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<publisher>Project Aon</publisher>
<date class="publication"><year>2005</year><month>12</month><day>17</day></date>
<description class="blurb">
- <p>You are Cal Phoenix, the Freeway Warrior, champion and protector of Dallas Colony One. The third stage of your life-or-death exodus to the California coast takes your colony of survivors across the wastelands of New Mexico and Arizona, a region still blighted by lethal radioactivity. Can you find the safe route through to the sanctuary of Tuscon, or will you and your people perish in the desolation of The Omega Zone?"</p>
+ <p>You are Cal Phoenix, the Freeway Warrior, champion and protector of Dallas Colony One. The third stage of your life-or-death exodus to the California coast takes your colony of survivors across the wastelands of New Mexico and Arizona, a region still blighted by lethal radioactivity. Can you find the safe route through to the sanctuary of Tucson, or will you and your people perish in the desolation of The Omega Zone?"</p>
</description>
<description class="publication">
<p>Internet Edition published by <a href="&link.project.website;">Project Aon</a>. This edition is intended to reflect the complete text of the original version. Where we have made minor corrections, they will be noted in the <a idref="errata">Errata</a>.</p>
<meta><title>32</title></meta>
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- <p>You approach the door with caution, taking care to tread lightly on the uneven floorboards to avoid making them creak. A small hatch, covered by a sliding panel of plywood, is positioned in the middle of the door at head height. You guess that it is a spyhole.</p>
+ <p>You approach the door with caution, taking care to tread lightly on the uneven floorboards to avoid making them creak. A small hatch, covered by a sliding panel of plywood, is positioned in the middle of the door at head height. You guess that it is a spy-hole.</p>
<p>You place your ear to the door, directly below the covered hatch, and hear muffled voices in the room beyond. Although you cannot hear what is being said, you can tell that they are very frightened. Gently you lift the latch, only to discover that the door is locked on the inside.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</p>
<choice idref="sect46">If the number you have picked is 0-4, <link-text>turn to 46</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Suddenly the darkness is obliterated by a flash of white light that seems to fill the sky. It fades rapidly only to be replaced by a huge, billowing fireball that towers into the air above the Juarez Race Track.</p>
- <p>'Yahoo! There they go!' shouts Sergeant Haskell, excitedly. Then the noise and the shockwave from the explosion overtake the truck. The roar is deafening, and the shock is so violent that it threatens to send the truck careering off the dusty road. Fortunately, both are quick to pass. As the roar fades to a rumble, you can make out the distant sound of gunfire.</p>
+ <p>'Yahoo! There they go!' shouts Sergeant Haskell, excitedly. Then the noise and the shock wave from the explosion overtake the truck. The roar is deafening, and the shock is so violent that it threatens to send the truck careering off the dusty road. Fortunately, both are quick to pass. As the roar fades to a rumble, you can make out the distant sound of gunfire.</p>
<p>'That's coming from across the river,' says the captain. 'The colony have begun the break-out!'</p>
<choice idref="sect86"><link-text>Turn to 86</link-text>.</choice>
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<meta><title>46</title></meta>
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- <p>The incomprehensible voices continue their mumbling as you ease open the plywood spyhole cover. Through the crack you can see the bearded man standing to the far side of a large, dimly-lit room. He appears to be talking excitedly at a hole in the ground.</p>
- <p>Accidentally, Knott drops his pistol. The sudden noise makes the bearded man glance at the door. He sees you looking through the spyhole and fear blanches his face. In the next instant, he dodges aside and disappears from your field of vision.</p>
+ <p>The incomprehensible voices continue their mumbling as you ease open the plywood spy-hole cover. Through the crack you can see the bearded man standing to the far side of a large, dimly-lit room. He appears to be talking excitedly at a hole in the ground.</p>
+ <p>Accidentally, Knott drops his pistol. The sudden noise makes the bearded man glance at the door. He sees you looking through the spy-hole and fear blanches his face. In the next instant, he dodges aside and disappears from your field of vision.</p>
<choice idref="sect186">If you wish to attempt to barge open the door, <link-text>turn to 186</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect341">If you wish to shoot open the lock, and are able to do so, <link-text>turn to 341</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You spin around, hardly able to believe your eyes when you see Kate Norton waving at you from a gas station on the opposite side of the freeway. In a daze you run towards her, and she towards you, and together you meet in the centre of the deserted highway, locked in an embrace that melts away all memory of the ordeal you have endured over the past two days.</p>
- <p>When at last the exhilaration of your unexpected reunion subsides, she tells you that the colony has already reached Tucson, and is safely encamped with the Tucson colony inside a stronghold they have established at the Davis-Monthan Air Force base. When you and the rest of Captain Frankland's team failed to make the Deming rendezvous, the colony continued as planned, hoping that you would join them en route. Gradually, as they progressed further west, their hopes faded until they accepted that you must have perished during the raid on Ciudad Juarez. But Kate refused to abandon hope. When the convoy reached Benson she insisted that she wait here in case you had been unable to find transport and were heading for Tucson on foot. Reluctantly they agreed to her request, knowing full well that there was little they could do to prevent her from staying.</p>
+ <p>When at last the exhilaration of your unexpected reunion subsides, she tells you that the colony has already reached Tucson, and is safely encamped with the Tucson colony inside a stronghold they have established at the Davis-Monthan Air Force base. When you and the rest of Captain Frankland's team failed to make the Deming rendezvous, the colony continued as planned, hoping that you would join them <foreign xml:lang="fr">en route</foreign>. Gradually, as they progressed further west, their hopes faded until they accepted that you must have perished during the raid on Ciudad Juarez. But Kate refused to abandon hope. When the convoy reached Benson she insisted that she wait here in case you had been unable to find transport and were heading for Tucson on foot. Reluctantly they agreed to her request, knowing full well that there was little they could do to prevent her from staying.</p>
<p>You ask if she has seen any clan activity during the twenty-four hours she has been here, and she says that there has been none. The freeway and the surrounding area have remained completely deserted.</p>
<p>'It's funny,' she says, 'but since we left Lordsburg it's as if they lost interest in us.'</p>
<choice idref="sect81"><link-text>Turn to 81</link-text>.</choice>
<meta><title>123</title></meta>
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- <p>You are within ten feet of the top when the rock you are grasping tears loose in your hands. Frantically you throw out your arms in an attempt to find a new hand-hold, but you are already falling backwards and your flailing hands claw only air. For a few seconds your senses are scrambled as you tumble down the rockface, then you hit the edge of the gully and your vision becomes cloudy: lose 6 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
+ <p>You are within ten feet of the top when the rock you are grasping tears loose in your hands. Frantically you throw out your arms in an attempt to find a new hand-hold, but you are already falling backwards and your flailing hands claw only air. For a few seconds your senses are scrambled as you tumble down the rock-face, then you hit the edge of the gully and your vision becomes cloudy: lose 6 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<p>When eventually it clears you find yourself lying at the bottom of the gully, staring at the sky. Wearily you drag yourself to your feet, rub your aching limbs, then stagger towards your motorcycle. You are expecting to find little more than a twisted heap of scrap metal, so it comes as a pleasant surprise to discover that the machine is still in working order. After straightening the handlebars, the headlight, and the front wheel alignment, you are able to restart the engine with your fourth kick.</p>
<p>You ride this wide trench until you find a suitable place, on the far side of the rockfalls to make your exit. The ascent is accomplished without difficulty, but as you clear the crest of the gully and bring your motorcycle to a stop, you notice something that makes you break out in a cold sweat.</p>
<p>From the eastern end of the gully a cloud of dust is approaching. It is over a mile distant, but you can tell at once that it is being kicked up by a motorcycle. You stare at the approaching machine and, although you cannot see the rider, you know that it is the assassin. Chilled by his proximity, you wind back the throttle and gun your bike along the bumpy mountain road.</p>
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<p>For a few seconds you stand entranced, not knowing for sure whether you are dead or alive.<a id="sect150-1" idref="sect150-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Then, as the warm breeze clears the lingering gun smoke, you see the body of the assassin lying motionless beside the courthouse wall. You are filled with a great sense of relief, as if a huge weight has been lifted from your shoulders. Then the shock of your encounter takes hold of your body and you begin to shiver uncontrollably. You must now take a Drink or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<p>With grim curiosity you move forward to search the body. You pull off his helmet and stare at the face of this killer. At once you recognize the cruel, angular features: he is Helmut Varken, a top HAVOC assassin who achieved infamy on 1 May, 2008 when he assassinated both the President of the United States, and the General Secretary of the Supreme Soviet at an emergency summit meeting in Rome. HAVOC were proud of his ignoble feat, and when by chance they leaked his identity, his photograph appeared on every television screen and on the front page of every newspaper around the world. You were only eight years old at the time, but the image of his face became synonymous with the evil that HAVOC represented, and it etched itself indelibly upon your mind.</p>
- <p>As your pulse returns to normal, you begin to search his blood-stained body. You are disappointed to find that his air-con suit has been irreparably damaged, but you discover more than enough useful items to compensate for the loss:</p>
+ <p>As your pulse returns to normal, you begin to search his bloodstained body. You are disappointed to find that his air-con suit has been irreparably damaged, but you discover more than enough useful items to compensate for the loss:</p>
<ul>
<li>Rifle (containing twenty-two rounds of 7.62mm ammunition)</li>
<li>Pistol (containing ten rounds of 9mm ammunition)</li>
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<p>The clan commander's bullets punch a neat line of holes across the tailgate, barely inches above the place where you are lying. Before he can fire a second burst beneath the first, Sergeant Haskell hits him with a single shot to the head, killing him instantly.</p>
- <p>Realization of his death passes like a shockwave through the other clansmen, causing them to abort their attack and fall back. A few stop long enough to pick up and bear his lifeless body away from the street.</p>
+ <p>Realization of his death passes like a shock wave through the other clansmen, causing them to abort their attack and fall back. A few stop long enough to pick up and bear his lifeless body away from the street.</p>
<p>While there is a lull in the firing, you seize the chance to help Knott and Captain Frankland clear away the debris that is blocking your escape. A thick, wooden pole, which once supported overhead electricity cables in this part of town, is jammed between the wheel and the truck's front fender. With your help they are at last able to shift it. Knott returns to the cab and starts the engine first time. Then, as he brings the truck over the mound, you and the captain leap on to the tailgate and pull yourselves aboard.</p>
<p>The street ends at a piece of wasteland but a few hundred yards beyond it lies a highway running east to west. The captain peers through the cab's partition window and gives an ironic laugh when he sees the highway.</p>
<p>'Make for that road and head west,' he commands, and Knott obeys. Then he turns to the sergeant and says, 'It looks like you're finally outvoted, Haskell. Seems we're on our way to Mimbres.'</p>
<meta><title>182</title></meta>
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- <p>Frantically you scramble to your feet and throw yourself out of the path of the oncoming biker as he guns his machine manically straight at the gas pump.</p>
+ <p>Frantically you scramble to your feet and throw yourself out of the path of the oncoming biker as he guns his machine maniacally straight at the gas pump.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your Stealth skill total.</p>
<choice idref="sect308">If your total score is 6 or less, <link-text>turn to 308</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect226">If it is 7 or more, <link-text>turn to 226</link-text>.</choice>
<meta><title>189</title></meta>
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- <p>When you can no longer see the highway for trees, you rise to your feet and scurry deeper into the forest. Here the air is heavy and still, and the heat is stifling, but at least the trees protect you from the midday sun. For two hours you ascend the pineclad slopes of the Pedregosa Mountains, wending your way steadily westwards towards peaks that are hidden from sight.</p>
+ <p>When you can no longer see the highway for trees, you rise to your feet and scurry deeper into the forest. Here the air is heavy and still, and the heat is stifling, but at least the trees protect you from the midday sun. For two hours you ascend the pine-clad slopes of the Pedregosa Mountains, wending your way steadily westwards towards peaks that are hidden from sight.</p>
<p>Throughout your weary trek, you exchange less than a dozen words with Marine Knott. The grief and the shock you feel play on your mind, and no matter how hard you try to shake them the images of your companions' final moments keep repeating in your mind's eye. Eventually you come to terms with your sense of bereavement, but you cannot escape the ever-present fear that the sniper is somewhere nearby.</p>
<p>By mid-afternoon you discover a trail that cuts through the scrub growing in abundance on the higher slopes. The trail is a welcome discovery, for the scrub is twisted and tough, gnarled and deep-rooted, and difficult to climb. You have been following the trail for less than an hour when it starts to ascend very steeply towards a rugged outcrop of rock.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your Field Craft skill total.</p>
<meta><title>196</title></meta>
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- <p>You leave the bedroom and approach the door at the end of the corridor with caution, taking care to tread lightly on the uneven floorboards to avoid making them creak. A small hatch, covered by a sliding panel of plywood, is positioned in the centre of the door at head height: it is a spyhole.</p>
+ <p>You leave the bedroom and approach the door at the end of the corridor with caution, taking care to tread lightly on the uneven floorboards to avoid making them creak. A small hatch, covered by a sliding panel of plywood, is positioned in the centre of the door at head height: it is a spy-hole.</p>
<p>You place your ear to the door, directly below the covered hatch, and hear muffled voices in the room beyond. Although you cannot make out what is being said, you can tell that they are very frightened. Gently you lift the latch, only to discover that the door is locked on the inside.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</p>
<choice idref="sect46">If the number you have picked is 0-4, <link-text>turn to 46</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You fire, and almost immediately throw yourself to the floor of the truck, hoping to avoid your enemy's counter-fire. Fortunately, your move proves unnecessarily cautious: your burst of fire hits the clan commander in the head, killing him instantly.<a id="sect213-1" idref="sect213-1-foot" class="footnote" /></p>
- <p>His death travels like a shockwave through the other clansmen, bringing them to an abrupt halt. They abort their attack and fall back, a few of them stopping just long enough to pick up and bear his lifeless body away from the street.</p>
+ <p>His death travels like a shoc kwave through the other clansmen, bringing them to an abrupt halt. They abort their attack and fall back, a few of them stopping just long enough to pick up and bear his lifeless body away from the street.</p>
<p>While there is a lull in the firing, you seize the chance to help Knott and Captain Frankland clear away the debris that is blocking your escape. A thick, wooden pole, which once supported overhead electricity cables in this part of town, is jammed between the wheel and the truck's front fender. With your help they are able to shift it, and Knott returns to the cab and starts the engine first time. Then, as he brings the truck over the mound, you and the captain leap on to the tailgate and pull yourselves aboard.</p>
<p>The street ends at a piece of wasteland but a few hundred yards beyond it lies a highway running east to west. The captain peers through the cab's partition window and gives an ironic laugh when he sees the highway.</p>
<p>'Make for that road and head west,' he commands, and Knott obeys. Then he turns to the sergeant and says, 'It looks like you're finally outvoted, Haskell. Seems we're on our way to Mimbres.'</p>
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<p>The horror of seeing the pistol pointing straight at your heart galvanizes you into action. You hurl yourself at the floor, barely moments before the muzzle belches flame, avoiding what would most certainly have been a fatal wound.</p>
- <p>In the close confines of the corridor the noise of the pistol's discharge is deafening. You shake your head in a vain effort to clear the ringing that now fills your ears. Angered at how close you came to death, you struggle to your feet and face the door, only to see the spyhole slam firmly shut.</p>
+ <p>In the close confines of the corridor the noise of the pistol's discharge is deafening. You shake your head in a vain effort to clear the ringing that now fills your ears. Angered at how close you came to death, you struggle to your feet and face the door, only to see the spy-hole slam firmly shut.</p>
<choice idref="sect186">If you wish to attempt to barge open the door, <link-text>turn to 186</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect341">If you wish to shoot open the lock, and are able to do so, <link-text>turn to 341</link-text>.</choice>
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<meta><title>227</title></meta>
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- <p>The sound of the crash brings the clansmen to a halt at the side of the mountain road. They dismount from their machines and peel off their leather face masks before taking tentative steps towards the edge of the steep-sided canyon. The sight of the burning wreckage draws evil grins across their cruel faces, and when Knott's blood-stained tunic is found nearby, they laugh and howl like victorious jackals. Convinced that you are dead, their leader radios the news to Mad Dog Michigan. When he finishes the call he orders his scouts to remount their bikes and follow him back to Lordsburg. Only when you can no longer hear the thunderous growl of their bikes do you leave your hiding place and set off on foot along Highway 80, heading south.</p>
+ <p>The sound of the crash brings the clansmen to a halt at the side of the mountain road. They dismount from their machines and peel off their leather face masks before taking tentative steps towards the edge of the steep-sided canyon. The sight of the burning wreckage draws evil grins across their cruel faces, and when Knott's bloodstained tunic is found nearby, they laugh and howl like victorious jackals. Convinced that you are dead, their leader radios the news to Mad Dog Michigan. When he finishes the call he orders his scouts to remount their bikes and follow him back to Lordsburg. Only when you can no longer hear the thunderous growl of their bikes do you leave your hiding place and set off on foot along Highway 80, heading south.</p>
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<creator>Brian Williams</creator>
- <description>When Knott's blood-stained tunic is found nearby, they laugh and howl like victorious jackals.</description>
+ <description>When Knott's bloodstained tunic is found nearby, they laugh and howl like victorious jackals.</description>
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<p>Steadily the highway climbs towards a pass, beyond which there is a hairpin bend. You manage to negotiate it safely, only to find that a rockfall has partially blocked the road less than twenty yards beyond the bend. Your driving instinct warns you not to brake heavily for fear of sending the jeep into a skid, so you try to steer around the mound of fallen rock without slowing down. Your tactics work: you clear the mound with inches to spare. Unluckily, as you straighten the steering wheel, you strike a stray boulder and the jeep is brought to a grinding halt.</p>
<p>'The front running gear's wrecked,' says Captain Frankland, despondently, as he inspects the damage. 'There's no way we'll get any further in this vehicle.'</p>
- <p>The situation looks bleak: the clansmen are likely to show up at any time and they are sure to catch you now that the jeep is wrecked. Then an idea occurs to you that might just throw them off your trail. If you were to set fire to the jeep and push it into the deep canyon that borders this section of the mountain road, the sight of the burning wreckage might convince them that you had met with a fatal accident. The others agree that it is worth a try and immediately set about preparing the jeep. Together you manhandle it to the edge of the road, then light a rag, which Haskell has stuffed into the gasolene filter pipe. Once it is burning, you give one last push and send the vehicle careering over the edge into the canyon 300 feet below. After the resounding crash, you hear the clansmen approaching and you quickly take cover among the boulders. To make it seem more realistic Marine Knott drops his blood-stained tunic at the edge of the road before he takes cover, seconds before the first riders appear on the scene.</p>
+ <p>The situation looks bleak: the clansmen are likely to show up at any time and they are sure to catch you now that the jeep is wrecked. Then an idea occurs to you that might just throw them off your trail. If you were to set fire to the jeep and push it into the deep canyon that borders this section of the mountain road, the sight of the burning wreckage might convince them that you had met with a fatal accident. The others agree that it is worth a try and immediately set about preparing the jeep. Together you manhandle it to the edge of the road, then light a rag, which Haskell has stuffed into the gasolene filter pipe. Once it is burning, you give one last push and send the vehicle careering over the edge into the canyon 300 feet below. After the resounding crash, you hear the clansmen approaching and you quickly take cover among the boulders. To make it seem more realistic Marine Knott drops his bloodstained tunic at the edge of the road before he takes cover, seconds before the first riders appear on the scene.</p>
<choice idref="sect227"><link-text>Turn to 227</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You drop to the ground, biting back your urge to cry out in pain as you gash your knees and elbows on the sharp rubble (lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points). Marine Knott copies your move, and the beam of the torchlight passes over your still bodies without stopping. It hovers nearby for a few seconds then reluctantly moves away.</p>
- <p>Slowly you crawl the final few yards to cover. When both of you are hidden from view, you wait for your breathing to return to normal and then glance around the pillar to see if the coast is clear. The torchbeam is scanning the ground further south. Then you hear a curse from somewhere on the freeway above and the light is switched off.</p>
+ <p>Slowly you crawl the final few yards to cover. When both of you are hidden from view, you wait for your breathing to return to normal and then glance around the pillar to see if the coast is clear. The torch's beam is scanning the ground further south. Then you hear a curse from somewhere on the freeway above and the light is switched off.</p>
<p>Confident that you have not been detected, you readjust your equipment and continue on your way.</p>
<choice idref="sect288"><link-text>Turn to 288</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>A rush of adrenalin fires your reflexes and you throw yourself to the floor as the muzzle of the gun belches flame. You avoid a fatal wound but you do not escape entirely without injury. As you fall, one of the bullets cuts a stinging groove across the side of your skull: lose 4 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
- <p>Angered by the wound you have received, and how close you came to death, you struggle to your feet just in time to see the spyhole slam shut.</p>
+ <p>Angered by the wound you have received, and how close you came to death, you struggle to your feet just in time to see the spy-hole slam shut.</p>
<choice idref="sect186">If you wish to attempt to barge open the door, <link-text>turn to 186</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect341">If you wish to shoot open the lock, and are able to do so, <link-text>turn to 341</link-text>.</choice>
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<meta><title>287</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>You leave the room and approach the door at the end of the corridor with caution, taking care to tread lightly on the uneven floorboards to avoid making them creak. A small hatch, covered by a sliding panel of plywood, is positioned in the centre of the door at head height. You guess that it is a spyhole.</p>
+ <p>You leave the room and approach the door at the end of the corridor with caution, taking care to tread lightly on the uneven floorboards to avoid making them creak. A small hatch, covered by a sliding panel of plywood, is positioned in the centre of the door at head height. You guess that it is a spy-hole.</p>
<p>You place your ear to the door, directly below the covered hatch, and hear muffled voices in the room beyond. Although you cannot make out what is being said, you can tell that they are very frightened. Gently you lift the latch, only to discover that the door is locked on the inside.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</p>
<choice idref="sect46">If the number you have picked is 0-4, <link-text>turn to 46</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>Your gunfire hits the clan leader in the chest, killing him outright.<a id="sect296-1" idref="sect296-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Realization of his death passes like a shockwave through the other clansmen, bringing them to an abrupt halt. They abort their attack and fall back, a few stopping just long enough to pick up and bear his lifeless body away from the street.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire hits the clan leader in the chest, killing him outright.<a id="sect296-1" idref="sect296-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Realization of his death passes like a shock wave through the other clansmen, bringing them to an abrupt halt. They abort their attack and fall back, a few stopping just long enough to pick up and bear his lifeless body away from the street.</p>
<p>While there is a lull in the firing, you seize the chance to help Knott and Captain Frankland clear away the debris that is blocking your escape. A thick, wooden pole, which once supported overhead electricity cables in this part of town, is jammed between the wheel and the truck's front fender. With your help, they are at last able to shift it and Knott returns to the cab and starts the engine first time. As he brings the truck over the mound, you and the captain leap on to the tailgate and pull yourselves aboard.</p>
<p>The street ends at a piece of wasteland but a few hundred yards beyond it lies a highway, running east to west. The captain peers through the cab's partition window and gives an ironic laugh when he sees the highway.</p>
<p>'Make for that road and head west,' he commands, and Knott obeys. Then he turns to the sergeant and says, 'It looks like you're finally outvoted, Haskell. Seems we're on our way to Mimbres.'</p>
<meta><title>300</title></meta>
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- <p>You follow the highway twenty-five miles across Cochise county and, shortly before mid-afternoon, you arrive at a junction with Interstate 10. From here it is only a short ride west to the town of Benson, where you stop to take a closer look at the tyre tracks that are etched in the freeway's dusty surface. You are convinced that they are made by the DC1 convoy, and you hazard a guess that they are at least a day old.</p>
+ <p>You follow the highway twenty-five miles across Cochise County and, shortly before mid-afternoon, you arrive at a junction with Interstate 10. From here it is only a short ride west to the town of Benson, where you stop to take a closer look at the tyre tracks that are etched in the freeway's dusty surface. You are convinced that they are made by the DC1 convoy, and you hazard a guess that they are at least a day old.</p>
<p>You are about to leave the tracks and return to your newly acquired motorcycle when you hear something that sets your heart racing. It is the voice of a young woman and she is calling out your name.</p>
<choice idref="sect119"><link-text>Turn to 119</link-text>.</choice>
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<meta><title>316</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>The voices stop, and a few seconds later the spyhole cover slides open an inch. An eye appears at the gap.</p>
+ <p>The voices stop, and a few seconds later the spy-hole cover slides open an inch. An eye appears at the gap.</p>
<p>It stares down at you, widens with shock, then disappears from view. Cursing your luck, you start to move back from the door and have retreated a few yards when something else appears, something that makes you gulp with fear. It is the barrel of a semi-automatic pistol, and it is pointed at your chest.</p>
<p>Add together your Stealth skill total and your current <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points score.</p>
<choice idref="sect113">If your total score is 12 or less, <link-text>turn to 113</link-text>.</choice>
<meta><title>334</title></meta>
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- <p>Beyond the store room you discover a narrow corridor lit by several low-voltage electric light bulbs mounted in the ceiling. In the glow of their pale, yellowy light, you notice a drawbolt on the store room door. You lock it, hoping to deter the sniper should he try to follow you into the shelter.</p>
+ <p>Beyond the store room you discover a narrow corridor lit by several low-voltage electric light bulbs mounted in the ceiling. In the glow of their pale, yellowy light, you notice a bolt on the store room door. You lock it, hoping to deter the sniper should he try to follow you into the shelter.</p>
<p>As you progress along the corridor you discover three doors. The first is to your left; the second is directly opposite the first; and the third lies at the end of the passage, just a few yards ahead.</p>
<choice idref="sect145">If you wish to investigate the door to your left, <link-text>turn to 145</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect165">If you wish to examine the door to your right, <link-text>turn to 165</link-text>.</choice>
<p>All the advanced driving skills that you learned from Cutter Jacks, and which you perfected during the months you patrolled the highways around McKinney, pay off now as you negotiate this hazardous section of mountain highway. However, the clansmen are equally proficient roadmasters and they are gaining on you, relentlessly closing the gap.</p>
<p>The more you think about your predicament, the more you realize how futile it is to try to outrun them. Even if you were able to defeat all the scouts, Mad Dog Michigan would simply send more and more until his lust for vengeance had finally been sated. Then an idea occurs to you that might just throw him off your trail for good. If you were able to convince the enemy that you were dead, it would put an end to their pursuit. You share your thoughts with the others and they agree with your reasoning.</p>
<p>'You're right, Cal. We'll have to stage an accident and convince the clansmen that we've all been killed.' says Captain Frankland.</p>
- <p>Soon you reach a part of the mountains where a deep canyon borders the road. Here you bring the jeep to a halt and immediately set about preparing the 'accident'. You push the vehicle to the edge of the road, then light a rag, which Haskell has stuffed into the gasolene filler pipe. It ignites and once it is burning you give the jeep a push and send it careering over the edge into the canyon 300 feet below. After the resounding crash, you hear the clansmen approaching and you quickly take cover behind some boulders. To make it seem more realistic, Marine Knott drops his blood-stained tunic at the edge of the road before he joins you, seconds before the first clansmen appear on the scene.</p>
+ <p>Soon you reach a part of the mountains where a deep canyon borders the road. Here you bring the jeep to a halt and immediately set about preparing the 'accident'. You push the vehicle to the edge of the road, then light a rag, which Haskell has stuffed into the gasolene filler pipe. It ignites and once it is burning you give the jeep a push and send it careering over the edge into the canyon 300 feet below. After the resounding crash, you hear the clansmen approaching and you quickly take cover behind some boulders. To make it seem more realistic, Marine Knott drops his bloodstained tunic at the edge of the road before he joins you, seconds before the first clansmen appear on the scene.</p>
<choice idref="sect227"><link-text>Turn to 227</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>(<a idref="sect92">92</a>) Replaced <quote>syphoning</quote> with <quote>siphoning</quote> and <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect98">98</a>) Replaced <quote>If is is 11 or more</quote> with <quote>If it is 11 or more</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect104">104</a>) Replaced <quote>reassurringly</quote> with <quote>reassuringly</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect123">123</a>) Replaced <quote>motorcyle</quote> with <quote>motorcycle</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect123">123</a>) Replaced <quote>motorcyle</quote> with <quote>motorcycle</quote> and <quote>rockface</quote> with <quote>rock-face</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect125">125</a>) Replaced <quote>(minimum equals one round; maximum equals three rounds)</quote> with <quote>(minimum: one round; maximum: three rounds)</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect129">129</a>) Replaced <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect136">136</a>) Replaced <quote>turn 235</quote> with <quote>turn to 235</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect167">167</a>) Replaced <quote>straigthening</quote> with <quote>straightening</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect171">171</a>) Replaced <quote>expodes</quote> with <quote>explodes</quote> and <quote>turn 304</quote> with <quote>turn to 304</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect174">174</a>) Replaced <quote>Tool kit</quote> with <quote>Tool Kit</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect182">182</a>) Replaced <quote>manically</quote> with <quote>maniacally</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect189">189</a>) Replaced <quote>pineclad</quote> with <quote>pine-clad</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect195">195</a>) Replaced <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect220">220</a>) Replaced <quote>landcruiser</quote> with <quote>Landcruiser</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect223">223</a>) Replaced <quote>you Action Chart</quote> with <quote>your Action Chart</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect226">226</a>) Replaced <quote>motorcyle</quote> with <quote>motorcycle</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect241">241</a>) Replaced <quote>binouclars</quote> with <quote>binoculars</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect252">252</a>) Replaced <quote>machine gunfire</quote> with <quote>machine gun fire</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect259">259</a>) Replaced <quote>torchbeam</quote> with <quote>torch's beam</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect264">264</a>) Replaced <quote>encumberance</quote> with <quote>encumbrance</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect269">269</a>) Replaced <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect276">276</a>) Replaced <quote>one a.m.</quote> with <quote>1 a.m.</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect276">288</a>) Replaced <quote>Muncipal</quote> with <quote>Municipal</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect291">291</a>) Replaced <quote>turn to, 83</quote> with <quote>turn to 83</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect300">300</a>) Replaced <quote>Cochise county</quote> with <quote>Cochise County</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect323">323</a>) Replaced <quote>(minimum equals one round; maximum equals five rounds)</quote> with <quote>(minimum: one burst; maximum: five bursts)</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect334">334</a>) Replaced <quote>drawbolt</quote> with <quote>bolt</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect11">11</a>,<a idref="sect63">63</a>,<a idref="sect82">82</a>,<a idref="sect150">150</a>,<a idref="sect152">152</a>,<a idref="sect192">192</a>,<a idref="sect310">310</a>,<a idref="sect320">320</a> Replaced CCS Bonuses in <quote>[]</quote> with <quote>()</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect10">10</a>,<a idref="sect11">11</a>,<a idref="sect66">66</a>,<a idref="sect92">92</a>,<a idref="sect100">100</a>,<a idref="sect106">106</a>,<a idref="sect134">134</a>,<a idref="sect192">192</a>,<a idref="sect223">223</a>,<a idref="sect264">264</a>,<a idref="sect282">282</a>,<a idref="sect291">291</a>,<a idref="sect295">295</a>,<a idref="sect340">340</a>) Replaced <quote>Backpack items</quote> with <quote>Backpack Items</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect42">42</a>,<a idref="sect157">157</a>,<a idref="sect213">213</a>,<a idref="sect296">296</a>) Replaced <quote>shockwave</quote> with <quote>shock wave</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect150">150</a>,<a idref="sect227">227</a>,<a idref="sect258">258</a>,<a idref="sect336">336</a>) Replaced <quote>blood-stained</quote> with <quote>bloodstained</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect32">32</a>,<a idref="sect46">46</a>,<a idref="sect196">196</a>,<a idref="sect222">222</a>,<a idref="sect266">266</a>,<a idref="sect287">287</a>,<a idref="sect316">316</a>) Replaced <quote>spyhole</quote> with <quote>spy-hole</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="crsumary">Combat Rules Summary</a>) Added missing period after <quote>total</quote>. Replaced <quote>cross-refer</quote> with <quote>cross-reference</quote>, and <quote>zero ENDURANCE</quote> with <quote>zero or fewer ENDURANCE</quote>.</p>
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