Devon looked surprised to Silas as he talke about guard towers and a total battle plan. "Thats the easy part, no guard towers, no haevy weapons, just a radio tower and a couple of idiots with handguns, shotguns and smg's. You could easily snipe them out without a problem, you'd hardly need tactics to take them out. They are just an early warning system for an possible invasion on their territory, they aren't equiped to hold ground, just to warn the others by radio and get the hell out." He said to Silas to give him a better overview of the situation.

"Why don't you two hide in the trees a little way off, and take some out from far, and I'll go in on Midnight with my sword drawn. I'll have the element of supprise than as they wont be expecting it. They'll be too busy falling over their own feel in shock to fight back straight away, and by the time they do they'll be dead." Annebelle said, winking at the two lads.

Cipria was growing more uneasy by the second. She wished that they could avoid this confrontation for a few more days, at least until they had established themselves a bit more securely in the area but she knew there was no use in trying to convince them.

"Do what you will, but if you bring back any more people, be they dead, alive or tracking you, there will be hell to pay," she warned. She didn't like to fight, though she knew that there was the extreme possibility that Viskelaer would be put to use in the near future.

Silas ignored cipria. "You'll have to wait Annabelle until we get most of the armed resistance out of the way then you can go hacking at what evr you want but you have to remeber that this isn't knights and dragons times these people have longer range weapons than just a sword but your welcome to go butcher a couple, and thanks devon i forgot about the warning systems, I could take out the operator then we can go get the radios and use them ourselves." Silas started to put the pistol back together.

Annabelle growled animalistically. She hated it when people underestamated her.
"Listen, if you don't want me to come along, just say so. But I am sick and tired of you always making assumptions about me. I fight old school and do you want to know why? It's because it's what the enemy would least expect. They don't expect a girl on a horse, with a sword and a bow and arrow. They expect people going in with guns pointing at them. And they're prepared for that. Ever heard of bulletproof vests? Ive been to this camp before, and they have them. Plus the gunfire will allert them all to our presence, and we've more chance of getting out alive if we don't have all of them on us at once. You guys only have so many bullets. What are you going to do when they run out? When I run out of arrows I switch to my sword. And Midnight here has been trained to fight. She can do a lot of damage." She said hatefully. She really didn't like these people.

"Like i said we never underestemated you but I won't run out for a long time and my pistol with mormal riound will go through one side and out the other with normal rounds not to mention the high explosive rounds I carry and my rifle will go through an two and a half inches of steel so its not a problem for me but your are welcome to go in alone but only after I take out the towers mosrt likely they aren't going to be as easy a they were for the other people despite haveing lost men" Silas went and grabbed his ghuille suit. "I'm not saying that you can't fight but no one is so good as to be able to take out heavily armed positions of soldeir on high alert with automatic weaponry it was maybe possible for the people who did it the first time but now its like an angry beehive so its going to be a little rougher."
Silas tried to calm this girl an tell her that even though she maybe very good she can't take everyone out plus a sword and horse is still no match for 10 or 12 guys with AK-47's.
"Anyways lets not focus on it right now and lets get ready to eat." Silas said.

Devon looked at Silas and nodded in agreement about the plan. When the girl mantioned why she fought old school. "Yeah, actualy such vests aren't made for heavy calliber weapons, such as our sniper rifles, and if you aim for the head there won't be any vests in the way. About the bullets, thats true, but remember I am armed with a long chain, an axe and two types of daggers, choice enough I'd say. I even have a matter of transportation myself, that can be used quite effectivly with my weapons. So I think its you who is underestimating us." He said as an reaction.

He placed his gun into a special hold on the side of the quad for quick access. "I think its better for all of us if we first decimate the defence before sending in any melee combatants. I mean I only have a few bandages left, a vial of morphine and some cotton, but no desinfectants nor medication. So if you or for the matter Midnight gets wounded the risk of an infection is very high and it would make survival chances slim." He said calmly, with a slight hint of worry in his voice. "I'd rather not see anyone get hurt or die from causes that I could have prevented with ease. That goes for all of you, as long as we are together we must try our best to ensure each others safety, and must not take any unneeded risks." He said that, basicaly acting as the leader or at least as a rational human. He knew at least one of them saw the raid as an unneeded, but in fact it would give them a crucial piece of equipment that would allow them to predict marauder movement and communications with some of the settlements. Hopefully the others understood that this wasn't a raid to show off their skill, but an action towards survival.

Cipria smiled at Devon. He seemed to be the most rational of the group (not counting herself, of course) and he obviously knew what he was doing. Finishing up the slicing and dicing she had been doing, she spread some of the hers across the slab of raw meat.

"Over there are some dried grasses and a bundle of branches," she said, waving her hand in the direction she spoke of, and not addressing any one person. "Start a fire, so that i may cook this and w can all eat soon." She rolled up her sleeves a little and began to pound the meat with her fists, grinding the herbs onto it. Hopefully, she could cook this right; it had been a long time since she cooked venison, and her confidence was just a little bit more low than usual.

Silas waited for the food to get done, he admired mainly two people in this group, first of all was devon, he thought tactically and soundly like himself but with slightly less agression, he also admired Annabelle for her fire that she had in her but he feared that she would end up one day very injured trying to prove her strength to others, he couldn't figure out much about patzu, and he could tell that Cipria doesn't like to fight very much. Silas could smell the aroma of cooking seasoned deer meat.

Devon walked to the dried grass and pulled them out of the ground to use a tinder. He made a small open heap of it and gathered a load of the branches that lied around they were sufficiently thick to support the fire. He lied the branches around the heap and walked to his quad. There he grabbed a small magnesium stick out of the toolkit.

He sat down near the tinder and with the magnesium stick and his knife he tried to get the tinder to ignite. It took him several attempts, but that was quite usual with this technique. With the tinder burning into a growing flame he carfully placed a few branches in the growing fire, untill the heat carried itself to the larger branches the he had lied around, creating a fire large enough to cook on. With the fire taken care off he places the magnesium stick back in the toolkit and sat down near the fire.

Annabelle stood there thinking for a moment. She realised that she didn't know these people, and they didn't know her. She owed them an explanation for her behaviour.
"I'm sorry everyone, for my rudeness. I owe you all an explanation. You see, unlike most people I don't fear death. I've seen those close to me die, I've even killed people. And on one occasion I have been killed myself. I was so close to death, but somehow I was revived. I don't remember much from then, and I don't understand how it was possible. But it happened. And I admit that all of that has hardened me. I don't fear death, I welcome it. I only go on because my parents wouldn't want me to go down without a fight. I want to make them proud. But in a way, I'm in a rush to meet death. So, sorry." She said, pooring her heart out to these strangers. Tears were silently making tracks down her cheeks and she quickly walked away, hoping they didn't notice. She grabbed Midnights bridle and walked over to a tree some distance away. She sat down under the tree, and Midnight lay next to her, putting her head in Annabelles lap. Annabelle petted her, thinking about the amazing bond she had with the animal. They were connected in a way the others couldnt understand.

Silas felt kinda sorry for that girl, after a couple minutes he put on his ghuille suit and crawled over with his weapons, him and his weapons were like Annabelle and her horse. Silas crawled over there slow enough that not even Annabelle would notice. Suddenly he stood up and made a short run for the spot beside Annabelle.
"Hey what's wrong?" Silas asked standing the rifle straight up.

Midnight lifted her head when she heard Silas coming. Annabelle petting the mare to sooth her anxiety. When Annabelle heard his question she sighed.
"I'm a tough girl. Tough girls don't cry. Crying means you're weak." She replied bitterly. All she wanted was to have a normal life, but in this world, that wasn't possible.

As th meat cooked, Cipria wondered what she would do while everyone was out on their raid. She supposed she could continue to work on a weapon concept she had been mulling over for a while. It would come in handy, and she could certainly use one of the guns Devon or Silas had to complete it. She looked over to where Silas had gone to talk to Annabelle. She looked upset, certainly, and she could understand the girls frustration.

From the moment you are born in the Wasteland, everything is taken from you. Cirpria had heard stories of the world before; how it was beautiful and green, with lush forests and beautiful animals and large cities. Now, it was deserted. The ground was cracked and dry, the forests had all but disappeared, and the few that were still around had dangerous animals and Marauders around them like flies to honey. She wished that she could have seen the old world, but alas, that was a time past and there was no way to change it now.

When the meat was ready, she called everyone over and told them to cut whatever they wanted off of the large slab and that she would dry the rest for later. It would come in handy, for when they needed food, and also if they needed to distract wild dogs. Everyone looked positively exhausted, so she finished eating quickly and stood.

"I am going to search for building materials, so that you can have somewhere to sleep tonight," she announced. "Would anyone like to accompany me?"

"ok." she said following him, um...is he going to try something on me? like flit? she felt for the dagger in her sleeve for assurance, Mai went back into her bag.

"You can cry I wont judge you." Silas said. Silas knew it was tough out here and it wouldn't get easier and sometimes you have to blow off some steam thats why he like marauder hunting so much he relieved stress from fire off his big rifle in quick sucession.

"Yes, but I judge myself. I've always been strong, you need to be out here. If you're weak you die. But everyone seems to think my style of fighting is wrong, or not a good idea. Well the truth is, I don't know how to use a gun. Where you lot know how to use guns, and the different types, all I know is that you pull a trigger and a bullet comes out. And to be quite honest I have no intention of learning. My soul has always belonged to the past, a time where there was no guns, that everyone fought this way. I'm not saying that this way is perfect, far from it. I have scars from the battles I've fought. But I'd rather fight this way, where my opponant has a chance to defend themselves than with a gun in my hand. If you let them fight you learn how to block thier strikes, and it makes you stronger." Annabelle said, standing up. Midnight stood up next to her, and Annabelle mounted the horse and took hold of the reins.

Silas knew that this girl was very conflicted inside with her self. After she left Silas went back over to his spot by the house. He kept stareing at the beautiful Patzu as he sat there he finally decided to called her over.
"Yo devon can i talk to you for a second? " Silas waved for devon to come to him.

When Silas called for Devon he stood up and walked towards him. Seeing that Silas was sitting too he chose a large chunk of rock and sat down on it. "So, whats the matter?" He asked. He took a moment to look at the fire and more importantly the meat, it looked nice and the aroma of the herbs and the meats natural rich taste was swept towards them with the light breeze that rolled over the field.

"We haven't figured out how we are going to attack the camp." Silas took off his hood of th ghuille suit. "We need to figure if we are going to go in after we take out the towers or not, personally i think we should because the rest don't have the kind of weapon capabilities that we do."
Silas could smell the seasoned deer cooking makeing his mouth water.

Devon looked at Silas with a calm expression. The site they were going to attack was one he had observed himself quite a lot, exept for that radio tower there was no other tower and he hadn't seen any mounted weapons last time. They probably didn't need them anyways, as soon as they would have broadcated that someone was attacking there they would retreat, at least that is what he figured from the quads standing at the back of the outpost and the light armament.

"I have a plan, we'll wait for the evening, it will be full moon so there should be enough light to snipe, even without nightvision. we will aproach the camp from the front. There we will take out the primary targets, the poeple in the radio tower. Then I'll drive around the camp and unleash gunfire from a position behind the camp, causing choas under the marauders. Annabelle, you will go around the camp and wait at the back, I'll meet up with you there. You will take care of the escapees, at the back is a small shed they store quads there. If they mount a quad they will head your way and you'll take them out, either with the bow or with sword, whatever appears to be the better of choices. As soon as Silas and me have cleared out enough marauders I'll give you a sign and you'll be allowed to enter the camp and the fight, causing even more chaos, since they are being shot at from two opposite directions and they are under melee assault. Please remember to stay on your horse, it gives you an advantage over the marauders in physical combat and you'll be easily identifiable for us, so we won't accidentally take you for a marauder. If we follow this plan the raid should go without a hitch, but it all depends on whether we can prevent the marauders from calling for back-up. Should they do that then our best bet is to abort, since we'll have too little time to loot the place or we could end up fighting the back-up, neither good options if you ask me." He said to Silas and Annabelle keeping his calm expression.

"Sounds good to me." Silas said. "Oh and I have something for you I usually carry two just incase."
Silas pulled out a rail mount that should fit Devons rifle and a scope similar to his to go with it.
"If we are going to be Snipeing together then I want you to be able to keep up, all the way down on the little nob the bottom click is night vision the middle is normal and all the way up is thermal it can see a rabbit through 18 inches of concert from 450 yards away." Silas explained handing devon the Rail and scope package.

"Yeah, sounds good to me. Just one thing, why don't I take out the quads beforehand? I don't think they'll be guarded since they're not expecting an attack. I'll simply sneak in, and knife the tyres. Then they'll have no escape giving us more of a chance that someone will run and get help. If one of you manage to take out the radio tower that is. This should be real easy." Annabelle smiled. She was happy at the chance to kill some marauders.

"Wait for the tower to be taken out this time cause they will most likely be watching more closely cause no its like an over turned ant hill." Silas said."But once the towers are good then you can get inside and like I said your free to slice up what ever you want I just want to make things easier for us all."
Silas leaned against the house closeing his eye wondering which girl he liked more Annabelle or Patzu.

"Well as long as I get to kill something I'm happy. Maybe they'll have some chocolate! It's been too long since I had chocolate." Annabelle said longingly.