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Old 02-19-2017, 03:35 PM   #66
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Default Urgent Update: Jammer is not a jammer

According to the newest data, there is no technological white noise jammer operating on Jewell Island. There is, instead, someone referred to by at least one of the guards as 'the freak', who is apparently preventing radio from functioning properly through unknown means.

Whether this interference can be detected from the shore is unknown. After our distress call to the Coast Guard, we stopped hearing any white noise at all on any hand-held device, apparently as this unknown person refined his interference to make it harder for anyone to notice what he was doing.

Also, Taylor has surrendered to some guards who reached the barracks as he was rigging a time-delay incendiary device meant to set them on fire and draw the attention of the Coast Guard. Taylor could hear automatic weapon fire from below in the tunnels, where Sherilyn Bell and his fellow DHS personnel had gone, and he didn't see any other way than surrendering to stop the firing immediately. This way, he was able to get the warden to drop the 'jamming' so the guards in the tunnels could be ordered to cease fire. Hopefully, they did so before hitting Ms. Bell. Or O'Toole, Dr. Anderson, Col. Burr or Townsend, I suppose.

Before things went haywire and the shooting started, Taylor had mocked Warden Tyrrell over the intercom and challenged him to a hand-to-hand fight, ostensibly to prove that the Warden's macho posturing wasn't just an act put on for the benefit of a younger woman he had no chance with. There may have been some mention of Warden Tyrrell being allowed to use a knife if he wanted, as he was such an old man and would need one. The odds are that Warden Tyrrell is not well disposed toward Taylor.

The guards who captured Taylor seem less zealous than Warden Tyrrell, but they proved strong-willed enough to resist an appeal through Diplomacy to their good sense, imploring them not to fire on, attack or threathen the federal agents in the tunnels below and consider the fact that the Coast Guard was on its way. So far, these guards could be responding to a legitimate crisis, just being confused as to who the threat are, but as soon as they attacked federal agents, things would change. The GM suggested that the fact that Taylor had rigged their kitchen with an incendiary device might be giving him a Reaction penalty.

Which Taylor considers extremely unfair, as the only reason they know that is that he shouted out a warning when he heard them entering the kitchen so they wouldn't be caught in the explosion if and when it goes off. Part of the incendiary IED was an M67 grenade we found in the armoury and Taylor didn't want the guards killed unecessarily. The IED was meant to start a fire in an empty barracks, not kill anyone. That, of course, was a few seconds before the shooting started below, otherwise Taylor might not have found it quite as easy to refrain from killing them in order to be able to move to the assistance of his friends immediately.

It's almost as if the guards are not sufficiently grateful that they remain alive through Taylor's mercy and forebearance. Well, that, and his calculation that even if he shot them down in less than two seconds using his captured M16A2, he'd still have to run two floors and some distance of tunnel before being able to confront the guards shooting at Sherilyn Bell. No way he could do that faster than they could be told to cease fire if Warden Tyrrell learned that his men were shooting at his 'beloved' Queen.
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