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Taking down the fifth drone isn't so easy. He's made some distance now and he veers crazily in one direction and then another, in a way that you can't predict. Just when you think you've lined a shot, he ducks behind the cover of a building and when you finally take a chance after he emerges from his cover, you narrowly miss your target. When you try again, instead of a noisome bang, you're greeted with a click – you're out. By the time you've loaded a new magazine, your target has disappeared into the undergrowth of the forest, on his journey southward.
While you swear beneath your breath, your tribal assistants gawk at the disgusting flesh heap that the drones have assembled. Some of them are furious, while others are overcome with despair – you have no doubt that all of them have loved ones in that mountain of biomass. One woman who accompanied you even approaches the pile and tries to pull a corpse off of it.
“Don't touch them!” She turns to glare over her shoulder at you with tear-filled eyes, but you don't back down. “You don't know what sorts of diseases they've been infested with. Step back and don't touch them.”
“What, do you think you can burn 'em too?” The bitterness in her voice is palpable. “In rain like this? We can't just leave 'em all there to rot! These are our loved ones, our families! They deserve peace, not... not this!” To make matters worse, the other tribesmen mutter their agreement. You're outnumbered six to one. You need to defuse this situation before their emotions get the better of them and they turn on you.
>Take the time to dispose of the dead. You don't have the time to burn them properly but you could throw them into the river, to be washed away from this awfulness. It'll take a while though.
>Satisfy them with an oath – you will not rest until the Soulless monsters responsible for this are all killed, but right now, there's nothing that you can do for the dead. They need to accept that.
>Put a bullet in her. You need to make it crystal clear that challenging you comes with consequences. If you let this go unpunished, other tribesmen will start taking liberties too.
>URGE: She will drop the issue – you command it. You'll only be able to influence her with your memes but hopefully when she backs down, the others will as well.
