Liberating Army Surplus

Percy and Samantha have been planning to explore the military base that they found about 5 miles away. I'm not keen on solder-boys and I had my fill of their bases during my last encounter with them, but they say that this place is deserted.

( thinking it over )

Percy drove the Mustang. The roads were smooth enough until the last bit, when we were way outside town. Then they were rutted. It looked as though something with heavy treads had been driven in and out of the main entrance.

That was closed, and the whole base was fenced and secure. I cast the mojo and there were no human minds at all, just something that might have been an animal way over on the far side, probably outside the perimeter. Samantha and Percy were checking around the area and said they'd found a tunnel system. They took off through that and I just smoked in.

The place seemed completely deserted. There were rows of those huts that look like huge tin cans cut sideways, surrounding what I suppose was a parade ground. (Percy said that they were Nissan huts; ugly things.) Anyway. I made it about 30 at a rough count.

Samantha and Percy took long enough to get through those tunnels for me to wonder if they'd run into some kind of trap. When they did come out they looked a bit ruffled and I didn't bother to hide my amusement about it.

Liberating Army Surplus, 2

Percy and Sam and I had sat down and gone right through what we'd need and what each of us would be doing during the whole base-looting gig.

We'd taken heavy duty, insulated wire-cutters and Percy made short work of the barbed-wire fence with them. It seemed a good idea to be able to get the car inside if we wanted to load it.

We were supposed to keep together. One to go into a hut, two to make sure he came out - but the camp was dead. We found a room with maps - I gave those to Percy, he was carrying the gear anyway - but when we found duplicate bunches of keys it seemed a good idea to save time by splitting up. I took the west side of the camp.

Most of the huts there seemed to be offices. There was none of the stuff that we were after. Then I found the jeeps. I was checking them, but they seemed to have been disabled.

Percy and Samantha have the hot-wire mojo and I'd meant to ask one of them to show me how, it seemed simple enough. These vehicles had immobilising devices, though, and the gas-tanks seemed to be empty.

Gas was one of our major priorities, and I started to check anywhere that looked likely, searching for fuel drums.