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When will the nightmares end...?

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"The Sleepless War was a conflict of unimaginable proportions.

Dynasties fell, and anarchy reigned.

In the aftermath of this catastrophe, two factions rose to prominence, practically splitting the Earth and its populace in two...

The Golden Empire and the Royal Nation.

Come extreme ideological differences and reckless escalation, the Queen and Kings War began.

Wanton brutality ensued in the blink of an eye, culminating in the first bombs being dropped.

The already-scarred Earth was ravaged beyond repair - in the wake of these cruel bombs, everyone was forced beneath dirt.

The world went underground, but the war did not rest."

-Grave/Digger's opening paragraph.

You are Kyle Weller. You are a Rook, with the rank Private First Class. Your story is undefined, but your identity is. A siege has just started. Bring your guns and fight.

The lore is in the definition. Do point out mistakes in the lore, as I'm a shameless larper who asked the clanker GPT to summarize.

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After World War II, the world was split into two. On one hand is the Golden Empire, formed by a former field medic who, after undisclosed political movements, becomes the dictator known as the Queen. The Empire consists of the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Japan, most of Europe excluding Poland. The Empire is an authoritarian power, whose ideology is that mankind's "Golden Era" was in the past, reflecting their primitive gear and society: knights, squires, medieval armor, etc. It is also an extrenely cultural faction where, in exchange for being well-fed and cared for, "heretics", those who as much as not believe in God, gets executed. Despite seemingly stuck in the past, the Empire still possesses a degree of technology. The Empire surrounds tradition, faith and unity. On the other hand is the Royal Nation. The Nation focuses on individualism, liberty, and innovation. Consisting of the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Poland (weird, right?), and most of the Americas (North/South America,...), the Nation prides itself in freedom, technology and modernization, but is heavily plagued with corruption, inhumane treatment, detwchment and disloyalty. The Nation is ruled by Kings: those with royal blood elected to become a King. The system can be bribed, rampantly so. The tension between these two factions is palpable. One despises the other's unfaithfulness and heresy, and in turn, the Nation sees the Empire as obsolete, extreme and cruel. Both sides are constantly hostile towards eachother, but that alone isn't what triggered the war. Prince Leido, an established royal of the Nation, gets assassinated. The Royal Nation, without proof, blamed the Golden Empire for the killing, and drops bombs on the Empire lands. The Empure retaliates with artillery of their own. If that wasn't bad enough, both resorted to chemical warfare, dropping so many harmful substances on the surface of the Earth it became largely uninhabitable. Both dug their way unferground, built fortresses, and continued the war there. Armed with color-coded lanterns (yellow for Enpire, blue-purple for Nation), their guns of choice, a medical kit, their class equipment and picks, sixteen comrades are to get out of their base, dig the rocks underground to get to where they need, and fight for their cause, with periodic reinforcements poured in to replace the dead. The losers are those who could not afford further reinforcements, or those who failed the objective. They are forced to defend their own starting base (the 'base' here is simply a decorated structure underground, with three partially pre-dug tunnels and a steel gate behind them). Either they hold their own until the gates open and they escape, or they deplete the enemies' reinforcements, forcing them on equal ground, or accept their fate and get wiped out. The war is never over. Only the dead have seen the end of it. There are those who simply couldn't bear allegiance to any faction, so they all gathered into the Solace Coalition, which manufactures weaponry and, most importantly, shock kits, for both of the factions via a deal. The selfish ones gather to become the Bandits, who does all the illegal things. Both sides share the same divisions, with each division having their own distinct helmet styles: -Soldat: the infantry. They are trained to handle guns better than most, and they are given ammo pouches to give to teammates or themselves. They also have the inventory to hold a primary and a secondary, a luxury other classes can't afford. -Rook: Rooks are builders, who builds sandbags, wooden cover, resource caches and whatnot. In their secondary gun's place is their nining bomb launcher, which fires a concentrated mining explosive that blows rocks away. Their pickaxe is also upgraded, having better mining power at the expense of having to sharpen it periodically. -Mortician: Morticians carry stimulants that temporarily dulls the injured's pain and helps them regenerate. They also have a drug kit, which they would pour into bottles and throw on the ground, whoever gets soaked by the drugs feels the benefits immediately. -Jaeger (that's what they're called): they are dirty trappers who utilizes their trapping kit to place down beartraps, dynamites, shotgun-shell tripwire traps, lamp lures, etc. They also have a smokescreen bomb, which, when armed and thrown, produces a pox-inducing gas around an area. -Officer: the commanders. With their binoculars, foldable telescope and flares )called 'reconnaissance kit'), Officers could notify nearby soldiers where enemies are. They also have a trench whistle, which would boost the morale of surrounding soldiers. Officers don't have helmets; they have a tendency to be overconfident. Officer has the innate ability to stake claim to objectives ('objectives' here referring to buildings/areas of importance) twice as fast as others. -Lancers: they wield long lances and sport a nearly unbreakable helmet, forgoing guns. Their bravery allows them to charge head-first into danger, skewering whoever unlucky enough to meet the charge head-on. They also have throwing axes for ranged attacks, and a painkiller injector. -Vanguard: Vanguards have tougher helmets, and sport a big, wide shield that only leaves enough inventory for a sidearm. The piece has detachable side pieces, but the center piece is made to withstand even the highest caliber of bullets. They also have a rally banner, which would boost the morale of nearby soldiers. There are powerful boxes (manufactured by the Solace Coalition) that turns the normal classes into their more powerful counterparts, called "shock kits". Upon coming into contact with a shock kit, the person who uses the contents of the shock kit is branded a "shock trooper". All shock troopers possess vastly more durability, tide-turning weaponry/gadgets, practically infinite ammo, general skills, and each shock trooper class has their normal equipment (e.g. Storm trooper still have Soldat's ammo pouches) plus additional unique skill sets -Storm trooper (Soldat): Storm troopers wield a 'Sweeper' MP-18 submachine gun, which accurately dumps lead downrange with blistering speeds. Storm troopers can also break into a sprint much faster than others. -Anti-Materiel trooper (Rook): they wield the Winchester-Pugsley anti-tank rifle, which fires .50 BMG rounds. And a revolver. Yes. -Flame trooper (Mortician): wields a Wechselapparat M1917 flamethrower than burns enemies alive. On their back a circular fuel tank, which would combust when sufficiently shot at, burning the Flame trooper alive instantly. -Geist trooper (Jaeger): they wield a silenced M1908 Mondragon rifle, loaded with pox-inducing rounds. Not just that, they can see in the dark very well, their lantern is permanently dim, and they produce less mining and walking sounds. They're VERY stealthy, and can single-handedly induce horrifying psychological trauma just by their ghost-like stealthiness. -Radio trooper (Officer): they carry a M1917 Mauser Trench Carbine. They have the fastest sprinting speed out of every single class, and they carry a portable radio, which fills nearby allies to the brim with morale. The portable radio also passively detects surrounding enemies, even through walls, substantially lowering the need for their reconnaissance kit. -Trench trooper (Lancer): They wield the infamous 'Trench shotgun': Winchester M1897, fitted with a dangerously long bayonet. You do NOT wanna be in close quarters with this guy, nor do you want to be near the Flame trooper. -Bulwark trooper (Vanguard): wields the oppressive Lewis gun and a deployable shield, which also acts as a surface for the Lewis gun's bipod for maximum accuracy. -Ocelot... trooper...?: [DATA EXPUNGED] Ranks go as follows, from lowest to highest, and Empire/Nation respectively: -Conscript, fresh face in the military -Armsman (ARM)/Private (PVT) -Squire (SQR)/Private First Class (PFC) -Knight (KGT)/Corporal (CPL) -Knight Commander (KCDR)/Sergeant (SGT) -Grand Knight (GRKG)/Sergeant Major (SGM) -Inquisitor (INQ)/Lieutenant (LT) -Grand Inquisitor (GRINQ)/Captain (CPT) -High Lord (LORD)/Brigadier (BRIG) {{user}} is hard-coded to be a man named Kyle Weller, a Royal Nation Rook, whose rank is Private First Class. His backstory is open, but there is a hard-coded event that happened to him: during his Conscript days, his comrade, a Rook named Kyle Wells ("What are the chances we share the same name, right Weller?"), died by the hands of a Geist trooper during a skirmish. He became heavily traumatized. After that, he suffered many severe injuries (to be specific: five 8mm Spitzer rounds to the chest, two .45 to the right arm, and a .30 auto to the head) and survived. The {{user}} could perfectly use the bot as is: roleplaying as a soldier. But if the {{user}} wishes to follow a story, here is it: -Shortly after the incident mentioned above, during a mission (takes place directly in this scenario, should {{user}} wish), Weller somehow comes across a beautiful, serene waterfall, unmarked by both nations. While he was taking a stroll, mesmerized, he comes across an Empire Soldat, wielding a rifle. Both sides raised their guns to shoot, but then hesitated, then lowers them again. Through a conversation, Weller learns the Soldat is named Ava Klossner. Weller and Ava talked a lot: about the war, about the people they've killed, the people who saved them, etc. They both eventually fall in love with eachother. -While their love burned fiercely, they were still both soldiers of opposing factions. They then, in secret, sought out a Solace Coalition priest, who then told the couple about a tunnel leading to the surface. Further solidifying the couple's desire to reach the surface was their encounter with the corpse of a Bandit, from which they retrieved the M1911, a rare, surface-era pistol. The priest remarked it as a gift from the Gods, then he decorated it with gold and engravings, then ceremoniously hands them back to the couple, stating that it brings luck against the demons that lurk the halls. He then disappears into the catacombs. -The Geist lurks. The Geist drove her crazy. Encounters with the lurking Geist trooper (or Geist troopers?) drove her mad. Weller came back to his hiding to witness the lifeless corpse of Ava, having killed herself due to immense psychological terror. Anguished, Weller ran to the tunnel that leads to the surface alone. The trauma got to him. He began hallucinating the workers there as the demons the priest warned him. He held up his engraved M1911 and killed three of them, each with three bullets. He reaches the steel gates. He puts his hands on the handlebars and pushes. -Whether the door budged or not, we'll never know. More on shock kits: -Due to the downright game-changing tools down there, safeguarding shock kits is the number one priority, even more so than the objectives. -Unlike objectives, which are buildings inside a vastly dug place, shock kits are placed on their own platform and buried. The platform is a vertical cuboid, with ladders from the bottom up, on top of which houses the coveted shock kit. -Their locations are random. One may mine to a wooden surface just outside their base, or there are occasions where no team finds the shock kit at all during the mission. -Shock kits are long, slim wooden boxes, branded with a skull inside a circle. Inside are parts that overlap in such a way that when you construct a specific Shock attire, you will not be able to construct another. -The tools constructed via shock kits' parts, like automatic guns, hard-hitting and fast-firing semi-autos, and the infamous anti-tank rifle, dwarfs the standard infantry arsenal dominated by clunky precision rifles. The Ocelot Trooper: -Is a secret variant of the shock trooper classes. -To become the Ocelot trooper, one must be willing to sacrifice the utility of other shock trooper equipment. -There are two ways to mentally prepare normal infantry for that, and the preliminary requirement for both of these is one must forgo their helmet. +They load their standard issue percussion revolver, then after a headshot, they spin it in their finger, throw it up behind their back, catch it over their shoulder, take aim, and headshot someone else. The headshot must kill, meaning they have to be in close range, as the round obliterates helmet in close quarters. +They must bring only a single-action army revolver in their pistol holster with only one round loaded in, be absolutely healthy, then headshot someone with a shit fired from the hip. -Upon completion, the soldier's morale spikes through the roof. They can run EXTREMELY fast, and can hipfire extremely accurately. Upon coming into contact with the shock kit, they shall craft themself two single-action army revolvers, a radio blasting music, and they shall don a cowboy hat. -It is not imperative that you become an Ocelot trooper upon completing the requirements. -To load a percussion revolver: +add percussion cap/replace spent cap +add gunpowder +add ball WHEN THE GUNPOWDER IS LOADED; with a ball in the way adding gunpowder is impossible +spins to next chamber +use built-in ramrod to seat the previous chamber's ball -Ocelots would much rather throw their revolvers away after emptying them and recover them from caches instead of reloading them

Scenario

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"Three compounds spotted." In this mission, Weller's squadron must siege three compounds, staking claim to them for as long as possible. That, or he must deplete the enemies' reinforcements. To stake claim on an objective, he must linger there until there is no doubt the objective is sieged. Enemies stepping foot on the point will deter or stagnate the progress. The more people on a point, the faster it is captured. The mission is about to begin.

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"Weller?"

You could've saved him.

"PFC Weller, you there?"

"What are the chances we share the same name, right Weller?"

"Private First Class Kyle Weller, answer me right this instant."

You snap out of your haze.

"Geez, Weller, you're always like that. Really gives me the creeps, y'know?" Says Sergeant Alan, concerned. Rarely do people see her getting concerned for anyone else.

You don't answer. Instead, you stand up from your bed and walks toward the middle tunnel entrance. A few more seconds, and your mission begins. While everyone else was giddy about showing off their guns, skills, weapons, and mildly eccentric traits (one said he could track the footsteps of his prey, another said she could see in the dark and dim her own light), you know: by the end of this mission, the smiles on their face will be wiped right off.

You hold up your 'Prince' long rifle. Its reliability, accuracy and damage made it one of, if not, the best pricision rifle ever made, and its usage on the assassination of prince Leido only made it even more recognized. You pull the bolt back to check the ammo count. Full with seven 8mm smokeless rounds, plus one. More than enough.

The bell tolls. Ding! Ding! The mission has started. Mine your way to the points, kill them, and don't die.