WW3 - Session Notes: “Doing Their Things”
Session #3: March 9th, 2022
Last session, a variety of things happened. First, Tori Vandergriff was able to plant a variety of audio bugs under the floorboards of the Mountain Confederacy Consulate… which is a doublewide home in a Toppenish trailer park. Any doubts about her (due to her comparative newbie status, and odd looks) were erased by the intelligence bonanza that resulted. Second, Pete Korilov was able to get a reasonably effective unit out of the forty or so deputies who chose to militarize under his direction. A group of marauders was unlucky enough to fall under their guns; prisoners were taken, and their hidey hole in an old bunker on the Yakima Training Center was discovered and destroyed.
All in all, it was a productive evening. Now, onto the intelligence bonanza:
1) You learn the names of the other MC staff - “Big Dumb Guy” is Dan Allen, “Radio Tech” is Brady Hurst, and “Intense Guy” is Dwayne Mercer.
2) Dan Allen follows the local soccer competitions between town teams with deep interest, but doesn’t think any of them come close to Missoula’s team. He also is pretty sure he could take any of “those damned Federals” if they’d ever travel without their spacesuits. He wishes they’d come down to the Tiki Lounge - this talk seems motivated more out of boredom than malice.
3) Dwayne Mercer knows what a Dragoon is, and has tried to convince Dan Allen that they are not the same as a regular trooper - Dan might be able to take one in a fight, but he shouldn’t underestimate them. Mercer is getting ready to make a “trip home” once they have learned something more substantial about the Federals, and expects to be gone a while this time. Mercer has also requested some AP ammo, just in case.
4) Brady Hurst is bored with the local girls, and is afraid of getting crabs. He also wishes there was something to do besides what he currently does. When everyone else is away, Brady is carrying on a ham radio debate with someone in Salt Lake City, UT about the relative merits of LDS Mormonism versus Roman Catholicism.
5) The MC’s discussed the possibility of taking out Agent Canapo but decided it was too dangerous a while back, and Daugherty kinda enjoys the “fun and games”. Ernie Daugherty doesn’t feel like he really needed a bodyguard, but with Federals in the region, he isn’t taking chances. Daugherty believes that Canapo has gotten ahead of the game by bringing in troops, and managed to catch him off guard.
6) There is at least one militarized deputy on the MC payroll, called “Deputy Jones”, and three Native Americans (they call them “Injuns”, which seems to be distinct from the “Yaks”) that report on the doings of the Dragoons. If dirty deeds need doing, he’ll use them instead of the more obvious white men on his team. For now, he is just using these assets to keep an eye on things.
7) Currently, the MC’s know the names of the Dragoons (and what a Dragoon is), and are waiting for more substantial information from the intel weenies back home. They have the farmhouse in Harrah under casual surveillance, but seem to be waiting for a shipment of better gear from back home before beginning a more intense intel-gathering campaign. He plans to make contact with the Dragoons privately, away from Canapo, once he knows more about them.
8) The MC representative to the Tri-Cities Association is someone named Sam Bonner. Bonner has made useful inroads into the civic power structure there. Daugherty describes the Tri-Cities as a “typical post-blast snakepit”, and is glad he got posted here instead of there, even if his job is more difficult than Bonner’s job.