Yara removes the skinned creature's stomach, heart, liver, and tongue before looking around for something to store them in. She doesn't have any useful container at present, forcing her to leave the grisly prizes atop the beast's corpse until she can devise some way to carry them. She could simply place them in her backpack, but the fluids dripping from the organs make that an unpleasant concept.
Burt heads up a floor and returns carrying an open box filled with black fluid. He takes the steps carefully so as not to spill the oil and descends slowly to the bottom floor. He then circles the perimeter of the great spider nest, sloshing black gold onto the labyrinthine mazes of webs at frequent interval. The spiders nearby flee, while those too close are trapped in the oil and quickly drown.
The box is empty and Burt now needs to start a fire. He has no flint or matches, so resorts to using his rifle. First he takes out a cartridge and carefully removes the bullet. He takes a scrap of wood from the ground, pours the gunpowder within the cartridge into a small pile atop it, and places the wood onto a pool of oil. Finally, he loads the empty cartridge into his rifle and takes aim at the pile of powder.
A sharp crack, a
whoosh of flame, and the oil is alight. Burt steps back to admire his handiwork, watching the fire climb to the ceiling and spread across the room. Thousands of tiny black shapes scurry around, trying desperately to escape the searing heat. Few do.
As the oil begins to burn up the fire takes hold of the broken furniture. It flares brightly, rapidly consuming the old wood. Soon it will die off, but at the moment the room is becoming oppressively hot.
Dominic ensures the generators are disabled before climbing down the side of the elevator shaft. At the bottom he sets to work scavenging Turbo's supplies, prioritizing the shotgun and shells. It's the prosthetic leg that is most difficult to recover - attached somehow to the bone of the knee, it requires a great deal of prying and cutting to remove. But remove it he does. Dominic transfers the newfound supplies to his backpack, slings the shotgun over his shoulder, and climbs back up the elevator shaft.
Dominic hauls himself up and onto the second floor. Burt watches the flames rise higher. Yara considers the beast meat before her.
The ground vibrates slightly beneath them, and a sound filters down from aboveground. It sounds like an engine.
Akkad hits the brakes as he crests yet another short, grassy hill. This one is different than the hundreds of others he'd seen on the way here. For one, a gaping rectangular hole opens in the earth at its base. The ruin he's been told about, no doubt. But he's not the first to arrive. Two vehicles are parked outside - a truck and a wasterunner, of similar construction as the one in which he now sits. Other scavengers. Judging by how the vehicles are still here, they're still inside.
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Healthy
Modifications:
Embedded Hotwire
Inventory:
Double-barrel Shotgun(90%/S-Range)
Fragmentation Grenade x2
Incendiary Grenade x2
Flashbang Grenade x1
High Explosive Grenade x2
Backpack
Shotgun Shells x59
120 Platinum chips(Currency)
Flashlight x2
Headlamp x2
Hunting knife x2
Tissue Repair Injections x10
Roll of bandages x2
Day's worth of travelling rations x14
Roll of string
Dirt-filled Aluminum Can x4
Prosthetic Leg
Healthy
Modifications:
Arasti Monocle(+5% Accuracy)
Inventory:
Semi-Auto Rifle(90%/M-Range)
Mutated Wolf Hide
Backpack
60 Platinum chips(Currency)
Flashlight
Headlamp
Hunting knife
Tissue Repair Injections x5
Roll of bandages
Day's worth of travelling rations x7
Rifle Cartridges x54
Healthy
Modifications:
Gray Walker's Eye
Inventory:
Flechette Rifle(95%/M-Range)
Backpack
60 Platinum chips(Currency)
Flashlight
Headlamp
Hunting knife
Tissue Repair Injections x3
Roll of bandages
Day's worth of travelling rations x7
Flechettes x44
Healthy
Modifications:
Prosthetic Leg
Inventory:
Sub-machine Gun(90%/S-Range/Automatic/Multi-target)
Backpack:
60 Platinum chips(Currency)
Flashlight
Headlamp
Hunting knife
Tissue Repair Injections x5
Roll of bandages
Day's worth of travelling rations x7
Pistol Cartridges x200
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Topic: Promontory [4/4] (Read 15325 times)