Heh...heh...no need to.

Sit-rep:

Artis and Gavin are ok...they managed to steer clear of all danger.

Harry is KO'ed for the time being

Jess received some minor VP damage from smacking into the wall.

The team's train car appears to be upright, but nothing else can be seen without leaving the confines of the cabin.

Aw hell.

Is the general's helicopter visibly damaged?

From Artis' vantage point he can only see the last passenger car. The rest of the train (ie. the General's car, the helo, etc.) are hidden behind the s-curve.

Duh...I should have said that the s-curve is obscured by a grove of trees on either side.

My bad.

If you do a hard sprint, you could probably get to the fire fight in about 5 minutes.

Do you think you could draw a picture? I'm having real trouble picturing the area.

Ok. Expect a mail so you can FTP it to here.

Do we have Agency phone service out here?

You do, but it's a matter of who exactly can help you this far in the middle of nowhere.

True, but the Home Office might have a say in whether this fight is any of our business or not.

satellite shot as seen through the eyes of MS Paint.

HEY! That photo took me a good 5 minutes to draw...

What do you guys think?

This might be a good time to try to wipe out the General and his boys. I'm sure we'd be doing the world a favor, but then we don't really know who those attackers are. They might be worse than Koskov is.

Or, maybe we could try to ingratiate ourselves to the General by helping him repel the attackers?

If we have to fight, I vote we do it in the spirit of Fallout random encounters: Let them duke it out, then we flip off the survivors and loot the bodies.

Or maybe we just watch. I'm definately not in favor of getting directly involved as long as we don't know whose side we're supposed to be on.

Gatac

sounds good to me. Let's get one of our binoculars or scopes or something and try to get a better look.

Just to let everyone know...

Yup, still alive...still dodging sniper fire around the neighborhood. I should have an update to the storyline tomorrow.

If the terrain to the left and right of the train tracks is elevated at all, what about coming up the back of the hill and catching the attackers in a crossfire?

Just some points about the terrain in the area. The ground is fairly stable as far as walking/running across, but there is the darkness and a slight fog to contend with.

That's good for sneaking, but bad for shooty-type stuff.

There will be spot and to-hit penalties for both sides.

OK, well I'm good at sneaking at least.

I suppose we'll soon see about the shooty.