Pyrgos Narrative Report

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Pyrgos Gas Attacks
The sky was blotted out by a dark green haze tinged with red as seen through my visor, and through the haze, all I could make out where the shapes of the dead and dying choking on this green poison.
Excerpt from interview with Salvia Sosius (AAF Corporal)
1st Company, 3rd Battalion, Pygros Security Brigade
Survivor, First Responder
10:00 AM Millcroft Avenue, Pyrgos Financial district
Around 2 hours before the attack, I had been assigned to a patrol in the financial district near Millcroft Square. We had just turned onto Millcroft Avenue then made our way about a quarter of a way down when we decided to take a break to have a friendly chat, with two of our fellow soldiers near the end of the road. It was during our break that
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I saw a woman in her mid-twenties lying unconscious about 5 meters from me I quickly sprinted over to her, out of the corner of my eye I saw our grenadier run over to a car to grab an older man wounded by shrapnel as I was finishing grabbing my victim I quickly saw that the rest of my fireteam had their casualty ready for transport out of the contaminated area so I tell my fireteam to start proceeding east upwind of the cloud. as we are about to cross Ridgemont Park another dark green cloud rushes out and joins the one that had just begun to nip at our heels. At this point unsure about the potential effectiveness of our limited chemical warfare gear while being totally immersed in a toxic gas cloud not to mention the people we were rescuing had no protection whatsoever so we only had to hope that the total dose wouldn’t be lethal, I yelled to my fireteam “Run DAMMIT!!!” as I begin to run I saw our medic haul our radioman up onto his shoulder and began to fireman carry him while running. I could now begin to hear sirens and Helicopters in the distance our radios also came alive with chatter from other units. Racing up Millcroft Avenue I began to look for a way off this goddam street so we could get out of this toxic cloud and upwind of