You have no chance to survive

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Who: Rocket Grunts, Magma Grunts, and Aqua Grunts! Basically all the Grunts!
Where: The Whirl Islands and Cinnabar Island
When: February 1st
Summary: Pretty much this
Rating: PG-13? It doesn't need to higher than that? Right, guys?
Log:

The orders are pretty simple. Go in. Wipe out the Team Aqua and Magma Grunts. That's it. So there's not going to be any farewell speeches or anything like that from the Admins because they're of the opinion that you guys have totally got this.

And if you don't...

Well, don't worry about that for now.

Instead, just worry about getting to the nearest base and boarding a helicopter. After that, you've got a short (or long, depending on which base you're heading to) ride ahead of you to some islands in the middle of the ocean, inhabited by a bunch of Aqua and Magma Grunts who have no idea this surprise is on the way. So just do what you do best, Rockets!

And as far as the Admins are concerned what you do best should be to win at all costs. Anything less and well, that would just be an embarrassing return to the region for them. And nobody wants that.


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☆ HELICOPTER RIDE THREAD ☆ TEAM AQUA BASE THREAD ☆ TEAM MAGMA BASE THREAD ☆ AFTERMATH THREAD

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DURING THE HELICOPTER RIDE

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Since there's nothing to do on the possibly long ride over there, why not chat with your fellow Grunts in the helicopter? The admins aren't here, and the pilot's busy flying the chopper, so it's not like anyone's going to tell you to shut up and focus on the mission or anything. Feel free to mingle to your heart's content and don't worry too much about who got on where or how long the helicopter ride is! Or exactly how everyone fits in these helicopters anyway.

TEAM AQUA BASE

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If you've been deployed to the Whirl Islands, you have the easier of the two drop offs. The helicopter lands outside one of the cave entrances and each Rocket's been given a map which should, in theory, lead to the Aqua base and not get any of you horribly lost, never to be seen again.

But assuming everybody makes it there in one piece, you'll find yourself at the base! Which isn't really much to write home about, but Team Aqua's Grunts are wandering around the base and definitely ready to deal with any intruders. Especially Rocket intruders who are looking to loot them or try and kick them out. They're not in the mood to deal with any of that today.

TEAM MAGMA BASE

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Now if you're being dispatched to the Team Magma base, you have a slightly tougher way of entering. The base is below Cinnabar Island, so the entrance happens to be on the side of the island. The actual side. So you'll basically be jumping from the copter into the entrance. The Rocket pilot has mercifully gotten close enough that any idiot could make the jump, but still, that's a thing to be aware of.

Which might look suspicious to anyone that's familiar with Cinnabar Island. Here's this entrance to a super secret base constructed on the side of an island that's basically undergone perpetual construction forever? Could the construction company on Cinnabar be a front for Team Magma? Or just glitched into an infinite loop of constructing nothing forever?

Conspiracy theories aside, there's no map leading to the base, it's a simple straightfoward path leading into the Team Magma base. Oddly enough the layout and lootable items are almost identical to the Team Aqua one. So maybe there is something up with that construction company after all.

The Grunts are about as likely to take your arrival about as well as their counterparts too. So stay sharp, Rockets!

AFTER THE BATTLE

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Congratulations to the winners! And to the losers well...you tried, and nobody can take that away from you. The helicopters are en route to pick everybody up, but it's going to be a while before they get there, so feel free to talk among yourselves, collect any items you haven't grabbed yet, and just poke around what's left of the bases.

But given the battles and the fact that some people have been setting off explosives and who knows what in some of them, you might want to tread carefully. Still, it's definitely worth checking things out for those items since after the admins finish remodeling, they're going to be conveniently lost during construction. Or stored in a Rocket warehouse next to all those other items Team Rocket has a seemingly endless supply of. But get them now while they're free and don't require a requisition form or anything like that!