Fear and Hunger: Pr_y For God - Part Three

The Officer, Theologian and Yellow Mage stood at the entrance to the Bunker Network, hestiating. They had a solid plan for escaping this Alll-Mer forsaken island but it involved getting past that flame-thrower wielding Sylvian Marriage below them. After no small amount of cajoling from his fellow Survivors, the Officer was eventually convinced to try and pull rank on the pyromaniacal monstrosity. The cowardly Bremen swigged the last of his beer and strode down the concrete steps towards the overpowering stench of burning gasoline and blood.

With the papist and oriental witch following nervously behind, the Officer blew upon his bugle and raised his voice at the masked war-machine. "At attention! Soldier, identify yourself immediately."

A pause.

The Officer's blood ran cold as ice as those emotionless windows of soot-covered glass stared him down. For a moment he was sure that flamethrower would be turned on him, burning his flesh to the bone. But then the Dragon Coin he kept in his pocket grew warm. He had looted the artefact months prior from a Xuanyuanese priestess who claimed it brought good fortune to those who carried it. It hadn't stopped his men from bayonetting the screaming woman to death. 

But now there was a change in the air. An invisible thumb pressing down on the scales of fate.

"Military designation 1-1-5-7. Standing orders - sanitisation of abominable organisms."

The three Survivors released an audible sigh of relief. Straightening his back, the Officer informed the Sylvian Marriage that there was an "abominable organism" in the Courtyard of the Bremen Fort that needed to be "sanitised". The towering soldier released a gravelly affirmation and strode up the stairs towards the unknown entity the Survivors had heard earlier. Soon came the sounds of a violent battle erupting above them: the deafening report of automatic gunfire, the roar of a flamethrower and ground-shaking explosions.

The Survivors didn't stick around to see who won.

Fear and Hunger: Pr_y For God - Part Two

Clutching his flint spear tightly, the Captain exited the Catacombs into the Church itself. He discovered that it had been retrofitted by the Bremen Army into a makeshift FOB, albeit one that was filled with corpses. Inspecting the dead, the Captain found both Bremen soldiers and more mask-wearing cultists from the Botanical Gardens. Whilst all the ammo was gone and the weapons were too damaged to be useful, he did find some healing items.

Fear and Hunger: Pr_y For God - Part One

The year is 1933. In the Far East, the Empire of Xuanyuan has been kept under the boot of the Europan colonial powers for the past three decades. Their labour pool has been exploited, their populace forcibly addicted to imported narcotics and their sacred sites plundered by the armies of the Bremen Empire's Kaiser and the Vatican's Dark Priesthood.

But this Age of Humiliation is coming to a bloody conclusion. The Burning Tide, a united front of agrarian-communists and Xuanyuanese nationalists, has swept aside the armies of the collaborationist Shi Dynasty and encircled their capital city of Yanjing - along with the Lantern Island Special Region, an international settlement ceded to the Bremen Empire.

You are the Survivors, a group of influential foreigners and military officials accompanying the Europan expeditionary force sent to crush this uprising and break the months-long Siege of Yanjing.Things have not gone to plan. The Europans barely retook Yanjing, whilst the besiegers merely withdrew into the surrounding countryside, where they have regrouped and mounted a fierce counterattack. The Europan line is failing, and you all have boarded a barge to flee to the Special Region - a fortified river island. However, you do not know the state of the settlement, it's been encircled for months with no communication forth-coming. 

But with a horde of rebels at your back baying for the blood of foreigners and collaborators, what choice do you have?