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An armored SUV
As the lead SUV crashed into the Fugazis, it came to a screeching halt, just past the crumbling building. The second SUV stopped infront of the building and the third was right behind it. The lead SUV's once gleaming body paint was now covered in splattered blood, nicks, and dents from the turtle armor the Fugazis were wearing. From the back doors of the three SUVs, additional soldiers came out firing into the Fugazis outside, using the doors as sheilds. A couple of men ran into the building, hoping to find any survivors.
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Kallisti and her capo saw the friendly SUVs from the alley as the other capos died stalling the Fugazis inside the building. They ran down the alley, towards the third SUV. Talk about the calvary coming to the rescue.
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An underground club, in a basement of an abandoned warehouse, controlled by the Kallisti Group.
A new recruit makes his last round before opening the club for the night, while Kallisti and her Lieutenant talk about recent events occuring topside in the back.
"And now Ozians are on our soil Kallisti, supplied by them as well. The market is slim to sell them any weapons. In addtion Myrorian soldiers have entered the Liberty's ranks."
"Foreign governments want a piece of the pie. I guess we'll have to release the restrictions against the Fugazis so..."
"But they almost killed you?!" interupted the Lieutenant.
"Money is money. Where it comes from doesnt change its value. Their attack wasn't personal, you know that. Hell I doubt they even knew they almost had me. Besides, you want foreigners in your homeland?" Kallisti understood her Lieutenant's protective behavior, not that she needed it. Girl or not, there weren't many people in the Taitiju that knew her origins. The Lieutenant considered his life saved by Kallisti personally when she offered him a job within her ranks. The kid turned out to have some business smarts and turned good profits since his initiation.
The Lieutenant was at a lost for words, as his eyes dropped to the tiled floor.
"Yea, I didnt think so. Send the word out and group up some soldiers at our supply points. I dont want the vamps or the libs thinking they can knock us off easy with their new friends."
Carcossa was starting to smell of rotting carcasses and dried blood shewn across the region. In addtion to the rotting bodies, the release of bile, urine, and feces from the dead bodies were adding to the foul odor. News of the brutality of the Nightlords were being spread by underground presses, some owned by Kallisti Group members. Some even claimed to contain pictures of horrid developing conditions within.
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As days went by, flies, rats, pigeons, cockroaches, and various other vermin were becoming widespread. Disease and the resultant deaths could not be far behind in the region of Carcossa.