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Backstabbing son of a... you're surprised this jerk even knows how to use a butterfly knife. You kick the still twitching corpse down the mountain of corpses and it tumbles over and over before resting among the many hundreds like it had always belonged down there. Where it ought to be.
After all this, when you return to the City proper, you swear you'll tear apart the first Ghoul you set your unblinking eyes upon.
>SEARCH
>NEAR PASS
You find the fourth corpse almost buried at the very top of the pile save for an armored gauntlet. His armor is punctured, semi-liquified flesh leaking through, and his exposed face is furrowed in anger as if he went down fighting. There's still rounds of 7.62 link in his ammo pouch but the machine gun is nowhere to be retrieved. Feh.
Most disturbingly, some of the new corpses surrounding him remind you... <span class="mu-b">of yourself.</span> Yes, the younger years, when you had finally grown up. Like a cocoon burst open, the chest cavities of all these women are all hollowed out and slick with something sticky, almost resinous. <span class="mu-i">This pattern of wounds seems to be a recent addition to the pile.</span>
You move the bodies of the fallen Street Sweepers to a safer place. Since they're not in any state to use their equipment, you take stock of what they have and bundle it together for extraction. Sledgehammer, pickaxe, heavy implements of sewers maintenance - not your style. You almost let out a chirp of disapproval.
Hey, wait a minute...
>PREPARE
>SUCCESS
<span class="mu-g">[TERROR]Acquired DYNAMITE x3 + REMOTE DETONATOR</span>
You stand there for a moment and quietly examine the stained paper cylinders in your claws. A Company brand. Ominous blasting caps. Pretty red sticks :)
You turn them in your claws once more and then it all clicks. Under the earth, in a Black Zone like this, there's no one to rein you back, no obligation to maintain rationality or discretion or the facades thereof.
How does it go again? <span class="mu-i">"Just do what comes natural."</span> Hshshshsh.
DYNAMTIE x3 + REMOTE DETONATOR
- Sticks of dynamite commonly used to blow holes in rock or remove blockages in the sewers and pipework. Instantly kills or maims opponents within a small radius. Detonate at will by pressing a SHINY RED BUTTON.
You may lack the skill in heavy weapons handling which is so freakishly common among other City slickers, but you do know how to press a VERY FUN LOOKING BUTTON. You hide the sticks of dynamite within the jumpsuit pockets of the dead Gray men - they'll try to take the bodies back for looting. As for the first one you tore open, you elect to unzip him a little more with the perfumed knife (see how clean and sharp the edge is?) and cram a stick into the split cavity. Not subtle, but it works.
As for the rest of your preparations, you construct a grim barricade further down by hurling down the most intact corpses into a pile by the entrance. When those Ghouls come, they should be forced to funnel in and you'll open up with a rain of -
