Day 14c
Got my closer look, and then I decided
to camp out here until nightfall. The cars I saw and moved towards
are kind of piled up and tossed around together. More than a dozen
of them, all tumbled together and crushed together, enough damage and
rusted-out holes that I was able to get even closer than I thought,
and get myself worked into a nice little space to rest and wait for
dark.
Its a raider gang holed up in there. I
don't recognize the emblem on the banner hanging from their wagon
outside, but I know the look of the people. Its the look of a human
predator. Male or female, they're all armed, swaggering, violent. In
just the brief time that I watched them, I saw two separate fights
break out and get ended, and nobody else gave them more than a brief
glance. The banner's a simple section of cloth or hide with the
emblem painted onto it, looks like just a circle with three slash
marks diagonally across it. A pair of ladders have been set up to get
to the roof, a couple lookouts up there with rifles. Some more down
on the ground, most with close-quarters weapons. I've counted eight
of them, total. Two of the ones on the ground are staying near one
set of double doors, often signaling orders to the others or stepping
inside. I'm assuming that the boss is inside and the two at the door
are his lieutenants or seconds or whatever title they're using. I can
make out some firelight through the doors, but nothing else.
And again, they're staying to just one
end of the building. In fact, they seem to be watching the other end
of the place just as much as any of the rest of the area. They've
been there long enough to have also set up a few simple barricades.
Mostly just some thick branches, scavenged signposts, a car door,
things like that. Wouldn't really stop an attacker, but will cause
them to slow and zigzag a bit to get near. Unless, like I plan to do,
you want to sneak in unseen instead of doing damage as you go, in
which case you'd just have to leap them carefully. Oddly enough,
though, the barricades facing the rest of the building are more solid
than the rest, and have some spiky bits.
Not sure what all of that means, but I
have to admit that it makes me nervous. Especially since the old
mart...is in the direction that these are watching so closely.
Gotta take care of the problem I can
see, first. Even as I've been recording this, I've been siphoning off
some gas left in these old rust heaps. There's not much, but I've
managed to almost fill three old soda bottles I found in here. I love
plastic, shit lasts forever. I'm using the gas to rig up some small
firebombs. Hoping I can kill a couple raiders with each bomb, or at
the very least confuse and blind them so I can sneak close and finish
'em off easy.
