In reply to Joint (msg # 476):

Laney returned Joint's gesture with a nod and a half-smile.

"Hey, handsome. Good to see you, Ace, Luke and the others are ok. I was thinkin' your forgot how to use the radio. Yeah, I'll go talk to her.

"Arani, no problem. I'll see if we can get some help. But these folks look like "preppers" or survivalists and could have gone a little "cuckoo" now the Shit's Hit The Fan, or "SHTF" as my husband Greg called it. So I don't have my hopes up about any reciprocity or generosity. But people can surprise you, you know?"

Finishing up she said to the other group's leader, "hey, you lookin' for someone in charge? Well, what may I do you for? You got any plans? We could use a hand right now."

Eddie see Laney heading to talk to the new people and keep a eye for trouble

[Private to GM: Eddie will keep an eye out for trouble and if anyone acts or look like police training]

00:48, Today: Eddie Thomas rolled 37 using 1d100 with rolls of 37.  Surveillance 60%.

00:49, Today: Eddie Thomas rolled 19 using 1d20 with rolls of 19.  percpetion.

The gal with the sniper rifle didn't offer her name, but offered thanks. "Thanks for saving our asses." She then offered a reward for the help. "We'll give you one of the bags of guns and stuff we collected. I'll give you a second for the cargo truck. That blue pickup has no gas and you can keep the CB radio." She then made yet another offer. "We have a pretty secure place to stay and now we have some more guns to defend the place. Any of your people are welcome to come." She then mentioned the cultists. "Sounds like you guys know about those crazy cultists trying to snatch up women. We killed a few them that ran into us at that other range. The gun fire attracted the dead and we got stuck."

"After that we were pretty much fucked until you guys came along."

[Private to Eddie Thomas: Nobody looks like they have police training, and no one looks like they are going to cause trouble.]

In reply to Gal with Sniper rifle (msg # 479):

Laney dipped her head and smiled. "You're welcome, lady.

"Thanks for the bag of guns. I'll bring to my people the offer of the second bag for the truck, but I'd personally like to hang onto the second vehicle. Worse comes to worse we can tow the pickup to where we can siphon some gas outta an abandoned vehicles. All the ones here been scavenged but I get the feelin' there's gonna be a lot lyin' around, least for a while.

"As for a place to hole up, sure, we need someplace safe. And we found a few women here that were, uh, bein' held captive and sexually abused by a couple cultist fucks here. I heard another died and we should take care of the body.

"That's a fine job yall did, zapping those cultists. Funny as it sounds we were contracted to take out the cultists, who got some kinda base at Hoover Dam. After that our options are open."

In reply to Lakeisha 'Laney' Carmichael (msg # 480):

JP follows Laney glad to be out of the back of the MRAP. His arm hurt like hell though he could feel the meds he took working their magic as he stood in silence and listened to the exchange.

When the cultists are mentioned he raises his arm sightly before regretting it with a pained expression on his face adding "They shot us up before we could get the jump on them and popped one of their hostages in the process. I think we need ammunition more then anything else at the moment, do you know of anywhere else that might have some lying around if you don't have much to spare ?"

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Rob keeps the machine gun pointed in the general direction of the newcomers as he squints his beady eyes at them.

The woman cautiously eyes the machinegun being pointed at her. "Naw there ain't no need to tow the pickup. As you said there are more vehicles out there." The woman yells out to one of her men bring up the bags with guns in them. Both bags are brought up an unzipped for all to see. One bag has five rifles/SMGs in it and an equal number of handguns. The second bag contains a six tube grenade launcher a bunch of grenades for it, about a dozen canister style less then lethal grenades, and several gas masks. "Take your pick."

OOC: You'll get a more detailed inventory of whichever bag you choose.


"If you don't mind giving us a lift, we can take them and anybody else in."


"We didn't know where the cultists were holed up. Might be in our best interest to take them out together. You guys got some firepower with that machinegun and people, but we can offer more people."


"Everyone needs ammo, why do you think we came here? We didn't get much in the way of ammo here. What we did get is needed to defend our safe haven. We got kids and old people there, people from all walks of life who were not allowed onto Nellis."

"If we join up to take out those cultists them yeah there'd be some sharing but you'd have to talk to our person in charge."

In reply to Gal with Sniper rifle (msg # 483):

""OK, I think I understand. The one bag has about five rifles and submachineguns, five pistols. The other's got a six-shooter grenade launcher with some grenades, some... bean bags? Tear gas cannisters? Plus gas masks.

"Huh. If we got tear gas and a way to shoot it, plus gas masks, that sounds like somethin' useful for hostage rescue at the dam right there. But I'll let my people decide.

"We give yall a lift, yall gonna help out the hostages we freed here. Sounds like a fair deal, thank you. And regarding teaming up to take out the cultists at the dam, it seems like an obvious good idea but yall gotta bring it to your leader to decide, also fair.

All right, please excuse me for a second."

After the woman assented, she ambled over to the rest of the crew. She explained the deal on offer, then nodded at Joint. "Not sayin' nothin' 'bout nothin' but I say go for the bag with the grenade launcher, long as we got someone to use it. Even if we don't, it keeps a weapon that can take out our little armoured rig safe and out of someone else's hands, dig?

"We all got rifles and whatnot, we don't need more. We take out the cultists we can scavenge what they got, too."

In reply to Lakeisha 'Laney' Carmichael (msg # 484):

Listening to Laney and what the deal was with sniper girl and the bags of goodies he couldn't help but agree and his body language showed it.  Was a good idea keep the MRAP safe for as long a possible, Robert was probably the only one who could use the launcher properly, but it was a fairly simple point and blow stuff up operation.

"Help would be nice, we have some partial wounded and we are not even a couple days off the base.  If they have a secure location we could drop the girls off without having to worry to much about them, but F it might as well give it a go lets just be alert to any back stabbing.  And Laney I might be a proud man but not to proud to nice work to you are little band of sisters."

In reply to Joint (msg # 485):

She smiled in appreciation at his comment, not wanting to overdo it or anything. "My pleasure, handsome."

It seemed to her that maybe they should figure out if they had a use for the grenade launcher or not, or at least if there was anyone in the group who was trained in its use.

Directing her mainly at Robert she asked, "anyone here know how to use a grenade launcher?"

Arani thought for a moment before replying.

- "Well, guns and ammo should pretty much be all over the place, 'nades are tougher to get your hands on though, and a launcher can throw 'em out farther than you can throw."

In response to Laney's question, she shook her head.

- "No, so if no one else can just hand it to the biggest guy in the team and have him look mean so we'll only have the zombies to deal with."

Eddie shakes head at the mention of being able to use a grenade launcher "We have to be careful because you load one that isn't meant for that model could lead to a bad day"

"I agree we should follow them to get a base of operations but we should be on the lookout for back stabbing"

Rob sits in the turret digging around in his left nostril with a pinky finger. He pulls out what one can only assume is a booger, looks at it critically and then eats it.

Nah... I dunno shit about grenades."

In reply to Arani Vasingis (msg # 487):

Joint raises an eyebrow and shifts his weight a little at Arani's comment about giving the biggest guy a grenade launcher. The fact that Rob didn't know how to use it was somewhat surprising, so much so Joint looked at him in the turret with his head cocked sideways.

"Well at least you are connoisseur of nose goblin delight, you just keep that fifty cal. company.  I am alright with Arani's idea, I just want someone keeping an eye on snipers and that kinda shit so I don't get merc'ed by long range fire.  Also we might need to get some instruction on how to use the damn thing, I am sure we could have you-tubed it but that is not an option...or is it?"

Should no one else volunteer Joint will take the grenade launcher.

In reply to Joint (msg # 490):

Laney nodded. "Awright, I'll let 'em know we want the bag with the grenade launcher. We could also use some instruction.

"Anyone have any thoughts on giving up the 5-ton for the second bag, the one with guns in it? That was a side offer. They are going to give us one bag of our choosing, the second is on offer for the cargo truck (not the APC).

"Lastly, there's a dead woman in the range. I'm gonna grab her body, so we can bury it later."

- "Hmm... Army outposts should have some manuals lying around, it's not exactly the first thing to bring with you when shit hits the fan so they should still be there."

Rob shakes his head...

"Who really cares about some random dead bitch at a gun range? Most of the world is dead at this point. Sounds like a complete waste of time. If I die while im with you assholes, which seems highly likely, bar ditch my worthless corpse and piss off."

In reply to Robert E. Lee Jessup (msg # 493):

Laney tried to contain her mirth at Bobby Lee's outburst. "Ha ha! Sure, sure. In fact, When you die, we gonna have us a little barbequeue! Humans are just protein and you won't care if you're dead, right? My daddy said back in Nam they done never left no bodies behind. We won't be leavin' you, and we ain't leavin' her to get eaten.

"Movin' on, I should say we don't take the offer of the second bag of guns for the cargo truck. It's plenty useful to hang onto, gives us some options for mobility. Just my opinion."
This message was last edited by the player at 09:32, Thu 18 Jan 2018.

As Laney, Joint, Arani, and Jonathan check out the contents of the bag. Inside it is the following:

• One Milkor MGL, 6 round grenade launcher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkor_MGL
• Ten M651 40×46mm CS gas grenades (they appear to be for the MGL)
• Seven M84 stun/Flash Bang grenades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M84_stun_grenade
• Five M7A2 CS gas grenade
• Five MCU-2/P Gas Masks (no filters attached)
• Five Gas mask filters (filters are unused and in their packaging)
• Two Grenade launching cups (attaches to shotgun)
• Ten 12 Gauge Launching Cartridge

Rob looks up and seems weirdly shocked. He says in a manner of fact tone,

"Well yeah of course were gonna start eatin on each other eventually most like but shit thats gonna be a few years down the road hopefully. I mean there is plenty out there for those willing to take it. I plan on being a taker. Its enevitable I reckon. I suppose that might one day put us at odds."

He then surprisingly hangs his head and favors his wounded arm.

In reply to Robert E. Lee Jessup (msg # 496):

Laney knew there wasn't anything she could really say to that. Maybe it would turn out like he said, but she hoped not. She just looked at him for a moment, nodded in understanding, then turned away.

"Awright, everyone. I'm gonna tell that fine lady we'll give them a lift, and we'll take the grenade launcher and stuff. But no for now on giving them the second truck.

"Anyone else got something to say? I'll deal with that "vic" in the shack if someone can pull the CB radio outta that pickup. Let's get a move on, people."

In reply to Lakeisha 'Laney' Carmichael (msg # 497):

Joint rolled his eyes at Laney, stood forward and walked to look for some basic tools for taking out the CB, he was gonna have to start getting tools he had left his all in his chop shop which was a real bummer, going back there was a bad idea though.  Whoever in the future found his shop would be real happy though that was for sure.
Yep they were all the same, it was no wonder there were so few first response people kicking around, they had some twisted god complex and a A type personality.  Who gave a shit Laney kept going like this she was gonna get her self killed and definitely one or two along with her.

"I will grab the CB, that crap falls inside my wheel house, someone with a heater cover me while I have my back turned getting that out."



[Private to GM: 09:13, Today: Joint rolled 84 using 1d100 with rolls of 84. Remove CB Radio and necessary parts .(failed attempt) Unless I can make a second roll under a different skill.]
This message was last edited by the player at 16:17, Sat 20 Jan 2018.

In reply to Joint (msg # 498):

"Awright, Handsome. Much obliged." For her part she grabbed a shovel from the vehicle tools. Standing it beside the door she drew her M9 pistol and entered, ready to zap any crazy or cultists she saw.

In reply to Lakeisha 'Laney' Carmichael (msg # 499):
TAB hops down and if a second shovel is available with help with the shoveling and if not he just keeps an extra set of eyes on things.
This message was last edited by the player at 09:37, Sun 21 Jan 2018.

Joint uses the MRAPs tool kit to remove the CB from the blue pickup. As he works on removing the unit, Joint finds that the idiot who installed it used some sort of heavy glue. Its was either a hot glue gun or that shoe goop stuff used to repair shoes. Thus a quick and easy 10-15 minute jobs takes 30 minutes to do.

Laney and TAB go inside the shed and see a few rats scurry away from one of the dead men whose stomach has been torn open by a much larger animal. A second dead man is missing an arm, also torn off by some larger animal. Laney finds the dead woman's body exactly where Jonathon had stated it to be, wrapped up in some plastic sheeting.