(The following lore post was inspired by the Mai Lai massacre during the Vietnam war, and has experimental audio recordings I created myself. If you like what you hear with such audio, let me know!) ---- The following is a report sent to the Oversight Committee of the Lambda Armies. It details several war crimes committed at an FOB through a false authorization of MP Procedure.
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To be sent to the Oversight Committee of the Lambda Armies.
WB PFC Jacoby Bridgewater.
11/14/202-
The 22nd fighter battalion had been deployed to a sector of combat in the former city of Chisinau, Moldova. Our task was to sweep the downtown streets of Combine forces and set up a forward operations base for a future assault. The 22nd FB and 33rd Rifle “Ace of Hearts” battalion began to close in on the metro streets and railways, however had encountered a contingent of heavy resistance on the main street. We had pushed for about an hour deeper into their territory when we found a troop of MPF and OTA escorting loyalist civilians. We had begun firing when a civilian, a woman in her late 30s, raised a white shirt above the group. Knowing this, and seeing that the soldiers had also ceased combat, we rounded them up and Private Breeden Hall with Corporal Frost Witham escorted the captures to secure grounds.
Once the assault had concluded, I exfilled with my company and the 33rd to begin a separate assault the next day. We were stationed at a forward operating base for the night, and I found that the captives were being taken in at the same location for interrogation.
MPs were not stationed there at the time.
When confronted about the procedure over radio, RF LtCol Harper Jackson stated “Frost Witham has ultimate control of the captives. He has consulted MPs on interrogation procedures and he’s been cleared for such a process, albeit in a very fast time frame.”
“I don’t think we should be worried of any malpractice, after all we’ve been guarding enough prisoners to know what to do with them.”
It was about 3am before I heard the first of many noises. It was like crunching, muffled garbling a few rooms over. I hadn’t heard anything like that ever, and was scared shitless. Excuse me for my language but that’s the only accurate description I can provide. No other words can describe something like what I had felt. It kept going and going, stopping intermittently for about an hour and a half before ceasing altogether. It was about 15 minutes before I heard cries, real cries, and then screams. I got up out of the bunks and walked into the direction of the yelling before coming across a single RF guard, and a large iron door with a viewing hatch. The guard who I don’t want to name by his request, simply took out his keys and quietly unlocked the hatch. He shimmied open a small hole, and said “Take a look.”
Blood.
Everywhere.
I saw several captives, I think the ones from the city, holed up in a corner of the room. They were watching whatever was screaming from a blindspot, and were completely silent. I heard talking, too, though overpowered by the cries for mercy and help. The true horror of what I viewed that day was one corpse. A bulky corpse that had been ruined and tossed aside like trash. I believe it was a Combine soldier. I didn’t look too hard, I barely caught a glimpse. My body and soul rejected everything about that room. I raced back to the bunks, guilty and violated, and spent the rest of my night wide awake.
The next morning I stopped Cpl Frost while he was doing side work, and brought him into an office. I questioned him about the noises, and he said he didn’t hear anything. I then questioned him about the guard, and he said he had no knowledge of such. I then confronted him about the room with the captives and blood, and he told me to “get the fuck back to your bunks and keep your nose in your own ass.”
I beg you, I really do, to please, please, please launch an investigation. Please. I can’t sleep. I hear them every night. It’s maddening. I don’t understand why I must be subjected to such horrors, why they have to. I couldn’t go to sleep because the screams kept going on and on and on.
Don’t, and I beg you, don’t ignore me.
Please.
…
The following two audio clips are of the interrogation mentioned, and subsequent discovery by the cleaning man the next day.
WB PVT Jacoby Bridgewater was found to be lifeless in his bunks on deployment day, with the cause of death being a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Several eye and ear witness accounts corroborate this finding.
Cpl Frost Witham and Pvt Breeden Hall were court martialed on 11/25/202-, on charges of desecration, malpractice, and several POW war crimes defined under the Geneva Convention. Frost Witham was stripped of his rank and excommunicated, however such a ruling was overturned by the MP Judiciary Branch. Pvt Breeden Hall faced the same punishment, however his ruling still stands today.
Frost Witham now serves as an MP 1stLT.
LtCol Harper Jackson resigned from his post, and has disappeared from the public eye.
The MP Oversight Committee issued a statement, saying “...Such an action performed on the day reported in the note did not break Geneva protocols. Such a doctrine is only to be followed in the case of a human captive. We do not believe that Bridgewater accurately described what had happened that day.” Due to double jeopardy, we are unable to prosecute Witham once more on the same charges. He has been designated as the perpetrator of the crime, and unoffically guilty.
Is this that idea I gave you? How did it get warped to this?
Voice acting is... okay. Maybe it would better if you didn't go 100% all the time. Maybe it's because you have to put so much emotion into it. I suggest you try voice more casual dialogue next time. This seems pretty hard.
As for clip one....
Frost's voice is a bit hard to hear---needs to be louder.
So, he demotes a Pvt to Pvt???
As for clip two...
What's with the portal radio?
Good, uhh, "vomiting" noises.
You could do without most of the little details in the first paragraph. (Stuff like the age of the woman or the name of the battalion) If it doesn't come up later, don't bother.
(30 Oct 22 at 2:13am)Sevin Wrote: You could do without most of the little details in the first paragraph. (Stuff like the age of the woman or the name of the battalion) If it doesn't come up later, don't bother.
It's a formal report/letter so it makes sense to include those details. This isn't a 3rd person perspective, this is an in-universe account.
(30 Oct 22 at 2:13am)Sevin Wrote: Is this that idea I gave you? How did it get warped to this?
Voice acting is... okay. Maybe it would better if you didn't go 100% all the time. Maybe it's because you have to put so much emotion into it. I suggest you try voice more casual dialogue next time. This seems pretty hard.
As for clip one....
Frost's voice is a bit hard to hear---needs to be louder.
So, he demotes a Pvt to Pvt???
As for clip two...
What's with the portal radio?
Good, uhh, "vomiting" noises.
You could do without most of the little details in the first paragraph. (Stuff like the age of the woman or the name of the battalion) If it doesn't come up later, don't bother.
Demotes PFC to PVT
I get that the voice is a bit hard to hear, probably should have cleaned it up.
And no, it isn’t the idea you gave me. I’m still tryna see how I’ll work it out before writing it.
(30 Oct 22 at 12:10pm)Kenny McCormick Wrote:
(30 Oct 22 at 2:13am)Sevin Wrote: Is this that idea I gave you? How did it get warped to this?
Voice acting is... okay. Maybe it would better if you didn't go 100% all the time. Maybe it's because you have to put so much emotion into it. I suggest you try voice more casual dialogue next time. This seems pretty hard.
As for clip one....
Frost's voice is a bit hard to hear---needs to be louder.
So, he demotes a Pvt to Pvt???
As for clip two...
What's with the portal radio?
Good, uhh, "vomiting" noises.
You could do without most of the little details in the first paragraph. (Stuff like the age of the woman or the name of the battalion) If it doesn't come up later, don't bother.
Demotes PFC to PVT
I get that the voice is a bit hard to hear, probably should have cleaned it up.
And no, it isn’t the idea you gave me. I’m still tryna see how I’ll work it out before writing it.
Furthermore the emotion is intentional, as Jacoby was extremely distressed by the situation. I would be too if I saw what looked like spilt sauce everywhere
^^^^
Yeah, I get you. I'm just saying voice acting lines that need that much emotion is difficult.
(30 Oct 22 at 5:01am)Destitute the :dab: Wrote:
(30 Oct 22 at 5:01am)Destitute the :dab: Wrote: [quote="Sevin" pid='28358' dateline='1667110417']
You could do without most of the little details in the first paragraph. (Stuff like the age of the woman or the name of the battalion) If it doesn't come up later, don't bother.
It's a formal report/letter so it makes sense to include those details. This isn't a 3rd person perspective, this is an in-universe account.
That is true. It makes a good/realistic report, however details like that don't really add to the overarching story the report is in.
It depends on what you are trying to do / focus on really.
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The following is a report sent to the Oversight Committee of the Lambda Armies. It details several war crimes committed at an FOB through a false authorization of MP Procedure.
...
To be sent to the Oversight Committee of the Lambda Armies.
WB PFC Jacoby Bridgewater.
11/14/202-
The 22nd fighter battalion had been deployed to a sector of combat in the former city of Chisinau, Moldova. Our task was to sweep the downtown streets of Combine forces and set up a forward operations base for a future assault. The 22nd FB and 33rd Rifle “Ace of Hearts” battalion began to close in on the metro streets and railways, however had encountered a contingent of heavy resistance on the main street. We had pushed for about an hour deeper into their territory when we found a troop of MPF and OTA escorting loyalist civilians. We had begun firing when a civilian, a woman in her late 30s, raised a white shirt above the group. Knowing this, and seeing that the soldiers had also ceased combat, we rounded them up and Private Breeden Hall with Corporal Frost Witham escorted the captures to secure grounds.
Once the assault had concluded, I exfilled with my company and the 33rd to begin a separate assault the next day. We were stationed at a forward operating base for the night, and I found that the captives were being taken in at the same location for interrogation.
MPs were not stationed there at the time.
When confronted about the procedure over radio, RF LtCol Harper Jackson stated “Frost Witham has ultimate control of the captives. He has consulted MPs on interrogation procedures and he’s been cleared for such a process, albeit in a very fast time frame.”
“I don’t think we should be worried of any malpractice, after all we’ve been guarding enough prisoners to know what to do with them.”
It was about 3am before I heard the first of many noises. It was like crunching, muffled garbling a few rooms over. I hadn’t heard anything like that ever, and was scared shitless. Excuse me for my language but that’s the only accurate description I can provide. No other words can describe something like what I had felt. It kept going and going, stopping intermittently for about an hour and a half before ceasing altogether. It was about 15 minutes before I heard cries, real cries, and then screams. I got up out of the bunks and walked into the direction of the yelling before coming across a single RF guard, and a large iron door with a viewing hatch. The guard who I don’t want to name by his request, simply took out his keys and quietly unlocked the hatch. He shimmied open a small hole, and said “Take a look.”
Blood.
Everywhere.
I saw several captives, I think the ones from the city, holed up in a corner of the room. They were watching whatever was screaming from a blindspot, and were completely silent. I heard talking, too, though overpowered by the cries for mercy and help. The true horror of what I viewed that day was one corpse. A bulky corpse that had been ruined and tossed aside like trash. I believe it was a Combine soldier. I didn’t look too hard, I barely caught a glimpse. My body and soul rejected everything about that room. I raced back to the bunks, guilty and violated, and spent the rest of my night wide awake.
The next morning I stopped Cpl Frost while he was doing side work, and brought him into an office. I questioned him about the noises, and he said he didn’t hear anything. I then questioned him about the guard, and he said he had no knowledge of such. I then confronted him about the room with the captives and blood, and he told me to “get the fuck back to your bunks and keep your nose in your own ass.”
I beg you, I really do, to please, please, please launch an investigation. Please. I can’t sleep. I hear them every night. It’s maddening. I don’t understand why I must be subjected to such horrors, why they have to. I couldn’t go to sleep because the screams kept going on and on and on.
Don’t, and I beg you, don’t ignore me.
Please.
…
The following two audio clips are of the interrogation mentioned, and subsequent discovery by the cleaning man the next day.
WB PVT Jacoby Bridgewater was found to be lifeless in his bunks on deployment day, with the cause of death being a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Several eye and ear witness accounts corroborate this finding.
Cpl Frost Witham and Pvt Breeden Hall were court martialed on 11/25/202-, on charges of desecration, malpractice, and several POW war crimes defined under the Geneva Convention. Frost Witham was stripped of his rank and excommunicated, however such a ruling was overturned by the MP Judiciary Branch. Pvt Breeden Hall faced the same punishment, however his ruling still stands today.
Frost Witham now serves as an MP 1stLT.
LtCol Harper Jackson resigned from his post, and has disappeared from the public eye.
The MP Oversight Committee issued a statement, saying “...Such an action performed on the day reported in the note did not break Geneva protocols. Such a doctrine is only to be followed in the case of a human captive. We do not believe that Bridgewater accurately described what had happened that day.”
Due to double jeopardy, we are unable to prosecute Witham once more on the same charges.
He has been designated as the perpetrator of the crime, and unoffically guilty.
Audio 1
Audio 2
former hgm, npu dvl (sentry), lvet co
Voice acting is... okay. Maybe it would better if you didn't go 100% all the time. Maybe it's because you have to put so much emotion into it. I suggest you try voice more casual dialogue next time. This seems pretty hard.
As for clip one....
Frost's voice is a bit hard to hear---needs to be louder.
So, he demotes a Pvt to Pvt???
As for clip two...
What's with the portal radio?
Good, uhh, "vomiting" noises.
You could do without most of the little details in the first paragraph. (Stuff like the age of the woman or the name of the battalion) If it doesn't come up later, don't bother.
It's a formal report/letter so it makes sense to include those details. This isn't a 3rd person perspective, this is an in-universe account.
Demotes PFC to PVT
I get that the voice is a bit hard to hear, probably should have cleaned it up.
And no, it isn’t the idea you gave me. I’m still tryna see how I’ll work it out before writing it.
Furthermore the emotion is intentional, as Jacoby was extremely distressed by the situation. I would be too if I saw what looked like spilt sauce everywhere
Yeah, I get you. I'm just saying voice acting lines that need that much emotion is difficult.
That is true. It makes a good/realistic report, however details like that don't really add to the overarching story the report is in.
It depends on what you are trying to do / focus on really.