and yawned. "You missed a stressful debriefing. and now we really must discuss the state of my favorite camp." She narrowed her eyes "Dear brother I do recall telling you not to alert the men of my absence. Am I to believe they have been behaving so poorly with the believe i was present?"
Lethe sighed. "Lenna, your absence was known the moment you left camp. Truely, it's wonderous you didn't know that would happen." He spoke to her sweetly but with honesty. "And now that your back I think you'll see the men will shape up without any words from me." He grinned. 'this tension in the air she causes can probably be felt throughout camp.' he thought to himself.
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Post by mobsterlicous on Feb 8, 2014 22:18:04 GMT -5
Bain coughed and turned away. "Some of the chaos may have been in due part to me and my friends." He recalled the day he had come on behalf of Sina. "Me and another antagonized the fire head. Then we had a small duel that flattened half of the tents."
John slapped Bain in the back of the head. "You were the one who did that?" He ran a hand through his hair. "I'm heading out to do the morning routines." John went out and gathered the men.
Bain stood in John's tent with Leena, and Leethe. There was a very thick tension in the air emanating from the woman. "So.... this is kinda awkward." He shuffled his feet scratching the back of his neck.
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Post by Kaotic on Feb 8, 2014 22:27:38 GMT -5
Leena sighed. Your right Lethe. I should have known." She frowned. "But these men need to learn to function and rely on themselves. You know my presence is needed elsewhere."
Lethe groaned. "Speaking of elsewheres, there's an issue in number five that needs tending to."
Leena glared at her brother. "You want to leave me to clean up your mess." She accused. "I see. Just go pack your things."
Lethe paused. "I think it might be a good idea to take John and few of the men. They need to be tested."
Leena nodded and as Lethe left she looked to the new man. "Bain. May i ask as to why your visiting my classified camp for a second time?" She yawned again. "I'm overlooking the first one because my sources tell me you had a very injured young assassin that needed tending."
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Post by mobsterlicous on Feb 8, 2014 23:03:19 GMT -5
"Ah yes sorry about that, but as you said Sina was very injured." Bain twiddled with the new length of his hair. It had been awhile since Sina cut his hair with her daggers. "John is an old friend, and when I was informed that assassins were coming after him I came to check on him." He grabbed his double bladed sword and stabbed it into the ground. "I owe him my life you see, so I thought I owed him at least this much."
John ran back into the camp after finishing their morning run. The men appeared tired, but they were not breathless like the first. "Good run gentlemen!" He grabbed a sword from the nearby quartermaster. "Now start sparring!"
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Post by Kaotic on Feb 8, 2014 23:22:45 GMT -5
Lethe caught sight of john and gestured for the man to join him in his tent once he finished up there. If he wanted to pull john into this he's have to make the man choose a few officers. It was due time for them to begin forming a chain of command that didn't depend solely on his sister.
Leena sighed. "If Lethe plans to take john out of the camp, they'll be looking for both men to join their party and man to look after the camp in john's stead." She looked at Bain. "I sugest you decide where you'll be the next few weeks.
OOC; i have no idea what i'm sending them to do btw... i'm going to have to stir up some trouble someplace... wanna help?
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Post by mobsterlicous on Feb 8, 2014 23:42:38 GMT -5
OOC: Jack Walters is always looking for trouble.
IC: Bain looked surprised, and a little befuddled. "Are you asking me to help with whatever you have schemed? You just met me."
John noticed Leethe and tossed a man his sword. "You take my place." He ordered. John followed Leethe into his tent. "God Leethe this place is a mess. Anyway why did you need to see me."
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Post by Kaotic on Feb 9, 2014 11:27:30 GMT -5
Lenna laughed. "I don't care for your involvement in one of my brother's brawls one way or the other." She sat down on johns cot and leaned back. "Lethe just hinted that he'd be taking John and a few men of John's choosing along for the ride." She looked up at Bain. "You seemed to want to stick with him." She laid back and shut her eyes. "And you were looking pretty bored if I do say so myself."
Lethe glared at the mess like it caused itself and turned to John. "A Fire's catching that needs tending." He told him. "You've been asking for me to set you and the men up for some trouble and here it is." He kicked a pile of books of a chair and threw himself into it. "But first I need you to tend to a few things. First this garbage heap of a regiment needs a chain of command." He sighed. "Our dear commander has the spy network as well as all supply chains set with several backups prepared, and has left it to me to deal with the actual fighters." He sighed; he so hated having to deal with these things. "My sister, Myself, then you, then all the men. that's our structure here and as you can guess that's neither productive or safe as the entire camp depends solely on three lives." Lethe propped his hands behind his head and dropped his feet on top of the pile of books. "Since your the head of the camp now and It'll be you dealing with it, I'm putting you in charge of hashing out a lower structure among the masses." Lethe smiled lazily, he obviously just didn't want to bother with any of it himself. "Hell, I'm starting to sound like Lele"
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Post by mobsterlicous on Feb 9, 2014 16:45:50 GMT -5
John nodded deep in thought. "Not sure I trust someone enough to put them in charge." He patted his sides looking for his cigs, once again forgetting he was out. "The only ones I trust to look over the camp are you two and Bain, and he's not even part of us." John sighed massaging the back of his neck. "How many men do you want as officers? I'll try to find the ones most loyal, and liked throughout the camp."
Bain looked deep in thought. "Thanks for the offer. And yes I would like to stick around. I've had copious amount of free time since my party finished what we needed done." Once again he went back to twiddling the ends of his hair on the back of his head. "Give me some time to think about will you?"
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Post by Kaotic on Feb 9, 2014 18:32:32 GMT -5
Lethe pinched the bridge of his nose. "The number of officers would depend on how many men you think each could handle." She sighed. "I'd say 25 men for the less reliable; 50 for the better ones. with roundabouts 400 men here we're look'n somewhere between 8 and 16 men." And you'd need to track down the best runners and have them each assigned to a separate unit as well."
Leena nodded. "Like I said, I don't care. you decide to stay, see Lethe or John about it. the structure of my soldiers are their responsibility." She remained relaxed on John's cot, seriously considering just sleeping there.
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Post by mobsterlicous on Feb 9, 2014 19:27:49 GMT -5
"I'll split the difference and go for 12." John turned to leave the tent. "Tell me when you're ready to head out Leethe." He walked out and among the men busy sparring. 'Alright I'm gonna need 6 corporals, 4 sargent's, and 2 captains.' He thought to himself as he motioned for runner to come to him. "Listen I want you to bring." John listed the names of 12 men he thought could handle the job. "Tell them to meet me in my tent in half an hour." The man nodded and ran to gather the men John asked for. John went back to his tent finding that Leena and Bain were still there. "Just the people I'm looking for." He turned to Bain. "Bain I have a favor to ask you. Me and Leethe are going out looking to solve a problem. I just arranged to have some soldiers promoted to officers. What I want you to do is stay here and make sure they do their new jobs right, as long as it's okay with our beloved commander."
Bain nodded his head. "Of course, I owe you one John you know that."
John turned to Leena. "How about it Leena will you let him. If it accounts for anything I trust Bain immensely, I've know him for awhile now."
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Post by Kaotic on Feb 9, 2014 20:25:36 GMT -5
Leena laughed. "Seems you don't get the time to think about it after all." She told Bain. "And as for my permission," She opened her eyes to look at John. "I was just telling Bain you'd be asking for his help in either the camp or whatever you and my brother are cooking up." She smiled. "And when I offered him the option of sticking around he said he wanted to think it over for a while." She looked back and forth between the two then pulled herself up off John's bed. "You know John, I'd be careful what you ask of Bain here. The indebted have a tendency to go too far in the name of "owing" their benefactor." she walked past them and stalled at the entrance. "Make sure to turn in a complete description of your chosen command chain and how it'll be run." With that she left John's tent and headed to her tent to change and then punish her sorry excuse for a camp.
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Post by mobsterlicous on Feb 9, 2014 20:56:08 GMT -5
Bain watched Leena as walked out of John's tent. "She's more of a B**** then Serena will ever be."
John smacked him in the back of the head. "Watch your tongue Bain. She's our commander." He heard a rustling from outside his tent. "That must be the men I asked for wait here until I'm finished."
Minutes later John came back into his tent. "Alright that settles that, I have my officers." John grabbed his knapsack from the corner of the tent and put some necessities in it for the trip. "Bain follow me we got to go talk to Leena, and Leethe."
Bain followed closely behind John as they walked. "Alright John, how is this going to work out." He was talking about the previously before mention command chain.
"Simple. The higher officers, such as the captains have domain over the officers below them. The sargents have domain over the corporals, and the corporals have domain over the regular troops." He motioned to Bain. "Now I want you here so you can keep these officers in check. Consider yourself my right hand man for the time being." John went to grab a cigarette for third time realizing he was out. "Dammit I need to buy some more. Anyways since I have an even amount of high class officers, you will be the one to break the vote if theres ever a group decision, and thats only if Leena isn't there." John gave a very serious look. "Listen to Leena, this is her operation. Not yours." They came into view of Leena and Leethe's tent. Him and Bain quickly walked in. "Leethe I have my officers, and am ready to leave when you are."
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Post by Kaotic on Feb 9, 2014 21:44:55 GMT -5
"john?" Lethe called from the inner chamber of the tent he shared with His sister. "Sit tight for a bit I'll be out in a sec."
Leena slipped into her black boots and propped her foot on Lethe's leg so he could lace them as she pulled on her matching jacket. "So what is it your getting them into exactly?" She asked. "All you said was it came from the fifth."
Lethe hooked the last loop and looked up at his sister. "I know you said the fire territories were the best bet for our first target, and i agree that he government there is the least stable." he released her lag and stood up. "But the fifth caught wind of a conspiracy in the wind."
Leena gasped at this. "No. If the territories start colliding before we have a stable foothold..." She narrowed her eyes. "Were are the reports?" She needed to understand this situation herself.
Lethe smiled. He knew she'd want to control this. "Fine come here, but I ask you leave it to me this time." He walked out into the main room and over to the desk with Leena hot on his heels.
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Post by mobsterlicous on Feb 10, 2014 1:18:20 GMT -5
John nodded at their entrance and went into detail about the command structure he had built to Leena as she had ordered prior. "So Lethe when are heading out?" He questioned. "I've been going a little stir crazy staying here, oh and does anybody have a pack on them." Once again he patted himself down for cigs that were not there.
Bain turned to his friend. "You know those things will kill you." He said smirking. "You better watch yourself out there John." Bain patted his friend on the back.
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Post by Kaotic on Feb 10, 2014 15:08:06 GMT -5
Leena oked John's choices as she committed each to memory. She read over the papers Lethe handed her. "Fine Lethe, I'll leave this up to you." She tossed the reports into the fire. "But try to keep any trail you leave from indicating us."
Lethe held out a half filled pack to John. "If You plan to leave your friend in charge of your men, go give him a rundown of the camp and the men's schedule. We'll leave after sun down."
Leena smiled at Lethe. "If the wind is kept a little under pressure that's fine. They'll most likely be forced to form a alliance out of fear of war." She sat as she considered things. "it will make them more difficult to handle later but also set confusion in their elitist hate towards other calgor territories." She started to shift through the mess Lethe had made of her files. "Just keep them from war. we're not prepared for that just yet."
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