UPDATE

A stranger has appeared at the gates of the camp asking for water, claiming to be on our side, but we are yet to know for sure.

UPDATE

In a mad daze, some of the soldiers wander off into the woods, not sure what is real and what they dreamt, and what the enemy has placed in their minds in order to defeat them.

INJURED #3

Flesh melted by magicians.

UPDATE

The injured soldier is tended to and starts to speak about what he saw. The enemy have enrolled the most sinister of magicians as leaders of the troops. These magicians are stationed on a hillside overlooking the battle, and have been performing the most hideous of acts upon our men. Tearing them to pieces with a flash of the hand. Boiling their blood. Actually turning them inside out. 

UPDATE

The lieutenant awoke in the night to a black enemy figure slowly rising through the mattress next to him as through a swamp. He screamed and the figure sank back into the surface. The lieutenant was found later wild eyed and has not been able to sleep since. This really happened. This really happened. This really happened.

UPDATE

Its horrible its just so horrible.

FIRST DIVISION #722

First soldier has found his way back already. Will not speak about what he saw.

UPDATE

The night is spent conducting the traditional rituals and bathing and marking the first soldiers to be sent. The symbols drawn on them are secret, and only known to the soldier, and the scientists who apply them. At dawn there is a final prayer and the men leave. We are now waiting for messengers to bring news.

UPDATE

Sacrifice.

SPECIAL DIVISION #1328

We are ready now.

UPDATE

Thunder clouds are gathering overhead. The sky is black as ink. Soldiers are alarmed to see birds flying from the trees through the night, and animals leaving the woods surrounding the camp. 

UPDATE

'All of this', the General says, sweeping his thin arm across the camp and the land, 'will be evaporated. You cannot stop this.'

SPECIAL DIVISION #228

Powering up.

UPDATE

The General draws THE SYMBOL in the dust and each soldier looks down, feeding from the very shape of it, until they all are ready and fearless.

LIEUTENANT

The second in command of the First Division saw it too.

FIRST DIVISION #92

Psychosis is spreading like a virus within the encampment.

SPECIAL DIVISION #2

The general looks out and sees death looking back at him, and is suddenly afraid of what he has created.

UPDATE

General gives a moving speech to the assembled troops. Don't let the fear get a hold of you. We are super powered. You will be required to kill, but do so with supreme clarity.

FIRST DIVISION #38

Watching the sun rise.

UPDATE

News that our forces have been abandoned by foreign allies spreads through the camp causing unease. The night is clear and warm. Food has been brought in, but much of it is rancid from the heat, and many troops are too nervous to think of eating.

FIRST DIVISION #77

Some are excited to fight the enemy.

FIRST DIVISION #14

As dawn approaches several of the soldiers start to become nervous.

UPDATE

Secret tunnels have been dug to safe areas so that food can be brought in.

FIRST DIVISION #73

Preparing armour.

SPECIAL DIVISION #91

Recovering from night time electrical storms.

UPDATE

Can hear enemy soldiers rattling the gates through the night.
Heat closing in. Storms keep soldiers awake, some of SPECIAL division suffer with electrical interference.

FIRST DIVISION #76

Preparing armour and uniforms.

FIRST DIVISION #233

Skin lesions due to radiation from own hands.