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- <p><strong>1990-1998</strong><br />Rise of global terrorism on an unprecedented scale. Political violence funded by organized crime syndicate called HAVOC - The Hijack, Assassination and Violent Opposition Consortium.</p>
- <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>1990-1998</strong><br />Rise of global terrorism on an unprecedented scale. Political violence funded by organized crime syndicate called HAVOC<ch.emdash/>The Hijack, Assassination and Violent Opposition Consortium.</p>
+ <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' - maximum security gaols located deep underground - 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>
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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; it was 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 3 January 2012, that the holocaust began.</p>
- <p>You remember how the ground shuddered when the shock waves from the first distant explosions reached the mine, and how you thought it was the start of an earthquake, the like of which 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 confident 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>It was early September in the year 2019 when eventually you broke through to the surface. When you set eyes on the landscape surrounding the mine, it was like looking at 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 had 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 began 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 and unable to move due to lack of fuel, food or water. They were urging 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 - 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>You remember how the ground shuddered when the shock waves from the first distant explosions reached the mine, and how you thought it was the start of an earthquake, the like of which 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 confident 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<ch.emdash/>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>It was early September in the year 2019 when eventually you broke through to the surface. When you set eyes on the landscape surrounding the mine, it was like looking at 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 had 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 began 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 and unable to move due to lack of fuel, food, or water. They were urging 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 that could transport you to McKinney. It was an old school bus, which had been parked in an underground lot and had survived the years of sub-zero blizzards. With fuel and spares salvaged from the mine, you managed to coax it back to life; then you set off on your journey north. When you arrived at the town, it was easy to find where the Ewells lived, as 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. Having been ambushed and shot at by the city gangs of Fort Worth during the final stages of your journey, you recognized the need for such 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 they 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, this number had soon more than doubled to twenty-five. It was decided that a name was needed to identify the settlement and 'Dallas Colony One' was adopted, 'DC1' for short. 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 were to earn you the begrudging respect of your enemies, who took to calling you 'The Freeway Warrior'.</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 were to earn you the begrudging respect of your enemies, who took to calling you the 'Freeway Warrior'.</p>
<p>Six months after you arrived at DC1, the colony was faced with a major crisis. A heat wave was causing a drought that threatened to destroy the food supply. Crops were failing and the colony's artesian well, its only source of uncontaminated water, 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 were also 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 were still alive. After all that had happened, there was now a real hope that one day you might be reunited with them.</p>
<p>A meeting was held to decide how best to deal with the crisis facing DC1. Everyone agreed that to stay at McKinney would lead 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 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 5000 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 - a beautiful teenage girl - and he requested that you go to Sherman to pick them 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 - the scouts' leader.</p>
- <p>Later you learned that the girl - Kate Norton - was the sole survivor of a Kansas City colony, which 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 - Stinger - and a handful of his best scouts to track her down, and they had finally caught up with her at Sherman.</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 5000 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 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<ch.emdash/>Kate Norton<ch.emdash/>was the sole survivor of a Kansas City colony, which 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 at any price. 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 - perhaps because of them - you felt yourself falling in love with Kate. Moreover 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 mood of 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>
- <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 half-way between Big Spring and Tucson is the city of El Paso. To reach this city in one piece became the convoy's goal, for 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>When Mad Dog learned that you had killed his brother, he vowed to get even with you at any price. 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<ch.emdash/>perhaps because of them<ch.emdash/>you felt yourself falling in love with Kate. Moreover 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 mood of 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>
+ <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<ch.emdash/>the Saints<ch.emdash/>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 half-way between Big Spring and Tucson is the city of El Paso. To reach this city in one piece became the convoy's goal, for 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 attempted 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 Angelinos in the hope of finding Kate there. Your skill and daring were rewarded: 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 made a rendezvous 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 renegade 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 victorious mood was soured by the appearance of Mad Dog Michigan and an army of clansmen over 1,000 strong. He had persuaded the Mexicans to join the Lions, the Mavericks and the Saints, all of whom were now united to his cause. The situation was desperate. Faced by overwhelming odds the WDL command tried to negotiate with Mad Dog but he rejected their attempts 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, from which 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 this constant attrition began to erode your hopes of ever being able to break out of El Paso and reach Tucson intact. Then a radio message was intercepted that was to turn the desperate situation into a crisis. A clan convoy of trucks was leaving Zaragoza 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 to save the lives of the colony and disrupt the enemy just long enough for you all to break out of El Paso.</p>
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<p>The plan is to destroy the explosives as soon as they reach Ciudad Juarez to prevent Mad Dog Michigan from using them against the colony. It is a dangerous and potentially suicidal mission, too difficult for one man alone, so Captain Frankland offers to lead the mission and calls for three volunteers to accompany him. WDL Sergeant Haskell and WDL Marine Knott accept the challenge, but no one else steps forward readily to fill the remaining place. The future of the colony hinges on the success of this mission, and with this thought paramount in your mind, you summon up the courage to volunteer as the fourth member of the team.</p>
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<p>Your decision to join Captain Frankland's group provokes a mixed reaction among the original members of Dallas Colony One. They put on a brave face and applaud your courage, outwardly proud that one of their number will be part of his team, but they cannot mask their fear for you, not knowing what awaits you beyond the perimeter wall of the Fort Bliss stronghold.</p>
- <p>Using maps and equipment salvaged from the military reservation and adjoining airport, Captain Frankland and Sergeant Haskell formulate a plan of action. At midnight, the team will leave the stronghold and attempt to slip unseen through the surrounding enemy cordon. After that the El Paso city ruins should provide enough cover for you to avoid the clan patrols as you make you way south towards the Rio Grande, where only one bridge across the river still stands - the Stanton Street Toll Bridge. The approaches are known to be guarded but the bridge itself is rarely occupied. The plan is to cross the river by this bridge, using a service walkway that runs directly beneath its central span.</p>
- <p>On the Mexican side of the bridge lies Ciudad Juarez, the sprawling, derelict shanty town where Mad Dog Michigan (in deference to Santiago - the Mexican clan leader) has based his operations. The convoy of explosives is due to arrive there at two o'clock tomorrow morning. The team must locate and destroy the trucks and their deadly cargoes as quickly as possible, using contact mines. The resulting explosions are sure to cause panic among the clansmen surrounding Fort Bliss. They will also provide a clear signal to the colony, who will, by then, be ready to exploit the confusion and break through the cordon. Once clear, they are to follow Interstate 10, firstly north towards Las Cruces, then west towards your intended destination - the city of Tucson.</p>
+ <p>Using maps and equipment salvaged from the military reservation and adjoining airport, Captain Frankland and Sergeant Haskell formulate a plan of action. At midnight, the team will leave the stronghold and attempt to slip unseen through the surrounding enemy cordon. After that the El Paso city ruins should provide enough cover for you to avoid the clan patrols as you make you way south towards the Rio Grande, where only one bridge across the river still stands<ch.emdash/>the Stanton Street Toll Bridge. The approaches are known to be guarded but the bridge itself is rarely occupied. The plan is to cross the river by this bridge, using a service walkway that runs directly beneath its central span.</p>
+ <p>On the Mexican side of the bridge lies Ciudad Juarez, the sprawling, derelict shanty town where Mad Dog Michigan (in deference to Santiago<ch.emdash/>the Mexican clan leader) has based his operations. The convoy of explosives is due to arrive there at two o'clock tomorrow morning. The team must locate and destroy the trucks and their deadly cargoes as quickly as possible, using contact mines. The resulting explosions are sure to cause panic among the clansmen surrounding Fort Bliss. They will also provide a clear signal to the colony, who will, by then, be ready to exploit the confusion and break through the cordon. Once clear, they are to follow Interstate 10, firstly north towards Las Cruces, then west towards your intended destination<ch.emdash/>the city of Tucson.</p>
<p>For you, the real danger begins as soon as the mission is accomplished. Once the explosives have been destroyed, the team must hijack a clan vehicle and escape from Ciudad Juarez as best it can. If all goes to plan, you will rejoin the colony at the New Mexican town of Deming, 100 miles north-west of El Paso, at noon the following day. If the team fails to make this rendezvous the colony will continue regardless.</p>
<p>The few hours before midnight pass quickly. The colony uses the cover of darkness to prepare their vehicles for the breakout. Kate will be driving your roadster, and you use this as an excuse to spend what little time there is left before the mission with her, supposedly briefing her on the quirks and idiosyncrasies of the car. Everyone is aware that she already knows everything there is to know about your car but no one is insensitive enough to make any comment.</p>
<p>At five minutes to midnight, Captain Frankland calls you to join the team. 'You take good care of my car, y'hear,' you whisper, as reluctantly you free yourself from Kate's tender embrace.</p>
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+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
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- <p>Your target falls to the ground, but you cannot be sure if he has been hit or if he is diving for cover. You move away from the window in case he tries to return fire, and with nerves on edge, you wait a full minute before chancing another glance out of the window. The assassin is nowhere to be seen, and you fear that he may have gained access to the courthouse. With gun in hand, you peer into the passage outside, then through the banisters at the entrance and lobby below: all are empty.</p>
+ <p>Your target falls to the ground, but you cannot be sure if he has been hit or if he is diving for cover.<a id="sect4-1" idref="sect4-1-foot" class="footnote" /> You move away from the window in case he tries to return fire, and with nerves on edge, you wait a full minute before chancing another glance out of the window. The assassin is nowhere to be seen, and you fear that he may have gained access to the courthouse. With gun in hand, you peer into the passage outside, then through the banisters at the entrance and lobby below: all are empty.</p>
<p>You decide to make your escape from the courthouse while you can. The passage leads to a staircase, at the bottom of which is a fire exit. Through a crack in the door, you see that the yard outside is empty, so you push open the locking bar and pass through. You have taken only a few steps from the door when the assassin rushes around the corner of the courthouse with his rifle in his hand.</p>
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<choice idref="sect270">If you do not, <link-text>turn to 270</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>The bullet whistles past your left ear, close enough for you to feel the draught. The proximity of the shot spurs you to greater effort and, with a sudden burst of speed, you sprint the remaining few yards across the plateau and along a trail into the trees beyond. Almost immediately the trail drops steeply, causing you to lose your footing and tumble head over heels. When eventually you come to a stop, you are covered from head to toe with scratches and other minor abrasions: lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<p>From here your descent through the forest continues with comparative ease. Soon you reach the stream that you discovered during your ascent, and you stop here briefly to try to determine if you are still being pursued. The surrounding trees seem unnaturally quiet, and it is easy to imagine that an assassin lurks behind every trunk.</p>
- <p>With trepidation you continue, leaving the trail to follow the water as it flows west towards the Swissheim Mountains. You cover twelve miles without incident and by early evening you arrive at a small bridge where a road, running north to south, crosses the stream. You check your map, but the road is too minor to be listed. You are hungry and must now eat a Meal or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
+ <p>With trepidation you continue, leaving the trail to follow the water as it flows west towards the Swissheim Mountains. You cover twelve miles without incident and by early evening you arrive at a small bridge where a road, running north to south, crosses the stream. You check your <a idref="map">map</a>, but the road is too minor to be listed. You are hungry and must now eat a Meal or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<choice idref="sect43">If you wish to leave the stream and follow the road, <link-text>turn to 43</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect175">If you choose to continue along the stream, <link-text>turn to 175</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<section class="numbered" id="sect19">
<meta><title>19</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect19-1-foot" idref="sect19-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>Your gunfire blows open the front tyre and sends the motorcycle skidding away to your left, missing the pump by inches. With a screech of buckled metal it crashes down on its side, rolls over and over, then slams into the gas station wall. Cautiously you approach the tangled, smoking wreckage with your gun poised. You are still very wary of this maniacal rider even though the chances of his surviving such a terrible crash must be slim indeed.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire blows open the front tyre and sends the motorcycle skidding away to your left, missing the pump by inches.<a id="sect19-1" idref="sect19-1-foot" class="footnote" /> With a screech of buckled metal it crashes down on its side, rolls over and over, then slams into the gas station wall. Cautiously you approach the tangled, smoking wreckage with your gun poised. You are still very wary of this maniacal rider even though the chances of his surviving such a terrible crash must be slim indeed.</p>
<p>As you expected, the rider is dead. A close examination of his broken body reveals that he was already dead before his machine hit the ground. He was killed by a ricocheting bullet as he sped over the bridge, and his body, slumped over the handlebars, kept the machine balanced in an upright and fixed line.</p>
<p>Thinking of how close you came to death makes you break out in a cold sweat. Uneasily you wipe your forehead with the back of your trembling hand as you turn and walk away from the dead clansman and his shattered bike.</p>
<choice idref="sect209"><link-text>Turn to 209</link-text>.</choice>
<section class="numbered" id="sect22">
<meta><title>22</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect22-1-foot" idref="sect22-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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<p>With the clansman's position fixed in your mind, you spring up from behind the tailgate and raise your gun to fire. The truck is bumping along the highway, making it impossible to take accurate aim, but for an instant he fills your sights and immediately you pull the trigger.</p>
- <p>Your shooting proves deadly accurate: the bullet hits him in the forehead, killing him before he can transmit his radio message. Haskell looks at you and grins. He is clearly impressed by your marksmanship. He is about to congratulate you when the truck decelerates. When it stops, Captain Frankland leaves the cab and comes around to the back to check that you are both all right.</p>
+ <p>Your shooting proves deadly accurate: the bullet hits him in the forehead, killing him before he can transmit his radio message.<a id="sect22-1" idref="sect22-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Haskell looks at you and grins. He is clearly impressed by your marksmanship. He is about to congratulate you when the truck decelerates. When it stops, Captain Frankland leaves the cab and comes around to the back to check that you are both all right.</p>
<p>'We're fine,' you reply; 'bruised, but otherwise just fine.'</p>
<p>You help the captain climb over the tailgate. Then, as soon as he is aboard, Knott restarts the engine and you continue on your journey west along Highway 9.</p>
<choice idref="sect326"><link-text>Turn to 326</link-text>.</choice>
<meta><title>27</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>You fire, but your aim is too high and your shot passes harmlessly over the head of the leading biker. His passenger replies by levelling his pistol, resting it on his shoulder, and squeezing off three rounds in rapid succession. The first slug clips your right shoulder and sends you reeling backwards - lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
+ <p>You fire, but your aim is too high and your shot passes harmlessly over the head of the leading biker. His passenger replies by levelling his pistol, resting it on his shoulder, and squeezing off three rounds in rapid succession. The first slug clips your right shoulder and sends you reeling backwards<ch.emdash/>lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<p>Immediately, the captain and Sergeant Haskell rush to your aid. Captain Frankland attends to your wound, (erase one Medi-kit unit from your Backpack), while the sergeant picks up your gun and returns fire at the pursuing bikers (erase from your Ammo Pouch the quantity of ammunition that is equal to one round of fire). Above the roar of the engines you hear the leading rider scream out in pain: Haskell has wounded him in the hand, severing a finger. He loses control, swerves violently to the left, somersaults, and then his machine bursts into flame.</p>
<p>The incident scares the other riders sufficiently for them to pull back to a safe distance. They continue to tail the truck, but at least they are now out of range.</p>
<choice idref="sect149"><link-text>Turn to 149</link-text>.</choice>
<p>You place your ear to the door, directly below the covered hatch, and hear muffled voices in the room beyond. Although you cannot hear what is being said, you can tell that they are very frightened. Gently you lift the latch, only to discover that the door is locked on the inside.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</p>
<choice idref="sect46">If the number you have picked is 0-4, <link-text>turn to 46</link-text>.</choice>
+
<choice idref="sect316">If the number is 5-9, <link-text>turn to 316</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<data>
<p>Your steely nerve and natural balance help you to regain control of the motorcycle and steer it safely to the bottom of the gully. Then you follow the wide trench until you find a suitable place, on the far side of the rockfall, to make your exit. The ascent is accomplished without difficulty, but when you clear the crest of the gully and bring your motorcycle to a stop, you notice something that makes you break out in a cold sweat.</p>
- <p>From the eastern end of the gully a cloud of dust is approaching. It is over a mile distant, but at once you can tell that it is being kicked up by a motorcyle. You stare at the approaching machine and, although you cannot see the rider, you know that it is the assassin.</p>
+ <p>From the eastern end of the gully a cloud of dust is approaching. It is over a mile distant, but at once you can tell that it is being kicked up by a motorcycle. You stare at the approaching machine and, although you cannot see the rider, you know that it is the assassin.</p>
<p>Chilled by his proximity, you wind back the throttle and gun your bike along the bumpy mountain road.</p>
<choice idref="sect90"><link-text>Turn to 90</link-text>.</choice>
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<meta><title>35</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>Cautiously you continue along the avenue until you are close enough to the flickering lights to identify them as five huge bonfires. They are blazing in the grounds of a civic building - the El Paso Museum of Art - the contents of which have been looted to fuel them. Clansmen and their women dance drunkenly around the fires, feeding the flames with paintings, sculptures, and other works of art, while their confederates urge them to greater feats of destruction with screams and applause.</p>
+ <p>Cautiously you continue along the avenue until you are close enough to the flickering lights to identify them as five huge bonfires. They are blazing in the grounds of a civic building<ch.emdash/>the El Paso Museum of Art<ch.emdash/>the contents of which have been looted to fuel them. Clansmen and their women dance drunkenly around the fires, feeding the flames with paintings, sculptures, and other works of art, while their confederates urge them to greater feats of destruction with screams and applause.</p>
<illustration class="float">
<meta>
<creator>Brian Williams</creator>
<section class="numbered" id="sect38">
<meta><title>38</title></meta>
+
<data>
<p>Knott produces a crowbar from his Backpack and tries to force open the door, but it soon becomes obvious that it cannot be prised open. A closer examination of the air vent reveals that it was once a much larger window that has recently been partially boarded over. Confident that you can gain entry this way, you tell Knott to attack the slats.</p>
<p>Within a minute he has made a hole large enough to climb through and, without hesitation, you scramble into the shelter through the jagged gap.</p>
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<p>Desperately the clansman ducks to avoid your weapon, but it hits him on the forehead and sends him tumbling from the steps to land with a heavy thud on the stone-hard bank of the Rio Grande.</p>
<p>'Well done, Cal,' says Captain Frankland, as the team gathers at the entrance to the walkway and sets about disposing of the sentries. 'If the guy on the steps had raised the alarm, we'd have had the whole of Mad Dog's army down on us by now.'</p>
- <p>After the clansmen have been consigned to the Rio Grande, you check your equipment (remember to erase your close combat weapon - unfortunately, it cannot be recovered from the body of the clansman) and then join the others as they hurry away from the walkway area.</p>
+ <p>After the clansmen have been consigned to the Rio Grande, you check your equipment (remember to erase your close combat weapon<ch.emdash/>unfortunately, it cannot be recovered from the body of the clansman) and then join the others as they hurry away from the walkway area.</p>
<choice idref="sect250"><link-text>Turn to 250</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect53">
<meta><title>53</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect53-1-foot" idref="sect53-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>You ready yourself and rise to one knee, your gun coming up at the same time in one smooth, fluid motion. A clansman fills your sights and you snatch the trigger; the gun recoils and you see him buckle and fall. Then you scan for another target and find one, but before you can shoot, he falls to a burst of fire from Sergeant Haskell's machine pistol. Inspired by your action, the others join in the firefight and quickly despatch the remaining clansmen. Then you hear the captain barking the order, 'Follow me!' and see Knott and Haskell leaving the wall to run after him. He is heading towards a fire escape ladder on the far side of the roof. You pause just long enough to retrieve your Backpack and belt, then you hurry after them before they disappear.</p>
+ <p>You ready yourself and rise to one knee, your gun coming up at the same time in one smooth, fluid motion. A clansman fills your sights and you snatch the trigger; the gun recoils and you see him buckle and fall.<a id="sect53-1" idref="sect53-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Then you scan for another target and find one, but before you can shoot, he falls to a burst of fire from Sergeant Haskell's machine pistol. Inspired by your action, the others join in the firefight and quickly despatch the remaining clansmen. Then you hear the captain barking the order, 'Follow me!' and see Knott and Haskell leaving the wall to run after him. He is heading towards a fire escape ladder on the far side of the roof. You pause just long enough to retrieve your Backpack and belt, then you hurry after them before they disappear.</p>
<choice idref="sect151"><link-text>Turn to 151</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<data>
<p>The moment you realize that the sergeant and captain have mistaken you for clansmen, you take evasive action. The only cover is a shallow gully that runs alongside the highway, and immediately you steer towards it. Bullets are kicking up the dust in a line that follows you all the way off the road, but your skill and the speed of your reactions save you from being hit and enable you to bring the bike to a controlled halt.</p>
<p>It takes several minutes of shouting before you are able to convince Frankland and Haskell that you are not the enemy. When at last they realize their mistake., they throw down their guns and run towards you with looks of abject horror on their faces. Both men are clearly shocked at how near they came to killing you.</p>
- <p>Once you have all got over the shock, you busy yourselves by helping Knott replace the damaged ignition unit. The new unit works perfectly, and within half an hour of your return the engine is run- ning smoothly and you are able to continue.</p>
+ <p>Once you have all got over the shock, you busy yourselves by helping Knott replace the damaged ignition unit. The new unit works perfectly, and within half an hour of your return the engine is running smoothly and you are able to continue.</p>
<choice idref="sect230"><link-text>Turn to 230</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<meta><title>66</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>The gas station's three storage tanks have been emptied of fuel recently, but a little still remains at the bottom of each. It takes an hour to siphon this residual gasolene - less than two gallons - from the tanks, by which time Sergeant Haskell has been able to seal the three bullet holes.</p>
+ <p>The gas station's three storage tanks have been emptied of fuel recently, but a little still remains at the bottom of each. It takes an hour to siphon this residual gasolene<ch.emdash/>less than two gallons<ch.emdash/>from the tanks, by which time Sergeant Haskell has been able to seal the three bullet holes.</p>
<p>While Haskell is pouring the precious gasolene into the truck, you help Knott to make a quick search of the gas station for useful spares. Your search uncovers the following items:</p>
<ul>
<li><typ class="item">Electrolyte</typ></li>
<li><typ class="item">Screwdriver</typ></li>
</ul>
<p>If you wish to keep any of these Backpack Items, adjust your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> accordingly.</p>
- <p>Captain Frankland is disappointed at having found so little fuel, but Knott assures him that it should be sufficient to enable you to reach Lordsburg and rendezvous with the colony. Once the refuelling has been completed, you climb aboard and set off in a new direction - north, towards a junction with Interstate Freeway 10.</p>
+ <p>Captain Frankland is disappointed at having found so little fuel, but Knott assures him that it should be sufficient to enable you to reach Lordsburg and rendezvous with the colony. Once the refuelling has been completed, you climb aboard and set off in a new direction<ch.emdash/>north, towards a junction with Interstate Freeway 10.</p>
<choice idref="sect183"><link-text>Turn to 183</link-text>.</choice>
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</section>
<data>
<p>'Hold it right there!' screams the clansman, as he fixes you with his flashlight. He stands silhouetted in the doorway, as his bloodhound comes loping across the desks towards you. Desperately you try to pass through the window before he can raise his gun and fire. Unfortunately, the clansman has taped his torch to the barrel of his machine pistol, which is already aimed at your chest. Callously he watches as you struggle to get clear, then he pulls the trigger and sprays the window with a deadly hail of lead.</p>
- <p>Hot cores of pain erupt in your right thigh and shoulder as three of the bullets clip you and send you spinning out of the window - lose 4 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. Reeling from the impact of your fall and the pain of your wounds, you drag yourself to your feet and stagger down the fire escape as quickly as you are able.</p>
+ <p>Hot cores of pain erupt in your right thigh and shoulder as three of the bullets clip you and send you spinning out of the window<ch.emdash/>lose 4 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. Reeling from the impact of your fall and the pain of your wounds, you drag yourself to your feet and stagger down the fire escape as quickly as you are able.</p>
<choice idref="sect282"><link-text>Turn to 282</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<meta><title>84</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>Suddenly the dog begins to bark - he has seen you. Automatically you cock your gun as the clansman spins around and points his machine pistol at you. Unable to move from your hiding place, you have no choice but to fire at your enemy before he sees you clearly.</p>
+ <p>Suddenly the dog begins to bark<ch.emdash/>he has seen you. Automatically you cock your gun as the clansman spins around and points his machine pistol at you. Unable to move from your hiding place, you have no choice but to fire at your enemy before he sees you clearly.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your Shooting skill total.</p>
<choice idref="sect194">If your total score is 8 or less, <link-text>turn to 194</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect228">If it is 9 or more, <link-text>turn to 228</link-text>.</choice>
<meta><title>89</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>The incessant noise of the dogs is making your stomach churn. Then you catch sight of them - two slack-jowled bloodhounds - padding their way across the Montana Road with two clansmen close behind. One of the men is carrying a machine pistol; the other a long-handled flashlight.</p>
+ <p>The incessant noise of the dogs is making your stomach churn. Then you catch sight of them<ch.emdash/>two slack-jowled bloodhounds<ch.emdash/>padding their way across the Montana Road with two clansmen close behind. One of the men is carrying a machine pistol; the other a long-handled flashlight.</p>
<p>'Run for it!' you hiss, pointing towards the ruins. Knott turns and sprints away. As soon as he is clear of the ditch, the dogs begin to bark wildly, alerting their handlers to your position. You scramble out and follow your partner, praying that you will reach cover before the clansmen see you and open fire. Your prayers are answered. In his haste the clansman drops his flashlight, and before he can retrieve it and switch it on, you follow Knott through the open door of a derelict building.</p>
- <p>'We stand a better chance if we split up,' you say, casting an anxious glance over your shoulder at the yellow light that is now streaming through the doorway. 'But remember - meet up at the bridge as planned.'</p>
+ <p>'We stand a better chance if we split up,' you say, casting an anxious glance over your shoulder at the yellow light that is now streaming through the doorway. 'But remember<ch.emdash/>meet up at the bridge as planned.'</p>
<p>The torchlight illuminates the interior sufficiently for you to be able to make out two possible exits: a carpeted staircase leading to the first floor, and another leading down to the basement.</p>
<choice idref="sect237">If you wish to ascend the stairs to the first floor, <link-text>turn to 237</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect58">If you decide to descend to the basement, <link-text>turn to 58</link-text>.</choice>
<section class="numbered" id="sect97">
<meta><title>97</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect97-1-foot" idref="sect97-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>You fire and hit the Angelino clansman in the side as he roars past your hiding place, sending him tumbling from his machine to hit the ground in a cloud of dust. It is not until the dust settles and your heartbeat begins to slow that you realize that you have been wounded.</p>
+ <p>You fire and hit the Angelino clansman in the side as he roars past your hiding place, sending him tumbling from his machine to hit the ground in a cloud of dust.<a id="sect97-1" idref="sect97-1-foot" class="footnote" /> It is not until the dust settles and your heartbeat begins to slow that you realize that you have been wounded.</p>
<p>A neat hole in your jacket sleeve marks the entry point of a machine pistol bullet. Fortunately, it is a clean wound and there is very little bleeding, the slug having passed through the muscle of your inner forearm, missing the bone by a hair's breadth: lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<p>Soon the feeling returns and your arm begins to ache viciously. Marine Knott helps you to clean and bandage the wound while the others search the clansmen's bodies.</p>
<choice idref="sect209"><link-text>Turn to 209</link-text>.</choice>
<section class="numbered" id="sect99">
<meta><title>99</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect99-1-foot" idref="sect99-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>The commander dives aside fast enough to avoid being hit, but one of his men is not so lucky. As he runs around the corner, he catches your gunfire full in the chest and is thrown backwards to the ground.</p>
+ <p>The commander dives aside fast enough to avoid being hit, but one of his men is not so lucky. As he runs around the corner, he catches your gunfire full in the chest and is thrown backwards to the ground.<a id="sect99-1" idref="sect99-1-foot" class="footnote" /></p>
<p>Angered by your attempt to kill him, the hard-faced clan commander unslings his rifle and throws himself down behind the man you have just shot, using his body as a shield.</p>
<choice idref="sect78">If you wish to fire at the commander before he can fire at you, <link-text>turn to 78</link-text>.</choice>
+
<choice idref="sect301">If you decide to take cover behind the tailgate, <link-text>turn to 301</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<data>
<p>After considering the situation, Captain Frankland calls the team together in a room at the rear of the derelict cafe. 'We've got two options, men,' he says, quietly. 'Either we ambush the trucks before they reach the race track, or we hit 'em once they're inside. What d'you think, sergeant?'</p>
<p>Haskell shifts uneasily, his face lined with concentration. I think we're gonna have t' blow them once they're inside, sir. We don't know for sure which direction they'll approach from, and, considerin' what they've got on board, I doubt if they'll stop for anything until they're safe inside Michigan's HQ.' You nod in agreement, as does Marine Knott.</p>
- <p>'Very well then. If we can't ambush 'em on the outside, we'll have to get inside the track and destroy 'em there. It'll make our chances of escape a whole lot shorter, but I agree with you - I reckon we have no choice.'</p>
+ <p>'Very well then. If we can't ambush 'em on the outside, we'll have to get inside the track and destroy 'em there. It'll make our chances of escape a whole lot shorter, but I agree with you<ch.emdash/>I reckon we have no choice.'</p>
<p>Having decided on a plan of action, Sergeant Haskell distributes the mines, one to each man. 'Set the timers to five minutes,' he says, and demonstrates how to do this using his own charge. 'They're magnetic, so try to fix them to the fuel tank if possible. Failing that, place them as near to the explosives as you can get.'</p>
<p>You examine the heavy, saucer-like device and then carefully set its clockwork timer, according to Haskell's instructions. Finally, you flick across the safety cover so that it protects the detonator button, and slip the mine inside your Backpack.</p>
<p>Record the <typ class="item">Contact Mine</typ> on your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> as a Backpack item. If you already possess the maximum quota of Backpack Items, you must discard one article in its favour.</p>
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<p>The bullet clips your left shoulder and pitches you into the trees on the far side of the plateau (lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points). The land drops steeply, causing you to tumble head over heels through the scrub and bracken. When eventually you come to a stop, you are covered from head to toe with scratches and other minor abrasions (lose an additional 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points).</p>
<p>Painfully you stagger to your feet and force yourself to continue your descent. Soon you reach the stream that you discovered during your climb, and you stop briefly to bathe your wounds and to try to determine if you are still being followed. The surrounding trees seem unnaturally quiet, and it is easy to imagine that an assassin lurks behind every trunk.</p>
- <p>Your strength returns and with trepidation you continue, leaving the trail to follow the water as it flows west towards the Swissheim Mountain. You cover twelve miles without incident and by early evening you arrive at a small bridge where a road, running north to south, crosses the stream. You check your map, but the road is too minor to be listed. You are hungry and must now eat a Meal or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
+ <p>Your strength returns and with trepidation you continue, leaving the trail to follow the water as it flows west towards the Swissheim Mountain. You cover twelve miles without incident and by early evening you arrive at a small bridge where a road, running north to south, crosses the stream. You check your <a idref="map">map</a>, but the road is too minor to be listed. You are hungry and must now eat a Meal or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<choice idref="sect43">If you wish to leave the stream and follow the road, <link-text>turn to 43</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect175">If you choose to continue along the stream, <link-text>turn to 175</link-text>.</choice>
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<data>
<p>After ten hours' deep, uninterrupted sleep, you wake feeling thoroughly refreshed: restore 4 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. The barricade is still intact and, once it is dismantled, you arm yourself before investigating the six other buildings that comprise the town. All of them are empty and show no signs of having been entered during the night, prompting you to believe that you may, at least for the time being , have given the assassin the slip.</p>
<p>In a shack behind the diner you discover a motorcycle that is in a serviceable condition. The tyres are sound and the gas tank is over half full with gasolene, but its oil level is very low. As you kick start the engine you can only hope that it will get you as far as Tucson before breaking down.</p>
- <p>After studying the map you mount your new vehicle and set off, heading north along Highway 666. You have ridden only seven miles when a collapsed bridge forces you to change direction and travel west along an unmarked mountain road. You enjoy the cool breeze whipping through your hair as you ride at speed along this empty trail, and you cover more than twenty miles before coming to a small town where a sign proclaims:</p>
+ <p>After studying the <a idref="map">map</a> you mount your new vehicle and set off, heading north along Highway 666. You have ridden only seven miles when a collapsed bridge forces you to change direction and travel west along an unmarked mountain road. You enjoy the cool breeze whipping through your hair as you ride at speed along this empty trail, and you cover more than twenty miles before coming to a small town where a sign proclaims:</p>
<signpost>GLEESON WELCOMES CAREFUL DRIVERS</signpost>
<choice idref="sect64">If you wish to stop at this mountain town, <link-text>turn to 64</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect50">If you decide to ride through without stopping, <link-text>turn to 50</link-text>.</choice>
<section class="numbered" id="sect112">
<meta><title>112</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect112-1-foot" idref="sect112-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>You fire, and above the roar of the engines you hear the leading rider scream out in pain. Your gunfire has wounded him in the hand, severing two fingers. He loses control of his machine, which swerves violently to the left, somersaults, and then bursts into flame.</p>
+ <p>You fire, and above the roar of the engines you hear the leading rider scream out in pain.<a id="sect112-1" idref="sect112-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Your gunfire has wounded him in the hand, severing two fingers. He loses control of his machine, which swerves violently to the left, somersaults, and then bursts into flame.</p>
<p>The incident scares the other riders sufficiently for them to pull back to a safe distance. They continue to tail the truck, but at least they are now out of range.</p>
<choice idref="sect149"><link-text>Turn to 149</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<section class="numbered" id="sect118">
<meta><title>118</title></meta>
+
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<p>You hit the ground and roll over in an attempt to get as far away from the gas pump as you can. Your swift action saves your life, for moments later the motorcycle ploughs into the pump, exploding in a ball of bright flame. A wave of searing heat washes over your back, and, as you stagger to your feet and turn to look at the fire now raging on the gas station forecourt, you break out in a cold sweat thinking how close you came to death.</p>
<p>Uneasily you wipe your forehead with the back of your trembling hand as you turn and walk away from the crackling inferno.</p>
<meta><title>122</title></meta>
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- <p>The crown of your head connects with the clansman's buckle and the impact sends you crashing to the ground - lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. Before you can recover your senses fully, the Mexican draws a knife and attacks you while you lie on the ground stunned.</p>
+ <p>The crown of your head connects with the clansman's buckle and the impact sends you crashing to the ground<ch.emdash/>lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. Before you can recover your senses fully, the Mexican draws a knife and attacks you while you lie on the ground stunned.</p>
<combat><enemy>Banderas</enemy><enemy-attribute class="closecombatskill">14</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">23</enemy-attribute></combat>
<p>Owing to your condition, you are unable to use a close combat weapon until the third round of the combat.</p>
<choice idref="sect257">If you win the fight, <link-text>turn to 257</link-text>.</choice>
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+
<section class="numbered" id="sect123">
<meta><title>123</title></meta>
<p>You are within ten feet of the top when the rock you are grasping tears loose in your hands. Frantically you throw out your arms in an attempt to find a new hand-hold, but you are already falling backwards and your flailing hands claw only air. For a few seconds your senses are scrambled as you tumble down the rockface, then you hit the edge of the gully and your vision becomes cloudy: lose 6 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<p>When eventually it clears you find yourself lying at the bottom of the gully, staring at the sky. Wearily you drag yourself to your feet, rub your aching limbs, then stagger towards your motorcycle. You are expecting to find little more than a twisted heap of scrap metal, so it comes as a pleasant surprise to discover that the machine is still in working order. After straightening the handlebars, the headlight, and the front wheel alignment, you are able to restart the engine with your fourth kick.</p>
<p>You ride this wide trench until you find a suitable place, on the far side of the rockfalls to make your exit. The ascent is accomplished without difficulty, but as you clear the crest of the gully and bring your motorcycle to a stop, you notice something that makes you break out in a cold sweat.</p>
- <p>From the eastern end of the gully a cloud of dust is approaching. It is over a mile distant, but you can tell at once that it is being kicked up by a motorcyle. You stare at the approaching machine and, although you cannot see the rider, you know that it is the assassin. Chilled by his proximity, you wind back the throttle and gun your bike along the bumpy mountain road.</p>
+ <p>From the eastern end of the gully a cloud of dust is approaching. It is over a mile distant, but you can tell at once that it is being kicked up by a motorcycle. You stare at the approaching machine and, although you cannot see the rider, you know that it is the assassin. Chilled by his proximity, you wind back the throttle and gun your bike along the bumpy mountain road.</p>
<choice idref="sect90"><link-text>Turn to 90</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>As the team are preparing to leave, the captain briefs you on the plan of attack. 'Once we're on the inside and the convoy arrives, we've got to place the mines as quickly as possible in case they decide to off-load the explosives. From now on we stick together. Move quickly on my command and no firing unless it's absolutely unavoidable. Also, keep your eyes peeled for a suitable escape vehicle. We'll need to find one before we set the mines. We've got only five minutes to make our getaway, and I sure don't want to be around when those trucks go up. There'll not be a whole lot left o' this place once those mines explode.'</p>
<p>After the briefing, you follow the captain in single file as he leads the team through a series of interconnecting alleys that takes you to the race track's west gate. Most of the clansmen are congregated at the front of the track, around the east gate, making it easy for you to gain access to the track at the rear without being seen.</p>
- <p>Once inside, you make your way through the now-empty kennels and administration blocks, to a position opposite the track itself. Here you catch a glimpse of your old enemy - Mad Dog Michigan.</p>
+ <p>Once inside, you make your way through the now-empty kennels and administration blocks, to a position opposite the track itself. Here you catch a glimpse of your old enemy<ch.emdash/>Mad Dog Michigan.</p>
<choice idref="sect324"><link-text>Turn to 324</link-text>.</choice>
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<meta><title>126</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>You retrieve your Backpack from the truck and rummage through the contents for your binoculars. It takes you a few moments to focus your lenses on the sign, but when you do, you see that it says: Mimbres - 9 Miles.</p>
+ <p>You retrieve your Backpack from the truck and rummage through the contents for your binoculars. It takes you a few moments to focus your lenses on the sign, but when you do, you see that it says: Mimbres<ch.emdash/>9 Miles.</p>
<p>You inform the captain then bring your glasses to bear on the town. At once you see why he has halted the truck.</p>
<choice idref="sect232"><link-text>Turn to 232</link-text>.</choice>
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<meta><title>128</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>Marine Knott takes the wheel with the captain riding beside him in the cab. Meanwhile, you and the sergeant climb in the back and take up firing positions at the tailgate. Steadily Knott drives towards Columbus, keeping the speed down to avoid arousing too much suspicion. You are sixty yards from the barricade when the captain shouts through the cab partition: 'Hold on men - we're going in!'</p>
+ <p>Marine Knott takes the wheel with the captain riding beside him in the cab. Meanwhile, you and the sergeant climb in the back and take up firing positions at the tailgate. Steadily Knott drives towards Columbus, keeping the speed down to avoid arousing too much suspicion. You are sixty yards from the barricade when the captain shouts through the cab partition: 'Hold on men<ch.emdash/>we're going in!'</p>
<p>You exchange an anxious glance with Sergeant Haskell as the engine roars and the truck picks up speed.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</p>
<choice idref="sect188">If the number you have picked is 0-3, <link-text>turn to 188</link-text>.</choice>
<data>
<p>The tracks lead to a drug store at the centre of the town. It looks as if Kate parked your car here and went inside the store, for there are two lines of foot- prints in the dust, running from the street to the front door.</p>
- <p>The others wait in the truck while you enter the store. Following in Kate's footsteps, you arrive at some empty places on the store's shelves. She was after medical supplies, although she was selective about what she took. The shelves still hold a few medicines and other medical supplies
- enough for two Medi- kit units. (If you wish to keep these, remember to mark them on your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>.)</p>
+ <p>The others wait in the truck while you enter the store. Following in Kate's footsteps, you arrive at some empty places on the store's shelves. She was after medical supplies, although she was selective about what she took. The shelves still hold a few medicines and other medical supplies
<ch.emdash/>enough for two Medi- kit units. (If you wish to keep these, remember to mark them on your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>.)</p>
<p>Having satisfied your curiosity, you go back to the truck and tell the others what you have found. Captain Frankland is anxious to reach Lordsburg before dark, so he orders Knott to turn the truck around and head back to Interstate 10.</p>
<choice idref="sect33"><link-text>Turn to 33</link-text>.</choice>
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<data>
<p>An agonizing pain erupts in the middle of your forehead. You have been hit by your enemy's bullet and the impact lifts you off your feet and sends you sprawling against the courthouse wall. The pain disappears to be replaced by a numbness that darkens your vision and bleeds the last ounce of strength from your unfeeling limbs. An overwhelming urge to sleep assails your senses, and, although you fight to stay awake, it is a fight you have no hope of winning.</p>
<p>Tragically, your life and your mission end here at Tombstone, Arizona.</p>
+
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<p>You twist the ignition key and pump the gas pedal; you feel a surge of relief when you hear the jeep's sturdy engine growl throatily. A flick of a switch brings the headlights to life and then you are off, accelerating along a narrow street opposite the bus depot that leads to the west side of town.</p>
- <p>Most of Mad Dog's clansmen are concentrated around the block of buildings where the truck was discovered, but there are some, most notably the Detroit Lions' scouts, who have taken up lookout positions in other parts of the town. You pass two or three of them on your way through Lordsburg, yet they seem to ignore you. The jeep - with its clan markings - and the darkness, enable you to pass them without challenge.</p>
+ <p>Most of Mad Dog's clansmen are concentrated around the block of buildings where the truck was discovered, but there are some, most notably the Detroit Lions' scouts, who have taken up lookout positions in other parts of the town. You pass two or three of them on your way through Lordsburg, yet they seem to ignore you. The jeep<ch.emdash/>with its clan markings<ch.emdash/>and the darkness, enable you to pass them without challenge.</p>
<p>It is not until you begin your approach to the access ramp of Interstate 10 that you encounter any problem. Soon after your truck was found, Mad Dog despatched a unit of scouts in a pick-up to guard the freeway ramp, just in case. It was a smart move. When the scouts see you approaching, they switch on a spotlight mounted on the roof of the pick-up, above the driver's seat, and catch you in its beam. When a radio call confirms that you are not what you seem, they accelerate towards you in an attempt to run you off the road.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your Driving skill total.</p>
<choice idref="sect205">If your total score is 3 or less, <link-text>turn to 205</link-text>.</choice>
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</section>
+
<section class="numbered" id="sect145">
<meta><title>145</title></meta>
<section class="numbered" id="sect150">
<meta><title>150</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect150-1-foot" idref="sect150-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>For a few seconds you stand entranced, not knowing for sure whether you are dead or alive. Then, as the warm breeze clears the lingering gun smoke, you see the body of the assassin lying motionless beside the courthouse wall. You are filled with a great sense of relief, as if a huge weight has been lifted from your shoulders. Then the shock of your encounter takes hold of your body and you begin to shiver uncontrollably. You must now take a Drink or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
+ <p>For a few seconds you stand entranced, not knowing for sure whether you are dead or alive.<a id="sect150-1" idref="sect150-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Then, as the warm breeze clears the lingering gun smoke, you see the body of the assassin lying motionless beside the courthouse wall. You are filled with a great sense of relief, as if a huge weight has been lifted from your shoulders. Then the shock of your encounter takes hold of your body and you begin to shiver uncontrollably. You must now take a Drink or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<p>With grim curiosity you move forward to search the body. You pull off his helmet and stare at the face of this killer. At once you recognize the cruel, angular features: he is Helmut Varken, a top HAVOC assassin who achieved infamy on 1 May, 2008 when he assassinated both the President of the United States, and the General Secretary of the Supreme Soviet at an emergency summit meeting in Rome. HAVOC were proud of his ignoble feat, and when by chance they leaked his identity, his photograph appeared on every television screen and on the front page of every newspaper around the world. You were only eight years old at the time, but the image of his face became synonymous with the evil that HAVOC represented, and it etched itself indelibly upon your mind.</p>
<p>As your pulse returns to normal, you begin to search his blood-stained body. You are disappointed to find that his air-con suit has been irreparably damaged, but you discover more than enough useful items to compensate for the loss:</p>
<ul>
<section class="numbered" id="sect155">
<meta><title>155</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect155-1-foot" idref="sect155-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>You fire, hitting the Angelino clansman in the side as he roars past your hiding place, and sending him tumbling from his machine to hit the ground in a cloud of dust. it is not until the dust settles and your pulse slows that you realize just how close you came to being killed.</p>
+ <p>You fire, hitting the Angelino clansman in the side as he roars past your hiding place, and sending him tumbling from his machine to hit the ground in a cloud of dust.<a id="sect155-1" idref="sect155-1-foot" class="footnote" /> It is not until the dust settles and your pulse slows that you realize just how close you came to being killed.</p>
<p>Seven neat indentations run in a line across the trash can, marking the place where the biker's machine pistol bullets ricocheted off the thick steel plate. They are barely an inch below the top of the rim. Had he aimed a fraction higher, the bullets would have hit you for sure.</p>
<p>Thinking of how close you came to death makes you break out in a cold sweat. Uneasily you wipe your forehead with the back of your trembling hand as you climb out of the trash can and walk away from the bridge.</p>
<choice idref="sect209"><link-text>Turn to 209</link-text>.</choice>
<meta><title>167</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>To the west, the rockfall is far less steep and you have no difficulty descending to the edge of the gully. With the dust cloud growing nearer by the second, you creep down the final slope towards your motorcycle as fast as you dare. You are expecting to find little more than a twisted heap of scrap metal, so it comes as a welcome surprise to discover that the machine is still in working order. After straigthening the handlebars and the front wheel alignment, you are able to restart the engine and attempt to ride it away.</p>
+ <p>To the west, the rockfall is far less steep and you have no difficulty descending to the edge of the gully. With the dust cloud growing nearer by the second, you creep down the final slope towards your motorcycle as fast as you dare. You are expecting to find little more than a twisted heap of scrap metal, so it comes as a welcome surprise to discover that the machine is still in working order. After straightening the handlebars and the front wheel alignment, you are able to restart the engine and attempt to ride it away.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your Driving skill total.</p>
<choice idref="sect281">If your total score is 9 or less, <link-text>turn to 281</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect225">If it is 10 or more, <link-text>turn to 225</link-text>.</choice>
<p>You leave behind the blazing wreckage as you speed away from Lordsburg on Interstate 10. You are expecting to be followed, yet, as the town slowly vanishes into the night, there is no sign of a clan pursuit.</p>
<p>You cover fifteen miles, reaching the intersection with Highway 80, when the jeep runs out of fuel. You let it cruise to the side of the freeway. As soon as you stop, Captain Frankland unhooks a large fuel can that is strapped to the rear of the jeep and shakes it.</p>
<p>'There's about two gallons in this,' he says, as he flicks open the cap and pours the contents into the jeep's empty tank. 'It's not going to get us very far.'</p>
+
<p>As the captain pours the last of the spare gas into the jeep suddenly you discover why you were not followed out of Lordsburg.</p>
<choice idref="sect309"><link-text>Turn to 309</link-text>.</choice>
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<data>
<p>You reach for your gun but a gruff voice bellows: 'Hold it right there!'</p>
<p>The clansman stands silhouetted in the doorway, as his bloodhound comes loping across the desk towards you. Desperately you throw yourself out of the window before he can raise and fire a gun. Your swift action undoubtedly saves your life, for the Angelino has taped his torch to the barrel of his machine pistol, which is already aimed at your chest. As you make your move, he pulls the trigger, spraying the window with a deadly hail of lead. The frame is ripped to pieces yet none of the bullets find their mark.</p>
- <p>An iron fire-escape platform breaks your fall, but not without injury. Its surface is littered with glass and you suffer several minor cuts to your hands and knees - lose 1 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> point. Galvanized by the shock of coming so close to death, you ignore the cuts and stagger down the fire escape as quickly as you can.</p>
+ <p>An iron fire-escape platform breaks your fall, but not without injury. Its surface is littered with glass and you suffer several minor cuts to your hands and knees<ch.emdash/>lose 1 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> point. Galvanized by the shock of coming so close to death, you ignore the cuts and stagger down the fire escape as quickly as you can.</p>
<choice idref="sect282"><link-text>Turn to 282</link-text>.</choice>
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<meta><title>183</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>The temperature continues to rise as the truck makes its way along the remains of Highway 81, across a vast and spectacular landscape. It is nearly noon when you reach a winding, steep-sided canyon - part of the great continental divide. Its multi-banded strata of rocks provide a dramatic splash of colour in this sun-bleached mountain wasteland.</p>
+ <p>The temperature continues to rise as the truck makes its way along the remains of Highway 81, across a vast and spectacular landscape. It is nearly noon when you reach a winding, steep-sided canyon<ch.emdash/>part of the great continental divide. Its multi-banded strata of rocks provide a dramatic splash of colour in this sun-bleached mountain wasteland.</p>
<p>'The colony should be in Deming about now,' says the Captain, glancing at his wristwatch. 'When we reach the Interstate, we'll stop and wait for them there. No sense travelling in this heat if we can help it.'</p>
<p>He has barely finished talking when there is a loud bang. The floor shudders, then the engine starts to cough and splutter. Knott groans loudly, fearing the worst, and desperately pumps the gas pedal to keep the engine from stalling. For half a mile the truck lurches along the highway like a drunken kangaroo, until the engine utters its last cough and stops.</p>
- <p>An examination of the engine soon reveals the problem - a cracked electronic ignition unit. Knott recalls seeing one of these lying on a workbench back at the Hachita gas station, and curses himself for not having taken it. At least a replacement part is within reach. Knott volunteers to return to the town, ten miles away, and asks for someone to accompany him.</p>
+ <p>An examination of the engine soon reveals the problem<ch.emdash/>a cracked electronic ignition unit. Knott recalls seeing one of these lying on a workbench back at the Hachita gas station, and curses himself for not having taken it. At least a replacement part is within reach. Knott volunteers to return to the town, ten miles away, and asks for someone to accompany him.</p>
<choice idref="sect49">If you wish to walk back to Hachita with Marine Knott, <link-text>turn to 49</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect286">If you decide to stay with the truck, <link-text>turn to 286</link-text>.</choice>
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<li>Knife (2)</li>
<li>Hammer (2)</li>
<li>Three rounds of 12-gauge ammunition</li>
+
<li>Eighteen rounds of 9mm ammunition</li>
<li>Enough food for three Meals</li>
<li>Enough water for four Drinks</li>
<data>
<p>Using rubber sealant, insulation tape, and strips of metal cut from an old oil can, you help the sergeant to patch up the three bullet holes. Meanwhile, the others are able to siphon nearly two gallons of gasolene from the station's storage tanks, which is then carefully transferred to the truck's newly repaired fuel tank. Captain Frankland is disappointed at having found so little fuel, but Knott assures him that it should be sufficient to enable you to reach Lordsburg and rendezvous with the colony.</p>
- <p>Once the refuelling is completed, you climb aboard and set off in a new direction - north, towards a junction with Interstate Freeway 10.</p>
+ <p>Once the refuelling is completed, you climb aboard and set off in a new direction<ch.emdash/>north, towards a junction with Interstate Freeway 10.</p>
<choice idref="sect183"><link-text>Turn to 183</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>The women and children leave the room to check security at the front entrance, while the two men - brothers - demand to know who you are and why you are here.</p>
+ <p>The women and children leave the room to check security at the front entrance, while the two men<ch.emdash/>brothers<ch.emdash/>demand to know who you are and why you are here.</p>
<choice idref="sect302"><link-text>Turn to 302</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect210">
<meta><title>210</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect210-1-foot" idref="sect210-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch (if any).</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>Breathless with the exertion and exhilaration of your run, you crash through the foliage and throw yourself to the ground, scarcely able to believe that you escaped from the crater without being shot. You are beginning to think that the sniper failed to see you, when suddenly there is a gunshot and a bullet smacks into the base of a tree less than six feet from where you lie.</p>
+ <p>Breathless with the exertion and exhilaration of your run, you crash through the foliage and throw yourself to the ground, scarcely able to believe that you escaped from the crater without being shot.<a id="sect210-1" idref="sect210-1-foot" class="footnote" /> You are beginning to think that the sniper failed to see you, when suddenly there is a gunshot and a bullet smacks into the base of a tree less than six feet from where you lie.</p>
<choice idref="sect14"><link-text>Turn to 14</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect213">
<meta><title>213</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect213-1-foot" idref="sect213-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>You fire, and almost immediately throw yourself to the floor of the truck, hoping to avoid your enemy's counter-fire. Fortunately, your move proves unnecessarily cautious: your burst of fire hits the clan commander in the head, killing him instantly.</p>
+ <p>You fire, and almost immediately throw yourself to the floor of the truck, hoping to avoid your enemy's counter-fire. Fortunately, your move proves unnecessarily cautious: your burst of fire hits the clan commander in the head, killing him instantly.<a id="sect213-1" idref="sect213-1-foot" class="footnote" /></p>
<p>His death travels like a shockwave through the other clansmen, bringing them to an abrupt halt. They abort their attack and fall back, a few of them stopping just long enough to pick up and bear his lifeless body away from the street.</p>
<p>While there is a lull in the firing, you seize the chance to help Knott and Captain Frankland clear away the debris that is blocking your escape. A thick, wooden pole, which once supported overhead electricity cables in this part of town, is jammed between the wheel and the truck's front fender. With your help they are able to shift it, and Knott returns to the cab and starts the engine first time. Then, as he brings the truck over the mound, you and the captain leap on to the tailgate and pull yourselves aboard.</p>
<p>The street ends at a piece of wasteland but a few hundred yards beyond it lies a highway running east to west. The captain peers through the cab's partition window and gives an ironic laugh when he sees the highway.</p>
<meta><title>226</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>You hit the ground with a jolt that leaves you breathless. Moments later, you hear a dull thud and a screech of buckled metal as the motorcyle clips the gas pump and crashes down on its side. You look up in time to see it rolling over and over, then, with a loud bang, it slams into the gas station wall. Cautiously you get to your feet and approach the tangled, smoking wreckage with your gun poised. You are still very wary of this maniacal rider even though the chances of his surviving such a terrible crash must be slim indeed.</p>
+ <p>You hit the ground with a jolt that leaves you breathless. Moments later, you hear a dull thud and a screech of buckled metal as the motorcycle clips the gas pump and crashes down on its side. You look up in time to see it rolling over and over, then, with a loud bang, it slams into the gas station wall. Cautiously you get to your feet and approach the tangled, smoking wreckage with your gun poised. You are still very wary of this maniacal rider even though the chances of his surviving such a terrible crash must be slim indeed.</p>
<p>As you expected, the rider is dead. A closer examination of his broken body, however, reveals that he was dead before his machine hit the ground. He was killed as he sped over the bridge by a ricocheting bullet, and his body, slumped over the handlebars, kept his machine balanced in an upright and fixed line.</p>
<p>Thinking of how close you came to death makes you break out in a cold sweat. Uneasily you wipe your forehead with the back of your trembling hand as you turn and walk away from the dead clansman and his shattered bike.</p>
<choice idref="sect209"><link-text>Turn to 209</link-text>.</choice>
<section class="numbered" id="sect228">
<meta><title>228</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect228-1-foot" idref="sect228-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>Your gunfire catches the clansman in the upper chest and sends him spinning across the room. He hits the far wall, rebounds, then drops to his knees, his hands scrabbling all the while to maintain a grip on his weapon. He is determined to kill you but, as he struggles to raise his machine pistol, death robs him of the chance to avenge himself.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire catches the clansman in the upper chest and sends him spinning across the room.<a id="sect228-1" idref="sect228-1-foot" class="footnote" /> He hits the far wall, rebounds, then drops to his knees, his hands scrabbling all the while to maintain a grip on his weapon. He is determined to kill you but, as he struggles to raise his machine pistol, death robs him of the chance to avenge himself.</p>
<p>You scramble out from under the table to see the bloodhound scurrying away through the open door. Aware that the noise will have alerted the dead man's confederates, you waste no time in forcing open the window and leaving the building via the fire escape stairs.</p>
<choice idref="sect158"><link-text>Turn to 158</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<meta><title>237</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>Marine Knott begins his descent to the basement while you race up the stairs to a landing on the first floor where a corridor stretches away into the darkness. To your right is a door, slightly ajar, which bears the faded words 'EL PASO JOURNAL - NEWS ROOM' on its panelled wood surface. You enter to discover a large, dusty room cluttered with desks and computer terminals. A fire escape sign catches your eye: it is positioned above a window on the far side of the room.</p>
+ <p>Marine Knott begins his descent to the basement while you race up the stairs to a landing on the first floor where a corridor stretches away into the darkness. To your right is a door, slightly ajar, which bears the faded words 'EL PASO JOURNAL<ch.emdash/>NEWS ROOM' on its panelled wood surface. You enter to discover a large, dusty room cluttered with desks and computer terminals. A fire escape sign catches your eye: it is positioned above a window on the far side of the room.</p>
<p>A noise on the stairs makes your heart skip a beat: someone is approaching. Hurriedly you weave your way through the maze of office furniture, taking great pains to avoid making a noise, only to discover that the fire escape window is jammed shut. A light shines across the door and you hear the snuffling whine of a bloodhound in the corridor outside.</p>
<choice idref="sect153">If you wish to smash the glass and escape through the window, <link-text>turn to 153</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect9">If you decide to hide among the desks, <link-text>turn to 9</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You are five miles out of Benson when you notice in your driving mirror a cloud of dust rising in the distance. You tell Kate and she turns around to take a look.</p>
- <p>'Clan scouts, a pack of them,' she reports. 'Looks like twenty bikes, but they're not on their own. They're tailin' a car. Well, I think it's a car - it's got four wheels.' She continues to stare into the distance for several minutes, then she says: 'I don't like the look of it, Cal. Let's not hang around to say hi to these dudes, OK?'</p>
+ <p>'Clan scouts, a pack of them,' she reports. 'Looks like twenty bikes, but they're not on their own. They're tailin' a car. Well, I think it's a car<ch.emdash/>it's got four wheels.' She continues to stare into the distance for several minutes, then she says: 'I don't like the look of it, Cal. Let's not hang around to say hi to these dudes, OK?'</p>
<p>You respond by flooring the gas pedal until the roadsters speedometer registers 100 miles an hour. 'The pack's dropping back,' shouts Kate, her voice barely audible above the noise of the rushing wind. 'But that car is gaining on us.'</p>
<p>You are speeding over a girder bridge, across a water-course known locally as the Pantona Wash, when you see the car in your mirror. It is black and bullet-shaped, with an enclosed driver's compartment and a roaring lion's head emblazoned on the hood. It accelerates to within twenty yards of your trunk, and you catch sight of the driver's snarling face. A shiver runs down your spine when you recognize the manic features of Mad Dog Michigan.</p>
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<p>You wake shortly after dawn feeling thoroughly refreshed after ten hours' uninterrupted sleep: restore 4 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. The barricade is still intact and, once it is dismantled, you arm yourself and investigate the cabin above. Nothing has been touched during the night, prompting you to believe that you may, at least for the time being, have given the assassin the slip.</p>
<p>After eating breakfast, you set about unpacking and constructing the motorcycle. There is sufficient gasolene stored in the cellar to fill its tank, but you can find no engine oil. The motorcycle's oil level is very low and you can only hope that it will get you as far as Tucson before breaking down.</p>
- <p>After studying the map, you mount your new vehicle and set off along the road, heading west through the Swisshelm Mountains. You enjoy the cool breeze whipping through your hair as you ride at speed along the empty highway, and you cover more than twenty miles before you come to a small town with a sign that proclaims:</p>
+ <p>After studying the <a idref="map">map</a>, you mount your new vehicle and set off along the road, heading west through the Swisshelm Mountains. You enjoy the cool breeze whipping through your hair as you ride at speed along the empty highway, and you cover more than twenty miles before you come to a small town with a sign that proclaims:</p>
<signpost>GLEESON WELCOMES CAREFUL DRIVERS</signpost>
<choice idref="sect64">If you wish to stop at this mountain town, <link-text>turn to 64</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect50">If you decide to ride through without stopping, <link-text>turn to 50</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>The silver dollar hits the dusty soil, spins, then settles heads-up.</p>
- <p>'OK men, that decides it,' says Captain Frankland, stooping to pick up the coin. 'We hit Columbus right now. Sergeant - you and Knott see what sort o' extra protection you can rig up to the truck's front fender, while me an' Cal set up firing positions in the back.'</p>
+ <p>'OK men, that decides it,' says Captain Frankland, stooping to pick up the coin. 'We hit Columbus right now. Sergeant<ch.emdash/>you and Knott see what sort o' extra protection you can rig up to the truck's front fender, while me an' Cal set up firing positions in the back.'</p>
<p>I don't think we're gonna have time for that, sir,' says Knott, apologetically. 'Looks like more o' Mad Dog's boys are on their way.' He points along the highway at an ominous column of dust that is approaching from the south.</p>
- <p>'Hell!' spits Frarikland. 'We'll just have to take our chances. Mount up men. We've got a date to keep an' I aim to be there on time.'</p>
+ <p>'Hell!' spits Frankland. 'We'll just have to take our chances. Mount up men. We've got a date to keep an' I aim to be there on time.'</p>
<choice idref="sect128"><link-text>Turn to 128</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>One of the dogs smells the meat and bounds towards it, but the other ignores his brother and continues to lead his torch-wielding handler straight towards you. He sees you, and begins to bark wildly, alerting its handler to your presence.</p>
<p>'Run for it!' you hiss. 'We've been seen!'</p>
<p>Knott increases his speed and you follow him, praying that you will reach cover before the clansmen open fire. Your prayers are answered. In his haste, the clansman drops his flashlight, and before he can retrieve it and switch it on, you follow Knott through the open door of a derelict building.</p>
- <p>'We stand a better chance if we split up,' you say, casting an anxious glance over your shoulder at the yellow light that is streaming through the doorway. 'But remember - meet up at the bridge as planned.'</p>
+ <p>'We stand a better chance if we split up,' you say, casting an anxious glance over your shoulder at the yellow light that is streaming through the doorway. 'But remember<ch.emdash/>meet up at the bridge as planned.'</p>
<p>The torchlight illuminates the interior sufficiently for you to be able to make out two possible exits: a carpeted staircase leading to the first floor, and another leading down to the basement.</p>
<choice idref="sect237">If you wish to ascend the stairs to the first floor, <link-text>turn to 237</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect58">If you decide to descend to the basement, <link-text>turn to 58</link-text>.</choice>
<section class="numbered" id="sect267">
<meta><title>267</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect267-1-foot" idref="sect267-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>You fire a snap shot from the hip and send one of the clansmen somersaulting backwards out of the truck. But before you can get a bead on his confederate, he leaps head-first from the tailgate and pulls you to the floor. Desperately you wrestle to get free, but your gun is dashed from your grasp and you steel yourself for a tough hand-to-hand combat.</p>
+ <p>You fire a snap shot from the hip and send one of the clansmen somersaulting backwards out of the truck.<a id="sect267-1" idref="sect267-1-foot" class="footnote" /> But before you can get a bead on his confederate, he leaps head-first from the tailgate and pulls you to the floor. Desperately you wrestle to get free, but your gun is dashed from your grasp and you steel yourself for a tough hand-to-hand combat.</p>
<combat><enemy>Gator</enemy><enemy-attribute class="closecombatskill">15</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">26</enemy-attribute></combat>
<p>Owing to the speed of your enemy's attack, you are unable to use a close combat weapon until the second round of the fight.</p>
<choice idref="sect117">If you win the fight, <link-text>turn to 117</link-text>.</choice>
<meta><title>272</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>Most of the more useful medicaments and supplies that once filled the shelves of this store were taken by the local inhabitants during the days of panic that followed 'The Day'. All that remains are a few bandages and some gauze - enough for one Medi-kit unit.</p>
+ <p>Most of the more useful medicaments and supplies that once filled the shelves of this store were taken by the local inhabitants during the days of panic that followed 'The Day'. All that remains are a few bandages and some gauze<ch.emdash/>enough for one Medi-kit unit.</p>
<choice idref="sect96"><link-text>Turn to 96</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect279">
<meta><title>279</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect279-1-foot" idref="sect279-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>Your gunfire catches the Angelino clansman in the side and sends him tumbling from his machine. Simultaneously, however, you are hit by his burst of machine pistol fire, which knocks you off your feet. Pain fills your chest and a terrifying greyness clouds your vision. You hear voices, those of Sergeant Haskell and Marine Knott, but you cannot make out what they are saying.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire catches the Angelino clansman in the side and sends him tumbling from his machine.<a id="sect279-1" idref="sect279-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Simultaneously, however, you are hit by his burst of machine pistol fire, which knocks you off your feet. Pain fills your chest and a terrifying greyness clouds your vision. You hear voices, those of Sergeant Haskell and Marine Knott, but you cannot make out what they are saying.</p>
<p>Swiftly the pain subsides and, despite your efforts to stay conscious, you drift off into a sleep from which you will never awaken.</p>
<p>Tragically, your life and your mission end here in Mexico.</p>
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<p>Eventually you reach firmer ground beyond the plateau and you are able to continue your descent through the forest with comparative ease. Soon you reach the stream that you discovered during your ascent, and you stop here briefly to try to determine if you area still being pursued. The surrounding trees seem unnaturally quiet, and it is easy to imagine that an assassin lurks behind every trunk.</p>
- <p>You continue, with trepidation, following the water as it flows west towards the Swisshelm Mountains. You cover twelve miles without incident and by early evening you arrive at a small bridge where a road, running north to south, crosses the stream. You check your map, but the road is too minor to be listed. You are hungry and must eat a Meal or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
+ <p>You continue, with trepidation, following the water as it flows west towards the Swisshelm Mountains. You cover twelve miles without incident and by early evening you arrive at a small bridge where a road, running north to south, crosses the stream. You check your <a idref="map">map</a>, but the road is too minor to be listed. You are hungry and must eat a Meal or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<choice idref="sect43">If you wish to leave the stream and follow the road, <link-text>turn to 43</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect175">If you choose to continue along the stream, <link-text>turn to 175</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Beyond the freeway, the ground slopes away towards a unit of industrial buildings, all extensively damaged by the post-holocaust storms. Clan patrols, many with dogs, are active in the vicinity but the ruined factories provide enough cover for you to avoid them without too much difficulty.</p>
<p>You make good progress until you reach a wide highway once known as Dyer Street. A clan command station, complete with equipment dumps and a vehicle workshop, has been set up among the stores bordering this main street. It crosses your mind that the stores must contain weapons and provisions that would be useful to the colony, but when you lose count of the number of clansmen that are entering and leaving them, you abandon the idea of a raid and concentrate on the mission in hand.</p>
- <p>In order to avoid the clan command station you are forced to follow Dyer Street south, towards the heart of the city. You have covered more than a mile before you reach a place, close to the Muncipal Park, where you are able to cross the street without risk of being seen. Once safely across, you enter the park and continue on your way west. As you reach the west side exit, a truck appears, catching you in the glare of its headlights. You both freeze, fearing the worst. It continues to approach, then, with a screech of brakes, it veers aside and stops nearby. The driver jumps from the cab and, without a word, strides off towards a building directly opposite the park.</p>
+ <p>In order to avoid the clan command station you are forced to follow Dyer Street south, towards the heart of the city. You have covered more than a mile before you reach a place, close to the Municipal Park, where you are able to cross the street without risk of being seen. Once safely across, you enter the park and continue on your way west. As you reach the west side exit, a truck appears, catching you in the glare of its headlights. You both freeze, fearing the worst. It continues to approach, then, with a screech of brakes, it veers aside and stops nearby. The driver jumps from the cab and, without a word, strides off towards a building directly opposite the park.</p>
<choice idref="sect174">If you wish to take a closer look at the truck, <link-text>turn to 174</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect138">If you choose to ignore the truck and hurry away before the driver returns, <link-text>turn to 138</link-text>.</choice>
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<section class="numbered" id="sect296">
<meta><title>296</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect296-1-foot" idref="sect296-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>Your gunfire hits the clan leader in the chest, killing him outright. Realization of his death passes like a shockwave through the other clansmen, bringing them to an abrupt halt. They abort their attack and fall back, a few stopping just long enough to pick up and bear his lifeless body away from the street.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire hits the clan leader in the chest, killing him outright.<a id="sect296-1" idref="sect296-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Realization of his death passes like a shockwave through the other clansmen, bringing them to an abrupt halt. They abort their attack and fall back, a few stopping just long enough to pick up and bear his lifeless body away from the street.</p>
<p>While there is a lull in the firing, you seize the chance to help Knott and Captain Frankland clear away the debris that is blocking your escape. A thick, wooden pole, which once supported overhead electricity cables in this part of town, is jammed between the wheel and the truck's front fender. With your help, they are at last able to shift it and Knott returns to the cab and starts the engine first time. As he brings the truck over the mound, you and the captain leap on to the tailgate and pull yourselves aboard.</p>
<p>The street ends at a piece of wasteland but a few hundred yards beyond it lies a highway, running east to west. The captain peers through the cab's partition window and gives an ironic laugh when he sees the highway.</p>
<p>'Make for that road and head west,' he commands, and Knott obeys. Then he turns to the sergeant and says, 'It looks like you're finally outvoted, Haskell. Seems we're on our way to Mimbres.'</p>
<meta><title>324</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>The leader of the Detroit Lions is standing with a group of Mexicans in front of a large canvas tent pitched in the centre of the track. He is shouting, and clearly he is very angry, although you cannot hear what he is saying above the mechanical din of the generators that are supplying electricity to the track's floodlights. An assortment of vehicles is parked haphazardly around the tents, and at least fifty clansmen, perhaps more, are hovering in the area. They all seem very nervous, many of them glancing repeatedly at their wristwatches as they pace back and forth. You look at your own watch and see that the time is 0225; no wonder they are so edgy - the convoy is late.</p>
+ <p>The leader of the Detroit Lions is standing with a group of Mexicans in front of a large canvas tent pitched in the centre of the track. He is shouting, and clearly he is very angry, although you cannot hear what he is saying above the mechanical din of the generators that are supplying electricity to the track's floodlights. An assortment of vehicles is parked haphazardly around the tents, and at least fifty clansmen, perhaps more, are hovering in the area. They all seem very nervous, many of them glancing repeatedly at their wristwatches as they pace back and forth. You look at your own watch and see that the time is 0225; no wonder they are so edgy<ch.emdash/>the convoy is late.</p>
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<creator>Brian Williams</creator>
<p>'Look over there, Captain,' whispers Knott, pointing at a large, six-wheeled truck that is parked at the side of the track, close to the dog traps. 'It's an old Defence League three-tonner, just like the one I used to drive in Brownsville. They ain't fast but they can take a lot of punishment. It might be just what we need if we have to ram our way outta here.'</p>
<p>'OK, Knott. You've convinced me,' replies the captain. 'She looks like she's been left unguarded, so you get on over there and get aboard. We'll join you as soon as the mines are set, so you just be sure she's ready to go, y' hear.'</p>
<p>'Yessir,' says Knott. He is about to leave the group when the captain grabs him by the arm. 'Hold it, you'd better give the sergeant your contact mine.'</p>
- <p>Knott fishes the device from his haversack and passes it to Haskell. Then he leaves, and all three of you watch as he makes his way slowly around the perimeter, using what cover he can find. He reaches the truck and climbs aboard. Moments later there is a tremendous noise - a siren that fills the race track with a deafening clangour.</p>
+ <p>Knott fishes the device from his haversack and passes it to Haskell. Then he leaves, and all three of you watch as he makes his way slowly around the perimeter, using what cover he can find. He reaches the truck and climbs aboard. Moments later there is a tremendous noise<ch.emdash/>a siren that fills the race track with a deafening clangour.</p>
<choice idref="sect164"><link-text>Turn to 164</link-text>.</choice>
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</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect328">
<meta><title>328</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect328-1-foot" idref="sect328-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>Your gunfire is accurate - it hits the biker in the head - but it does not divert his machine. The fact is, the biker is already dead, killed by a ricocheting bullet as he sped over the bridge. He is slumped forward over the handlebars in a racing pose, his right hand locked on the throttle and his weight balanced to keep his machine upright and fixed in a straight line.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire is accurate<ch.emdash/>it hits the biker in the head<ch.emdash/>but it does not divert his machine.<a id="sect328-1" idref="sect328-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The fact is, the biker is already dead, killed by a ricocheting bullet as he sped over the bridge. He is slumped forward over the handlebars in a racing pose, his right hand locked on the throttle and his weight balanced to keep his machine upright and fixed in a straight line.</p>
<p>In desperation you scramble to your feet to throw yourself out of the path of the bike, but you have left it too late. With a fearful crash, the motorcycle ploughs into the gas pump and explodes in a ball of bright flame. The last thing you see is a blinding yellow flash as you are engulfed by the blazing inferno. Death is instantaneous.</p>
<p>Tragically, your life and your mission end here in Mexico.</p>
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<p>Aiming from the hip, you bring your G-12 machine pistol to bear on the leading biker, your finger starting to squeeze as the muzzle levels off at a spot two feet above the motorcycle's blazing headlight.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your Shooting skill total.</p>
<choice idref="sect27">If your total score is now 7 or less, <link-text>turn to 27</link-text>.</choice>
+
<choice idref="sect112">If it is 8 or more, <link-text>turn to 112</link-text>.</choice>
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</section>
<p>Inadvertently, your fall saves your life. A shot passes over your head a second after you stumble, missing you by a hand's breadth. The imminent danger clears your mind and you race towards the trees with renewed determination to survive. Knott encourages you to increase your speed and you pray that you will reach cover before the sniper has a chance to work another round into the breech of his rifle.</p>
<p>Add together your Stealth skill total and your current <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points score. (Note. If Your <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> is low and you are heavily encumbered, it may be advisable to discard some of your Backpack Items in order to increase your Stealth skill total.</p>
<choice idref="sect57">If your total score is 15 or less, <link-text>turn to 57</link-text>.</choice>
- <choice idref="sect83">If it is 16 - 19, <link-text>turn to 83</link-text>.</choice>
+ <choice idref="sect83">If it is 16<ch.emdash/>19, <link-text>turn to 83</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect254">If it is 20 or more, <link-text>turn to 254</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You tell the others that you think the team should attempt to break through the Columbus road block.</p>
- <p>'Well, it looks like we got ourselves what the French call an 'impasse',' says the captain, as he reaches to the breast pocket of his combat jacket. 'There's only one way to solve this<ch.ellips/>' So saying, he withdraws a coin - a commemorative AD2000 silver dollar.</p>
+ <p>'Well, it looks like we got ourselves what the French call an 'impasse',' says the captain, as he reaches to the breast pocket of his combat jacket. 'There's only one way to solve this<ch.ellips/>' So saying, he withdraws a coin<ch.emdash/>a commemorative AD2000 silver dollar.</p>
<p>'Heads we hit Columbus; tails we avoid it,' he says, and flips the coin into the air.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</p>
<choice idref="sect262">If the number you have picked is 0-4, <link-text>turn to 262</link-text>.</choice>
<section class="numbered" id="sect346">
<meta><title>346</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect346-1-foot" idref="sect346-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>Your gunfire impacts against the pillar and instinctively you pull away from the window in case the assassin attempts to return fire. A few seconds later, there is a crash of breaking glass and you catch sight of something vaguely resembling a can of food as it flies through the window and bounces on the carpeted floor. Immediately there is a flash and a stream of sickly, cream-coloured gas shoots from its base. As the gas rapidly fills the room, your throat tightens and your eyes stream. A wave of nausea hits you and you rush frantically from the room before it fills to the ceiling with noxious tear gas: lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire impacts against the pillar and instinctively you pull away from the window in case the assassin attempts to return fire.<a id="sect346-1" idref="sect346-1-foot" class="footnote" /> A few seconds later, there is a crash of breaking glass and you catch sight of something vaguely resembling a can of food as it flies through the window and bounces on the carpeted floor. Immediately there is a flash and a stream of sickly, cream-coloured gas shoots from its base. As the gas rapidly fills the room, your throat tightens and your eyes stream. A wave of nausea hits you and you rush frantically from the room before it fills to the ceiling with noxious tear gas: lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<p>Coughing and retching, you stagger along the corridor until you come to a flight of stairs that descends to a fire exit at the rear of the building. Desperate for clean air, you kick its locking bar and stumble out into the courthouse yard. You have taken just two steps when the assassin comes rushing around the corner of the courthouse, his rifle in his hand.</p>
<choice idref="sect181">If you have sufficient ammunition for one round of fire, <link-text>turn to 181</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect270">If you do not, <link-text>turn to 270</link-text>.</choice>
<meta><title>348</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>Your forehead connects with the clansman's studded leather jacket and the impact sends you reeling to the ground - lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. Before you have recovered your senses fully, the Mexican draws a knife and attacks you while you are lying on the ground.</p>
+ <p>Your forehead connects with the clansman's studded leather jacket and the impact sends you reeling to the ground<ch.emdash/>lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. Before you have recovered your senses fully, the Mexican draws a knife and attacks you while you are lying on the ground.</p>
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<meta>
<creator>Brian Williams</creator>
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</section>
+
<section class="numbered" id="sect350">
<meta><title>350</title></meta>
<li>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</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 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points, this is when he is declared dead.</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">
<instance src="crtpos.tex" width="380" height="500" class="tex" />
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<section class="backmatter" id="errerr">
<meta><title>Errata</title></meta>
<data>
- <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>syphoned</quote> with <quote>siphoned</quote>.</p>
+ <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>syphoned</quote> with <quote>siphoned</quote>, and and <quote>'The Freeway Warrior'.</quote> with <quote>the 'Freeway Warrior'.</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="cmbtrulz">Combat Rules</a>) Removed <quote>on the inside back cover of the book</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="equipmnt">Equipment</a>) Replaced <quote>map of New Mexico/Arizona</quote> with <quote>Map of New Mexico/Arizona</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>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="sect8">8</a>) Replaced <quote>head over heals</quote> with <quote>head over heels</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect11">11</a>) Replaced <quote>antispetics</quote> with <quote>antiseptics</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect34">36</a>) Replaced <quote>motorcyle</quote> with <quote>motorcycle</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect36">36</a>) Replaced <quote>shot-shell</quote> with <quote>shell</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect36">36</a>) Replaced <quote>(minimum equals one round; maximum equals five rounds)</quote> with <quote>(minimum: one round; maximum: five rounds)</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect39">39</a>) Replaced <quote>Within a minute he has made a hole large enough to of the truck, there is another sharp crack</quote> with <quote>On the other side of the truck, there is another sharp crack</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect92">92</a>) Replaced <quote>syphoning</quote> with <quote>siphoning</quote> and <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect98">98</a>) Replaced <quote>If is is 11 or more</quote> with <quote>If it is 11 or more</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect104">104</a>) Replaced <quote>reassurringly</quote> with <quote>reassuringly</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect123">123</a>) Replaced <quote>motorcyle</quote> with <quote>motorcycle</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect125">125</a>) Replaced <quote>(minimum equals one round; maximum equals three rounds)</quote> with <quote>(minimum: one round; maximum: three rounds)</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect129">129</a>) Replaced <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect136">136</a>) Replaced <quote>turn 235</quote> with <quote>turn to 235</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect264">264</a>) Replaced <quote>encumberance</quote> with <quote>encumbrance</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect269">269</a>) Replaced <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect276">276</a>) Replaced <quote>one a.m.</quote> with <quote>1 a.m.</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect276">288</a>) Replaced <quote>Muncipal</quote> with <quote>Municipal</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect291">291</a>) Replaced <quote>turn to, 83</quote> with <quote>turn to 83</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect323">323</a>) Replaced <quote>(minimum equals one round; maximum equals five rounds)</quote> with <quote>(minimum: one burst; maximum: five bursts)</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect11">11</a>,<a idref="sect63">63</a>,<a idref="sect82">82</a>,<a idref="sect150">150</a>,<a idref="sect152">152</a>,<a idref="sect192">192</a>,<a idref="sect310">310</a>,<a idref="sect320">320</a> Replaced CCS Bonuses in <quote>[]</quote> with <quote>()</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect10">10</a>,<a idref="sect11">11</a>,<a idref="sect66">66</a>,<a idref="sect92">92</a>,<a idref="sect100">100</a>,<a idref="sect106">106</a>,<a idref="sect134">134</a>,<a idref="sect192">192</a>,<a idref="sect223">223</a>,<a idref="sect264">264</a>,<a idref="sect282">282</a>,<a idref="sect291">291</a>,<a idref="sect295">295</a>,<a idref="sect340">340</a>) Replaced <quote>Backpack items</quote> with <quote>Backpack Items</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="crsumary">Combat Rules Summary</a>) Added missing period after <quote>total</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="crsumary">Combat Rules Summary</a>) Replaced <quote>cross-refer</quote> with <quote>cross-reference</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>(<a idref="sect4">4</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect19">19</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect22">22</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect53">53</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect97">97</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect99">99</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect112">112</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect150">150</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect155">155</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect210">210</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect213">213</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect228">228</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect267">267</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect279">279</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect296">296</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect328">328</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect346">346</a>) Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
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<date class="publication"><year>2005</year><month>12</month><day>17</day></date>
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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 - 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>1990-1998</strong><br />Rise of global terrorism on an unprecedented scale. Political violence funded by organized crime syndicate called HAVOC - The Hijack, Assassination and Violent Opposition Consortium.</p>
- <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>1990-1998</strong><br />Rise of global terrorism on an unprecedented scale. Political violence funded by organized crime syndicate called HAVOC<ch.emdash/>The Hijack, Assassination and Violent Opposition Consortium.</p>
+ <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' - maximum security gaols located deep underground - 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>
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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 - 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 re-establish 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 - 'DC1' for short - 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>'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 - its only source of uncontaminated water - 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>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 gasoline 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 - a beautiful teenage girl - 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 - 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 - Stinger - 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>
+ <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>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 - 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 south-west 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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+ <footnote id="sect4-1-foot" idref="sect4-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct six rounds of 9mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
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- <p>Your burst of 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 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 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>
<choice idref="sect141"><link-text>Turn to 141</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>Your weapon strikes Mad Dog's shoulder blade, opening a deep wound. Screaming with pain, he stumbles backwards and, in doing so, raises his right arm towards the ceiling. The blade of his chainsaw rips into the wooden paneling as if it were paper-thin, but, when it cuts through a metal light-fitting, the deadly blade becomes jammed. Frantically, Mad Dog pulls at the handle in an effort to free the chainsaw before you can get back on your feet.</p>
+ <p>Your weapon strikes Mad Dog's shoulder blade, opening a deep wound. Screaming with pain, he stumbles backwards and, in doing so, raises his right arm towards the ceiling. The blade of his chainsaw rips into the wooden panelling as if it were paper-thin, but, when it cuts through a metal light-fitting, the deadly blade becomes jammed. Frantically, Mad Dog pulls at the handle in an effort to free the chainsaw before you can get back on your feet.</p>
<choice idref="sect234">If you wish to look for your gun, <link-text>turn to 234</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect105">If you wish to look for another close combat weapon, <link-text>turn to 105</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect27">If you wish to attack the clan leader with your bare hands before he can free his chainsaw, <link-text>turn to 27</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Quietly you inform your fellow judges of your decision and, after a brief consultation, Cutter Jacks announces the verdict.</p>
- <p>'By the majority decision of this tribunal, we find John Barlow guilty of the murder of Micheal Gorgas in the first degree. This crime is a capital offence punishable by death by firing squad. The sentence is to be carried out immediately.'</p>
+ <p>'By the majority decision of this tribunal, we find John Barlow guilty of the murder of Michael Gorgas in the first degree. This crime is a capital offence punishable by death by firing squad. The sentence is to be carried out immediately.'</p>
<p>Upon hearing the verdict, the surrounding colonists utter a sound that is full of shocked disbelief. Barlow's face contorts into a mask of hatred and he reaches, like a striking cobra, for the pistol he has tucked into his belt. However, the Tucson escorts are already moving forward to grab his arms, and swiftly they wrestle the gun from his hand. A lone voice in the crowd demands a re-trial, but it is ignored. Then another voice rings out, but this time it captures everyone's attention. It is Macy, the convoy's lookout, and he is screaming words that make your blood run cold.</p>
<p>'The Outlaws are attacking!'</p>
<p>Without warning, two grenades explode simultaneously in the town square and the chatter of machine gun fire echoes along the empty side-streets. Screams of panic mingle with the dull booms of more explosions as the colonists rush to the vehicles to try to retrieve their weapons before it is too late. A burst of gunfire from a rooftop stitches a line of holes across the table and sends you, and the other judges, diving for cover. Suddenly everything is chaos; it's every man for himself. You grab your gun and scurry towards a garbage cart that lies overturned on the plaza. As you skid to a halt behind the cart, you find yourself face to face with Barlow, the man you have just sentenced to death. The confrontation is shocking, but it is the sight of the screwdriver that he is holding poised in his hand that really strikes terror in your heart.</p>
<section class="numbered" id="sect25">
<meta><title>25</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect25-1-foot" idref="sect25-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>You raise your gun and squeeze the trigger just as the clansman looses off a second burst of fire. Bullets thud into the side of the car, dangerously close, but you fight the urge to dive for cover. The firing stops, and your adversary clutches at his chest and crumples in a heap in the doorway. Rickenbacker, having finally lost his patience, slams his gun angrily against the front of the car. To his surprise, the sudden impact is just what is needed to dislodge the faulty shell.</p>
+ <p>You raise your gun and squeeze the trigger just as the clansman looses off a second burst of fire.<a id="sect25-1" idref="sect25-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Bullets thud into the side of the car, dangerously close, but you fight the urge to dive for cover. The firing stops, and your adversary clutches at his chest and crumples in a heap in the doorway. Rickenbacker, having finally lost his patience, slams his gun angrily against the front of the car. To his surprise, the sudden impact is just what is needed to dislodge the faulty shell.</p>
<p>Then you hear running footsteps somewhere above and behind you. You turn in time to see two clansmen rushing to take up firing positions on the roof of a nearby bank. You shout a warning and immediately Rickenbacker spins around to face the threat. With no time to take proper aim, the two of you trust to your luck as you spray the parapet of the roof with gunfire (remember to erase an additional round of fire from your Ammo Pouch). Your swift action is rewarded: the clansmen are caught in your crossfire before they have you fixed in their sights. With gurgling screams they tumble from the roof of the bank and crash on to the street below.</p>
<p>'You OK?' asks Rickenbacker.</p>
<p>'Sure, jus' fine,' you reply, confidently. 'I guess we'd better check out the bodies, 'n' make sure they're Outlaws.'</p>
<meta><title>29</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>Quickly you drive back to the convoy, where ameeting is called to discuss the situation. It is decided that the convoy vehicles will be drawn up into break-out formation, ready to follow the highway south to Brawley. Once you reach this town you will keep going at speed until you return to Interstate 8 near El Centro. Cookie reminds everyone that the Chargers clan are in control of that city, but his warning is all but ignored. Most of the colony still distrust him, and those who do believe what he says feel that there is really no alternative route.</p>
+ <p>Quickly you drive back to the convoy, where a meeting is called to discuss the situation. It is decided that the convoy vehicles will be drawn up into break-out formation, ready to follow the highway south to Brawley. Once you reach this town you will keep going at speed until you return to Interstate 8 near El Centro. Cookie reminds everyone that the Chargers clan are in control of that city, but his warning is all but ignored. Most of the colony still distrust him, and those who do believe what he says feel that there is really no alternative route.</p>
<p>'If we move fast,' says Cutter, 'and keep on moving, we'll be through El Centro and long gone before these Chargers know what's happened.'</p>
<p>Within half an hour the convoy is drawn up into its break-out formation, with the Tyler tow truck taking the lead. You squeeze your pick-up into the line, between the DC1 school bus and the Landcruiser, and wait impatiently for Pete Tyler to give the signal to roll.</p>
<choice idref="sect50"><link-text>Turn to 50</link-text>.</choice>
<section class="numbered" id="sect33">
<meta><title>33</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect33-1-foot" idref="sect33-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>You fire first, easily beating your adversary to the draw, but to your horror your gunfire goes awry, missing its target by several feet. Undaunted by how near he has come to death, your enemy fixes you grimly in his sights and squeezes the trigger of his machine pistol.</p>
+ <p>You fire first, easily beating your adversary to the draw, but to your horror your gunfire goes awry, missing its target by several feet.<a id="sect33-1" idref="sect33-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Undaunted by how near he has come to death, your enemy fixes you grimly in his sights and squeezes the trigger of his machine pistol.</p>
<choice idref="sect245">If you wish to dive to the ground to avoid being hit, <link-text>turn to 245</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect158">If you wish to fire a second time, and are able to do so, <link-text>turn to 158</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<data>
<p>You raise your gun and track the clansman as he runs across the bridge, but you do not get a clear view of him until he emerges from behind the bridge's supporting girders and sprints towards the pick-up truck. He is more than thirty yards away when you let loose your first round of fire.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your Shooting skill score.</p>
- <choice idref="sect188">If your total score is 9 or less, <link-text>turn to 188</link-text>.</choice>
+ <choice idref="sect186">If your total score is 9 or less, <link-text>turn to 186</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect233">If it is 10 or more, <link-text>turn to 233</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect37">
<meta><title>37</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect37-1-foot" idref="sect37-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>Barlow throws his hands in the air as the force of your gunfire pitches him forwards. He crashes to the ground and immediately tries to rise, but it is a futile effort: he has sustained a fatal wound and death is but seconds away. The clan biker moves as if he is going to dismount and help his confederate. Then, realizing that he is beyond help, he quickly changes his mind and makes a hasty escape from the plaza.</p>
+ <p>Barlow throws his hands in the air as the force of your gunfire pitches him forwards.<a id="sect37-1" idref="sect37-1-foot" class="footnote" /> He crashes to the ground and immediately tries to rise, but it is a futile effort: he has sustained a fatal wound and death is but seconds away. The clan biker moves as if he is going to dismount and help his confederate. Then, realizing that he is beyond help, he quickly changes his mind and makes a hasty escape from the plaza.</p>
<p>Rickenbacker and Cutter come running across the plaza and take cover with you behind the garbage cart. You tell them how you dispatched Barlow, and how you are now absolutely convinced that he was guilty.</p>
<p>'You're right,' says Cutter, glancing across at his motionless body. 'He must have been a clan infiltrator. I'd hazard a guess that this whole attack was an effort by the Outlaws t' get him out o' here.'</p>
<p>'Well now they're too late,' you reply. 'His sentence has already been served in full.'</p>
- <p>From behind the metal lip of the garbage cart you survey the battle that is raging around the plaza. Most of the colonists have now armed themselves and taken cover, and they are putting up a valiant defence of the vehicles. The few clansmen you do see are either dead or attempting to escape from the town. All, that is, apart from one. He is a blond-haired thug, dressed in a studded leather vest and striped pants, who is busy hammering in the glass door panels of the DC1 school bus with the stock of his machine pistol. The sight of him senselessly attacking the door of the empty bus does not bother you unduly until you remember that there is one person who is still on board the bus - Kate - and your heart nearly stops with shock.</p>
+ <p>From behind the metal lip of the garbage cart you survey the battle that is raging around the plaza. Most of the colonists have now armed themselves and taken cover, and they are putting up a valiant defence of the vehicles. The few clansmen you do see are either dead or attempting to escape from the town. All, that is, apart from one. He is a blond-haired thug, dressed in a studded leather vest and striped pants, who is busy hammering in the glass door panels of the DC1 school bus with the stock of his machine pistol. The sight of him senselessly attacking the door of the empty bus does not bother you unduly until you remember that there is one person who is still on board the bus<ch.emdash/>Kate<ch.emdash/>and your heart nearly stops with shock.</p>
<choice idref="sect270">If you wish to open fire at the clansman before he gains entry to the bus, and are able to do so, <link-text>turn to 270</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect181">If you do not wish to open fire at the clansman, or are unable to do so, <link-text>turn to 181</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<meta><title>40</title></meta>
<data>
- <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 map 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 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 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>
</data>
<section class="numbered" id="sect46">
<meta><title>46</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect46-1-foot" idref="sect46-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>Your gunfire hits the clansman in the chest, sending him flying backwards to crash heavily against one of the barbecue ranges. As he slides to the ground, his limbs move jerkily, then his whole body relaxes, resigned to its fate.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire hits the clansman in the chest, sending him flying backwards to crash heavily against one of the barbecue ranges.<a id="sect46-1" idref="sect46-1-foot" class="footnote" /> As he slides to the ground, his limbs move jerkily, then his whole body relaxes, resigned to its fate.</p>
<p>Rickenbacker appears at the edge of the barbecue area, drawn by the sound of gunfire. His face is lined with worry until he sees that you are still standing.</p>
<choice idref="sect305"><link-text>Turn to 305</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<data>
<p>The discordant blare of an air horn tells every driver to start his engine. Then the convoy moves off like a giant, disjointed metal snake, gradually gathering speed as it approaches the highway junction. Ahead you see the line of vehicles veer to the south and, as you approach the Crazies' tented encampment, you hear the shrill cackle of their laughter.</p>
- <p>Some of the more daring clansmen are hurling stones and old auto parts at the speeding convoy. Most fall short or do minimal damage, but one missile - a frisbee-like auto disc - travels further than the rest. It arcs in the air above the DC1 school bus and comes falling straight towards your windshield.</p>
+ <p>Some of the more daring clansmen are hurling stones and old auto parts at the speeding convoy. Most fall short or do minimal damage, but one missile<ch.emdash/>a frisbee-like auto disc<ch.emdash/>travels further than the rest. It arcs in the air above the DC1 school bus and comes falling straight towards your windshield.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your Driving skill score.</p>
<choice idref="sect137">If your total score is 5 or less, <link-text>turn to 137</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect6">If your total score is 6-8, <link-text>turn to 6</link-text>.</choice>
<meta><title>55</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>The route Jaeger took yesterday, when he hiked from the well in the moutains to Interstate 8, followed the course of the San Christobal Wash. For him it was a difficult trail to follow on foot, and you soon discover that it is an even harder one to negotiate in a pick-up truck. The broken ground is deeply rutted and littered with boulders, and it takes more than an hour to make the fifteen-mile climb to the well.</p>
+ <p>The route Jaeger took yesterday, when he hiked from the well in the mountains to Interstate 8, followed the course of the San Christobal Wash. For him it was a difficult trail to follow on foot, and you soon discover that it is an even harder one to negotiate in a pick-up truck. The broken ground is deeply rutted and littered with boulders, and it takes more than an hour to make the fifteen-mile climb to the well.</p>
<p>The well itself is located at the bottom of a bowl-shaped gully, shaded from the sun by two peaks of the Mohawk mountains. A pump house stands beside the bore-hole, to which is affixed a sign that reads:</p>
<signpost>LUKE AIR FORGE RANGE</signpost>
<signpost>GARCIA WELL</signpost>
- <signpost>US. GOVT. PROPERTY - 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 - 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>
+ <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>
<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>
</data>
<meta><title>63</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>You enter the pass and find yourselves approaching a section where rocky outcrops overhang the westbound lanes of the freeway. Then a rumbling, like the sound of distant thunder, draws your eyes away from the road ahead, and you look up in honor to see hundreds of tons of rock tumbling down the mountainside. One of the outcrops has collapsed and you are now driving into the path of a massive landslide.</p>
+ <p>You enter the pass and find yourselves approaching a section where rocky outcrops overhang the westbound lanes of the freeway. Then a rumbling, like the sound of distant thunder, draws your eyes away from the road ahead, and you look up in horror to see hundreds of tons of rock tumbling down the mountainside. One of the outcrops has collapsed and you are now driving into the path of a massive landslide.</p>
<p>Huge boulders come smashing down on to the highway, as desperately you fight to turn your roadster around and escape before you are crushed to death.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your Driving skill score.</p>
<choice idref="sect58">If your total is 7 or less, <link-text>turn to 58</link-text>.</choice>
<section class="numbered" id="sect78">
<meta><title>78</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect78-1-foot" idref="sect78-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct a round of 9mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>You pull the trigger, and see the clansman hesitate in mid-step as your bullet punctures his chest. A moment later he returns fire, but the impact of your slug has been enough to divert his aim, and his bullet passes harmlessly over your head. He staggers, then falls, yet no sooner has his body hit the dirt than one of his screaming comrades leaps over him and dives headlong into the ditch. Growling like an angry dog, he knocks the pistol from your hand and lunges forwards to fasten his steely fingers around your throat.</p>
+ <p>You pull the trigger, and see the clansman hesitate in mid-step as your bullet punctures his chest.<a id="sect78-1" idref="sect78-1-foot" class="footnote" /> A moment later he returns fire, but the impact of your slug has been enough to divert his aim, and his bullet passes harmlessly over your head. He staggers, then falls, yet no sooner has his body hit the dirt than one of his screaming comrades leaps over him and dives headlong into the ditch. Growling like an angry dog, he knocks the pistol from your hand and lunges forwards to fasten his steely fingers around your throat.</p>
<combat><enemy>Stonewall</enemy><enemy-attribute class="closecombatskill">16</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">26</enemy-attribute></combat>
<choice idref="sect311">If you win the combat, <link-text>turn to 311</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<data>
<p>The elation you feel at having found the medicine store is dampened when you take stock of your surroundings. Tens of thousands of bottles and containers line the shelves, not only in this room but in several other adjoining storage areas as well. And to make matters worse, there seems to be no logical order to the way the medicines have been stored. It could take you a week or more to inspect them individually.</p>
- <p>Hoping to get lucky, you search the shelves for the better part of an hour until you notice, by chance, that the base of each container carries an index number. Now you concentrate your efforts on finding the catalogue, or file, that is the key to this storage system. Ironically, you discover it - a weighty computer print-out - lying in a drawer of the table on which you took refuge from the cockroaches.</p>
+ <p>Hoping to get lucky, you search the shelves for the better part of an hour until you notice, by chance, that the base of each container carries an index number. Now you concentrate your efforts on finding the catalogue, or file, that is the key to this storage system. Ironically, you discover it<ch.emdash/>a weighty computer print-out<ch.emdash/>lying in a drawer of the table on which you took refuge from the cockroaches.</p>
<p>Within minutes of finding the print-out, you locate a tub of Atropine tablets. You check that its seal is intact, then slip the tub into your pocket as you hurry back to the roadster. (You need not make a record of the Atropine on your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>.)</p>
<choice idref="sect232"><link-text>Turn to 232</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<section class="numbered" id="sect94">
<meta><title>94</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect94-1-foot" idref="sect94-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>Your gunfire misses the fleeing traitor by a hand's breadth. The sheer closeness of it makes him dive to the ground, but when a second burst does not materialize, he scrambles quickly to his feet and runs head-up towards the waiting clan biker. The moment he is astride the pillion, the clansman winds back the throttle and the two of them make their getaway along a side street bordering the plaza.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire misses the fleeing traitor by a hand's breadth.<a id="sect94-1" idref="sect94-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The sheer closeness of it makes him dive to the ground, but when a second burst does not materialize, he scrambles quickly to his feet and runs head-up towards the waiting clan biker. The moment he is astride the pillion, the clansman winds back the throttle and the two of them make their getaway along a side street bordering the plaza.</p>
<p>As the traitor and his confederate disappear, Rickenbacker and Cutter come running across the plaza and take cover with you behind the garbage cart. Quickly you tell them that Barlow has escaped and that you are now absolutely convinced he was guilty.</p>
<p>'You're right,' says Cutter. 'He must have been a clan infiltrator. I'd hazard a guess that this whole attack was staged t' get him out o' here.'</p>
- <p>From behind the metal lip of the garbage cart you survey the battle that is raging around the plaza. Most of the colonists have now armed themselves and taken cover, and they are putting up a worthy defence of the vehicles. The few clansmen you do see are either dead or attempting to escape from the town now that they have achieved their objective. All of them, that is, apart from one. He is a blond-haired thug, dressed in a studded leather vest and striped pants, who is busy hammering at the glass door panels of the DC1 school bus with the stock of his machine pistol. The sight of him senselessly attacking the door of the empty bus does not bother you unduly until you remember that there is one person still on board the bus - Kate - and your heart nearly stops with shock.</p>
+ <p>From behind the metal lip of the garbage cart you survey the battle that is raging around the plaza. Most of the colonists have now armed themselves and taken cover, and they are putting up a worthy defence of the vehicles. The few clansmen you do see are either dead or attempting to escape from the town now that they have achieved their objective. All of them, that is, apart from one. He is a blond-haired thug, dressed in a studded leather vest and striped pants, who is busy hammering at the glass door panels of the DC1 school bus with the stock of his machine pistol. The sight of him senselessly attacking the door of the empty bus does not bother you unduly until you remember that there is one person still on board the bus<ch.emdash/>Kate<ch.emdash/>and your heart nearly stops with shock.</p>
<choice idref="sect270">If you wish to open fire at the clansman before he gains entry to the bus, and are able to do so, <link-text>turn to 270</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect181">If you do not wish to open fire at the clansman, or are unable to do so, <link-text>turn to 181</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<section class="numbered" id="sect95">
<meta><title>95</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect95-1-foot" idref="sect95-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>Carefully you wind the strap of your rifle around your left forearm for extra stability, then settle against the lip of the hollow and take aim at the distant figure. When you are sure that you are on target, you fire, but at that precise moment a cloud of oily smoke wafts up from the burning barricade and obscures your view. The smoke clears quickly, but when it does there is no trace of Mad Dog Michigan.</p>
+ <p>Carefully you wind the strap of your rifle around your left forearm for extra stability, then settle against the lip of the hollow and take aim at the distant figure. When you are sure that you are on target, you fire, but at that precise moment a cloud of oily smoke wafts up from the burning barricade and obscures your view.<a id="sect95-1" idref="sect95-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The smoke clears quickly, but when it does there is no trace of Mad Dog Michigan.</p>
<choice idref="sect154"><link-text>Turn to 154</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect98">
<meta><title>98</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect98-1-foot" idref="sect98-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>Your shot goes wide, tearing a chunk of masonry from the parapet of the roof to the left of the clan group. Alerted by the noise and the muzzle flash, the two riflemen swing around and pour a withering hail of automatic fire at you. You try to duck back, but an agonizing pain erupts in the centre of your forehead and you are lifted off your feet by the force of the high-velocity bullet that has penetrated your skull.</p>
+ <p>Your shot goes wide, tearing a chunk of masonry from the parapet of the roof to the left of the clan group.<a id="sect98-1" idref="sect98-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Alerted by the noise and the muzzle flash, the two riflemen swing around and pour a withering hail of automatic fire at you. You try to duck back, but an agonizing pain erupts in the centre of your forehead and you are lifted off your feet by the force of the high-velocity bullet that has penetrated your skull.</p>
<p>Blinded and numbed by the shock of impact, you fail to stop yourself from tumbling over the edge of the fire escape platform. Mercifully, death claims you before you crash head-first through the roof of the clan truck that is parked in the alley below.</p>
<p>Your journey and your life terminate here at Wellton, Arizona.</p>
</data>
<p>You sift through the debris-covered floor, but it is not until you look in the basement that you discover some items of practical value:</p>
<ul>
<li>Two rounds of 9mm ammunition</li>
- <li>Four rounds of 12-gauge ammuntion</li>
+ <li>Four rounds of 12-gauge ammunition</li>
<li>Five rounds of 7.62mm ammunition</li>
<li>Hunting Knife (2)</li>
</ul>
<p>To avoid the sun, you and Rickenbacker accept Jaeger's offer to share the shade of his makeshift tent while he continues his story. 'I heard about the scene in California from some survivalists I stayed with for a while, down in Alamos. Sounds like they've gone an' turned the state into one big fortress. The army's in charge and they've got things locked down tight. They've kicked all the troublemakers out into the desert and slammed the door. In the south, I hear they've drawn up a new state line, from Pine Valley to Banning. All the old roads in and out are guarded and I hear they've got real picky 'bout who they let in.'</p>
<p>He reaches over to a tattered denim jacket lying on the ground, and takes an equally tattered map from an inside pocket. 'I plan on going in here,' he says, pointing to a part of the map that is so worn that it has become almost illegible. 'It's a place in the mountains, north of Lake Henshaw. I figure that the army can't have enough men to patrol that area too well. If you two'd take my advice, you'd think 'bout doin' the same.'</p>
<p>You tell Jaeger how you survived the post-holocaust years. You also tell him that you are acting as scouts for a convoy that is equally determined to reach California, only they are now so short of food and water that unless fresh supplies are found soon, few of them are likely to survive the 400 miles that separate you from the Pacific.</p>
- <p>'Man, you guys have got problems,' he says, shaking his head slowly from side to side. 'And you're headin' slap-bang into even more. Ain't you heard - Yuma is a clan base. And believe me, the guys that are holding that city are heavy-duty bad news. If you're thinkin' of crossing the Colorado River there, forget it. You'll never make it. They'll blow you off the road.'</p>
+ <p>'Man, you guys have got problems,' he says, shaking his head slowly from side to side. 'And you're headin' slap-bang into even more. Ain't you heard<ch.emdash/>Yuma is a clan base. And believe me, the guys that are holding that city are heavy-duty bad news. If you're thinkin' of crossing the Colorado River there, forget it. You'll never make it. They'll blow you off the road.'</p>
<p>Concerned by what Jaeger has said, and anxious that he tell everything he knows about the clan base at Yuma, you ask him to return to the convoy with you. After some thought he decides that at least there is safety in numbers, and agrees to join the colony. When you get back to Dateland, Macy and Langdon are shocked to see three people squeezed into your roadster, but you soon explain Jaeger's background, and they offer to transport him in their Trans-sol, which at least has the luxury of rear passenger seats. During your absence they have managed to forage some food, which you divide between you before you return to the convoy at Aztec.</p>
<choice idref="sect204"><link-text>Turn to 204</link-text>.</choice>
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<section class="numbered" id="sect113">
<meta><title>113</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect113-1-foot" idref="sect113-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>You raise your gun and fire at the first enemy clansman you see, but your gunfire is rushed and poorly aimed and misses him by a wide mark.</p>
+ <p>You raise your gun and fire at the first enemy clansman you see, but your gunfire is rushed and poorly aimed and misses him by a wide mark.<a id="sect113-1" idref="sect113-1-foot" class="footnote" /></p>
<p>One of the raiding party singles you out as a target. His burst of fire rips up the ground around your feet, and you are knocked down by a ricocheting slug: lose 4 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<choice idref="sect171">To continue, <link-text>turn to 171</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Quietly you inform your fellow judges of your decision and, after a brief consultation, Pop Ewell announces the verdict.</p>
- <p>'By the majority decision of this tribunal, we find Paul Avenal guilty of the murder of Micheal Gorgas in the first degree. This crime is a capital offence punishable by death by firing squad. The sentence is to be carried out immediately.'</p>
+ <p>'By the majority decision of this tribunal, we find Paul Avenal guilty of the murder of Michael Gorgas in the first degree. This crime is a capital offence punishable by death by firing squad. The sentence is to be carried out immediately.'</p>
<p>Upon hearing the verdict, the surrounding colonists utter a sound that is full of shocked disbelief. Avenal's face turns white and limply he staggers back into the arms of the Tucson escorts. A lone voice in the crowd demands a re-trial, but it is ignored. Then another voice rings out, but this time it captures everyone's attention. It is Macy, the convoy's lookout, and he is screaming words that make your blood run cold.</p>
<p>'The Outlaws are attacking!'</p>
<p>Without further warning, two grenades explode simultaneously in the town square and the chatter of machine gun fire echoes along the empty side streets. Screams of panic mingle with the dull booms of more explosions as the colonists rush to the vehicles to try to retrieve their weapons before it is too late. A burst of gunfire from a rooftop stitches a line of holes across the table and sends you, and the other judges, diving for cover. Suddenly everything is chaos; it's every man for himself. You grab your gun and scurry towards a garbage cart that lies overturned on the plaza. As you skid to a halt behind the cart, you find yourself face to face with Avenal, the man you have just sentenced to death. The confrontation is shocking, but it is the sight of the pistol that he is holding in his hand that really strikes terror in your heart.</p>
<section class="numbered" id="sect122">
<meta><title>122</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect122-1-foot" idref="sect122-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct six rounds of 9mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>You fire a short burst and see the clansman shudder as a line of bullet holes appears across his chest. A second later he returns fire, but the impact of your slugs has diverted his aim and his bullet passes harmlessly over your shoulder. He staggers and falls. No sooner has his body hit the dirt than one of his screaming comrades leaps over him and dives straight at you with his hands outstretched. Before you can fire again, he grapples the machine pistol from your hands, then lunges forwards to fasten his steely fingers around your throat.</p>
+ <p>You fire a short burst and see the clansman shudder as a line of bullet holes appears across his chest.<a id="sect122-1" idref="sect122-1-foot" class="footnote" /> A second later he returns fire, but the impact of your slugs has diverted his aim and his bullet passes harmlessly over your shoulder. He staggers and falls. No sooner has his body hit the dirt than one of his screaming comrades leaps over him and dives straight at you with his hands outstretched. Before you can fire again, he grapples the machine pistol from your hands, then lunges forwards to fasten his steely fingers around your throat.</p>
<combat><enemy>Blowback</enemy><enemy-attribute class="closecombatskill">16</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">28</enemy-attribute></combat>
<p>Owing to the suddenness of the attack, you cannot make use of a close combat weapon until the second round of combat.</p>
<choice idref="sect311">If you win the fight, <link-text>turn to 311</link-text>.</choice>
<p>As you struggle with your enemy, you hear a single shot and feel the strength draining from his hands. Suddenly he releases his grip on you altogether and a gurgling croak issues from his mouth. With some difficulty, you manage to push him aside and, as he rolls away into the base of the hollow, you see Kate nearby with a smoking revolver in her hand:</p>
<p>'I guess that makes us quits,' you say, referring to the time, only days before, when your successful search for Atropine saved her life.</p>
<p>'I guess so,' she replies, 'but who's counting?'</p>
- <p>Shortly after, two more clansmen attempt to copy their actions, but end up exactly the same way - lying in a tangled heap on the railroad tracks. For a minute there is a lull in the fighting, then you spot a new threat taking shape.</p>
+ <p>Shortly after, two more clansmen attempt to copy their actions, but end up exactly the same way<ch.emdash/>lying in a tangled heap on the railroad tracks. For a minute there is a lull in the fighting, then you spot a new threat taking shape.</p>
<choice idref="sect71"><link-text>Turn to 71</link-text>.</choice>
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</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect132">
<meta><title>132</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect132-1-foot" idref="sect132-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>Your burst of gunfire hits both of the riflemen, sending them tumbling over the edge of the parapet. The remaining clansman, whom you first saw seated next to the parapet, cowers on the ground like a frightened child as you rush across the roof. His hands have been tied behind his back and, as you bend to grab hold of his arms to pull him to his feet, he pleads for his life. 'Don't kill me, please don't kill me,' he cries. 'I'll help you; I can help you, if you'll just let me live.'</p>
+ <p>Your burst of gunfire hits both of the riflemen, sending them tumbling over the edge of the parapet.<a id="sect132-1" idref="sect132-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The remaining clansman, whom you first saw seated next to the parapet, cowers on the ground like a frightened child as you rush across the roof. His hands have been tied behind his back and, as you bend to grab hold of his arms to pull him to his feet, he pleads for his life. 'Don't kill me, please don't kill me,' he cries. 'I'll help you; I can help you, if you'll just let me live.'</p>
<p>You shout an all clear to Rickenbacker in the street below, and, as you turn your face away, you see the headlights of the convoy vehicles as they enter the town.</p>
<p>Without untying his hands, you escort the clansman down slowly from the roof and retrace your steps along the alley that leads back to the main street.</p>
<choice idref="sect340"><link-text>Turn to 340</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Rickenbacker stands guard over the roadster while you walk back along the line of convoy vehicles looking for Mike Gorgas. Eventually you see him: he is sitting on the running board of his Mack truck, issuing specific instructions for the journey ahead to a ring of convoy drivers who have gathered around his vehicle. You wait until the circle of men have received their briefing, then you approach Mike and report what has happened to your brakes.</p>
<p>'This is real serious,' he says, casting an anxious glance at the convoy drivers as they make their way back to their vehicles. 'And it's not the first time something like this has happened.'</p>
- <p>He tells you that yesterday, shortly after you and Rickenbacker had started the fires in Arizona City, there was an incident aboard the Amcorp Landcruiser - the convoy's largest passenger vehicle. A signal flare went off as the convoy reached the intersection with Interstate 8. It had been placed among some luggage that was strapped to the roof.</p>
+ <p>He tells you that yesterday, shortly after you and Rickenbacker had started the fires in Arizona City, there was an incident aboard the Amcorp Landcruiser<ch.emdash/>the convoy's largest passenger vehicle. A signal flare went off as the convoy reached the intersection with Interstate 8. It had been placed among some luggage that was strapped to the roof.</p>
<p>'Luckily your diversion was so effective that the flare wasn't seen by the Outlaws,' says Mike, 'but I'm beginning to smell a rat. Kate Norton goes down with food poisoning despite the fact that the food was triple-checked before we left Tucson, and now you discover that your brake cables have been cut. I think there's someone among us who doesn't want the colony to reach California. I don't know for sure who it is, but I've got my suspicions. I found this attached to the signal flare,' he says, and removes a small, soot-blackened box from his jacket. 'It's a radio detonator. It was used to set off the flare.' He slips the box back into his pocket and continues in a hushed voice. 'Keep your eyes open, Cal. Once we've put some mileage between us and the Outlaws, I'll get to the bottom of this, that's a promise, but for now, you keep what I've said to yourself, OK?' You nod in agreement and then make your way back to Rickenbacker and your roadster.</p>
<p>During your absence your partner has replaced the damaged brake lines and replenished the fluid level. He asks you what Gorgas had to say about the fact that your brakes had been sabotaged, but you evade his question by saying that he was too busy briefing the other drivers for you to be able to speak to him. Understandably, Rickenbacker is more than a little concerned that the sabotage has gone unreported, but he decides, at least for the moment, not to take it any further.</p>
<p>The storm clouds over Gila Bend may have dispersed, but for you they have been replaced by darker clouds of doubt and suspicion.</p>
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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 - Rickenbacker, Cutter, Kate, and Langdon - you wonder if this is all that now remains of the convoy's rearguard.</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>
<choice idref="sect15"><link-text>Turn to 15</link-text>.</choice>
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<section class="numbered" id="sect143">
<meta><title>143</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect143-1-foot" idref="sect143-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>You fire and hit the clansman in the upper chest. The force of the impact, at such close range, sends his gun flying out of his hands and spins him backwards to the ground. For a few moments his limbs move jerkily, then his whole body relaxes as if resigned to its fate.</p>
+ <p>You fire and hit the clansman in the upper chest.<a id="sect143-1" idref="sect143-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The force of the impact, at such close range, sends his gun flying out of his hands and spins him backwards to the ground. For a few moments his limbs move jerkily, then his whole body relaxes as if resigned to its fate.</p>
<p>Rickenbacker appears at the edge of the barbecue area, drawn by the sound of gunfire. His face is lined with worry until he sees that you are still standing.</p>
<choice idref="sect305"><link-text>Turn to 305</link-text>.</choice>
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<data>
<p>As your would-be killer falls to the floor, you call out to Rickenbacker to check if he is all right. 'No problem,' he replies. 'This punk ain't gonna mess with no one no more.'</p>
- <p>A search of the clansmen's clothing reveals a collection of items, one of which - a Cigarette Lighter crudely engraved with a skull-and-crossbones motif - identifies them at Outlaws.</p>
+ <p>A search of the clansmen's clothing reveals a collection of items, one of which<ch.emdash/>a Cigarette Lighter crudely engraved with a skull-and-crossbones motif<ch.emdash/>identifies them at Outlaws.</p>
<p>From the other items, you sift the following which might be of use to you on the journey ahead:</p>
<ul>
<li><typ class="item">Compass</typ></li>
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<p>A few minutes later, you see Pete and Rex Tyler's tow truck leading the convoy into the Picacho campsite. Few have eaten since the provisions were destroyed by fire back at Sentinel, so it comes as no surprise to see the colonists rushing expectantly towards the restaurant cabin the instant their vehicles halt. For a moment you fear that you will be crushed in the stampede, but with the help of Cutter and a few of the Tucson men, the hungry crowd is held at bay and order is swiftly restored. Then Cutter and his helpers ensure that the parcels of food are distributed fairly among the hungry colonists, and everyone settles down to enjoy an impromptu feast. (Your share of the feast restores 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.)</p>
- <p>While everyone is eating, Pop Ewell attempts to call up the Californian army border post at Pine Valley, but still he is unable to make a clear radio contact. Maps are consulted and it is decided that an attempt should be made to reach the town of Glamis before nightfall. It lies only twenty-five miles due west, yet the rugged peaks of the Cargo Muchaco Mountains stand defiantly in your way. Although taking the colony and its vehicles over this range would be an impossible task, the mountains are scored and divided by many gullys and dry watercourses, and there is a strong possibility that a route through to Glamis could be found. However, to scout the mountains could take days.</p>
+ <p>While everyone is eating, Pop Ewell attempts to call up the Californian army border post at Pine Valley, but still he is unable to make a clear radio contact. Maps are consulted and it is decided that an attempt should be made to reach the town of Glamis before nightfall. It lies only twenty-five miles due west, yet the rugged peaks of the Cargo Muchaco Mountains stand defiantly in your way. Although taking the colony and its vehicles over this range would be an impossible task, the mountains are scored and divided by many gullies and dry watercourses, and there is a strong possibility that a route through to Glamis could be found. However, to scout the mountains could take days.</p>
<p>The problem seems insoluble until Rickenbacker suggests a novel solution to the dilemma.</p>
<choice idref="sect231"><link-text>Turn to 231</link-text>.</choice>
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<data>
<p>Nobody is very keen on the idea of having a clansman aboard, especially after the murder of Mike Gorgas and the clan attack at Sentinel, but most agree that having someone with a thorough knowledge of the area with you would raise your chances of survival considerably. Finally it is agreed to let Cookie stay with the colony, but on the condition that his hands remain tied and he is treated as a prisoner, not as a colonist.</p>
- <p>The night is spent at Weilton, during which time you must take a Drink or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
- <p>Early next morning, after you have fixed your front tyre, you and Rickenbacker set off in the roadster to scout the land around Yuma. What you discover there confirms Jaeger's story - the city is held in force. The Pumas have looted the ruins of the Yuma Marine Corps Air Station, and they possess some heavy ordnance, among which are several pieces of light artillery. Cookie says that they have the shells for these guns, and that they have all approach roads zeroed-in. To take the convoy anywhere within a three-mile radius of the city would be suicidal. However, you must get across the Colorado River if you are to reach your goal.</p>
+ <p>The night is spent at Wellton, during which time you must take a Drink or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
+ <p>Early next morning, after you have fixed your front tyre, you and Rickenbacker set off in the roadster to scout the land around Yuma. What you discover there confirms Jaeger's story<ch.emdash/>the city is held in force. The Pumas have looted the ruins of the Yuma Marine Corps Air Station, and they possess some heavy ordnance, among which are several pieces of light artillery. Cookie says that they have the shells for these guns, and that they have all approach roads zeroed-in. To take the convoy anywhere within a three-mile radius of the city would be suicidal. However, you must get across the Colorado River if you are to reach your goal.</p>
<p>Eager to prove his worth, Cookie offers to show you a way to avoid Yuma and cross the Colorado without getting your feet wet. Reluctantly the colony agrees to give him a chance, and allows him to be untied.</p>
<choice idref="sect40"><link-text>Turn to 40</link-text>.</choice>
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<meta><title>152</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>You wave farewell to Macy and Langdon as you accelerate away from Dateland and follow the weathered asphalt of Interstate 8 west towards the town of Mohawk. Nine miles have been clocked on your odometer when a bridge appears in the distance, and you slow down in order to check it on your map.</p>
+ <p>You wave farewell to Macy and Langdon as you accelerate away from Dateland and follow the weathered asphalt of Interstate 8 west towards the town of Mohawk. Nine miles have been clocked on your odometer when a bridge appears in the distance, and you slow down in order to check it on your <a idref="map">map</a>.</p>
<p>'That bridge must cross over the San Christobal Wash. Perhaps we'll get lucky and find there's some water still flowin' beneath it, eh?' you say, optimistically.</p>
<p>'I wouldn't get your hopes up too high, Cal,' replies Rickenbacker, squinting against the glare of the sun. 'A dried-up salt bed is all we're likely to find.'</p>
<p>As the bridge gradually looms larger, you see something that neither of you expected. A small, makeshift tent, consisting of little more than two groundsheets roped together, has been pitched against the side of the bridge to make a shelter from the sun, and a lean, bearded man is moving about nearby.</p>
<meta><title>153</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>You walk back a few paces in order to get a run-up to the doors, then charge along the corridor and ram your shoulder against the centre. On the first attempt you rebound off the doors and find yourself lying flat on your back, staring up at a grimy light-fitment. The second try leaves you nursing a badly bruised shoulder - lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. Finally, on the third attempt, the doors burst open and you stumble into the lobby beyond.</p>
+ <p>You walk back a few paces in order to get a run-up to the doors, then charge along the corridor and ram your shoulder against the centre. On the first attempt you rebound off the doors and find yourself lying flat on your back, staring up at a grimy light-fitment. The second try leaves you nursing a badly bruised shoulder<ch.emdash/>lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. Finally, on the third attempt, the doors burst open and you stumble into the lobby beyond.</p>
<p>A close study of the hospital plan reveals the location of the medicine storage facility, which you commit to memory.</p>
<p>'Third right <ch.ellips/> second left <ch.ellips/> second right <ch.ellips/> you mumble as you set off in search of the vital Atropine you need to save Kate's life.</p>
<choice idref="sect337"><link-text>Turn to 337</link-text>.</choice>
<p>As the wounded traitor and his confederate disappear, Rickenbacker and Gutter come running across the plaza and take cover with you and Tyler behind the garbage cart. Quickly you recount what has happened here, and tell them how you are now absolutely convinced that Barlow was guilty.</p>
<p>Understandably, Rex Tyler is more than a little upset that you ever suspected him in the first place.</p>
<p>'You're right,' says Cutter, 'Barlow must have been a clan infiltrator. I'd hazard a guess that this whole attack was staged t' get him out o' here.'</p>
- <p>From behind the metal lip of the garbage cart you survey the battle that is raging around the plaza. Most of the colonists have now armed themselves and taken cover, and they are putting up a worthy fight in defence of the vehicles. The few clansmen you do see are either dead or attempting to escape from the town, now that they have achieved their objective. All of them, that is, apart from one. He is a blond-haired thug, dressed in a studded leather vest and striped pants, who is busy hammering at the glass door panels of the DC1 school bus with the stock of his machine pistol. The sight of him senselessly attacking the door of the empty bus does not bather you unduly until you remember that there is one person still on board the bus - Kate - and your heart nearly stops with shock.</p>
+ <p>From behind the metal lip of the garbage cart you survey the battle that is raging around the plaza. Most of the colonists have now armed themselves and taken cover, and they are putting up a worthy fight in defence of the vehicles. The few clansmen you do see are either dead or attempting to escape from the town, now that they have achieved their objective. All of them, that is, apart from one. He is a blond-haired thug, dressed in a studded leather vest and striped pants, who is busy hammering at the glass door panels of the DC1 school bus with the stock of his machine pistol. The sight of him senselessly attacking the door of the empty bus does not bather you unduly until you remember that there is one person still on board the bus<ch.emdash/>Kate<ch.emdash/>and your heart nearly stops with shock.</p>
<choice idref="sect270">If you wish to open fire at the clansman before he gains entry to the bus, and are able to do so, <link-text>turn to 270</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect181">If you do not wish to open fire at the clansman, or are unable to do so, <link-text>turn to 181</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>'Nobody told us you was out of the camp tonight,' says Avenal, his young sidekick. 'Where you been?'</p>
<p>Taking the tub of Atropine tablets from your jacket pocket you reply impatiently, 'One of the DC1 colonists is sick, and if she don't get this medicine soon she'll die. Now please let me through.'</p>
<p>Frazer lowers his gun and moves aside but Avenal remains where he is, his gun still levelled at your car.</p>
- <p>'Ain't she that clan-girl - Kate Norton? I heard she an' Mad Dog Michigan were an item before you wasted his brother?' he says.</p>
+ <p>'Ain't she that clan-girl<ch.emdash/>Kate Norton? I heard she an' Mad Dog Michigan were an item before you wasted his brother?' he says.</p>
<p>'You'd better watch that mouth o' yours, Avenal,' you retort, angered by his sneering comments. 'Now get outta my way. I'm in a hurry.'</p>
<p>'They say them clan-girls are really hot 'n' wild. Now I bet you'd know all 'bout that wouldn't you Phoenix?' he leers.</p>
<p>You try to restrain yourself but Avenal's ugly remarks are making your blood boil.</p>
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<p>Your killing blow sends the clansman tumbling backwards out of the hollow. Then Kate looses off a burst of automatic fire from her machine pistol, deftly putting paid to his partner, who was attempting to claw his way back up the embankment.</p>
- <p>Two more clansmen attempt to imitate their actions, but they end up exactly the same way - lying in a tangled heap on the railroad tracks. For a minute there is a lull in the fighting, then you spot a new threat taking shape.</p>
+ <p>Two more clansmen attempt to imitate their actions, but they end up exactly the same way<ch.emdash/>lying in a tangled heap on the railroad tracks. For a minute there is a lull in the fighting, then you spot a new threat taking shape.</p>
<choice idref="sect71"><link-text>Turn to 71</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You dodge to avoid the gunfire and to present a difficult target for your adversaries, but in doing so you inadvertently run straight into a burst of automatic rifle fire. Sharp, stinging cores of pain explode in your chest and head, bringing you crashing to your knees.</p>
- <p>Tragically, your journey and your life end here in Weilton, Arizona.</p>
+ <p>Tragically, your journey and your life end here in Wellton, Arizona.</p>
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<p>'This guy's got candy!' she squeals, and at once the two men come rushing towards your door. Like beggars they hold out their hands, and in their faces you see a desperate and hungry expression.</p>
<p>'Give us some candy, guy,' they plead, pitifully.</p>
<p>'Candy'll ease our pain, guy. Give us some candy.'</p>
- <choice idref="sect285">If you wish to give these Crazies some of your Medi-kit units, <link-text>turn to 285</link-text>.</choice>
+ <choice idref="sect265">If you wish to give these Crazies some of your Medi-kit units, <link-text>turn to 265</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect29">If you wish to restart the truck and get away from them as fast as you can, <link-text>turn to 29</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 - 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 syphon 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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<meta><title>175</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>You take the gas grenade from your backpack and hold it close to your face in order to set its timer. Carefully you turn the plastic dial to the minimum time setting - four seconds - then you press the activator button and hurl the canister across the roof.</p>
+ <p>You take the gas grenade from your backpack and hold it close to your face in order to set its timer. Carefully you turn the plastic dial to the minimum time setting<ch.emdash/>four seconds<ch.emdash/>then you press the activator button and hurl the canister across the roof.</p>
<p>The grenade bounces against the parapet close to where the clansmen are kneeling, but then it drops into a rainwater gully and rolls away from them. There is a flash, then a stream of cream-coloured gas billows up from the gully. Your heart sinks when you see that this cloud is being driven towards you by a faint night breeze.</p>
<p>As it tumbles nearer, your throat tightens and your eyes begin to water. Then a wave of dizziness hits you and you reel backwards, your feet coming dangerously close to the edge of the fire-escape platform.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your current <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points score.</p>
<section class="numbered" id="sect178">
<meta><title>178</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect178-1-foot" idref="sect178-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>Your gunfire shatters the lock and the doors swing open to grant you access to the lobby beyond. A study of the hospital plan reveals the exact location of the medicine storage facility, details of which you commit to memory.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire shatters the lock and the doors swing open to grant you access to the lobby beyond.<a id="sect178-1" idref="sect178-1-foot" class="footnote" /> A study of the hospital plan reveals the exact location of the medicine storage facility, details of which you commit to memory.</p>
<p>'Third right <ch.ellips/> second left <ch.ellips/> second right <ch.ellips/>' you mumble as you set off in search of the vital Atropine you need to save Kate's life.</p>
<choice idref="sect337"><link-text>Turn to 337</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<section class="numbered" id="sect182">
<meta><title>182</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect182-1-foot" idref="sect182-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct a round of 12-gauge ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>An ounce of lead shot hits the clansman in the chest, killing him instantly. 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 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>
<choice idref="sect141"><link-text>Turn to 141</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect186">
<meta><title>186</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect186-1-foot" idref="sect186-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>Although your gunfire misses the clansman, it penetrates the side of the pick-up truck and tears a hole in a metal container full of industrial blasting powder, which is standing in the back. A spark, created when the container is holed, ignites the powder with devastating effect. There is a jarring boom, then the truck erupts into a blazing fireball of orange and scarlet flame.</p>
+ <p>Although your gunfire misses the clansman, it penetrates the side of the pick-up truck and tears a hole in a metal container full of industrial blasting powder, which is standing in the back.<a id="sect186-1" idref="sect186-1-foot" class="footnote" /> A spark, created when the container is holed, ignites the powder with devastating effect. There is a jarring boom, then the truck erupts into a blazing fireball of orange and scarlet flame.</p>
<choice idref="sect347"><link-text>Turn to 347</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect191">
<meta><title>191</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect191-1-foot" idref="sect191-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>Your gunfire hits the clansman squarely in the chest, sending him crashing backwards down the embankment. Kate looses off a burst of automatic fire from her machine pistol, deftly putting paid to his partner.</p>
- <p>Two more clansmen attempt to copy their actions, but end up exactly the same way - lying in a tangled heap on the railroad tracks. For a minute there is a lull in the fighting, then you spot a new threat taking shape.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire hits the clansman squarely in the chest, sending him crashing backwards down the embankment.<a id="sect191-1" idref="sect191-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Kate looses off a burst of automatic fire from her machine pistol, deftly putting paid to his partner.</p>
+ <p>Two more clansmen attempt to copy their actions, but end up exactly the same way<ch.emdash/>lying in a tangled heap on the railroad tracks. For a minute there is a lull in the fighting, then you spot a new threat taking shape.</p>
<choice idref="sect71"><link-text>Turn to 71</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect192">
<meta><title>192</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect192-1-foot" idref="sect192-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>The clansman groans as your snap shot hits him between the shoulder blades. For a moment he shudders, then he arches his back and falls from the doorway to land in a heap at the bottom of the steps.</p>
+ <p>The clansman groans as your snap shot hits him between the shoulder blades.<a id="sect192-1" idref="sect192-1-foot" class="footnote" /> For a moment he shudders, then he arches his back and falls from the doorway to land in a heap at the bottom of the steps.</p>
<p>At once you leap out from behind the garbage cart and run to the bus to check that Kate is all right. Inside you discover both her and your Aunt Betty-Ann sheltering behind the rear seats. They are shaken but appear otherwise unharmed.</p>
<p>You have only just helped them to their feet when Rickenbacker appears at the doorway. 'C'mon Cal, we've gotta get back to the roadster. Macy reports more Outlaws at the edge of town. We've got to lead the convoy outta here.'</p>
<p>Kate and Aunt Betty-Ann say they are all right, and urge you to do as your partner says. The colonists are beginning to return to their vehicles and, as you follow Rickenbacker across the plaza towards your roadster, it worries you to note that several of them are nursing wounds.</p>
<section class="numbered" id="sect193">
<meta><title>193</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect193-1-foot" idref="sect193-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct a round of 7.62mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>You fire your rifle and see the clansman lifted off his feet by the shock of being struck by a high-velocity bullet at such short range. Yet no sooner has his body hit the ground than one of his comrades leaps over him and dives straight at you with his hands outstretched. Before you can work another round into the breach and fire again, he grapples the rifle from your hands, then lunges forwards to fasten his steely fingers around your throat.</p>
+ <p>You fire your rifle and see the clansman lifted off his feet by the shock of being struck by a high-velocity bullet at such short range.<a id="sect193-1" idref="sect193-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Yet no sooner has his body hit the ground than one of his comrades leaps over him and dives straight at you with his hands outstretched. Before you can work another round into the breach and fire again, he grapples the rifle from your hands, then lunges forwards to fasten his steely fingers around your throat.</p>
<combat><enemy>Dumper</enemy><enemy-attribute class="closecombatskill">14</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">27</enemy-attribute></combat>
<p>Owing to the suddenness of the attack, you cannot make use of a close combat weapon until the second round of combat.</p>
<choice idref="sect311">If you win the fight, <link-text>turn to 311</link-text>.</choice>
<section class="numbered" id="sect194">
<meta><title>194</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect194-1-foot" idref="sect194-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>Your gunfire causes the driver to slam on the brakes and send his car into a violent skid. His eyes and mouth open wide with horror as desperately he fights to regain control, but already it is too late. The vehicle begins to spin and its tyres to screech like banshees as it comes whirling towards your roadster.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire causes the driver to slam on the brakes and send his car into a violent skid.<a id="sect194-1" idref="sect194-1-foot" class="footnote" /> His eyes and mouth open wide with horror as desperately he fights to regain control, but already it is too late. The vehicle begins to spin and its tyres to screech like banshees as it comes whirling towards your roadster.</p>
<p>'Look out!' screams Rickenbacker, as he dives to avoid the oncoming car. Collision is but seconds away as frantically you try to scramble out of its path.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your Stealth skill score.</p>
<choice idref="sect38">If your total score is 8 or less, <link-text>turn to 38</link-text>.</choice>
<section class="numbered" id="sect199">
<meta><title>199</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect199-1-foot" idref="sect199-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct a round of 7.62mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>Your rifle shot hits the clansman in the chest and passes through his heart, 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 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 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>
<choice idref="sect141"><link-text>Turn to 141</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<data>
<p>On your return to Aztec, you find that Gutter's crew of mechanics have repaired the damaged vehicles and that the convoy is ready to leave. The appearance of a new face causes a stir, especially when the news breaks that Yuma is a clan base. Jaeger is questioned at length and reveals one piece of information that is of special interest to Pop Ewell. He knows the exact radio frequency used by the Californians at their Pine Valley outpost. Pop tries to make contact with them, but the signal is too weak to make any sense of their reply.</p>
- <p>As you are handing over the food that was found during your scouting mission, Cutter voices the colony's fears about what has become your most pressing problem - water. In the fierce, daytime heat, there are many, especially the children and the wounded, who have already begun to suffer severe dehydration. During your absence, a small group led by Avenal was sent to the Gila River to try to fill the spare water containers. However, they found what little there remained of the river water was so polluted that not even a ten-fold dosage of purification tablets could neutralize all the toxins. One Tucson colonist, crazy with thirst, drank some and died an agonized death.</p>
+ <p>As you are handing over the food that was found during your scouting mission, Cutter voices the colony's fears about what has become your most pressing problem<ch.emdash/>water. In the fierce, daytime heat, there are many, especially the children and the wounded, who have already begun to suffer severe dehydration. During your absence, a small group led by Avenal was sent to the Gila River to try to fill the spare water containers. However, they found what little there remained of the river water was so polluted that not even a ten-fold dosage of purification tablets could neutralize all the toxins. One Tucson colonist, crazy with thirst, drank some and died an agonized death.</p>
<p>Cutter and the other convoy leaders are gravely worried. Morale within the colony is at an all-time low, and unless a new water supply is found quickly, discipline is likely to collapse with disastrous consequences. It comes, therefore, as a welcome surprise when Jaeger provides, quite off-handedly, a solution to the problem.</p>
<choice idref="sect62"><link-text>Turn to 62</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<section class="numbered" id="sect205">
<meta><title>205</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect205-1-foot" idref="sect205-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>Your gunfire knocks one of the group to the ground, but an empty shell case has become jammed in the breach of your gun, preventing you from firing a second burst. Shouldering your gun, you draw a close combat weapon and jump on to the roof. As you move swiftly towards the group, the clansman, who is sitting with his back to the parapet, sees you approaching. A wave of fear knots your stomach as you wait expectantly for him to shout out in alarm. However, to your surprise, he does nothing to alert his companions.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire knocks one of the group to the ground, but an empty shell case has become jammed in the breach of your gun, preventing you from firing a second burst.<a id="sect205-1" idref="sect205-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Shouldering your gun, you draw a close combat weapon and jump on to the roof. As you move swiftly towards the group, the clansman, who is sitting with his back to the parapet, sees you approaching. A wave of fear knots your stomach as you wait expectantly for him to shout out in alarm. However, to your surprise, he does nothing to alert his companions.</p>
<p>Instinct prompts you to act quickly in case he has a change of heart. You rush forward and lunge at the throat of the remaining rifleman. He dodges your blow, but in doing so drops his rifle over the edge of the parapet. Before he has a chance to draw a knife, you press home your advantage and attack again.</p>
<combat><enemy>Cape Cod</enemy><enemy-attribute class="closecombatskill">15</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">23</enemy-attribute></combat>
<p>Owing to the surprise of your attack, ignore any <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> point losses that you sustain during the first round of combat.</p>
<meta><title>211</title></meta>
<data>
- <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>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 - restore 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
+ <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>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>
</data>
<p>You lead the procession of vehicles successfully across the cleared ground and through the pass beyond. Then, as you emerge on the far side of the pass, you see Cutter signalling to you to stop. The convoy halts for a few minutes to allow him to go back and plant some grenades beneath one of the remaining outcrops. He sets the timers, allowing himself enough time to return to the convoy.</p>
<p>Patiently you wait for the grenades to detonate. When they explode, they bring down a mass of rock that seals off the pass behind the convoy.</p>
<p>'That should delay the Outlaws for a while,' he says, and almost cheerfully returns to take his place behind the wheel of DC1's school bus.</p>
- <p>It is mid-afternoon by the time you lead the convoy into the ruins of Sentinel. The town is deserted, and you are about to drive through without stopping when you see something in your rear-view mirror that makes you slam on the brakes. Fire is billowing out of the Landcruiser's luggage store, which is situated directly beneath the floor of the passenger compartment and adjacent to the fuel tanks. The driver and the passengers seem unaware of the danger they are in - until you bring the convoy to a halt and run back to warn them.</p>
- <p>'Fire!' you shout, as you race along the line of vehicles towards the stricken bus. Suddenly the colonists aboard the Landcrusier realize what is wrong and frantically they leap out of the burning vehicle, through windows and doors, to avoid the rising flames.</p>
+ <p>It is mid-afternoon by the time you lead the convoy into the ruins of Sentinel. The town is deserted, and you are about to drive through without stopping when you see something in your rear-view mirror that makes you slam on the brakes. Fire is billowing out of the Landcruiser's luggage store, which is situated directly beneath the floor of the passenger compartment and adjacent to the fuel tanks. The driver and the passengers seem unaware of the danger they are in<ch.emdash/>until you bring the convoy to a halt and run back to warn them.</p>
+ <p>'Fire!' you shout, as you race along the line of vehicles towards the stricken bus. Suddenly the colonists aboard the Landcruiser realize what is wrong and frantically they leap out of the burning vehicle, through windows and doors, to avoid the rising flames.</p>
<choice idref="sect118">If you possess a <typ class="item">Fire Extinguisher</typ>, <link-text>turn to 118</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect244">If you do not possess this item, <link-text>turn to 244</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<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>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 painkillers and stimulants, and syringes that the clansmen have looted from the drugstore's safe.</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>Shotgun</li>
<data>
<p>Once the convoy has left the Crazies far behind, it builds up a steady speed of forty miles per hour and maintains this as it approaches the outskirts of El Centro. Rickenbacker has punched out the shattered remains of your truck's windshield, and a rush of cooling air fills the cab. Although this feels good, the thick dust that is being churned up by the wheels of the vehicles in front of you soon causes you problems.</p>
- <p>Unless you possess a <typ class="item">Leather Face Mask</typ>, you must Jose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points due to dust inhalation.</p>
+ <p>Unless you possess a <typ class="item">Leather Face Mask</typ>, you must lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points due to dust inhalation.</p>
<choice idref="sect97"><link-text>Turn to 97</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<p>Avenal turns and fires a snap shot at Barlow's fleeing form. Unfortunately, there is only one bullet left in his pistol and it misses by a wide mark. You watch as the traitor reaches the waiting clan biker, climbs nimbly astride the pillion and is whisked away along a side street bordering the plaza.</p>
<p>As the traitor and his confederate disappear, Rickenbacker and Cutter come running across the plaza and take cover with you and Avenal behind the garbage cart. Quickly you tell them that Barlow has escaped and that you are now absolutely convinced that he was guilty. Understandably, this remark provokes a less than charitable reaction from Avenal.</p>
<p>'You're right,' says Cutter. 'He must have been a clan infiltrator. I'd hazard a guess that this whole attack was staged t' get him out o' here.'</p>
- <p>From behind the metal lip of the garbage cart you survey the battle that is raging around the plaza. Most of the colonists have now armed themselves and taken cover, and they are putting up a worthy defence of the vehicles. The few clansmen you do see are either dead or attempting to escape from the town now that they have achieved their objective. All of them, that is, apart from one. He is a blond-haired thug, dressed in a studded leather vest and striped pants, who is busy hammering at the glass door panels of the DC1 school bus with the stock of his machine pistol. The sight of him senselessly attacking the door of the empty bus does not bother you unduly until you remember that there is one person still on board the bus - Kate - and your heart nearly stops with shock.</p>
+ <p>From behind the metal lip of the garbage cart you survey the battle that is raging around the plaza. Most of the colonists have now armed themselves and taken cover, and they are putting up a worthy defence of the vehicles. The few clansmen you do see are either dead or attempting to escape from the town now that they have achieved their objective. All of them, that is, apart from one. He is a blond-haired thug, dressed in a studded leather vest and striped pants, who is busy hammering at the glass door panels of the DC1 school bus with the stock of his machine pistol. The sight of him senselessly attacking the door of the empty bus does not bother you unduly until you remember that there is one person still on board the bus<ch.emdash/>Kate<ch.emdash/>and your heart nearly stops with shock.</p>
<choice idref="sect270">If you wish to open fire at the clansman before he gains entry to the bus, and are able to do so, <link-text>turn to 270</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect181">If you do not wish to open fire at the clansman, or are unable to do so, <link-text>turn to 181</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<section class="numbered" id="sect222">
<meta><title>222</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect222-1-foot" idref="sect222-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>Your shot misses the running clansman, but it passes near enough to frighten him into increasing his pace. Rickenbacker, having now reloaded a fresh magazine, gets up and begins to weave his way through the barbecue ranges towards the fleeing enemy.</p>
+ <p>Your shot misses the running clansman, but it passes near enough to frighten him into increasing his pace.<a id="sect222-1" idref="sect222-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Rickenbacker, having now reloaded a fresh magazine, gets up and begins to weave his way through the barbecue ranges towards the fleeing enemy.</p>
<p>'You too, Cal,' he shouts, and you obey, your gun held ready as you follow in his tracks.</p>
<p>The clansman reaches the restaurant cabin as you and Rickenbacker emerge on the far side of the barbecue area. A burst of gunfire from the cabin doorway makes you dive for cover, then, moments later, you see something round and black fly from the doorway and land on the beaten earth path just a few yards away to your right.</p>
<p>'Grenade!' shouts Rickenbacker, and covers his head with his hands.</p>
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- <p>Using his transceiver he maintains radio contact with Pop Ewell throughout his flight. After only forty minutes in the air, he is able to map a route through the tortuous network of ridges and gullys that is wide enough and safe enough to carry the convoy across the mountains to Highway 78.</p>
+ <p>Using his transceiver he maintains radio contact with Pop Ewell throughout his flight. After only forty minutes in the air, he is able to map a route through the tortuous network of ridges and gullies that is wide enough and safe enough to carry the convoy across the mountains to Highway 78.</p>
<choice idref="sect184"><link-text>Turn to 184</link-text>.</choice>
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</section>
<meta><title>232</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>The dust storm is still raging fiercely as you climb back into the roadster and set off on the return journey to Gila Bend. It is a difficult and frustrating drive. You cannot shake the fear that Kate will have lapsed into a coma before you return with the Atropine, yet you dare not increase your speed for fear of crashing off the road. The strain takes its toll - lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
+ <p>The dust storm is still raging fiercely as you climb back into the roadster and set off on the return journey to Gila Bend. It is a difficult and frustrating drive. You cannot shake the fear that Kate will have lapsed into a coma before you return with the Atropine, yet you dare not increase your speed for fear of crashing off the road. The strain takes its toll<ch.emdash/>lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<p>During your return drive you must take a Drink or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<choice idref="sect160"><link-text>Turn to 160</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<section class="numbered" id="sect233">
<meta><title>233</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect233-1-foot" idref="sect233-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>Your gunfire wounds the clansman fatally. With his last ounce of strength, he staggers to the pick-up truck and falls across the rear tailgate. There, standing in the back, is a keg filled with blasting powder. The clansman believes you are a rival clan who are out to steal this explosive, and rather than allow it to fall into your hands, he pulls the self-igniting fuse that is attached to its cap. Less than a minute later, the fuse runs out and the powder explodes, with devastating effect. There is a shuddering boom, then the truck erupts into a blazing fireball of orange and scarlet flame.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire wounds the clansman fatally.<a id="sect233-1" idref="sect233-1-foot" class="footnote" /> With his last ounce of strength, he staggers to the pick-up truck and falls across the rear tailgate. There, standing in the back, is a keg filled with blasting powder. The clansman believes you are a rival clan who are out to steal this explosive, and rather than allow it to fall into your hands, he pulls the self-igniting fuse that is attached to its cap. Less than a minute later, the fuse runs out and the powder explodes, with devastating effect. There is a shuddering boom, then the truck erupts into a blazing fireball of orange and scarlet flame.</p>
<choice idref="sect347"><link-text>Turn to 347</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>It is an hour after dawn when the fortified gates of the Davis-Monthan base are unlocked and dragged open. With a reassuring smile, you bid farewell to Kate, then accelerate the roadster out of the base along the pot-holed asphalt of a service road that leads to Interstate 10. Beside you sits Gary Rickenbacker, an ex-flying circus stunt pilot from Midland, Texas. He is one of the Big Spring colonists who joined up with DC1 when your convoy reached that town, the first of the few civilized strongholds you have visited on your journey west. In your driving mirror you see Macy and Langdon, both from Tucson. They are the other half of your scouting party. They drive a supercharged Trans-sol that is sheathed in grey armour-plate, a custom modification that has saved their skins on more than one occasion.</p>
- <p>You hit the freeway doing sixty-five and follow the blistered road signs pointing north to Casa Grande. Thirty minutes later you pass through the fire- blackened ruins of Rillito and Marana, two towns the Outlaws torched last month to show the Tucson colony what Shiloh had in store for them.</p>
+ <p>You hit the freeway doing sixty-five and follow the blistered road signs pointing north to Casa Grande. Thirty minutes later you pass through the fire-blackened ruins of Rillito and Marana, two towns the Outlaws torched last month to show the Tucson colony what Shiloh had in store for them.</p>
<p>Ten miles slip by before you reach the next town Red Rock. There you see something unusual, which makes you ease your foot off the gas and bring your roadster gliding gently to a halt. Macy and Langdon pull up behind you, leap out of their car and run forward to find out what is wrong.</p>
<p>'Check out the wreck over there on the road,' you say, pointing to a car parked outside a derelict drugstore.</p>
<p>'What d'you think?'</p>
<meta><title>236</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>Your skilful deduction of the clansman's hiding place has bought you an advantage in this life-or- death confrontation. Before your adversary can fix you in his sights, you open fire.</p>
+ <p>Your skilful deduction of the clansman's hiding place has bought you an advantage in this life-or-death confrontation. Before your adversary can fix you in his sights, you open fire.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add to it your Shooting skill score.</p>
<choice idref="sect33">If your total score is 5 or less, <link-text>turn to 33</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect143">If it is 6 or more, <link-text>turn to 143</link-text>.</choice>
<p>At length you reach a ridge that overlooks the well. The site itself is located at the bottom of a bowl-shaped gully, shaded from the sun by two of the Mohawk's highest peaks. A pump house stands beside the bore-hole, to which is affixed a sign that reads:</p>
<signpost>LUKE AIR FORCE RANGE</signpost>
<signpost>GARCIA WELL</signpost>
- <signpost>US GOVT. PROPERTY - KEEP OUT!</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>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>
<meta><title>239</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>You bring the grenade close to your face in order set its timer. Carefully you turn its dial to the minimum time setting - four seconds - then you ease out the pin and hurl it across the roof.</p>
+ <p>You bring the grenade close to your face in order set its timer. Carefully you turn its dial to the minimum time setting<ch.emdash/>four seconds<ch.emdash/>then you ease out the pin and hurl it across the roof.</p>
<p>A searing, yellow flash, is followed by a dull, percussive boom, which makes your ears pop. As the smoke clears, you see that one of the shooters lies dead, and the other is leaning against the parapet, clutching at his wounded thigh with his free hand. The seated clansman appears to have survived without injury. You draw a close combat weapon and move stealthily towards the group before the shock wears off. The seated clansman sees you approaching but, curiously, he does nothing to alert his wounded companion.</p>
<p>You act quickly. The clansman may have a badly wounded leg, but his finger is uninjured and it is curled around the trigger of his assault rifle. You rush him and kick the gun out of his hands, sending it sailing over the parapet. Before it hits the ground, you press home your advantage and attack.</p>
<combat><enemy>Cape Cod (wounded)</enemy><enemy-attribute class="closecombatskill">13</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">13</enemy-attribute></combat>
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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>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 Weilton, 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>
+ <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>
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<p>In response to your cry, Cutter leaps down from the school bus and throws you a folded blanket as you run towards the blazing Landcruiser. Desperately you shake it open and use it to beat at the flames, which are by now pouring out of a hole in the luggage compartment door. Despite your brave efforts, the flames grow steadily fiercer and you suffer first-degree burns to your hands and forearms. Soon you can tolerate the stinging pain no more and you are forced to retreat: lose 4 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<p>Uncle Jonas appears on the scene armed with a fire extinguisher, which he trains on the side of the blazing bus. A thick stream of foam gushes into the hole and arrests the flames just long enough to allow Cutter and a handful of the Tucson colonists to arm themselves with other fire-fighting equipment and put out the fire.</p>
- <p>Although you were injured, your bravery and swift response prevented the fire from iginitng the vehicle's fuel tanks. However, there was nothing that could be done to save the contents of the compartment, which included all the colony's food and the bulk of its water supply.</p>
+ <p>Although you were injured, your bravery and swift response prevented the fire from igniting the vehicle's fuel tanks. However, there was nothing that could be done to save the contents of the compartment, which included all the colony's food and the bulk of its water supply.</p>
<choice idref="sect145"><link-text>Turn to 145</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>'To be honest, Cal,' she replies, her voice wavering, 'they're less than fifty per cent.'</p>
<p>Quietly you leave the bus. Rickenbacker appears and says something about the roadster but his words do not register. The gnawing fear that you could lose Kate fills your thoughts and blocks out everything. Numbly you wander back to the roadster and sit alone in the driving seat, staring unseeingly at the swirling clouds of dust as you try to come to terms with what has happened. At length you decide to try to find some Atropine. As if you have suddenly awaken from a dream, your mind comes alive and you are galvanized into action.</p>
<p>You take out your map and search for your present location. You reason that Atropine is not something you would normally find in a downtown drugstore, but you would expect to find it in a hospital. Quickly you scour the map and discover that the nearest hospitals to Gila Bend are in Ajo and Casa Grande.</p>
- <p>Consult the map at the front of the book before deciding which of the hospitals you will visit.</p>
+ <p>Consult your <a idref="map">map</a> before deciding which of the hospitals you will visit.</p>
<choice idref="sect129">If you wish to drive to Ajo and search there, <link-text>turn to 129</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect172">If you choose to go to Casa Grande and search there, <link-text>turn to 172</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You pull over to the side of the road and Rickenbacker radios to the convoy, instructing it to stop and stand by. Using your lenses you are able to see that behind the tents a road block has been erected. It consists of rubble and auto wrecks, and it completely blocks the highway leading to the town of Westmorland. The road south to Brawley is open, but there are several strange-looking people standing at the junction, either singly or gathered in groups. Some are dressed in brightly coloured patchwork clothes, others are half-naked, yet all of them have one thing in common: they move with such lethargy that, from a distance, they resemble a colony of shambling zombies.</p>
<p>'I don't like the look of this,' you say to your partner. 'Radio the convoy and get them to put Cookie on. Maybe he knows something about these wierdos.'</p>
<p>Rickenbacker complies with your request and, within a minute or so, you are talking to Cookie person-to-person. 'Sounds like you've run across a pack of Crazies,' says Cookie, after listening to your description of the people at the junction. 'They're mainly junkies and street-scum that the army kicked outta LA and San Francisco. They're usually pretty harmless, but watch y'selves. You never can tell what they'll get up to.'</p>
- <p>You thank Cookie for the advice and sign off by telling the convoy that you and Rickenbacker are on your way back. You are about to reach for the ignition when suddenly you hear movement away to your right. You turn your head and see three Crazies - two men and a woman - emerge from the scrub and scurry towards the truck. Despite their frightening appearance, you notice that none of them appears to be armed.</p>
+ <p>You thank Cookie for the advice and sign off by telling the convoy that you and Rickenbacker are on your way back. You are about to reach for the ignition when suddenly you hear movement away to your right. You turn your head and see three Crazies<ch.emdash/>two men and a woman<ch.emdash/>emerge from the scrub and scurry towards the truck. Despite their frightening appearance, you notice that none of them appears to be armed.</p>
<choice idref="sect29">If you wish to start the truck and drive away, <link-text>turn to 29</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect173">If you wish to stop and question them, <link-text>turn to 173</link-text>.</choice>
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<section class="numbered" id="sect255">
<meta><title>255</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect255-1-foot" idref="sect255-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>You bring your gun up and fire at the first enemy clansman you see. Your snap shot catches him in the legs and sends him tumbling to the ground, but not before he has had a chance to return the compliment. Fortunately, in the heat of this firefight, your reactions have become lightning fast. His machine-pistol fire rips up the ground around your feet, but you save yourself by diving for cover amongst the sparse scrub that borders the railroad line.</p>
+ <p>You bring your gun up and fire at the first enemy clansman you see.<a id="sect255-1" idref="sect255-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Your snap shot catches him in the legs and sends him tumbling to the ground, but not before he has had a chance to return the compliment. Fortunately, in the heat of this firefight, your reactions have become lightning fast. His machine-pistol fire rips up the ground around your feet, but you save yourself by diving for cover amongst the sparse scrub that borders the railroad line.</p>
<choice idref="sect171">To continue, <link-text>turn to 171</link-text>.</choice>
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</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect264">
<meta><title>264</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect264-1-foot" idref="sect264-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>The car brakes violently and goes into a spin. The driver, his eyes and mouth open wide with horror, fights desperately to correct the skid. But before he can regain control, Rickenbacker machine-guns the rear tyres and sends the car careering through the crash barrier. With a crunch of buckling metal, it hits a telegraph pole, overturns, and spills its occupants out on to the sun-baked earth as it rolls to a halt at the bottom of a steep embankment.</p>
+ <p>The car brakes violently and goes into a spin.<a id="sect264-1" idref="sect264-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The driver, his eyes and mouth open wide with horror, fights desperately to correct the skid. But before he can regain control, Rickenbacker machine-guns the rear tyres and sends the car careering through the crash barrier. With a crunch of buckling metal, it hits a telegraph pole, overturns, and spills its occupants out on to the sun-baked earth as it rolls to a halt at the bottom of a steep embankment.</p>
<choice idref="sect322"><link-text>Turn to 322</link-text>.</choice>
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</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect268">
<meta><title>268</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect268-1-foot" idref="sect268-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct a round of 12-gauge ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>You fire your shotgun and see the clansman thrown backwards by the force of the lead shot at such short range. No sooner has his body crashed lifelessly to the ground than one of his comrades leaps over him and jumps straight at you with his hands outstretched. Before you can pump another round into the breach and fire again, he grapples the shotgun from your hands, then lunges forwards to fasten his steely fingers around your throat.</p>
+ <p>You fire your shotgun and see the clansman thrown backwards by the force of the lead shot at such short range.<a id="sect268-1" idref="sect268-1-foot" class="footnote" /> No sooner has his body crashed lifelessly to the ground than one of his comrades leaps over him and jumps straight at you with his hands outstretched. Before you can pump another round into the breach and fire again, he grapples the shotgun from your hands, then lunges forwards to fasten his steely fingers around your throat.</p>
<combat><enemy>Re-con</enemy><enemy-attribute class="closecombatskill">13</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">25</enemy-attribute></combat>
<p>Owing to the suddenness of the attack, you cannot make use of a close combat weapon until the third round of combat.</p>
<choice idref="sect311">If you win the fight, <link-text>turn to 311</link-text>.</choice>
<section class="numbered" id="sect271">
<meta><title>271</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect271-1-foot" idref="sect271-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct a round of 9mm ammunition from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>Your pistol shot 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 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 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>
<choice idref="sect141"><link-text>Turn to 141</link-text>.</choice>
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</section>
<meta><title>272</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>Both you and Rickenbacker are lost in thought as you climb back into the roadster and await the signal to leave. A few minutes later you hear that signal - three blasts from the air horn of Mike Gorgas' Mack truck - and at once you lead the convoy out of Gila Bend, heading west on Interstate 8.</p>
+ <p>Both you and Rickenbacker are lost in thought as you climb back into the roadster and await the signal to leave. A few minutes later you hear that signal<ch.emdash/>three blasts from the air horn of Mike Gorgas' Mack truck<ch.emdash/>and at once you lead the convoy out of Gila Bend, heading west on Interstate 8.</p>
<p>Five miles along the freeway you come to a small, deserted town called Smurr. A broken-down clan bike lies abandoned outside the town's gas station, and you fear that this might mean that the Outlaws are lying in wait on the road ahead. To make sure that it is safe, the convoy waits here while you and Rickenbacker go ahead to check out Sentinel, the next town along the freeway.</p>
<p>Fifteen miles from Smurr, the freeway approaches the entrance to a pass through the Painted Rock Mountains.</p>
<p>Add together your Perception skill score and your current <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points score. Now pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> and add this to your score.</p>
<section class="numbered" id="sect275">
<meta><title>275</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect275-1-foot" idref="sect275-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>Your shot misses the clansman, but its proximity makes him recoil and crash backwards down the embankment. Unfortunately, his fall diverts your attention from his partner, who has successfully climbed the bank and is now rushing your position with a knife in his hand. As you turn to face him, he leaps upon you and wrestles your gun from your grasp.</p>
+ <p>Your shot misses the clansman, but its proximity makes him recoil and crash backwards down the embankment.<a id="sect275-1" idref="sect275-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Unfortunately, his fall diverts your attention from his partner, who has successfully climbed the bank and is now rushing your position with a knife in his hand. As you turn to face him, he leaps upon you and wrestles your gun from your grasp.</p>
<combat><enemy>Deacon Blue</enemy><enemy-attribute class="closecombatskill">16</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">23</enemy-attribute></combat>
<choice idref="sect161">If you win, and the fight lasts four rounds or less, <link-text>turn to 161</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect128">If the fight is still in progress at the start of the fifth round, do not continue. Instead, <link-text>turn to 128</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Stunned and deafened by the unexpected explosion, you drag yourself upright into a sitting position in time to see, through the acrid smoke, a figure approaching the open doorway. Blindly you feel for your gun but it is nowhere to hand. Then the high-pitched sound of a small engine pierces the incessant ringing in your ears, at once setting your nerves on edge.</p>
<p>You reach for a close combat weapon as the figure steps into the lodge, and your blood runs cold when the maniacal features of Mad Dog Michigan swim into focus before your eyes. His crash into the Pantona Wash has cost him dearly. His face is a criss-cross of livid scars, many of them swollen around the stitches that are keeping the torn flesh together. He has lost his left hand, and one eye is hidden behind a patch of black cotton. It serves a practical purpose, hiding a now-empty socket, yet it also exaggerates the expression of hate and vengeance that fixes the clan leader's mouth.</p>
- <p>'Revenge is mine at last - Phoenix!' he spits, and raises the motorized chainsaw that he grasps in his right hand. The motor screams as he slashes wildly at the air, then he brings the buzzing, toothed blade down upon a table top and its surface explodes into splinters and dust. He laughs a madman's laugh as he steps slowly nearer to where you sit. With a final howl of glee, he raises the saw and screams, 'Now you die!'</p>
+ <p>'Revenge is mine at last<ch.emdash/>Phoenix!' he spits, and raises the motorized chainsaw that he grasps in his right hand. The motor screams as he slashes wildly at the air, then he brings the buzzing, toothed blade down upon a table top and its surface explodes into splinters and dust. He laughs a madman's laugh as he steps slowly nearer to where you sit. With a final howl of glee, he raises the saw and screams, 'Now you die!'</p>
<illustration class="float">
<meta>
<creator>Brian Williams</creator>
<section class="numbered" id="sect285">
<meta><title>285</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect285-1-foot" idref="sect285-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>Your shot catches one of the clansmen in the side. He screams and falls against his partner, who is forced to drop his rifle in order to catch his wounded companion. Rather than fire a second shot, you jump on to the roof and run towards the group. The clansman who is sitting with his back to the parapet sees you approaching, and a wave of fear knots your stomach as you wait expectantly for his shout of alarm. But curiously he does nothing to alert his companions.</p>
+ <p>Your shot catches one of the clansmen in the side.<a id="sect285-1" idref="sect285-1-foot" class="footnote" /> He screams and falls against his partner, who is forced to drop his rifle in order to catch his wounded companion. Rather than fire a second shot, you jump on to the roof and run towards the group. The clansman who is sitting with his back to the parapet sees you approaching, and a wave of fear knots your stomach as you wait expectantly for his shout of alarm. But curiously he does nothing to alert his companions.</p>
<p>Instinct prompts you to act quickly in case he has a change of heart. You rush forward and attack the two riflemen before they can disentangle themselves. Your first blow sends the wounded clansman tumbling over the parapet. Then, before his companion recovers his senses, you jump forward and attack.</p>
<combat><enemy>Cape Cod</enemy><enemy-attribute class="closecombatskill">15</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">23</enemy-attribute></combat>
<p>Owing to the surprise of your attack, ignore any <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> point losses that you sustain in the first round of combat.</p>
<meta><title>290</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>Cutter sets fire to a rag and tosses it on to the flat bed of a pick-up truck at the end of the line. There is a loud rush of air - Whumph - and a brilliant flash of yellow light: the whole line of vehicles is engulfed by a wall of flame.</p>
+ <p>Cutter sets fire to a rag and tosses it on to the flat bed of a pick-up truck at the end of the line. There is a loud rush of air<ch.emdash/>Whumph<ch.emdash/>and a brilliant flash of yellow light: the whole line of vehicles is engulfed by a wall of flame.</p>
<p>Through the shimmering heat haze you see the first vehicle in the clan convoy roll to a halt about 200 yards from the blazing barricade. The others stop in line behind it and a swarm of leather-clad clansmen disembark and scurry for cover among the rocks on either side of the freeway. You glance at Kate and force a smile as you slip off your gun's safety catch and prepare to meet their advance.</p>
<p>'I'm scared,' she whispers, her soft voice wavering with fear.</p>
<p>'Don't worry,' you say, reassuringly, 'we're gonna make it.'</p>
- <p>Then you hear the distant poppings of gunfire, and bullets start to whistle and buzz above your head like angry insects. To your right, a group of fellow defenders open fire at a pair of clansmen who have broken cover less than 100 yards away. They are trying to descend the embankment to the railroad track. Bullets kick up the dust all around them but, miraculously, neither is hit.</p>
+ <p>Then you hear the distant popping of gunfire, and bullets start to whistle and buzz above your head like angry insects. To your right, a group of fellow defenders open fire at a pair of clansmen who have broken cover less than 100 yards away. They are trying to descend the embankment to the railroad track. Bullets kick up the dust all around them but, miraculously, neither is hit.</p>
<illustration class="float">
<meta>
<creator>Brian Williams</creator>
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<p>Expectantly you reach for the handle but, as your hand closes around the steel lever, you hear something that makes you stop dead in your tracks. A scuttling scratching sound is coming from inside the storage room. Gently you depress the handle and open the door an inch or two, only to pull it shut quickly when you get a glimpse of what lurks inside. Thousands of cockroaches cover every surface in the store room, seething and undulating like some grotesque living carpet.</p>
- <p>It takes you several minutes to muster enough courage to open the door a second time, but before you do, you take off your jacket and tuck your jeans into your boots to prevent the insects from crawling up your legs. As the door opens and your light floods into the room, the insects panic and come rushing towards you like a torrent of vile brown water. Determinedly you meet this tidal wave and beat a path towards a table in the middle of the room. Using your jacket to clear the surface, you climb on to it and wait there - a tiny island in the middle of a stormy brown sea - until the cockroaches have dispersed into the corridor outside. When eventually the loathsome tide ebbs, you jump down from the table and begin your search for Atropine.</p>
+ <p>It takes you several minutes to muster enough courage to open the door a second time, but before you do, you take off your jacket and tuck your jeans into your boots to prevent the insects from crawling up your legs. As the door opens and your light floods into the room, the insects panic and come rushing towards you like a torrent of vile brown water. Determinedly you meet this tidal wave and beat a path towards a table in the middle of the room. Using your jacket to clear the surface, you climb on to it and wait there<ch.emdash/>a tiny island in the middle of a stormy brown sea<ch.emdash/>until the cockroaches have dispersed into the corridor outside. When eventually the loathsome tide ebbs, you jump down from the table and begin your search for Atropine.</p>
<choice idref="sect80"><link-text>Turn to 80</link-text>.</choice>
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</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect294">
<meta><title>294</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect294-1-foot" idref="sect294-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>You raise your gun and fire at the first enemy clansman you see. Your snap shot catches him in the legs and sends him tumbling to the ground, but not before he has had a chance to return fire. His burst of machine-pistol fire rips up the ground around your feet, and you are knocked down by a ricocheting slug: lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
+ <p>You raise your gun and fire at the first enemy clansman you see. Your snap shot catches him in the legs and sends him tumbling to the ground, but not before he has had a chance to return fire.<a id="sect294-1" idref="sect294-1-foot" class="footnote" /> His burst of machine-pistol fire rips up the ground around your feet, and you are knocked down by a ricocheting slug: lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<choice idref="sect171">To continue, <link-text>turn to 171</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<p>'I can't believe it's him.'</p>
<p>'Neither can I,' says Cutter, 'but it was his knife they found in Gorgas's chest.'</p>
<p>'What's gonna happen to him now?' you say.</p>
- <p>'I guess we'll have to give him a fair trial - it's the least we can do. Only it's gonna have t' wait. Macy and Langdon have spotted some Outlaw scouts on their way here. They're heading a large pack, judging by their numbers, and they're only 'bout three hours away, so they reckon. I hope you two didn't find no trouble in Sentinel 'cause we'd better move out now if we're gonna stay ahead of those clansmen.'</p>
+ <p>'I guess we'll have to give him a fair trial<ch.emdash/>it's the least we can do. Only it's gonna have t' wait. Macy and Langdon have spotted some Outlaw scouts on their way here. They're heading a large pack, judging by their numbers, and they're only 'bout three hours away, so they reckon. I hope you two didn't find no trouble in Sentinel 'cause we'd better move out now if we're gonna stay ahead of those clansmen.'</p>
<choice idref="sect10">If you want to break the bad news to Cutter and tell him about the rockfall at the Painted Mountain Pass, <link-text>turn to 10</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect74">If you wish to investigate Mike Gorgas' death first, <link-text>turn to 74</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<data>
<p>Your partner confirms that the town is empty of clansmen. He radios the convoy, telling them as much, and shortly after receiving his call the colony arrives.</p>
- <p>You spend a trouble-free night at Glamis and, a little after dawn the next morning, you and Rickenbacker set off to scout Highway 78. As has become standard practice, you drive two miles ahead of the colony and report back to them regularly by radio. During your drive west, you pass over several small bridges that cross canals running north from the Colorado Riverto the Salton Sea. This area was extensively cultivated at the turn of the century, to produce the extra food required to feed the rapidly growing urban populations of Los Angeles and San Diego. Now all that remains is a storm-ravaged wasteland.</p>
+ <p>You spend a trouble-free night at Glamis and, a little after dawn the next morning, you and Rickenbacker set off to scout Highway 78. As has become standard practice, you drive two miles ahead of the colony and report back to them regularly by radio. During your drive west, you pass over several small bridges that cross canals running north from the Colorado River to the Salton Sea. This area was extensively cultivated at the turn of the century, to produce the extra food required to feed the rapidly growing urban populations of Los Angeles and San Diego. Now all that remains is a storm-ravaged wasteland.</p>
<p>The journey passes without incident until you reach a highway junction. A mass of tents and bivouacs have been erected here, partially covering the road ahead.</p>
<choice idref="sect251">If you possess <typ class="item">Binoculars</typ>, a <typ class="item">Telescope</typ> or a <typ class="item">Combat Viewer</typ>, <link-text>turn to 251</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect338">If you do not possess any of these items, <link-text>turn to 338</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Cursing your luck, you return to the corridor. You find that the way ahead is now lit faintly by light from the room, enabling you to see that it is the next door along which is the entrance to the medicine storage facility.</p>
<p>Expectantly you reach out for the handle but, as your hand closes around the steel lever you hear another noise, which makes you stop dead in your tracks. Coming from inside the storage room is a scuttling, scratching sound. Gently you depress the handle and open the door an inch or two, only to pull it shut quickly when you get a faint glimpse of what lurks inside. Thousands of cockroaches cover every surface in the store room, seething and undulating like some grotesque living carpet. It takes you several minutes to muster enough courage to open the door a second time, but before you do so, you take off your jacket and tuck your jeans into your boots to prevent the insects from crawling up your legs.</p>
- <p>As the door opens and the light trickles into the I room, the insects panic and come rushing towards you like a torrent of vile, brown water. Determinedly you meet this tidal wave and beat a path towards the table in the middle of the room. Using your jacket to clear away the surface, you climb on to it - a tiny island in the middle of a stormy, brown sea - and wait there until the cockroaches have dispersed into the corridor. When eventually the loathsome tide ebbs, you jump down from the table and begin your urgent search for Atropine.</p>
+ <p>As the door opens and the light trickles into the I room, the insects panic and come rushing towards you like a torrent of vile, brown water. Determinedly you meet this tidal wave and beat a path towards the table in the middle of the room. Using your jacket to clear away the surface, you climb on to it<ch.emdash/>a tiny island in the middle of a stormy, brown sea<ch.emdash/>and wait there until the cockroaches have dispersed into the corridor. When eventually the loathsome tide ebbs, you jump down from the table and begin your urgent search for Atropine.</p>
<choice idref="sect80"><link-text>Turn to 80</link-text>.</choice>
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</section>
<li><typ class="item">Solar Torch</typ></li>
</ul>
<p>As you are about to leave the panel truck, you hear a clansman calling out his partner's name. You wait with bated breath until the shouting ceases, then you hurry back to your roadster.</p>
- <p>The dust storm is still raging fiercely as you head back on to Highway 84. Your return to the intersection with Interstate 8 passes without incident and soon you are driving west once more towards Gila Bend. It is a difficult and frustrating drive, for you cannot shake the fear that Kate will have lapsed into a coma before your return with the Atropine, and yet you dare not increase your speed for fear of crashing off the freeway. The strain takes its toll - lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
+ <p>The dust storm is still raging fiercely as you head back on to Highway 84. Your return to the intersection with Interstate 8 passes without incident and soon you are driving west once more towards Gila Bend. It is a difficult and frustrating drive, for you cannot shake the fear that Kate will have lapsed into a coma before your return with the Atropine, and yet you dare not increase your speed for fear of crashing off the freeway. The strain takes its toll<ch.emdash/>lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<p>During your return drive you must take a Drink or lose a further 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<choice idref="sect160">To continue, <link-text>turn to 160</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<section class="numbered" id="sect313">
<meta><title>313</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect313-1-foot" idref="sect313-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>To your dismay, your snap shot misses its intended target and punches a hole in the side of the bus, just a few inches to the left of the door. Undaunted, the clansman enters and quickly disappears from sight. Then you hear Kate scream as she catches sight of him. Her scream is quickly echoed by another, one that you recognize immediately as Aunt Betty-Ann's.</p>
+ <p>To your dismay, your snap shot misses its intended target and punches a hole in the side of the bus, just a few inches to the left of the door.<a id="sect313-1" idref="sect313-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Undaunted, the clansman enters and quickly disappears from sight. Then you hear Kate scream as she catches sight of him. Her scream is quickly echoed by another, one that you recognize immediately as Aunt Betty-Ann's.</p>
<p>You respond to their cries by leaping out from behind the garbage cart and running headlong towards the open door, oblivious to the bullets that are whistling past on all sides. As you reach the entrance, you almost throw yourself aboard the bus in your haste to prevent the clansman from harming the two women. As you regain your feet you see your aunt grappling with the thug in the centre aisle, her hands locked around the muzzle of his gun in a desperate attempt to prevent him from firing it.</p>
<illustration class="float">
<meta>
<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>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 map. 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>'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>
<choice idref="sect88">If you wish to try to hide from these clansmen, <link-text>turn to 88</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect135">If you wish to stand and fight them, <link-text>turn to 135</link-text>.</choice>
<p>Rickenbacker offers him some water from his canteen and he accepts it gladly. 'I heard about the scene in California from some survivalists I stayed with for a while down in Alamos. Sounds like they've gone an' turned the state into one big fortress. The army's in charge and they've got things locked down tight. They've kicked all the troublemakers out into the desert and slammed the door. In the south, I hear they've drawn up a new state line, from Pine Valley to Banning. All the old roads in and out are guarded and I hear they've got real picky 'bout who they let in.'</p>
<p>He reaches to the inside pocket of his tattered denim jacket and produces an equally tattered map. 'I plan on going in here,' he says, pointing to a part of the map that is so worn that it has become almost illegible. 'It's a place in the mountains, north of Lake Henshaw. I figure that the army can't have enough men to patrol that area too well. If you guys'd take my advice, you'd think 'bout doin' the same.'</p>
<p>You tell Jaeger your own story of how you survived the post-holocaust years. You also tell him that you and the others are acting as scouts for a colony of people who are equally determined to reach California, only they are now so short of food and water that unless fresh supplies are found Soon, few of them are likely to survive the 400 miles that still separate you from the Pacific Ocean.</p>
- <p>'Man, you guys have got problems,' he says, shaking his head slowly from side to side. 'And you're headin' slap-bang into even more. Ain't you heard - Yuma is a clan base. And believe me, the guys that are holding that city are heavy-duty bad news. If you're thinkin' of crossing the Colorado River there, forget it. You'll never make it. They'll blow you off the road.'</p>
+ <p>'Man, you guys have got problems,' he says, shaking his head slowly from side to side. 'And you're headin' slap-bang into even more. Ain't you heard<ch.emdash/>Yuma is a clan base. And believe me, the guys that are holding that city are heavy-duty bad news. If you're thinkin' of crossing the Colorado River there, forget it. You'll never make it. They'll blow you off the road.'</p>
<p>Worried by what Jaeger has said, and eager that he tell everything he knows about the clan base at Yuma, you ask him to return to the convoy with you. After some thought, he decides that there may, after all, be safety in numbers, and he agrees to join the colony. Anxious to get back, you climb into your roadster and set off on the return road to Aztec.</p>
<choice idref="sect204"><link-text>Turn to 204</link-text>.</choice>
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<li>Five rounds of 9mm ammunition</li>
<li>Antiseptic dressings (enough for one Medi-kit unit)</li>
</ul>
- <p>If you choose to keep any of these items, remember to adjust your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> accorindly.</p>
+ <p>If you choose to keep any of these items, remember to adjust your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> accordingly.</p>
<choice idref="sect104">To continue, <link-text>turn to 104</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
</section>
<section class="numbered" id="sect325">
<meta><title>325</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect325-1-foot" idref="sect325-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>You take aim at the clansman's chest and pull the trigger. Your gunfire hits him squarely in the torso, the force of its impact knocking him flat on his back. He does not get up. Like a bounding lion, Rickenbacker hurries towards the ditch and leaps in to land by your side as the first of the dead clansman's confederates comes running across the bridge. Then there is a jarring boom as the truck explodes with a brilliant flash of bright orange flame.</p>
+ <p>You take aim at the clansman's chest and pull the trigger. Your gunfire hits him squarely in the torso, the force of its impact knocking him flat on his back.<a id="sect325-1" idref="sect325-1-foot" class="footnote" /> He does not get up. Like a bounding lion, Rickenbacker hurries towards the ditch and leaps in to land by your side as the first of the dead clansman's confederates comes running across the bridge. Then there is a jarring boom as the truck explodes with a brilliant flash of bright orange flame.</p>
<p>'What the heck<ch.ellips/> !' you gasp, stunned by the unexpected force of the explosion.</p>
<p>'They had a keg of blasting powder in the back,' cries Rickenbacker, shouting to make himself heard above the rumbling echo of the explosion. 'So I lit the fuse!'</p>
<p>As the dust clears, the clansmen struggle to their feet and run towards the blazing remains of their truck. As they get nearer, you grit your teeth and prepare to open fire.</p>
<section class="numbered" id="sect328">
<meta><title>328</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect328-1-foot" idref="sect328-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
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- <p>Your gunfire misses its intended target, but wounds one of the scouts following closely behind. The clansman you missed stops in mid-stride and raises his weapon to his shoulder: this time he intends to make sure his bullets hit you.</p>
+ <p>Your gunfire misses its intended target, but wounds one of the scouts following closely behind.<a id="sect328-1" idref="sect328-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The clansman you missed stops in mid-stride and raises his weapon to his shoulder: this time he intends to make sure his bullets hit you.</p>
<choice idref="sect75">If you wish to fire again, and are able to do so, <link-text>turn to 75</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect214">If you wish to duck into the hollow to avoid being hit by the clansman's fire, <link-text>turn to 214</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>As the traitor exhales his last breath and falls dead on the ground by your side, Rickenbacker and Cutter come running across the plaza and take cover with you behind the garbage cart. Quickly you tell them how Barlow attacked you, and how you are now absolutely convinced that he was guilty.</p>
<p>'You're right,' says Cutter, glancing down at Barlow's body. 'He must have been a clan infiltrator. I'd hazard a guess that this attack is an effort by the Outlaw's t' get him out o' here.'</p>
<p>'Well they've got here too late,' you reply. 'His sentence has already been served in full.'</p>
- <p>From behind the metal lip of the garbage cart you survey the battle that is raging around the plaza. Most of the colonists have now armed themselves and taken cover, and they are putting up a worthy defence of the vehicles. The few clansmen you do see are either dead or attempting to escape from the town. All, that is, apart from one. He is a blond-haired thug, dressed in a studded leather vest and striped pants, who is busy hammering at the glass door panels of the DC1 school bus with the stock of his machine pistol. The sight of him senselessly attacking the door of the empty bus does not bother you unduly until you remember that there is one person still on board the bus - Kate - and your heart nearly stops with shock.</p>
+ <p>From behind the metal lip of the garbage cart you survey the battle that is raging around the plaza. Most of the colonists have now armed themselves and taken cover, and they are putting up a worthy defence of the vehicles. The few clansmen you do see are either dead or attempting to escape from the town. All, that is, apart from one. He is a blond-haired thug, dressed in a studded leather vest and striped pants, who is busy hammering at the glass door panels of the DC1 school bus with the stock of his machine pistol. The sight of him senselessly attacking the door of the empty bus does not bother you unduly until you remember that there is one person still on board the bus<ch.emdash/>Kate<ch.emdash/>and your heart nearly stops with shock.</p>
<choice idref="sect270">If you wish to open fire at the clansman before he gains entry to the bus, and are able to do so, <link-text>turn to 270</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect181">If you do not wish to open fire at the clansman, or are unable to do so, <link-text>turn to 181</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You pull over to the side of the road and Rickenbacker radios to the convoy, instructing it to stop and stand by. You focus your eyes on the distant junction, and begin to make out the shape of people. They are standing on the highway, either singly or in groups, but they do not appear to be doing anything in particular. When they do move it is with such lethargy that, from this distance, they resemble a colony of shambling zombies.</p>
<p>'I don't like the look of this,' you say to your partner. 'Radio the convoy and get them to put Cookie on. Maybe he knows something about these wierdos.'</p>
<p>Rickenbacker complies with your request and, within a minute or so, you are talking to Cookie person-to-person. 'Sounds like you've run across a pack of Crazies,' says Cookie, after listening to your description of the people at the junction. 'They're mainly junkies and street-scum that the army have kicked outta LA and San Francisco. They're usually pretty harmless, but watch y'selves. You never can tell what Crazies'll get up to.'</p>
- <p>You thank Cookie for the advice and sign off by telling the convoy that you and Rickenbacker are on your way back. You are about to reach for the ignition when you hear a movement away to your right. You turn your head and see three Crazies - two men and a woman - emerge from the scrub and scurry towards the truck. Despite their frightening appearance, you notice that none of them appears to be armed.</p>
+ <p>You thank Cookie for the advice and sign off by telling the convoy that you and Rickenbacker are on your way back. You are about to reach for the ignition when you hear a movement away to your right. You turn your head and see three Crazies<ch.emdash/>two men and a woman<ch.emdash/>emerge from the scrub and scurry towards the truck. Despite their frightening appearance, you notice that none of them appears to be armed.</p>
<choice idref="sect29">If you wish to start the truck and drive away, <link-text>turn to 29</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect173">If you wish to stop and question them, <link-text>turn to 173</link-text>.</choice>
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<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>
<p>Out of this wall of dust a mileage sign appears, which says:</p>
- <signpost>GILA BEND - 44 miles</signpost>
+ <signpost>GILA BEND<ch.emdash/>44 miles</signpost>
<p>It is nearly an hour before you see another sign. This one announces a rest stop one mile ahead on the freeway.</p>
<choice idref="sect56">If you wish to stop at this freeway service area, <link-text>turn to 56</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect13">If you decide to continue driving through the dust storm towards Gila Bend, <link-text>turn to 13</link-text>.</choice>
<section class="numbered" id="sect345">
<meta><title>345</title></meta>
+ <footnotes>
+ <footnote id="sect345-1-foot" idref="sect345-1">
+ <p>Remember to deduct the relevant number of rounds from your Ammo Pouch.</p>
+ </footnote>
+ </footnotes>
+
<data>
- <p>You fire and almost immediately you see the clansman throw his hands in the air and fall forward stiffly to the ground. For a few moments his limbs move jerkily, then his whole body relaxes as it surrenders to death.</p>
+ <p>You fire and almost immediately you see the clansman throw his hands in the air and fall forward stiffly to the ground.<a id="sect345-1" idref="sect345-1-foot" class="footnote" /> For a few moments his limbs move jerkily, then his whole body relaxes as it surrenders to death.</p>
<p>Rickenbacker appears at the edge of the barbecue area, drawn by the sound of gunfire. His face is lined with worry until he sees that you are still standing.</p>
<choice idref="sect305"><link-text>Turn to 305</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<meta><title>349</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>Scrambling to your feet, you take off your jacket and use it to beat a path towards a table in the middle of the storage room. Once there, you climb on to the table - a tiny island in the middle of a stormy brown sea - and wait until the cockroach swarm disperses into the corridor outside.</p>
+ <p>Scrambling to your feet, you take off your jacket and use it to beat a path towards a table in the middle of the storage room. Once there, you climb on to the table<ch.emdash/>a tiny island in the middle of a stormy brown sea<ch.emdash/>and wait until the cockroach swarm disperses into the corridor outside.</p>
<p>When eventually the loathsome tide ebbs, you jump down from the table and begin your urgent search for Atropine.</p>
<choice idref="sect80"><link-text>Turn to 80</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<p>Outside you find a pick-up truck. It was the vehicle Mad Dog used to reach the lodge ahead of his clansmen. Now these Detroit Lions cannot be too far away, and they have been reinforced by an additional contingent of Chargers. Quickly the four of you jump into the truck and head west, driving cross-country until you rejoin the freeway near a small town called Boulevard.</p>
<p>During your escape, Cutter makes radio contact with Pine Valley and tells them that you are on your way. He also warns them that you have a clan army hot on your heels. 'Don't worry 'bout them,' comes the reply. 'We've got a little surprise in store for those guys. You just keep your foot down and don't stop for nothing, y'hear?'</p>
<p>All of you are puzzled by the message, then, as you reach a high peak called Crestwood Summit, you hear the roar of a jet engine, approaching from out of the western sky. It is a fighter aircraft, and Kate is the first to see it as it skims the top of Long Valley Peak and comes screaming towards you, tracking along the line of Interstate 8.</p>
- <p>Captain Ed Hughes makes a mental note of his air speed and altitude, and realigns his F-14 Tomcat ready for a strike. His is the last serviceable fighter of the VF213 Blacklions squadron left at the Miramar Naval Air Station, and he is proud to have been the one called upon to fly this ageing but deadly combat machine on what could be its last mission. The target appears in the distance and, automatically, Hughes arms his sidewinders and locks-on his targeting computer. He is seconds away from contact. A last radio check confirms that the target is valid and, with an almost casual ease, he depresses the twin red fire buttons and sends his missiles screaming towards the line of clan vehicles. By the time they have struck and destroyed the clan column, he has already banked out of his dive and is heading west, above the Sawtooth Mountains, on a bearing that will take him back to his base at NAS Miramar - Fightertown USA.</p>
+ <p>Captain Ed Hughes makes a mental note of his air speed and altitude, and realigns his F-14 Tomcat ready for a strike. His is the last serviceable fighter of the VF213 Blacklions squadron left at the Miramar Naval Air Station, and he is proud to have been the one called upon to fly this ageing but deadly combat machine on what could be its last mission. The target appears in the distance and, automatically, Hughes arms his sidewinders and locks-on his targeting computer. He is seconds away from contact. A last radio check confirms that the target is valid and, with an almost casual ease, he depresses the twin red fire buttons and sends his missiles screaming towards the line of clan vehicles. By the time they have struck and destroyed the clan column, he has already banked out of his dive and is heading west, above the Sawtooth Mountains, on a bearing that will take him back to his base at NAS Miramar<ch.emdash/>Fightertown USA.</p>
<illustration class="inline">
<meta>
<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 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points, this is when he is declared dead.</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">
<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="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>swifty</quote> with <quote>swiftly</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect24">24</a>) Replaced <quote>machine gunfire</quote> with <quote>machine gun fire</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect55">55</a>) Replaced <quote>syphon</quote> with <quote>siphon</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>machine gunfire</quote> with <quote>machine gun fire</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>.</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="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>.</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>(<a idref="sect28">28</a>) This is the correct answer to the keypad puzzle in <a idref="sect337">Section 337</a>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect337">337</a>) The section corresponding to the correct answer will have a footnote confirming that it is indeed correct.</p>
+ <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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