You won’t take me, you won’t break me,

[out_of_time]

WHO: The Dependables.
WHERE: Iron Crown, caves on the south side of the island- Dolvanian territory.
WHEN: Forward-dated to early morning on the 1st of August [Dolvanian time].
WARNINGS: Violence, possibly. Scratch that, probably.
SUMMARY: Welcome to the Iron Crown island. The sun is just coming up, the air is clear and windy with a chance of flurries, and the thermostat reads as too damn cold. The team arrives on the island, sets up camp, and conducts reconnaissance of their target. Last-minute plans and problems develop.
FORMAT: Paragraph to start, anything afterward. Two threads here- one for settling into the camp and one for taking a discreet look at the target.

Jack took his first breath of cold Dolvanian air as he felt the effects of Zatanna’s magical teleportation pass over him. In the blink of an eye the team had gone from the East Coast of North America to this desolate rock in the Pacific. It was a hell of a trip, but they had no time to be disoriented.

“Let’s get this place sorted out,” he whispered. “Geddoe, start setting up a camp. We need to do a perimeter sweep to make sure no one’s around, then get the parachutes out to make it look like we airdropped in.” As he talked he was already shucking a heavy black bag off his shoulders and zipping it open, taking out supplies. “Once we’re set, we’ll do an initial recon of the target.”

The mission was on.

Comments

[gofortheoptics]

"As ready as I'm going to be until we get some intelligence on this place from the ground. Satellites can miss to many things for me to feel confident until we've got as much information as is available."

She smiled in return, though, even if she was feeling a little drained by the cold.

"What about you?"

[newbvampire]

She shrugged a little. "A bit annoyed I have to hang back and support all of you from a distance. I'm used to being the one that kicks in the door for something like this, but I can't really do that without giving us all away."

[gofortheoptics]

"I understand. I'm not exactly thrilled with having to go in there looking like this instead of in the form I'm more comfortable using, but the same reasoning applies." It wasn't as if there were any other quarians on this planet.

[newbvampire]

"Now I feel bad for complaining. At least I get to keep looking like me." She also felt bad because the weather wasn't bothering her at all, unlike everyone else. The cold weather clothing she had on was only there to keep up appearances and even then she was only wearing absolutely what she had to so she wouldn't be slowed down.

Sighing, Seras glanced up at Tali's drone. "You know, when we get back I really need to pester the commissioner to give us the funding so you can make some of those for ESU."

[gofortheoptics]

She lets out a small laugh, shaking her head. "If you can convince them to take on that sort of procedure, I think I can arrange something." She'd always keep the emergency shut down codes, of course, but maybe it would help to build some credibility on her end as far as being a useful member of society.

"And really, it's not so bad. I mean, this form has its advantages. If I get shot, I'm not in quite so high a danger of getting an infection and dying.

[newbvampire]

Seras was smiling and nodding until Tali mentioned infections. It was first she had heard about any Imports having issues with it. "Really? I know you're not human, but can't your body adapt to our diseases. Can't they give you immunizations, or something?"

[gofortheoptics]

She shakes her head. "It's a systemic problem with our immune systems. Immunizations help, of course, but our bodies just aren't equipped to deal with any sort of pathogen."

She pauses. "Our planet had mostly beneficial infections and bacteria, and then we lived on clean ships."

[newbvampire]

"Oh...that makes sense now." That had to be awful for her people if it was that bad, worrying about catching even a common cold. Tali really was risking a lot more being here than she was. "I'm sorry."

[gofortheoptics]

"It's -- all right, really. It's kind of refreshing to think that if I get shot, I might only be in the hospital for a few days instead of a few weeks." Or months, depending on how bad the infection was.

[newbvampire]

"That is better, but still, try to not get shot alright? If anyone has to be shot I'd prefer it was me, I'll just regenerate." Though that might blow their cover, but if it came down to letting someone get hit, or revealing what she was, Seras was going to step in front of those bullets.

[gofortheoptics]

"I'll try, but you know how battle can be." Unpredictable, hard to prepare for -- all the things they tried to drill into you in your training but that never really sunk in until you were hiding underneath a tarp to hide from your enemies long enough to jump out at them.