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let's set d o w n some ([personal profile] groundrules) wrote 2023-09-11 09:09 am (UTC)

THE HAND




THE HAND

✘ The highly disciplined professional army of Ephes, 50,000 strong and broken into five 'Finger' contingents and based in the outskirts of Ephes. They diligently guard the Hives agricultural clusters.

✘ Members are conscripts and former slaves earning their freedom or career soldiers. They are heavily hazed, isolated and indoctrinated into the cult-like beliefs of the Hand, who heed their 'Brother' Narula religiously.

✘ Characters will be quickly taught the hand and verbal codes of the army and told to distrust 'weak' strangers.

✘ They find they are kept on the perpetual cusp of discomfort: offered clothes that are nearly too flimsy for the weather, rations that fall just a smidge short of satisfying hunger, rest hours that could be 30 minutes longer.

✘ Recruits that fail to meet their performance metrics in practice and assessments often... disappear.


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