According to Frank, when you enter anywhere new, you go after someone that everyone hates, or failing that, walk up to the biggest prick in the Zone and shoot them in the face - well that's what some locals told us. In this case, Frank choose the notorious "Seven Skinners" who have gutted several locals already, and are fit to live up to their name.
The Skinners were in the middle of moving supplies from Maggers Rest, sneaking through the very worst of the Sewer Network that the Metal Heads had lain claim to. The Skinners reports say had taken to rest in an abandoned section, seemingly once used in it's construction, but now horrifically dilapidated, the Skinners we unprepared, and ripe for scragging.
Using tunnels that even Skinners didn't know about, 2 of the Metal Heads snuck right inside the locked store room of the Skinners, only to realise what the crazy natives had done; stick their booty right in the middle of a spore nest!
First lungful and the gangers started seeing multicoloured walls and pink Grox's everywhere! Blasting Bolt rounds into the spores didn't help, immediately alerting the Skinners, they, despite being at home in these hellholes, didn't fare much better with bolt rounds flying kicking up spores it's impossible not to breath in the spores.
Now, we promised to have picts and vids ready for the next fights in Zone 7, but, well it could have been the decrepitude of the sewers, or that we have not beaten our Helots enough. Nevertheless, we don't have vids of the ensuing slap fight between the Metal Heads and Skinners, each hallucinating more and more as they tried to cut each other to pieces. All the Metal heads crawled into the ducts through the walls, Nashoba and Firepipe cut up the two stragglers, and crawled through the pipes into the melee around the spores. Frank and Marl finally managed to get the locked door open for dam thing to close off again, leaving Marl trapped on the other side.
The swirling melee around the spores was a sight to behold, if we have had the vids. Fortunately, we've found a recreation in our historic archives that adequately recreates the battle around the spores. It was inevitable that someone would eventually win and Badskin Bob, with his Long Las and Atsadi with his Lasgun, sniped from a safe distance. Even so, Marl and Frank had a Heavy Stubber and Boltgun, they should have been able to see off Bob and Atsadi. But, they were high, and Marl had had enough, he didn't want to relapse to his 'Spook addiction so ran off into the dark.
Anywhere else, this would have been a blood bath, but here everyone was too hoofed on Spores to do, anything, a load of cuts, some broken bone, one idiot broke his back falling backwards over a spar (or was cut down by Nashoba, no one is sure). One thing is for sure, no one wants the Sewers anymore, save for the Skinners, and Bob is the only one smart enough not to snort the spores.
Bob: Smart enough not to snort the Spores |
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