Game Log - Week 31

October 1, Monday

The group is working to get ready for winter. About half the crew is involved in harvesting crops, while a few get the insulation and exterior finish on the main building, another few work on the hovercrafts. One person is always up in a tower on watch. After last week’s events, everyone was taking security more seriously. Most people now carried guns and went about their tasks in pairs.

On this day around mid afternoon, Kirk who was on watch spotted 5 pick up trucks rolling fast into the old farm yard. He sounded the alarm and got the big 50cal rifle. Stone took charge of the main group of farm workers, including Kellyanna, Yvan, Reko and John. They made a dash for the trees and hid there. Farmer Brown and the other workers who were closer to the “fort” started running there. Marko and the hovercraft construction crew grabbed their guns and ran for the fort too. Those inside the fort went around locking doors, and getting ready to fight.

Kirt shot the last truck, killing its engine, as the first truck broke open the gate. The bandits in the last truck were totally surprised, but those in the first truck were so focused they didn’t notice what happened to their comrades.

Over the next minute of intense combat a lot happened. Kirk methodically picked off the trucks, always aiming for the last in line. However he lost track of the middle truck, which took an unexpected turn down the center of the field, chasing after Farmer Brown. It was a shot from Kellyanna, killing the driver, which stopped the truck.

The gunfight between Stone’s group and two trucks full of bandits was nasty but short. All of one truck’s men were cut down in the first volley of fire. With one injured guy spending the rest of the fight cowering. The men from the other truck put up more of a fight, injuring Reko and Kellyanna. 

The lead truck, having made it into the pasture field next to the fort before having its engine blown out; encountered fire from Katerie, and Marko. After quick consideration of the situation, these bandits started their retreat for the wood line, however only one of them escaped.

Meanwhile the men from the truck in the corn field exchanged gun fire with Trielle and Farmer Brown, who were receiving support from the Grunt up in a tower. This fight dragged on with neither side scoring any hits until Katerie brought her hunting rifle into the action. Things quickly went down hill for these bandits as they made a charge instead of a retreat.

The last battle of the day was between Kellyanna and one of the escaping bandits, as she ran after him in the woods. Several shots were exchanged before she finished him off with a pistol round to the head.

As Yvan secured the prisoner, Stone and John went to investigate the first truck that had been hit down by the old farm house. They quickly found that those bandits had run off, mostly when the first volley of gun fire had started. The prisoner proved cooperative, because he was scarred out of his wits. He explained that he and his friends have come for the gold. “Everyone knows that you people are some kind of crazy cult, and if you got enough money to built this fancy fort you gotta have some gold hidden away for dooms day.” He said seriously.

After some debate over the prisoner’s fate, Stone pushes for the ‘let him go’ option. Although Kellyanna very much wanted to kill him, and maybe go after the families of all the bandits too, she allowed herself to go along with the group’s choice. So they sent him walking down the road with a message “We have no gold but we are ready to kill anyone who comes to rob us.”

From the dead bandits were taken 6 shotguns, 6 rifles and 6 pistols, with about two dozen rounds each. Most of the trucks suffered heavy engine damage, having been hit by a 50cal bullet, one truck suffered only light body damage, having its driver killed.

Doc spent some time patching up the wounded, while Marko and Scott dragged the trucks over to a scrap area. Katerie took charge of bodies, looting them, and then getting them ready for the funeral pyre.  

The big question that needs to be dressed next is; What shall the group do about its neighbors? a policy of isolation or one of interaction to build a strong local community.