Twilight
2000
By
The Dawn’s Early Light
Motorized
Group
American Voice,
intercepted half way through...”the hell you say, I don't care if they know
that Captain Giles has organized a resistance movement, catch me if you can Ivan,
as for your request about Civ Govs Agent she hooked up with an outfit the
Russian's call O'Grady's Irregulers and believe me they've got Ivan pretty
pissed. Yes I know where they are hell no I won't tell you or anyone else in
HQ...” transmission fades. {OOC}
Anyone who was at the Rally Point recognizes the voice as belonging to Captain
Giles a Green Beret Officer from the 2oth SFG
In textbook English
with a Russian Accent "This Colnel Illyia Romanov commander of the 76th
Guards Airborne Division and heir apparent as the next Czar of Russia to the
American Stragglers under the command of Captain O'Grady 5th Div Mech. If you
surrender now and turn over the materials taken by American Spys you will be
treated fairly as POW's and exchanged at the earliest opportunity. If you
continue to flee and resist you will be treated as the Spies and Marauders some
say you are. Please respond on this frequency.”
Signal is very strong
American Voice Weak
Signal “Hey man you guys are making like to many negative waves mellow out...no
I’ll have the roast pork, not the baked chicken...where was I. Lighten up the
negative waves are like geting to intense and I really don’t want to get out of
my hammock, those tanks are so noisy and confined when we have to get in them.
The perimeter had erupted around O'Grady
as he dove for cover. Vehicles were exploding, and men were dropping like
flies. God help us all, he thought, as he searched for a target. Suddenly, he
felt a sledgehammer hitting him. He looked down to see an arrow protruding from
his chest. What the fuck, he thought in disbelief, I've been hit by a fucking
ARROW? Blood was streaming down his BDU's, as he struggled to sit up, his M16
slipping from his grasp. Everything around him took on a dreamlike quality, and
he felt detatched from it all, like watching a movie, Shock, he thought, I'm
going into
shock. Soon he realised that the firefight was over, as quickly as it had
started. Several of the vehicles were burning fiercely, and bodies littered the
compound. We've got to get out of here, he thought, and
tried to get to his feet. The effort was too much, and he slid to the ground
again. Snowden appeared at his side. "Captain, take it easy, just try to
rest", he said. O'Grady looked up at him. "The men", he
whispered, "how many?" Snowden looked at the ground. "It's bad,
sir. We lost Wilkins, Schwartz, and most of the new guys. We're still trying to
get things sorted out." O'Grady closed his eyes, and a single tear rolled
down his cheek."So many", he said, "so many." He slowly
reached down, and fumbled at the PPK in his waistband. "Take it", he
whispered, "it was Caswell's The bullets are hollow, there's info in
them."
He marshaled his remaining strength, and looked directly at Snowden. "You
are in command now. The men will need you to be strong. Promise me that you
will carry out the mission. Don't let all these men
die for nothing. Promise me!" The effort taxed him more than he realized,
and he started coughing up blood. Snowden's voice was choked with emotion,
"Don't worry, sir, the mission wil be carried out. I swear it will, on my
honor I swear it." O'Grady smiled, "Good man. I'm going to rest a
while, now." His
coughing started in earnest again.
EVERYONE WE GOTTA MOVE THESE SMOKE PALLS
ARE GONNA BE A BEACON TO EVERY BAD GUY AROUND!!!
CARMINE CHECK THAT HUMMER MAKE SURE SHE CAN RUN US OUT OF HERE!!! THE REST OF
YOU GRAB ANYTHING THAT LOOKS OF VALUE, THROW IT IN THE LAV. KIRBY GO OUT WHERE
LATHAM FOUND WILKIN'S GET HIS GEAR, HE HAD A MP5, THEN GET ON THAT BIKE, CHECK
IT FOR BOOBY TRAPS THEN GIVE US A QUICK RECON SCOUT SOUTH DOWN THIS ROAD A
COUPLE OF KLICKS OR SO, THEN COME "BACK TO MEET US
(OOC KIRBY MEC 50 MCY 70 DOES ANYTHING NOT
BELONG ON THE BIKE)LooksOK
WHITHERSPOON CHECK THAT 25 GUN'S YOUR CREW POSITION MOUNT UP
Third Platoon mechanized again ma’m
LATHAM HOW'S YOUR DRIVIN' SKILL? THIS LAV AIN'T NO CHIEFTAN, BUT SHE'S ARMOR
CAN YOU DRIVE HER? Beats walking
CARMINE YOU ARE DRIVING THAT HUMMER IF SHE'LL ROLL
Rolling
OMAR GROGGINS GET ALL THE WORTHWHILE GEAR YOU CAN FIND ON THE LAV AND HUMMER
NOW ONE OF YOU GUYS GRAB BENNET AND SIT HIM IN THE LAV'S CREW COMPARTMENT BELT
HIM IN !!! GROGGINS YOU'LL GUN ON THE HUMMER-not a clue about that peashooter
Sarge
Taking Suarez's handcuff's he dragged Bates into the LAV dressed his wound so
he wouldn't bleed to death, then he handcuffed Bates to the post underneath one
of the crew jump seats. He’s stable.
LAY O'GRADY ON THE BACK SEAT OF THE HUMMER, THAT WILL GIVE HIM THE SMOOTHEST
RIDE
DON'T USE ANY RADIOS UNTIL WE CAN CHECK EM' WHO KNOWS WHAT THOSE F**KERS>
> BOOBY TRAPPED
MOVE MOVE MOVE I WANT TO BE OUT OF HERE IN 15 MINUTES 30 TOPS
WE ARE GOING TO MOVE 10 KLICKS OR SO SOUTHEAST (POINTS TOWARD DISTANT FORREST)
AND TRY TO FIND A PLACE TO SORT THIS STUFF OUT. WE HAVE A SAFE HAVEN (HOPEFULLY)
WITH FATHER ARAMIS IN KLUCZBORK WHICH IS A FURTHER 30KM.
Latham reappears from the foliage with his
pack slung across one shoulder and walks over to were Wilkins lay. There's not
much left of him, or Belloch. The frag grenade had tore them up pretty good.
Latham drops the pack on the ground beside them before stooping to check the
bodies. He knows it's a formality, but he checks the artery in his neck all the
same. To his surprise he finds a pulse. Faint, but still a pulse. Latham's
helmet comes off and his ear goes straight to Wilkins mouth . There's a breath
and a whisper. Latham looks him in the eyes. "I can't hear. Say
again." But this time there's nothing, just the mans dying breath. He sits
back on his heels and replaces his helmet on his head. He looks across at
Belloch. There's no doubt about him. The complete left side of his heads
missing. Someone's shouting the camp calling out names, trying to work out who
still on their feet. Someone needs to take control of this chaos and soon.
We've just made a shit load of noise and the smoke coming off the burning
wrecks will tell every hostile for miles around exactly where we are. Best
thing we can do is get the hell out of here. And quickly
The camp looks in complete disarray. 'This
is not good.' Latham quickly searches the two bodies. There's a line between
taking what's needed and scavenging from the dead and since escaping his
chieftain with nothing but the clothes, he's been treading this line pretty
closely. But this situation is different. These two have got buddies not twenty
yards away. Strip searching the bodies wouldn't be PC at this moment. Ammo,
batteries, map, compass: Although he suspects this stuff will be safely stowed
away aboard one of the burning vehicles.
He checks up every couple of second, until
he's finished. After half a minute he stands and shoulders his pack again.
Things aren’t getting any better. One guy over by the LAV, someone else is
checking the other corpses, and a couple on guard. What happen to O'Grady?
Latham heads across to where he last saw
him and finds Snowdon crouched over the captain. There's a massive stab wound
in his chest. It looks like it goes all the way through. "Jesus. Any of
your guys medics?" Latham isn't one (MED 20) but he'll help as best he
can. "There's two death over there. One of em' popped a frag grenade and
took em both out. I think one of them belongs to you lot. Don't know the other
one." When there's nothing else he can do he looks around at the burning
vehicles. "Shit! Nothing like making a mess of things is there. I'm gonna
check out the Hummer, make sure it still runs. Someone needs to pull you guys
together and now. While I was out there watching you lot earlier. I saw someone
else and I don't see them now. Chances are our marine friend weren't
alone.".
*****SSGt Snowden is going to take command
until a replacement comes along. We are going to pursue the original objective
just like O'Grady wanted.*****
The ride was hard and bumpy. They hadn't dare try to
remove the quarrel. Snowden had imobilized it and stopped the bleeding. O'Grady
thought he must be halucinating because the compartment was now bathed in a
very bright light and two figures stood before him. One was an old man silent
in a black robe carrying a sickle, he gestured with one hand to come, the other
was a beautiful young women in metallic armor and carrying a sword, who shook
her head as she said, James do you want to live forever? {OOC}
O'Grady knows he's hurt bad
Captain O'Grady was suddenly very conscious and appears to be hallucinating,
either that or he was talking to to the side of the vehicle.
O'Grady's condition is getting worse. Snowden knows he needs a surgeon and
field hospital at the bare minimum to survive. The quarrel has been immobilized
and the bleeding stopped but he doesn't dare remove it as it is very close to
the heart.
Well, CPT, I don't mean to bore you with
my life story, but if I can make ya smile over some of the weird things that
happened to me in my miserable excuse for a life, it'd be my pleasure,
Sir." Johnny had only two questions at this
point -- What could he tell the CPT, and not have the man despise him, and What
could Carmine leave out, and still have
anything to say? Well, the CPT was different, he was a decent guy, so he was
gonna get the unvarnished truth... The
events were never far from Carmine's mind, so the story went on, and on, and
on...
"... so after Mom was gone, I went into foster care, hated it, and
eventually left. Lived on the streets of Philly
since I was 12. Did some legwork for a few guys who I'd like to forget, bought
my first UZI when I was 14. I had to!
The streets of
Philly could chew you up and spit you out unless you had a piece to protect
yourself. Used it a coupla times, mostly
to scare the hell out of others living on the streets. Never stayed around to
see if I hit anything..."
"... got picked up hotwiring a car. But not just any car. A beautiful pale
blue Mercedes. Unfortunately, this one was
owned by a Federal Judge, and I was headed for juvenile hall. Guarenteed, that
UZI in my jean jacket didn't help things
at all. Kinda PO'd him when I launched into "Jeremy's spoken, clear as the
day..." during my sentancing. He fined me
for contempt, but then realized all my cash was confiscated, so, hey!... At the
last minute, some social worker stepped
in, and had me placed in a "special" program in sleepy Blossburg, PA.
Where the hell's that?, I asked. Don't worry,
son, it's farrrr away from Philly..."
"How ya doin' CPT. Are ya bored to... sleep yet?" Carmine checks the
man...
"The Program was somewhere between the Outward Bound experience, and a
Boot Camp. The "campers" learned to rise early,
cook, clean, make beds, study, excercise, and lights out by 10PM. It was pure
hell."
"...so when the Parole Officer came looking, I was already on the
Appalachian Trail, headin' south to New Orleans..."
"Well, I got careless and was picked up by a Ranger while trying to break
into a Park Service Fire Tower during that
bad-assed cold winter of 1996. Never thought Louisiana would be that cold.
Spent a few weeks in jail, but by then,
the War was beginnin' to heat up. Hey, I still would've preferred the cold of
the winter, when I heard the judge had
something "special" in store for me. I'd heard that one before, and
could hardly wait..."
Carmine continued telling the story, staying away for the War. He checked the
CPT while he drove, and kept a third eye
on the road for trouble...
(On LAV radio) "Romanov this is Captian O'Grady of the United States Army,
We've had enough and are pulling back west, with the rest of our forces to
Germany. As to material taken by American spies? You mean this US Marine Corps
equipment your spies stole that we reappropriated? We'll be using it to get
back to Germany...if you ever get to America drop me a line, O'Grady out."
I don't want to use our radios at all, not to respond to this or ANYTHING.
Those Russians fiddled with them and whoever is looking for us I am sure they
can monitor our transmissions. Until we can 'resecure' our radios, I don't want
them used for anyhting save extreme emergency.
Green Beans know where we
are...don't suppose they'd come round with a sneak a couple of M1s to us to
help out. These radios seem to pick up just about everything...agian they
probably give out everything at least to the Russians, so stay off them till we
can find someone with commo skills to resecure them.
Snowden to Latham
When things went to hell at Kalisz, the only thing we were interested in was
staying alive. I didn't know any of these guys just jumped on a fleeing truck
and the rest is history. One of these guys, a woman actually was a CIA spook.
She guided us to a priest in Ostrow for safe haven. The Safe haven went to hell
she and several others were killed, but we learned some things...She had a mission
that had gotten screwed up and basically recruited us to
help her. The US is pulling out of Europe, next fall, from the German port of
Bremerhaven. The Russians have several nuke missiles ready to strike
Bremerhaven. They
will wait till US troops have gathered, and I'm assuming lots of Brits too.
They will end the US threat with a few well placed bombs. They could kill
thousands. They Russians, although in posession of the nukes, can't set them
off. They were on something called the 'Barracuda' I assume that is a sub, but
we don't know for sure. Someone took their codes that would permit the missiles
launch. For some reason no one knows how to fire these missiles without the
codes. We have info that says the codes are in Chestachowa. Now all of the
original members of O'Grady's Irregulars are dead, save Carmine and me. Besides
us two you now are the only one who knows about this. The Russians know as
well. There is this crazy Russian commander who is attempting to set himself up
as the new Czar.The codes are hidden with a Catholic icon 'the Black Madonna'
which is a old painting of the virgin mary, one of the holiest items in all of
Poland. I visited a shrine to it in St.Louis when I was young; this would give
him power over all of Poland.
A Spetznaz detachment of the 1109th
has been sent to get those codes. Hopefully we just wiped them out, that's who
those "marines" were. They
are bound to have more than one group looking for the codes. Again I hope they
are behind us. We are going to Kluczbork because we have a contact there. A
Catholic priest named Aramis. We don't have any use for the Black Madonna,
other than to sell it to the highest bidder, and I'm just not that kind of guy.
If this Father Aramis has good ties, we can use it to bargin with, we turn it
over to the Catholic Church. May be that would sort some of this mess out, it
would give the Catholic church power over most of the Polish people, and may be
get Poland on track to start rebuilding. We want the codes to stop the nukes,
so we'll head into Kluczbork, hope the people there can get O'Grady help,
because I don't think he'll make it any farther. Then Olesno, Dobrodzien,
Lubliniec and then Chestachowa where we
start looking for our objective. We are still 100 klicks at least away, time is
of the essense, but with Russians crawling all over we can't move that fast
anyway.I know Britian is in as bad shape as the US. Carmine and me don't have
anything to go back to, no family, no home. So we decided to make sure that the
guys who want to get back home, can. I'm sure there would be lots of British
casualties if some nukes drop on Bremerhaven. I hope you can see our peril and
decide to help us out. That LAV's driver's seat is calling you, how bout a
Union Jack or a little aircraft roundell painted on your hatch?
No lies here, our lines are that way
(pointing west) and we are going that way (pointing SE) Those were O'Grady's
last orders to me and I'm gonna see them carried out, even if it's just me
going on foot.
I just want to move away from the
general area. Establish a night encampment watches will be as follows;
2000-2300 Carmine, Omar, Snowden (up attempting to stabalize O'Grady)Snowden
then makes sure Bates doesn't bleed to death. I'd like to try to
get some info out of him.
2300-0200 Latham, Groggins
0200-0500 Kirby, Whitherspoon
0500 everyone up prepare to move at first light. Make sure we pick up
EVERYHTING, I don't want to leave any thing behind. Check all dead especially
the Marines for papers/documents/valuables-Lots of Star Trek Novels.
The other motorcycle (sidecar) survived Groggins was the driver, I was gonna
assign him to gun on the FSV (I had mixed up chain gun with minigun) Groggins
can move the Bike
Latham puts getting a few hours shut eye the first priority after the new camps
established and secure. When your alone out there you tend not to sleep, you
don't even catnap, not really. Every sight, every sound and SNAP! You're awake,
It's like living on a razor edge. 'Glad I ran into this lot' Latham mutters to
himself and he pulls his sleeping back up to his chin. 'Don' know how much
longer I could have kept going.' "Latham!" It took three goes before
the boot registered. "Latham! It's 2300 you're up." He wakes in total
confusion and takes a couple of seconds to separate the LAV, Carmine and the
dream from each other.
"LATHAM!"
"Yeah, I'm with it. Just give us a second to get it all together." He
wipes his hand over his face and gathers himself up. "You're Carmine
aren't you? I saw you working on the Hummer earlier. If you ever need a hand
keeping it or any the other vehicles running just give me a shout."
"I'll remember that, thanks. Snow want's to know if you can handle the
chain guns on the Hummer."Latham checks his webbing and CAR then heads out
of the LAV. Carmine grabs his arm as he passes. "Latham, the chain
gun?" "Yeah I can use it. I'm not that hot, but I know how it works.
Tell him I'd prefer to drive, but at the end of the day it's down to him. He is
acting CO." He breaths in a lung full of the warm night air. "Quiet
night so far?" He leaves Carmine to get his head down and goes to find
Groggon to set up the sentry parameters. Latham will establish the silent watch
system he's use to with the tanks. Keep everything quiet and still. Watch,
listen, observe. The last thing we want is someone paying attention to us so on
my watch no-one will. "Groggon, if you see anything report it in. Don't
fire unless you are in immediate danger." If the previous watch has dug
fox holes-YEH RIGHT- we'll use them. If not we'll improvise-Yup
If we spot anything, it's wake
everyone up as quietly as possible. That unless the shooting starts again. At
just befor 0200 Latham heads in to wake Kirby and Whitherspoon and report
on the watch. Them it's back to Dreamsville for a few more hours. After that
it's the usual hygiene routine and weapons cleaning before we move out.
Depending on Snowdon's decesion Latham's either driving the LAV or manning the
Hummer' gun. He'd prefer the LAV, but if he's stuck in the Hummer it gives him
a chance to get to know Carmine.
We are going to proceed SE to Kluzcbork at first light. Hopefully our contact
Father Aramis will be able to give us safe haven and possibly some help for
O'Grady.
"You talk a convincing tale, Snow.
We'd heard rumours about you lot pulling out. Our CO was pretty close to the
Germans. The word is they're not to happy about it." He takes a knee among
the cover of a group of trees. "I got family back home. My mum and Dad
still live near Nottingham and I've got a sister over here somewhere. Last I
heard she was in German, which would put her pretty much in the firing line of
those nucs. That's if those nukes exist." He sighs. "It's a bit like
religion isn't it. There's no real evidence to support the existence of God,
therefore no real reason why anyone should believe in him. Yet thousands file
into church every week just in case. There's nothing to say those nucs are
there, yet can we afford to take the risk?" The question was hypothetical
and Latham didn't expect and answer from Snowdon. When he looks across at him
he could tell the sergeant had read him pretty good. "I don't want a
roundall, I'm not one of those Airforce pukes. I'll let you put a Union Jack on
the LAV providing my regiment badge goes next to it. Don't care what you lot
say, The King's Hussars rule. Now are we gonna find D'Artagnon before the
captain gets any worse?"
2400-0100 move away from burning vehicals,
radio intercepts show that people will be looking for us both good and bad.
We've got something they want. I don't think we've realized what it is yet. We
are going to Kluczbork because we have a percieved safe haven there. We lost 3
people (Caswell, Szymas, Gonderenko) in order to establish contact
with these Polish preists. The priest in Ostrow said we'd have good passage to
Kluczbork where we could meet Father Aramis. Right now we need to sort things
out and we have an idea that Kluczbork will give us shelter.
Our other option would take us along a
major highway, good for travel, but bad for encounters. This would be more direct
route to Chestachowa (our destination) This route runs along the Warta River.
The Warta seems to be the 'front lines' I'm worried about Russian garrisons (to
protect river crossings) in Wielun.We also have radio intercept about Polish
10th trying to cross a river We know the 124th MRD and a Combat Engineer Bn was
at Sieradz. If they are intent on wiping out 5th Div they may be using that
Highway (through Zloczew, toward us) I'm worried we'd run into them. We've put a delay into the 1109th getting to
Chestachowa before us. They will (hopefully) assume we are taking the most
direct route E and will look for us
there. We will not be there. We will use our contact in Kluczbork (that we paid
for with personel) and hope they have the facilities to assist O'Grady. We
could actually leave him there, complete our mission, and get him on the way
back out. From a humanitarian stand point the Russians have a field hospital at
Ostrow, we killed a bunch of them there so I'm not so sure if we returned and
said "help our wounded" that they'd be sympathetic. That would also
let the 1109th get to Chestachowa ahead of us.
We'll do a visual on the town spend
a half hour or so looking for enemy or town defenses that might cause a
problem. Latham and Snowden will venture into town to try to contact Aramis
everyone else will establish defensive positions with vehicles.Carmine will
give the vehicals a little TLC while we are away Everyone will give a going
over of our equiptment especially radios looking for stuff that's not supposed
to be there. "Okay Sergeant, Now we're alone, what's the story. Why
Southeast and not west?"
We
are going to proceed SE to Kluzcbork at first light. Hopefully our
contact Fr. Aramis will be able to give us safe haven and possibly some help
for O'Grady. This is a list of people and where I will assign them. In the
morning we will find out if this will change. I can see Groggins and Lt.
Bennent leaving with the bike/sidecar/M60. Groggins seems to have the pack
mentality and wants to hang with you guys for now. Lieutenant Bennet seems to
recovering from the Shock/ PTSD
O'Grady wounded in FSV
Bennet (he had had the breakdown) if he's better put him in the sidecar
Groggins driving bike sidecar
Omar watching Bates in LAVs troop compartment
Bates wounded handcuffed in Lav troop compartment
Snowden commander's hatch LAV
Kirby scout bike
Carmine driving FSV
Whitherspoon gunning LAV
Latham driving LAV
If Latham has LCG we'll transfer some 25 ammo to FSV and he can gun it
We'll try to make an 'ambluance' in the back of the LAV.
Kluzcbork is 50 Klicks SE moving cautiously we should make it in a hour or
so. We'll stop several klicks outside of town. Snowden speaks Russian and
German (50 each) Aramis (our contact) is French anyone know French or
Polish? No one seems to be speaking up.
Latham and Snowden will venture into town to try to contact Aramis everyone
else will establish defensive positions with vehicles. Carmine will give the
vehicles a little TLC while we are away. Everyone will give a going over of our
equiptment especially radios looking for stuff that's not supposed to be there.
Hopefully Aramis will have a safe haven for us to hole up for a little while
(we should have a few trade items, some guns,etc...)
As darkness decends it will be a good idea to stop. We'll set quick defensive
positions, I'm not sure we have any NVG left. Kirby has a 25image intensifier
which will give some help as to an encampment.Does Latham have LCG skill?
Whitherspoon has been our 25 gunner, from what I know of the LAV they're like
driving a bus so we'll need two guys with LCG fot both our 25mms. Everyone is
drained from action so we'll try to get everyone a period and a half of rest.
At first light I want to reassess situation, as to Captain's condition and
equiptment. gear is fine but he looks a lot weaker and is running a high
temperature. Whether or not the NPCs will stay with us. Nobody seems to have
bugged out. Al (Snowden tells Latham when we stop) We are looking for
something, I'll
elaborate on it when we have some time...but the lives of alot of allied
soldiers depend on our completing this mission. As you know things are really
f**ked up, and I wouldn't blame you if you want to head west to try to link up
with friendliess. We need competent soldiers. If you don't know the US is
pulling out of Europe I haven't heard what the Brits are doing, but our mission
is to ensure the guys who want to get back to the states do, even if that means
we don't go with them.
Snowden climbed atop the LAV and
took up residence in the commanders position "How's she Latham?
Whitherspoon ? " Like an old calvary picture he yelled MOVE OUT! and swung
his good arm pointing to the South east, quickley feeling embarassed at the
hackneyed action he almost blushed...then the wounded arm bumped against the
hatch as they lurched away, and the pain made him forget his action....
Jesus, It John Wayne!" Latham chucks to himself moving the LAV out
onto
the road. Through the cracked mirror he watches the Hummer fall into line
behind. It's not quite dark yet, but not really light enough to see clearly
either. Latham's eyes are tired due to the lack of sleep of the past week and
he could real have done with switching on the lights. But that would be like
switching on a fluorescent sign saying 'We're here!' He pushed on steadily,
watching every tree, bush, potholes. Occasionally to the mirror to check the
Hummer is still we them. Everything is just a huge mass of grey shadows. There
could be a T-80 hidden in the trees up a head and we'll not see until we drive
past. "Snowdon. You got you eyes open?" He asked through the
interphone.
{OOC} The bike should be 2Ks ahead on the Kepno - Kluczbork road.
I'm taking it any serious obstruction would be reported back by radio or the
bike coming back towards up.So the only trouble we're likely to hit would be a
drive through ambush.
If we run into such trouble Latham will punch through with the LAV and hope
the Hummer is close enough behind to make use of the hole. If they can't it
depends on whether they still mobile. If yes, hopefully they'll already have
drawn up a regrouping plan from previous encounters Latham will check this out
with Snowdon they stop. If no. Latham will swing the LAV around, remembering
she isn't a tank and can't turn on a dime, and play at being the US Cavalry
(Gez, John Wayne again. This guy gets around).
{BIC}
Latham spots the bike at the road junction
ahead. Kirby is still sat astride it. He looks as twitchy as hell, but relieved
to see us.. "Snowdon, road forks up here. You want to go left or right?
Looks like the main road heads to the left. Do you want to stop here or push
on?"
Snowden had been at war a long time
and he realized until O'Grady got better (hopes) he was ranking party member.
{OOC} I'm gonna assume we lost everything
on all vehicals that blew up ,which includes my HK CAW/ ammo . Snowden needs a
replacement weapon. If my wounded arm prevents me from firing a rifle I want
one of those Skorpion Machine Pistols (several available)
I'd also like to know what kind of arms we gathered from...
Crench / Wilbane / Gonzolez / Belloch {GM check prior turn results for their
weapons}
I want Kirby carring Wilkins MP 5 incase he needs to perform combat from the
motorcycle. I want to move the convoy to rendevouz with Kirby on the bike about
2klicks
then go over plans with him. We will move into the woods between here (Kepno)
and Kluczbork, find a sutable bivouac area and go over vehicles, and whatever
gear we have aquired in order to re-assess our situation. After everyone had
collected what they could, they lifted O'Grady into the back of the Hummer.
"Captain stay with us, we have to move, Carmine keep talking to the
Captain for the entire ride tell him anything keep his
mind from going off, tell him about your childhood, tell him about Philly, tell
him about how to field strip the M60 anything just keep talking.
Latham and Snow studies Kluczbork from the safety of the wood. They search for
the building most likely to be the monastary. As well as take the time to
assess the extent and circumstances of the population along with it's defensive
capability. We don't want a stand up fight again, and neither do we want to get
mobbed as liberators.
At Kluczbork
Presuming the town has lightly or no
defences (none visible or obvious) Latham & Snowden will enter on foot and
head towards the monastery. All contact with military and civilian population
will be avoided until reaching the monastery. If contact occurs
1, Evade and Hide
2, talk and negotiate (Friendly, but carious)
3, Run and Hide
4, Fight and Flee.
Stop several klicks outside of town (0800) Don't use radios!!! Snowden and
Latham will move into town. Every hour turn on 50km radio. If you can come into
town Snowden will broadcast "We are getting out of here and heading to
Wroclaw" Wroclaw is a town to our west, I hope to confuse anyone listening
into thinking we are fleeing. DO NOT answer, just move into town.
Al; Latham and Snowden will observe town and try to get to church with the
fewest possible run ins with inhabitants. I'm hoping that at the mention of
Aramis name and Gankowitz (priest from ostrow) that they'll be friendly.
Snowden and Latham are guided to a church by an old woman. Inside they
meet Father Aramis who tells them to leave their guns at the door.As we ask for
help, The priest says not a good idea, he tells Latham to stay by the front
door and for Snowden to accompany him to the alter. Upon reaching the alter
Latham observes a Russian Officer (no weapon) emurge from a side door, Snowden
and him speak calmly, after several minutes an American female officer and a
Russian Partrooper emurge from behind the Russian Officer. Some more calm words
then Snowden calmly turns and walks back to
Latham. "Grab you rifle calmley and walk out the door we have alot to
discuss as
our situation has just turned again."They walk out the door Snowden
extends the radio antenna "We are returning to camp, take defensive
positions, If you see anyone besides us, fire
warning shots, but we are temporarily on good terms with the Russians"
(Latham) They emerge back into the daylight and head off back towards the
vehicles. Once clear of the church Latham glances across at Snow. "Okay,
what's the story with the Russians and American?"
(Snow)
The Russian officer I was speaking to was Major Gregon..The guy who is chasing
us. He knows where we are, who we are, he knows O'Grady is seriously wounded by
a quarrel, he knows where we are going. He offered us surgical help for
O'Grady, info on POWs used as slave labor by marauders we could rescue and
passage out. For the info we have.... I got to get back to the camp and go over
some of the facts, and see if O'Grady
is okay....
(Latham)"Wow up a minute! I thought you told me Gregon the man in charge
of the
Spetznaz unit we got the LAV from. And the American? Is she another 'Red
Marine? " Latham pulls Snowdon to a halt once among the cover of the trees
outside the town. "Snow, how did he know O'Grady is as bad as he is?
Earlier I told you I saw someone else sat outside the camp when I walked in.
From where I was hiding I could tell
who got hit, but there was no way by what.
If Gregon knows O'Grady's been hit but a crossbow, then someone's told him
.Also, how come he's here waiting for us?" He take a quick look around to
make sure no-one is close enough to here. "Maybe it's just my paranoia,
and being the new guy around here, that's still running a little high at the
moment. But, I think we've got someone feeding this Russian hourly updates on
us."
(Snowden)
They took a few strides before Snowden spoke..."Yeah, they either got
someone inside, or they're so close around us. I've never dealt with this kind
of crap before, I'm a platoon sergeant, I am given objectives, and I decide the
best way to accomplish them without
loosing any of my men. Now I have to make a critical decision. That was Major
Gregon of the 76th Guards Airborne. He is the guy who's chasing us, I too
believe we've got a spook in our midst, or they are on us like shadows. The
Russian Airborne trooper in there was a surgeon, Gregon was offering his services.
We have a little info that he wants. I don't know who the US officer was, but
he asked about a specific member of our party Sergeant Whitherpoon, asked if he
knew a Lt. Pricilla Mathews, I assume that was her. Whitherspoon's been with us
a while. We saved him when he was being pistol whipped by a couple of Russians.
He's fired alot of 25 off our Fire Support Hummer, and killed alot of Russians.
If he's the mole then he's REALLY undercover. It's not Carmine either he's the
only original member of O'Grady's Irregulars except me. If it's anyone I bet
it's that L-T Bennet. Omar seems too gang like to be a Russian, and he was crew
on the hummer that they blew up with a booby trap. Groggins is carying an M14,
I know this war ate up alot of material, but that's a museum piece, I'm worried
Bennent maybe his driver Groggins too, used his poker face while his buddies
were gettin' shot. They were wantin' to get
back to HQ, now they are taggin' along with us?
<<<OOC When they get half way between the town and our camp>>>
Snowden reaches into his shirt, pops the clip out of the PPK, leaves the PPK
inside shirt. Reaches for his own pistol. Hopefully if anyone is watching us,
it will look like he's checking the magazine on his Beretta>>>Latham
sees Snowden fumble inside his field jacket and remove something, then reach
down and pulls his own pistol.
"Latham keep an eye out I've got to check something" Snowden sits
down
<<<OOC using my Gerber multi tool and Gunsmith 50 examine bullets
would like to find out how data is stored and discoveres it microfilm with a
small magnifier in the holster.>>>>
"Latham, Gregon says he will not let the nukes fly, something in me
believes him. He seems like an honerable man. But if I'm wrong, and I give him
what he wants just to save O'Grady's life, and those nukes fly....I don't want
to even think about it."
When we return to camp ask Whitherspoon about Lt. Mathews. Who is Lt Mathews to
you?" She was my Platoon Leader, missing in action and most likely dead.
In a lower voice I know some of the guys think I’m crazy because I still talk
to her; but she was my L-Tee it was my job to look out for her. I remember him
having a picture out on his station of the FSV. Is the woman I saw at thechurch
her? Most definitely.
O’Grady to everyone’s amazement while
still weak as a kitten was conscious and asking for Snowden. Snowden reported
to the C.O. and gave him a SITREP:
---------CURRENT
Situation------------------------------------------
Light wooded area outside Kepno, headed SE toward Kluczbork
---------CURRENT TRAVEL PLANS----------------------------------------
Find area to regroup then head to Kluczbork
---------CURRENT GROUP-----------------------------------------------
Captain O'Grady Intel M16 (launguages, INT)Critical wound
SSgt Snowden Infantry HK CAW (MED, CRM)
Cpl Joshua Kirby Infantry M249 (CRM, IF, FO, MTC)
Cpl Latham Brit Armor
Cpl Carmine US Mechanic M60 (WVD, SCR, MEC)
Sgt Whiterspoon Arm Cav (NPC) AKM (TVD LCG)
Lt Bennent NPC has had breakdown
PFC Groggins NPC M16
Cpl Omar infantry NPC M14
Ivan Bates (serious wound) Spetznatz captive
---------IMPORTANT PEOPLE (Friend or Foe)-----------------------------
MAJ. Gregon (FOE): 1109th Signal Co. Spetnaz detachment going for
Black Madonna (This will be our primary adversary, we need
info on 1109 strength and numbers) 1109 started campaign in
woods N of Kalisz. We have 50 klicks on them
COL. Illia Romanov (FOE): Gregon has been ordered by Romanov to
retrieve Black Madonna so he can use it to become Czar
Father Gankowitz (FRIEND): Priest at Ostrow, we spoke with, he gave
us contact Aramis and outline of Black Madonna situation.
Father Aramis (FRIEND): Priest at Kluczorbuk, French, decendent of
the Musketeer Aramis
-------------IMPORTANT INTEL--------------------------------------
10th Polish Tank Div: may be heading our way (7/19)
OSTROW: heavily controlled by 14st Air Assult Div. Armor and seasoned
troops. Also Hospital and repair facilities (7/22)
POZAN: last know HQ for IX corps (our Divisions HQ) pulling out (7/22)
1109th Signal Co. (detachment of Spetznaz from it going for Black
Madonna) Started capaign in woods North of Kalisz (7/21)
-----------OTHER INTEL--------------------------------------------
Piotrkow; Soviet 4th HQ (7/19)
Lodz; 20th TD rear echelon (7/19)
Sierdz; 124th MRD (7/19)
Sierdz, bridge by; 110th CBE (7/19)
Turok; 89th Horse Cav (7/19)
Konin, bridge by; Polish Guerrillas w/ 2 T34 (7/19)
-----------VEHICAL INFO----------------------------------------
HUMMER FSV
Travel 200/60
combat 50/15
fuel cap 90
fuel cons 30 (currently 90 on ethanol)
fuel lvl 90 L full tank
Mnt 2
Wear 5
Break 5
last maint done 5/21
hours done 2
good until 5/28
load 1000kg
current 100kg
25mm chaingun
(D) Cpl. Carmine (G)PFC Omar (P) O'Grady laying in back seat
50km secure vehical radio
chemical sniffer
Gieger Counter
4 man tent
1 2km hand radio
Extra Cargo Cap. 900kg (usually for ammo)
LAV 25 (USMC markings)
travel 180/70
combat 45/20
fuel cap 290
fuel cons 70 (currently 70 on diesel)
fuel lvl 280 full tank
maint 6
wear 3
break
last maint done
hours
good until
Load 2000kg
current kg
(D) Cpl Latham (G) Sgt. Whitherspoon (C) SSgt. Snowden
(P) Groggins (gaurd) Bates (handcuffed) Bennent (crazy)
50km secure radio with boosters and antennas
Kawasaki 500 Army Scout Bike
Travel 190/75
combat 45/20
fuel cap 16
fuel cons 8 (currently 24 on ethanol)
fuel lvl 16 L full tank
Mnt 2
Wear
Break
last maint done
hours done
good until
(D) Cpl Kirby
One ton cargo trailer Trailer
cap 500 L fuel balder full of diesel
current
mnt 1
wear
bkdown
last maint
hours
good until
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ADMINISTRATIVE
Can't say for sure if
O'Grady will make it or not, that depends in large part on the actions of the group.
In a worse case scenario though I do have a local House Rule that applies when
the C.O. bought it, command was passed to another player, to give everyone a
chance to see what its like and to shake up what we used to call the sheep
syndrome.
Hey Gunther we've all been talking and
would like Ed to continue to
lead, whether it's O'Grady or another CO>George
It has come to my attention
that we might need a new leader and Ed won't be able to hold the CO position
because of a house rule that gives others a chance to
be in command. While I think the rule is great, I personally don't want to hold
a command position right now and would like it if Ed continued playing CO, if
he wants to.
GM can’t fault anyone for loyalty
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Skies clear temperature warm mid 60’s.
Turn Ten will cover 1800-0600 24 July and is due due Saturday Midnite EST 17
February
