forum Role-play where we get drafted into the army, and bad things start to go down (CLOSED)

Started July 04, 2018 by @Oakiin

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"Hey, you Ellen?" a voice asked behind her.

Ellen turned around. "Who's asking?"

A lanky man with black hair tied back in a pony tail and rolled up sleeves offered her an easy-going smile. "I'm Lennie. I think we're on a squad together."

Ellen nodded. "Okay then." She looked around. "Any idea where our other teammate is?"

"Uh…" Lennie glanced at his paper. "Nope! we'll have to ask around I guess. Maybe he went to the lunch hall already."

"Let's head that way then." Ellen stated, walking off in that direction.

Lennie strolled after her. "Okii-dokii then."

Vinyan spotted two people walking inside and went over to them, having asked what felt like the entire army by now. "Hi there," he said. "I'm looking for an Ellen and Lennie? My name's Vinyan."

"Hey, yo! That's us," Lennie said with a smile, offering his hand. "Nice to meet ya."

Ellen scrutinized Vinyan. Yep. Mr. Social Butterfly himself. "That's us." She echoed, folding her arms.

"Hi." Vinyan offered a smile and shook Lenni's hand. "Just call me Vin by the way, everyone does."

(We gtg now, back in a few hours >w<)
"Great." Lennie returned the hand-shake. "You can call me Lenn if you want. How about you?" he turned to Ellen.

(Okay, see ya!)
"Just call me Ellen. Or Weaver." She said, arms still crossed.

"Well….now that's settled……" Vin glanced around at the room. "I wonder why they divided us up like that. Seems like it would have been better to make the groups bigger, so it would be easy to keep track of them."

(Back~)

"Alrighty, Weaver!" Lennie said with a grin. "Let's go, we've got a commander to report to."

Ellen nodded, following Lennie and Vin.

Vin waved at a group of soldiers going the other direction. "So, either of you two heard anything about the war? It's been a long time since the drafting. Maybe there will be no war after all, and they're just making us reconfigure to stall for time."

Ellen shook her head. "All I know is that tension was escalating like hell, and next thing I know, I'm drafted."

Lennie shrugged. "All I know is that the fighting's gotten really bad by Canada. There's still no official news regarding the mandatory recruits, as far as I know, or weather or not they'll need us. I'd guess something must be u, though, since they seemed so eager to match us up."

Vin sighed. "Yeah, I try not to keep track of current events because it just made me upset and things usually seemed to work out by themselves. I'm actually pretty surprised the drafting officers were able to find my desert hideaway–I mean, uh, hermitage."

Ellen arched an eyebrow. "Hermitage?"

"Right. I like living alone, and modern life doesn't really interest me. I tried to tell them that fighting was against my religion or whatever, but they weren't kidding about it being mandatory. So…here I am." He sighed again. "I hope my pets are doing okay."

Okay, so probably not one of those ones that's a literal cave like in the old stories Mom used to read.
"What kind of pets do you have?" She asked.

Lennie gave Vin a pat on the shoulder. "For the record, I didn't wanna be here either, bud. I got family back home. I managed to help them hide, but the military caught up to me." He shrugged. "We'll get out, and we'll find 'em again."

"Weeell, they're not really my pets, just some animal friends that I share breakfast with sometimes. There's a little coyote I call Suzy, a couple lizards, a really old jack rabbit, and sometimes a kestrel that nests a few miles away. They're great company, as long as they don't try to eat each other. A turtle used to come around, but him and Suzy got in a fight and it ended badly." He shook his head sadly. "My cave had bits of shell and fur in the corners for weeks. Sorry, uh, anyway." He coughed. "You guys have any pets?"