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Are you a mercenary?
cryora
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If you are a mercenary, tell us what it's like.
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So you wanna know what soldiering-for-hire is like huh? *spits*
First off, you obviously need some military training, and a bad-ass attitude that got you kicked out of service is a great thing to put on your resume. Bounty hunting is also another good career starter, but you'd definately not be top picks with just that. You need pretty short hair so it won't bother you when you're stalking marks or sniping on a windy day, and you've got dogtag information tattooed to you, just in case. Being able to tolerate different types of climates is a must, since you don't exactly get to choose where you get a job. You end up working for mainly oppressive third-world, and developing governments who need some dirty work done without having a trail back to their desks. Flying halfway across the world back and forth is not too much of a problem because you've never been able to hold down an apartment for more than a month or two tops, so there's not much baggage to take with you. Most of it is stuff you stole from the army that trained you or dark-colored jackets and heavy-duty boots/gloves, the rest is illegaly modified weapons that are dangerously close to breaking wartime codes of conduct. People skills are not too important, and neither is learning other languages, since you've probably already heard of what you're employers are up against through newschannels and such. Mainly the only reason you need to talk to an employer is to fix a price, and preferably get a division of it up front, or to explain yourself if something goes wrong. For personal jobs, names, faces, and numbers are international, so if you didn't learn them in kindergarten, soldiering-for-hire is not for you. You can do most of your communication anyway through nods, grunts, distant stares, pointing, and shrugs on occaision. After that, steal a jeep and head out to wherever you gotta go and wait. That's most of the game right there, waiting. Waiting for days, waiting for weeks, some larger, higher-end jobs can take months on end to complete. You're waiting to gather information, waiting to learn routines, waiting for just the perfect moment for both the job to get done, and to make a clean escape. What good was the job to you if you don't get back to get paid now, right? Nobody cares if you take a long time, it just means they don't have to pay you, yet. The only exception to waiting is if you know someone else is on the job too, or you might be concerned that either the objective will eventually become unimportant, or the target might leave, skip town and flee the country. Once you've got what needed to be done done, then you steal another jeep, or use the one you stole already, and head back to your employer with proof of a job completed. Most employers nowadays want tactile proof, while older jobs (or special "deconstruction" jobs) required only a photo or tape/video recording. You won't ever get paid too much, usually just enough for you to scrape by with the help of a parttime job at a gas station until your next call comes in.
There ya go. What it's like to be a merc, right there. *spits*
/mood_character off. So, how'd you like it? Pretty good huh?
Je mettrai l'amour sur dos de moi.
Je mettrai l'amour sur dos de moi.