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can i get more info on haas post joseon he was called “sparrow” in this event you also played, and he was the one who gave us the jobayo
so what happened was the kobayashi were drafting foreigners to throw at the ELA (chinese, korean & russian) forces during the invasion of manchuria. ELA forces kind of distrusted each other since they were 3 nationalities fighting to keep the kobayashi out in real meatgrinder situations. trench warfare on a ludicrous scale, thousands dead each hour.
my character wanted to link up with the ELA again to find out where Engel Haas disappeared to (he was a founding member of the ELA-BAF 'merger') so he used an old fake ID to get pressed into service, with him was some other character (who was played by someone I forgot) we'll call bob - some ex-union scientist, @cns - he/him/his's asian captain ex-conscript, and two other guys.
they got thrown in with crude weapons and after the wave before them charged the ELA lines (only to die in the shelling and hit by machinegun emplacements) the four of us went over the top. I pulled back, aimed my gun at the guys in front while hiding in a shellhole and hesitated on shooting them - at first I was simply going to look and wait until they either deserted or died, but Bob ended up striking a conversation about how he wanted an out of this hellscape, so we just decided to have the two of us openly shoot the others, give them a chance to fight us openly and stop us if they could.
cns got shot in the head and I forget if we killed the other guy or he got offed by the event characters. after the kobayashi wave were wiped out, we surrendered and found ourselves interrogated for half an hour before being moved on to beijing.
bob later died of cancer while he was the guest of the ELA months later, something about how he came to manchuria to die in the first place, my mind's pretty blank regarding most of his motivations. my character found Haas and pretty much ceased to be a server presence by then, more content to exile himself away from an insurgency that had long forgotten most of his veteran ilk.
also the map did have snow, it even had snowfall while most of it was barren dirt - I remember that distinctly.
e: went looking for the event convo and while I couldn't find it, I did find this image rp document I made up for some @sots event that came ages after and I wasn't picked for. @slick and @sots shout out for the chaos of the mojave event, flip of a coin and I wouldn't have had the character. still feel bad for how you guys took that gamble, refused the seat and went back to the camp only for everyone to flip out homicidal while me and @john got a free flight out.
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I did give them a good chance, keep that in mind.
only started blasting when they made it clear they were committed to the Kobayashi despite standing in the literal guts of the last 20-ish men sent by them in the last wave.
also man i completely forgot about this event but i had so much fun i always wanted a part 2 explaining more about the artifact found
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