Boise Ruins
They finished up with the short break, intending to head out.
Wearing his Marine Combat IBS now, Crichton came over to wish them luck. He said that should the Destroyers come, they would be invading Hell itself.
Currently, he was having workers dig a network of spider holes in the rubble to catch any horde of bikers trying to outflank the tank traps in a vicious crossfire. The spider holes were connected to bunkers dug under piles of shattered concrete and brick, also under construction. Small pits were being dug in the ambush's kill zone where foot mobiles or bikes would go over them and get stuck, then the pits where filled with sharpened rusty spikes or wooden stakes.
Out in the nearby market, craftspeople worked at a series of tables, using salvaged materials and home-made explosives to fashion a series of IEDs and braces of "lunge mines". (These were explosive anti-tank charges fixed to the ends of 10 foot poles that fired when shoved into the side of an armoured vehicle by a suicidally brave attacker.) More disturbingly, someone was fabricating what appeared to be crude "suicide vests", hopefully be used only as a last resort. Crude catapults were being made to throw Spook Juice cocktails, clouds of darts, even jars full of angry mutant wasps.
Dozens of people who didn't want a part in this fight were leaving with what they could carry on their backs or piled onto carts, donkeys, horses, one rickety econobox. Over a hundred people were staying, not just men but women and even children. Perhaps the "non-combatants" would take on communications and medical roles when the fighting started, but when the wolf was coming to devour them all they would make their stand, despite the cost.
Once outside the Ghost Wall they would be stopping at the almost-deserted town of Simon's Rock to refuel, then it was another hard ride to make it back to Twin Falls and Eden (by Skeleton Butte) before dark and another hostage was killed.
Marshall's Note: The return trip requires 2 more Riding rolls per driver (Roadkill, Sullivan, Jason) to make it back. TN 5, +3 for Handling (so really, not much of a chance).
Twin Falls/Eden
Nearby Skeleton Butte, the others waited hidden in the abandoned farming town of Eden. To the north were the mountains, to the south, Skeleton Butte. Eden itself was on a reservoir which still held a little water, and there were at least a few trees around. The clouds glowered, threatening more rain, but it was good to dry out a little in the vehicles under their camouflage.
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