Seaslip
Bob's Diary
What follows are extracts from the Diary of Jim "Bob" Carrington, edited for sake of consistency and clarity:
Large chunks of rambling incoherence were cut here, it's not the only place but this bit was so bad we had to mention it:
(10th Session): Index ; What the F*ck ; Body Count ; Who's playing Who ; What's been happening
November 30th 2013:.
I ran a couple of miles today (from the dragon corpse back to camp again) without doing myself much harm so I reckon I'm probably fully healed now, the last few days have been spent in Recon on the surrounding area, most of it was pretty dull, there are a few burnt out wrecks of trucks all pointing in one direction, away from the city, I don't blame whoever left them, with that many dragons in the city I'd leave.
It's funny, it's been thirty one days since the first Earthquake but things seem to have gone to hell fast, sometimes it almost seems like years ago, the only thing I have to say that it isn't is this diary, I'm pretty glad I've kept it now, maybe sometime it will provide a clue to what the hell's going on. If we ever get if figured out that is.
Oh yeah, the final bit of magnetism I picked up from the plasma cannon seems to have gone by now, someone needs to put a safety warning on that thing.
2nd December 2013:.
Spock noticed my plasma cannon was humming and thought hitting it with a hammer would help, it sparked and stopped humming so I guess it's fixed
3nd December 2013:.
We had some interesting events today, Pixie found a map, he says he was trying to visualise the area with some sort of ESP he's found he has when he passed out an a map full of scorch and burn marks of the area appeared in front of him in the ground when he got up, the local scenery was also flattened. Frankly this is the part that freaks me out the most, not that Pixie suddenly gets these weird supernatural powers or that he might be dangerous or something but that it might be happening to me too, ever since this all began everything seems different, it wasn't even noticeable at first but it's got worse, I can sense the things around me, the running of the water in a stream when I'm collecting the coffee water, the caffeine infuse my blood, the morning dew on the grass when I put my bare feet down to rest, I can even sense the bullets in the clips around my belt, that might come in useful. I don't know what's happening to me but I think it's happening to everyone, I was getting changed this morning when I suddenly caught a glimpse of Bitch doing the same, this isn't too much of a problem, when you've had to scum it like we have for the past year you get over getting to see your team-mates out of their uniform, only I didn't, there was a couple of tents between us, there was no way I could have even known she was there, but somehow I did, somehow I could sense her getting changes, going through the same monotonous routine as I was. The weird thing was when I came out after getting changed she did too and somehow I just looked at her and she knew, she just knew and she had done the same thing, it's weird. No one seems to want to talk about it but its there and it scares the hell out of me, I don't know what's real anymore, am I? right now I think the answer's yes. I miss Dad, he might have been a complete bastard but he would have known what to do right now.
Oh yeah the other bit of news, we found a family of people today, we took them back to camp and gave them some food and got some information out of them. Apparently things seem to be happening similar to NZ, I think they were holding out on us but I didn't want to press the matter, not after last time. The Suburbs seem to have settled down into a series of ganglands with various bands of armed thugs running territories and roaming bigger gangs causing trouble, just like the Tuzla, well that's a start, I remember how we did things around there. The dragons have taken the inner city as we suspected and the circle of destruction is present as always. In addition to all that we have news of a working jeep, there's a gang with a working jeep, it makes them pretty feared around the place. I want to go after it.
Once the family went to sleep for the night Bitch said she had to do something, mean while we have had the debate on what to do next, Blue wants to follow the exodus, maybe see if there's a community living out somewhere and maybe hook up with them. Frankly Blue can go fuck himself if he thinks I'll go along with that, I know what the chances of finding a nice happy town of people around here are, I remember the corpse grounds from Tuzla, it doesn't work. Besides I think Blue's afraid of the gang, from what we've heard they sound pretty tough but I remember how this goes, gangs like to act tough, beating up people smaller than them, getting each other pretty torn apart in stupid wars, Blue's been there, he's done the whole gang thing and he knows what it can be like from the inside but I've been here, I know what happens if you keep running from them. Put a professional soldier up against a bunch of street thugs and the soldier wins, put a professional soldier with a politician up against a bunch of genocidal street thugs and you have a peacekeeping mission that doesn't work, well, that's not going to happen here. Blue thought otherwise
In the end it boiled down to an argument between going and following the exodus supported by Blue and Bruce and going after the Jeep supported by me and Pixie, after much argument and brandishing of weapons we decided to leave it down to our illustrious leader Spock to make the decision. Spock looked thoughtful for a minute then picked up a coin and flipped it, "Jeep" he pronounced
4th December 2013:.
Bitch has disappeared, we've spent the day searching for her but she's gone, along with all her kit
10th December 2013:.
Its taken a while but we've tracked down the gang with the jeep, Bitch still hasn't turned up, I'm beginning to worry.
15th December 2013:.
Blue and Bruce came back last night, the gang seem to be harassing the local populace as we expected, word is that they have the ability to "summon" dragons, I wonder how big they'd look if they knew we could do the same. No sign of Bitch, I'm beginning to think she's not coming back.
19th December 2013:.
We went after the Jeep today, Pixie and Blue sneaked up to the fence while half of the gang were out on a raiding party and cut a hole in the fence, Bruce and Spock took out the sentries from long range with their rifles while I legged it across an open field and got the jeep running (why is it that everybody hides the key in the ashtray?, why is it that this jeep has cup holders?) it was at that point that our radio helmets ran out of power, all at once, I suspect more than simple coincidence, I also suspect the person who designed a HUD that blocks the user's vision completely when the power cells go but that's another story, needless to say we now have a jeep, and they said it wouldn't work
20th December 2013:.
I've been thinking back, Spock seems to be able to suck the life out of people, what if he can do it with guns too? what if he sucked the life out of my cannon when he hit with his hammer and it doesn't work anymore, there's only one way to find out.
Continued in Session 11....