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 Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:03 pm
  
Everyone was gathered around the table except Adrian, who was no where to be seen. In the time Amelia had been away at her safe house there had been a few exchanges in the roster of this building. While Will had remained, very few others from the attack on the tower were still here. Alex was here as well but she never seemed to come off as particularly social. Everyone else would be a new face for Amelia unless she recognized them from her time at the Hangar. Will was sitting at one of the corners of the kitchen table eating what looked like a waffle but also resembled a pancake. It was odd, as were most of the things the resistance had in their food supplies. He gave her a slight wave and then returned to eating his food.
In the living room Adrian sat on the couch, resting his chin on his interlocked fingers in a manner that implied he was trying to solve a complicated issue and had abandoned the idea of writing it down instead of just thinking about it. He had a revolver in front of him now. It was almost comical how many times he changed the gun he carried around. It's not as if he would be using it. He would see very little of the main battles today. Once Amelia left he would send three men to retrieve her, she would leak the information to Sybil and they would return here just in time for the transport truck to arrive. Amelia would be lead out the back side of the house while the others got in the truck with the virus and began driving around the city until they were attacked. He would probably leave her with Will, someone she seemed to trust a little. They would go into hiding until Adrian radioed Will the results of the attack on the Hangar. During that time Adrian would be driving with the attack team towards the Hangar. He would have to stay in the back, avoiding most of the conflict due to his heart. They would draw a lot of attention and a lot of machines. Hopefully Sybil would install the virus and they would have another army on their side. Then they would go for the tower again. That would be when Adrian had Will and Amelia picked up. If they had to miss the battle for the Hangar they would not miss the last battle of the war. That was the plan, or at least the current version of it.
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 7:07 pm
Amelia Cross  Amelia gave Will a small nod before crossing the kitchen to stand near where he was sitting. She didn't grab a chair, nor did she grab any food, but instead stood somewhat nervously with her arms cross. Adrian made it clear several times over she wasn't part of the resistance. Whether or not the rest actually felt that way, she assumed they did since Adrian was their leader. New or not, they all heard them fighting when she first came back to the safe house a couple of days ago. At least there was the small favour that Adrain wasn't at the table as well. That would make things incredibly awkward. She wanted to ask what exactly he was eating, but figured that might come out as rude so instead she asked. “How was your sleep Will?”
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 8:38 pm
"Odd and lumpy. There must have been a rock or something on the bed so I rolled onto the ground." Will lied. He had woken up when she was out and moved to the floor so she would have a place to sleep but she wouldn't know that, and he would just let her believe he had rolled onto the ground. "How was yours? Adrian told us that you finished the virus last night and that we are ready to make the final move today. "
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 7:52 pm
Amelia Cross “I slept well. Certainly didn't find any rocks.” Amelia answered with a smile. She was relived to hear she had made the right choice in not waking him up to offer him the bed, or that she had perhaps stolen it on him. “But, yeah. It's all ready to go, so I guess today is the big day. Hopefully by supper we will be Sybil free.” While she didn't expect to involved in any of the fighting, she was still nervous. So many things could go wrong. What if Sybil saw through her and didn't upload the virus to the machines, or what if the virus failed somehow? What if Sybil had some back up plan they didn't account for? So much was riding on things going perfectly.
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 8:03 pm
"Or we'll all be dead. Which I guess, in a way, does still render us free of Sybil." Will replied as a joke mostly but after saying it there were no laughs and a silence fell over the room. It was too true to be funny and will realized that too late. "So let's hope everything goes well. " It was a weak recovery but it was the best he could do given the grim mood he had just bathed the room in. Will let out a little sigh and stood up. "I think I'm done eating." There was a subtle nod of agreement that passed throughout the room and everyone got up. They all kinda migrated into the living room slowly where Adrian was sitting. He would begin by explaining who would do what and would then spark an argument with Amelia. After which he would send Will and two others to retrieve her. Will would be directed to get Amelia into hiding and await further instructions while the others came back to the building.
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 10:00 pm
Amelia Cross Well at least she wasn't the only one who was socially awkward Amelia thought as she followed the group out into the living room. Those were about their options unfortunately. Succeed or death. Worse than death for any Sybil caught alive should they fail. It would want to make an example out of them. She found herself an empty bit of wall to lean against while avoiding looking at both Adrian and Will. It'd need to be worse than their earlier arguments for whoever was sent after to her to really believe she wanted to turn on Adrian the day of the assault. It shouldn't be too difficult though. Just because it was planned didn't mean it wouldn't be real and she wouldn't be holding back this time. She wouldn't eventually back down.
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 10:17 pm
  
Adrian waited until everyone had gathered around before he began. He didn't move from the couch he just spoke in a stern and loud tone as to allow all to hear him. "Everyone has a specific assignment today. Our first step will be to evacuate the house everyone except for the transport team needs to be moved out of the house within the hour. That means Alex, Duncan, Ashley, Rick, Jason, Zoe, and Amanda, you all need to head down south through the city to the safehouse that Vlad has set up for us. I'll be moving with you and once we reach the house we will begin prepping for the attack on the Hangar. Load our weapons, stretch, really just stall until we hear that the transport has been hit. Once it has been hit and the virus is in Sybil's hands we will need to move immediately towards the Hangar and hit it with everything we've got. Draw all of Sybil's attention to us. Will you know what you'll be doing during that time." Adrian turned to look and Will and Will gave him a slight nod. "Good. Jeff, Vlad, Mason, John, and Desmond, you will be part of the transport team. When Sybil hits you, put up only enough resistance to make it think it had won and then get out of there and rendezvous with the strike team moving in on the Hangar. It would be best for you four to hit the warehouse entrance from the north side while we strike from the south. Once we have the Hangar and Sybil has uploaded the virus we will move forward. Anyone who doesn't have an assignment, well.... find some way to be useful."
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 5:57 pm
Amelia Cross Amelia watched the group, rather than Adrian, while he gave out the assignments. Adrian had to know Sybil wouldn’t let the transport team just abandon the truck and walk away. While the software would be its primary target, the team was still rebels. Sybil would want to capture and question them if it could, kill them if it couldn’t. The transport team had to know as well. Then again, it would be surprising if she wasn’t killed in her own mission. The thing about Sybil was, it could easily pursue her while sending another group of machines to reclaim the software simultaneously. The fact that Adrian didn’t say what Will’s mission was intrigued her. Did he know about her part in the plan, or was it something else entirely? Either way, when he brought up finding some way to be useful she rolled her eyes slightly, but didn’t comment on it
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:17 pm
The transport team knew the risk of what they were doing and Adrian had it quarantined well. If they timed it correctly the transport would be hit as the attack on the Hangar began. The transport team would simply have to make sure Sybil got the hardware and then they simply needed to reach the Hangar so they didn't have to run or escape for long, just reach the larger battleground. "Alright, everyone pack your things we need to be mobile within the hour." Adrian gave the last directive and stood up. He limped slightly towards the entrance to the kitchen but along the way he bumped into Amelia, almost intentionally.
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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 12:18 pm
Amelia Cross “Hey.” Amelia said taking a half a step back. There was a slight pause, a mental apology to Will for what she was about to do. “What, I’m so useless I’m invisible?” She asked sarcastically. “You wouldn’t even be attacking today if it wasn’t for me.” It was a stupid thing to get mad at him about; bumping into her, but the words came out easily enough. Even if she didn’t want to admit it Adrian was right, her aversion for him was real enough.
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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:08 pm
That was just the spark Adrian needed, just the accusation he needed to turn on her and begin an argument. He remained composed though, if he cracked his composure everyone would see it as out of character and know he was lying. even when things had been so bad he pulled a gun on her, he had been calm. "You're right Amelia, we are attacking today because of you. Would you care to remind everyone why? Your actions got our previous Director killed, your inability to choose death over capture cost us the Hangar, and your constant insubordination nearly cost them a leader. So yes we are attacking today because of you. We would have attacked sooner without you."
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Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 1:03 pm
Amelia Cross “And everyone in the resistance would have been dead if you had attacked then, or did you forget that Sybil was waiting for you? That it knew what your plan was, and when you were going to attack?” Amelia shot back at him. “Sybil already had its hooks into the previous Director by the time you came to rescue me, and you know it. A message to go rescue someone you’ve never heard of before him, kept in an unguarded cell that’s easily accessible from the sewer? Injured and drugged to slow you down? It’s just easier to blame me, than accept the fact that Sybil tricked you.” She’d been mulling that over in her mind for a while now, but it was the first time she had said it out loud.
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Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 2:05 pm
That maybe was going a little too far. Adrian patted his side as if expecting his gun to be there but it wasn't, it was still on the table. when he saw it he almost took a step towards it but he restrained himself. He needed the fight to escalate without him just shooting her. So he applied logic. "If Sybil had it's hooks in the Director why did it need us to find the Hangar? Hell why didn't it let us get him back and then use him to destroy us from the inside? A little like what you have been doing. And let us not forget that if we had attack with full force as we intended, we would have destroyed that tower and Sybil, but we didn't because you said we shouldn't. We sent a scouting team because of your suggestions and they were almost all killed because they didn't have the backup they would have had with a full force strike. Sure, maybe the EMP fails, but we had the firepower we would have needed."
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Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 6:14 pm
Amelia Cross “Great, back to calling me a traitor. Real original. You call me insubordinate, but you’ve made it real clear from day one, that I am not part of this rebellion. I don’t even know why you brought me back here. And it didn’t, Adrian, but you made it so it had less than a one hundred present certainty of knowing the location. To Sybil’s calculations getting the Hanger was more important than killing the leader. Also, that kind of indoctrination takes months. Sybil decided to strip him instead. Obviously it wasn’t done with him when you came so it gave you another target, someone who it wasn’t going to get any information from, the only other person of worth it had at the time. Can you not see that Adrian?” Of course her worth was relative. Thus far, Adrian hadn’t taken advantage of any of her gifts, instead more or less going with his father’s original plan with the slight modification of the virus. He hadn’t even bothered to use her insight into Sybil’s behaviour. “You just keep telling yourself that. Maybe if you were lucky you could beat the machines head on, but even if you managed that, it would have cost nearly everyone in the rebellions lives. Not unlike your current plan, I might add.”
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Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 6:56 pm
"Then aren't you glad your not one of us." Was all Adrian said in response. After he did there was a silence like death that fell over the room. He took a brief moment and his eyes narrowed. "You sure know a lot for someone who has never productively offered any information. Just criticism. Never once have you proposed a plan better than our own. You just keep trying to tear us down. I'd shoot you but this is really more of a democracy. I'd put it to a vote but I don't think you want to see the number of people who want you dead in this room. So I'll leave what happens next up to you."
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