Order of the Flaming Sword Barracks

 

The Order of the Flaming Sword Barracks is comprised of a stout brick building that serves as the main office and armoury for the contracted town guard, a small parade yard and training ground, and four wooden barracks houses. The buildings can easily support a complement of 32, though usually the town compliment is less than a third of this.

Cosutanu does not have a large enough population to support a proper town guard, so security service is provided by the Order of the Flaming Sword, funded by Bulostioi. Under normal circumstances there are nine guards rotating through three shifts, with the Corporal, Caliban Nectria overseeing their duties for a total compliment of ten.

On the evening of 18 Trowel, reinforcements from the Order of the Flaming Sword arrived and were seconded under the commander of the Corporal. This brings the total complement of Order Guards stationed at the barracks to seventeen. The five members of the local office of the Steel Key Company have also been seconded under the command of the town guard, allowing for a total complement of 22 for the protection of the town.

People who can typically be found here include:

Town Guard Assignments

With so many infected in so many locations and the need to maintain a quarantine of the town, the resources of the Town Guard are spread thin.

With nine Town Guard, seven Soldati from out of town who were seconded here, and five Soldati seconded from the Steel Key Company, Corporal Caliban Nectria has a total of 21 guards to work with (not including himself). He has broken this group up into three Patrols of seven, each working in overlapping sixteen hour shifts so that there are always fourteen guards on duty. This is extremely demanding, and is at the very limit of what they can handle. If it goes on for too long he will need to implement a more radical plan.

The Town Guard are structured into Patrols and Shifts as follows:

Town Guards are always posted in pairs, with one member of each pair in the first half of their shift, and the other in the second half of their shift. This allows for six pairs of static guards and allows the two on duty Watch Officer to conduct dynamic patrols, moving from station to station to maintain communication and to respond to other threats as needed.

Note that if the number of infected households increases, the guard will be spread too thin, requiring the infected to be relocated (probably to the Barracks). Such an act would permit concentrating the guards, but would also increase the risk of a large-scale confrontation with many ghouls at once.

As of 22 Trowel, the Town Guard are posted as follows: