👽・off-topic

[silver moss]

Quite literally big boned

[waxen crystal]

I remember loving working out

[silver moss]

Dude it’s my pride and joy for whenever I got the energy

[waxen crystal]

Then I plateaued.

[silver moss]

I gotta get my shit fixed up

[minor summit]

Same

[silver moss]

Sleep schedule, hydration, workout schedule, homework

All that stuff

[waxen crystal]

Man, fuck math. Hated doing that shit

[silver moss]

For real

I need the basics, and maybe some trajectory stuff

I need more airsoft gear

Got some kits in the works

[waxen crystal]

Whatcha got?

[silver moss]

In the works, I’ve got USMC, Russian Ground Forces, and USEC

USMC is the first in line

Cuz I got the boots and the uniform

[waxen crystal]

Right

For the Russians, do you have Ratnik systems?

And USEC is escape from Tarkov right?

A lot of PMCS will have standardized equipment. Given than USEC works for a company that does whatever the fuck and has plenty of money and pull, which means special licenses and permission to import weapons into the country, probably able to get things like M4’s, SCARS, and shit like that. NATO/American weapons.

[silver moss]

I haven’t ordered anything from the Russian list yet

But it’s gonna be ratnik yes

[waxen crystal]

Probably more high end as some operators were able to get things like that.

[silver moss]

My dad is not a fan of PMC’s

Mostly the ones he met

[waxen crystal]

I had an HK416 A5 that I was told I could buy. Just had to qualify for it and have some of my pay check deducted.

[waxen crystal]

A lot of them are former cool guy operators who do that shit for money, company shares and all that shit.

I.E assholes

[silver moss]

my dad said they were just dicks most of the time

[waxen crystal]

Exactly

They get paid the big bucks and all that

[silver moss]

“All those dudes had a superiority complex.”

[waxen crystal]

They do, and I admit I thought I was hot shit too.

[silver moss]

“We get paid more than you enlisted guys, let’s be assholes!”

[waxen crystal]

Until I had a MARSOC/Marine Raider or whatever they call themselves now whip me bloody

Then I chilled out

[silver moss]

If I do PMC work I’ll be a cool guy

I’ll hang out with the homies

[waxen crystal]

Not trying to tell you what to do with your life but make sure you sign onto the right company. Some of those companies aren’t moral and some of the shit they have you do for pay is less than legal/moral

[silver moss]

I might not even do it man

Risking my life for only cash?

Not too worth it

[waxen crystal]

Good money, bad life

[silver moss]

Yeah

[waxen crystal]

Made a lot of mistakes back then. Glad I’m out now. Terminated my contract maybe a year ago with favorable terms for me.

[silver moss]

Good for you man

[waxen crystal]

Only reason I really quit was because I had a really, really weird contract in the states.

Spooky shit.

[silver moss]

How?

[waxen crystal]

Deployed to a secure facility, which already had its own in-house PMC in it. Had full kit, including our rifles, SAWS, and 4 deuces, plate carriers and all that shit, NVG’s, two technicals mounted with deuces, and at least 60 or more personnel just on the companie’s payroll

[silver moss]

Jeez

Guarding some fucking zombie virus?

[waxen crystal]

Made for a total of 150 personnel by my count. We had forward checkpoints with some weird spook tech that could track hear signatures a few hundred meters away, in a goddamn forest.

[silver moss]

Guarding a zombie virus for sure

[waxen crystal]

That’s what me and my guys were thinking

[silver moss]

Someone needs to let it loose so I can do some dying light shit

[waxen crystal]

They had us walking around, weapons loaded, like we were going to fight someone.

[silver moss]

Jeez

Sounds like the type of startup for a payday heist

[waxen crystal]

Don’t know about the other guys but I got an red check plus bonus, which means that it had big bucks and a bonus for being in an active conflict

Other than seeing and hearing some weird shit, nothing happened

[silver moss]

Jesus

[waxen crystal]

So, I got the fuck out.

[cursive walrus]

wtf did i just stumble into

[waxen crystal]

Scared me to hell when I was there

[waxen crystal]

Read above if you want to know.

[cursive walrus]

dont need to tell me twice

[waxen crystal]

Weirdest fucking contract I’ve ever been or heard of.

[silver moss]

Maybe I’ll drift away from contracting

[waxen crystal]

Thinking about it now, all the guys I was contracted with, including my own guys, were all relatively new to the company, with me being the exception. Why send new bloods out there?

Disposable?

[silver moss]

Maybe I’ll just be a motorcycle dude

Bike around the states

[waxen crystal]

That’d probably be better for you.

[silver moss]

Safer

Or trucking

[waxen crystal]

Probably

[silver moss]

That’s always a drive around

[waxen crystal]

Anyway, going to get me a drink and probably go to sleep. Cya fellas

[silver moss]

Sleep well

[waxen crystal]

Probably not

I’m not going to be able to sleep tonight anyway

[sacred reef]

Be happy Dallas, Chains, Hoxton, and wolf didn’t show up

[waxen crystal]

We woulda waxed em

[sacred reef]

Or the entire payday gang

If all of the payday gang showed up you would have been screwed

[waxen crystal]

Nah, we woulda had them on a silver platter

[sacred reef]

You sure you could beat Houston, Jiro, Sokol, Clover, Bonnie, Dragan, Scarface, Rust, Sydney, Sangres, Duke, Joy, Jimmy, John Wick, Jacket, Bodhi, Dallas, Wolf, Hoxton, Chains?

I’d be worried about John wick

Also yes, John wick is cannon

[silver moss]

I’d be worried about jacket too

[sacred reef]

Yeah, both of them

[waxen crystal]

With 150 former military guys armed to the teeth with 50’s, rifles, and a QRF of 90 highly capable operators on standby?

[sacred reef]

The j’s

[silver moss]

The guy has military experience and clears entire apartment buildings by himself

[waxen crystal]

Pretty confident

[sacred reef]

You’d both be armed to the teeth, so that might give you a better chance

[waxen crystal]

But they also operate on video game logic, so we’d eat shit

[sacred reef]

Good point

[silver moss]

But the payday gang has killer music

[sacred reef]

You would lose hard because there the main characters

And you can’t kill the main character

Unless the game calls for it

Mabye the world is just one big game

[silver moss]

You can’t kill jacket

Just press X to restart

[sacred reef]

You can only temporarily stop him

Nah but at some point the pay day gang is just gonna become town sized

[waxen crystal]

Maybe

[silver moss]

Tony, Alex, Ash, Mark, Corey, Jake, Biker, Pardo, Pigman, Henchman, Son, Richter, and Evan are there too

I just named all of the protagonists

[sacred reef]

Oh yeah

Jake

But we like jacket best

[silver moss]

I like all the characters

[sacred reef]

Even Jake?

[silver moss]

Jake has his funny moments

[sacred reef]

I geuss so

Jake Is the racist one right?

[silver moss]

I wouldn’t say he’s racist

He doesn’t like Russians that’s for sure

[sacred reef]

He has a confederate flag

On his couch

I’m pretty sure he’s racist

[silver moss]

Not everyone who reminisces on the times of the CSA is a racist

I mean most of them are for sure

[sacred reef]

CSA?

[silver moss]

Confederate States of America

Or Dixie as a lot of people call it

[sacred reef]

Okay, but what good reason do you have for haveing a confederate flag in your house

[silver moss]

Dude probably has roots in the south

Also the flag is a blanket

He sleeps on his couch

[sacred reef]

Why not use a normal blanket

[sacred reef]

So racist?

[silver moss]

No dude

People lived in the south back then and were completely fine

Not everyone who lived down south had a plantation

[sacred reef]

I know

But if he’s not racist, then why does he own a confederate flag

[silver moss]

Old timey dude I guess

[sacred reef]

Just admit he’s racist

[waxen crystal]

Some people think of it as an expression of freedom and all that

[silver moss]

What Bear said

[sacred reef]

You got to be jokeing

[silver moss]

No joke

[waxen crystal]

I’m not.

[silver moss]

I know people with that flag in their house

They’re cool people

Nice to everyone

[sacred reef]

Why?

[silver moss]

“Freedom!! Raahhhh!!!!”

[sacred reef]

How is it a “expression of freedom”?

[silver moss]

American pride I guess

[sacred reef]

Something that was the exact opposite of freedom

[silver moss]

You should research a lot of American history man

Especially if you are an American yourself

[sacred reef]

Dads American, that count?

[silver moss]

Dunno

I guess

[sacred reef]

He’s from Virginia

Never seen any of his side of the family in person

[silver moss]

I mean there isn’t a true “American” because everyone has ancestry from everywhere else

[waxen crystal]

Because people do. I have no fucken clue, I’m from Missouri.

[silver moss]

Ireland, England, Scotland, Europe, Spain, Mexico, everywhere

[sacred reef]

I guess pure Indian Americans would be true Americans

[silver moss]

That is true

[sacred reef]

But I don’t think anyone like that exists

[silver moss]

Native Americans are the only true Americans here

The Natives are really cool

I like their culture

[waxen crystal]

Native Americans are some badass dudes

[sacred reef]

Yeah, there epic

They got all this wacky shit

[silver moss]

I had a friend who was Native, his dad was one of those chicken dancers

[sacred reef]

That sounds so strange out of context

[silver moss]

Not really

[sacred reef]

What is a chicken dancer

[waxen crystal]

We had a guy from a reservation named Otaktay

[silver moss]

This is chicken dancing

[sacred reef]

I do definitely think that the give land back to them was good

[silver moss]

We didn’t give ‘em much

[waxen crystal]

Dude never said a word and was pretty fucking solid. He went on to go Force Recon last I heard

[silver moss]

Never forget what those fucking reserves were for

[waxen crystal]

Exactly

[sacred reef]

Yeah no there’s so much land you could give them

[silver moss]

Those places were just death camps

[sacred reef]

Huge parts of unused land

[waxen crystal]

Reservations remain the poorest places in the nation

[silver moss]

I haven’t met a Native American in a while

Those guys are always cool man

[sacred reef]

Organ, for instance

[waxen crystal]

Oregon?

[sacred reef]

Don’t give them Arizona though

[silver moss]

My school is just chock full of white kids

No diversity

[sacred reef]

Yes

[silver moss]

You got the basics, Black, White, and Hispanic

Nothing else but that

[sacred reef]

Lol my schools hella diverse

[waxen crystal]

Grew up in Illinois, went to a kinda fucked school called Beardstown

[silver moss]

One of my friends has native ancestry but doesn’t practice native culture at all

I still practice some Puerto Rican stuff

[waxen crystal]

Bunch of people there. Indians, Africans, Native Americans from Wyoming way, French people, Germans.

[silver moss]

I’d kill to see some cock fighting again

[sacred reef]

We got your English, Māori, Indian and other countries around, gays, trans, woman, men, Korean, Japanese, and some more

[waxen crystal]

Even have a Russian kid for most of Senior year

[silver moss]

I have a Russian friend

[sacred reef]

Oh yeah some South Africans

Russians

[silver moss]

Pretty weird guy but he’s a hell of a good time

[sacred reef]

My best friend is Indian

[waxen crystal]

Met two while contracting

[sacred reef]

He’s not the best as a friend, but he’s getting better

[waxen crystal]

One was a prick and I hate him and the company he works for

[silver moss]

There was a Russian kid who didn’t speak too much English

[waxen crystal]

The other was a pretty stand up guy

[silver moss]

Moved to US during when the whole Ukraine shit started

[sacred reef]

He get bullied?

[silver moss]

He had to move a while ago

[silver moss]

No not really

[sacred reef]

Surprising

[silver moss]

I wish I got the dudes phone number

He was funny

[sacred reef]

Kids are mean

[sacred reef]

Sounds cool

[silver moss]

He just kept his head down and did his work

[sacred reef]

I know a Russian girl

[silver moss]

Pretty quiet guy

[sacred reef]

She was kinda mean to me

[silver moss]

Russians are always mean lol

I need to go visit my grandparents

Some time

Go swimming and get a tan finally

[sacred reef]

I might go to America for Christmas

[silver moss]

Go to the good places

[sacred reef]

I’ll probably just go to Virginia and La

[silver moss]

Ohh when I visit my Abuela is gonna be so happy with my hair

She loves my long hair

[sacred reef]

Mostly just going for family, and cheap shit

[silver moss]

She says I look like Jesus lol

[sacred reef]

My uncle used to look like Jesus

[silver moss]

Abuelo makes some mean fuckin sandwiches too

[sacred reef]

Then he shaved

[silver moss]

Man is always working around

And maybe my uncle my cousin can visit

[sacred reef]

Every played Minecraft story mode

[silver moss]

Once

[sacred reef]

Whated you think

[silver moss]

Not good

[sacred reef]

How come

Which reminds me I need to get Minecraft

[median wind]

i would consider a shoulder fired rocket launcher a bit more than "suspicious"

well

now that i think about it

not sure

probably fine

[silver moss]

I’d be questioning both

That’s a pretty long sammich

[grand ice]

It’s just the right size if you’re brave enough

[waxen crystal]

Says the man who can throat a cactus

[grand ice]

Sometimes you’ve just got to pay the bills, y’know?

I get fucked daily by Rishi Sunak so copulating with a cacti is just another day in the office

[waxen crystal]

Sad ain’t it?

[grand ice]

Ikr?

[waxen crystal]

You on?

[grand ice]

Not right now, maybe in a few hours

[waxen crystal]

Alrighty

[median wind]

so i played onward

rarely touch this game and it's so easy everytime i come back

[silver moss]

New Oakley hat

[waxen crystal]

Just did the same thing

[median wind]

nice. game is stupidly easy

it plays itself honestly

[waxen crystal]

Pretty much.

[silver moss]

Album cover is fucking funny

Family Guy episode with it was hilarious

I got a book explaining the Marine Corp history and equipment and all that good stuff

[silver moss]

NEW HAT!!

[waxen crystal]

Birthday?

[radiant bison]

I got bit by a Glock

[waxen crystal]

Bite it back

[wise warren]

No boit

[waxen crystal]

Yes boit

[silver moss]

Nah

Birthday is in July

[waxen crystal]

There are plenty of contractors that aren’t former military. Tech guys, maintenance guys, former cops.

But yes, met plenty

Lots of money in that particular buisness and it isn’t all just swole dudes with rifles. A lot of it is cyber security, contracting maintenance, shit like that.

I’ve heard everything from “Operators” to “Those shit heads with guns”

I think operators might be a more official term

PMC’s absolutely love people with former military experience, especially those few who are former Special Operations.

I got an offer right after getting my DD-214

And I was just a rifleman with a few tours under my belt.

I imagine high speed guys get offers when they are still in.

Some companies have specific names for certain teams to “set them apart” which are callsigns

[bronze path]

Under the table offers are made for you to not re-up yes

[waxen crystal]

You heard the guy.

I had the callsign “Bear” which was a joke on me being big and eating and sleeping a lot when we weren’t on a job

To be in anything that has a chance of shit popping off, yes it’s a requirement. PMC’s do not want to train you more than they have to, though they have qualified people to do so. As for training, for me at least and about a dozen others, we got a speech, then they had us do fitness tests over the course of a week, along with fire arms courses and some hand to hand training and demonstrations. We were each scored. They want to determine if you are worth the salary they’ll pay you, so it’s hardcore.

If you have any more questions, I’m right here. If you want to hear some stories of mine for some inspiration, go ahead and ask here or dm me.

[cinder shadow]

https://tenor.com/view/1984-george-orwell-anangryraven-bird-funny-bird-gif-21445844

Literally 1984

[cinder shadow]

https://tenor.com/view/escape-from-tarkov-escape-from-tarkov-ulalala-gif-24363513

[silver moss]

Goals

[dusty zodiac]

A friend did this to me, i had a mixed feeling, didn't know if i wanted to punch him in the face, or, start laugh my ass off😅

[cinder shadow]

Got dam

64 in a 35

[small glacier]

Woops

[cinder shadow]

We do a bit of trolling

[small glacier]

Ten more seconds it would’ve been 100 in a 35

[cinder shadow]

Has anyone here ever had a rule made about them, whether it’s in real life, discord, or whatever?

[small glacier]

What

And no I have not

[cinder shadow]

Alright

[minor summit]

I’ve set a couple precedents in one server, but no rules

You’re in that server

Heh

[cinder shadow]

So last year in school we had a computer lab and people would leave the class, still longed in. It’s ever so slightly annoying and I am very petty, so what I decided to do was to change whoever was still logged in’s wallpaper to hitler. We did this for a few days and about a week later we log in to the computers to see a generic wallpaper with the school’s logo. I’m the reason no one can have wallpapers in my school. I’m proud of it

[minor summit]

I’m the one who set the precedent of pinging people for their suggestions in the onward server

[cinder shadow]

Lol

[waxen crystal]

I was not allowed to talk to the cooks in the chow hall.

I’d get too deep in a conversation, all the while they are spooning food onto my plate

[cinder shadow]

Lol

[waxen crystal]

So I’d walk out with three times the food O was supposed to have and it’d be gone by the time anyone thought to notice

[silver moss]

That’s the strategy right there

How to get more food

[near abyss]

I'm back with another model (not textured and no muzzle break yet) but feedback appreciated 👍 (6k polygons)

[viral pebble]

What's that stock based on?

[near abyss]

It's just a reference image I found online, you would have to ask them

I would link them but I can't find any socials anywhere

[viral pebble]

I was gunna ask if you were inspired by Hera arms lol

[near abyss]

I can definitely see the resemblance now that you say it lol

[median wind]

looks like a gun from titanfall

[near abyss]

Is definitely more on the Sci-fi scale than my other models lol

[silver moss]

Despite being a peanut butter sandwich it had a salami taste to it 😔

[waxen crystal]

What’s coming out the pointy end? Big I assume cause of the small magazine

[viral pebble]

556

the mag is just California compliant

[near abyss]

No mag inserted yet

Can you circle the bit you mean lol

I'm a little bit dumb rn

[viral pebble]

The magwell looks like a mag

Goofy

[waxen crystal]

That bit, sticking out the mag well

[near abyss]

That's just more magwell

Once I'm back in college I'll quickly model the mag so it looks better

[viral pebble]

Ammo must be tiny with how thin the magwell is

[waxen crystal]

Right on

[near abyss]

The lore is it's caseless 6mm

[viral pebble]

airsoft gun lol

[near abyss]

Lmao

If I throw the bb hard enough, it can penetrate 3a plates right

[viral pebble]

Yea, that's what an airgun is

[grand ice]

Ez pen

[near abyss]

Drinks pre-workout and pens a Bradley with a penny

[waxen crystal]

You can penetrate a Bradley with a pop tart

[near abyss]

Russian Badger?

[waxen crystal]

What?

[near abyss]

Don't worry lol

[grand ice]

You can penetrate Bradley with anything if you say the right things

[waxen crystal]

Now I wanna know what your talking about

[near abyss]

A YouTuber called the Russian Badger made that exact joke in a video

[waxen crystal]

Gonna go find him now

Hold on

lol

“DESTROY ALL TAXPAYER DOLLARS”

I’ve heard this guy somewhere.

[median wind]

i've heard badger was a midshipman or something in the marines

[waxen crystal]

Irl

[median wind]

yes

i'm not too familiar with him but i've heard this before

[waxen crystal]

Officer Candidate school?

Swear to fuck I’ve met this guy.

[median wind]

that's what a midshipman is right?

officer candidate but marines

because the don likes to be fancy

[near abyss]

You are correct

[waxen crystal]

Trying to think where I’ve met him. Maybe field?

[median wind]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[near abyss]

Do I go for it lads?

[viral pebble]

Just tried a streets of tarkov raid and my average FPS was 21...

I was playing with another guy and he was saying it was just as laggy for him

[grand ice]

Streets is a fucking hot mess

[near abyss]

God I wish I could play tarkov lol

Gotta get a new pc first

[waxen crystal]

You active duty?

[near abyss]

Nah, not in the military yet

[minor summit]

I wish you the best of luck

You’re gonna get an ass-kicking if you try

[waxen crystal]

SAS is some of the hardest shit you can do

[near abyss]

I know lol, my mate is a royal marines officer and I asked him to test my fitness

[waxen crystal]

The fella that pulled me from that burning SUV? Ex-SAS

[near abyss]

Ended up with me projectile vomiting 3 times lol

Was a good day

[waxen crystal]

lol embrace the suck

[near abyss]

I wanted to go again lol

[waxen crystal]

Good man

[near abyss]

I felt I could have done better

[waxen crystal]

I think you’d like the Marines

The Drills would bully the shit out of you just to see how far you could fo

[near abyss]

Was originally my plan to join, I still need to put on the weight tho

[waxen crystal]

How much you weigh?

And how tall are you?

[near abyss]

Rn 60kg the minimum is 65kg

I'm 5 foot 3 lol

Above the height requirement but not by much

[waxen crystal]

I’m only 5’6 so it works

Short kings and all that shit

[near abyss]

Lol

[waxen crystal]

What do you eat on the daily?

[viral pebble]

With how shit everyone is saying it is to try and get a stable living nowadays the military is becoming more and more tempting...

[near abyss]

Today I had 4 cheese sandwiches at college and 2 burgers for dinner

[waxen crystal]

So your upping your intake?

Bread is good for carbs n shit.

I do not suggest eating junk food to gain weight

That kind is unhealthy weight

[near abyss]

Yeah, trying to gain weight the correct way

That's why it's taking me so long

[waxen crystal]

Want some advice on what to eat?

Try whole-grain breads, pastas and cereals; fruits and vegetables; dairy products; lean protein sources, chicken, fish etc; and nuts and seeds. Try smoothies and shakes. Don't fill up on diet soda and shit, coffee and other drinks with few calories and little nutritional value. Red meat such as steak is good too.

[viral pebble]

My friend loves peanut butter for bulking

He'll have 3 or 4 peanut butter sandwiches a day with extra nuts mixed in

[median wind]

why is everyone here short

goblins of tabor

[grand ice]

Rats gotta be able to fit in the smallest of holes

[waxen crystal]

Exactly

I’m about as wide as I am tall though

I like to think that’s why the name “Bear” stuck but really it’s cause I ate more than everyone else

[median wind]

lmao the middle finger emote

i'm 5'5" so

we all short

rat gang

[grand ice]

My aunts partner’s nickname is bear, I genuinely thought he was going to be a massive chad of a man when I met him - instead he was this 5’1” bloke. Turns out the nickname came about from high school where everyone used to call him Teddy Bear, because he was just so short and cute

[median wind]

lmao

[waxen crystal]

lol

[median wind]

poor dude

[waxen crystal]

My wife called me that once too.

Bear, I mean

Kinda shook me

[grand ice]

Wait a minute… my aunt, her partner… short

[median wind]

napoleon was 5'4" if i remember correctly

[grand ice]

YOU ACTUALLY ARE MY UNCLE!

[median wind]

that is a threat

[median wind]

lmao

[waxen crystal]

Sorry to tell you this way, sport

[grand ice]

Less gooo

[minor summit]

Which was average for his time

[waxen crystal]

@grand ice showering sneaky camera

[median wind]

bro i'm tryna make myself feel better lmao

[waxen crystal]

I’m remembering a man during boot camp we all called “Corn Fed Willy”

Guy was from Samoa or some such and was just fucking huge

Only dude who could match him in height and muscle was someone we all called “Tower Todd”

[cinder shadow]

“Tower Todd” is a name that invokes great fear

[waxen crystal]

Tower Todd was a badass sumbitch

Pretty sure he’s a lifer now.

Guy spoke softly too. Never said much.

[silver moss]

Those things freak me out dude

Saw one up close once

[waxen crystal]

The English are some weird looking people, yeah.

[cinder shadow]

https://tenor.com/view/tf2-meme-british-american-gif-25444423

[waxen crystal]

lol

[waxen crystal]

I ask for the ability to call in Cow Airstrikes

[sacred reef]

I’m 5 ft

And I’m a hobbit

So I’m exceedingly tall

[cinder shadow]

https://tenor.com/view/breaking-bad-fans-chemistry-teacher-gif-25667777

[devout carbon]

bovine intervention

[devout carbon]

nah bruh the dmv drivers ed video be showing off she toes 😭

[silver moss]

The MUTANT GUMMY WORM!!!

[silver moss]

How will the military contain this gummy worm

[grim bobcat]

that is straight gummy penis dude

[silver moss]

It’s a mutant gummy worm

Identified by my highly trusted scientists

[waxen crystal]

My boy has decided he likes my new little rifle

[viral pebble]

what's your new little rifle

[waxen crystal]

Hold on

@viral pebble

[viral pebble]

looks hot

bolt action?

[silver moss]

Nice

[waxen crystal]

Semi-auto

Ten round magazine

Thinking of ordering a 20 round magazine

[viral pebble]

I'll have you know a gun can only be semi if it looks like an ar-15, these are the rules of gun knowledge of as a british person

[waxen crystal]

Forgot your a Brit

5th favorite Brit

[viral pebble]

just tell me it's a bolty before my mind breaks

[waxen crystal]

Sure. An automatic bolty

[viral pebble]

it all makes sense now

[waxen crystal]

Yea

[silver moss]

Fully semi automatic explosive launching with 500 round automatic clip

Forget where I heard that

[waxen crystal]

Got a message from my chaplain

Which is neat

Dude was scary as fuck without meaning to be.

I remember that show. Why’d they fire him?

[minor summit]

some domestic violence stuff

as well as some other hostilities against the cast apparently

[waxen crystal]

Ah fuck

Never liked the show much anyway.

And punching someone who won’t punch back is shitty

[silver moss]

I think it’s getting better

It’s definitely starting to get better

[waxen crystal]

What is?

[silver moss]

Life I guess

[waxen crystal]

Good, man.

Always gotta look up.

Something a good friend of like told me, went something like “When we fall, we fall because the world pushes us. We, the few, get up and push back”

Carved that into his stone vase. Good man.

[silver moss]

I formed a stronger bond with a friend over the last two days

She’s actually a really relatable person and I enjoy hanging out and talking about games and stuff

Some of the largest topics on the board were pizza, fursonas, and some shit about school

I gotta say the Fursona topic was way more interesting than I thought it would be

[waxen crystal]

Fursona?

[silver moss]

Furry thing I guess

Off topic but I finally got gold for the Vityaz today

Was pretty easy tbh

[waxen crystal]

That’s from the new modern warfare?

[waxen crystal]

Always found furrys odd. Ain’t none of my business what people do in their free time though

[silver moss]

That’s true

[silver moss]

Yeah

[waxen crystal]

Have yet to play it, heard the campaign is good

[silver moss]

It’s fun

[waxen crystal]

Once I get more than an hour or so of free time I’ll sit down and play it

[silver moss]

Marines play a small part in it

[waxen crystal]

They did in the first one. That I played

“Demon Dogs”

[silver moss]

Hell yeah

[waxen crystal]

Anyway, I got to get up in a few hours. Night man

[silver moss]

Night dude

[waxen crystal]

Apparently I am “based”

Ignorant ass kids

[viral pebble]

Based

[silver moss]

How so

[waxen crystal]

Something alone the lines of “Oh, you were a mercenary? Dude that’s so fucking based. You ever kill anyone while being a mercenary? Did you get a bonus?”

Not word for word but close enough to what he meant

[silver moss]

Bunch of fucking losers for saying that

Killing people isn’t a fucking tea party dude

[median wind]

yikes

[waxen crystal]

Just kids being stupid. Told him so and he called me “rude”

Used a bit more colorful language than that, but you get what I mean.

Anyway, back to work

[viral pebble]

how old was he?

[median wind]

ah yes, because you're the rude one in this scenario lmao

what a goober

[waxen crystal]

No idea, but younger judging by his profile and username

[silver moss]

Kids are gross

[grand ice]

What a total mouth breather, ey?

[median wind]

lol yup

[autumn sedge]

https://youtu.be/U3i0BDUhoSk

[viral pebble]

the devil is tempting me with more star citizen videos

[waxen crystal]

Heard about that game, didn’t they just drop a big pvp update?

[viral pebble]

I've known about it for ages but when I first heard about it it was really bare bones

I also don't wanna do another elite dangerous grind lmao

[waxen crystal]

Fair

[viral pebble]

I am reinstalling elite dangerous right now tho...

[waxen crystal]

lmao can’t stop the addiction

[iron harbor]

Anyone familiar with the flipper zero?

[minor summit]

Nah, it’s smart

I don’t get people who use the nerd or skull emoji, especially in an argument

It’s kind of a shitty way to try to portray the other person’s opinion (or “take” if you will) as invalid, or to degrade it without saying anything

In my opinion at least

It’s still shitty

[iron harbor]

Well said bro

[iron harbor]

So is anyone familiar with the flipper zero?🤣

[cinder shadow]

how did we get people talking about skull and nerd from kids calling mercenaries 'based'

on god

[strong trout]

yes what about it

[iron harbor]

what are your thoughts? Is it worth the money in your opinion? I've wondered about getting one solely to use as a virtual keychain because I have a mess of rfid tags and cards for things

[waxen crystal]

Exactly. People have set warfare to be this glorious, brave thing that happens when the good guys fight the bad guys. That’s not it at all. Warfare is humanity’s worst invention. It takes all of humanities absolute worst qualities and instills them in people so they can “Kill the enemy”

Call me a hypocrite but I hate war. More than anything. Nothing good comes out of it.

[median wind]

facts

[median wind]

this is true

it's ironic

the only thing that makes lasting peace is a ton of dudes with guns

and nukes

and the sort

even then it's not enough

[waxen crystal]

We gave it a name, and came up with reasons to do it again and again and again. I feel as if we should rise above our nature and try to be better, for our children and our children’s children. We have to be better. Otherwise, eventually, we’ll be nothing but another particle of sand on a beach of extinct species.

[median wind]

yup. but at this rate we will destroy ourselves

if not war, some other way

[cinder shadow]

This off topic chat is only made up of politics or the most brain dead memes

[iron harbor]

I was about to say lmfao this is off topic but damn boys I wasn't ready for all this haha

[median wind]

eh, wouldn't say politics

[cinder shadow]

Close enough lol

[median wind]

pondering the state of the universe

[cinder shadow]

More or less the same

Both are things I don’t like to think about

[waxen crystal]

I know that, death is a/ natural part of existing as life and that’s why I’m not afraid of it.

[median wind]

^ why be afraid if you can't stop it

lmao this is heavy but still within the rules

somehow

[cinder shadow]

I didn’t really expect all this when I opened up the server

[waxen crystal]

War is death on a mass scale. Now, it’s almost never over resources, but over “That guy fucked with me. Now, I gotta fuck with him back.”

“He wants to dispute some land? Let’s go beat eachother with sticks likes it the fucking stone ages”

[median wind]

and the guy that picks the fight never fights the fight

[waxen crystal]

Because, as you said, it is part of human nature

[cinder shadow]

Humans just suck

[median wind]

facts

[waxen crystal]

Some humans suck. Can’t go and say that about everyone.

[median wind]

well true

[waxen crystal]

I believe that, after everything I’ve seen and done, that most people are decent people.

There aren’t many “good people” or “bad people”

That’s fair. I like to think morality is somewhat universal.

[cinder shadow]

https://tenor.com/view/nuclear-fission-warhead-nuclear-fission-warhead-nuclear-gannet-gif-26537965

[waxen crystal]

If someone, anyone, were to come up and round house a baby while it was playing in a sandbox, 99% of people would go “Hey, that’s fucked”

[median wind]

the 1% though?

what about them

[waxen crystal]

Those 1% are the creatures that aren’t people.

[cinder shadow]

The 1% are just a bit mean

[median wind]

true

[median wind]

lmao just a bit rude

forgot their manners

[waxen crystal]

People willing to do horrible things because “I’m stronger than they are. Why shouldn’t I burn their village to the ground? What? We have enough food and resources to feed our growing population?”

“But we could have MORE!”

[iron harbor]

But the vikings were kinda cool ngl

[cinder shadow]

Yeah they were

But still

[waxen crystal]

The Vikings slaved and raped people for several hundred years. But I dig the way they look and the runes

[median wind]

vikings were badass but it's the same concept

but yeah what bear said

[waxen crystal]

And it comes back to the way someone views something.

If it’s necessary for our survival, should we do it?

[cinder shadow]

Yeah

[iron harbor]

Meanwhile we're all in a discord for a game where we will shoot and rob each other for fun

[cinder shadow]

Yeah lol

[waxen crystal]

That’s fair

[median wind]

well it wouldn't be very cool if i shot and robbed you guys irl

i'm being polite and doing it virtually

[iron harbor]

Just rob me getting shot sucks bro

[waxen crystal]

lol

[median wind]

lmao you got it

[cinder shadow]

Humanity will never be satisfied, whether that’s with some third world country the size of New York or some big nation like the US or Germany, we will always want more

[iron harbor]

Can't wait for interplanetary wars after Mars is colonized

[cinder shadow]

War 2.0

[waxen crystal]

Maybe we can’t overcome our nature, maybe it makes us who we are, but damn I wish it weren’t so.

[median wind]

gonna be a hype update

[iron harbor]

Thank God the USA is thinking ahead with the space force

[median wind]

society devs haven't posted anything in a minute

[waxen crystal]

People like me and Scott and a few million other people wouldn’t have to exist if it were so, though.

[cinder shadow]

I do like how much we are pondering on all this, but most of this really does boil down to “war bad”

[median wind]

man you guys fried my brain

it has stopped working

[cinder shadow]

Mine too

[waxen crystal]

That’s the point of the my end of the conversation. War is horrible. And I think Rebel is right saying that it’s a part of human nature now. Nothing we can do but live with it and hope to fuck it doesn’t destroy us

[cinder shadow]

Yeah

[waxen crystal]

That makes sense.

[cinder shadow]

We can’t stop war, war will always be an issue, but if it gets humanity ahead in the grand scheme of things, I’m all for it

[waxen crystal]

That makes sense too.

[median wind]

conflict has been with us since the start really

so yeah

just gotta live with it

shit happens

[waxen crystal]

Most of humanities major inventions have been because of war, of trying to think of a better way to kill the other sorry bastard before he can kill you.

[median wind]

yup

[waxen crystal]

Whether it be the internet, or a way to turn an entire city to glass

[median wind]

necessity is the mother of all invention

[waxen crystal]

So, bottom line, baseline as rebel puts it:

War is a part of the human condition, and war can be both horrible and beneficial at the same time.

[cinder shadow]

Yeah, ug wanted og’s rock, but og said ug couldn’t have og’s rock, so ug killed og for the rock and now ug’s the most powerful, but he has people trying to get that power and it’ll just be an endless cycle until someone has all power or humanity is wiped out

[median wind]

rip og

[cinder shadow]

He was a real one fr

[median wind]

but yeah exactly

[cinder shadow]

Is your status just the amount of days until GOT is released

[median wind]

yes

[cinder shadow]

Lol

[median wind]

i doubt i will keep up with it

i am too lazy

[cinder shadow]

I couldn’t

[waxen crystal]

That I understand.

[median wind]

but yeah, easiest way to the top of society is by lying and backstabbing everyone around you

[waxen crystal]

I know what I’m willing to do for a company and government that couldn’t give a damn whether I lived or died.

Don’t want to think about what’d I’d do for my family.

[cinder shadow]

Aight, night everyone, hope y’all have a nice conversation

[waxen crystal]

Night Kaz. Sleep well

Worlds second oldest profession is a mercenary

I didn’t. I went in because my best friend went in.

Thought it was going to be an adventure, and it was, somewhat

Fuck no. parts of the military or police force are going to take their squad cars home with a few dozen mags worth of extra ammo.

I can see the police doing that. As for the military?

In the United States, at least, it’d be a mixed bag. You’d have units that would keep fighting to the last man, and you’d have units that would immediately split gear and get the fuck home so they can defend their homes.

Some units would fight because there is an invader on U.S soil. As far as I know, there are federal depots and ammo dumps all over the country. If it’s to the point where the United States government ceases to exist, such units may, in this hypothetical situation, effectively become the United States Government, and try to enact martial law across as much domain as reasonably possible

I’ve ever been a junior NCO, so not super knowledgeable about that sort of stuff

In this hypothetical, let’s say there is an enemy.

There’d damn neat have to be

To wipe out 90% of the government.

Maybe a disease of some kind?

So administration would cease to exist?

Definitely Martial Law, then. Military would go hard as fuck at whoever is controlling those areas

[waxen crystal]

Something like that happening would warrant a reaction akin to the reaction of 9/11. As long as there is power, there is communication. Arguably more people would die in hospitals and the like due to lack of power. People would be outraged. The government has to do something now. Immediate Martial Law. The military would immediately react fast enough that I think fifth column elements would not have a chance of causing major damage. Sure, you have a few dozen people that hate the government and society, maybe a few hundred in a single unit. Give them motivation, anti armor weapons.. But put that against something like 50 regiments who drill for scenarios such as these, with good training, equipment, access to more armored vehicles and air power than the fifth column has got bullets?

Say the fifth column wins. Then I could see what you say happening

And that’s if the military doesn’t just grab everything they can

Missed that. Still, martial law. This is a hypothetical, and the closest comparison I know of that I can draw is The Last of Us. Nation Wide martial law as power goes out and society goes tits up

Shit goes south for a long while.

Definitely desertion as people go home and defend their families

Definitely a major breakdown in what was.

Definitely problems with supplies. People fight over supplies, just for those supplies to be confiscated by the military

You know what, I see your point

Only places that already have government influence would keep functioning

Maybe

That why you were asking about PMC’s?

[dark slate]

You want to know how to put the dynamic timestamp in your about me section? Although it doesn't give the time in days all the time, it will say 2 months then 1 month and then count down days when it is less than a month away.

[waxen crystal]

Didn’t think anything really.

Anyway, I’m not smart enough for all those hypotheticals. Ask me about the military, the way it would function, PMC’s, those I can answer

Here’s the first thing that same to mind

MCWP 3-11.2 Marine Rifle Squad https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/MCWP 3-11.2 Marine Rifle Squad.pdf

I can also send you a link for an actual physical copy

I assume this is modern day?

[silver moss]

Yooo

What’s up bitches!!!

[waxen crystal]

This story you are writing?

https://irp.fas.org/doddir/army/fm3-06.pdf

[silver moss]

What’s up Bear

[waxen crystal]

This is also a good one

Howdy gringo

[silver moss]

How’s it goin

[waxen crystal]

I’m having a grand old time. Need to get to sleep but can’t do here I am

[silver moss]

Same here

Binged some Beavis and Butthead with my friend

[waxen crystal]

Right. Gives you a bit of leeway, anyway

This taking place in a city or?

Maybe something like accounts of survivors and soldiers who survived such a thing?

So telling events of the past?

Can you give me the run down on the entire story, or at least everything you are willing to share?

Yes, actually

I recommend a game called “This War of Mine”

Something like that

[silver moss]

Gang

[waxen crystal]

Even if fictional, it would give you a bit of insight to how people would surivive

[silver moss]

I read a book on how to survive a zombie apocalypse

Gave me good tips

[waxen crystal]

Oh yeah? What kind of tips?

[silver moss]

What to do, how to scavenge, vehicles, guns, other assorted weaponry

It was written by the dude who wrote World War Z i think

I’m not going to be doing that

If it does happen

I’ll remind my family that head blows are the killer

A zombie apocalypse would likely last a couple months

Cuz decomposition and all

At the most a month

Unless

Dying light

https://tenor.com/view/dsx2-gif-22649359

Volatiles are scary

[waxen crystal]

The reaction to it, I think. Build up a personal relationship with a character, have an accident happen to them, now they are living on machines. Protagonist comes to visit, Cell makes their move, power goes out long enough, now that character that a relationship was built with is now dead. It shows that no matter how righteous a cause someone may fight for, however good, people will get hurt and they will die. But this isn’t my book.

Protagonist feels loss for the first time in the story.

Exactly.

Maybe a gun fight between gangs of survivors looking for water/food, protagonist gets hit, police come, kill everyone fighting, and take everything. Protagonist now has to survive on their own

Right

Maybe have that character the protagonist visits be hurt from one of those attacks?

Dunno, I’m just throwing shit at a wall and seeing if it sticks

Right on. Protagonist freaks out, or inversely, doesn’t feel anything because they have been so shielded from reality?

Maybe they learn to deal with that throughout the story?

Right on

People getting shot, ambulances trying to rush people to the hospital being flipped over by crowds of people, stuff like that?

Right.

Could have sporadic fighting in the streets as more extreme elements take the opportunity to loot a little bit.

Is there a reason this group is fighting?

Or just chaos just because?

Right.

Could have a reoccurring character part of these movements that gets more and more radical as time goes on. First it’s seeing them protesting in the streets

Maybe someone the protagonist considers a friend?

You said the protagonist lives in a shitty apartment?

Maybe each of these characters know each-other from there

Either room mates or they live on the same floor

They don’t communicate maybe, but just see eactoher change as time goes on and the city gets more and more hectic

Maybe something like “She’s changed since last I saw her. She doesn’t wear her dads cap anymore, and instead has replaced with a bandanna (Or ballistic helmet to go with your idea on it). She’s harder, less like the girl who couldn’t hold a rifle a few weeks ago. Now, she has a long one, like the (natguard, movements, police use)

Right.

Right. Maybe have this friend become harder, loose bits of their humanity as this goes along?

Show the cost of the soul in the city?

I like that idea

Both of them

That’s good shit right there.

I was about to say the very same thing. Maybe this person comes into a position of prominence within the group?

Right.

Maybe, on the second half of the book, explore a story of a police/natguard who was in the city

Maybe just an account on it?

No, not at all

That’d be good, I think.

Maybe, like you said, have the situation slowly devolve from soldiers handing out food and water to those camps?

Maybe he’s the one that fired on the protesters?

Could have a good bit of personal conflict right there.

Similar to something I’ve read before

Nat guard gets hit in the face, he falls, shot goes off and hits someone

Maybe have him being pressured to fire?

And then he just unloads on the crowd

Maybe second character sees this and this inspires them to push into militia later in the story?

Right.

Maybe have arguments not just be on the physical level, but on social media and the news?

Have this officer taken into protection by the city? Have people fight over that?

Exactly

Right.

Be a good way to start off actually.

Well, no.

Hmmm.

Right.

Maybe references to him throughout the first book and have a full story on him in the spin-offs?

That’s a good point.

If you want to talk about this more, we can move to DMS? Be a lot quicker than sorting through other messengers of peolle.

Would like to continue but have a bit of work to do and then I gotta get some sleep.

Alrighty. Night man .

[median wind]

i know how

[viral pebble]

Finally actually going to be able to use full auto

[desert trellis]

These new recoil changes are gangster asf

see y’all in D2

[viral pebble]

I killed tagilla in my first raid of the day thanks to the new recoil

[desert trellis]

Yeah it’s nice

No more accidentally praying to god in a firefight

Although, Tagilla is mids

Go slap Sanitar around for me

Little goblin jump scared me

[viral pebble]

I went to woods to try and complete my task and couldn't find convoy lol

[desert trellis]

Lmao

mine explodes in the distance

Love that at the start of woods lmao

[viral pebble]

So terrifying as a new player

I got a solid 100k the moment the raid started, 2 silencers, a eotech combo and raptor range finder just sitting on a table

[desert trellis]

I still get paranoid of Cultists on Woods and Shoreline

The amount of times I’ve been bushwhacked by the Sektant

Too damn high

Fuckin crack head with a super-juiced weapon and NVGs just hunting me like Rambo 😦

Or running into the Goons at crackhouse on Customs

[viral pebble]

Now that guns are actually usable I feel like I might do good this wipe

[iron harbor]

Привет всем

[waxen crystal]

Didn’t feel a thing when it happened a second time.

[iron harbor]

Were you already in a firefight with the adrenaline pumping?

[waxen crystal]

Howdy

[iron harbor]

I hear that helps a lot with the pain but something sudden like a hunting accident you prob felt it all eh

[waxen crystal]

No, I was half conscious and being pulled out of a burning SUV

[iron harbor]

Fucking ouch man

[rapid venture]

RPG or roadside bomb?

[waxen crystal]

Roadside bomb. If it were an RPG I wouldn’t be here

That’s also the second time I’ve been blown up

[iron harbor]

Ever hear of Tundra Security?

[waxen crystal]

Tundra Group?

I think that’s their name?

Vaguely.

[iron harbor]

Maybe they go by that, like a pseudo Canadian blackwater rip off lmao

I think they went under anyway or changed what they do but I've heard some wild shit about them lol

[rapid venture]

do they have a sales department one can call to order something?

[waxen crystal]

InFish looking to get some contractors to do some jobs lol

Y’all wanna hear the rest of that story? Bit wild if I’m honest

[iron harbor]

I'm down bro

[rapid venture]

roadside bomb story?

looks up the script for Call of Duty

[iron harbor]

I know a short Comedian turned politician who's looking for contractors lol

[waxen crystal]

Alrighty.

So, to set the stage, maybe 3 years or so since I’ve been out. I’ve been working for a company for a while, been making money and making a name for myself.

Shit like that. Networking is important

Me, and 7 other guys, are tasked with transporting some big wig.

Thing is, big wig has fucked with “criminal elements” which I took to mean he either robbed them blind or said some shit that wasn’t meant to be repeated.

[dry mist]

I'm all ears 👂 or in this case 👀 eyes for this story !

[waxen crystal]

We have a few hours worth of driving ahead as a helicopter is not an option nor is an airport.

7 of us, including me, a ex german peratrooper, an ex SAS operator, which at first I didn’t believe, and 4 other Americans.

12 if you count the drivers and the big wig

2 SUV’s, with the big wig in the back. German paratrooper, 2 other Americans in the second SUV, me, one other American and the Brit in the first one, in the front

We’re all shooting the shit, as you do, before we all here something go thunk

First thing that goes through my head was “Did we just pop a fucking tire?” Before it all went black

[rapid venture]

https://tenor.com/view/skyrim-awake-discord-skyrim-intro-skyrim-intro-discord-gif-22633629

[waxen crystal]

Got me to chuckle

I don’t really remember opening my eyes, I just remember feeling like I had been dropped out of a window and the feel of concrete running beneath my ass and legs as I was being dragged.

Can’t hear anything cept ringing, which makes me think an old phone is going off. I try to get my bearings. Kinda drop my head to my right and, lo and behold, this big black British man is screaming his head off, presumably telling me to get off my fat ass and shoot back. Didn’t hear a word he said. I look up, and see the American we were riding withs head not all there.

All kinda snaps into focus, then. Hearing is slowly coming back, thank fuck for cans, and I can faintly hear the words “Contact front”

I nod my head, do my best to stay low and sling up my broke dick rifle

To paint a picture, we’re sitting in the middle of the street, which should have been busy. I think it was some kind of restaurant of some sort to my right, and what looked like a parking garage to my left

The blast came from the right side of the road. Maybe a bomb set in the sewer, or some such. Never figured it out.

Stay with me here. I’ve been through something like 8 concussions, and had gotten one when the bomb had went off. When the SUV had flipped I had dropped straight on my head into the roof

Had that little tidbit told to me later

Surprisingly, no neck problems

Any questions so far?

[iron harbor]

Not a question but speculation: Maybe a platter charge set under a sewer lid. I heard a story of the IRA doing that once

[rapid venture]

https://tenor.com/view/irish-car-bomb-booze-lets-go-drink-gif-13710757

[iron harbor]

Man Fish that was too fast

[waxen crystal]

Not inaccurate. We were talking about where to get drinks after this.

[rapid venture]

I'm documenting the story in gifs

[iron harbor]

So far so good I understand everything

[waxen crystal]

So far, we had one casualty. My rifle was so fucked it looked like a German pretzel.

Landed on it and my fat ass bent the barrel

I kinda swat the guy, let’s call him Lambert off of me, and try to crawl my ass into cover. Nearest available was a little alleyway that had the dumpsters for the restaurant outside of it

I stand up a little, low, and waddle my way to the alley. Apparently Lambert had seen armed figures in the road and was firing but they weren’t returning fire. I think I right have been to make sure we weren’t the big wig, who’ll I’ll call the VIP from now on

Thinking they wanted to take him somewhere and “teach a lesson” about why it’s bad to snitch or some stupid shit

Suddenly, the wall erupts into dust and chipped bricks as the assholes in the street start shooting. I unsling my rifle, and pull my sidearm, which at the time was a H&K USP.

Pretty sure it was .45 auto?

Doesn’t matter anyway

My hearing returns a little bit more. I can hear what sounds like what sounds like big cans of something being popped, and know it’s our guys shooting back.

We had neat little HK416’s with a lot of bells and whistles.

[rapid venture]

https://tenor.com/view/hk416-ar-gunfire-girls-frontline-anime-dolls-frontline-gif-25430010

[waxen crystal]

Lambert, whose kinda siting on the ground with his feet against the wall, is putting a ton of lead down range

I slice the pie and see maybe 8 guys in the street at a headcount.

Probably more on rooftops and shit judging by the volume of fire

Fire a couple rounds, tap lambert on the shoulder, gesture to his rifle and basically say “I’m grabbing El Dorado’s rifle”

Cause mine is broke dick.

He nods his head, cause he ain’t talking, and starts laying it on a bit more thick.

I tap my little radio which works thank fuck, and say something along the lines of “Hey, Darodo’s KIA, status on VIP?”

Get the all clear, VIP is good, either they didn’t think to hit the second SUV or didn’t have the time , let them know to suppress as the handgun I got ain’t doing shit in something hot like this

Any questions so far?

[iron harbor]

Why did you guys only have 2 SUVs to roll in? Should the VIP not be in a center vehicle during an escort?

Budget constraints I guess?

Sorry I hope that wasn't a rude/bad question

[waxen crystal]

Pretty much yes. Standard was to have 3 or even more vehicles spread out at 25-50 meters or more, going maybe 20 miles an hour.

Good for low visibility and congested roads

But, like you said, budget constraints

[iron harbor]

Man even private armies are being like real armies

Cheap af and that's messed up

[waxen crystal]

Those companies look at you like a paycheck. Every dime they don’t have to spend, they won’t spend.

For big contracts, yes, money will be spent out the wazoo.

Otherwise, not at all

Back to it

[iron harbor]

Very true

[waxen crystal]

Lambert, and the rest start laying down suppressive fire. I sprint and stumble my way across to the SUV. Check inside, drivers are dead or knocked out, can’t reach their rigs, and El Dorado is definitely dead. His head is completely canoe’d.

I pull him out a bit, check for vitals just to make sure, confirm, and then start grabbing shit off his rig.

Extra smoked, mags, shit like that.

We called him El Dorado cause when he wasn’t on contract he was decked head to toe in gold

So, maybe three casualties so far, still got at least 4 up and shooting.

At this point, either there is fuel leaking or something, cause an inferno starts up.

I yell to Lambert about trying to grab the drivers, he basically says “They are dead. Get the fuck over here.”

So, I do.

I tap lambert on the shoulder, we rotate so he can reload and take a split second breather.

I get the vibe he’s talking to the other guys to get a plan together. Basically, rally at where we’re at and get the VIP out through the restaurant

Police should have been here by no, but they are a no show.

It was particularly late at night, thank god, so no one in the restaurant

All the while, the people in the street are starting to push.

I’m thinking either long time killers or ex military cause they knew just how to move

Lambert takes the upper wall right above me, giving us twice as much gun in a single space

Suddenly, BOOM

Smoke goes up.

Guys radio in that “There’s smoke behind us too. We gotta gtfo or we’re gonna get pincer’d”

We lay down fire in the smoke ahead of us as they haven’t taken fire from behind as of yet.

Me and Lambert bust down the door, take point, and try to find our way out the back

Entire time, the VIP is freaking the fuck out

Because I doubt before that night he’s fought nothing more dangerous than a dry pork chop without wine to wash it down

Any questions?

Walked into a story my man

Read above and through if you wanna know. If not, continue following along here

Any questions?

[iron harbor]

no

[waxen crystal]

Gotcha

Back to it

We push into the restaurant quick as we can. We start taking shots through the windows. VIP is shoot to piss herself

Himself*

Lambert takes point, and we, quick as possible, make our way out.

[desert trellis]

What did I just stumble upon

Oh Callsign

Okay I thought this was Yorick and I was like

[waxen crystal]

Front of the restaurant now looks like a chewed up piece of wood and broken glass and shredded metal from the intensity of the firefight

[desert trellis]

https://tenor.com/view/wtf-gif-gif-26042600

[waxen crystal]

lol

[desert trellis]

That’s an intense story man

[waxen crystal]

It was an intense moment

[desert trellis]

We should get something like this canonized as a Ghost operators background

Or something

Cough cough

[rapid venture]

Omg moa shut up and let him tell the story 🤣

[waxen crystal]

That would be something

[desert trellis]

Sorry I’m invested now

[waxen crystal]

Going forward

[desert trellis]

I went bug eyed when I started reading

All yours

[waxen crystal]

We come to something that says “Exit” so we do some assuming and try to leave that way

One small hitch, the fuckers, call them Opfor, had actually been herding us there

So, naturally, they have people in the back

Lambert slightly slides the door open, and we hear a snap as a bullet goes near his face and he says something along he lines of “BLOODY FUCKEN HELL”

Me and the German paratrooper, who we all called Kraut, fall on our asses and collectively scoot out of the way

VIP and Fox, the only other American other than me, push through into where the veggies, shit like that was stored

When I tell you it looks like a solid block of bullets comes through that door, I tell you exactly what I saw.

Door is instantly shredded, wall behind us is shredded.

Kraut sets his feet on a wall, sitting on his ass like Lambert was earlier, and started shooting back.

God I wish they issued us frags.

Anyway

It doesn’t look like they are trying to come thorough the back door, so I assume they are going to push through the front and try to hammer and anvil us

Assumptions are true, and I correct their assumptions in thinking we were amateurs.

I check my mag, stance up, and the first two that walk through are gone. The rest see the issue and decide not to press further until they could presumably get smokes or some flash grenades up there.

I get Krauts attention who had been switched by Lambert and Fox, and we throw the idea of us pushing through the front of the building, as the back was covered completely

Something along the lines of “Hey, if we don’t get out of this fucking mom and pop shop, we’re deader than a fucken door nail”

So, we all agree that we have to change shit up otherwise we’re dead

Mag checks all around, we bring out our smokes. Toss one in the back door, toss one in the front

They aren’t shooting through the front, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to do shit. I think they were going to have the guys from behind push up on us to get our attention THEN hammer and anvil us

We hear some whispering in the lobby as they come up

Fox takes point, cussing the entire time

The way the restaurant was that was a diner setup. Big open window to put up tickets at, yell orders and shit