Smith says, "After we bury this guy, I will find a hotel near the central train station, saying I want to take the first train to India in the morning, should be able to find a place to crash. I would suggest one of you to crash near the port and the others near the airport where foreigners wouldn't bat an eye. Ward who is going a bit more hoity toity may want to find a business hotel in the center."
" I don't like the idea of splitting up. There's plenty of boarded up buildings, pretty sure there were some in the same block of the safehouse even. Is that an option for shelter?" Her eyebrows raise as she says her question with concern.
Wouldn't want to ruin Ward's cover. I would find a different part of town from the UN safe house and we could crash in an abandoned building. says Smith.
Smith relax no one is suggesting a return to the scene. I merely meant understanding what happened back there might be required for us to get in touch with our man. I wish we kept one of them alive for questioning. For now let's get these bodies underground. Did anyone find anything on them or at the two houses? Not sure what we gain by all of us staying at different places. I think Ms Better man and Mr. Moneybags should at least stay at the same hotel. I think I would look for a more down scale hotel near you two.
As he is talking Razor exits the vehicle and walks towards Natalie. He holds his hand out for Natalie's shovel.
Smith says, "I took their cameras which have film in them.We need to get these developed."
"Ah, good, we have something at least to work with."
"I would prefer to keep my cover, thank you. We should have enough to get a few nights of hotel, right?"
"But Smith is right, dumping the bodies should be first priority. Hell, if we had to, we could sleep in here for the night, though I'd rather not. I think Macomb has the best idea here, Nat and I getting hotel rooms at a nicer place, and Smith and him finding a lower-class place to stay in the area. But all I found at the scene was the ID card and some ammo." Jason hands the ammo to Smith. "Just in case you need it."
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Smith nods in agreement.
He then says "I will signal you with my mirror if I see a car coming in that direction. Nat or Ward I suggest you go in the other direction to signal Macomb to stop if someone comes from there. Whoever stays should give continue digging, so he can get some water and a break."
Smith unslings his Kalashnikov rifle and parallels the road but in the desert looking for a spot with a higher elevation and vantage point.
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"Nat's eyes are better than mine. I'll stay and dig, unless someone thinks it might endanger our cover?"
Natalie frowns, "I've got that rental contract too, may serve as proof that we knew of the man to al-Salahar , or if not him specifically, we can at least learn more about who he was if we visit the rental place tomorrow."
She looks a bit uneasy when proposing her wandering off down the lane in the desert at night, can't imagine why! "Alright, I guess I could play the 'car broken down' card if I need to."
She sighs, mussing up her hair some, and taking her heels off before she looks through her gear, 'Oh hey, my binoculars are still in here, no starlight vision or anything though. I don't remember asking for flares.." Natalie draws out a few of those items, as well as some chemical body warmers, and a pack of cigarettes, and some ration bars. She trails off for a moment, "I've got a flashlight too."
If that doesn't change the plan any, Nat'll go wander out into the darkness, and use her flashlight to notify if there's anyone coming.
You spend most of the night taking turns watching and digging the hole for the graves for the bodies that you were carrying with you.
You notice that dawn is starting to come when you finally finish putting them satisfactorily away. It is then that you notice a truck coming up the road. A red one, similar to the one you saw earlier.
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Smith eyes the truck from his vantage point. Puts the weapon into burst fire mode and waits to see if it is hostile.
Smith notices that the truck only has three people in it, two in the cab and one in the back. The one in back seems to be relaxing and not actively looking around.
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Jason hides behind the van and pulls his gun out.
Natalie starts to go inside the van, then pauses. "Right...not everyone here speaks Farsi...well this will be enlightening." She manages a distressed look as she 'feigns' anxiety over the van, as if it were broken. "Johnny, can you fiddle under the hood or something. Car trouble's the best excuse I can think up right now."
"Actually, I think that performing mineral tests is the best excuse, since my cover story is that I'm here to build oil rigs." Jason puts his gun away and steps out from behind the van. He lights a cigar, offering one to the others.
" Well, we're still in the middle of nowhere...alright, we'll see where that takes us. It does explain the shovel a little."
The truck slows down and then comes to a stop. The man on the passenger side gets out, looks around and then starts walking towards your van. He appears unarmed.
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Cynthia, looking distressed and flustered, puts a hand through her hair and speaks in English, "Hello...did Joy send you?"
Notice: to check out the truck for weaponry.
and in case they speak English
Bluff:
The Pashtun man, looking to be in his early 30s, regards Cynthia as if he is sizing her up. "No Joy.", he says in not good English. "What you doing here? No place for woman."
You don't notice any weapons on the vehicle.
Richard comes around to Cynthia, "Hey, I see you speak English, then. The name's Richard, it's nice to meet you. Our van broke down and our friend Johnny is trying to fix it. Any chance you have a jumper cable and are willing to help us?" Richard offers the man a cigar.
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Johnny pulls his head out from under the hood. He gives a quick wave and a frustrating smile to the man talking to Cynthia and Richard. He then ducks his head back underneath the hood.
Johnny when he is sure he isn't being watched loosens a radiator hose just enough to causes a trickle of a leak. It produces and a foul nutty smell. He pokes his head back out again.
I think it's the radiator hose Miss Betterman. See if your new friends have any tape we could borrow?
She looks back to Johnny, turns back to the man and sighs, "Tape? Do you have any?" She fumbles around for a few dollars of local currency in one of her pockets, "I think I can pay you for it."
The man is somewhat startled when he sees the rest of you come out. "No tape. Sorry. You must go. Not safe here."" Suddenly he takes off in a full run back to his truck, yelling at the driver in
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Seeing the man run, Smith opens fire on the driver ,
if hit
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Initiative
Smith opens fire on the truck, shattering the front windshield and walking the bullets in the face of the driver. He slumps over the steering wheel, dead.
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Inish: Fighting defensively
Natalie is a bit surprised by the sudden outburst of gunfire. Her initial action is to clear ground towards the unarmed man.
Jason ducks behind the van and pulls out his gun. "G~~!~%mit, Smith! Was that really necessary? Did he order his buddy to fire on us, or what?!"
Smith readies an action to fire two more rounds of Soviet 7.62mm ammunition at the running man says "You sidewinding sonsab+$@*es best not move or'll slot all you terrs, quite right i'll. Mijn bird is singing!!!!!" letting his Rhodesianisms come out fully.
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Macomb shifts his head around to see what is going on as he hears Smith open fire.
The first man reaches the truck and attempts to get in as Natalie catches up behind him. His partner in the truck bed ducks down behind the side walls.
Smith takes aim at the man trying to get into the truck.
Ward takes cover and draws his pistol.
Macomb startled a little at the gunfire erupting from Smith. He quickly swings his handgun up from his concealed holster.
With gun drawn he moves towards the truck. [1/2 action move]
As he runs he shouts
Macomb doesn't see any weapons as he runs towards the truck.
The first man opens the door to the truck, ignoring Natalie, but as he attempts to get in, Smith lays into him with more rounds from the AK-47.
The back of his head explodes, sending shards of bone and blood spatters all over Natalie.
Natalie shrieks as gunfire roars past her, ducking into the truck as well since that man was so eager to open the door for her.
Half Action: Enter Truck
Half Action: Take Truck Keys or otherwise make fleeing impossible.
Smith says calmly in his element, "Son, You need to put your hands up now or you are going to be killed like your friends... You have gotten me in the mood to use this soviet piece of crap and I will put the next round into you!!!!"
SMITH! NO MORE! He is unarmed. They all may have been unarmed. Give me a damn second to talk to the poor guy.
Natalie grabs the keys that were in the ignition as the man in the truck bed slowly extends his arms and begins to stand up. He doesn't say anything.
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Smith climbs down towards the vehicle and says, "I didn't want to shoot the second guy. The running guy was suspect so I shot the driver to prevent them from escaping and fair enough. Nat, are you ok?"
You can tell he has some honest concern for Natalie.
When he looks at the man who narrowly avoided becoming another notch on Smith's rifle stock.
"I suggest we tie this guy up, search these dead guys for info, find a cliff and push the two of them with this truck off of it. What do you think?"
Smith I suggest we find out if this 3rd can speak English before we have to shoot him for knowing too much.
As he says this Razor is watching the 3rd man for any reaction to see if what he just said registers on his face at all.
Natalie looks incredulously at the two men and loses her control, gesturing to the brains on her clothes "Which one of you sons of b@*++es just about shot me?!? The next time one of you twits even considers something so hairbrained and unnecessary, I'll shove that entire weapon up your ass, WITH a box of ammo!"
With that, she fumes for a moment, trying to recompose herself, a distance away.
"You two, handle this and start digging more graves. I'm going to make sure Nat is alright." Jason runs after Nat, "Sorry about the mess. You're not experienced in situations like this, I can see that. I've had missions go like this before too, but you and I, we're trained for combat. Not made for it. We talk to our enemies, get info, follow them, lie and trick them, and then have men like Smith finish the mission as far away from us as possible. Hell, for all I know those men were innocent, but I sure as hell hope they're not, because I am not my father."
The third man stays put, hands raised in the air. He doesn't seem to understand Macomb's first words, but he does answer in
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Smith says "We're not burying any more bodie, it is almost sunrise and the best solution is to drive the truck to a cliff, prop the two corpses in it and then push it over."
Smith goes into the van to grab some rope and moves to tie up the Pashto man. After tying him up, he starts searching the corpses for wallets, papers, anything.
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Nat takes a few moments to recover herself as Jason helps bring her down. She sighs, "Let's just do this for now..." then starts busying herself with something she actually can do. Talk.
"Start talking. Who do you work for, why were you following us and for how long, who is Antonova>"
Jason searches the truck while Smith searches the bodies.
Smith doesn't understand Pashto but he knows a Russian name when he hears it and after searching he says in NATO alphabet, "Kilo Golf Bravo... the neighbors are in it aren't they? Should've known... damn a goosey Kilo Golf..."