Worse Than the Disease 2 IC

[Shoot Da Moon]

Sean nods and starts talking. Accirding to him, the events have been as follows:
1. Two recent attacks of the mutants on the Waffle House, who seem to be friends with the people of the region. Repelled, taking some mutant prisoners.
2. The retaliation against the mutants in Springfield. Mutated animals feeding on human bodies.
3. Information from a hit slaver camp about them effectively inciting the mutants. Matching some earlier facts about the slavers inciting mutated animals.
4. The attempt to start some meaningful communication, releasing one of the mutant prisoners and quoting him #3 above. Intending release of the rest if peace is established. Lack of effect.
5. Desire of some people to restore the power plant's operations to provide the neighborhoods with electrical power.
6. Some mutants here, with some mutated animals. Too many to safely come out and talk, given #4 above. Hit them. Hit the mutated animals. Have not been inside, but planning to.
7. You came. We made sure we can safely talk. We are talking.

The "war chief" nods along and listens.
He comments that there are apparently several different bands of mutants active in the region - he has never heard of his people attacking Waffle House. His people have been sticking to the rivers, and trying to find the Shelters so they might eliminate the overlord.
He reveals that the men who were guarding the power plant - the flying shotgunners and the dog handlers - were their stay-behind rear guards meant to make sure the army of darkness does not get their hands on the power plant.

When it becomes Richard's time to talk, he takes a broader view of things, telling the general story of the exiles and their clashes with the raiders - from learning of their existence, to the battles at the radar base and the early information they learned there, to the battle at the ski lodge helping the Snowbunnies and the leads they learned there, to their campaign since of attacking raider camps and bases and using the intel and prisoners found at each to decide the next target. He talks about Stone, his papers and the information they learned from his interrogation - about their northern holdings, the factory and mine, and also about the southwards retreat and the training camps apparently down there for the retreating raiders to rebuild out of. He mentions the spies, too - he didn't know how much the riverboat people knew about the raiders' intelligence network, but much like with the settlements he felt it was important to make sure they knew now.

The war chief takes it all in. The man confesses that most of it comes as a surprise to him, despite being an active member of the band (and created) for 8 whole months. He had no intel on the local regional militia, the raiders and their network of spies, the ski lodge, the training camps or the northern factory.

He asks the exiles what they would like to know about him and his people, or what he found out. He offers to tell them about their origins and their campaign against the overlord's dark army.