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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tmart" data-source="post: 3632342" data-attributes="member: 11198">October 7, 2113Well we continued to the airfield.  We scav’d some parts to fix the Jeep, and found a working airplane.  McLeod said it would be ridiculously hard to find airplane fuel for it, so we left it for now and just took an electronic part to keep it from working.  Also in the radio tower we saw a distress message sent by a plane about 80 years ago.  Dex figured out where it must have crashed and we went to take a look.  Unfortunately it had recently been found by someone else.  The weird thing was some skeletons around it – Timmy said they were like bears, but nastier.  He found tracks heading off toward Blue Lake.  We had to go by there anyway so I stopped in to talk with David Sandoval.I asked him what his boys got from the crash site and he said some weapons, supplies, some kind of armour… I got the feeling he was holding something back, and asked him to share what he knew in the newfound spirit of cooperation we had agreed on.  He brought up the whole Moomba debacle.  I said “I thought that was behind us.  I’m going to go sulk now.  See you at the meeting” and left.  But when I was on the other side of his door I scanned his mind and he did find power armour, like I suspected.  So I poked my head back inside the door and asked him flat out about the armour he found.  He seemed surprised that I suspected it, so I said “What, did you think I read your mind or something? Moomba be sensin’ some power armour!”  If he only knew…  anyway, I traded him the airplane for the armour, and I said I’d throw in the airstrip if he’d stop being mean.  It’s a great deal considering we probably couldn’t even use the airplane, and are liable to being shot down by ATMA crazies anyway.So we got Dole in the armour.  It’s really good armour.  It’s crazy heavy but it increases his strength too.  Timmy won't stop addressing him as Master Chief.  He can also see 360 degrees.  I’m lending him Moomba’s Boomstick, which ties into his heads-up display and can do crazy things like track targets and see around corners through the scope.Dex and Joe snuck around some mutants to get back into Athena to look up ATMA, helicopter specs, and about the United States.  They searched for the song Joe heard on the radio, and it was the anthem for the old States.  But he said it was off a little bit – it used to be the land of the free, not the land of the pure.  I guess they took some liberties with the song after the Drop, but I’m told they were pretty good at taking liberties before it too.October 12, 2113Somebody remembered that we have a SAM truck at the colony that we should bring to the meeting in case another ATMA chopper shows up.  For now the colony has lent us a hand-held missile launcher.  Between the machine guns on the Jeep and this baby, they’re toast if they come at us again.Dorn came back from Mittlewerk.  He said they’re stockpiling food and weapons, which is not exactly out of the ordinary for them.  The Emperor Johann is very aggressive.  Dorn said his son Theodore would be more likely to consolidate their territory than try to expand, but added that Marcus Flint, the military goon we dealt with earlier, would be likely to make a coup if Johann died.I also took the liberty of reading his mind while I asked him about ATMA.  He said they were normally secretive, and doing what they did was very unusual.  He told me he had run into them before, but Moomba said he used to work for them.  He said they’re very high tech, and aim to control everything they can.  They seem to be based in the Restricted Zone.  He said they were working on a monitoring system in the past, and if they had it working now it would explain how they found us.  I asked him some personal questions as well, and it seems he likes the idea of rebuilding civilisation, but is mostly just satisfied with the living he makes in Haven.October 20, 2113I talked to Macross, an ambassador from Couver.  I got him to agree to come to the meeting at least, but I’m not too optimistic.  They’re interested in trade but not much else – they’re pretty isolationist.  I would be too if I looked funny.  Something weird happened, though.  I tried to use my powers on him, just to soften him up and make him listen to me, but it wouldn’t work no matter how many times I tried.  And after I kept trying, my mind felt something.  I fought it off and nothing happened, but I’m afraid he may have powers too.  Maybe he’s been given a gift, like I have.  Maybe he’ll have a role in the struggles to come.  One thing’s for sure, though – I won’t be using Moomba on him from now on.October 27, 2113We were just heading to Blue Lake to make arrangements for the meeting with David, when Timmy spotted Rorschach on a motorcycle headed toward us.</blockquote>

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