Cleanup
You local chaps, help Major D'ammond police up this gear. Grab any paycards, maps or other papers, dogtags, other identification, weapons, ammunition, and anything else that looks interesting.
Staff Sergeant, could you make a quick jaunt after the horses - just to see if any of them may have settled close by the camp? If not, a quick sweep of the perimeter would make me feel safer.
I'm going to prepare the deer carcass for transport. I would like to clear the area and head back to our base camp within 5 to 10 minutes.
Gentlemen, keep your ears open. We've heard a smattering of shots from the direction of our camp. We didn't hear a generalized firefight, so I'm assuming it might be a jumpy picket or someone chasing off wolves or some other predator. If we hear more concentrated fire, we shall assume there is more to be concerned with. For the time being, let us clear up this site and then head home.
Oh, and Sergeant Guido, if you can police up most of the casings from around your firing position, I'd rather not leave a NATO calling card, if you take my meaning. But go check on the horses and sweep the perimeter first.
Let's be about it, Chaps!
Meanwhile, demonstrating all of the skills I learned at Hereford, I shall endeavour to secure the deer carcass for transport - on a couple of poles suspended between two of our intrepid little band. A drag frame would work, but I don't want to leave much of a sign as to which direction we took. With that in mind, use some of the fatigue shirts (or if some of the poles have a shelter half or tarp) to wrap the carcass. At least until we get about 200m from here, I don't want any noteworthy amounts of blood or juice dripping, leaving a nice track back to the camp.
I also make sure the Poles are actually dead. If there are any that are not dead, I quickly interrogate them as to who they are, what unit they are with, where the body of their unit is, etc. before finishing them off. If they cooperate, I try hard to make it quick and painless, as well as quiet. Never ask one of your men to do the dirty work if you won't do it yourself.
Also, on our way back, assuming Guido doesn't find us some horses and we don't find anything so compelling we can't leave, we make a point to zig-zag and do double back every so often, just to confuse anyone trying to follow our path back to our camp.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:05, Sun 13 June 2004.