Template:Comms JTF

{| style="width:100%; font-size:10pt; border:2px solid rgb(80,80,80); border-spacing:2px" ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background-color:#2A2724; color:white" | "Manny Ortega's last phone call with his mother, before being deployed" West Potomac Park (1124, 2705) ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background-color:#000000; color:white" | MRS. ORTEGA: Manny?
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MANNY ORTEGA: Hey, mom.

MRS. ORTEGA: Where are you? Are you okay? Have you talked to your brother?

MANNY ORTEGA: Slow down, mom. I'm okay. We're shipping out tomorrow. They haven't told us were, yet.

MRS. ORTEGA: You're not in New York, are you? They say it's really bad over there.

MANNY ORTEGA: No, I'm not in New York, mom. Look, did you stock up on fresh water like I told you?

MRS. ORTEGA: I have twenty gallons. Carlo helped. He's a good neighbor.

MANNY ORTEGA: Good. Good. Any food?

MRS. ORTEGA: And food. Look, Manny - I understand that things are much worse than they're saying on the news, but..

JTF LIEUTENANT: Ortega! Mount up! We're going!

MANNY ORTEGA: Crap. I gotta go, mom. I'll call you again when I get there, okay? Look after yourself.

MRS. ORTEGA: I will. Stay safe, Manny! Besos.

MANNY ORTEGA: Besos, mom. ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid rgb(80,80,80); border-spacing:2px; background-color:#2A2724; color:white" | "Manny Ortega arrives at a JTF camp and gets a new assignment" West Potomac Park (1232, 2542) ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background-color:#000000; color:white" | JTF COMMANDER: You Ortega? The comms guy?
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MANNY ORTEGA: That's me, sir. Where do you want me?

JTF COMMANDER: Yeah, I'm gonna send you on to the White House. You've been assigned to the SHD.

MANNY ORTEGA: The Division, sir? Aren't they running their own comms?

JTF COMMANDER: They've taken a beating and need all the help they can get. As do we all...

MANNY ORTEGA: Is it that bad, sir?

JTF COMMANDER: Yeah, you don't know half of it, son. I got a clusterfuck of a botched quarantine to clean up, and a full-bird colonel to arrest. President Mendez seems incapable of deciding what fucking socks to wear every morning, let alone what to do about our country falling apart. And in the meantime, the streets are burning. Ah, but we'll manage. Somehow. You can hitch a ride with Lorensen over there. And get going.

MANNY ORTEGA: Sir. ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid rgb(80,80,80); border-spacing:2px; background-color:#2A2724; color:white" | "Many Ortega calls over radio, giving offsite leadership an update on the True Sons situation, in early spring" White House (1544, 2889) ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background-color:#000000; color:white" | JTF MAJOR: Give it to me straight, Manny.
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MANNY ORTEGA: It's bad, Major. A new faction has formed around Colonel Ridgeway. Mostly guys that were under his command before he got arrested. They call themselves the True Sons.

JTF MAJOR: Great. What else?

MANNY ORTEGA: We're doing our best to protect the civilian settlements, but I can't see how we'll manage unless we're reinforced.

JTF MAJOR: I'm working on it, but everybody's been hit hard by disease and desertions. And we can't just ignore border security and viral installations.

MANNY ORTEGA: Understood, Major. It's a shit sandwich.

JTF MAJOR: It's worse than that. It's a whole buffet of shit. But the stakes are too high to get finicky. ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid rgb(80,80,80); border-spacing:2px; background-color:#2A2724; color:white" | "Manny Ortega gives his superior officer an update on the situation in DC, in early summer" White House (1946, 3000) ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background-color:#000000; color:white" | JTF MAJOR: We're lost contact with outposts all over the country. I'm honestly not sure we'll make it through this one.
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MANNY ORTEGA: Agents are trickling in every other day or so, so that's something.

JTF MAJOR: Except they're leaving other places worse off.

MANNY ORTEGA: True, but DC has priority. If the city falls, the country falls with it.

JTF MAJOR: Any news about our latest POTUS?

MANNY ORTEGA: We're pretty sure he survived the crash, at least.

JTF MAJOR: Well, that's something. ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid rgb(80,80,80); border-spacing:2px; background-color:#2A2724; color:white" | "Two local police officers discuss the current state of the crisis, on their way to check on the CERA post in Georgetown" East Mall (872, 3662) ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background-color:#000000; color:white" | POLICE OFFICER 1: Where are we headed?
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POLICE OFFICER 2: Georgetown. They want us to check in on the CERA post. Apparently there's been some trouble.

POLICE OFFICER 1: "Some trouble"?

POLICE OFFICER 2: That's what the major said. I asked for specifics but she didn't have any.

POLICE OFFICER 1: I'm telling you, man, somebody better step up and get organized, or we'll be sitting here with our dicks in our hands while the city falls apart. Did you hear about the riots in Bloomingdale?

POLICE OFFICER 2: I've been trying to catch up on my sleep.

POLICE OFFICER 1: Fifteen confirmed dead, God knows how many wounded. Bunch of stores looted.

POLICE OFFICER 2: It's even worse in New York. I heard they quarantined all of Manhattan City. Crazy.

POLICE OFFICER 1: At least they're doing something.

POLICE OFFICER 2: The National Guard's been called up. Should help some.

POLICE OFFICER 1: Yeah? That's all we need - weekend warriors handling riots with machine guns... ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid rgb(80,80,80); border-spacing:2px; background-color:#2A2724; color:white" | "JTF soldiers face resistance as they send infected civilians and personnel to the Roosevelt Island quarantine" Foggy Bottom (2025, 1492) ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background-color:#000000; color:white" | JIM: Where are you taking her?!
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JTF SOLDIER 1: Roosevelt Island Quarantine Zone, sir.

JIM: But she's not sick!

JTF SOLDIER 2: She's showing signs of infection, sir.

JIM: Then we should all go.

AMY: Mom! Mom!

MOTHER: No, don't worry, Amy! Daddy will look after you!

JTF SOLDIER 2: Step back, sir. You're not infected.

JIM: But you can't do this?! We have rights...

JTF SOLDIER 2: I said, step back!

JIM: Or what, you asshole?! You're gonna shoot me?

MOTHER: Jim! Don't!

JTF SOLDIER 2: Listen to your wife, man. Don't be stupid.

JIM: Fuck you. Come on, Amy. We'll see mommy again soon. ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid rgb(80,80,80); border-spacing:2px; background-color:#2A2724; color:white" | "Candid conversation between senior JTF staff regarding the Roosevelt Island debacle" Foggy Bottom (1454, 1188) ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background-color:#000000; color:white" | JTF COMMANDER: All right, people - let's get this started. Wilson, give us the latest.
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JTF CAPTAIN: Yes, sir. At 1500 hours today we sent a squad to investigate the situation on Roosevelt Island and deliver supplies. They were fired upon as they approached the shore.

JTF MAJOR: Any casualties?

JTF CAPTAIN: All hands.

JTF MAJOR: God damn. And we're not in contact with anyone on the island?

JTF CAPTAIN: Not since the riots, sir.

JTF MAJOR: That whole quarantine was a bad call.

JTF COMMANDER: Now the question is what we do now? Any ideas?

JTF MAJOR: There's clearly a hostile element on the island. We have to assume they're in control of the situation. I say we set up river patrols to keep them isolated. We can afford to wait them out.

JTF COMMANDER: Agreed. Get it done.

JTF CAPTAIN: Sir, there's one more thing...

JTF COMMANDER: What...

JTF CAPTAIN: Ridgeway, sir. Some of the men are saying he and the others were put in the stockade on false charges.

JTF COMMANDER: That's horseshit!

JTF CAPTAIN: Just thought you should know, sir.

JTF COMMANDER: Yes. Thank you, Wilson. Dismissed. ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid rgb(80,80,80); border-spacing:2px; background-color:#2A2724; color:white" | "JTF soldiers in the White House react to the death of President Mendez" East Mall (1043, 4184) ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background-color:#000000; color:white" | JTF SOLDIER 1: Hey, did you hear about Mendez?
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JTF SOLDIER 2: Mmm... I know he's dead.

JTF SOLDIER 1: He killed himself.

JTF SOLDIER 2: Sure.

JTF SOLDIER 1: Ate a fucking bullet.

JTF SOLDIER 2: Whoa...

JTF SOLDIER 1: Yeah, I almost feel sorry for the guy. Stress must've gotten to him. Imagine all that responsibility.

JTF SOLDIER 2: Well, he kind of botched the job, if you ask me.

JTF SOLDIER 1: True. Do we even have a President now?

JTF SOLDIER 2: I guess Ellis is it.

JTF SOLDIER 1: Who's Ellis?

JTF SOLDIER 2: Andrew Ellis. Speaker of the House. Next in line.

JTF SOLDIER 1: I never could sort that succession shit out.