Note: Been on hiatus for a time. The game is still going, between illnesses and family events! I hope to get to a twice weekely posting schedule. Thanks.
December 25th, 2000
(George) What is that!
(Doc) Don't be such a baby, George. Taking your blood didn't hurt, did it? I'm just taking some skin...
(George) Yeah, ok. OUCH! What the fuck!
(Doc) ...and dermis and subcutaneous fat. Hey, you got any moles or polyps I can take? George. George. Come back here.
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(Kat) Eatees, Ed, where'd you pull that from?
(Ed) I'm a regular nerd. David Brin, Startide Rising, fine book.
(Kat) I vaguely remember it.
(Ed) Yeah, we need to raid a library and save some books before the climate kills them. Both reference materials and recreational. Can't let ourselves forget our dreams.
(Kat) I'll get you right on it after we conquer Manhattan.
(Ed) Damn, never thought I'd be staring in Budrys' Some Will Not Die.
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December 26th, 2000 - early
(Alpha) Why here, Leo? I can't see much.
(Leo) We see into their cantonment from this street. View is narrow, but we get to see a good chunk of that wall. From other corner we see main administrative building, log their coming and going.
(Alpha) But there's this other building in the way. Why don't we go up that one and get a good look down on the campus?
(Leo) Here we're far enough away that if we do get spotted we have time to go down and get out. Over there, if they see us they can get to the ground floor before we do. Do you want to be their guest?
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December 27th, 2000
Doc! Doc! ER now!
(Doc) What's ha... Oh, Shit! Get him on the table. Jana! Get the working tray. Ross cut the pants off. Whoever tied off this leg did a good job. Lets see what we got.
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(Kat) Report.
(George) Major, Delgado was shot inside Baker Field. He was working on the floods and went up to the box to see about disassembling the controls. Hostile had a shotgun. We engaged three men as they attempted to flee. We wounded one, but they got off the field and into the city. Our response squad is on hand and we're pulling the workers back in.
(Kat) Good, hold the fort. I'll take the active squad and see if we can track them down.
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(Alpha) I've got movement on street level. Corner 3.
(Leo) Show me.
(Alpha) See there.
(Leo) Da. What you think?
(Alpha) Blacks, ragged, no guns visible, improvised weapons. Look like refugees.
(Leo) They're headed north-west. We'll have to step careful when we exfiltrate. Don't want to trip over them.
(Alpha) We should snatch one on the way out. Find out what's moving them.
(Leo) Nyet. No, be like stirring an anthill. Don't need to get bit. Besides, I already know.
(Alpha) And?
(Leo) They come from east, Harlem. Other gangs finally finish Disciples. These were their people. Keep the food, kick out the workers you don't need.
(Alpha) Damn, that's cold.
(Leo) Yes. Get used to it. Fuck up and it is all our futures.
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(Kat) What's the situation?
(Doc) Delgado is stable. Won't loose the leg. Ross and Jana are treating Smith. Minor wounds, he'll be find so long as we keep it clean.
(George) Perimeter is secure. All work parties in and accounted for.
(Kat) Good. We nailed all three. You two look over this paperwork we captured. I need to clean the stink off of me.
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(George) They were sent to that specific location and been on station for a day. Logged our work parties and two of the sentry posts.
(Kat) You're sure it was an assigned spot.
(George) Yes.
(Kat) Damn, there's others, aren't there.
(George) That would be my conclusion. You want recon teams to go to specific sectors so you get a total picture of base activities.
(Kat) I want another observation team on third. They're to conduct a careful survey of the surrounding building this evening... Damn, Leo took the thermal with him. We'll make do.
(George) I recommend we step up patrols in the surrounding blocks. Look for signs of habitation. If we're lucky they dumped their chamberpot over the side.
(Kat) Do it.
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December 29th, 2000
(Kat) Welcome back. It's good to see you both. Tell me some good news.
(Leo) Our prisoner from our first trip was not telling tales. I logged the movement of hundreds over two days. Worse, Alpha and I confirmed the presence of two armored vehicles. One positive ID of a M113. Not a worry. The other was a tank, but I couldn't ID it. Angular turret, so it is a modern design, but smaller than a Abrams.
(George) Could be a Stingray. I remember a few being shipped over in '97.
(Leo) What matter is big gun. This is not a bunker.
(Kat) Yeah, we got worries here, let me tell you about our visitors.
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late
(Leo) I love this sight. That building there, top floor. Rat's nest.
(Kat) Damn we went right by it tracking the first team.
(Leo) So they disciplined. Or they've staggered the arrival and departure of their teams.
(Kat) Let's clean them up.
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much later
(Leo, wearily) They down, here's their logs.
(Kat) Leo, you three OK? You look like hell.
(Leo) Nothing rest won't fix.
(Root) Friendly fire... Leo threw a grenade.
(Alpha) In a stairwell, against a fire door.
(Leo) They're nothing but sheet metal and fiber! It should have blown through.
(Alpha) This is America not Soviet Russia! Fire doors are made from more than sheep's wool and children's tears.
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December 30th, 2000
(Leo) We need to get out of this corner of Manhattan. Central Park is too tough a target for us to take without help. Look at our intell. They're strong.
(George) Not like we can send back to Ft. Dix for reinforcements. We're a shoe-string mission.
(Kat) I think he has another idea.
(Leo) Too right. We know too little about the parties here. But one name we've heard from the gangs and Hizzoner's men is 'Duke'. They both agree he's down here, Battery park. I propose a diplomatic mission. Enemy of my enemy.
(Kat) You're right, we don't know anything. How do we do this without getting killed.
(Leo) We take the Zodiac downriver. We can monitor for radio transmissions. If we like what we hear we contact.
(George) And if they're not using radio?
(Leo) Miles of shoreline. We hide the boat. Move in and reconnoiter. Just seeing their civilian and troops will tell much. We decide then; contact or motor back.
(Kat) Who'd you pick.
(Leo) Primary team, you, me, Alpha, Doc, and Root. George can hold down the base. Ed's busy with technical tasks. We need to keep him on it.
(Doc) Root and Alphabit aren't cleared for duty yet. Give them two days.
(Kat) Alright, two days. After the New Year.
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January 1st, 2000
(Ed) All posts report manned and ready!
(Kat) Cut the alarm bell. Tell all posts to maintain battle ready. Kaade, what's the watch report?
(Kaade) Just listen. Hear that? Diesel and tracks.
(Kat) Yeah. Leo, get the LAWs from the armory.
(Kat) Sounds like they've stopped.
(Kaade) Yes, ma'am.
(Kat) Isham Park?
(Kaade) Likely, it's the only cleared zone on that bearing.
(Kat) George, why'd we let them take our mortars again?
(George) Because the German's needed them.
(Kat) Get me some Germans. I need them back! Leo pass those out, two each.
(Leo) We hunting?
(Kat) Get them before they get here. We'll take the group. Head down Broadway, hit the corner of Isham, roll them up before they know what's happening. And Leo?
(Leo) Yes, Kat?
(Kat) How about you get me another tank?
(Leo) ***Grin***
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