Liberi Reader

Stormwatch

• 9-1: Storm Assault (Interlude)
  Pursuing a case of theft of military Originium products, Bagpipe under the Tempest Platoon arrives at County Hillock, and conducts an assault operation at a certain warehouse from her intel.
• 9-2: The Ghost Crisis (Before Operation)
  Bagpipe and Horn go to the interrogation room at the appointed time, but come up empty. The barracks have kept them out of the loop, and executed the suspect without trial.
• 9-3: A Game of Cards (After Operation)
  Outcast arrives at County Hillock. At the Rhodes Island branch office, she gets to know the barracks' guard of honor, Jane.
• 9-4: Low Fires All About (Before Operation)
  Bagpipe heads for the streets to continue her investigation, discovering that the fault line between the local Tarans and the barracks runs deep. Horn struggles for and gains an opportunity to meet with the barracks' colonel.
• 9-4: Low Fires All About (After Operation)
  Bagpipe gets acquainted with Jane, who is preparing to return to the barracks, and Jane agrees to search for leads. Horn meets the colonel, and learns that the barracks have suffered grievous losses from Tarans' and the spectre force's attacks.
• 9-5: Critical Value (Before Operation)
  Horn's message to Londinium turns out fruitless. Jane obtains information from a good friend about a Taran meeting, and passes it onto Bagpipe. Bagpipe and Horn resolve to head for the meeting to find out what they can.
• 9-5: Critical Value (After Operation)
  Mandragora, as the head of Dublinn readying to leave for the meeting, receives news that its location has been leaked. Bagpipe and Horn infiltrate, and are conversing with a bard when they find themselves surrounded by troops, led by the colonel.
• 9-6: Dublinn (Before Operation)
  The colonel thanks Horn for helping him find the Dublinn-supporting rabble, while committing acts of indiscriminate military terror upon Taran homes in order to root out Mandragora. As the mood stretches wire-thin, the ballroom abruptly suffers a bombing attack.
• 9-7: Hide-and-Seek (After Operation)
  In the wake of the bombing, Dublinn forces, under the command of their 'Leader', are unbridled in their counterattack. The casualties among the meeting's attendees are horrific.
• 9-8: Verse in the Ashes (Interlude)
  Dublinn's 'Leader' executes the girl who leaked word of the meeting.
• 9-9: The Innocent (Before Operation)
  Learning her close friend has been executed, Jane is thoroughly shaken, and Outcast consoles her. Horn orders Bagpipe to find a Messenger to send word about Dublinn, and at the same time, she comes to learn of the stolen Originium goods' whereabouts.
• 9-10: Thunder's Rumble (After Operation)
  Horn is stymied by the colonel's people. Outcast is with Rhodes Island Operators making arrangements for a retreat, when she hears an unworldly sound from the sky. Bagpipe finds a Messenger, but right at that moment, the barracks commences a major bombardment of the city districts.
• 9-12: Apparitional Waves (Before Operation)
  A dirty bomb detonates in the city, leaving countless dead and wounded. The Rhodes Island operators decide to rescue the local residents before their evacuation, with Jane joining their rescue operation. Bagpipe finds that the Messenger has perished and decides to make her way through the city to regroup with Horn.
• 9-13: Battlefield Rescue (After Operation)
  The colonel releases Horn, and Horn leads her squad to take the city's communications center. In the warzone, Outcast finds the Dublinns' 'Leader,' now heavily injured and undergoing acute infection, and heads to the injured woman's rescue, steadfast in her beliefs.
• 9-14: Banner in the Wind (Before Operation)
  To retrieve 'The Leader', the Dublinn heads begin to massacre anyone who dares to oppose them. Jane stands up against them to save the townsfolk.
• 9-18: 'Daybreak' (After Operation)
  Breaking through the enemy line with her patient in tow, Outcast comes upon Bagpipe, who is also fighting the Dublinns. The two immediately hit it off, and Outcast decides to entrust her patient to Bagpipe, to go find Jane and her friends while she sacrifices herself.
• 9-19: Gunfire in the Night (Before Operation)
  Horn finds herself in a tough battle at the communications base. Bagpipe shows up at the most critical moment, and the two fight Mandragora together.
• 9-19: Gunfire in the Night (After Operation)
  Dublinn broadcasts the barracks' atrocities to the whole of County Hillock and its surrounding cities. Horn realizes that County Hillock's fall is now all but inevitable. She orders Bagpipe to leave County Hillock and tell the world the real truth.
• 9-20: The Approaching Storm (Interlude)
  Rhodes Island receives word of Outcast's sacrifice and formally prepares to advance toward Londinium.
• 9-21: Relit (Interlude)
  Rhodes Island suffers an attack long planned. Reunion kidnaps Talulah and demands this 'leader' give them an explanation for her past actions.