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Twilight 2000 - The Modern Dark Ages : The Abridged Version Chapter 17
GM - Fusilier
Chapter 17 - Northern Poland - Baltic Buccaneers : November 16th, 2000
Summary: The team goes on a logging mission to Hel peninsula for fuel for the winter, and fights off some pirates. After returning to Gdansk, the team heads out again for a major attack on the pirate base, and then get attacked in turn by the cult, Warmia Awakening.

Mad Dogs Unit Roster:
John Jameson McCarthy - player
Helmut Meyer - NPC
Varis Babicevs - player
Arthur Fox - NPC
Francis "Frank" Benucci - player
Anna - NPC
Ferro - player
Billy “Crack” O’Brien - player
Aleksandar Mazurek - NPC
Per Kolstrup - player
David "Tosh" Lines - player
Katarzyna Majchrzak - NPC
Dean Wilson - player
Walter Krupp - NPC
Czeslaw Kaczka - NPC
Piotr Auttenberg - NPC
Michael Kessler - player
Karel Janku - NPC
Lukas Fischer - player
Sabine Riedel - player
Tomasz Andropov - player
Charles "Charlie" Price - player
Chris Walsh - player
Janacek Czerny - player

PC Assets:
Armored Humvee
Volkswagen Iltis
BTR-80 (Krok)
Humvee (Damaged vehicle received in trade for the BMP)
Humvee (Destroyed vehicle received from Woermann / Parts)
Humvee (Destroyed vehicle received from Woermann / Parts)

• The Mad Dogs regroup after the anti-bandit operation at the Forest City, and the LoSA militia depart. The Mad Dogs discuss next actions, then split up.

Group 1

• JJM, Babicevs, O’Brien and Walsh go to the docks to visit the Sofija, a Lithuanian trading ship, captained by Emilis Juska. At the docks next to the vessel, they ask Emilis about American troops in Lithuania, and about purchasing a wood gasifier that Juska has in his ship’s hold.
  
• Talking to some of the crew, Babicevs and Walsh learn that there is fighting in Latvia, and Riga especially is hostile territory at the moment. The team also learns that again, the Kaliningrad Oblast is in fairly bad shape from failing crops and radiation, and that the Russian army is fairly spread out in order to make feeding itself easier. They also learn that Marijampole was sacked several months ago.
  
• JJM trades for a bunch of trade goods, along with some industrial chemicals and the wood gasifier. They also find out from Juska that he might be able to ferry the unit and a light vehicle to the east come spring. Then the Mad Dogs head out.

Group 2

• Kessler, Kolstrup, and Benucci go on a trip to see Walter in the Forest City, in order to give him a recap of the battle with the bandits, and to offer help. Kessler relays the MU’s territorial demands on the island, to which Walter isn’t happy, but he relents.
  
• After being asked what he wants, Walter responds that he’d appreciate the Mad Dogs training some of his people to be better fighters. He also mentions that he wants to move a few hundred people into Forest City, but needs to get some defensive materials first to keep everything in order. The Mad Dogs then head back to the compound.

(Continued)

• Valeska is back at the compound for a few days while Marek fixes the barge. Ferro retrieves David Lines from the hospital as well, and Kolstrup is healing nicely.
  
• JJM gives a briefing to everyone on the unit's next plan of action - locate a source of wood for the gasifier (later confirmed to be the Hel Peninsula), bring 20 laborers in to help get it in place for central heating and electricity and to help with the logging expedition, create a bunch of Czech hedgehog anti-vehicle defenses, turn the freestanding watchtower into a fortified bunker, take a group of Forest city laborers on a logging mission (along with some guards who can be trained up as per Walter's request), convert some purchased wool into warm clothing for everyone, and finally, lay some electricity to a nearby building for civilians to use.
  
• Price, Andropov, and Babicevs plan to stay behind at the compound to help Kaminski with a suspected thief problem.
  
• The rest of the unit then heads out on Valeska’s barge for Hel, in order to scout a place for a logging camp and to recon the peninsula. They bring along 4 militia members from Forest City (Pawlik, Dana, Marin, and Leon [team leader]) as well, in order to show the novice troopers the ropes. The scouting party lands to the west of Hel proper, and proceed to make their way to the Hel Military Installation to find a place to set up camp for the actual logging expedition. Details of the Hel Military Installation on page #3. At the installation, they also find some disabled trucks that might be usable for hauling all of the logs back to the beach for transport.
  
• The team then progresses southeast, through the wrecked naval base and into Hel, where they come across a hermit. The man appears to be alone, possibly insane, and rambles on in Russian about children, a dead man, and a dog.
  
• Before the day gets too late, the patrol heads back to Gdansk.
  
• Back in Gdansk, the unit talks about the logistics of setting up the logging camp and how much wood will will be needed to cover the entire winter.
  
• Kaminski has gotten over 40 laborers to help with the logging expedition and the jobs needed at the compound.
  
• The next day, the barge heads out with the logging party (led by a foreman named Gawel who goes by Foreman Joe), the Forest City additions, and the entire Mad Dogs command. The journey to the peninsula is successful, and my mid morning everyone is landed on the beach, west of Hel.

Day 1

• The group moves in to occupy the Hel Military Installation toward the middle of the peninsula. They see a lot of ordnance in an ammunition warehouse inside an interior storage bay (57mm rockets, AT-3 missiles, SA-7 AA missiles), but the door to the bay is heavily wired. Janku and Aleksandar set up in the lighthouse toward the end of the peninsula with the NODLR. The team trains the day laborers on the tasks to come, and everyone settles in for the night.

Day 2

• Choppin’ trees.

Day 3

• Andropov gets one of the disabled trucks working again. More tree chopping takes place. Janku and Aleksandar report in - there are 3 boats moving to the bay, with 2 boats chasing a third and gunfire being heard. There may also be a 4th larger ship out on the horizon as well.
  2nd Engagement on Hel Peninsula
  
• Czerny stays with the loggers, and the rest of the unit moves to the beach to protect the barge. Walsh and a few others wade out to the barge and man the DshK onboard. The boats come into view, and Leon mentions that the fleeing craft (small pilothouse boat) might belong to one of the FL captains, Mateusz Morawiecki. Morawiecki is known to be a ruthless psychopath. The other crafts are a small speedboat (housing 3 suspected pirates) and a heavier trawler. The speedboat breaks off the chase in favor of the barge, and circles in closer, slowly followed by the trawler. Convinced that the two boats are pirates, the Mad Dogs in the beach start the engagement on their own terms, and open fire. Walsh draws the boats in with a short burst from the dooshka (scaring back the speedboat), and then his squad gets off the barge and back to the tree line. As the trawler closes in for what it thinks will be an easy kill, the entire tree line erupts as the Mad Dogs open fire en masse. There's a deluge of gunfire toward the trawler, but it stays it’s course. Meanwhile, the speed boat appears to be heading back in on a direct course with the barge. After some fire gets directed toward it, the Mad Dogs appear to disable its engine and it coasts in behind the barge, though one of its passengers appears to have been hit. The Trawler continues getting beaten back by small arms fire and grenade launchers, and after a small fire breaks out, it turns away and heads for deeper water.
  
• Janku reports that the boat further out is holding position, and that there’s another small boat near it now.
  
• Walsh heads back aboard the barge with Ferro and others. At least one pirate is on board, but seems to be pinned behind a locker. Ferro flanks the pirate and takes him out. The other two pirates are found to be dead and dying in the speedboat. The wounded prisoner is pulled aboard and put under Riedel's care. Found in the speedboat, there are papers claiming that the craft belongs to one Carl Lindh of Boda, Sweden. The dead pirates have ID tags that indicate they may be deserters from the red army or navy.
  
• Leon tells a story of Morawiecki cutting the hands off of some fishermen that were fishing in the wrong area, but not to judge the entire FL off the actions of one man - they had as many heroes as they did villains.
  
• JJM talks to Valeska about raising the FL on her radio to coordinate anti-piracy activities. She reaches Captain Halina Nowak on the Arcadia. Nowak responds that the Arcadia will shelter with Valeska's barge in the Hel Harbor for mutual protection. JJM instructs Kessler to bring the loggers near to where the barge and the Arcadia will dock for the night, for an added layer of protection.
  
• The pirate prisoner wakes up and says his name is Vadim. Walsh interrogates him, and Vadim claims that the pirates have captives, and that they often either ransom hostages or throw them overboard. He then slips unconscious again.
  
• JJM and Valeska go to meet Nowak. She mentions that Dan Kowal’s boat has not been seen for two days and that perhaps the pirates got him. The Arcadia is hauling peat from Ustka and Leba. Nowak wants to set sail together immediately back to Gdansk. After some discussion about timelines for the logging trip, she relents that she’ll stay another day in return for being given the damaged speedboat.
  
• Janacek reports that the loggers are almost to their new camp next to the harbor, but that two men are missing. A search party goes out for them, and after a lot of searching, eventually finds them. One man named Adi Kowalczyk gives up and walks back toward the team, while the other takes off running. Babicevs and Benucci chase and take down the runner - the two missing men had stolen packs (Price and Ferro’s) and are returned to the encampment under guard. It is later found that Adi was the leader of the two, and the plan to desert was his idea. The two men had intended to sell the stolen goods in Wladyslawowo, Adi’s home. The two are then stashed in the barge for the remainder of the trip.
  
• JJM and Riedel head to the rec center near the harbor where the loggers are now camped, and offer medical assistance along with generally trying to calm the loggers down after the attack.
  
• Vadim the prisoner never wakes up.
  
• Valeska talks about Nowa Hanza, a new international trade and cooperation agreement, that hopes to bring more stable trade back to the region.

Day 4

• The next day the group heads back to the forest, to collect the logs that had been cut, and bring them to the beach. Some other work gets done, and by nightfall everything owned (along with the wood) is aboard the barge.

Day 5

• The Mad Dogs (aboard Valeska's barge) and the Arcadia head home to Gdansk, and offload the wood payment for the loggers at the cartel docks. The Mad Dogs say goodbye to Nowak, Joe the foreman and the loggers. The group then splits:

Group 1

• Staying at the docks, Ferro, Walsh and Benucci learn that there are two FL boats missing with a number of men, and that the pirates are demanding a ransom for their return. The pirates suspected base is to the east near Krynica Morska, known as The Twins due to two large wrecked ships in the area (Warmia Awakening is mentioned here as having razed a settlement here and driven off any populace prior). There’s to be a big meeting between the FL captains later today.
  
• Ferro and the others then visit the market for more intel, and learn the following:
  - that Monolith is around buying up gear for an anticipated anti-piracy raid
  - that Morawiecki has been bragging about fighting off a submarine and is now at some eatery called The Admirals
  - that the Marian’s have reached out with an urgent request for food, underwater welding equipment and a marine shipping fuse of some kind (it’s possible that the Marians are going to attempt to pay off the pirates to get some people returned - why else would they need underwater welding equipment?).
  
• Ferro’s team decides to go check out The Admirals where they meet with Mateusz Morawiecki and ask him about the sub and the pirates. He does claim to have seen a Russian sub, and a lot of fast boats. He confirms one of the boats was Dan Kowal’s. Taking a payment in amber beads and a silver coin, he also tells the team where the FL captains meeting is to take place - at the soup kitchen across from the Great Mill. The group then leaves.

Group 2

• Kessler, Kolstrup, O’Brien and Price go to Sikora Armaments to get some supplies, and meet the factory manager, a man named Bartek. Bartek lets the group see a new MRE being offered by the factory/company, along with a new custom-built AT weapon. Sikora Armaments is willing to deal with the Mad Dogs, and Kessler negotiates a deal for ammunition and one of the new AT weapon.
  
• Group 2 then heads to St Mary’s and meet with Emma Cassidy to see about sourcing some medical supplies. She gets them some medicine, but warns that this can’t be a regular ask of her. She also confirms that the Marians are planning on paying the ransom. Finally, she confirms that the Marians are expecting a large number of casualties tomorrow, and that Mary Tymoshenko is heading to some big meeting with a bunch of the FL captains. Group 2 then take their leave.

Group 3

• McCarthy, Fischer, Janacek and Anna head to the Forest City to talk with its leadership about overcrowding and possibly moving about 20 inhabitants in near the compounds, and to offer some training on leadership and small unit tactics. A man named Jakub walks in with Walter Lisiewicz (Jakub is Walter’s associate). JJM explains about wanting people moved in, and Walter says he can find the 20 people. JJM also talks about wanting some wool shoe liners made from some wool the unit had acquired earlier, and Walter explains that the Forest City can do this as they have a textile mill nearby that they are trying to get up and running. Group 3 then heads out.

(Continued)

• JJM arrives at the soup kitchen across from the Great Mill, known to the locals as the Milk Bar. Outside, they can hear an argument from within. Emma Cassidy leads JJM inside, where there are 11 people present, including Mary Tymoshenko, Nowak, Inspector Kowalczyk, and Rick Newell. Tymoshenko relays that there’s to be a handoff of the ransom goods to the pirates at the mouth of the river, along with the news that the pirates are also asking for a skilled surgeon as a part of their demands. Instead of sending a surgeon, Gdansk will be sending a volunteer who will claim to be a surgeon, but is not. The hostages are supposed to be returned on Dan Kowal’s boat once the goods are received, and that Artur Jedrzejczyk will be delivering the pirates’ demands.
  
• Inspector Kowalczyk notes that the MU plans to meet the pirates with overwhelming force (including the free company, Monolith) and force a hostage rescue. JJM disagrees, and proposes letting the exchange take place and then tracking the pirates back to their base, then attacking. The group comes to a consensus with JJM’s plan, as it appears to largely align with Tymoshenko’s. Monolith will be accompanying the attack. The meeting concludes and the Mad Dogs head back to the compound.
  
• The next morning after a planning session, the team splits and everything starts to go into motion.

Group 1

• Group 1 joins Nowak and the Arcadia, which sails far north of the ransom drop point. They wait, and then shadow the pirate trawler back to its home about 1km-4km Northeast of Krynica Morska. It’s reported that 15 captives were given back to Gdansk from the pirates during the ransom swap, along with Kowal’s boat. The Mad Dogs onboard view the pirate home at long range, and note that they do in fact have a submarine (albeit one in very poor shape), a large trawler, and speedboat. The Arcadia then turns around and heads back to Gdansk.

Group 2

• The Mad Dogs go to meet Monolith, who are aboard the MU vessel, the SS Soldek. Their company commander is one Pawel Brozek. They talk about the upcoming attack on The Twins, and settle a lot of logistical matters such as comm frequencies and how to prevent friendly fire during the upcoming attack. They then go home.

(Continued)

• The group reconvenes at the compound, along with Lukasz Piszczek and 3 of his fighters, who were invited as per a suggestion from Ferro.
  
• The Mad Dogs and LoSA fighters soon depart to the docks, where they meet the rest of the ground forces which include Monolith's 22 fighters and a dozen men from Świt (Dawn) Batalion and Stal Gdansk. The Mad Dogs will be riding aboard the Destiny Ascension for ride to the pirate base, and are introduced to the new captain, Aleksander Zawadzki. Also on board are two inflatable assault boats, which the Mad Dogs will use to get ashore a few kilometers west of the pirate camp.
  
• The boats get underway. It’s a long journey, but aboard the large ship the Mad Dogs arrive the next morning in relative comfort. Taking the zodiacs in, the Mad Dogs and other ground forces will need to hump around 5 klicks to reach the objective.
  
• With about a kilometer left to travel, the unit reaches a border guard station on the eastern edge of the ruins of Krynica Morska. Here they leave the Marians, and Janku and Aleksandar with the mortar. The rest of the ground forces move in to The Twins.
  1st Engagement at the Twins
  
• The Mad Dogs rush across the last hundred meters to a berm that runs along the edge of the bandit camp, and thus begins one of the largest engagements in the game so far, with the Mad Dogs taking the northern side of the camp and Monolith sweeping the southern side.
  
• The shooting starts quickly, with Fischer firing the Carl Gustav at the trawler. His first shot misses, but Anna is too close to the weapon and damages her hearing (open your mouth!). When Piszczek tries to drag her away to safety, she claws his face and bites his hand. Fischer lands a second, successful shot in the trawler above the water line, and soon puts a third round into the rusty submarine. Benucci, assaulting the shanty town/pirate base, takes a round in his shoulder.
  
• Pirates un-leash the trawler from the floating dock. The engine on the submarine starts up, but the large vessel has yet to move. Janku starts landing mortar rounds, but they’re largely ineffective.
  
• Walsh takes a grazing shot to his forearm.
  
• Ferro and Walsh enter one of the huts and find some sick men lying helplessly on some cots.
  
• Another Carl Gustav round slams into the trawler, causing it to leak smoke and start drifting away from the dock. At this same time, the FL starts closing on the battle from the sea, and get within visual range of the ground forces.
  
• The group fights on through the camp, having killed a good dozen or more pirates by now.
  
• JJM and Riedel almost convince a pirate to surrender before a pair of Monolith troopers gun him down.
  
• The rest of the Mad Dogs continue fighting their way through the village, and back the last of the pirates into a corner.
  
• Janku stops radioing, and Andropov goes to find out what’s happening.
  
• Brozek arrives with one of his squads, and lets JJM now that Monolith has killed 3 pirates. He wants to go to the beach to see the naval battle starting up. The submarine finally starts pulling away from the dock, and the two make their way. Brozek explains that he wants cooperation with JJM, and talks about the need for the Mad Dogs to not get in the way of the Merchant Union, so that Monolith and the Mad Dogs never have to end up fighting each other. JJM explains some of the history, and mentions the training of the Forest City, asking if the training should stop. Brozek says to leave the Forest City alone and focus on other places like Sobieszewo Island. JJM agrees and says that it will take time to disentangle the unit from the Forest City, but that he’ll try.
  
• On Ferro and Andropov’s radios, they hear static and a hiss before a woman’s distant voice comes to life, saying “hello?” multiple times. It sounds as though it may be Emma Cassidy back at the border guard station.
  
• As the battle on land dies down, the submarine is still trying to get out to sea, but is hemmed in by the FL fleet, who are pounding it with gunfire and explosive ordinance.
  
• The Mad Dogs manage to take 2 of the last pirates prisoner, and with some questioning, the dying one admits that the Russian navy men-turned pirates are from Conarky, before he passes. The living one is later allowed to swim out to the trawler to convince the crew to return and surrender.
  
• The submarine battle turns into a chase as the FL boats pursue the sub out into the ocean and out of view.
  
• Andropov and 2 LoSA fighters are heading through the woods toward Janku’s position (who can’t be reached by radio) when they come across an armed man in American BDUs and tell him to surrender before they shoot. Then, a loud siren wail can be heard by everyone. The man’s name is Tom Stark, and he claims to be from the 8th as well, and tells of a horde of men chasing a mile behind him.
  
• At this time, Kessler also heads out in a separate group (with Father Piszczek) to locate the Marians (including Cassidy), who were left with the mortar crew.
  
• Aleksandar finally radios in to say that he and Janku are hiding in the guard post after some armed men had arrived outside. They're hoping to stay quiet and hidden until the men pass.
  
• Andropov decides to take Stark and the two LoSA fighters to go check out this “horde” for himself and to see about getting Janku and Aleksandar out. Along the way back to the guard post, the men stop when they hear men talking and a dog barking, and realize that they won't be able to make it to the stranded mortar crew (memories of Hel...). They backtrack a ways and meet up with Kessler and Piszczek, and the third LoSA fighter. At this time, Andropov, being a Russian deserter, opts to return to the beach rather than potentially run headlong into more than a hundred Russians; Stark opts to travel with him. The LoSA fighters and Father Piszczek all stay with Kessler.
  2nd Engagement at the Twins
  
• Kessler sees the first man emerge through the woods - the vanguard of the unknown force - and attempts a stand down by stating that he is a member of the Gdansk militia. The leader of the unknown forces speak Polish, and respond by telling Kessler that he needs to leave immediately. He also mentions that Janku and his team can wait until the unknown force leaves and then go to the beach for a boat pickup. The man is wearing a brown jacket, and Kessler seems to recognize him, but cannot place where he knows him from. Kessler, Piszczek and the 3 LoSA fighters then start making their way back to the beach, when gunfire explodes behind them - the chase is on.
  
• Meanwhile Ferro has radioed the boats and is asking for immediate exfil, and the rest of the Mad Dogs adopt defensive positions in preparation for the horde of unknown enemies bearing down on them.
  
• One of the LoSA fighters (#1 - Piszczek's bodyguard named Roman) with Piszczek and Kessler can’t run anymore, being utterly spent. It's later learned that he may have suffered a medical emergency such as a heart attack. Kessler and Piszczek choose to stay behind with one of the other fighters (#2), while the third fighter (#3) is instructed to take Roman back to the camp. Kessler and the priest will attempt to hit the horde and fall back as they go, in order to buy time for Roman to make it to safety. It’s a brave to the point of suicidal decision. The team of three men (Kessler, Piszczek, and the LoSA fighter #2) perform three separate ambushes flawlessly as they continue to fire and pull back. On the fourth attempt however, Kessler gets hit by what ends up being a grenade blast. He wakes up to Piszczek yelling in his face to get up, and it appears as though the other LoSA fighter (#3) has returned to help, but he’s lying on the ground, having been shot in the chest. Kessler puts more rounds into the forest, and again sees the man in the brown coat with a pistol and hatchet. The trio then pick up the wounded LoSA fighter (#3) from the ground and make their way back toward the camp.
  
• Meanwhile Roman crashes out of the trees. Walsh, Babicevs, and Price go to help him. A hundred meters south of Roman, unknown fighters from the enemy force start emerging from the tree line and begin running for the camp’s perimeter. The Mad Dogs open fire on the runners, cutting down several of them, while the rest make for the shantytown. The gunfire resume in earnest, as a second, defensive phase of the battle begins.
  
• Kessler, Piszczek and the Polish fighter (#2) carry their wounded comrade (#3), and link up with Price and Babicevs at the edge of the tree line. They all start moving across the open field together. Fifteen meters short of the shantytown’s cover, Father Piszczek takes a hard round to the face and collapses. Kessler drops prone next to him, while the other LoSA member (#2) drags his friend (#3) the last few meters to relative safety. Kessler hears Piszczek moan, sees his eye red and bulging out of his skull, but the priest is somehow alive, and he pulls him over the berm and into cover.
  
• Nowak radios and states that she’s sending a craft to extract the wounded, but it only holds six.
  
• JJM gets three Stal Gdansk militia fighters to hold the southern flank until the boat arrives. The only militiaman wearing a flak vest joins - his name is Dawid.
  
• McCarthy requests that the rescue boat goes to pick up Janku, Aleksandar, and the Marians instead, and requests an exfil for everyone on the beach. Meanwhile, Monolith has been slowly pulling back through the Mad Dogs line in a fairly orderly retreat. Nowak radios back saying that the Destiny Ascension is coming to pick everyone up, but that it will take approximately 20 mins.
  
• The eastern flank is compromised, and JJM with his three fighters divert that direction. Stark comes under fire within the shanty, and makes a run for cover. Walsh learns one of the LoSA fighter’s (#2) name is Krzys, much like his own.
  
• O’Brien and Lines see what’s assumed to be a captured merc, naked and drawn up on one of the trees at the tree line. The unknown force has apparently strung him up naked in the sub-freezing temperatures.
  
• Fischer is called up by JJM and Monolith, and uses the Carl Gustav to level one of the southern-most shacks, killing any enemy infantry inside. At the same time, Tom Stark’s run for cover is cut brutally short, and he’s killed by incoming enemy fire.
  
• Brozek returns and confirms that the naked man isn’t one of his - perhaps it’s one of the pirates who had escaped the initial attack.
  
• Riedel has been busy checking on all the wounded. Piszczek is still alive, but he’ll lose his left eye, as the bullet has lodged behind it - he’ll need surgery as soon as possible. The other wounded LoSA fighter (#3) that Kessler and Piszczek brought back is on the verge of death.
  
• Janku radios in that his team has gotten aboard the 6-man rescue craft and are safe.
  
• The various units pull back to the beach with the casualties, and the Destiny Ascension finally reaches the dock to receive the shore party. The shantytown’s perimeter starts collapsing as squad after squad start peeling back to the waiting ship. The horde of unknown combatants, sensing their prey getting ready to leave, spills out of the forest in a charge.
  
• JJM has to decide what to do with the sick pirates found earlier, and in a decision that will continue to haunt him, ultimately decides to leave them to their fate.
  
• JJM, Andropov, and Brozek are the last to board the ship. Before they board however, and with the enemy now inside the shantytown, Brozek asks McCarthy to watch, as he detonates explosives that Monolith has planted near the center of the seaside village. A huge blast blows out the middle of the shantytown, taking an unknown number of enemies with it, and the final friendlies get on board the Destiny Ascension.
  
• The prisoner allowed to return to the trawler earlier, is seen likely dead on the deck of the enemy boat. The Destiny Ascension pulls away from the dock, and puts a few parting shots at the still floundering trawler, ensuring it a watery grave within the next few minutes.
  
• The Destiny Ascension makes for open waters. Janku and Aleksandar transfer aboard from the rescue boat, and all of the Mad Dogs are now sailing back to Gdansk.
  
• After a rough sea-born journey under very poor weather, the ship arrives back in Gdansk to a waiting ambulance from St Mary’s, which takes the most critically injured. Brozek and Cassidy state that they think the unknown force was the Warmia Awakening, based on what they knew of the area and some possible connections at the old maritime museum.
  
• The group finally reaches the compound around midnight. Kaminski tells them that Gdansk has adopted a new currency, the Florin, which devalues at 10% a month. He also mentions that he was able to find 12 adults and a child to live nearby. Kaminski is also getting 4 shipping containers for the compound for various purposes, including fuel storage to keep the diesel away from the wood gasifier, and another for the Mad Dogs to use as they see fit.
  
• The next morning after a good nights rest, the Mad Dogs are treated to a hot breakfast, and start meeting the new residents as they filter in - they’ll soon be housed at the old school nearby, and a great deal of discussion happens surrounding how to improve their new home.
  
• JJM soon hands out some light assignments - Ferro is to take a team shopping for dressings and anything else people want. He’ll go to St Mary’s with Kessler and ask about acquiring a second medic for the unit. Finally, Andropov is to continue working on the vehicle, and anyone who wants leave is welcome to take some.

Group 1

• Ferro heads to the marketplace along with Riedel, Price, and O’Brien. While there, the group catches a man claiming to be Major McCarthy who is begging for donations. They chase the man when he takes off running, and successfully apprehend the liar. They tell him to knock it off and go, and that if they hear about him impersonating McCarthy again, they’ll find him.
  
• Group 1 acquires a fair amount of dressings and enough material to make a number of their own.

Group 2

• Babicevs, Kessler, and JJM go to St Mary’s. While there they see Piszczek, who is recovering, but has lost his left eye. Cassidy tells them that she’ll need fuel to pay for the medical supplies, and the group leaves a notice that the Mad Dogs are looking for a medic.
  
• Finally, Kessler learns that there will be a march to and a rally held at solidarity market tomorrow to honor Piszczek, as word of his deeds at The Twins is making its way around Gdansk. The Mad Dogs talk to Tymoshenko about attending, and she lets them know the details of the rally.

Group 3

• Andropov, Walsh, and Fischer work on the damaged Humvee some more, getting it that much closer into working order.
  
• Benucci rests to recover from his wound, and ends up talking and doing some light trading with the newly arrived civilians.

(Continued)

• At this point, the unit reconvenes at the compound, and start discussing how to help provide security for the march and the rally tomorrow, after deciding that they will attend.
  
• In preparation, the unit then heads out and attempts to walk the route that they predict will be taken by the marchers the following day.
  
• Back at the compound, Kaminski mentions that more civilians will be arriving the next day, and with them will be a carpenter who may be able to help get the school up and running.

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