FROM: @WEHFRIED || TO: @ALL (backdated like hell, aka before spiderland)

[gerechtigkeit]

Before Gallipoli, it was discussed that we should come up with aliases to call each other, and have backstories to speak of while there was downtime in the war. At the time, we knew the Regency was there, but they wouldn't be so visible. It was enough to not be asked too much by the natives of the time, and allowed us the conditions we needed to blend in as a unit of reinforcements that was beached at the wrong location.

The situation may be different here, but I'd suggest we come up with different aliases from before, considering we'll be facing the Regency out in the open. Using your actual name isn't suggested- it could cause problems and endanger the rest of this cell if you do so. Try to pick something you'll remember easily enough.

Feel free to suggest names and ideas for yourselves, or help others. The BCE has a list of them you can pick from. The sooner we can compile a list, the easier it will make it for all of us to recall while in the middle of the mission.

[Boy, talking like this is a reminder of speaking with soldiers before battles. That was a long time ago, and he's getting back into the hang of it. Also, guess who's bad at suggesting names? THIS GUY. Thankfully, the BCE has a posh name generator that can be found here.]

Comments

[inconstantly]

in my experience with enough wine you can overlook just about anything

you only like me for my mouth, how terribly disappointing

[If there were talking in person a wink would go here.]

[excelsus]

Whatever our differences, that is one thing we can both agree on.

[though the arguably agree on many things.]

I can only be honest, I do enjoy the lingually gifted

[millimeter]

we use phones
idr the last time i actually used a phone as an actual phone tho lmao

[...Wait.]

uhhh in case you don't know what a phone is:
you remember the radios in gallipoli? they're kinda like that!

and i mean yeah, i find it funny! can't speak for anyone else but you can use it for any and all degrees of humor :)
i guess it's dependent on context more than anything else

and i'd prob just be like "RUDE" or smth
depends who's sassing me! 😠
but your reply to hotdog was pretty good ngl

[gerechtigkeit]

[BRO STOP THIS IS REALLY RELATABLE, most Servants expect to be treated like tools because that's all that mages see them as.]

I understand. But I tend to think COST picks its recruits for many reasons.

Besides, you sound human enough to me.

[Siegfried no.]

[mylawn]

I imagine propaganda works on the majority.

[mylawn]

Read our messages over the BCEs.

[millimeter]

and yours sounds like a hell of a place to be
hard pass, dude!

[omniavincit]

We could always ask them to change it.

Surely stranger things have happened.

[dorzalta]

[ Bless him. ]

So you may speak over them and also use them like you do the BCE? That sort of thing would be revolutionary in my world. It would change the tide of battle exponentially.

[ So do dragons, though. ]

I believe you do. There should be another term for things you find amusing but do not laugh over.

His name is hotdog? 🙄 How would you have responded to his sass? I'd considered sending Irriella to terrorize him.

[thoughtimight]

I'm not sure we're here to be accommodated.

Do the animals mean anything? Like a symbol for something?

[deem]

Then they should also understand why it matters. I'm a person, but I'm also a weapon, and I'm not human. I exist to protect and serve them.

Maybe it won't make sense to an organic being, but I'm not their equal.

[millimeter]

yeah! they're standard issue for the crownsguard and kingsglaive
they're also great for mobile games eyyy
(i miss playing king's knight 😩)

[jfc why is he like this.]

and we could always make another term
there's nothing here to stop us!!

OMG SENDING IRRIELLA 😂
that's better than anything i could come up with
it's prrrobably overkill but w/e
i would've just said rude things back or smth about his network id

[gerechtigkeit]

Thank you, Laura.

If they know any kind of German lore, they'd recognize my name- so in a way, I completely understand about the whole notion of being famous.

As do I. We can do as much as we can to prevent them from discovering it, at least.

[dorzalta]

Crownsguard protects your reigning monarch, I imagine. What of the kingsglaive? We've the Kingsguard and Queensguard in my world. Mine consisted of a number of knights, Unsullied, and sell-swords. When I was khaleesi, I had bloodriders.

You're a knight? You never made mention of this.

[ She hasn't been speaking to him properly or respectfully at all. This is terrible. ]

We could. Have you made many of these terms?

Better than burning him alive for his insolence. Irriella will not consume him, merely give him a proper fright for crossing me.

[ Dany, n o. ]

He's not a dog, is he? I don't quite understand the meaning of his ID.

[dorzalta]

I don't make it a habit of offering praise easily, ser.

[ Perhaps she was a fool for allowing ser Jorah to live. She doesn't think so. ]

On that, I do not disagree. I've burnt traitors, beheaded them for breaking my laws. But there are sometimes circumstances where banishment is far crueler a punishment than death.

[ And maybe it's a sign of weakness on her part that she allowed a man so loyal to survive. But that loyalty saved her life. ]

[dorzalta]

I fail to see why it cannot be both. Court may not be the most exhilarating thing, but it's better to come to terms through more peaceful means than war.

[dorzalta]

If you knew that, then perhaps you should consider conveying that in your messages, versus wasting both our time.

[ There was a difference between blending in with a time period, and choosing an alias to hide behind when representing COST. If people couldn't grasp that simple concept, then they put their own lives at risk. ]

I've managed it rather well thus far, actually, but I will take your advice into consideration for the future.

[gerechtigkeit]

I agree that peace should always come first, as much as it is possible. However, I've found court is slow in its efforts to save or protect what it must, especially if the situation is dire. It is easier to help others outside of it, without politics and a need to inform a conglomerate of nobles that action has been taken, or needs to be taken. Time is wasted and people may die because of inaction, and that is never acceptable to me.

[millimeter]

the kingsglaive are soldiers who can use the king's magic
kind of our elite military force besides the crownsguard!
they can do a lot of stuff we can't, it's pretty sick
we don't really have knights tho, like i'm DEFINITELY not a knight lol
just crownsguard! pretty new too, i only joined this year

what are unsullied?? and bloodriders???

[How much is he going to regret asking these questions, this is the real question.]

aaand i've made up a few
maybe more than a few
a substitute for lol isn't one of them tho, unless you wanna count literal lols
llol!! (that isn't a real acronym i just made it up)

omg yeah burning him alive is WAY overkill 😲
even if he IS a hotdog

iiit's a kind of food in eos, but i can't really speak for anyone else
so maybe there's a reference i'm missing?
do you have sausage where you're from?? it's p much the same thing

[handsomefoil]

Yes that would be rather embarrassing
If COST brought you back
I'm not sure I'd still want to fight you again

[omniavincit]

You're already talking like a soldier.

Like in a fable, you mean? Not really, not like that. The spider's wise and the pig is innocent, and they both learn to come to terms with death.

Why do you ask?

[thoughtimight]

I'd like to read this book. Maybe we will find a copy.

We're strange friends in a way too, aren't we?

[lonelywar]

Oh. I see.

Has this been stopped, or do we suspect they still have access to them?

[mylawn]

I don't think so. But if they had access to our system at any point, I'm sure that's how they know who we are.

[omniavincit]

I'd like to know what you make of it. BASE has a library.

Strange in a way that doesn't feel strange at all.