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((Once again, yep))
You walk in and ask dotor about your mates. He looks at you with a bit of fear in his eyes.
 - Uhm, well, they need some cutting, that is for sure. To be short, they'll be in shape to fight in several days.
It's not that his answer satisfied you, but what are you going to do with that anyway?
You stop for a minute and refresh sentries positions. You count two dozens all over the town, mostly on the rooftops. If shot from below, they won't make any noise.

You throw a quick look inside the opened maw of storehouse's opened frontgate: a man in black overcoat with a silver shevron is fighting a sturdy dwarf, that seems to be chef-smith of the factory.

You look inside your bag to see what kind of snacks you'd put there in hurry. [5] It looks that your economic nature was above your consciousness during preparations - you see some bread and water carefully packed, and that is enough to last for exactly three days.
You tear a piece of bread and chew it. This train is usually transporting soldiers and officers back from province and runs empty on it's way to it.

He looks at you attentively, when you reach the part of collaboration until all them men are down, he laughs aloud.
 - Ha! Than you're going to inherit the command of my forces after my natural death! Do you know how many of them there are here? According to my men, there are at least regiment quatered here. Most of them are securing HQ, however. And our numbers are much smaller. And terror will cause repressions. So, actually, you just caused a mass of problems.
He sighs.
 - Anyway, I will do the trade thing. I hace a few annoying entousiasts, I'll give them under your command. And you give us all the guns you got to us. We'll manage to get you some bows and arrows. Now, I'll leave for a while to get your friends here. And you may have a drink.
And he leaves through the backdoor.

You come closer.
 - ... plates in Horano by tuesday!
 - No way! It'll take four days! Or double the price I named!
 - Doubled? Nonsense!
 - Than forget about the permanent contract and let your Heavy Guys run in battle naked!
 - You'll pay for your betrayal of Empire!
Sounds tell you that a fight has started.

(( Can I add in searching the now faceless traitors house for anything useful or valuable? I totally forgot, given how badly my plans have gone so far I expected a family of 10 with guns in hand waiting for me. ))

((There were nothing useful in his poor apartment - only a bed, in fact.))

You come closer, and listen carefully.
 - ... murdered?
 - Yeah, i heard. Seen myself, in fact. No idea how they were killed. It was not a single cut that chopped the heads, as far as i understand. That is strange.
 - What do you mean?
 - Nothing. No idea what was that for.
 - Anyway, they should have recognized them by the patrol table already.
They make a pause. You hear several gulps.
 - So, how do you think, who could leave this message? That is not our job.
 - Maybe, some new fishes came in our small pond. And that is the way they declared their intensions. And though I do not like their methods, the idea is the very same as mine. Men should get back to their realm.
Another pause. More gulps. They're drinking something there, and you bet that is alcohol.

Alexander lets you continue interrogation. And youк questions hitted the old man right to the weak spot.
- Do not touch them. I beg you. What do you want to know?

You loot the corpse. Two dozens of Copper hammers. Knife, its scabbard. Dirt, lice. That is all.
[1] You try to go the same route you came here, but now you're lost completely. You walk along the storehouses filled with ore, waiting it's time to fall in flaming maws of smelters next to some metal-producing factory. You hear some talk from one of those - and it seems to be nervous. Pay attention?

Luckily, one of soldiers had a medkit. You use it to bandage yer mates. They'll live for now, but a qualified help would be useful.
Then you loot the dead. A summary of what you found:
2 bolt-actioned rifles + ammo
2 lever-actioned rifles + ammo
4 single-action revolvers (standart sideram of men) + lots of ammo
1 semi-automatic pistol + some ammo
They also have some useful bandoliers, box-pouches
((I'll specify exact numbers when you say what do you pick))
Also, one of the soldiers had a closed envelope in his inner pocket. There's something heavy inside. You tear it, two halfs of letter and heavy coin hits the floor. It is a Quater. You keep the money.
You scout the outer space. It is middle of workday, so the streets are almost empty. You find a place to dump corpses - a crossroad, empty for now, overcrowded by the ond of workday. You leave your fearsome message and spend the rest of day following the patrols. Those are simple infantry units, un groups of five. Equipment is pretty the same that the soldiers you killed had. You folow their routes and count their numbers. You count a whole company patroling the streets. But you suspect there may be more in the harrison. Maybe another company.
You also sneak around the place where you met that filthy traitor. By evening, he comes out, drunk and happy. You follow him in shadows right to his home. Now you know where he lives.

You declare your will, and Alexander nods.
You aim carefully, and shoot. At the same moment Alexander makes his second shot, too.
[5-1] for you
[5+1-1] for Alexander
Woo, you shot his shoulders simultaneously, he drops the musket and screams of pain.