>>6056041You count your loot and find that you've managed to hold onto (3) of your 8 items.
The Sentries have grabbed (7) items, and adding these to the 8 heads and 10 other items for trading, splitting them, and giving you 3 items from their haul, leaving them with 7 each.
>You kept dropping your stuff, you ought to have something to show for it.
Meanwhile, as you are all dividing your loot, Marcie, still nursing her leg, asks about the stranger.
>those folks leave in a truck?
>It was just one guy. He was in a car
The Bookish man replies.
>What did he look like?
>White, hick accent, scruffy light hair, black streak war paint, carried a semi-automatic scoped M1A, and he was driving a black 70's Granada.
>That sounds like Nick. he cooks and mixes stuff way north in the woods. Like's his fireworks.
>Well it's the forth.
>I used to know him. taught me about fuses and black powder
And Marcie goes on for a ten minutes describing how to make charcoal, how to collect and purify salt peter from human waste, Sulfur from the slew of car batteries everywhere, or petroleum waste, and some mineral springs.
>Nick was a chemist a long time ago.
>He worked at a plant?
>He makes drugs, meth, mostly.
[you now know what to look for to make gunpowder, and can harvest it's precursors in your spare time]
The Merchant speaks up. He's been driving for a few minutes now.
>Anyone find anything good? We've got a long way to go. Let's make some deals
You have 7 Items.
[Roll your reaction, your post digits will determine the item types]
The Sentries are already picking through their items, and trading back and forth
[The Merchant will take his cut from the results. However, Heads, can be substituted for items. You can also trade items with other characters, and players.]
[my post ID, with 1 added to each digit represents the 1st Sentries loot, for the 2nd Sentry, subtract 1 from each post digit] 