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<blockquote data-quote="tmart" data-source="post: 3001229" data-attributes="member: 11198"><p>I tell them I need all the family members present to channel the good energies. I get them to all stand between me and Jack’s sniping position, and directly opposite my exit route so they don’t stop me and so Jack's shot gets their attention in the wrong direction. I start the kooky mumbo jumbo and we’re off. I’ve got my hands on the briefcase the whole time. Eventually I give the code phrase, “Damn' ghost, leave this girl be” and Jack shoots at Adam again. And misses horribly. That’s fine by me; I don’t want Adam to die considering he hasn’t done anything. Sure Tobias was a jerk, but maybe that’s why he left the farm. Anyway, Adam says “We’re under attack, give me the briefcase, head for the farm” and I protect the case saying “The ghost is trying to distract our ritual!” But he won’t have any of it so I just make a break with the case. </p><p></p><p>Then a sniper’s bullet cuts the knot on my handkerchief. I think most of my luck run out on that one. I make it nearly outside the fire’s light but they keep shooting and one hits me in the arm. Goddamn that hurt. But we make it into the dark and the fields and we’re home free. </p><p></p><p>Then the mutants show up. They’ve been after me before, but not like this. I could swear that they screamed something like DREAMSTOOLOUDDREAMSTOOLOUD at me again and again, but maybe I imagined that. I haven't spoken to the others about it in case I did. But at this point I’m in no condition to keep fighting, and there are a lot of them. We make a break for it, but Dexter – God love him but he’s as healthy as a maggot – gasses after about a minute. So he jumps into the trees and hides. None of them chase him. We spot an abandoned cottage a little ways down and barricade it. So we’re safe. Timmy tourniquets my arm to stop the bleeding. But Jack isn’t there.</p><p></p><p>We hear gunshots from the treeline and make out Jack and the biggest damn mutant I have ever seen. It’s got to be seven feet tall. It’s chasing him all around the trees and we take shots at it. Eventually Jack makes a break for the cottage and we fire some rounds into the mutie and it breaks off the chase. He makes it to the wall but the little muties notice him. They’re clawing and grabbing at him as he tries to climb the stone wall. One scrapes his hip real bad. Scratched the bone, Timmy said after he patched it up. But Jack finally makes it up, halfway dead, and we pull him in. The muties break the door down but we have the stairway barricaded and it’s like shooting fish in a barrel.</p><p></p><p>Dexter doesn’t show up, but we figure he’s safe. The mutants are after me anyway. We find a canoe and paddle out back and wait on the lake. At dawn we stop waiting for him and start paddling. We figure we’ll meet up at home.</p><p></p><p>We came to the ford again where the river runs over the road. Our raft was still there! We should name it the Dexter Kablowski Memorial Raft. We press on until Blue Lake. But we don’t want to stop in the town because they might catch up and start asking about us. Best not to be seen. So camping outside the town seems like a great idea, right?</p><p></p><p>Wrong. We get ambushed by bandits. Jack is on watch and he takes two crossbow bolts in the chest. He’s within an inch of his life. Thankfully Damon and Timmy kill off the bandits before one of us dies. We’re badly injured. And I figure… who else is going to show up to kill us? Those random farmers from last week? Possibly the elders with a machine gun? How about aliens? I’m not quite sick of mutants yet, let’s fight some more of them!</p><p></p><p>Day 48</p><p></p><p>Guess who we met on the road. Dorn Edmunssen. The first guy we ever met outside the colony. The guy Jack wanted to kill for no other reason than he might take something we’d want later. Anyway, he seems glad to see us but notes our wounds. He offers to trade food for maps but we’re interested in pressing on home because we’re nearly there and we don’t want to give Jesus and his crack army of elephant stormtroopers a chance to catch up and mow us down with repeating banana rifles. He does offer us work down south. The Golandt Empire – I think I remember us telling him we were from around there because the colony is a secret – is fighting somebody, and they could use good men. Sounds great because we get to explore down there, which the colony wants, and get paid too. But first we need to take a couple weeks off to recuperate, then deliver that briefcase to Trade City. I hope Dexter makes it back alright. If he gets a cold he might die from sneezing too hard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tmart, post: 3001229, member: 11198"] I tell them I need all the family members present to channel the good energies. I get them to all stand between me and Jack’s sniping position, and directly opposite my exit route so they don’t stop me and so Jack's shot gets their attention in the wrong direction. I start the kooky mumbo jumbo and we’re off. I’ve got my hands on the briefcase the whole time. Eventually I give the code phrase, “Damn' ghost, leave this girl be” and Jack shoots at Adam again. And misses horribly. That’s fine by me; I don’t want Adam to die considering he hasn’t done anything. Sure Tobias was a jerk, but maybe that’s why he left the farm. Anyway, Adam says “We’re under attack, give me the briefcase, head for the farm” and I protect the case saying “The ghost is trying to distract our ritual!” But he won’t have any of it so I just make a break with the case. Then a sniper’s bullet cuts the knot on my handkerchief. I think most of my luck run out on that one. I make it nearly outside the fire’s light but they keep shooting and one hits me in the arm. Goddamn that hurt. But we make it into the dark and the fields and we’re home free. Then the mutants show up. They’ve been after me before, but not like this. I could swear that they screamed something like DREAMSTOOLOUDDREAMSTOOLOUD at me again and again, but maybe I imagined that. I haven't spoken to the others about it in case I did. But at this point I’m in no condition to keep fighting, and there are a lot of them. We make a break for it, but Dexter – God love him but he’s as healthy as a maggot – gasses after about a minute. So he jumps into the trees and hides. None of them chase him. We spot an abandoned cottage a little ways down and barricade it. So we’re safe. Timmy tourniquets my arm to stop the bleeding. But Jack isn’t there. We hear gunshots from the treeline and make out Jack and the biggest damn mutant I have ever seen. It’s got to be seven feet tall. It’s chasing him all around the trees and we take shots at it. Eventually Jack makes a break for the cottage and we fire some rounds into the mutie and it breaks off the chase. He makes it to the wall but the little muties notice him. They’re clawing and grabbing at him as he tries to climb the stone wall. One scrapes his hip real bad. Scratched the bone, Timmy said after he patched it up. But Jack finally makes it up, halfway dead, and we pull him in. The muties break the door down but we have the stairway barricaded and it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Dexter doesn’t show up, but we figure he’s safe. The mutants are after me anyway. We find a canoe and paddle out back and wait on the lake. At dawn we stop waiting for him and start paddling. We figure we’ll meet up at home. We came to the ford again where the river runs over the road. Our raft was still there! We should name it the Dexter Kablowski Memorial Raft. We press on until Blue Lake. But we don’t want to stop in the town because they might catch up and start asking about us. Best not to be seen. So camping outside the town seems like a great idea, right? Wrong. We get ambushed by bandits. Jack is on watch and he takes two crossbow bolts in the chest. He’s within an inch of his life. Thankfully Damon and Timmy kill off the bandits before one of us dies. We’re badly injured. And I figure… who else is going to show up to kill us? Those random farmers from last week? Possibly the elders with a machine gun? How about aliens? I’m not quite sick of mutants yet, let’s fight some more of them! Day 48 Guess who we met on the road. Dorn Edmunssen. The first guy we ever met outside the colony. The guy Jack wanted to kill for no other reason than he might take something we’d want later. Anyway, he seems glad to see us but notes our wounds. He offers to trade food for maps but we’re interested in pressing on home because we’re nearly there and we don’t want to give Jesus and his crack army of elephant stormtroopers a chance to catch up and mow us down with repeating banana rifles. He does offer us work down south. The Golandt Empire – I think I remember us telling him we were from around there because the colony is a secret – is fighting somebody, and they could use good men. Sounds great because we get to explore down there, which the colony wants, and get paid too. But first we need to take a couple weeks off to recuperate, then deliver that briefcase to Trade City. I hope Dexter makes it back alright. If he gets a cold he might die from sneezing too hard. [/QUOTE]
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