i wasn't sure if I was gonna vote in this quest but bullet king
[X] Check up on Jake. He's the only other remaining Division agent from the Second Wave and the two of you need to stick together.
[X] Play cards with JTF. The JTF will be the military arm of any relief effort. You can find out what their morale is like and get to know them a little more.
Honestly I just always lean towards knowing something about the people who are gonna die for us. Or with us or whatever.
[x] Speak to civilians. If you're going to help the people of Manhattan you need to get to know them. Talk to some of the civilians in Camp Hudson.
[x] Chat with Medical Personnel. There are two doctors in Camp Hudson. They know more about the medical situation than anyone else, and they can give it to you straight.
[x] Speak to civilians. If you're going to help the people of Manhattan you need to get to know them. Talk to some of the civilians in Camp Hudson.
[x] Chat with Medical Personnel. There are two doctors in Camp Hudson. They know more about the medical situation than anyone else, and they can give it to you straight.
Adhoc vote count started by Jrin on Jan 15, 2019 at 6:50 PM, finished with 153 posts and 11 votes.
[X] Check up on Jake. He's the only other remaining Division agent from the Second Wave and the two of you need to stick together.
[X] Chat with Medical Personnel. There are two doctors in Camp Hudson. They know more about the medical situation than anyone else, and they can give it to you straight.
[X] Play cards with JTF. The JTF will be the military arm of any relief effort. You can find out what their morale is like and get to know them a little more.
[x] Speak to civilians. If you're going to help the people of Manhattan you need to get to know them. Talk to some of the civilians in Camp Hudson.
[x] Chat with Medical Personnel. There are two doctors in Camp Hudson. They know more about the medical situation than anyone else, and they can give it to you straight.
[X] Check up on Jake. He's the only other remaining Division agent from the Second Wave and the two of you need to stick together.
[X] Play cards with JTF. The JTF will be the military arm of any relief effort. You can find out what their morale is like and get to know them a little more.
[x] Speak to civilians. If you're going to help the people of Manhattan you need to get to know them. Talk to some of the civilians in Camp Hudson.
[x] Chat with Medical Personnel. There are two doctors in Camp Hudson. They know more about the medical situation than anyone else, and they can give it to you straight.
I like the look of this. I played through the game with a friend and even if it wasn't the best game I've played there was potential in the story and world.
You blink once, and you can feel the very concept crashing through your mind, everyone's...dead? No, they can't be dead, they can't. It's...what? No no no this wasn't how it was supposed to be, a voice screams in your head, too loud. You were the second wave, but the first wave was supposed to- how could they possibly have died? With their training? What is going on? They have to be missing. Yes. Missing. It can't fall apart like this.
Man, I am still so thrilled that we went with denial. It's been great, ngl. Not for Sophia, obviously, but from a reading perspective. It kinda makes the shocks hit that much harder, the breaking feel more gradual, more significant than if we'd gone in pre-embittered imo. Like, for one, I like how James doesn't even consider the possibility that maybe they went rogue or the chain of events that would push them to that point (ie. "How much of a government is there left to save" and "Is there a single thing that hasn't fucked up"). So that's gonna hit like a meteor tbh, when it first comes up. And man, maaaaaan the Dark Zone in general is already, like, the place where people's humanity goes to die.
Guards and wardens from Riker's Island were withdrawn to Manhattan to become part of the Joint Task Force, a coalition of Manhattan policemen, national guard, animal control, firefighters, volunteers, and other emergency personnel, tasked with the impossible task of preventing a spiral into chaos. Much of the Army refused to leave, and deserted. The largest contingent formed the Last Man Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bliss. Some of the JTF's best joined him.
Even though the political situation's been reworked (which I'm legitimately really excited about) I like how you can kinda get the sense of why the JTF isn't exactly popular. Rikers must have been actual hell-on-earth when the Green Poison hit, and then the wardens and guards are stripped down into a skeleton crew (if that) and integrated into the government response? On top of, y'know, the police who put you there and sure, yeah, NYPD isn't the literal worst police department in the country but that's a bar so low it's basically a sewer pipe. So you have a lot of, like, overwhelmingly minority people who ended up abandoned in what was a massive carrion pit filled with plague dead for the crime of, uh, possession in a lot of cases.
Similarly the Public Sanitation Committee and LMB probably both consider the JTF to be a wildly ineffective in terms of countering the outbreak and like- fair. The JTF is explicitly this rag tag, undersupplied Jenga Tower of odds and ends from every municipal and government department that could be shoved into a single stack. And they've inherited a lot of the problems of their constituent organizations on top of the normal "end of the world, heart of darkness" shit. Or even just the normal, mundane, "three missed meals" stuff.
I'm really looking forward to what interactions the post-Outbreak factions have with each other too, not just the JTF. It's part of why I'm so glad we got Sophia, since breaking that down is very much her field.
You fall backwards. Those are bodies. A hand is poking out of the ground in front of you. The outcrop is bodies. There must be- oh god, there must be hundreds of people here, they're not even in body bags, what the fuck-
[X] Check up on Jake. He's the only other remaining Division agent from the Second Wave and the two of you need to stick together.
[X] Speak to civilians. If you're going to help the people of Manhattan you need to get to know them. Talk to some of the civilians in Camp Hudson.
I mean they're already in the lead and tbh the next update's probably being half written but I kinda just want to cement these as being a little farther ahead and, hey, feel involved and stuff even though it took me forever to get around to posting. But yeah, Jake's our tether in a sense. He's in the same boat, he gets what we're going through because he is too in his own way, and we can keep each other's morale up because holy hell shit is bad.
And meanwhile the "check up the civilians option" is just
/me whistles blithely as he steers the SS Denial towards the most emotionally devastating rocks possible.
Adhoc vote count started by Crilltic on Jan 20, 2019 at 9:07 PM, finished with 22 posts and 15 votes.
[X] Check up on Jake. He's the only other remaining Division agent from the Second Wave and the two of you need to stick together.
[X] Chat with Medical Personnel. There are two doctors in Camp Hudson. They know more about the medical situation than anyone else, and they can give it to you straight.
[X] Play cards with JTF. The JTF will be the military arm of any relief effort. You can find out what their morale is like and get to know them a little more.
[X] Check up on Jake. He's the only other remaining Division agent from the Second Wave and the two of you need to stick together.
[X] Speak to civilians. If you're going to help the people of Manhattan you need to get to know them. Talk to some of the civilians in Camp Hudson.
[x] Speak to civilians. If you're going to help the people of Manhattan you need to get to know them. Talk to some of the civilians in Camp Hudson.
[x] Chat with Medical Personnel. There are two doctors in Camp Hudson. They know more about the medical situation than anyone else, and they can give it to you straight.
[X] Check up on Jake. He's the only other remaining Division agent from the Second Wave and the two of you need to stick together.
[X] Play cards with JTF. The JTF will be the military arm of any relief effort. You can find out what their morale is like and get to know them a little more.
[X] Check up on Jake. He's the only other remaining Division agent from the Second Wave and the two of you need to stick together.
[X] Speak to civilians. If you're going to help the people of Manhattan you need to get to know them. Talk to some of the civilians in Camp Hudson.
It kinda makes the shocks hit that much harder, the breaking feel more gradual, more significant than if we'd gone in pre-embittered imo. Like, for one, I like how James doesn't even consider the possibility that maybe they went rogue or the chain of events that would push them to that point (ie. "How much of a government is there left to save" and "Is there a single thing that hasn't fucked up"). So that's gonna hit like a meteor tbh, when it first comes up. And man, maaaaaan the Dark Zone in general is already, like, the place where people's humanity goes to die. 
