Alright, lets clean up the LZ. I'll establish comms, check in, and report that the contact did not meet us on arrival. Lets set up a defensible position within sight of here and get it camouflaged in case the contact is just late, we'll lay low for a little while and see what the situation is. I think we'd have a hard time blending in without a guide, lets hold off on contact with the locals until we can meet our informant.
"Alright, Sir!
Trevor heads for a part of the Jungle that is close enough to the road to keep an eye on it, looking for a good place to set up camp.
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"I'll assist Mac sir, 'less you've different orders?"
I guess so. Is the site we discovered close enough that it is viable to bring our equipment there and then clean up the beach or would that cost to much time, essentialy meaning we would forfeit the cover of night doing so?
Then yes, we set up camp and send out two people to scout the immediate area. Depending on what we hear when we get comms up we might be here for a while...
Travis will help move equipment and setup camp.
"Hope they don't know we're coming, bit early for things to go sideways."
Trevor will be one of the scouts.
Three successes.
Travis guards the camp while Trevor scouts. He fingers his rifle uneasily.
I don't like this turn.
"Bloody Bo*****"
Trevor tries to speed back to camp, not completely giving up stealth but sacrificing some of it for faster movement. Getting there, he gets to Frazier, (if he is there and not the other scout) or to Murphy.
"There is a bloody camera up there! That bloody beach is under surveilance!
"Preparing to move out then sir?"
Travis turns to Frazier as he says this, but he starts breaking down the camp without waiting for a reply.
Between the camera and their contact not meeting them, we have to assume the worst, "Our informant may have been compromised, our priority now is to secure Dr. Lamner. I'm going to have a look at that camera; MacAlistair, take me to it and watch my back. The rest of you, report this up and prepare to move East. Stay off the road... it's probably under surveillance too.
I will try to hack into the box. I want to try to determine whether anyone is currently logged in, whether it is monitored in real-time, and to attempt to erase the recording of our landing. If I determine that we were definitely observed by someone, perhaps by noticing recent replays of that time period, I wouldn't worry about stealth and would simply try to erase the records and cut the fiber. Otherwise I'll try to cover our tracks by replacing the footage of us landing with scenes from just before we landed and altering the timestamps. Let me know if I need to make an extended test...
Shane finishes whatever he was doing with the computer and waves for Trevor to follow him as he goes to catch up to the others. Once we're all together he reports, "Someone definitely saw us land. I wiped the recording but unless we're luckier than we have any right to be, Freeman knows we're here. We need to make good time to Lamner's house so we can move ahead with destroying the bioweapons... the wetwork will have to come later. Let's move!
Travis quickly packs camp and begins to hump the gear East waiting for Frazier and Trevor to catch up.
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Shane is on the lookout for a vehicle to steal, the team should stick out much less in a car or van than they would on foot...
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"We don't have much of a chance at staying unobserved on foot, especially if there's any activity at Lamner's house. It looks like it's that fellow- Shane gestures toward a local man sitting, eating breakfast by his van, is in for a bit of excitement. We need to grab him and secure him while we borrow his vehicle. Trevor, you're lead on this... try to leave him in one piece."
Travis readies is weapon and looks for anything else out of the ordinary.
"Somethings not right here Commander, feels like a setup."
"What do you mean? I don't see anything... but we need to trust our instincts. If you have a bad feeling about this, we'll find a different place."
Shane will lead the squad a thousand meters or so down the wood line then pause before heading into town. He'll contact their overwatch on the radio and pass up their progress and current position, and request a tie-in to the public phone system to try calling the number we have listed for Lamner.
If he is unreachable then we will go into the town and make for Lamner's house- if another opportunity presents itself to acquire a vehicle then we will do so.
"Good morning señor, I need to talk with you about a problem..."
"I'm calling on behalf of the tourist group that has an appointment with you this afternoon. We've had some trouble hiring a reliable guide; the fellow who was supposed to be showing us around the island never met with us..."
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"Splendid! We're staying at the _________, I can't wait to meet you. I'm still a little under the weather, and my wife was seasick the whole time we were traveling here. Cheers!
I'm not sure how extensive you'll rule that our library of code phrases can be, but I want to convey that we will be going to him ('under the weather'), and that he should be prepared for trouble ('seasick')
The conversation concluded, Shane will pack up the radio and continue his efforts to find a vehicle to take to the doctor's home. Five soldiers in tactical gear are not subtle, and 'they' already know we are here. He would be willing to risk a home invasion or other unpleasant tactics to secure a vehicle that will not be reported stolen for a few hours.
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Dr Lamner hangs up. You all find your selves in an industrial estate close to some poorer residential area. There are a few broken cars and abandoned van in a junk yard about a block away from where you are. Unfortunatly Lamner's house is a fair bit away and would require to go throw the city or make a very large detour to go around