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- <p>You are Cal Phoenix, the Freeway Warrior, champion and protector of Dallas Colony One. The final stage of your life-or-death exodus to the California coast is fraught with extraordinary dangers<ch.emdash/>breakdowns, rockfalls and unexplained deaths. Can you unravel the mystery that surrounds your journey, or will you perish without trace in the wastelands of Arizona?</p>
+ <p>You are Cal Phoenix, the Freeway Warrior, champion and protector of Dallas Colony One. The final stage of your life-or-death exodus to the California coast is fraught with extraordinary dangers<ch.emdash/>breakdowns, rockfalls and unexplained deaths. Can you unravel the mystery that surrounds your journey, or will you perish without trace in the wastelands of Arizona?</p>
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<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>
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<p><strong>1998-2003</strong><br />The governments of many small and impoverished nations fall into the hands of HAVOC. International terrorists receive arms, training, and shelter in these Badlands.</p>
<p><strong>2003-2008</strong><br />Raids on oil and gas installations, assassinations, and the kidnapping of prominent world statesmen become commonplace as HAVOC attempt to terrorize the civilized world into submission. Despite public outrage and growing international tension, the major powers steadfastly refuse to give in to HAVOC's demands.</p>
<p><strong>2008</strong><br />President of the United States and General Secretary of Supreme Soviet both assassinated at emergency summit meeting. US, USSR and major European nations create the World Defence League and declare war on HAVOC. The Badlands are invaded, key HAVOC bases destroyed, and thousands of HAVOC agents are captured.</p>
- <p><strong>2009</strong><br />HAVOC leaders imprisoned for life in `Deep Pens'<ch.emdash/>maximum security gaols located deep underground<ch.emdash/>to prevent their escape or release by HAVOC agents still at large.</p>
+ <p><strong>2009</strong><br />HAVOC leaders imprisoned for life in 'Deep Pens'<ch.emdash/>maximum security gaols located deep underground<ch.emdash/>to prevent their escape or release by HAVOC agents still at large.</p>
<p><strong>2010</strong><br />New leadership emerges to unify the scattered remnants of HAVOC and plan revenge.</p>
<p><strong>2011</strong><br />A WDL train transporting seventeen 100-kiloton nuclear warheads, destined to be neutralized and dismantled, is attacked by HAVOC agents. The train is destroyed and its deadly cargo stolen.</p>
- <p><strong>2012 New Year's Day</strong><br />HAVOC hijack a WDL news satellite and broadcast a chilling ultimatum. They have planted the seventeen stolen warheads in major cities throughout the US, USSR and Europe. They call for the immediate release of all HAVOC agents held in Deep Pens, plus the payment of $2 trillion in gold bullion, or they will trigger the warheads one by one until their demands are met in full. A twenty-four-hour deadline is set. WDL leaders declare emergency and request that the deadline be extended. HAVOC refuse.</p>
- <p><strong>2nd January</strong><br />First warhead detonated at Brie Nuclear Energy Plant, ten miles south of Paris, France. Blast and radioactive fallout claim millions of lives. HAVOC repeat their demand and extend deadline by twenty-four hours.</p>
- <p><strong>3rd January 'The Day'</strong><br />World Defence League agents discover location of HAVOC command headquarters on an island in the South Pacific Ocean. Immediately orders are given to infiltrate and destroy the HQ and its occupants. The assault is swift and decisive', the complex is quickly overrun and its inhabitants are killed. Yet, ironically, as the news of this victory is being relayed around the world, HAVOC enact their ultimate revenge. A transmitter hidden on the island, fitted with a time-delay mechanism, clicks on, sending its high-frequency radio signal to a communications satellite orbiting the earth. This signal is amplified and returned to earth where, simultaneously, it triggers the remaining nuclear warheads. The initial explosions set off a disastrous chain reaction that feeds on civil and military nuclear installations all across the northern hemisphere. Hundreds of millions of people are killed within days, and many more perish during the years that follow, falling victim to the lingering radioactivity and the severe climatic changes that affect the earth.</p>
- <p><strong>2012-2019</strong><br />Gale force winds sweep across the world, carrying enormous amounts of dust into the upper atmosphere and preventing much sunlight from reaching the earth's surface. Temperatures plummet, deterring survivors from remaining above ground. Communications are disrupted by gamma radiation, making all radio, cable and satellite contact impossible. Small colonies of survivors develop in total isolation from one another during these years of darkness.</p>
+ <p><strong>2012 New Year's Day</strong><br />HAVOC hijack a WDL news satellite and broadcast a chilling ultimatum. They have planted the seventeen stolen warheads in major cities throughout the US, USSR and Europe. They call for the immediate release of all HAVOC agents held in Deep Pens, plus the payment of $2 trillion in gold bullion, or they will trigger the warheads one by one until their demands are met in full. A twenty-four-hour deadline is set. WDL leaders declare emergency and request that the deadline be extended. HAVOC refuse.</p>
+ <p><strong>2nd January</strong><br />First warhead detonated at Brie Nuclear Energy Plant, ten miles south of Paris, France. Blast and radioactive fallout claim millions of lives. HAVOC repeat their demand and extend deadline by twenty-four hours.</p>
+ <p><strong>3rd January 'The Day'</strong><br />World Defence League agents discover location of HAVOC command headquarters on an island in the South Pacific Ocean. Immediately orders are given to infiltrate and destroy the HQ and its occupants. The assault is swift and decisive; the complex is quickly overrun and its inhabitants are killed. Yet, ironically, as the news of this victory is being relayed around the world, HAVOC enact their ultimate revenge. A transmitter hidden on the island, fitted with a time-delay mechanism, clicks on, sending its high-frequency radio signal to a communications satellite orbiting the earth. This signal is amplified and returned to earth where, simultaneously, it triggers the remaining nuclear warheads. The initial explosions set off a disastrous chain reaction that feeds on civil and military nuclear installations all across the northern hemisphere. Hundreds of millions of people are killed within days, and many more perish during the years that follow, falling victim to the lingering radioactivity and the severe climatic changes that affect the earth.</p>
+ <p><strong>2012-2019</strong><br />Gale force winds sweep across the world, carrying enormous amounts of dust into the upper atmosphere and preventing much sunlight from reaching the earth's surface. Temperatures plummet, deterring survivors from remaining above ground. Communications are disrupted by gamma radiation, making all radio, cable and satellite contact impossible. Small colonies of survivors develop in total isolation from one another during these years of darkness.</p>
<p><strong>2019-2020</strong><br />Gradually, the dust storms die down and the sun penetrates the atmosphere, thawing the earth's frozen surface. Radiation decays to tolerable levels, and survivors emerge to reclaim what little remains of the world they once knew.</p>
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<p>You are Cal Phoenix, a survivor, born in California on Thanksgiving Day in the year AD 2000. In 2012, whilst on winter vacation at your Uncle Jonas and Aunt Betty-Ann's ranch in Texas, you were invited to visit a shale-oil mine near Austin, the first of its kind in Texas. As Chief-of-Construction, your uncle was proud to take you on a guided tour of the whole underground complex, which, for security reasons, was totally self-supporting. It was during this tour on 3rd January 2012, that the holocaust began.</p>
- <p>You remember how the ground shuddered when the shock waves of the first distant explosions reached the mine and how you thought it was the start of an earthquake, such as you had experienced many times at home in California. But as the levels nearest the surface began to collapse and the central elevator shaft filled with rubble, you realized the awful truth. At first there was no way of telling the extent of the surface devastation. Below ground, the safety generators had automatically switched into operation when the main power supply failed, and the tremors had faded quickly, which encouraged your aunt and uncle to believe that the damage above was superficial. Uncle Jonas was confidant that the military would mount a rescue operation and that you would be brought out within a few days, a week at the most. Aunt Betty-Ann too was optimistic. After all, there were emergency supplies, enough to feed 200 men for a whole month. Little did she know that the three of you would end up consuming all those supplies, or that the mine would become your home, your shelter and your prison for the next eight years of your lives.</p>
+ <p>You remember how the ground shuddered when the shock waves of the first distant explosions reached the mine and how you thought it was the start of an earthquake, such as you had experienced many times at home in California. But as the levels nearest the surface began to collapse and the central elevator shaft filled with rubble, you realized the awful truth. At first there was no way of telling the extent of the surface devastation. Below ground, the safety generators had automatically switched into operation when the main power supply failed, and the tremors had faded quickly, which encouraged your aunt and uncle to believe that the damage above was superficial. Uncle Jonas was confidant that the military would mount a rescue operation and that you would be brought out within a few days, a week at the most. Aunt Betty-Ann too was optimistic. After all, there were emergency supplies, enough to feed 200 men for a whole month. Little did she know that the three of you would end up consuming all those supplies, or that the mine would become your home, your shelter and your prison for the next eight years of your lives.</p>
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- <p>It was early September in the year 2019 when eventually you broke through to the surface. The landscape surrounding the mine looked like the surface of another planet. Few structures had survived the blizzards and intense cold that had swept around the world in the years following 'The Day', and now, after the dust had settled and the sun returned, the once-fertile plains of Austin resembled little more than a desert of parched and broken rock, littered with the artefacts of an absent civilization. During the first few days, when you set out to explore this wilderness, it was easy to believe that you were the only survivors. But on the morning of the fifth day Uncle Jonas made chance radio contact with a family called Ewell, who were living near the ruins of McKinney, thirty miles north of Dallas. They told him that they had been in touch with a handful of other groups, who had managed somehow to survive the holocaust. Most were isolated, unable to move due to lack of fuel, food, or water. They had urged those who could travel to join them in McKinney, to start a new community there, and some were already on their way. When your uncle and aunt accepted their invitation, the Ewells were enthusiastic but they also warned you to be wary<ch.emdash/>not everyone who had survived wanted to establish a new community. The ruins of some large Texan cities, such as Dallas and Fort Worth, were controlled by gangs of criminals who fought with each other and terrorized anyone seeking to re-establish law and order. They urged you to avoid these gangs at all costs.</p>
+ <p>It was early September in the year 2019 when eventually you broke through to the surface. The landscape surrounding the mine looked like the surface of another planet. Few structures had survived the blizzards and intense cold that had swept around the world in the years following 'The Day', and now, after the dust had settled and the sun returned, the once-fertile plains of Austin resembled little more than a desert of parched and broken rock, littered with the artefacts of an absent civilization. During the first few days, when you set out to explore this wilderness, it was easy to believe that you were the only survivors. But on the morning of the fifth day Uncle Jonas made chance radio contact with a family called Ewell, who were living near the ruins of McKinney, thirty miles north of Dallas. They told him that they had been in touch with a handful of other groups, who had managed somehow to survive the holocaust. Most were isolated, unable to move due to lack of fuel, food, or water. They had urged those who could travel to join them in McKinney, to start a new community there, and some were already on their way. When your uncle and aunt accepted their invitation, the Ewells were enthusiastic but they also warned you to be wary<ch.emdash/>not everyone who had survived wanted to establish a new community. The ruins of some large Texan cities, such as Dallas and Fort Worth, were controlled by gangs of criminals who fought with each other and terrorized anyone seeking to reestablish law and order. They urged you to avoid these gangs at all costs.</p>
<p>It took more than a week to discover a vehicle capable of transporting you to McKinney. It was an old school bus parked in an underground lot where it had survived the years of sub-zero blizzards. With fuel and spares salvaged from the mine, you managed to coax it back to life, whereupon you set off on your journey north. When you arrived at the town, it was easy to find where the Ewells lived, for their ranch was the only place that was still standing. It looked more like an old frontier post than a ranch, with its fortified perimeter wall, lookout posts and stake-filled moat. However, after being ambushed and shot at by the city gangs of Fort Worth during the final stages of your journey, you could readily understand the need for these defences.</p>
<p>'Pop' Ewell, the seventy-year-old grandfather of the Ewell family, was the leader of this small colony of survivors, and it was he who had urged Uncle Jonas to join them when your uncle had first made radio contact. The colony numbered less than a dozen at the time of your arrival, yet as the airwaves became clearer and new contacts were made, the number had soon more than doubled to twenty-five. It was decided that a name was needed to identify the settlement. The name 'Dallas Colony One' was adopted<ch.emdash/>'DC1' for short<ch.emdash/>and from that day on, everyone worked hard to make DC1 a secure haven for those seeking refuge from the hostile wastelands and marauding city gangs.</p>
<p>'Cutter' Jacks was one such refugee. Before 'The Day' he had been chief mechanic at the International Grand Prix Circuit near Lake Dallas, and his incredible skill and knowledge of engines was soon to prove invaluable to the colony. He taught you how to drive, and from a pile of old wrecks that you helped him salvage from the circuit, he built you a powerful, customized car. You used it to patrol the highways north of the city, keeping a lookout for gangs of city punks who frequently mounted raids to steal or destroy DC1's supplies. Cutter also taught you to shoot, and it was your natural prowess with a gun, and your skill behind the wheel, that was to earn you the begrudging respect of your enemies, who took to calling you the 'Freeway Warrior'.</p>
- <p>Six months after your arrival at DC1, the colony was faced with a major crisis. A heat wave caused a drought that threatened to destroy the food supply. Crops were failing and the colony's artesian well<ch.emdash/>its only source of uncontaminated water<ch.emdash/>was beginning to dry up. The drought was also provoking more attacks from the city punks who were desperate for food and water. Their common need had united them and now they posed a very real threat to the security of DC1. It was the last day of May, 2020, when Pop Ewell made radio contact with another colony, who were based in the city of Big Spring, 300 miles west of McKinney. Their situation was completely the reverse of DC1's: they had food and water in plentiful supply but they were desperately short of fuel. They told of their contact with survivors in Tucson, Arizona, who also were without fuel. The Tucson colony reported that the territories west of the Sierra Nevada Mountains had been spared the worst effects of the radioactive blizzards that had devastated the rest of the country and, miraculously, much of southern California was still widely populated: it had survived the last eight years virtually intact. When you heard the news, you could hardly believe your ears. Perhaps your family as still alive; perhaps there was still a chance that one day you would be reunited.</p>
+ <p>Six months after your arrival at DC1, the colony was faced with a major crisis. A heat wave caused a drought that threatened to destroy the food supply. Crops were failing and the colony's artesian well<ch.emdash/>its only source of uncontaminated water<ch.emdash/>was beginning to dry up. The drought was also provoking more attacks from the city punks who were desperate for food and water. Their common need had united them and now they posed a very real threat to the security of DC1. It was the last day of May, 2020, when Pop Ewell made radio contact with another colony, who were based in the city of Big Spring, 300 miles west of McKinney. Their situation was completely the reverse of DC1's: they had food and water in plentiful supply but they were desperately short of fuel. They told of their contact with survivors in Tucson, Arizona, who also were without fuel. The Tucson colony reported that the territories west of the Sierra Nevada Mountains had been spared the worst effects of the radioactive blizzards that had devastated the rest of the country and, miraculously, much of southern California was still widely populated: it had survived the last eight years virtually intact. When you heard the news, you could hardly believe your ears. Perhaps your family as still alive; perhaps there was still a chance that one day you would be reunited.</p>
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- <p>A meeting was held to decide how best to deal with the crisis facing DCl. Everyone agreed that staying at McKinney could lead only to eventual death, either slowly from starvation or suddenly at the hands of the murderous city gangs. The only choice open to DC1 was to try to reach California: only there lay any real hope for the future of the colony. The decision was relayed to the survivors at Big Spring, and a deal was struck to rendezvous with them as soon as possible. DC1 would give them fuel in exchange for food and water, and together they would join up with the Tucson colony for the final stage of the journey to California.</p>
+ <p>A meeting was held to decide how best to deal with the crisis facing DC1. Everyone agreed that staying at McKinney could lead only to eventual death, either slowly from starvation or suddenly at the hands of the murderous city gangs. The only choice open to DC1 was to try to reach California: only there lay any real hope for the future of the colony. The decision was relayed to the survivors at Big Spring, and a deal was struck to rendezvous with them as soon as possible. DC1 would give them fuel in exchange for food and water, and together they would join up with the Tucson colony for the final stage of the journey to California.</p>
<p>Careful preparations were made for the long trek, and three vehicles were chosen to make up the convoy: the school bus, your customized roadster and a gasolene tanker laden with 5,000 gallons of petroleum siphoned from underground storage tanks at the Ewell ranch. Supplies of food and water were adequate but the colony lacked sufficient firearms and ammunition with which to defend itself. On the day before the convoy was due to leave, one of the colonists was sent north to search the town of Sherman for weapons. He radioed back to say that he had found a cache of hunting rifles and ammunition, but that his truck had broken down and he was stranded in the town. He had also found a survivor<ch.emdash/>a beautiful teenage girl<ch.emdash/>and he requested that you go to Sherman to pick them both up. As soon as you arrived you were ambushed by the scouts of a brutal gang of bikers known as the Detroit Lions and, in the ensuing gun battle, you killed Stinger<ch.emdash/>the scouts' leader.</p>
<p>Later you learned that the girl, Kate Norton, was the sole survivor of a Kansas City colony that had been attacked and wiped out by the Detroit Lions. The Lions' leader, who calls himself Mad Dog Michigan, had taken a liking to her and spared her life. Mad Dog was once a high-ranking HAVOC agent who had escaped from Pontiac Deep Pen near Detroit, and he and his gang, most of whom were also HAVOC escapees, were heading for the Fort Hood Military Reserve near Killeen, Texas, the largest armoury in the whole of the United States. There he hoped to find enough weapons to equip the other HAVOC clans, who were now in control of cities all along the eastern seaboard. Kate had managed to steal a motorcycle and escape from their camp, but Mad Dog was determined to get her back. He sent his brother<ch.emdash/>Stinger<ch.emdash/>and a handful of his best scouts to track her down, and they had finally caught up with her at Sherman.</p>
<p>When Mad Dog learned that you had killed his brother, he vowed to get even with you. He abandoned his plans to loot Fort Hood and embarked instead on a relentless pursuit of your colony as it crossed the sun-scorched wastelands of Texas. The journey to Big Spring was fraught with great danger and yet, in spite of the many perils you faced, or perhaps because of them, you felt yourself falling in love with Kate and you sensed that she was becoming increasingly fond of you. Sadly, the convoy was only a few miles from Big Spring when disaster struck. The land surrounding the settlement was controlled by a gang of bikers, a renegade clan called the 'Mavericks', who had been the bane of the Big Spring colony for many months. As the convoy drew nearer to its destination, the Mavericks launched an attack, and, in the running battle that ensued, they captured and abducted Kate. The convoy entered the fortified gates of Big Spring to a rapturous welcome from the colonists of that settlement, but for you the celebration was soured by the vivid memory of Kate's abduction. You vowed to rescue her, and from that moment on every waking minute of every day at Big Spring was spent thinking about little else.</p>
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<p>By chance it transpired that the leader of the Mavericks, a blond-haired murderer called Amex Gold, was a former HAVOC agent, who had served under Mad Dog Michigan before 'The Day'. He offered to join forces with the Lions and, as a gesture of his loyalty to his former commander, he returned Kate to him. Together the Lions and the Mavericks launched a hasty attack on Big Spring, yet, although they outnumbered the colony by more than three to one, they were unable to breach the settlement's fortified perimeter wall and were repelled with heavy losses. On the day after the attack, Pop Ewell discovered the radio frequency that the clansmen were using and was able to eavesdrop on their communications. He learned that Mad Dog had ordered another HAVOC clan, the Saints, who were based in New Orleans, to come to reinforce his command; they were expected to arrive within the week. He also overheard Mad Dog arrange a meeting with Mekong Mike, the leader of the Angelinos, a gang who controlled the city of San Angelo. He wanted him as an ally and was prepared to offer guns and ammunition in return for his help in destroying the Big Spring colony. Two days later, Mad Dog Michigan set off for San Angelo at the head of a motorcycle pack 200 riders strong. Those few clansmen who remained with Amex Gold tried all manner of tricks to convince the colony that the Mavericks and the Lions still surrounded Big Spring in strength, but to no avail. The senior members of the newly enlarged colony convened a meeting, at which it was decided that, with the clansmen now at their weakest, and with the appearance of the New Orleans gang expected at any time, a breakout had to be attempted without delay. There was only one way for the colony to reach Tucson overland and that was to follow the remains of Interstate Freeway 10 through the arid, mountainous territory of western Texas. Precisely halfway between Big Spring and Tucson lies the city of El Paso. To reach this city in one piece became the convoy's goal. It lay at the end of a long and tortuous stretch of mountain highway, undoubtedly one of the toughest you would have to face on your journey to California.</p>
- <p>Under cover of darkness, the convoy escaped from Big Spring and sped westwards. Now your vow to rescue Kate could at last be realized and, at the first opportunity, you told the colony of your plans. Reluctantly they let you leave the convoy and go to San Angelo, where you intended to infiltrate the meeting between the Lions and the Angelinos in the hope of finding Kate there. Your skill and daring were rewarded, for you were able to locate and rescue Kate from under the very noses of the clan leaders. During your escape from their city, you killed Mekong Mike, the Angelinos' leader, and stole a map from Mad Dog Michigan. Later you discovered that this map contained vital details of a HAVOC operation to take over the whole of the United States.</p>
+ <p>Under cover of darkness, the convoy escaped from Big Spring and sped westwards. Now your vow to rescue Kate could at last be realized and, at the first opportunity, you told the colony of your plans. Reluctantly they let you leave the convoy and go to San Angelo, where you intended to infiltrate the meeting between the Lions and the Angelinos in the hope of finding Kate there. Your skill and daring were rewarded, for you were able to locate and rescue Kate from under the very noses of the clan leaders. During your escape from their city, you killed Mekong Mike, the Angelinos' leader, and stole a map from Mad Dog Michigan. Later you discovered that this map contained vital details of a HAVOC operation to take over the whole of the United States.</p>
<p>As you escaped westwards from San Angelo, you encountered three soldiers, survivors from a world Defence League outpost in southern Texas, who were also heading for El Paso, where the remnants of their command group were stationed. You joined them and together you rendezvoused with the convoy at the entrance to the only passable road through the Apache Mountains. A fierce battle was raging along this pass between the Mavericks and a clan of Mexicans who had crossed the border in search of food and supplies. The convoy was forced to run the gauntlet of their gunfire before finally reaching its goal. Upon entering the city, you received a warm welcome from the WDL command group who were defending the military reserve of Fort Bliss. They celebrated your arrival for several days until the appearance of Mad Dog Michigan and an army of clansmen numbering over 1000 strong brought an abrupt end to the festivities. He had persuaded the Mexicans to join with the Lions, the Mavericks and the Saints, all of whom were now united to his cause. The situation was desperate. Faced with overwhelming odds, the WDL command tried to negotiate with Mad Dog but he rejected their overtures with disdain. He sent a reply to the command leader, Captain Frankland, in which he reaffirmed his vow to avenge his brother's death. His aims were brutally simple: he promised that neither you nor any of the colony would ever leave EL Paso alive. He set up headquarters in Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, where he directed his clan army to encircle and lay siege to the colony.</p>
<p>For two weeks, he launched repeated attacks, calculated to weaken your defences. The colony withstood the assaults, but the constant attrition began to erode your hopes of ever being able to break out of El Paso and reach Tucson in one piece. Then a radio message was intercepted that was to turn this desperate situation into a crisis. A clan convoy of trucks was bound for Mad Dog's headquarters in Ciudad Juarez. On board were enough high explosives to blow Fort Bliss, and everyone in it, to sightless atoms. Something had to be done to prevent Mad Dog from using these explosives. Out of desperation was born a daring plan. The explosives had to be destroyed as soon as they reached Ciudad Juarez. It was a dangerous and potentially suicidal mission, too difficult for one man alone, therefore Captain Frankland chose to lead the mission himself and he called for three volunteers to accompany him. Two WDL soldiers, Haskell and Knott, readily accepted the challenge and, mindful that the future of the colony was dependent on the success of this mission, you summoned up enough courage to volunteer as the fourth member of his team.</p>
<p>Armed with contact mines, the four of you infiltrated Mad Dog's base and blew up the explosives shortly after they arrived there. The unexpected destruction of the base threw his clan army into confusion and enabled the colony to break out of Fort Bliss virtually unopposed. As the colony made their escape westwards towards Tucson, your team escaped from Ciudad Juarez in a hijacked truck and made its way along the Mexican border. The plan was for you to rendezvous with the colony the following day, but mechanical breakdowns and skirmishes with Mad Dog's scouts prevented an early reunion. Enraged by the sheer nerve of your attack and the damage inflicted upon his command, Mad Dog Michigan sent for Helmut Varken, the most ruthless of all his HAVOC assassins. Relentlessly Varken shadowed your team as you traversed the mountainous forests of southern Arizona and, one-by-one, he coldly murdered your comrades until only you remained.</p>
<p>In a fateful showdown in the town of Tombstone, you faced Varken and avenged your dead companions in the yard of the town's historic courthouse. Using the deceased assassin's motorcycle, you reached Interstate 10 and followed tyre tracks that were made a day before by the convoy vehicles. They led you to the town of Benson, forty miles southeast of Tucson, where unexpectedly you met up with Kate Norton. When your team had failed to make the rendezvous, the colony had come to the reluctant conclusion that you had all perished at Ciudad Juarez. Only Kate clung to the belief that you were still alive and had persuaded the colony leaders, against their better judgment, to allow her to wait for you here.</p>
- <p>Driving your roadster, the two of you set off confidently on the final leg of your journey to Tucson. However, your confidence was soon shattered by the sudden appearance of another roadster, an armed and armoured racing machine driven by none other than your archenemy, Mad Dog Michigan. A vicious road duel ensued as you raced towards the sanctuary of the Tucson stronghold, a battle that culminated in a high-speed collision that sent your enemy careering off the freeway at over 100 miles per hour. The last you saw of the HAVOC leader was when his roadster plummeted into a deep drainage-way called the Pantona Wash.</p>
+ <p>Driving your roadster, the two of you set off confidently on the final leg of your journey to Tucson. However, your confidence was soon shattered by the sudden appearance of another roadster, an armed and armoured racing machine driven by none other than your archenemy, Mad Dog Michigan. A vicious road duel ensued as you raced towards the sanctuary of the Tucson stronghold, a battle that culminated in a high-speed collision that sent your enemy careering off the freeway at over 100 miles per hour. The last you saw of the HAVOC leader was when his roadster plummeted into a deep drainage-way called the Pantona Wash.</p>
<p>You and Kate entered the Tucson stronghold to a hero's welcome. The colony was overjoyed, for they feared that they would never see either of you again. They were saddened to hear of the deaths of your comrades, yet all drew some comfort from the knowledge that the memory of their sacrifice would never fade. Had it not been for their bravery, the convoy would never have reached Tucson intact.</p>
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<p>Before embarking on your adventure, you must first determine your personal characteristics and the weapons and provisions with which you are equipped. An <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> has been supplied on which to record and amend these details as the adventure unfolds.</p>
- <p>Your personal characteristics comprise two basic attributes: <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> and <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ>. To discover your initial <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ>, take a pencil and, with your eyes closed, point the blunt end of it on to the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>. If you pick a 0 it counts as zero. Add 10 to the number you have picked and write the total in the <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> section of your Action Chart (for example, if your pencil falls on the number 5 in the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>, you have a CLOSE <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> total of 15). When you fight an enemy in hand-to-hand combat, your <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> will be measured against that of your enemy, so a high score in this section is desirable.</p>
- <p>To discover your <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> level, repeat the process, but this time add 20 to the number you have picked from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>. Write the total in the <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> section of your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> (for example, if your pencil falls on the number 8 on the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>, you have a total <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> score of 28). If you are wounded in combat, or injured at any other time during your adventure you will lose <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. If, at any time, your <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points total falls to zero, you are dead and the adventure is over. You can regain lost <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points during the course of the adventure, but your <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> level can never rise above your initial score.</p>
+ <p>Your personal characteristics comprise two basic attributes: <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> and <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ>. To discover your initial <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ>, take a pencil and, with your eyes closed, point the blunt end of it on to the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>. If you pick a 0 it counts as zero. Add 10 to the number you have picked and write the total in the <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> section of your Action Chart (for example, if your pencil falls on the number 5 in the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>, you have a <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> total of 15). When you fight an enemy in hand-to-hand combat, your <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> will be measured against that of your enemy, so a high score in this section is desirable.</p>
+ <p>To discover your <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> level, repeat the process, but this time add 20 to the number you have picked from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>. Write the total in the <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> section of your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> (for example, if your pencil falls on the number 8 on the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>, you have a total <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> score of 28). If you are wounded in combat, or injured at any other time during your adventure you will lose <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. If, at any time, your <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points total falls to zero or below, you are dead and the adventure is over. You can regain lost <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points during the course of the adventure, but your <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> level can never rise above your initial score.</p>
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<p>Ever since the day you returned to the surface, you have endeavoured to develop your skills and natural instincts fully in order to best defend yourself and your colony.</p>
<p>Listed on your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> are your five basic Survival Skills:</p>
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<p>Your ability in each of these five individual skills is measured in skill points. You begin with 3 points per skill. Before starting the adventure, you may allocate an additional 4 skill points to your list of five Survival Skills. These 4 extra points can be used to improve one or more of your five skills. During your adventure, all five skills will be severely tested, therefore the higher the individual skill level, the better your chances of survival. You may allocate your 4 additional points entirely how you like.</p>
<p>When you have decided where to allocate your 4 additional skill points, make a note of the totals in the Survival Skills section of your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>.</p>
- <p>(If this is your first Freeway Warrior adventure, your total number of skill points should be 19: five skills x 3 points each = 15, plus 4 additional skill points = 19 points.)</p>
+ <p>(If this is your first Freeway Warrior adventure, your total number of skill points should be 19: five skills x 3 points each = 15, plus 4 additional skill points = 19 points.)</p>
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- <p>A well-stocked Medi-kit can make all the difference to your chances of survival should you suffer injury in the field or as a result of combat. It contains useful first aid supplies, such as dressings, antiseptics, antibiotics, water purification tablets, sulphonamides, pain killers, potassium iodide tablets (to delay absorption of radioactivity) and sutures.</p>
+ <p>A well-stocked Medi-kit can make all the difference to your chances of survival should you suffer injury in the field or as a result of combat. It contains useful first aid supplies, such as dressings, antiseptics, antibiotics, water purification tablets, sulfonamides, pain killers, potassium iodide tablets (to delay absorption of radioactivity) and sutures.</p>
<p>For convenience, these medical supplies are grouped into units. To find how many units you have in your Medi-kit, pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> (0 equals 10) and add 2. Your total score equals the number of units with which you begin your adventure. To keep a record of them, circle the appropriate number of unit symbols in the Medi-kit section of your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>. The maximum number of units you can carry in your Medi-kit is twelve.</p>
<p>You may use your Medi-kit units to restore lost <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points; each unit used in this way restores 3 points. Units cannot be used to restore <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points in lieu of a Meal or Water when instructed to eat or drink.</p>
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<p>These weapons aid you in hand-to-hand fighting. You begin your adventure armed with a Hunting Knife which, when used in close combat, adds 2 points to your <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ>. Note this Hunting Knife in the Close Combat Weapons section of your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>.</p>
- <p>If you find a close combat weapon during your adventure, you may pick it up and use it. Close combat weapons appear in the text with a close combat skill number: for example, Machete (3). This number indicates how many points this weapon will add to your <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> when used in a hand-to-hand fight.</p>
- <p>The maximum number of close combat weapons you may carry is two.</p>
+ <p>If you find a close combat weapon during your adventure, you may pick it up and use it. Close combat weapons appear in the text with a close combat skill number; for example, Machete (3). This number indicates how many points this weapon will add to your <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> when used in a hand-to-hand fight.</p>
+ <p>The maximum number of close combat weapons you may carry is <em>two</em>.</p>
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- <p>There will be occasions when you will have to fight an enemy in hand-to-hand combat. The enemy's <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> and <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> level will both be given in the text. Your aim in close combat is to kill the enemy by reducing his <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points to zero while losing as few of your own <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points as possible.</p>
+ <p>There will be occasions when you will have to fight an enemy in hand-to-hand combat. The enemy's <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> and <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> level will both be given in the text. Your aim in close combat is to kill the enemy by reducing his <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points to zero or below while losing as few of your own <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points as possible.</p>
<p>At the start of a close combat, enter both your own and your enemy's <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points in the appropriate boxes on the Close Combat Record section of your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>. The sequence for close combat is as follows:</p>
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<li><p>Add any extra points gained through the use of close combat weapons to your current <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> total.</p></li>
<li><p>After working out your Combat Ratio, pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</p></li>
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<p>Turn to the <a idref="crtable">Close Combat Results Table</a>. Along the top of the chart are the Combat Ratio numbers. Find the number that is the same as your Combat Ratio and cross-reference it with the number that you have picked (the random numbers appear down the side of the chart). You now have the <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points lost by both Cal Phoenix and his enemy in this round of close combat. (E represents points lost by the enemy; CP represents points lost by Cal Phoenix.)</p>
- <p>Example<br />The Combat Ratio between Cal Phoenix and the Renegade Clansman has been established as <ch.plus/>1. If the number picked from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> is a 4, then the result of the first round of close combat is:
+ <p>Example<br />The Combat Ratio between Cal Phoenix and the Renegade Clansman has been established as <ch.plus/>1. If the number picked from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> is a 4, then the result of the first round of close combat is:</p>
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<li>Cal Phoenix loses 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</li>
<li>Renegade Clansman loses 4 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</li>
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<li><p>On the <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>, mark the changes in <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points to the participants in the close combat.</p></li>
<li><p>Unless otherwise instructed, or unless you have an option to evade, start the next round of close combat.</p></li>
<li><p>Repeat the sequence from stage 3.</p></li>
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- <p>This procedure continues until the <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points of either the enemy or Cal Phoenix are reduced to zero, at which point the one whose score is zero is declared dead. If Cal Phoenix is dead, the adventure is over. If the enemy is dead, Cal Phoenix proceeds but with a reduced <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> point score.</p>
- <p>A <a idref="crsumary">
summary of the Close Combat Rules</a> appears on the page after the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</p>
+ <p>This procedure continues until the <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points of either the enemy or Cal Phoenix are reduced to zero or below, at which point that combatant is declared dead. If Cal Phoenix is dead, the adventure is over. If the enemy is dead, Cal Phoenix proceeds but with his <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points possibly reduced.</p>
+ <p>A <a idref="crsumary">
Summary of the Close Combat Rules</a> appears on the page after the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</p>
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<p>The day after your arrival sees the withdrawal of Mad Dog Michigan's clan army from the vicinity of the Davis-Monthan air force base, stronghold of the Tucson colony. Scouts are sent to shadow the enemy and, later in the day, they return to report that the clansmen have pulled back to Nogales, a frontier town on the Mexican border. This hurried retreat reinforces the belief that Mad Dog perished when his speedster crashed into the Pantona Wash.</p>
<p>Boosted by the arrival of your convoy, the Tucson colony now numbers over 130 men, women and children. Supplies of food and water are adequate and, with the arrival of DC1's gasolene tanker, there is more than enough fuel to get you to California. Mike Gorgas, a former district attorney who is now the appointed leader of the Tucson colony, urges the other colony leaders to make preparations to leave the stronghold and head west without delay. The clan army may have suffered a setback but, sooner or later, prompted by a lack of supplies or a desire for revenge, they are sure to leave Nogales and attack the stronghold in force.</p>
<p>There is also the threat of an attack by the Outlaws, an exceptionally vicious clan that controls the city of Phoenix. Among their number are many criminals who have been expelled from California since 'The Day'. Their leader, Shiloh, is one such outcast. He has been exiled into the Omega Zone (the name Californians have given to the ravaged territories east of their state line), for murder, looting and other, lesser, crimes he and his gang perpetrated in Los Angeles. During the past few months he has often crossed swords with the Tucson colony, resulting in deaths on both sides.</p>
- <p>When the time comes to plan the route to California, the colony agrees that they should try at all costs to avoid contact with Shiloh's clan. Interstate 10 is the only highway out of Tucson capable of carrying the convoy at reasonable speed, yet it passes straight through the centre of Phoenix. The only alternative is to follow this highway as far as Arizona City and then switch to Interstate 8. The colony could then follow the freeway across southern Arizona to Yuma, traverse the Colorado river at this point, and continue, through the desert and mountains of south-west California, until finally reaching its goal<ch.emdash/>the city of San Diego.</p>
+ <p>When the time comes to plan the route to California, the colony agrees that they should try at all costs to avoid contact with Shiloh's clan. Interstate 10 is the only highway out of Tucson capable of carrying the convoy at reasonable speed, yet it passes straight through the centre of Phoenix. The only alternative is to follow this highway as far as Arizona City and then switch to Interstate 8. The colony could then follow the freeway across southern Arizona to Yuma, traverse the Colorado river at this point, and continue, through the desert and mountains of southwest California, until finally reaching its goal<ch.emdash/>the city of San Diego.</p>
<p>Much of the territory south of Phoenix is patrolled and controlled by the Outlaws. To avoid the risk of running headlong into a clan patrol, the colony appoints you, and three others, as scouts. Whilst the colonists complete their final preparations to leave the stronghold, you and the other scouts set off along Interstate 10 to check that the road ahead is clear.</p>
<choice idref="sect235"><link-text>Turn to 235</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>Your burst of fire hits the clansman in the chest, killing him instantly.<a id="sect4-1" idref="sect4-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The sight of his body tumbling backwards down the slope sends a shockwave through his confederates, and at once their attack falters. Encouraged by their sudden change of heart, you watch as they fall back towards their trucks, which are parked in the centre of the freeway.</p>
+ <p>Your burst of fire hits the clansman in the chest, killing him instantly.<a id="sect4-1" idref="sect4-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The sight of his body tumbling backwards down the slope sends a shock wave through his confederates, and at once their attack falters. Encouraged by their sudden change of heart, you watch as they fall back towards their trucks, which are parked in the centre of the freeway.</p>
<choice idref="sect141"><link-text>Turn to 141</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>The windows of this store are so caked with dirt that it is impossible to see inside. You imagine an Aladdin's cave full of food just waiting to be scooped off the shelves, but your hopes are dashed when you force open one of the Supermart's electric doors and gain entry.</p>
- <p>The first thing you notice is the sunlight streaming in where part of the rear wall has collapsed. Over the past year this gap has allowed foraging clansmen and packs of hungry mountain wolves to take nearly everything worth taking from the store. Only when you search the storerooms on the basement level do you find a case of canned foodstuffs that are still edible. You are pulling it down off the shelf when suddenly you discover why the clansmen and the wolves left this case untouched.</p>
+ <p>The first thing you notice is the sunlight streaming in where part of the rear wall has collapsed. Over the past year this gap has allowed foraging clansmen and packs of hungry mountain wolves to take nearly everything worth taking from the store. Only when you search the store rooms on the basement level do you find a case of canned foodstuffs that are still edible. You are pulling it down off the shelf when suddenly you discover why the clansmen and the wolves left this case untouched.</p>
<p>Behind the case is a nesting rattlesnake. Until now it has been sleeping, but the sudden, unexpected movement of the case has awoken it and, in fear and surprise, it lashes out and attempts to sink its venomous fangs into your throat.</p>
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- <p>Cookie informs you that the convoy could make a successful crossing at the Imperial Reservoir, located on the Colorado River ten miles to the north
-east of Dome. Your <a idref="map">map</a> confirms its location, but no highways are shown and you doubt that the convoy's heavy vehicles would be able to cross there safely, if at all.</p>
+ <p>Cookie informs you that the convoy could make a successful crossing at the Imperial Reservoir, located on the Colorado River ten miles to the northeast of Dome. Your <a idref="map">map</a> confirms its location, but no highways are shown and you doubt that the convoy's heavy vehicles would be able to cross there safely, if at all.</p>
<p>Cookie is insistent that it is possible, and, after much deliberation, the colony leaders agree to try. The convoy sets off immediately for Ligurta, a town on Interstate 8 that you checked thoroughly on your return from Yuma earlier this morning. The town is still empty, so the convoy halts here. Driving the clan pick-up truck that you discovered parked behind the cinema last night, Rickenbacker, Cookie and yourself leave Ligurta to scout the tiny town of Dome. It is empty, but two miles beyond it you find that the bridge across the Gila River is guarded by a Puma patrol.</p>
<choice idref="sect109"><link-text>Turn to 109</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>Beyond the X-ray department, the corridor leads to another flight of stairs, which ascends to a pair of heavy doors, inset with circular windows. You look through the windows and see a small reception lobby, with couches, desks and a counter. A detailed floorplan of the hospital is hanging behind the reception counter and it occurs to you that this must show where the medicine storage facility is located. You push against the doors but, to your frustration, both of them are locked.</p>
+ <p>Beyond the X-ray department, the corridor leads to another flight of stairs, which ascends to a pair of heavy doors, inset with circular windows. You look through the windows and see a small reception lobby, with couches, desks and a counter. A detailed floor plan of the hospital is hanging behind the reception counter and it occurs to you that this must show where the medicine storage facility is located. You push against the doors but, to your frustration, both of them are locked.</p>
<choice idref="sect153">If you wish to try to barge open the doors to gain access to the lobby, <link-text>turn to 153</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect22">If you wish to try to pick the lock that secures the doors, <link-text>turn to 22</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect90">If you choose to shoot open the lock, <link-text>turn to 90</link-text>.</choice>
<signpost>LUKE AIR FORGE RANGE</signpost>
<signpost>GARCIA WELL</signpost>
<signpost>US. GOVT. PROPERTY<ch.emdash/>KEEP OUT!</signpost>
- <p>You park the pick-up beside the pump house and Jaeger helps you unload the containers. 'I had to draw the water up by hand yesterday,' he says, nodding towards the bore-hole, "cause I couldn't get the pump to work. I reckon it's OK<ch.emdash/>jus' needs some gasolene that's all. Maybe if we could syphon some fuel from the truck we could get its engine running. It'd save us a whole lotta hard work.'</p>
+ <p>You park the pick-up beside the pump house and Jaeger helps you unload the containers. 'I had to draw the water up by hand yesterday,' he says, nodding towards the bore-hole, "cause I couldn't get the pump to work. I reckon it's OK<ch.emdash/>jus' needs some gasolene that's all. Maybe if we could siphon some fuel from the truck we could get its engine running. It'd save us a whole lotta hard work.'</p>
<choice idref="sect211">If you possess some Plastic Tube, <link-text>turn to 211</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect76">If you do not possess this item, <link-text>turn to 76</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>Jaeger is talking to Rickenbacker when he mentions that, only the previous day, he found a fresh-water well in the mountains, approximately fifteen miles south-east of the town of Mohawk. He offers to lead the convoy scouts to it, and assures everyone that the source is pure and uncontaminated. 'An' the best part is that the clansmen don't know about it, either,' he says, enthusiastically.</p>
+ <p>Jaeger is talking to Rickenbacker when he mentions that, only the previous day, he found a fresh-water well in the mountains, approximately fifteen miles southeast of the town of Mohawk. He offers to lead the convoy scouts to it, and assures everyone that the source is pure and uncontaminated. 'An' the best part is that the clansmen don't know about it, either,' he says, enthusiastically.</p>
<p>The promise of fresh, clean water lifts the convoy's flagging spirits and renews their hopes of completing the long exodus to California. You set off at once and soon cover the twenty miles of open road that lead to the derelict town of Mohawk. Once there, you and Jaeger are chosen to go and find the well. A dozen empty, five-gallon water containers are loaded on to the back of a pick-up, enough for sixty gallons of water, the minimum the colony will need in order to reach California alive.</p>
<p>The thought of driving a pick-up truck into the mountains without roads or four-wheel drive fills you with dread. But you know that it is the only way you have of transporting such a weighty load. Once preparations are complete, you climb aboard and head out into the desert towards the Mohawk Mountains.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</p>
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- <p>You drop behind the edge of the hollow moments before the clansman's bullets tear into the earth. Then you hear the chatter of Kate's gun, and suddenly there is silence. Cautiously you raise your head and see the clansman's body tumbling backwards down the slope. The sight of his death sends a shockwave through his confederates, and at once their attack falters. Encouraged by their sudden change of heart, you watch as they fall back towards their trucks, which are parked in the centre of the freeway.</p>
+ <p>You drop behind the edge of the hollow moments before the clansman's bullets tear into the earth. Then you hear the chatter of Kate's gun, and suddenly there is silence. Cautiously you raise your head and see the clansman's body tumbling backwards down the slope. The sight of his death sends a shock wave through his confederates, and at once their attack falters. Encouraged by their sudden change of heart, you watch as they fall back towards their trucks, which are parked in the centre of the freeway.</p>
<choice idref="sect141"><link-text>Turn to 141</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You approach the milling throng of colonists who are gathered around the scene of the crime, and push your way through them towards Rex Tyler. His hands are being tied and, before you can reach him and question him about what has happened, he is taken away and locked in the cab of one of the Tucson vehicles.</p>
<p>Some of the Tucson colonists are preparing to bury Gorgas' body, which they have wrapped in blankets. You get the distinct feeling that they would not look favourably on a request to examine the body, so you decide to investigate the cab of his truck instead.</p>
- <p>Apart from some blood stains on the driver's seat, you see nothing unusual until you search beneath the seat itself. There you discover a <typ class="item">Cigarette Lighter</typ>, and immediately your suspicions are aroused. Mike Gorgas did not smoke, and neither, come to think of it, does Rex Tyler.</p>
+ <p>Apart from some bloodstains on the driver's seat, you see nothing unusual until you search beneath the seat itself. There you discover a <typ class="item">Cigarette Lighter</typ>, and immediately your suspicions are aroused. Mike Gorgas did not smoke, and neither, come to think of it, does Rex Tyler.</p>
<p>'What are you lookin' for, Phoenix. Souvenirs?' growls an angry voice. Immediately you turn around and find yourself staring at Avenal's sneering face. Before you can reply, Cutter appears.</p>
<p>'You're the driver of this truck now, Avenal,' he says. 'Cal, you and Rickenbacker better get back to your roadster. We've gotta get moving.'</p>
<p>With a growl of contempt, Avenal barges his way past you and climbs into the truck's cab. Cutter slams the door shut, and, as he starts to walk away, you decide that now would be the best time to tell him about the rockfall.</p>
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- <p>You search the pick-up and the pump house for some tubing with which to syphon some fuel, but your search proves fruitless. Resignedly you set to work drawing water the hard way, pumping it up from the well by means of a small hand crank. The crank was originally designed for obtaining small samples for scientific analysis, and it takes you nearly two hours of exhausting labour to extract the sixty gallons you require, and then load the heavy containers on to the truck.</p>
+ <p>You search the pick-up and the pump house for some tubing with which to siphon some fuel, but your search proves fruitless. Resignedly you set to work drawing water the hard way, pumping it up from the well by means of a small hand crank. The crank was originally designed for obtaining small samples for scientific analysis, and it takes you nearly two hours of exhausting labour to extract the sixty gallons you require, and then load the heavy containers on to the truck.</p>
<p>Despite several rests and drinks of water, you lose 4 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points owing to fatigue. (If you wish, you may take this opportunity to refill your water canteen.)</p>
<choice idref="sect243"><link-text>Turn to 243</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>The brakes lock and the truck no longer responds to your steering. There is a shudder as both the off-side wheels slide over the edge, and your stomach chums as the vehicle tilts sideways. Jaeger screams and hopelessly he tries to open the door and jump out, but it is already too late. The last thing you see as you plummet over the edge is the rocky floor of the ravine rushing towards the windshield.</p>
+ <p>The brakes lock and the truck no longer responds to your steering. There is a shudder as both the off-side wheels slide over the edge, and your stomach churns as the vehicle tilts sideways. Jaeger screams and hopelessly he tries to open the door and jump out, but it is already too late. The last thing you see as you plummet over the edge is the rocky floor of the ravine rushing towards the windshield.</p>
<p>Sadly, your journey and your life end here in the Mowhawk Mountains of Arizona.</p>
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<p>A wave of burning heat lashes your back and tightens the skin on your face and hands as you sprint towards the test laboratories. The explosions are growing louder and more frequent, and the floor shudders violently beneath your feet. You are only a few feet from the door to the first laboratory when a sudden gush of scorching air makes you cry out in pain. It shrivels your eyelashes and blisters the lining of your nose and throat: lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<p>Beyond the door you discover a room filled with electrical test equipment. There is no other door from the room and the corridor is now so full of toxic smoke that it would be suicidal to go back that way. Only the windows offer any chance of escape from the inferno, but when you take a closer look at them your heart sinks. They are armoured panels: a criss-cross of wire netting sandwiched between two sheets of plate glass, each 25mm thick!</p>
<p>As the paint on the inside of the laboratory door blisters and ignites, you hammer frantically at the window with the butt of your gun.</p>
- <p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your Strength skill score. If you possess a Monkey Wrench, a Hammer, or a Baseball Bat, add 2 points to your score. If you possess a Fire Axe, add 4 points.</p>
+ <p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your Stealth skill score. If you possess a Monkey Wrench, a Hammer, or a Baseball Bat, add 2 points to your score. If you possess a Fire Axe, add 4 points.</p>
<choice idref="sect273">If your total score is 9 or less, <link-text>turn to 273</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect72">If your total score is 10 or more, <link-text>turn to 72</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>The retreat is only a short reprieve in the concerted clan attack. Almost immediately, several more trucks packed with Detroit Lions and supported by groups of Chargers come pouring through the gap in the barricade and deploy themselves on the freeway.</p>
<p>Cutter appears on the slopes below. He is waving and calling for you to pull back along the freeway before it is too late. Opposite, your fellow defenders are taking the brunt of the attack, and you know that it will not be too long before some of that clan attention is transferred to your side of the freeway.</p>
<p>'We're outta here!' you cry, and lead your tiny group down the slope towards a gully where Cutter is waiting. Without looking back, you run with the others until you reach a ranger's lodge, partially hidden by pines, less than a mile from the freeway. There you stop to catch your breath and, as you look around at the faces of your companions<ch.emdash/>Rickenbacker, Cutter, Kate, and Langdon<ch.emdash/>you wonder if this is all that now remains of the convoy's rearguard.</p>
- <p>Cutter looks at his wristwatch and says: 'It's 11:05. The Convoy should have made it by now. I'm gonna try and Contact them by radio.'</p>
+ <p>Cutter looks at his wristwatch and says: 'It's 11:05. The convoy should have made it by now. I'm gonna try and contact them by radio.'</p>
<choice idref="sect15"><link-text>Turn to 15</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Expertly you bring the truck back under control and manage to avoid the damaged section of the road. Jaeger is impressed with the way you handled the situation and tells you so as you bring the truck safely to a halt beside the pump house. Then the two of you leave the cab and begin unloading the containers.</p>
- <p>'I had to draw the water up by hand yesterday,' says Jaeger, nodding towards the bore-hole, 'cause I couldn't get the pump to work. I reckon it's OK<ch.emdash/>jus' needs some gasolene that's all. Maybe if we could syphon some fuel from the truck we could get its engine running. It'd save us a whole lotta hard work.'</p>
+ <p>'I had to draw the water up by hand yesterday,' says Jaeger, nodding towards the bore-hole, 'cause I couldn't get the pump to work. I reckon it's OK<ch.emdash/>jus' needs some gasolene that's all. Maybe if we could siphon some fuel from the truck we could get its engine running. It'd save us a whole lotta hard work.'</p>
<choice idref="sect211">If you possess some Plastic Tube, <link-text>turn to 211</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect76">If you do not possess this item, <link-text>turn to 76</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>An ounce of lead shot hits the clansman in the chest, killing him instantly.<a id="sect182-1" idref="sect182-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The sight of his gross body tumbling backwards down the slope sends a shockwave through his confederates, and at once their attack falters. Encouraged by their sudden change of heart, you watch as they retreat towards their trucks, which are parked in the centre of the freeway.</p>
+ <p>An ounce of lead shot hits the clansman in the chest, killing him instantly.<a id="sect182-1" idref="sect182-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The sight of his gross body tumbling backwards down the slope sends a shock wave through his confederates, and at once their attack falters. Encouraged by their sudden change of heart, you watch as they retreat towards their trucks, which are parked in the centre of the freeway.</p>
<choice idref="sect141"><link-text>Turn to 141</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>Before it reaches the administration offices, the corridor passes through a reception lobby. A pair of heavy doors, inset with circular windows, separates the corridor from this lobby. Peering through the windows, you can see a detailed floorplan of the hospital hanging behind the reception counter. This must show where the medicine storage facility is located but, to your frustration, you cannot reach it: both the doors are locked.</p>
+ <p>Before it reaches the administration offices, the corridor passes through a reception lobby. A pair of heavy doors, inset with circular windows, separates the corridor from this lobby. Peering through the windows, you can see a detailed floor plan of the hospital hanging behind the reception counter. This must show where the medicine storage facility is located but, to your frustration, you cannot reach it: both the doors are locked.</p>
<choice idref="sect153">If you wish to try to barge open the doors to gain access to the lobby, <link-text>turn to 153</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect22">If you wish to try to pick the lock that secures the doors, <link-text>turn to 22</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect90">If you choose to shoot open the lock, <link-text>turn to 90</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>Your rifle shot hits the clansman in the chest and passes through his heart, killing him instantly.<a id="sect199-1" idref="sect199-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The sight of his body tumbling backwards down the slope sends a shockwave through his confederates, and at once their attack falters. Encouraged by their sudden change of heart, you watch as they retreat towards their trucks, which are parked in the centre of the freeway.</p>
+ <p>Your rifle shot hits the clansman in the chest and passes through his heart, killing him instantly.<a id="sect199-1" idref="sect199-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The sight of his body tumbling backwards down the slope sends a shock wave through his confederates, and at once their attack falters. Encouraged by their sudden change of heart, you watch as they retreat towards their trucks, which are parked in the centre of the freeway.</p>
<choice idref="sect141"><link-text>Turn to 141</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>Fascinated by the sound, but wary of what you may find beyond the door, you draw the bolt carefully and push open the door just a few inches. What was once a gentle humming becomes a loud buzzing drone as a swarm of angry hornets comes pouring out of the darkened storeroom.</p>
+ <p>Fascinated by the sound, but wary of what you may find beyond the door, you draw the bolt carefully and push open the door just a few inches. What was once a gentle humming becomes a loud buzzing drone as a swarm of angry hornets comes pouring out of the darkened store room.</p>
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- <description>The gentle humming becomes a loud buzzing drone as a swarm of angry hornets comes pouring out of the darkened storeroom.</description>
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- <p>Using the tube, you syphon a couple of gallons from the truck and transfer it to a fuel tank inside the pump house. Then, using the truck's battery, you manage to get the engine started. Anxiously the two of you fix your eyes on the cracked glass face of its water gauge, as the noisy old pump arm creaks into action. At first nothing happens, then, as the air that is trapped in the bore is forced out and the pressure rises, the needle creeps slowly around the face of the dial.</p>
+ <p>Using the tube, you siphon a couple of gallons from the truck and transfer it to a fuel tank inside the pump house. Then, using the truck's battery, you manage to get the engine started. Anxiously the two of you fix your eyes on the cracked glass face of its water gauge, as the noisy old pump arm creaks into action. At first nothing happens, then, as the air that is trapped in the bore is forced out and the pressure rises, the needle creeps slowly around the face of the dial.</p>
<p>Outside, Jaeger locates and opens the valve of the outlet pipe, which looks like a huge faucet, and out pours a coughing stream of crystal-clear water. With a triumphant yell, the two of you rush to the pipe and take turns lying on the ground beneath it until you are completely soaked to the skin. The water is cool and refreshingly pure<ch.emdash/>restore 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<p>In less than twenty minutes you have drawn the sixty gallons you require and loaded the heavy containers on to the back of the pick-up. (If you wish, you may take this opportunity to refill your water canteen.)</p>
<choice idref="sect243"><link-text>Turn to 243</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>As you approach the crumpled bodies, you hear the growl of a powerful car engine and turn to see the grey Trans-sol approaching from the freeway exit. You wave to show Macy and Langdon that you are both OK, and they return a thumbs-up as they halt outside the bank.</p>
<p>'These jokers were clan members, but how do we know they're Shiloh's men?' you ask, pointing at the lifeless bodies.</p>
- <p>'They're Outlaws all right,' says Macy, motioning to the clanmen's car. 'That skull-'n'-crossbones scrawled on the driver's door is their mark, sure 'nough.'</p>
+ <p>'They're Outlaws all right,' says Macy, motioning to the clansmen's car. 'That skull-'n'-crossbones scrawled on the driver's door is their mark, sure 'nough.'</p>
<p>While the others dispose of the bodies, you take the opportunity to search the drugstore. You are curious to know what it was that the clansmen were looking for, and it does not take long to find out. A large cardboard container lies on its side near the door, dropped there no doubt when you and Rickenbacker made your unexpected appearance. Spilled out across the floor are bottles of pain killers and stimulants, and syringes that the clansmen have looted from the drugstore's safe.</p>
<p>You sift through the contents and quickly scan the store's shelves for useful items. Your search uncovers enough medical supplies for four Medi-kit units. When you return to the others, they offer you the remainder of the items that were found on the clansmen's bodies:</p>
<ul>
<li>Screwdriver</li>
<li>Solar Torch</li>
<li>Map of Arizona</li>
- <li>Bottle of painkillers</li>
+ <li>Bottle of pain killers</li>
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<p>Barlow's pockets comprise the following items:</p>
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<p>The pain of your wounds is overwhelming. It feels as if three red-hot knives have been driven into your flesh and left there. Kate rushes to your side and cradles you in her arms, tears welling in her eyes. She is saying something, but the noise of the battle and the loud pounding of your heartbeat drown out her words.</p>
- <p>Carefully, using dressings from her own Medi-kit, she patches up your wounds as best she can (restore 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points). Gritting your teeth against the pain, you sit up in time to see Rickenbacker putting paid to your would-be killer. His fire hits the clansman in the chest, killing him instantly. The sight of his body tumbling backwards down the slope sends a shockwave through his confederates, and at once their attack falters. Encouraged by their sudden change of heart, you watch as they fall back towards their trucks, which are parked in a line at the centre of the freeway.</p>
+ <p>Carefully, using dressings from her own Medi-kit, she patches up your wounds as best she can (restore 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points). Gritting your teeth against the pain, you sit up in time to see Rickenbacker putting paid to your would-be killer. His fire hits the clansman in the chest, killing him instantly. The sight of his body tumbling backwards down the slope sends a shock wave through his confederates, and at once their attack falters. Encouraged by their sudden change of heart, you watch as they fall back towards their trucks, which are parked in a line at the centre of the freeway.</p>
<choice idref="sect141"><link-text>Turn to 141</link-text>.</choice>
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<signpost>LUKE AIR FORCE RANGE</signpost>
<signpost>GARCIA WELL</signpost>
<signpost>US GOVT. PROPERTY<ch.emdash/>KEEP OUT!</signpost>
- <p>Carefully you descend, following the dirt road as it zig-zags towards the site. You are within a few hundred yards of your destination when you are faced by an unexpected hazard. You take a sharp right bend to find that a section of the road beyond has collapsed. You brake, but the wheels skid on the loose stones and the rear of the truck starts to slide out towards the edge. Frantically you fight to correct the skid as the truck slides nearer and nearer to the edge of the steep ravine.</p>
+ <p>Carefully you descend, following the dirt road as it zigzags towards the site. You are within a few hundred yards of your destination when you are faced by an unexpected hazard. You take a sharp right bend to find that a section of the road beyond has collapsed. You brake, but the wheels skid on the loose stones and the rear of the truck starts to slide out towards the edge. Frantically you fight to correct the skid as the truck slides nearer and nearer to the edge of the steep ravine.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your Driving skill score. Add to this total your current <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points score.</p>
<choice idref="sect87">If your total score is 27 or less, <link-text>turn to 87</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect174">If your total score is 28 or more, <link-text>turn to 174</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>Slowly you make the return journey across the mountains and reach Mohawk, and the expectant colony, late in the afternoon. The two of you are welcomed back like conquering heroes, and Jeager is thanked especially. His help in replenishing the colony's water supply has undoubtedly saved many lives.</p>
+ <p>Slowly you make the return journey across the mountains and reach Mohawk, and the expectant colony, late in the afternoon. The two of you are welcomed back like conquering heroes, and Jaeger is thanked especially. His help in replenishing the colony's water supply has undoubtedly saved many lives.</p>
<p>A queue forms to draw water from the pick-up and, as you are first in line, you draw Kate's ration and deliver it to her in person. She is still recovering aboard the bus, but you are relieved to see that she looks much healthier than when you saw her last during the clan attack at Sentinel. You stay with her and talk about your hopes for the journey ahead, assuring her that soon you will be safely in California and free at last from the perils of the road. (During the time you spend with Kate you must eat a Meal or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points).</p>
<p>Sometime later, Cutter enters the bus to tell you that the convoy will be moving out in ten minutes. The colony leaders feel that Mohawk is too vulnerable to a clan night attack and they want to reach Wellton, a town twenty-six miles to the west, and set up camp there. You are not too happy about their decision, but you choose not to argue and, after saying a fond farewell to Kate, you join Rickenbacker, who is waiting for you in the roadster.</p>
<choice idref="sect45"><link-text>Turn to 45</link-text>.</choice>
<meta><title>265</title></meta>
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- <p>You flip open your pouch, remove a handful of painkillers, and throw them out on to the ground beside the truck's cab. Immediately the three Crazies leap on the scattered pills and fight each other like hungry rats to get more than a fair share. The sight of their animalistic behaviour turns your stomach, and when Rickenbacker prods you in the ribs and says, 'C'mon Cal, let's go,' you gladly reach for the ignition and slam the gas pedal flat to the floor.</p>
+ <p>You flip open your pouch, remove a handful of pain killers, and throw them out on to the ground beside the truck's cab. Immediately the three Crazies leap on the scattered pills and fight each other like hungry rats to get more than a fair share. The sight of their animalistic behaviour turns your stomach, and when Rickenbacker prods you in the ribs and says, 'C'mon Cal, let's go,' you gladly reach for the ignition and slam the gas pedal flat to the floor.</p>
<p>Erase three units from your Medi-kit.</p>
<choice idref="sect29">To continue, <link-text>turn to 29</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>Your pistol shot hits the clansman in the chest, killing him instantly.<a id="sect271-1" idref="sect271-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The sight of his body tumbling backwards down the slope sends a shockwave through his confederates, and at once their attack falters. Encouraged by their sudden change of heart, you watch as they fall back towards their trucks, which are parked in the centre of the freeway.</p>
+ <p>Your pistol shot hits the clansman in the chest, killing him instantly.<a id="sect271-1" idref="sect271-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The sight of his body tumbling backwards down the slope sends a shock wave through his confederates, and at once their attack falters. Encouraged by their sudden change of heart, you watch as they fall back towards their trucks, which are parked in the centre of the freeway.</p>
<choice idref="sect141"><link-text>Turn to 141</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>'What's wrong?' you ask.</p>
<p>'It's Gorgas,' he replies. 'He's dead.'</p>
<p>The news sends a cold shiver down your spine. 'But h-how?' you continue, your voice wavering.</p>
- <p>'Murdered by the looks of it. Knife through the heart. Rex Tyler found him in his cab 'bout five minutes ago.'</p>
+ <p>'Murdered by the looks of it. Knife through the heart. Rex Tyler found him in his cab 'bout five minutes ago.'</p>
<p>You look over Cutter's shoulder and see two Tucson men holding Rex Tyler firmly by the arms. Fear is stark in Rex's eyes as another Tucson colonist launches a stream of questions at him, and jabs him repeatedly in the chest with his index finger.</p>
<p>'Why are they holding Rex?' you ask, growing concerned for your friend's safety.</p>
<p>'They reckon he's the killer,' replies Cutter.</p>
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<p>With some difficulty you force open the front door and enter the gloomy general store. As you expected, it is stripped of food and practical items of hardware: this shop has long since been gutted of its stock by foraging clansmen.</p>
- <p>Half-heartedly you search amongst the debris that lies ankle-deep on the floor, but find nothing worth the trouble of stooping to pick up. Then you reach a storeroom at the rear, and are intrigued to discover that it has been bolted shut from the inside. A faint humming sound emanates from behind the door, a sound that sounds vaguely like that of an electric motor.</p>
+ <p>Half-heartedly you search amongst the debris that lies ankle-deep on the floor, but find nothing worth the trouble of stooping to pick up. Then you reach a store room at the rear, and are intrigued to discover that it has been bolted shut from the inside. A faint humming sound emanates from behind the door, a sound that sounds vaguely like that of an electric motor.</p>
<p>Add together your Perception and Field Craft skill Scores.</p>
<choice idref="sect203">If your total scores 10 or less, <link-text>turn to 203</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect166">If your total score is 11 or more, <link-text>turn to 166</link-text>.</choice>
<p>'It's worked,' says Rickenbacker, relieved that your efforts have not been in vain. The convoy's on its way through.'</p>
<p>'Yeah,' you reply, fighting to catch your breath, 'and that means the Outlaws are on their way here. It's time we were outta here!'</p>
<p>A huge, billowing pall of dense, black smoke is rising into the sky above Arizona City, casting its shadow over the barren land ahead. Before long you have left behind the town's suburban sprawl and you find yourself making your escape westwards along an unmarked road that snakes towards the Santa Rosa Wash.</p>
- <p>The tiny town of Chuichu flashes past in the blink of an eye, and within a few minutes you arrive at a junction where once there were roads. Now no trace of them remains, save a signpost that indicates south to the town of Jackrabbit and west to the Santa Rosa bridge and a town called Cuckelbur.</p>
+ <p>The tiny town of Chuichu flashes past in the blink of an eye, and within a few minutes you arrive at a junction where once there were roads. Now no trace of them remains, save a signpost that indicates south to the town of Jackrabbit and west to the Santa Rosa bridge and a town called Cucklebur.</p>
<p>You continue driving due west, across sun-baked soil littered with sagebrush and tumbleweed, until at last you reach the Santa Rosa bridge. It crosses the Santa Rosa Wash, a river that is now little more than a dried-up trench. The bridge is holed and impassable by vehicle, and although the Wash itself is bone-dry, its banks are too steeply undercut for you to attempt a crossing here.</p>
<p>'We'll head north and cross as soon as we can,' you say, consulting your <a idref="map">map</a>. Rickenbacker is about to agree when suddenly he notices a cloud of dust approaching from the east. 'Bikes,' he hisses, 'Clan bikes. Must be the first of the Outlaws. Looks like they saw us leave Arizona City.'</p>
<p>You stand up in your seat in order to get a better view of the approaching bikers, and count only two motorcycles. They are moving too fast to outrun them, leaving you with only two options: to hide or to fight.</p>
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- <p>You need to follow the course of the Santa Rosa Wash for only half a mile before you find an ideal place to cross. It is close to the town of Cucklebur, a settlement that was home to the Papago Indians before 'The Day'. As you drive through the town, the beginnings of a hot, north-westerly wind sweeps across the land, and you notice a dark storm cloud streaking the sky. You pray that it is the prelude to a rainstorm, for it has not rained in these parts for more than a year, but your experience and your senses tell you otherwise.</p>
+ <p>You need to follow the course of the Santa Rosa Wash for only half a mile before you find an ideal place to cross. It is close to the town of Cucklebur, a settlement that was home to the Papago Indians before 'The Day'. As you drive through the town, the beginnings of a hot, northwesterly wind sweeps across the land, and you notice a dark storm cloud streaking the sky. You pray that it is the prelude to a rainstorm, for it has not rained in these parts for more than a year, but your experience and your senses tell you otherwise.</p>
<p>'There's a dust storm brewin', dare say it's blowin' down from the Nevada desert,' you say, motioning to the north.</p>
<p>'Looks like it could be a mean 'un,' replies Rickenbacker, as he stares thoughtfully at the gathering cloud. 'A real mean 'un.'</p>
<p>By the time you rejoin Interstate 8, the weather has greatly deteriorated. Carried on a high wind come swirling, stinging eddies of rust-red sand, some as tall as five-storey buildings. They move across the landscape like spinning tops, sucking in and spewing out tons of dust, rock and debris every second of their short but violent lives. So great has the dust saturation become that even though it is still only late afternoon, you are forced to switch on your headlights in order to make out the road ahead.</p>
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+ <meta><title>Action Chart</title></meta>
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- <li>Add to your <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> any extra points gained through use of a close combat weapon.</li>
- <li>Subtract the <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> score of your enemy from your total. The resulting number is the Combat Ratio.</li>
- <li>Pick a number from the <a idref="random"><a idref="random">Random Number Table</a></a>.</li>
- <li>Turn to the <a idref="crtable">Combat Results Table</a>.</li>
- <li>Find your Combat Ratio along the top of the chart and cross-reference it with the random number you have picked. (E indicates enemy's loss of <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. CP indicates Cal Phoenix's loss of <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.)</li>
- <li>Continue the combat from stage 3 until one combatant has zero or fewer <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points, this is when he is declared dead.</li>
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- <li>You may only evade combat when the text of the adventure offers you the opportunity.</li>
- <li>If the text offers the chance of taking evasive action instead of entering into combat, you may evade in the first round of combat or in any subsequent round.</li>
- <li>If you decide to evade after a round of combat, ignore all points lost by the enemy in that round: only Cal Phoenix loses <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</li>
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+ </section>
- <section class="backmatter" id="crtable">
- <meta><title>Combat Results Table</title></meta>
+ <section class="backmatter" id="crsumary">
+ <meta><title>Close Combat Rules Summary</title></meta>
- <data>
+ <data>
+ <ol>
+ <li>Add to your <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> any extra points gained through use of a close combat weapon.</li>
+ <li>Subtract the <typ class="attribute">CLOSE COMBAT SKILL</typ> score of your enemy from your total. The resulting number is the Combat Ratio.</li>
+ <li>Pick a number from the <a idref="random"><a idref="random">Random Number Table</a></a>.</li>
+ <li>Turn to the <a idref="crtable">Combat Results Table</a>.</li>
+ <li>Find your Combat Ratio along the top of the chart and cross-reference it with the random number you have picked. (E indicates enemy's loss of <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. CP indicates Cal Phoenix's loss of <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.)</li>
+ <li>Continue the combat from stage 3 until one combatant has zero or fewer <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points, this is when he is declared dead.</li>
+ </ol>
+
+ <section class="backmatter" id="smevazn">
+ <meta><title>To Evade Combat</title></meta>
+ <data>
+ <ol>
+ <li>You may only evade combat when the text of the adventure offers you the opportunity.</li>
+ <li>If the text offers the chance of taking evasive action instead of entering into combat, you may evade in the first round of combat or in any subsequent round.</li>
+ <li>If you decide to evade after a round of combat, ignore all points lost by the enemy in that round: only Cal Phoenix loses <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</li>
+ </ol>
+ </data>
+ </section>
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+ <section class="backmatter" id="crtable">
+ <meta><title>Combat Results Table</title></meta>
+ <data>
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+ <creator>Jonathan Blake</creator>
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+ </section>
- <section class="backmatter" id="random">
- <meta><title>Random Number Table</title></meta>
+ <section class="backmatter" id="random">
+ <meta><title>Random Number Table</title></meta>
+ <data>
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+ <section class="backmatter" id="errata">
+ <meta><title>Errata</title></meta>
+ <data>
+ <section class="backmatter" id="errintro">
+ <meta><title>Introduction</title></meta>
+ <data>
+ <p>We have taken our unique opportunity to correct errors and to enforce a standard of English usage. We list our changes here. If you see anything that needs correction, please <a href="&link.staff.contact;">contact</a> the Project Aon Staff.</p>
+ </data>
+ </section>
+
+ <section class="backmatter" id="errerr">
+ <meta><title>Errata</title></meta>
+ <data>
+ <p>(<a idref="dtd">Dateline to Disaster</a>) Replaced <quote>training and</quote> with <quote>training, and</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="tssf">The Story So Far</a>) Replaced <quote>re-establish</quote> with <quote>reestablish</quote>, <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>, <quote>fuel, food or water</quote> with <quote>fuel, food, or water</quote>, and <quote>the Mavericks</quote> with <quote>the 'Mavericks'</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="gamerulz">The Game Rules</a>) Replaced <quote>if you pick a O</quote> with <quote>if you pick a 0</quote>, <quote>On pages 6 and 7 you will find an Action Chart</quote> with <quote>An Action Chart has been supplied</quote>, <quote>the Random Number Table at the back of this book</quote> with <quote>the Random Number Table</quote>, <quote>zero</quote> with <quote>zero or below</quote>, and <quote>survival skills</quote> with <quote>Survival Skills</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="gamerulz">The Game Rules</a>) Removed <quote>For ease of use during play it is recommended that you photocopy these pages</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="equipmnt">Equipment</a>) Replaced <quote>potassium iodine</quote> with <quote>potassium iodide</quote> and <quote>sulphonamides</quote> with <quote>sulfonamides</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="cmbtrulz">Close Combat Rules</a>) Replaced <quote>cross-refer</quote> with <quote>cross-reference</quote>, <quote>zero</quote> with <quote>zero or below</quote>, and <quote><ch.plus/> 1) He</quote> with <quote><ch.plus/>1). He</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="cmbtrulz">Close Combat Rules</a>) Replaced <quote>are reduced to zero, at which point the one whose score is zero is declared dead.</quote> with <quote>are reduced to zero or below, at which point that combatant is declared dead.</quote> and <quote>with a reduced ENDURANCE point score</quote> with <quote>with his ENDURANCE points possibly reduced</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="cmbtrulz">Close Combat Rules</a>) Removed <quote>on the inside back cover of the book</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect1">1</a>) Replaced <quote>south-west</quote> with <quote>southwest</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect11">11</a>) Replaced <quote>inflamations</quote> with <quote>inflammation</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect24">24</a>) Replaced <quote>Micheal</quote> with <quote>Michael</quote>, <quote>swifty</quote> with <quote>swiftly</quote> and <quote>machine gunfire</quote> with <quote>machine gun fire</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect31">31</a>) Replaced <quote>storerooms</quote> with <quote>store rooms</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect40">40</a>) Replaced <quote>north-east</quote> with <quote>northeast</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect51">51</a>) Replaced <quote>1 Pistol</quote> with <quote>One Pistol</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect55">55</a>) Replaced <quote>moutains</quote> with <quote>mountains</quote> and <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect57">57</a>) Replaced <quote>Swifty</quote> with <quote>Swiftly</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect62">62</a>) Replaced <quote>south-east</quote> with <quote>southeast</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect74">74</a>) Replaced <quote>youself</quote> with <quote>yourself</quote> and <quote>blood stains</quote> with <quote>bloodstains</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect76">76</a>) Replaced <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect99">99</a>) Replaced <quote>ammuntion</quote> with <quote>ammunition</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect111">111</a>) Replaced <quote>your Strength skill</quote> with <quote>your Stealth skill</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect112">112</a>) Added missing period after <quote>turn to 295</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect118">118</a>) Replaced <quote>Backpack items</quote> with <quote>Backpack Items</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect121">121</a>) Replaced <quote>Micheal</quote> with <quote>Michael</quote> and <quote>machine gunfire</quote> with <quote>machine gun fire</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect125">125</a>) Replaced <quote>you say, frustratedly.</quote> with <quote>you say in frustration.</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect145">145</a>) Replaced <quote>examing</quote> with <quote>examining</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect150">150</a>) Replaced <quote>gullys</quote> with <quote>gullies</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect171">171</a>) Replaced <quote>gunsmoke</quote> with <quote>gun smoke</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect174">174</a>) Replaced <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect193">193</a>) Replaced <quote>suddeness</quote> with <quote>suddenness</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect211">211</a>) Replaced <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote> and added missing period after <quote>creaks into action</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect213">213</a>) Replaced <quote>insepction</quote> with <quote>inspection</quote> and <quote>Landcrusier</quote> with <quote>Landcruiser</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect215">215</a>) Replaced <quote>clanmen's</quote> with <quote>clansmen's</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect231">231</a>) Replaced <quote>gullys</quote> with <quote>gullies</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect238">238</a>) Replaced <quote>zig-zags</quote> with <quote>zigzags</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect243">243</a>) Replaced <quote>Jeager</quote> with <quote>Jaeger</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect244">244</a>) Replaced <quote>iginitng</quote> with <quote>igniting</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect250">250</a>) Replaced <quote>Consult the map at the front of the book</quote> with <quote>Consult your map</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect282">282</a>) Removed duplicate <quote>seat.</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect282">290</a>) Replaced <quote>distant poppings</quote> with <quote>distant popping</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect304">304</a>) Replaced <quote>HE Granade</quote> with <quote>HE Grenade</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect305">305</a>) Added bold formatting <quote>Solar Torch</quote>, <quote>Binoculars</quote> and <quote>Rope</quote>. Removed bold formatting <quote>Water Canteen</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect315">315</a>) Replaced <quote>Cuckelbur</quote> with <quote>Cucklebur</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect308">308</a>) Replaced <quote>machine gunfire</quote> with <quote>machine gun fire</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect322">322</a>) Replaced <quote>accorindly</quote> with <quote>accordingly</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect323">323</a>) Replaced <quote>turn 281</quote> with <quote>turn to 281</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect339">339</a>) Replaced <quote>north-westerly</quote> with <quote>northwesterly</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="tssf">The Story So Far</a>,<a idref="sect1">1</a>,<a idref="sect2">2</a>,<a idref="sect200">200</a>,<a idref="sect339">339</a>) Replaced <quote>'the Day'</quote> with <quote>'The Day'</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect4">4</a>,<a idref="sect66">66</a>,<a idref="sect182">182</a>,<a idref="sect199">199</a>,<a idref="sect229">229</a>,<a idref="sect271">271</a>) Replaced <quote>shockwave</quote> with <quote>shock wave</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect215">215</a>,<a idref="sect225">225</a>,<a idref="sect265">265</a>) Replaced <quote>painkillers</quote> with <quote>pain killers</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect41">41</a>,<a idref="sect198">198</a>) Replaced <quote>floorplan</quote> with <quote>floor plan</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect203">203</a>,<a idref="sect310">310</a>) Replaced <quote>storeroom</quote> with <quote>store room</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="crsumary">Combat Rules Summary</a>) Replaced <quote>cross-refer</quote> with <quote>cross-reference</quote>, <quote>Combat Results Table</quote> with <quote>Close Combat Results Table</quote>, and <quote>zero ENDURANCE points</quote> with <quote>zero ENDURANCE points or below</quote>.</p>
+ </data>
+ </section>
+ </data>
+ </section>
- </data>
- </section>
+ <section class="backmatter" id="footnotz">
+ <meta><title>Footnotes</title></meta>
- <section class="backmatter" id="errata">
- <meta><title>Errata</title></meta>
+ <data>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect4-1-foot">4</a>) Remember to deduct six rounds of 9mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect25-1-foot">25</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect28-1-foot">28</a>) This is the correct answer to the keypad puzzle in <a idref="sect337">Section 337</a>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect33-1-foot">33</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect37-1-foot">37</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect46-1-foot">46</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect78-1-foot">78</a>) Remember to deduct a round of 9mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect94-1-foot">94</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect95-1-foot">95</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect98-1-foot">98</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect113-1-foot">113</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect122-1-foot">122</a>) Remember to deduct six rounds of 9mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect132-1-foot">132</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect143-1-foot">143</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect178-1-foot">178</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect182-1-foot">182</a>) Remember to deduct a round of 12-gauge ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect186-1-foot">186</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect191-1-foot">191</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect192-1-foot">192</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect193-1-foot">193</a>) Remember to deduct a round of 7.62mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect194-1-foot">194</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect199-1-foot">199</a>) Remember to deduct a round of 7.62mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect205-1-foot">205</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect222-1-foot">222</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect233-1-foot">233</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect255-1-foot">255</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect264-1-foot">264</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect268-1-foot">268</a>) Remember to deduct a round of 12-gauge ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect271-1-foot">271</a>) Remember to deduct a round of 9mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect275-1-foot">275</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect285-1-foot">285</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect294-1-foot">294</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect313-1-foot">313</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect325-1-foot">325</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect328-1-foot">328</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect337-1-foot">337</a>) The section corresponding to the correct answer will have a footnote confirming that it is indeed correct.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect345-1-foot">345</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </data>
+ </section>
- <data>
+ <section class="backmatter" id="illstrat">
+ <meta><title>Table of Illustrations</title></meta>
- <section class="backmatter" id="errintro">
- <meta><title>Introduction</title></meta>
- <data>
- <p>We have taken our unique opportunity to correct errors and to enforce a standard of English usage. We list our changes here. If you see anything that needs correction, please <a href="&link.staff.contact;">contact</a> the Project Aon Staff.</p>
- </data>
- </section>
-
- <section class="backmatter" id="errerr">
- <meta><title>Errata</title></meta>
- <data>
- <p>(<a idref="dtd">Dateline to Disaster</a>) Replaced <quote>training and</quote> with <quote>training, and</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="gamerulz">The Game Rules</a>) Replaced <quote>if you pick a O</quote> with <quote>if you pick a 0</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="gamerulz">The Game Rules</a>) Replaced <quote>On pages 6 and 7 you will find an Action Chart</quote> with <quote>An Action Chart has been supplied</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="gamerulz">The Game Rules</a>) Removed <quote>For ease of use during play it is recommended that you photocopy these pages</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="gamerulz">The Game Rules</a>) Replaced <quote>the Random Number Table at the back of this book</quote> with <quote>the Random Number Table</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="gamerulz">The Game Rules</a>) Replaced <quote>survival skills</quote> with <quote>Survival Skills</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="cmbtrulz">Combat Rules</a>) Replaced <quote>cross-refer</quote> with <quote>cross-reference</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="cmbtrulz">Combat Rules</a>) Replaced <quote>as <ch.plus/>1 If </quote> with <quote>as <ch.plus/>1. If </quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="cmbtrulz">Combat Rules</a>) Removed <quote>on the inside back cover of the book</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="equipmnt">Equipment</a>) Replaced <quote>potassium iodine</quote> with <quote>potassium iodide</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="tssf">The Story So Far</a>) Replaced <quote>re-establish</quote> with <quote>reestablish</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="tssf">The Story So Far</a>) Replaced <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="tssf">The Story So Far</a>) Replaced <quote>fuel, food or water</quote> with <quote>fuel, food, or water</quote>, and <quote>the Mavericks</quote> with <quote>the 'Mavericks'</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect11">11</a>) Replaced <quote>inflamations</quote> with <quote>inflammation</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect24">24</a>) Replaced <quote>Micheal</quote> with <quote>Michael</quote>, <quote>swifty</quote> with <quote>swiftly</quote> and <quote>machine gunfire</quote> with <quote>machine gun fire</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect51">51</a>) Replaced <quote>1 Pistol</quote> with <quote>One Pistol</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect55">55</a>) Replaced <quote>moutains </quote> with <quote>mountains</quote> and <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect57">57</a>) Replaced <quote>Swifty</quote> with <quote>Swiftly</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect74">74</a>) Replaced <quote>youself</quote> with <quote>yourself</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect76">76</a>) Replaced <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect99">99</a>) Replaced <quote>ammuntion</quote> with <quote>ammunition</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect112">112</a>) Added missing period after <quote>turn to 295</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect118">118</a>) Replaced <quote>Backpack items</quote> with <quote>Backpack Items</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect121">121</a>) Replaced <quote>Micheal</quote> with <quote>Michael</quote> and <quote>machine gunfire</quote> with <quote>machine gun fire</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect125">125</a>) Replaced <quote>you say, frustratedly.</quote> with <quote>you say in frustration.</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect145">145</a>) Replaced <quote>examing</quote> with <quote>examining</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect150">150</a>) Replaced <quote>gullys</quote> with <quote>gullies</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect171">171</a>) Replaced <quote>gunsmoke</quote> with <quote>gun smoke</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect174">174</a>) Replaced <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect193">193</a>) Replaced <quote>suddeness</quote> with <quote>suddenness</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect211">211</a>) Replaced <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote> and added missing period after <quote>creaks into action</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect213">213</a>) Replaced <quote>insepction</quote> with <quote>inspection</quote> and <quote>Landcrusier</quote> with <quote>Landcruiser</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect215">215</a>) Replaced <quote>painkillers</quote> with <quote>pain killers</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect231">231</a>) Replaced <quote>gullys</quote> with <quote>gullies</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect244">244</a>) Replaced <quote>iginitng</quote> with <quote>igniting</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect250">250</a>) Replaced <quote>Consult the map at the front of the book</quote> with <quote>Consult your map</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect282">282</a>) Removed duplicate <quote>seat.</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect282">290</a>) Replaced <quote>distant poppings</quote> with <quote>distant popping</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect304">304</a>) Replaced <quote>HE Granade</quote> with <quote>HE Grenade</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect305">305</a>) Added bold formatting <quote>Solar Torch</quote>, <quote>Binoculars</quote> and <quote>Rope</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect305">312</a>) Removed bold formatting <quote>Water Canteen</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect308">308</a>) Replaced <quote>machine gunfire</quote> with <quote>machine gun fire</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect322">322</a>) Replaced <quote>accorindly</quote> with <quote>accordingly</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect323">323</a>) Replaced <quote>turn 281</quote> with <quote>turn to 281</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="tssf">The Story So Far</a>,<a idref="sect1">1</a>,<a idref="sect2">2</a>,<a idref="sect200">200</a>,<a idref="sect339">339</a> Replaced <quote>'the Day'</quote> with <quote>'The Day'</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="crsumary">Combat Rules Summary</a>) 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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+ <p>The following is a list of all Sections containing illustrations found in this book:</p>
- <section class="backmatter" id="footnotz">
- <meta><title>Footnotes</title></meta>
+ <section class="backmatter" id="primill">
+ <meta><title>Primary Illustrations</title></meta>
- <data>
- <p>(<a idref="sect4-1-foot">4</a>) Remember to deduct six rounds of 9mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect25-1-foot">25</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect28-1-foot">28</a>) This is the correct answer to the keypad puzzle in <a idref="sect337">Section 337</a>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect33-1-foot">33</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect37-1-foot">37</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect46-1-foot">46</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect78-1-foot">78</a>) Remember to deduct a round of 9mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect94-1-foot">94</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect95-1-foot">95</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect98-1-foot">98</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect113-1-foot">113</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect122-1-foot">122</a>) Remember to deduct six rounds of 9mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect132-1-foot">132</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect143-1-foot">143</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect178-1-foot">178</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect182-1-foot">182</a>) Remember to deduct a round of 12-gauge ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect186-1-foot">186</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect191-1-foot">191</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect192-1-foot">192</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect193-1-foot">193</a>) Remember to deduct a round of 7.62mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect194-1-foot">194</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect199-1-foot">199</a>) Remember to deduct a round of 7.62mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect205-1-foot">205</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect222-1-foot">222</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect233-1-foot">233</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect255-1-foot">255</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect264-1-foot">264</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect268-1-foot">268</a>) Remember to deduct a round of 12-gauge ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect271-1-foot">271</a>) Remember to deduct a round of 9mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect275-1-foot">275</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect285-1-foot">285</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect294-1-foot">294</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect313-1-foot">313</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect325-1-foot">325</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect328-1-foot">328</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect337-1-foot">337</a>) The section corresponding to the correct answer will have a footnote confirming that it is indeed correct.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect345-1-foot">345</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
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+ <ul class="unbulleted">
+ <li>Illustration I (<a idref="sect5">Section 5</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration II (<a idref="sect24">Section 24</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration III (<a idref="sect31">Section 31</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration IV (<a idref="sect57">Section 57</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration V (<a idref="sect84">Section 84</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration VI (<a idref="sect100">Section 100</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration VII (<a idref="sect140">Section 140</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration VIII (<a idref="sect154">Section 154</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration IX (<a idref="sect159">Section 159</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration X (<a idref="sect169">Section 169</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration XI (<a idref="sect180">Section 180</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration XII (<a idref="sect203">Section 203</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration XIII (<a idref="sect225">Section 225</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration XIV (<a idref="sect231">Section 231</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration XV (<a idref="sect250">Section 250</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration XVI (<a idref="sect283">Section 283</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration XVII (<a idref="sect290">Section 290</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration XVIII (<a idref="sect313">Section 313</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration XIX (<a idref="sect320">Section 320</a>)</li>
+ <li>Illustration XX (<a idref="sect348">Section 348</a>)</li>
+ <li><a idref="map">Map Of Southern Arizona/California</a></li>
+ <li><a idref="action">Action Chart</a></li>
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- <li>Illustration I (<a idref="sect5">Section 5</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration II (<a idref="sect24">Section 24</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration III (<a idref="sect31">Section 31</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration IV (<a idref="sect57">Section 57</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration V (<a idref="sect84">Section 84</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration VI (<a idref="sect100">Section 100</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration VII (<a idref="sect140">Section 140</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration VIII (<a idref="sect154">Section 154</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration IX (<a idref="sect159">Section 159</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration X (<a idref="sect169">Section 169</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration XI (<a idref="sect180">Section 180</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration XII (<a idref="sect203">Section 203</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration XIII (<a idref="sect225">Section 225</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration XIV (<a idref="sect231">Section 231</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration XV (<a idref="sect250">Section 250</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration XVI (<a idref="sect283">Section 283</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration XVII (<a idref="sect290">Section 290</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration XVIII (<a idref="sect313">Section 313</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration XIX (<a idref="sect320">Section 320</a>)</li>
- <li>Illustration XX (<a idref="sect348">Section 348</a>)</li>
- <li><a idref="map">Map Of Southern Arizona/California</a></li>
- <li><a idref="action">Action Chart</a></li>
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