0074 - Prisoners and Record Keeping

        
0630 30 JUL 2000
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The sniper that killed Mitchell actually got away. Three others have been killed and three captured, two with slight wounds and one with serious wounds.

First, let's start with the record keeping.

The characters have expended:

• Fragmentation Grenades: 2
• 5.56mm N: 14
• 5.45mm B: 29
• 9mm P: 4
• 40mm HEDP: 1
• Units + oral antibiotic: 3

The stored ammunition and medical supplies are adjusted accordingly.

Harris and Macron process the prisoners and use their individual first aid kits to patch them up. The capture the following material:

• 3 PPSh-41 with 6 magazines
• 1 RPK with 3 magazines
• 1 FN-FAL with 6 magazine
• 1 Irritant Gas Grenade
• 1 Thermite Grenade
• 1 1km Manpack Radio
• 1 Kevlar Helmet
• 3kg of Domestic Food
• 2kg of Soviet Field Rations
• 1kg of Wild Food
• 15kg of MREs

In addition, there is the personal equipment from Mitchell that the characters have access to.

The UAZ-469 and the other radio disappear into the sunset with the sniper. No doubt he is on his way back to Kepno to report on the ambush gone wrong.

So, we have three prisoners. What to do with them. Generally I believe that the characters would not necessarily shoot them out of hand. Anyone still around knows the score and just shooting every prisoner you have out of hand is a good way to ensure you will be shot if you are captured. There are extenuating circumstances however.

First you have Logan. Based on the character relationship, Logan and Mitchell were married and he probably would be understandably upset. In addition, we have Marshall. She and Mitchell were good friends before Mitchell married Logan. We have two potential sources of conflict here.

Logan has a critical wound so he is probably not going to jump up and machinegun the prisoners. Marshall is unscathed but the relationship has cooled off somewhat. To determine if anything happens, we can ask the GME. Let's start with Marshall

[GME: Will Marshall attempt to harm the prisoners? - Chaos Rank 6 (the characters definitely lost control of the last scene) - Somewhat Likely (80%) - 78% - Yes]
So Marshall has her blood up. Will she just shoot them?

[GME: Will Marshall shoot the prisoners? - Chaos Rank 6 - Somewhat Likely (80%) - 11% - Exceptional Yes]

Now that is not good. Marshall is determine to do away with them and she is not going to let anyone stop her. Maybe a bit of narrative would help.

"Things went a bit dark after Mitchell was killed. I was pretty sure that whatever happened to them, they deserved it for killin' my friend and probably twice over on top of it.

I don't know what happened exactly. I remember comin't to my senses and Macron. He had tackled me for some reason and I had the L7 in my hand. The barrel was hot and the prisoners were dead. Macron told me I did that, I don't remember it but the bastards killed Caitlyn. That I do remember."

So, we cross off another 20 rounds of 7.62mm N.

Now back to other problems. As we established in Post 0063 - Post-Battle Recovery and Record-Keeping, the OT-64 had been repaired by the mechanic prior to the group arriving but has no ammunition. The vehicle has a wear value of 10, so it is pretty much a junker. Despite that fact, the vehicle may prove useful and no one else knows that it does not have ammunition. After losing Mitchell, the group is probably not disposed to leave the vehicle to the government of Kepno. The characters top off the vehicle and prepare to move out.

The OT-64 is christened "Can-Can" and the 1km Radio is added to allow communications with the team. The team then prepare to move out.

The order of march will be:

• HMMWV (Jerry) – TOW II
• Driver: Michael Macron (Ground Vehicle: Wheeled 7, Observation 12)
• Commander:
• Gunner: Jade Marshall (Observation 6) - Narrator
• Passenger:

• OT-65 (CanCan) – 1000l tank trailer
• Driver: Eduard Potapenko (Ground Vehicle: Wheeled 5, Autogun 15)
• Commander: Klasha Kirillovna (Observation 15)
• Gunner:
• Passenger: Jack Robinson
• Passenger: Wayne Logan

• 3/4-ton truck (Bud) – 1 L7A2s - 1-ton cargo trailer
• Driver: Michael Griffin (Ground Vehicle: Wheeled 8)
• Commander/RTO:
• L7A2 Gunner #1: Edward Harris (Autogun 9, Observation 8)
• L7A2 Gunner #2:
• Passenger:

The group then moves off south towards Kluczbork, Poland.