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<blockquote data-quote="tmart" data-source="post: 3636333" data-attributes="member: 11198"><p>October 27, 2113, continued</p><p></p><p>Rorschach had heard that we had asked around about keys and suitcases. He said he knew of a couple that would be better off not in the hands of certain guys in Couver. He offered to help us get the Hephaestos and Poseidon keys, splitting the goods down the middle. I pumped him for info because it made me really nervous. He said the Couverites are becoming irrational. “They’ve become a cult,” he said. They call themselves the Disciples of Evolution. We’re calling them Devo for short. They think they’re supposed to help the cause of… evolution. They appear to be doing it by looking funny. Timmy got all excited and said “They’re like the Brotherhood of Mutants! And you’re the X-Men!” Rorschach didn’t get it. Nobody ever does. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, we were really suspicious of why he’d want all those weapons. He said he didn’t even want the weapons, that we could have Hephaestos and he’d take the Poseidon key. He said he was just getting paid to do it. I got him to tell us he was selling it to the Melkior Alliance, some group based offshore, supposedly with no hostile intentions. Moomba said he actually works for them. I’m afraid it might be a front for ATMA, but it doesn’t sound like it. We agreed to each take a key, but he’d have to help us find the Hephaestos briefcase. </p><p></p><p>To go incognito we’re taking the bikes instead of the jeeps. To carry everybody we traded the wolf pelts and some gold for a sidecar in Trade City, and Dex is using it as a guide to hack together another one. Duff can ride in the hack job… I don’t trust it.</p><p></p><p>October 29, 2113</p><p></p><p>So we went to the colony before we left to stash some stuff we didn’t want tying us down, mainly Dole’s power armour (which is not very sneaky). It was just Dole, Timmy, Dex, and me. When we got to the entrance there were more guards than normal. Lt. Fillion Braymore told us to stop so our equipment could be inspected. I figure Dex takes pretty good care of it, but he said it was by order of the Council. Moomba got him to make us an exception. I scanned some thoughts and someone was thinking the rule made sense given the incident.</p><p></p><p>I kept scanning as we made our way in. I was getting a really bad feeling. A couple people thought “oh, it’s them, the ones making trouble with the outsiders.” Some houses were burnt down, too.</p><p></p><p>When we got to see the Council there were only three of the five elders there. Mitchell, the scientist who gave us our orders, and Marie, the quartermaster who released ammo and gear to us, were missing. The Council asked for a report. I asked what happened to the other elders. They demanded my report. Looks like Claire is in charge now, and she was very confrontational for no apparent reason. I told them that we were continuing to arrange our big meeting, and we went to Couver to talk about attending. Claire refused to say anything else and told us to leave.</p><p></p><p>When we left the Council we were stopped by a dozen militia who demanded our weapons. I tried to talk and Moomba them out of it but it wasn’t working. I thought they might even shoot us if we refused. Dex opened a letter and read it, but I didn’t know what it was. I barged back into the Council and demanded to know what was going on, which was pretty reasonable considering all I’ve done for the colony in the past year. She practically yelled that Mitchell and Marie were executed for treason. She said they conspired to build a Drop bomb, and she also thought we were in on it. I argued for a while that we had hardly anything to do with him. We just came back once in a while to get bullets and orders. Dexter then pulled out this letter again that was from Mitchell, saying he maintained a laboratory in the unsafe mine that no one else knew about, and if he came to an “untimely demise” then Dex would have to take care of it. Apparently the fire occurred when the elders were arrested. Someone overturned a lamp and it started a fire. Anyway, based on the letter and my badgering I argued them down to house arrest with our weapons. We’re stuck in here now… at least Dole makes a mean gumbo.</p><p></p><p>I scanned some folks on the street and someone was thinking about what happened. I think some kid snuck into the unsafe mine and found the lab, then told the militia and they found the nuke.</p><p></p><p>October 31, 2113</p><p></p><p>I asked a guard to let us speak with Hugo. He was the only elder who seemed in his right mind. He came by and I asked if we would have a trial. He said there would be some sort of tribunal. Dexter asked about the nuke, and wowed him with some technical mumbo jumbo about disarming it. It was a good idea, so Hugo took him into the mine. I don’t know exactly what happened down there, but it turns out it’s not a damn nuke, it’s nuclear reactor which powers the lab. Dex said it’s probably the real power source for the whole damn colony, because there’s not that much gas left in the world to run our generators! But he mouthed off to Hugo. No more speaking to Hugo for him. His Hugo privileges are revoked. I mentioned that since there is no “Drop bomb,” the charges against us are invalid and have to be dropped. He said nothing and walked away.</p><p></p><p>Dexter asked me to include this in my journal: “gg guys. gg.” It’s hard to believe that these crazies murdered two elders for no reason. They didn’t even bother to find out what it was… then again, Mitchell would be the only one who saw the place who might even know the difference.</p><p></p><p>Happy Hallowe’en! No kids came to the door, though. The guard won’t let us talk with anyone. They wouldn’t want to give us a chance to tell our side of the story. No, the plebs only get to hear Claire’s propaganda.</p><p></p><p>November 2, 2113</p><p></p><p>We finally got to go to the tribunal. They made us leave our weapons for real this time, though. The Council immediately dropped the charges of conspiring to make a bomb. But they added charges for knowing of Mitchell’s wrongdoing (whatever that may have been?) and for endangering the health of the colony. They asked what our defense was. I told them our defense was that they had no case at all, and if this were a real trial instead of a kangaroo court they couldn’t even have charged us because they have no evidence. As for knowing about Mitchell, Dexter’s note proves that we didn’t, seeing how it was sealed and only opened in front of Samuels, the semi-competent militia leader and elder. Endangering the health of the colony was a joke too. We only ever followed orders. Apparently ATMA finding us was our fault. But ATMA doesn’t even know about the colony! Claire tried to argue that we made them look bad in the eyes of Blue Lake… but that’s marginal at best and I don’t even see how this is a crime to begin with. Then again they seem to be making it up as they go along in this witch hunt. And Sandoval doesn’t even know about the colony yet!</p><p></p><p>November 6, 2113</p><p></p><p>So the next day some militia came by and told us we had been found not guilty of knowing about Mitchell’s lab, but guilty of endangering the colony. They locked us up in a cell to wait for the sentence. The next night Hugo came by, nodded to the guard, and the guard unlocked our cell and left us alone.</p><p></p><p>Hugo said that he thought we were innocent. He also said there were a lot of good people in the colony that were just scared. He said he obviously couldn’t let us go, and that it was a shame that we had no way to get into the armoury to get our gear. As he turned to leave he dropped a key on the floor.</p><p></p><p>Needless to say we went out the back way (this place wasn’t meant to be a prison) and snuck through the halls to get to the armoury. Feeling a bit resentful, we not only took back our stuff but jacked a fat loot. We took all the explosives, a ton of ammo, some parts, grabbed an M16 for Duff and Dex and I traded mine for a sniper rifle. We also took a heavy machine gun to upgrade the second jeep. We didn’t take anything that they had ever had a use for, and any bandits or mutants that came around would be easily dealt with considering all the stuff they do have. They can outfit a small army here. And that night they kinda did.</p><p></p><p>Dex wanted to check out Mitchell’s lab pretty badly to see what had to be a secret. The two guards at the exit of the complex were asleep, and I think they may have been drugged by Hugo. That or they passed out drunk. Anyway, we snuck around the outside to the mine and there were two guards there. We snuck up on them and surrounded them, pointing assault rifles and Dole with the M2HB. I told them to put down their weapons and they wouldn’t get hurt. Moomba also suggested they not tell anyone they let us in. Then we just tied them up in the closet. Dex didn’t have much time to look around but he found some really high-tech gadgetry that Mitchell had been tinkering with. He said he could make something awesome out of them, but I don’t know what.</p><p></p><p>So we sent Dole to get his power armour which was still in his house, which took some major sneakery. He said only one person saw him, and it was a little girl, and it was while he was in his armour, and she just fainted.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile the rest of us went to the vehicle depot. There were two guards again. We waited for Dole and did the same drill as before… these aren’t hardened soldiers, just regular folk, so they’re not going to say no to a big suit of power armour wielding a heavy machine gun. So we loaded up all our loot in our jeeps. Since there were four of us, we each drove one vehicle and also took our SAM truck (for the meeting in case of ATMA) and a military truck for Haven. We also took all the spark plugs from the other vehicles to buy us time in case of pursuit. We came out with a pretty big haul.</p><p></p><p>The irony of it all is that we came here to stash our gear.</p><p></p><p>I split off to go to Blue Lake and talk to Sandoval and tell him about the colony in case he heard bad stories about me. About Mitchell and Marie he said he wasn’t surprised that someone from our colony killed someone for no reason. Apparently he still holds a grudge about Adam. I can’t say I blame him. Then again, I still hold a grudge against Jack too.</p><p></p><p>November 12, 2113</p><p></p><p>With all that insanity behind us we got to Couver. We stashed our bikes in the trees and snuck into the sewers. In a while Rorschach led us to a door with a keypad. Dex hacked it good. The inside wasn’t a sewer but a proper hallway, and recently built. We ducked into a side room to hide from a patrol and although it was pitch black, Dole used his night vision scope to check it out. He saw some half-built machines but didn’t get much. After the patrol went by we found a bigger bunker door, also with a keypad. Dexter hacked it open with his wizardry and there were some fellas inside with assault rifles. One of them asked for identification. I said I had our identification right here… and pulled out my new Heckler and Koch PSG-1. We tried to intimidate them again but they seemed like fanatics or something. I also got a little bit of feedback on my powers, so I decided to lay off while we were there. The firefight was really fast and we didn’t take any injuries. Dole even charged a guy with his huge sword and just chopped his head off in one slice.</p><p></p><p>I only wounded people again. It’s easier when the others kill them. I still won’t be sleeping for a while, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tmart, post: 3636333, member: 11198"] October 27, 2113, continued Rorschach had heard that we had asked around about keys and suitcases. He said he knew of a couple that would be better off not in the hands of certain guys in Couver. He offered to help us get the Hephaestos and Poseidon keys, splitting the goods down the middle. I pumped him for info because it made me really nervous. He said the Couverites are becoming irrational. “They’ve become a cult,” he said. They call themselves the Disciples of Evolution. We’re calling them Devo for short. They think they’re supposed to help the cause of… evolution. They appear to be doing it by looking funny. Timmy got all excited and said “They’re like the Brotherhood of Mutants! And you’re the X-Men!” Rorschach didn’t get it. Nobody ever does. Anyway, we were really suspicious of why he’d want all those weapons. He said he didn’t even want the weapons, that we could have Hephaestos and he’d take the Poseidon key. He said he was just getting paid to do it. I got him to tell us he was selling it to the Melkior Alliance, some group based offshore, supposedly with no hostile intentions. Moomba said he actually works for them. I’m afraid it might be a front for ATMA, but it doesn’t sound like it. We agreed to each take a key, but he’d have to help us find the Hephaestos briefcase. To go incognito we’re taking the bikes instead of the jeeps. To carry everybody we traded the wolf pelts and some gold for a sidecar in Trade City, and Dex is using it as a guide to hack together another one. Duff can ride in the hack job… I don’t trust it. October 29, 2113 So we went to the colony before we left to stash some stuff we didn’t want tying us down, mainly Dole’s power armour (which is not very sneaky). It was just Dole, Timmy, Dex, and me. When we got to the entrance there were more guards than normal. Lt. Fillion Braymore told us to stop so our equipment could be inspected. I figure Dex takes pretty good care of it, but he said it was by order of the Council. Moomba got him to make us an exception. I scanned some thoughts and someone was thinking the rule made sense given the incident. I kept scanning as we made our way in. I was getting a really bad feeling. A couple people thought “oh, it’s them, the ones making trouble with the outsiders.” Some houses were burnt down, too. When we got to see the Council there were only three of the five elders there. Mitchell, the scientist who gave us our orders, and Marie, the quartermaster who released ammo and gear to us, were missing. The Council asked for a report. I asked what happened to the other elders. They demanded my report. Looks like Claire is in charge now, and she was very confrontational for no apparent reason. I told them that we were continuing to arrange our big meeting, and we went to Couver to talk about attending. Claire refused to say anything else and told us to leave. When we left the Council we were stopped by a dozen militia who demanded our weapons. I tried to talk and Moomba them out of it but it wasn’t working. I thought they might even shoot us if we refused. Dex opened a letter and read it, but I didn’t know what it was. I barged back into the Council and demanded to know what was going on, which was pretty reasonable considering all I’ve done for the colony in the past year. She practically yelled that Mitchell and Marie were executed for treason. She said they conspired to build a Drop bomb, and she also thought we were in on it. I argued for a while that we had hardly anything to do with him. We just came back once in a while to get bullets and orders. Dexter then pulled out this letter again that was from Mitchell, saying he maintained a laboratory in the unsafe mine that no one else knew about, and if he came to an “untimely demise” then Dex would have to take care of it. Apparently the fire occurred when the elders were arrested. Someone overturned a lamp and it started a fire. Anyway, based on the letter and my badgering I argued them down to house arrest with our weapons. We’re stuck in here now… at least Dole makes a mean gumbo. I scanned some folks on the street and someone was thinking about what happened. I think some kid snuck into the unsafe mine and found the lab, then told the militia and they found the nuke. October 31, 2113 I asked a guard to let us speak with Hugo. He was the only elder who seemed in his right mind. He came by and I asked if we would have a trial. He said there would be some sort of tribunal. Dexter asked about the nuke, and wowed him with some technical mumbo jumbo about disarming it. It was a good idea, so Hugo took him into the mine. I don’t know exactly what happened down there, but it turns out it’s not a damn nuke, it’s nuclear reactor which powers the lab. Dex said it’s probably the real power source for the whole damn colony, because there’s not that much gas left in the world to run our generators! But he mouthed off to Hugo. No more speaking to Hugo for him. His Hugo privileges are revoked. I mentioned that since there is no “Drop bomb,” the charges against us are invalid and have to be dropped. He said nothing and walked away. Dexter asked me to include this in my journal: “gg guys. gg.” It’s hard to believe that these crazies murdered two elders for no reason. They didn’t even bother to find out what it was… then again, Mitchell would be the only one who saw the place who might even know the difference. Happy Hallowe’en! No kids came to the door, though. The guard won’t let us talk with anyone. They wouldn’t want to give us a chance to tell our side of the story. No, the plebs only get to hear Claire’s propaganda. November 2, 2113 We finally got to go to the tribunal. They made us leave our weapons for real this time, though. The Council immediately dropped the charges of conspiring to make a bomb. But they added charges for knowing of Mitchell’s wrongdoing (whatever that may have been?) and for endangering the health of the colony. They asked what our defense was. I told them our defense was that they had no case at all, and if this were a real trial instead of a kangaroo court they couldn’t even have charged us because they have no evidence. As for knowing about Mitchell, Dexter’s note proves that we didn’t, seeing how it was sealed and only opened in front of Samuels, the semi-competent militia leader and elder. Endangering the health of the colony was a joke too. We only ever followed orders. Apparently ATMA finding us was our fault. But ATMA doesn’t even know about the colony! Claire tried to argue that we made them look bad in the eyes of Blue Lake… but that’s marginal at best and I don’t even see how this is a crime to begin with. Then again they seem to be making it up as they go along in this witch hunt. And Sandoval doesn’t even know about the colony yet! November 6, 2113 So the next day some militia came by and told us we had been found not guilty of knowing about Mitchell’s lab, but guilty of endangering the colony. They locked us up in a cell to wait for the sentence. The next night Hugo came by, nodded to the guard, and the guard unlocked our cell and left us alone. Hugo said that he thought we were innocent. He also said there were a lot of good people in the colony that were just scared. He said he obviously couldn’t let us go, and that it was a shame that we had no way to get into the armoury to get our gear. As he turned to leave he dropped a key on the floor. Needless to say we went out the back way (this place wasn’t meant to be a prison) and snuck through the halls to get to the armoury. Feeling a bit resentful, we not only took back our stuff but jacked a fat loot. We took all the explosives, a ton of ammo, some parts, grabbed an M16 for Duff and Dex and I traded mine for a sniper rifle. We also took a heavy machine gun to upgrade the second jeep. We didn’t take anything that they had ever had a use for, and any bandits or mutants that came around would be easily dealt with considering all the stuff they do have. They can outfit a small army here. And that night they kinda did. Dex wanted to check out Mitchell’s lab pretty badly to see what had to be a secret. The two guards at the exit of the complex were asleep, and I think they may have been drugged by Hugo. That or they passed out drunk. Anyway, we snuck around the outside to the mine and there were two guards there. We snuck up on them and surrounded them, pointing assault rifles and Dole with the M2HB. I told them to put down their weapons and they wouldn’t get hurt. Moomba also suggested they not tell anyone they let us in. Then we just tied them up in the closet. Dex didn’t have much time to look around but he found some really high-tech gadgetry that Mitchell had been tinkering with. He said he could make something awesome out of them, but I don’t know what. So we sent Dole to get his power armour which was still in his house, which took some major sneakery. He said only one person saw him, and it was a little girl, and it was while he was in his armour, and she just fainted. Meanwhile the rest of us went to the vehicle depot. There were two guards again. We waited for Dole and did the same drill as before… these aren’t hardened soldiers, just regular folk, so they’re not going to say no to a big suit of power armour wielding a heavy machine gun. So we loaded up all our loot in our jeeps. Since there were four of us, we each drove one vehicle and also took our SAM truck (for the meeting in case of ATMA) and a military truck for Haven. We also took all the spark plugs from the other vehicles to buy us time in case of pursuit. We came out with a pretty big haul. The irony of it all is that we came here to stash our gear. I split off to go to Blue Lake and talk to Sandoval and tell him about the colony in case he heard bad stories about me. About Mitchell and Marie he said he wasn’t surprised that someone from our colony killed someone for no reason. Apparently he still holds a grudge about Adam. I can’t say I blame him. Then again, I still hold a grudge against Jack too. November 12, 2113 With all that insanity behind us we got to Couver. We stashed our bikes in the trees and snuck into the sewers. In a while Rorschach led us to a door with a keypad. Dex hacked it good. The inside wasn’t a sewer but a proper hallway, and recently built. We ducked into a side room to hide from a patrol and although it was pitch black, Dole used his night vision scope to check it out. He saw some half-built machines but didn’t get much. After the patrol went by we found a bigger bunker door, also with a keypad. Dexter hacked it open with his wizardry and there were some fellas inside with assault rifles. One of them asked for identification. I said I had our identification right here… and pulled out my new Heckler and Koch PSG-1. We tried to intimidate them again but they seemed like fanatics or something. I also got a little bit of feedback on my powers, so I decided to lay off while we were there. The firefight was really fast and we didn’t take any injuries. Dole even charged a guy with his huge sword and just chopped his head off in one slice. I only wounded people again. It’s easier when the others kill them. I still won’t be sleeping for a while, though. [/QUOTE]
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