Summer Gardens Mobile Village

"Uh...thanks masked guy." Sasha replies involuntarily reaching up to stroke a hand through her hair. She takes another pull off her cigarette and spews smoke out the side of her mouth, as she scrunches up her nose. "Extra? Did not have space for extra. All I got left is my Desert Eagle.." She pats the .50 caliber pistol in a holster at her hip. "..And my M-16, with one clip left."

Cletus' face fell. That new lady had no extra guns so the kid was goin get a big fat nothing! Zero! Zilch! Just like last Christmas when ma talked about how "this" Christmas was goin be special and then Jimmy John dumped her the week before stealing all her saved tips. That really blew!

You're gathered on the two neighboring trailer rooves. Small sharks rummage through the area, tearing at the corpses of the sharks and crawdads a-floating in the soupy mess. The trailers shift in the turbid water -- you don't know how long they'll stay in their spot, or if they'll collapse, or roll.

You got to get out of here, you got to make a break for safety. The water isn't lowering fast enough, and you don't know how long you have.

Collectively, you spot Jim Bellman's pride and joy, a 15' bass fishing boat. It's floating, but still tied to his trailer. It's may fifty yards away, and you can kinda see it bobbing behind a pair of big aspen where his trailer used to be. It's a long way away, and all you got is Cletus' now uninflated dingy, and Vern's air mattress.

"Sheeeit. I only got a few bullets left and this here air bed and fifty yards between us and Jimmy's boat, and them sharks pissin' in the water. Anybody got any bright ideas cuz I'm clean out of 'em?"

Vern is pacing unsuccessfully since his trailer is really bobbing now. He has finally come to the realization that they could actually die soon. He sees Crawdad's remains and it hits him hard that this ain't no joke.

Cletus held up the deflated raft and with a gumption that can only come from a kid who has no idea what they're asking, Hey, El Diablo! I need you to blow this raft back up. I let the air out! Did ya hear it? It sounded like a fart...the juicy kind!

"I heard it little dude!" Fuego shouts back, cupping his hands in front of his mouth so he can be heard better. "I thought you were just being rude!"

Turning to the boy's sister, he quietly adds, "Good one, right? I bet your brother gots a Hersey Highway like a mile long in his drawers, yo!"

At Vern he yells louder again. "Yeah, Jimmy's boat! Maybe some of us create a ruckus in the water, getting all the sharks' attention. Then one of us swims for it! It's a good idea, right? I mean I don't mean to gloat..."

Sasha hangs the cigarette out of the corner of her mouth and swings the M-16 around on its sling and into her awaiting hands. "I'll cover whoever is going for the boat. Sharks will die, because I never miss."

"Anyone here own a ladder? We can try to make a walkway between all the trailers if we can find a ladder that's long enough. One of those expandable ones that can reach to the second or third floor of a building. If not, then yeah, we'll have to make some distractions and someone will have to make a break for it."

The ladder is a good call. I'll even give you a shot at that. Sasha has a scavenging attempt, and she can delegate someone. A Raise on a Notice check and if the searcher isn't eaten by sharks, you can find an extendable ladder.

If Stanley wants to make the dive, go for it. There is a ladder around somewhere, the locals believe. A success on a Notice check and you find something. Get a Raise and you find the ladder.

"I ain't swimming for nothing in that water, that's for sure. A ladder though? I can get behind that idea." As much as Vern hated to admit it, he thought it was a decent idea. "But where in the God damned are we supposed to find one of those now in this mess? I seen a ladder in the park, but I'll be damned if I remember where."

With that, Vern starts to methodically train his eyes on each trailer that he can see, trying to jog his memory. He also thinks about his drive into the park. He remembers passing a ladder somewhere. but where in tarnation was it at?