Uneasy Alliances
When we last left off...
Game #9 6/01/14
Day 8
The early morning hours of day 8 finds AJ and Brock scouting out the Briggs nursery on the South Bank Road, thanks to a flyer AJ found the day before. It offered a bounty for "Spics, Slants and Niggers," with bonuses offered for children of said ethnic groups. This being an unquestionably wicked proposal, these two stalwarts could not stand idly by and allow this evil to go unpunished. So, they waited to gather intel in order to motivate their more standoff-ish counterparts into the realm of righteous indignation.
What they found was a sort of "collection point" for severed heads. Then, they witnessed someone dropping off a captive; none other than Janelle, the girl Doug had tried so hard to rescue from skinheads just a few days earlier. This time, however, she had her infant child with her, a two-fer for the dick-bag that had captured her this time 'round. With stern warnings from the flyer (and evidence to support the claims), AJ and Brock were reluctant to try and rescue the girl and her child for fear of incurring the wrath of one or more snipers keeping a scope on the collection point. They cooked up a plan to drop a tracking device (Draco's bracelet) onto the pickup vehicle.
When the vehicle showed up (a pickup, no less), the duo tracked it to an incongruous mansion located on the South Bank Road. The out-of-place edifice is located on a hill surrounded by several hundred yards of wide-open space, a perfect kill-zone in the case that a bunch of Aryan Brotherhood-types had appropriated the place from the hands of a pair of local homosexual lottery winners (which they completely did, 'cause they're dicks that way).
After their initial reconnoiter, AJ and Brock get the rest of the gang on board with turning over the Pershing clan's apple cart by staging a rescue of Janelle. Doug buys in and uses an assault drone to probe the backwoods of the estate, looking for a likely insertion point. What he finds, however, is completely unexpected.
A squad of men in power armor (eerily identical, in more ways than one, to the the men he encountered on Tiger Mountain) are laying in wait, giving every indication that they are about to assault the mansion, as well. Doug lays low with his drone, managing to avoid detection while the dudes in power armor position to advance. AJ and Brock draw up a plan to use their attack as a diversion under which they will stage their own insertion.
Their plans are stymied somewhat when one of the power armor guys draws a bead on them and opens up on Brock's truck as he hurtles across the killing field. The shot from the coilgun narrowly misses, however, only peppering the driver's side door with rocks kicked up by the near-miss. Brock whips a perfect bitch and rolls the tailgate of his truck up to the terraced staircase leading up to the front door of the mansion.
AJ leads the charge up to the front door while Brock covers his advance. Marie tries to follow after AJ, but a sniper armed with a stupidly high-caliber rifle almost ends her participation in this story right then and there. Brock provides some much-needed covering fire, giving Marie some much-needed safety.
As Marie hunkers under cover of the terraced approach to the front door, determined not to emerge until the way is made safe, one of the power armor guys rapidly advances from her flank. He uses some arcane power to calm her to almost a catatonic degree. While the strange interloper is soothing the beautiful academic who is way out of her element, Doug, the supposed boyfriend of said damsel-in-distress, swoops in by blasting an assault drone into the room of the sniper trying his damnedest to kill Marie. Doug unleashes one of the weapons on the drones he understands is not not the explosive missile, and finds it is horrifically lethal, anyway. The sniper is left in a puddle of quivering gore, having been perforated way more times than is necessary. At the top of the stairs, AJ wages a daring one-man assault, evidently unaware that none of his comrades are following close behind, backing him up...
Brock emerges from the bed of the pickup to verbally engage the trooper holding Marie under his spell. The man in power armor has the formidable Brock holding an assault rifle aimed at his unarmored noggin, while the other man holds a coilgun aimed vaguely in the direction of Brock. In the stranger's favor, he seems to be protecting Marie (in a strangely violating sort of way), even though he shot at Brock's truck just a moment ago. (to be continued!)
