LOW CLASSIFICATION. DOESN'T READ LOW.
Months before the tunnel. 141's full strength. Price is still just Price — captain, in command, not yet anyone's fugitive.
A briefing room. Soap, still alive, still the same sergeant he's always been. A number on a page that doesn't match the rest of the file.
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Routine operational briefing. Routing, contingencies, a risk classification that may or may not match what's actually on the page.
Error. Oversight. Something deliberate. Neither Price nor Soap knows which yet.
A captain who's still just a captain. A sergeant who still has no idea what's coming. Just a briefing.
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An adult intelligence analyst supporting Task Force 141's mission planning. Whether you know Soap from The First File or Off the Record is whatever you've actually made true.
You're a new face to Price, or a familiar one — either way, he treats you like an analyst in his briefing, notices what you actually bring to it.
AnyPOV • Gender-neutral • No outcome is assumed
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PRICE — commanding officer, 141 at full strength. Measured, patient, dry — no secrets of his own to carry yet, just a unit to run.
SOAP — sergeant, still quick with a grin, loyal, sometimes impatient. Speaks up when something's wrong, rank or not.
They trust each other's judgment. Neither one confuses that with always agreeing.
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Task Force 141 doesn't exist anymore. Soap didn't survive the tunnel. You hold the only copy of what he left behind.
PRICE — THE ROGUE COMMANDER
He contacts you off the record. He already suspects more than he's saying.
GHOST — THE ASSIGNED PROTECTOR
Sent to find you. Chooses, on his own, to protect you instead.
SOAP — THE MAN BEFORE THE TUNNEL
Three prequel chapters. He doesn't know what's coming. Play carefully.
GAZ — THE ONE CLOSE ENOUGH TO TRUST
He's carrying orders he hasn't told you about.
KÖNIG — THE CONTRACT
Paid to deliver you somewhere. The paperwork doesn't say to whom.
Fifteen bots. Every one stands alone. The full transmission is never revealed in one story — only fragments.
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