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Chapter 4 : Distraction/Disappointment
Getting closer to the village ruins that they were planning there fun to happen in, they got lucky in there misfortune as the sky started to whistle and shortly after the ground started to shake, whilst buildings in front of them got turned from brick and stone houses to brick and stone memory's.
Vaskra being a sort of trained soldier grunt, hit the deck and laid flat on the ground looking around for cover, whilst Karl-Heinz be an on and of ARMA 3 player with theoretical combat skills and no actual combat training, lowered his stance and started moving sort of faster than walking, but slower than sprinting or jogging, towards the nearest pock mark in the ground and then hugged the dirt in it with a bit more cover than Vaskra.
Both of the looking around to try and see what was going on and where the other one has gone off to. The explosions stopped and peaceful calm in the air returned. The village ruins were now a bit flatter than before and the last remaining huts with intact roofs got knocked a bit closer to the ground level. Vaskra had slowly made her way over to Karl´s hole in the ground and joined him
in the outer layer of dirt that this crater provided to there clothes.
Kind of killing the urge and mood in both of them. They waited a short bit before raising from there cover and brushing of what ever of the dirt would come off easily.
Vaskra then checked herself and Karl for wounds, whilst Karl was pretty unusually unstressed and unshocked, instead rather giddy in the aftermath of this event. “What is going on with you ? Are you hurt ? Why didn´t you stay by me and let me protect you, like a real woman should protect her man?” all the while Vaskra was patting down Karl and making sure to not overlook any injury's that could be missed due to what ever Karl´s version of shock seemed to be in her mind.
Karl dismissed her questions and tried to share his thoughts with Vaskra “Did you see that?, did you feel it shake the ground and let the vibrations run thru your body of each impact ? What was that even for a weapon? Did they do artillery fire practices ? Oh this script is good in subverting my expectation!”
Vaskra looked at Karl in horror ´how can he find joy in this near death situation ?, how can he enjoy the hell of war ?´ Still she finished her check up on Karl to make extra sure that her meal ticket to happiness wasn´t hurt and whilst the shock of the moment shortly cleansed her off all mind numbing effects of her arousal she got a theory to confirm into her head. “Say … Karl, are you perhaps not thinking quite right ? I mean not to offend you, but you do seem of most off the time ...”
Not glancing at Vaskra he stared at the slightly smoking scene of the town “Yup I am not normal, never was, socially awkward and rather weird. Why do you ask ?” Looking at Vaskra with a grin now, “come lets look at the craters created so I can get a feel of what the weapons destruction potential is !”
Vaskra nodded yes as response whilst she started to ponder this new information and walked over back to the road and into the village. ´He is clearly not normal, is it a sickness that can be cured ? Is it bad up bringing and can be corrected ? Goddesses above I wish I knew what to do. It would be really really bad if he were to run giggling into laser fire and die of stupidity. Maybe the church can help? They usually take care of men that are sick in the head.´
Once in the Village Karl-Heinz had a fun time walking around and inspecting craters in the street and holes in houses. As expected, no house was livable in, less were not in risk of collapsing soon and sadly to Vaskra´s dismay non had an intact room and or bed in them any more.
Not taking to long Karl was done with his survey. “All done here, you got to go and find a cave or where ever else a bed can be made or set up ?” Vaskra took the situation in stride “ Yeah lets get going again, no point in waiting to get exploded from what ever attack that was when it maybe returns”
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“No loot here to, and I don´t fancy caring crafting materials with my bare hands all the way to where we are going next. Where are we going next ?” Starting to walk out the village on the road that they used to enter it Vaskra answered. “ugh ,,, this was the only place I saw when walking out here, so I guess it is back to base then … when someone asks, you fucked me senseless and we are married oki ?”
Returning to being a void of emotions Karl reacted “Can do, are the other women handsy or why should I say that?” Grunting in frustration and a bit of further realization Vaskra tried to explain the social construct of this war, world, galaxy to Karl-Heinz “ Yes yes they are very handsy, the whole universe is handsy, do you know there are so few men to go around for all the women ? So of course they are handsy, they even expect me to share you around and take in other wife's. But we will play this smart! We first will need a few strong and good fighting bitches, then we will need some women with brains to keep this family organized and together … “ Sadly Vaskra lost herself in her explanation and instead started making plans for how to ride her man out for maximum benefit of her new family.
Karl-Heinz found this very entertaining and just walked on and kept on listening without comment like one would listen to a podcast whilst walking in a park. Not knowing the world setting of this Game well enough yet to come up with a better plan or any plan at all, he was just listening in too and following Vaskra´s ideas for now until he could figure out a better system of his own. Karl did congratulate the designers for this very good made intro section of this game and this very immersive lore tutorial of the simplest of the social structure of this story.
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After a too long walk for Vaskra´s taste, they reached the camp she planned to go to as her first plan got crushed and resorted to the, in her mind, riskier option of going thru the proper chain of command.
The Camp itself was odd to Karl-Heinz. It appeared equal parts sensible, senseless, occult and desperate. The camp security was sensible and desperate as trenches with some sections with barbed wire was dug around the whole area. Here and there were big spikes made from wooden poles to stop bigger … things, it wouldn´t stop proper tanks but it would stop cars or somewhat stop monsters that might be in the game or these poles were part of the desperation to just look good against outside eyes.
The camp on the inside looked senseless and occult as the tents and few solid structures were unordered and chaotic, yet it looked like there were walkways being maintained so that even big vehicles could pass around the camp, the streets themselves had no good logical pattern outside from looking as if they formed pentagrams or other symbols in the mess of a army buildings and tents.
Not being able to see more of the camps structure from outside the military base this was enough to make a first impression. Not a perfect impression, not an ideal impression, just more information to better get a grip of how this game world is working. ´Good thing that there is no anime weeb isekai marry sue super power bullshit going on, good that stuff gets boring when it happens in every manga you find interesting …´ was Karl-Heinz disregard to this internal topic. “We reached the camp, now what do we do to get in undisturbed and what even was your task that you left the camp for ?”
Vaskra slumped a bit at that problem revealing itself “To be honest, I haven´t planned that part yet, and I guess you got no good ideas to get past this issue with out you getting separated from me?” Karl looked over at Vaskra “Why would they separate me from youuuu ? Am I not a oh so valuable man that needs to be locked into a bunker and pampered for live as my gender is a rarety. Why would ever anyone leverage there nobility or wealth or power to snag themselves a man ...”
Earning himself a hard jab from the butt of Vaskra´s gun. “Gaaaaaaaah you are right, do you have a better plan in mind by chance ?” Karl flinches a bit but doesn´t grunt from the impact. “ Na. No better plan in my mind, I don´t know your place good enough yet, but I trust that the plot won´t fuck me over to hard right at the start”
Sighing in defeat Vaskra garbed her courage and companion and compiled herself to step forward again. “Then lets get this over with so I can get fucked and get out of this dump”. Yet the Group didn´t move as a group just yet, as Karl interjected “You still didn´t answer my question of what your job was that you exited the military base in the first place”. Vaskra blinked as she turned to face Karl “What does it matter to you ?” Shrugging Karl answered “ You are my companion now so you do matter and I do like to know what is going on in your life” as Karl works on remembered customs to let his autism shine less brightly as he does care but often fails to act like it.
Vaskra answers “Well I was send out to scout, I found you and saw that the front line was unmoved, that was it.” “And what were your orders on what to do if you find me or other strange happenings ?” now trying to collect as much information as Karl can to try and make a better informed decision than to just go into a military camp and hope for the best. “nothing really, just to return and report it”
Karl frowned at this “can you at least tell me why your side of this meat grinder war is the one you fight for ?” This made Vaskra angry, as she never asked herself this question, as she never had the chance to ask this question. “I have no idea why, aside from not wanting to be imprisoned or killed for insubordination of this nation”
Karl not quit knowing what to do as all plot lines ahead of him were equally risky and unknown “Well so what do you say ? Go back to your camp and potentially lose me to somewhere or stay in the woods and fields as vagabonds and see how long we can make it without civilization in a war plagued land … world? How big is your war anyway ?, no wait first what are we gonna do next oh first NPC that I have seen first and lay claim to your pants?”
Vaskra doesn´t think long and with a defeated tone says “Lets just go to the camp and hope for the best” Karl-Heinz nods and comments “ Yeah have been doing to much survival myself as of late, played to much minecraft hardcore mode and other such games and clones. Lets go into that camp and act as if nothing is out of place and see how long it takes for the guards or who ever, to realize I am a man Hehehehehehe”
So they walk with confidence and dread towards the next step of there story.