The Zone

Ticket Price:

Player Ticket: £80 (Includes Gun Hire and Partial Catering)

Crew Ticket: Free (and Full Catering)

Venue:

Giants Seat Scout Camp

Mostly Camping, Some Bunk Space Available

Event 16 Rumours

The weaponsmith trading under the Manor House Mob name without permission has expanded his operation, and is now working alongside an armoursmith. They both maintain they are working directly for a Mr Keswick and a Mr Carlisle.

The Red Sky phenomenon has claimed a number of lives, mostly of freelancers out on missions when the Red Sky struck. Some organised freelancer groups have let it be known that substantial amounts of money await anyone that can produce a portable shelter or other defence that has rigorous testing data to go with it. One or two of the Bars have also offered bounties for reliable data so that they can start to ship in whatever is needed to solve this. There is definitely a note of desperation in such requests…

The military have gone exceptionally quiet. Patrols outside their inner perimeter have dropped to near-zero. Rumours are swirling that they've also been caught off-guard by the Red Sky and have no means of dealing with it beyond the same run and hide approach everyone else is using.

The various Bars have started to increase pay for a lot of the work needing doing. On days with little to no risk of a Red Sky the work is paying roughly what it always did, but by the 4th day the payments start to increase. By the 7th day no work is taken up regardless of pay as everyone knows the Red Sky will hit. A handful of freelancer groups, the bottom-feeders that can rarely get hired, have taken work on day 6 or 7 and made a small fortune, but a high proportion have died trying.

Event 16 After Action Report

The weapon and armour smiths trading under the Manor House name have seemingly closed up shop. Clients have reported that they haven't received deliveries and the shed they are reputed to work out of has been locked up, with a warning daubed on the walls outside. Rumours suggest that they were not in fact affiliated with the Manor House Mob and punishment for saying so has been enacted.

A vast explosion was reported over the weekend, visible from several miles away. A few brave scouts went into the area shortly afterwards and reported a 30m radius blast area with the trees scorched for a further 20-30m or so. The epicentre of the blast appears to be an access hatch for an underground facility. A couple of people have reported entering the facility and have reported absolute devastation within. No doubt scavengers will be picking over the site for a while to come, but anything usable was destroyed outright and there are a lot of bodies within. Any survivors have long since quit the area. The attackers have not been identified, but no-one is reporting any Bar contracts to do such a thing, so the immediate suspicion is corporate sabotage.

Some kind of drone aircraft was shot down, and the black box recovered. Whilst small drones were used for courier duty a while back they were abandoned as too easy to shoot down, so it remains something of a mystery as to why someone has started using them again, and wondering quite what one of this size would be for only fuels the speculation.

Reports of freelancers high on various narcotics have been increasing steadily of late, but rumour suggests the primary source of the drugs has now been shot and killed. Stories of a mysterious “Pillboy” who refuses to communicate with others are starting to spread, with the most common being that the Pillboy was either killing off the competition or acquiring new supplies for himself without paying.

Violence against corporte targets has taken a marked step upwards. Some Bar contracts have called for wholesale slaughter or overt destruction of property on a far larger scale than previously. No-one is sure whether or not this is an escalation of corporate espionage, or whether an outside source is declaring war.