The Survivors of 92nd Dragoons have gathered by a sewer opening in a deep valley. A river has carved the valley through the land and flows south towards the sea which cannot be seen due to a meander in the course of the river. A path to the north leads up to the top of the valley.
The Defenders of Great Lactosia begin their offensive on the houses. Meira carefully targets the force shield with her rocket launcher and fires taking it out... along with half of the crumbling nearby house. 3 CPs burst from the wreckage and open fire on the Squad...
TRIO continue to search hut. They find the remains of the headcrab shell and an extra pistol. Thats it. They grab the pistol and all jump aboard the Jeep. They start off the Jeep and head down the track to the west. After a short and bumpy ride the reach an area where the trees have been cleared away and a train track has been laid. The track junctions to the west further south of the TRIOs position.
My life with Vorts begin to move resources into the barn. Tables, Chair and all sorts are moved into the barn in order to make the fortifications stronger. As the last of the furniture is moved in, a hunter chopper buzzes over the Clearing. They hide inside the barn and wait until the chopper is heard buzzing off into the east.
HECU Veterans begin to clamber down into the Quarry. They soon find them selves in a mess of Red Iron sheds. They follow the sound of Gunfire down numerous alleys and passages. They find a Citizen swamped by Antlions. The citizen stands in a flimsy fort made of Crates which he has made himself. He is holding up fine but looks like he is running low on ammo. The Squad move in and blast the Antlions with gunfire. Some back down but others turn and fight only to be destroyed by oncoming waves of hot lead. The citizen looks up.
"Thanks," he cries, "Now lets get out of here before they come back"
Engineering Squad Theta halt their work until the Combine have moved away.
Shadow Troop rush down the mountain and down towards the track. They decide to follow the track to the North until the end of the turn.
The Many searches the houses looking for an Item they can use as Axes. To their amazement they find 2 Axes. Two of the refugees begin to busy them selves cutting down trees for the barricades. Meanwhile, the others continue fortifying the Village. The main road is now completely blocked off to anyone wishing to navigate through the Village. One man pins up a Lambda Sign out of old Post-it notes, cardboard, a few nails and Glue.
The Many continue their work on the village. Three members of the crew head out into the woods to look for anything. They don't find anything but come to a Cliff that overlooks the Ruins of City 17.
My Life With Vorts hide in the Barn as the vorts try to hide their Vortessence that may be picked up by captured Vorts. While doing this, the Vorts pick up a small collection of Vortigaunts down by an Old Highway. After the Chopper has flown on the Vortigaunts start off to find the Vortigaunts by the Highway. They head down the path to the north east. As the path winds round to the east they can see the Highway which has several buildings along it. The continue on this path.
TRIO head south and follow the junction a little way. The Track here leads off to a bridge in the far distance. They head towards the bridge. When they get there the bridge is fully intact and cross a river in an east/west fashion.
Defender of Great Lactasia dispatch the CPs. Two are blown up with a Single rocket blast. The third is taken down by a Crossbow bolt. They head straight into the crumbling reamins of the nearest house. Here, there is some Pulse Rifle Ammo and a control panel. In the second room there are two large control panels and a comms link. They then look in the next house. In here they find a Grenade and a Medkit. More interestingly, there is a Combine Thumper behind the houses.
Shadow Troop follow the Track north. After a while they encounter a small Combine Outpost that is used to control traffic on the Rails. They enter cautiously. Strangely, the Outpost seems deserted. Here there are several Combine Control Panels and they all seems operational. It is unfortunate that none of them know how to operate the Control Panels.
HECU Veterans lead the rescue mission out of the old quarry, blasting Antlions and the odd zombie on the way out. It takes a while but eventually they scrabble out of the quarry and onto a small path just north of a Highway.
The Survivors of 92nd Dragoons begin a creep up the side of the valley. From here they can see more of the surrounding area. The edge of the valley is hugged by tight forest, clipped by casual logging, and continues along the side of the valley. The dense layer is punctured by a small building slightly west where the river meanders due south and continues towards the trees. To the north a dense smoke pile reaches up into the sky. This is the smoke from the Citadel.
Engineering Squad Theta are yet to move.
It is
Twilight