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Sparks Kincade

The Ghoul to the left of the leader's head separated from his jaw thanks to a laser beam fired from Sharpie's rifle. The leader grabbed his fallen partners laser rifle and took up a position behind the remains of a ruined pillar with his remaining non-feral lackey.

"Those bastards, they got Raz."
"Calm down Kevin, we can't let them shake us."
"But Dion we can't just let'em...

Dion put his hand around Kevin's mouth and held on tight enough to send pain through the Ghoul's decaying nerves, he then released his grip and slapped Kevin across the face.

"Just shut up and make sure we don't get ambushed by a Tin can with something to prove."

Kevin put his back to Dion and readied his laser rifle. He spotted two Outcasts he identified as Initiate's and lined up a shot but waited on firing. No point in wasting ammo he thought, let my feral brothers work for their dinner.

Dion poked his head around the pillar to scan the battle field. He was trying to find where the shot that killed Raz had come from, and that is when he saw Sharpie slapping in a hot power cell into a Laser Rifle who's barrel was flaring molten red from near constant fire. A small Fire team had formed around the soldier. Dion ducked back behind the relative safety of the pillar and pushed a button soldered onto his Recon armor which caused 20 of the Ferals nearest him to stop and look directly at him. With two fingers Dion pointed at Sharpie's Fire team and the pack of Ferals rushed towards the soldiers.


On the other side of the yard Sparks, David, and the Rookie were attempting to stand their ground but were forced to be in a constant state of slow retreat, leaving a trail of smoldering, headless, and the knife ridden ghouls in their wake.

"Sir.." The Rookie spoke up after decapitating a Ghoul with his combat knives "I'm no master tactician but we can't keep retreating like this."

Sparks let the trigger off the Flamer and started to screw away at the fuel intake line "I know, I know" He cleared the intake hose and kicked a Ghoul away from he before he lite it up.

"Sir?" He sunk another knife into a Feral skull, forcing him to pull another blade form his leg holster.

"Give me a second." Sparks said as he bashed a Ghoul with the butt of the Flamer arm. He began to scan the greater whole of the battlefield and saw the Feral pack break necking it across the yard toward Sharpie's Fire team.

Sparks, David, and the Rookie all bumped the edge of the concrete wall, slow retreat was no longer possible. "Can't stay here anymore Sir.." he said with a tremble in his voice. 'Damn it' Sparks thought as he tightened up the safety belts on the Flamer. 'Hate running with this thing'.

"See that Fire team, across the bailey." He pointed, and they nodded. "On my mark we break for their location and do not stop until we join up with them."

Pulling a grenade from his ammo belt Sparks yanked the pin out and threw the Frag into the middle of a group of Ghouls. 3... 2... 1... The grenade went off sending ghoul body parts flying

"MARK!"

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David grimaced as he felt his back touch the wall of the compound, they were surrounded. He swore under his breath as he fired a round into another ferals head. He looked over to Sparks as he suggested his plan, David raised an eyebrow again "This is a bad idea..." He mumbled to himself as Sparks threw a grenade into the crowd of ferals.

There was no time to think though, as soon as the grenade exploded, David burst into action, shooting a few more ghouls as he darted across the courtyard. He noticed a large group of ferals running toward the fire team "Look out!" David yelled, opening fire with his rifle and running to the team.

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Sharpie's body was in an adrenaline state. Using his peripherals, he searched the ground for a makeshift, close-ranged weapon that he could use to distract most of the ferals from over-running the camp. Cursing to himself, he continued to shoot the oncoming waves of Ferals.

Peeeww...Chhkk. The last sound his rifle made. A symphony of shots could still be heard around him, but he would no longer be the conductor. Searching his pockets and the floor for nearby fuel cells, he stumbled upon a small blade. As he picked it up, he closely examined it, battered, blood strewn, and otherwise worthless against this many Ferals. I'll keep this just in case... he thought to himself.

Withdrawing his Laser Pistol, he watched as more outcasts were running toward his location. Aiming past them at the Ferals trailing the runners, he shouted, "I'll cover you, just keep running!" Sharpie squeezed the trigger, falling the closest Ferals to the group. This'll be one hell of a day...

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Sparks Kincade

David was leading the charge towards Sharpie's position, picking off stray Ferals that entered their flight path. The Rookie held the middle of the line, making sure that nothing got a hold of David or Sparks who was bringing up the rear, shooting off flame bursts to cover their advance.


Dion saw the three soldiers running towards the position he sent the ghouls and was about to call more reinforcements but noticed that their leaving left the far west door into the fort unguarded. He smacked Kevin and pointed towards the door.

"We're goin' in?"
"Just move your ***."


The three soldiers broke into Sharpie's perimeter and joined up with him and the 2 Knights that made up the Fire team. Myles Walsh was one the Knights and he let up firing his Assault Rifle for a second to welcome the back up.

"Glad to see you boys, got here just in time. You weren't the only things we got incoming."

The six of them opened fire at the coming Ghoul onslaught. Overwhelming fire power ripped apart the Feral advance. The Eastern side of the yard began to filter out as the Fire team continued to annihilate the Ghouls in range.

Is this the end of them? Did we win? The Rookie asked

Edward Billings the other Knight in the team noticed that the ghouls were all advancing to the west and that is when he saw the open door towards the Armory.

"Not yet kid. In fact things just got a lot worse." He pointed to the open door way the Ghouls were pouring into. "We are going to have to go in."

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dbird2

David breathed a sigh, the threat on the outside was gone, for now at least. He slammed another cartridge full of microfusion cells into his rifle and turned to the others "You ready to do this?" He asked, David was, he knew that if they waited much longer the ghouls would murder all of the unprepared Outcasts.

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LeonXIII

Sharpie looked at one of the surrounding members. Looking at a middle-aged man, he asked, "Mind if I use your pistol?"

"Not at all," responded the man, in a rather raspy voice.

"Thanks." Sharpie inspected the gun, making sure it was still in good quality. "Alright Knight, lead the way."

(( sorry, kinda busy, would've made a longer post ))

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Sparks Kincade

One of the surviving Paladin's called for all the Outcasts to form up on his position. As the Strike team of Edward, Myles, David, Sharpie, Sparks, and the Rookie made there way towards the Paladin they passed over dozens of rotting Ghoul corpses dotted with the fresh bodies of Outcasts.

The Rookie bent over to pull the standard issue combat knives off the bodies, preforming a cross motion with his hands after taking there gear. One among the dead was still clasping onto his laser rifle, Myles pulled it from the body and handed it off to Sharpie.

"Saw yours burn out, take it and let it revenge him."

As they approached the Paladin's position they could hear that he was already issuing orders to the survivors that had reached him before they did.

"Charlie, set up a fortification and defend the breach. Delta sweep the outer wall, I don't want anymore of those buggers pouncing on us from the outside." He saw the six new troopers and paused for a second to add them into the strategy. "Alright you boys are going to be Eclipse, go back through the Barracks and work your way to the Armory, maybe you can catch them with their pants down while Alpha and Beta are putting pressure on them from the other side." He looked as Edward for a moment and pointed at him "Knight Billings you are in command of Eclipse, any questions? No, good. Now go."

Members of Unit Eclipse nodded and confirmed with a unified "Sir, yes Sir!" and started to move out.

"Oh Eclipse, if you see Tom tell that son of a ***** to get his *** out here." Sparks smirked and replied with a "Yes Sir!"

Eclipse formed up around the door to the Barracks.

"David I want you taking point, you are a quick shot with good aim. You..." Edward pointed at the Rookie ""What's your name kid?"

"Zane Sir, Zane Lozen"

"Zane you stick with David. I'll follow behind you. Myles I want you behind me followed by Sharpie. Sparks I want you bringing up the rear, you see a ghoul you toast it."

"Golden Brown or Black?"

"Cut it out Trooper. Now let's hope the Ghouls haven't worked there way this far in yet but I'm not going to risk anything. On three I pull the door then it's all you David."

Laser rifles hummed back to life, and Sparks re-lite the pilot on the flamer as Edward gripped the door knob with his left hand, his right held up three fingers.. two fingers.. one finger..


((Seems I have made a fairly large error in the basic architecture of Fort Independence. For some reason I just defaulted to how the Pentagon is layed out in Fallout 3. This is an Arial shot of Fort Independence.



Also we're made some big breaks from Outcast canon. All of the Outcasts, each and everyone of them are former members of the Brotherhood of Steel and they broke off because they felt that Elder Lyons had lost sight of the Brotherhood's true mission to collect the remaining technology that could one day restore the world to a more welcoming place. Outcast Morgen who guards Fort Independence says "We don't talk Walk-ins, Lyons might be we don't." David's back story is fine (expect for your line "Hopefully we won't run into any members of the Brotherhood. When I was there, we were told to shoot Outcasts on sight." You shouldn't have been in the Brotherhood if the Outcasts already existed, and the Brotherhood does not want to murder any of it's members) and mine just needs a slight retcon. Sharpie didn't go into detail on how he came to be in the Outcasts. If some of the other players rejoin us they may need to retcon some elements as well.

I have also messed up in regards to addressing soldiers by ranks that do not exist in the Outcast lexicon. Paladins are Protectors, Knights are Defenders and Scribes are Specialist ranks, when comparing Brotherhood ranks to there Outcast counterparts.

As for the architecture I could retcon but I think it would be best just to roll with it and I'll some how work in a destruction of the outer concrete wall.

Sorry if I've rambled on at all, I'm just trying to stay as true as I can to the source materiel, please let me know if you have any thoughts or ideas.))

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(( And as for the Pentagon, I thought it was the brotherhood that took control of it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the Pentagon became the Citadel. And yeah, I'll get rid of that line))

David nodded and burst through the door, rifle scanning the room. He turned to the others "Clear." Distant sounds of bullets and lasers embedding themselves into wood and metalwork could be heard a few rooms away. David approached the next door;gripping the handle, he quickly opened the door and burst in. This time, the room was occupied. David swore and began to open fire on the ferals, shooting a few. He stepped aside to let Eclipse squad in, still firing his rifle.

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After Ryan heard the blast in the courtyard he ran to the armory to help the guard in all the confustion he would have been eaten by the ferals if they didn't stick with each other but when they heard the gun shots he told ryan to go and help the others so he started to charged through each hallway killing the few ferals in his way when he saw sparks

LeonXIII

Sharpie dashed through the door, stopping on the left side to allow space for everyone else to come in. Wielding his new Laser Rifle, he began opening fire at the remaining Ferals, dropping the nearest two. "They never stop comming, do they?" Sharpie yelled over the gunshots echoing in the hall, grinning to himself. Looking ahead, he found a fork in the hall. Sharpie signaled David and nodded toward the fork, "Which way?"

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