More Political Bull Crap(Job: Sharp & Raiza)

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Do you fear magic? Its a question asked by many when looking to tour the Pergrande Kingdom. A nation that has outright banned, and killed off any magic within the boarders. So, why would this sort of nation draw attention? It was a question that united attempts from both the light and the dark mages of fiore to investigate. A few had been sent in, none had come out. Though with the rumor that the nation dispatches an entire army after a single individual who may contain magic, then yes, such a nation may be a force to be reckoned with, and this force was why Raiza enlisted the help of even those he did not immediately think of as allies. There were a few within his own guild he could have called upon, but those he could were already busy. Basilisk fang's members were also busy, and no way in hell was Raiza about to enlist the help of a legal guild. Black sails would only be interested in the loot, which there may not even be any, so... Pharaoh's Call was Raiza's choice in the matter at hand.

It had only been a number of days since he sent the letter out towards the guild. His name was kept a secret, but he did mention that he was not a legal mage. Nothing did he indicate was an evil, but there may have been a hint.Though why he sent this letter, was not for just the help, but to ensure the one they sent would not come for him after this. After all, the target was a political figure that had been rumored to be talking about pushing forward an action to spread their land, and possibly take over magical nations such as Fiore. For those within Fiore, this was a good job to ensure that man was taken care of. For those like Raiza, an assassination of this man could ensure a worldly presence of a problem beginning to spread. The letter Raiza sent was
The letter had been sent days ago, and Raiza was waiting at the meeting point with quite the encampment set up. He had a log cabin made, fully furnished, and well kept. If someone was paying attention, they would notice it was not made but a day or two ago. After all, cabins don't just magically pop up in the kingdom... except by a mage's work. Inside, Raiza had a map of many large cities/towns within the Pergrande Kingdom, and this was fairly crucial to the planning of the attack, or the route that could be used. Magic would have to be limited to almost nothing. In fact, even getting within the boarder was hard. Raiza had to get past many of the boarder patrol, and end up traveling deep within the forest to the spot he planned to use as the encampment. A nice flat area, surrounded by the forests that actually overlooked a near by town. This one town in particular was one of the few military outposts, and Raiza presumed it may, or may not be the one that his target was located in.

Though one had to presume it would never be that easy, so at the very least, Raiza had an excellent forward operating base to work from. One that definitely allowed quite the variety of actions. Though one thing he wasn't prepared for was... what would the personal, or person that arrived actually do if they found out he was one of the elven sinners of Fiore? There was the obvious trick to try to stay transformed, but it only lasted roughly twenty or so hours before it was forced to revert. So, he could only hope for the best possible outcome. He had all the job notes from his client, un-altered, and laid out plain as day. If by some miracle that this went off perfectly, and the job was done, he could even consider a potential alliance of connivance with Pharaoh's Call.

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Such a strange letter had ended up within the guild hall, it described a job that was bent on the assassination of some key figure. Everyone else in the guild would have disregarded the letter and shunned it to the side, but thankfully, or not depending on your outlook, Hecate was the one to pick hold the letter and read its contents. She debated if it was a trap, but at the same time, a place that disliked magic to such a high degree infuriated her. The only reason that humans had even stood a chance in the dragon wars was due to magic taught to them. Obviously, since her time technology had advanced to a high degree where one could fire sharp pieces of metal out towards their target at high speed and could rival that of magic users with strange suits, but still all of that would still struggle against a dragon. While many said they were all dead Hecate never believed something unless she saw it with her own eyes, and was prepared for their potential return, especially since the majority of people had become weak and entitled to their peaceful ways.

If it hadn't been for Mao rescuing her Hecate would have in all likelihood just been a loner who sought to try and make preparations for the worst of end times, but thanks to Mao she was now a part of what was known as a guild. While many stated it was like a family, Hecate so far only really viewed it as mercenary work in the name of helping others, and killing one who wishes to wage pointless war against his own, and in her mind 'better', counterparts was accomplishing good. By going on this adventure she would surely be yelled at by Aiyana, but she held little respect for the nine tailed fox beyond Hecate knowing that Aiyana wasn't a hypocrite. Aiyana lacked the ability to conduct the finishing blow, making most of her strength useless, in order to prevent any further tragedy such as a hated enemy coming back to ravage the land, Hecate knew she would occasionally have to wipe some people off the face of this planet.

To this end she had followed the letter to the meeting point, it was a cabin in the woods in the middle of a kingdom. Well, this was clearly some form of a makeshift site, that or the one had sent the letter had found a pretty well-kept secret within the land, especially considering what she had heard about the various ,military police forces. Some of said forces could teach Hecate a thing or two about paranoia, and that wasn't a good sign for getting in, thankfully Hecate had an answer for herself sneaking in, to both this campsite and to the targets location proper.

Making herself invisible to all senses Hecate wandered about the area inspecting the cabin in great detail before she passed through the wall and looked around the main room. It certainly looked like some kind of preparation area, various maps, and pieces of papers littered the cabins insides and it took just a bit of looking to deduct that all of this was a part of the job. The man in the room seemed relaxed yet at the same time eager, which meant that she had hit the mark to an even greater degree, only one who would go to these lengths would have the skill to carry out such an operation. She could be on board with this. Making herself no longer to invisible to nearly everything she started to speak out a few... demands.

"Names of those close to the target, patrol routines around the area where they reside, the number of individuals they have nearby to call in for backup, what type of equipment the guards typically carry. Exit points, entry points, meet up points, all of them out in the open. We aren't going to use our real names in case one of us is captured. Also... a pleasure to meet you."

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Post WC: 678
Total WC: 678/12500

It felt like forever, and if no one ended up coming then Raiza would just go about this job himself. No reason to not at the very least try. Though just when he was thinking of going he had felt something cross into his sensory field. Small but not unnoticeable. Magical beast? Perhaps, but Raiza had little worry of such a thing. If it was someone trying to sneak near him then they were so skilled Raiza did not even notice them within the building. Though a feeling still made him look up towards the door. Still the question in his mind is that he wondered if Aiyana had refused to let anyone from her guild go to this job. Truthfully, Raiza interacted with so few people on a job based level, he did actually remember them. Quite the interesting story for later.

Then a voice broke the silence. Demands were set forth onto the table, and Raiza's life was gladly not within those demands. Though a casual smile, perhaps closer to a smirk on his face when looking at the figure in front of him."Indeed, a pleasure to meet a beauty like you too". Though Raiza was only trying to do it in idle chat, it wasn't a lie either. Plus, it allowed him to set the stage for the serious talk he was about to open up with. "Your demands, they're quite thorough indeed. Everything will be answered, but let me start with the simplest first. I do not care if you know my real name, and if you happen to get captured then my name only means they'll have potentially heard of me. My Name is Raiza, and the reason I say that is because I'm one of the eleven sinners of fiore. Except this time, my intentions are at least good for Fiore. If you choose to let me know your real, or a false name, then that is up to you. I don't 'break' when I am captured. I used to lead the torture division in where I am from". All the while, Raiza was organizing all the maps except he left the country map flat on the table. Documents were also organized into a pile so he can read off and hand the woman what he was talking about when he was talking about it.

"Lets start with the target. The target is quite the known as both being high ranking in the military and very deep in politics. Her name is Moskova. A woman who tends to use more bomb related weaponry, and get this...most of her body is supposed to be animatronic, like a puppet almost. Its strange, no magic. So what ever this 'thing' is, will be a bit harder than the average target." Handing his partner the information on this as he went down to the next piece of information they had asked for. "Targets closest. There are not many. Most that follow her is only due to the position and that is why it is taking so long to rally up troops. They must be either a coward, or just really suck at invasions because had they been competent and actually had the right mind for this, then we'd be fighting in Fiore right now. However, there is one that is close to the target. Her name is Nen or Neni as some have also given that name. A small child, presumably Moskova's, but with how many branches hit that bitch on her way down, I do not see her having given birth. Though this leaves the fact. Who is the father if there was one. Looks like they musta had some one night stand and he said fuck this shit"

While Raiza could keep going with the information, he wanted to ensure his partner had this information read, or at least noted before continuing. He would hand her the documents, which also included photo pictures. First thing was first, the weaker soldiers, the low class guards that patrolled all of the cities and towns within the country. "These are the private class. They are common rabble guards, and the typical foot soldier of the front lines. Their equipment is made to fight off magic beasts so their quite able to use them. Above average strength, close quarters hand to hand combat training, and by the looks of it they have a variety of weaponry. No one of them carries all of them, but all of these weapons are used in one way or another. We use lacrima versions, and they use something called blast powder, something that launches these projectiles about half the speed of a bow according to the tests, but a hundred times more accurate.Blast powder is a ground up mineral that when struck will explode. Apparently small enough doses can launch projectiles. The first weapon is a side arm. A hand gun that is reported to carry 'clips' much like our lacrima version. They're weak, but capable of killing easy as well. the three following weapons is a primary assault, a breach, and something called a sub-assault.  The assault is a rapid fire, medium range. The breach is a scatter shot, and the sub-assault is like the side arm, but faster, and short ranges."

Before wanting to continue on, Raiza handed the woman the documents, including a picture of a few common guards to get acquainted with the uniform. As well as the 4 mentioned weaponry. "Let me know when you're ready for me to continue"


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That was... a lot of information... so this guy was prepared, after all, in fact, this was more than enough really. Perfect, she had assumed she was dealing with an amateur, because that is simply what one does on these sort of missions, they assume the worst and work from there. Thankfully with him being this prepared she didn't have to go out and scout for a few days which meant they could get moving on the operation right away, after the full briefing of course.

As for the briefing, there was a good quantity of guard's and all of them specialized in killing the magical huh? That's very interesting, this nation really seemed to hate magic for no reason, which was stupid because magic was the only thing that made it so the dragon wars were won, but who was she to question another nation's beliefs on magic, it's not like she was there, oh wait she was, and they were all very stupid for their beliefs and thoughts on the matter. As for their target, only having followers due to position, Hecate could relate to that, so thankfully she knew that the security wouldn't be willing to throw their lives down if they were just forced to be there, which meant that it might be possible to talk some of them down if they never saw her or her partners face. This was good because it allowed them to have different angles in case something went bad, besides having your own help run away could cause a demoralizing or panic effect and make the target make stupid mistakes.

She didn't care for his added commentary on the girl, but if that is the type of person she is then this lady would probably do anything in her power to stay alive so death traps were expected at every turn or a possible suicide move. For some reason, Hecate thought about using electricity to cancel out an explosion, but that was just stupid, who would use lightning to stop an explosion. However, the common guards if there were a lot of them, combined with a suicide attack, could prove troublesome to escape so sadly it was good that the patrol routes were known, all of them, would have to be killed. Aiyana would be so pissed at Hecate for murder but if she didn't get exposed it would be fine right? Oh, who was she kidding, Aiyana was going to be mad either way but if it meant stopping a war, she could take a scolding from someone younger than her, after all, she wasn't so immature to realize what a war truly meant, unlike the one who would gift her the lecture. One thing that struck her was this handgun thing, she had heard people had invented projectile weaponry that was man portable so she was eager to try them out at some point.

"You may proceed."

Post WC: 489
Total WC: 1167/12500

(Sorry again)

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A nod of his head after being told to proceed while taking his own mental note that the woman before him seemed quite analytical herself. Most people Raiza dealt with on a job like this would just stare blankly, and not even look at the material themselves, only to ask questions about something that shouldn't be asked just five to ten minutes after he got done explaining it. So lets face it, Raiza was at least happy that his teammate was intelligent.

"Right, onto patrol routes, entry and exit points. First off, from what I've gathered, most guards due to their range of engagement do not go on patrol. There are some that do however." Bringing out a bird's eye view of a map that had been drawn from his scouts ahead of time. "Right, as I said, here are those that do not seem to patrol, aside from shift changes. Here, here, here, and here. " pointing every time he said the word 'here'. "another classification of the common guard I'd give is their marksmen class, their 'assault' weapons have a function to zoom in, seems they're meant for longer range, and they're posted up on the high grounds Red dots, are shown as to where they are stationed, and their projected watch. It seems they've divided their attention to the four cardinal directions. Perhaps a recon unit? Anyways, As for patrol routes, they're marked in yellow."

Immediately, Raiza would slide the paper to Hectate before going onto the final papers. "Entry and exit points. While I have some predetermined exit routes, free to take your own way in or out. I'll be using teleportation to get in anyways to avoid sight. You're free to come along for that ride if you so wish. Exit points I've already trapped a large portion of the forest to the left and right as well as." kicking the ground, revealing underneath the home was a tunnel. "Fake exit point is this home, anyone who uses it's basement to escape will be trapped. So escape using the far eastern or western routes. north and south are trapped to prevent wide angle flanking. I suggest taking the west route, as to the east is the boarder of sin. West will take us further inland and we can escape with out much flaws there. As for escape or exit routes from the inside I've only got a couple, but again, up to you if you'd like to use them. Handing Hectate the final paper, showing trap placements, projected field of damages, entry point potentials, as well as exit route potentials, and lastly, where Raiza planned to teleport to, which was one of the higher buildings where one of the recon marksmen were positioned onto. High enough that they could enter the building from the roof access, as it was more like a corporation structure sort of deal anyways.

"I know I only mentioned the private class of soldier, but that was all they had around this city that data showed. If there are any higher class, expect potential weapon changes, as well as shooting skill, and training. We do not have data on them, but they may be around. On average I'd assume there are two or three more ranks above private class, and those recon unit people seemed to fit the bill of being two ranks above the private class. So be on the lookout for that. "

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