The Checquy Assault on the Antler Cult

The Checquy Assault on the Antler Cult is a Checquy operation that turns an item in Myfanwy’s unfamiliar morning briefing into a live demonstration of the organization’s coordinated force. As she listens to Rook Gestalt relay the raid through the twins, the assault is both a successful intervention and her first close view of how Gestalt’s shared consciousness directs action at a distance.

Background and Objective

The raid appears in the current-situation précis Ingrid gives Myfanwy on her first day in the office. Among the report’s other items are a plague in Elephant and Castle, three weekend incidents that had not required Barghest commandos, and the beginning of preparations for the annual review. The assault on an antler cult is scheduled for that same morning, with E. Gestalt attending.

The operational summary gives Myfanwy little explanation of the cult or the purpose of the assault. Unable to make sense of most of the report’s terminology, she initially concludes only that events seem to be under control. The raid therefore begins for her as one more piece of official business, before the briefing becomes a firsthand account of the operation in progress.

The Raid in Progress

The twins offer commentary as the team gathers at the cult’s headquarters. Pawn Kirkman checks through the door and signals that three armed people are on the other side. Gestalt relays the plan: once Meaney brings the door down, Cooper is to launch stun grenades. The team enters after the breach, with five men in the foyer; orders direct some members to hold the entrance while others advance and search the surrounding rooms.

Gestalt’s account emphasizes restraint as well as force. The team is told to seek as few deaths as possible and to immobilize the cultists where it can. Some are restrained, while others are dispatched depending on their degree of commitment to the cause. The operation is not presented as a single confrontation but as a coordinated sweep, with soldiers receiving successive instructions as the teams move through the complex.

Gestalt’s Remote Command

For forty-five minutes, Myfanwy follows the assault through Gestalt’s narration. Although the twins are with her, they relay the actions of their sister Eliza, who is more than two hundred miles away. The twins’ voices change as the sister gives orders, and their left arms jerk in apparent imitation of her movements. Their bodies make the distant connection visible even as their voices carry the operation’s commands and updates.

The raid also exposes the danger Eliza faces. She is surprised by an attack, and her guards are impaled on the high priest’s antlers. The twins’ muscles tense while Eliza fights, but their account remains focused on orders and changing conditions rather than on a separate explanation of the shared link. When the action ends, they report that Eliza has broken the cult leader’s neck and that the complex is secured.

Outcome and Significance

Myfanwy responds with approval, while Tidy Twin is already attending to a small practical aftermath: Eliza has blood on her boots. The contrast between Myfanwy’s brief praise, the twins’ physical mirroring of a distant sister, and the matter-of-fact final report gives the raid its distinctive place in her introduction to Checquy work. What had seemed like an opaque line in a folder becomes an extended operational briefing, demonstrating both the organization’s capacity to direct a complex assault and the unusual means by which Gestalt participates in it.