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Jungle Love

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Evil Dave:
You forgot the 'encounter' when we borrowed the owner of 'unique trucks' personal vehicle.   ;)

The box truck we stole ended up being on grid power, so I think that's why we ditched it.... and we ran into the start at the laudromat too...

I guess someone decided to call them, after we humped the dryer off it's mounts so we could short out the jeep with dealer tags on... and then we had to wait for a tow truck.

Ruski:
Many things about that run were... well planned.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

kv:
Anyway, after hiding in a broom closet for a while, Dante and Rusty finally got up the courage to stick thier heads out the door and see if anyone was still looking for them.

Seeing as how the general was dead, this place had problems of it's own, so they weren't actively looking for us as much as running around like a bee hive that's been kicked.

We snuck through the building, keeping out of everyone's way, and worked toward the compound we needed to get into (this military compound was divided into camps, each camp seperated by chain link and razor wire), and ran smack dab into a jeep patrol looking for us.

Apparently they hadn't given up as easily as we had hoped.

We fought, dove into the nearest building (still on the wrong side of the fence we needed to cross), and sprinted diagonally across the cafeteria to the furthest door, hoping they would either stop to follow up through that door, or at least circle around the building.

Dante stopped to try and pick up a bigger gun- something that we could take out the jeep with, but there were two 11 year old kids. Rusty continued to the other door, and Dante stopped to beat up the 'witnesses,' and then followed Rusty to the door, who determined that the jeep was trying to follow them around the building.

The 11 year old cooks fired an old rifle at Dante, which only made him more mad, so he beats the tar out of them, while Rusty is peeking his head out the door. Once it's clear we go back outside.

So we were out of the building, and then doubled back to the fence we needed to cross. Dante got across it easily- Rusty, on the other hand, didn't have any adept powers, and got climbing the fence by the guy who were chasing us. Dante started shooting, and Rusty dumped himself over the other side, taking another light wound.

We continued running from the guys in the jeep, sprinting into the camp we needed to be in (to rescue the scientist), and lost the jeep around the corner of a building. After a few minutes of sneaking around, running building to building, we finally find where the scientist is being held. The guy is sitting in a cell, next to two corpses, and he's nto far from a corpse himself. Malnourishment is pretty close to doing him in, and so I'm supporting him as Dante is fighting whoever we come across, and we're sneaking from building to building.

Around this time, we get word to the sniper and mage, who wind thier way back toward the camp, coming most of the way on foot.

The sniper hid out in some thick bushes, and the mage set up on a hill with a set of binoculars. About this time, Dante and I were feeling pretty good about ourselves. Not had we gotten in without getting killed, but we had managed to grab the scientist.

We had snuck through enough buildings to be close to the fences between camps, and without thinking, we walked out and directly into a patrol. Dante, moving as quick as he can (which is pretty fraggin fast) booted me out the door and slammed it behind me. This caught everyone by suprise, including me, and I dove through the crappy door, dragging the scientist along behind me. Dante was standing there when they started firing, and took a moderate wound, which made me feel a little better. We ran down the hall, hiding in the first room, trying to find some cover. I grabbed an AK-98 and watched the door while Dante tore up the roof, trying to find us another exit through the cheap steel roof they had bolted on these buildings. Come to think of it, the buildings weren't much more than piles of cinderblocks, so 'cheap' might have been the whole motif.

The troops caught up with us as Dante peeled the rusted steel back, and I unloaded a clip keeping them back. We switched, and I dragged the scientist up onto the roof while Dante gave us some cover fire, and I help support the scientist while we made our way to the edge of the roof. Dante had polished off all the troops inside, and climbed out onto the roof around the same time that the troops outside the building figured out what we were up to. They shot at him some, missing a lot, and he tried to step on the walls without falling through the roof, which he also missed. I reached out and dragged him over the edge, and we ran toward the gate, supporting the scientist between us.

There were a few guys at the gate, but by this point we weren't interested in being quiet or subtle or in keeping them alive, so we unloaded on them and bolted through the gate...

kv:
And found the fields in front of the compound filled with tanks and jeeps, circling and searching for the sniper and mage they knew were still out there.

The sniper instructed us to lie down somewhere and hide, and we found some long grass and did so, and then he started shooting jeep drivers and anyone else exposed. It wasn't long before everyone with thier head sticking out was panicking, and looking out more for thier own asses than they were at us.

This gave us an opportunity to make it into the trees and meet up with our fellow runners. We found our jeep, up to the axle in mud, and left it, taking what supplies we could and hiking back to our original jeep. We drove that to the extraction point, waited our time, and got home.

For once, it was a quiet endgame. We got paid, no fuss no foul.

Ruski:
actually, they were saved by running out of time to play.
I was going to run the extraction hot, and if their ride got shot down, they'd have to walk out of the congo.

but, it was close enough to the end that I didn't want to drag it out to another whole adventure, and decided to (for once) go easy on them LOL

-RuskiFace the Pirate

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