After a relatively short and pleasant road trip, you travel through Cobb's Corners. Familiar to Mathis, though not so fondly remembered. For the rest of you, this place looks like something out of a Rockwell painting, a place of great scenic beauty. Small shops line the unpaved Main Street leading to a waterfront district consisting of a couple of warehouse and a few short piers. Spread out behind the stores are a collection of homes, a library, town hall, sheriff's office and the office of Cobb's Corner's Gazette. In the background, the Green Mountains stand majestically.
The procession attracts plenty of curious looks from the locals and some disapproving ones too, the latter most notably seen on the face of Sheriff Spencer.
As you arrive at the Maclearan farmhouse, an unexpected sight greets you, three large trucks with "Federated Oil and Chemical" painted on their sides and a group of about twenty men busily working on various tasks.