Instances of Observation

Friday 29 March 2013

Recruitment

I think it's been long enough. Every man needs to know when it's time to return to his duty, and my time is now. Grandfather has tasked me with leading the recruitment campaign for the Deicide, as many of their men were killed in an attempt to subdue the Rake before meeting with him.

Gotta say though, people aren't exactly lining up to fight monsters. I had to take a note from... Let's just call them a rival organization and leave it at that.

"Alright, Mr..."
"Crackhead."
"Named after why you're in here?"
"Nah, the others gave me the name after I stomped in my cell mate's face."
"Violent tendencies, good. That's what Eli's looking for apparently."
"That mean I'm in?"
"It means you'll be considered."

Using the Catacombs, I've been going from city to city giving the most violent and aggressive criminals the chance at an early prison release. Hell, even after I tell them they'll be fighting monsters they don't seem fazed. These men are so desperate to see life outside a cell. It's really rather entertaining.

So far, we've managed to gather recruits from Norway and Denmark, and will slowly be making our way through the rest of Europe gathering names and profiles of prisoners with either a life sentence or a death sentence. After all, who else would be desperate enough to join us? That, and the fact that they'd likely be more loyal to men who gave them their freedom and/or lives. We (as in the rest of the Archive, who have been tasked with the same objective to cover more ground) expect to be done recruiting by late April or mid May, by which time we will have covered enough ground to reach the Deicide's main facility in Bangkok. At this point, Elijah will assess each profile himself and choose the convicts who get to join the Deicide. The ones who aren't so lucky... Well at least they'll never be able to come after us.

Elijah and Nathan are back at the base making a million calls a day trying to find "Phobos". Yeah, that's right.  Jack's dad is looking for Jack's brother Zeke, and he doesn't even know it. Funny enough, Jack probably would've tried to kill Elijah after learning that if I hadn't already done him in.

I still feel there might've been a better way, but what's done is done. You can't grieve forever.

Anyways, we're starting with Europe since the leaders of these countries are probably gonna accept our requests seeing as we're a part of STAB. Can't exactly have their only source of information on how to deal with incidents regarding the Fears stop supplying them, now can they? STAB HQ hasn't exactly learned of what we're doing and wouldn't approve if they did, so we're saving Canada and America for last so we don't draw too much attention before we're able to... Take care of the rest of STAB, should the need arise.

And that's your update on the life of Gamma, folks! Tune in next week, when I attempt to strangle the quiet!