Hell or High Water
Some of the Posse piled into Peter's technical. The rest remained at the Humvee, trying to get it started. "Cannibal" Jack's life hung by a thread. Direct pressure reduced the bleeding from his neck but he'd lost a lot of blood!
The technical roared down the abandoned freeway. Meanwhile, the Humvee would not start. Popping the hood (bonnet) Smoker realised it had taken some high-calibre, probably .50-cal., right through some important components. It wasn't going anywhere without an overhaul.
Reaching the riverfront plaza area Peter and company passed by ancient overgrown ruins left from the time decades before the war when the earthquake and flooding from the later displacement of the Mississippi River through and over the shattered levees devastated Port Arthur and Baton Rouge. At the river's edge was the remains of a boardwalk and amusement park that accompanied the establishment of the entire area as a CSA national wildlife preserve, recreation area and gun range. Some fading and tattered posters advertised getting back to nature the authentic traditional way, on a jet-ski with a beer in one hand and an AK in the other. Other posters advertised the chance to hunt "rare" and "exotic" (aka endangered) wildlife like the Gopher Tortoise, West Indian Manatee and the grandest trophy of them all, the Louisiana Black Bear. Choice of weapons included the crossbow, hunting rifles and shotguns, fully-auto combat shotguns, bows shooting arrows with a stick of dynamite attached, submachineguns, assault rifles, 40mm grenade launchers and LAW rockets.
When they stopped, Kargo was nowhere to be found. All that could be seen was thick vine-festooned jungle upriver and downriver. Thick forest on the other side of the river had swallowed the ruins of Baton Rougee. There was a wide brown river in between. A few rusted girders and stained concrete pylons poked out of the water here and there, the remnants of bridges long-gone.
Marshall's Note: Anyone with a view of the river can make a Cognition check.
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