Eternal
Despite your desire to go on an official mission, you feel that it would be worse to leave one of your team members behind, especially what would lie in store for him.
“I will not leave a member of my team behind. We need to be together to produce the best results, captain.”
“I see. Well, we’ll see how true that is when you’re all cleaning out the toilets. You’re on clean up detail until further notice. That will be all.” Pollo says in a perturbed tone.
You leave Captain Pollo’s office with the bad news to your team.
“WHAT?! I was ready for a fight!” Edgar yells.
“What happened in there?” Roldan asks.
“Yeah, we were going on a proper mission and not we aren’t!” Gerald adds completely oblivious that he wasn’t going anywhere to begin with.
“Look, there will be other times, let’s not dwell on it, we’ve got toilets to clean…”
The rest of your team follows your lead and grumble a bit, but Edgar is doing the most of it. By the end of the day you’ve cleaned up a lot of the fort, but really, this isn’t what you want to be doing.
The next day, Captain Pollo feels that you’ve done such a good job that he says that your talents would be wasted in battle. He feels that other more experienced soldiers can now be freed up from such trivial duties that your team is performing. You’re kept at the fort doing all sorts of menial labor.
Day pass into months and the mocking never stops from the other soldiers in the fort who call you the “mop kids”. This angers all of you, but of course once again Edgar is the one that nearly comes to blows with other soldiers. You have to stop him several times. Eventually his anger is directed towards you.
“Fuck! This shit is all your fault anyway! What the hell did you do to piss off Captain Pollo all those months ago?”
“Nevermind Edgar! And you’re out of line, I am your leader!”
“Hah! Some great job you got us fearless leader! We’re making the Empire safe from filthy shitholes and dirty floors!” Edgar says getting in your face.
Before the others can break it up, you grab Edgar and slam him up against the wall.
“You wanna know what I did? I refused to leave Gerald behind to get fucked by that sick dipshit captain!” you shout in his face.
“What?” Edgar says.
“He…he wanted to fuck me?!” Gerald says in disbelief
“Well it was pretty obvious when we first met him, Gerald.” Brenda remarks.
“Surprised he didn’t just order you to leave him, or more logically order Gerald himself.” Roldan adds.
You let go of Edgar.
“I dunno, I think he’s playing some sort of game. Maybe it’s a test even. Like if I’m willing to leave a man behind or not.” You answer.
“Well I sure wish you had sergeant, because that would’ve been the smart thing to do! So what if Gerald would’ve had to please the captain? It’s not like it would’ve been a big deal. The greater good of the team and the Empire would’ve been better served with the rest of us chopping up some kobolds, not mopping floors and cleaning!” Edgar says unsympathetically.
“HEY!” Gerald replies.
“Right, Edgar, I’ll remember your speech the next time some sicko wants me to leave you behind instead.”
“Look all I’m saying, is you gotta make tough decisions like that if you want to be a real leader! Just think if we were on a mission and you had to leave Gerald or any of us behind to die, to complete it? You would’ve probably froze up and got us all killed. I’m not sure if I believe in you as our leader if you can’t make simple choices…”
Between the monotonous cleaning, the mocking, Edgar’s bitching and your own doubt about your leadership abilities, you can’t take it anymore. You punch Edgar in the face mid-sentence and knock him to the floor, he’s dazed for a moment, but doesn’t hesitate to attack you right back.
The pair of you are going at it which draws the attention of several passing soldiers, who take the time to mock you. This is a mistake on their part as you and Edgar are in a heightened state of anger causing you both to attack them instead. This then escalates into others aiding them, which in turn causes your team to aid you as well.
The brawl is chaotic and counter productive, but for a brief moment you actually feel “alive” again. You imagine most of your fellow Eternals do too after all this is the first “battle” they’ve had in months. Unfortunately Kane feels so alive, he forgets that he’s fighting fellow Empire soldiers and ends up killing three of them.
The brawl ends with the opposing soldiers running and the rest of you standing around looking at Kane who doesn’t know why you aren’t celebrating your victory.
When this is brought to the attention of Captain Pollo he’s furious and has you all put in the stockade and mentions that a trial will be held tomorrow to decide what to do with you. He already doesn’t like you, so you’re guessing it’s just going to be for show and then he’ll do whatever he likes anyway.
“Look, Kane is the one who killed them, he should be the one to take the fall!” Edgar points out.
“For the greater good of the team huh, Edgar?” Warrick replies.
“Damn right! Look you know I’m right! If we try to fight this, the captain is just going to punish all of us!”
“He’s going to punish us all anyway Edgar!”
“And you’re probably right, but Kane here is the only one who’ll get the noose. I mean no offense Kane, but come on even you know I’m right on this!”
As much as you’d like to punch out Edgar again, that’s what lead to this in the first place. Actually if you had just left behind Gerald, this could’ve all been avoided. Maybe Edgar’s right, the good of the many outweighing the needs of the few. You were taught that before in training, you don’t know why you questioning it now.
Still, it doesn’t feel right just throwing Kane to the wolves, just like it didn’t feel right leaving Gerald behind.
“I will not leave a member of my team behind. We need to be together to produce the best results, captain.”
“I see. Well, we’ll see how true that is when you’re all cleaning out the toilets. You’re on clean up detail until further notice. That will be all.” Pollo says in a perturbed tone.
You leave Captain Pollo’s office with the bad news to your team.
“WHAT?! I was ready for a fight!” Edgar yells.
“What happened in there?” Roldan asks.
“Yeah, we were going on a proper mission and not we aren’t!” Gerald adds completely oblivious that he wasn’t going anywhere to begin with.
“Look, there will be other times, let’s not dwell on it, we’ve got toilets to clean…”
The rest of your team follows your lead and grumble a bit, but Edgar is doing the most of it. By the end of the day you’ve cleaned up a lot of the fort, but really, this isn’t what you want to be doing.
The next day, Captain Pollo feels that you’ve done such a good job that he says that your talents would be wasted in battle. He feels that other more experienced soldiers can now be freed up from such trivial duties that your team is performing. You’re kept at the fort doing all sorts of menial labor.
Day pass into months and the mocking never stops from the other soldiers in the fort who call you the “mop kids”. This angers all of you, but of course once again Edgar is the one that nearly comes to blows with other soldiers. You have to stop him several times. Eventually his anger is directed towards you.
“Fuck! This shit is all your fault anyway! What the hell did you do to piss off Captain Pollo all those months ago?”
“Nevermind Edgar! And you’re out of line, I am your leader!”
“Hah! Some great job you got us fearless leader! We’re making the Empire safe from filthy shitholes and dirty floors!” Edgar says getting in your face.
Before the others can break it up, you grab Edgar and slam him up against the wall.
“You wanna know what I did? I refused to leave Gerald behind to get fucked by that sick dipshit captain!” you shout in his face.
“What?” Edgar says.
“He…he wanted to fuck me?!” Gerald says in disbelief
“Well it was pretty obvious when we first met him, Gerald.” Brenda remarks.
“Surprised he didn’t just order you to leave him, or more logically order Gerald himself.” Roldan adds.
You let go of Edgar.
“I dunno, I think he’s playing some sort of game. Maybe it’s a test even. Like if I’m willing to leave a man behind or not.” You answer.
“Well I sure wish you had sergeant, because that would’ve been the smart thing to do! So what if Gerald would’ve had to please the captain? It’s not like it would’ve been a big deal. The greater good of the team and the Empire would’ve been better served with the rest of us chopping up some kobolds, not mopping floors and cleaning!” Edgar says unsympathetically.
“HEY!” Gerald replies.
“Right, Edgar, I’ll remember your speech the next time some sicko wants me to leave you behind instead.”
“Look all I’m saying, is you gotta make tough decisions like that if you want to be a real leader! Just think if we were on a mission and you had to leave Gerald or any of us behind to die, to complete it? You would’ve probably froze up and got us all killed. I’m not sure if I believe in you as our leader if you can’t make simple choices…”
Between the monotonous cleaning, the mocking, Edgar’s bitching and your own doubt about your leadership abilities, you can’t take it anymore. You punch Edgar in the face mid-sentence and knock him to the floor, he’s dazed for a moment, but doesn’t hesitate to attack you right back.
The pair of you are going at it which draws the attention of several passing soldiers, who take the time to mock you. This is a mistake on their part as you and Edgar are in a heightened state of anger causing you both to attack them instead. This then escalates into others aiding them, which in turn causes your team to aid you as well.
The brawl is chaotic and counter productive, but for a brief moment you actually feel “alive” again. You imagine most of your fellow Eternals do too after all this is the first “battle” they’ve had in months. Unfortunately Kane feels so alive, he forgets that he’s fighting fellow Empire soldiers and ends up killing three of them.
The brawl ends with the opposing soldiers running and the rest of you standing around looking at Kane who doesn’t know why you aren’t celebrating your victory.
When this is brought to the attention of Captain Pollo he’s furious and has you all put in the stockade and mentions that a trial will be held tomorrow to decide what to do with you. He already doesn’t like you, so you’re guessing it’s just going to be for show and then he’ll do whatever he likes anyway.
“Look, Kane is the one who killed them, he should be the one to take the fall!” Edgar points out.
“For the greater good of the team huh, Edgar?” Warrick replies.
“Damn right! Look you know I’m right! If we try to fight this, the captain is just going to punish all of us!”
“He’s going to punish us all anyway Edgar!”
“And you’re probably right, but Kane here is the only one who’ll get the noose. I mean no offense Kane, but come on even you know I’m right on this!”
As much as you’d like to punch out Edgar again, that’s what lead to this in the first place. Actually if you had just left behind Gerald, this could’ve all been avoided. Maybe Edgar’s right, the good of the many outweighing the needs of the few. You were taught that before in training, you don’t know why you questioning it now.
Still, it doesn’t feel right just throwing Kane to the wolves, just like it didn’t feel right leaving Gerald behind.