OOC - A joint Ironside post
1st November 2018Field Marshall Sokolov may be on the run from the Lodjain authorities but he was still a man with a use. In the twenty years he'd been involved with the High Command of the Lodjain military he had hidden away caches of cash, weapons, equipment and most importantly friends across Mundus. Now on the run he needed whatever support he could find and having a large offering of military equipment and cold hard cash made that rather easy to come by. Academica City was a place where fro enough money it was possible to stay hidden at least for a short time and he could also put his plan of revenge into action.
"Field Marshall" the smartly dressed gentleman stood as he approached the dining room table in the hotel restaurant.
"Mr.Rae" Sokolov addressed one of the Borlanders leading organisers. "I took the liberty of ordering you a drink, I hope you do like mojito" the pair sat down and Sokolov handed over the folder. It would have everything Rae needed to pull off an operation that would once more shock the world while at the same time inflating the groups bank balance, fighting an insurgency against the Morelanders wasn't cheap. Will Rae checked the folder, everything seemed in order as they'd been promised and most importantly there was the details of the bank account which Sokolov had made payment into. Will took out his mobile phone and used the restaurant wifi to check that the bank account had been stocked with the money they'd agreed, he did some transfers to begin the process of moving the funds around the world into numerous other places all controlled by the Borlanders.
"And she's definitely on that flight?" Will asked once more checking the documents.
"Indeed she is" Sokolov confirmed. The pair finished their meals, shook hands and headed their seperate ways, Sokolov with a sense of excitement for what the future news would bring while Rae had work to do.
5th November 2018It hadn't taken long to put a plan together, with Sokolov's contacts still in the Lodjain Armed Forces and his stash of money the first stage of the plan was simple enough. "Good Morning Minister Utkin" an Air Force Loadmaster greeted her as she entered the aircraft along with three of her advisers. Anna Utkin was scheduled to head from the Isle of Queens and head for 90 minutes to Kerak the smallest of the Lodjain islands. The crew onboard had each been paid generously, enough to keep several generations of their family comfortable or even set them in up luxury in many nations, one had already sent their family to Nya Aland and had them buy a nice apartment. Fifteen minutes into the flight they gave some garbled radio messages to the Air Traffic Controllers and then turned off the transponder dropping dangerously over the waters.
"What's happening?" Anna asked the Loadmaster.
"Nothing to be concerned about" the Loadie lied as Anna looked out the window. Five minutes later she was still concerned, it seemed like any moment a freak wave could almost slap the underside of the aircraft.
"We're a little low aren't we." Without a word the Loadie removed their pistol and shot the three advisers, Anna froze in a mixture of shock and fear as the blood splattered across the paperwork she was reading. "Please....please no" She begged imagining at any moment the bullet ripping through her skull, it never came.
"You Minister are coming for a little ride, you have no place on the Conclave. Acting all high and mighty, Lady Utkin, Minister of Social Affairs. You're a dirty pleb just like us. Jumped up piece of scum from the streets, a drug addict, probably a hooker or something too at some point. We're doing a Lodja a favour." and with that he slammed the pistol into the side of her head knocking her out.
6th November 2018Anna felt someone touching her face and winced with pain. "Hey, its ok Anna, I'm just looking at this cut." She began slowly waking up and found herself on a bed in a small room, a man wearing a grey hoody and jeans was sat on the edge of her bed, a bowl of water and a first aid kit on his knee. He spoke Lodjain but with a heavy accent, "I'm Miles Brownlee, you're safe don't worry" she wondered if the vision of her friends being shot had been a dream and that she was in some kind of hospital. As her eyes focused that was not the case, the room looked more like some horrible bed sit and now she was fully awake she felt the cold iron shackle from her right ankle to the bed. She instinctively reached a hand towards it. "Sorry but needed to be done, you've enough slack on it to get to the toilet, the fridge and sink" he gestured around the room. He began wiping the dirt and dried blood off her face. "I'm sorry I can't tell you exactly where you are, or what you're doing here just yet but rest assured nothing bad is going to happen to you as long as you don't do anything silly and you do what we ask you ok." Anna nodded as she began to cry. "Now, now" Miles wiped the tears running down her cheek, "You're too pretty to cry" he said with a reassuring smile. "Now, I've got to go but there is a sandwich is the fridge, chicken salad, some cans of soda and some fruit." He stood and headed to the door knocking three times it opened. Anna could just make out two guys sat outside in the corridor either side of a small table each with an assault rifle on their backs.
"Please where am I?" She asked once more but Miles just headed out and shut the door behind him, the sound of three dead bolts and a key in the door leaving her alone.
The search for the missing Lodjain Plane carrying Social Affairs Minister Anna Utkin can be called off. Today the Kingdom of Borland can announce that she is safe and sound and in our care. She is however charged with aiding and abetting a terrorist organisation, namely the so called "Kingdom of East Moreland", in so far as she has co-operated with a range of measures put forward by the terrorist leader David Ironside to bring the Queendom of Lodja further inline with his corrupt ideology. On behalf of both the Borland and Lodjain people we intend to put this terrorist sympathiser on trial in a weeks time unless the matter is settled out of court.
We shall consider the matter to be settled when the following conditions are meet.
1. The Queendom of Lodja withdraw from the CNN
2. An out of court settlement of $20,000,000 is paid.
3. All members of the East Moreland "military" are removed from Lodja.
4. Lady Stasya is dismissed from Royal Service.
5. The Lodjain Embassy in Northfort is closed.
6. Queen Klara apologises for inviting a terrorist to her wedding and revokes the participation of David Ironside.
7. The Isle of Karak is placed under the Protectorship of the Kingdom of Borland for the next 100 years.
I need not remind the world that under Borland law terrorism carried the death penalty should all members of the jury agree to pass that as a sentence.
I would therefore ask the Queendom of Lodja to seriously consider the out of court settlement as to my untrained legal eyes this does seem an open and shut case of Lady Anna Utkin being guilty of terrorism. I do however believe that she may have been mislead about the true nature of the Morelanders thanks to the international community turning a blind eye to their terrorism and seemingly legitimising their claims to illegally occupy our homeland. I therefore would ask the judge in the case to take this into consideration should the matter come to court and grant her clemency.
May The Gods Watch Over You and The World Know Peace
King Kyle Barren
King of Borland and the Borland Folk
Prince of Nothern Borland
Baron Simcoe
Earl Grey