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With the Brute Squad is back on the street, they decided their best course of action would be to attack the new gang that had been throwing its weight around, Decay. A blitz on the mutant territory seemed in order.

Now Decay’s leader, the Carcosan, is accompanied by a pack of zombies that he seems to control. This makes it hard to get close on something like this as zombies seem to be able to scent humans and their delicious brains quite easily. Nevertheless the Brutes set up to attack the water still the mutants had placed. They were in excellent position and you could tell that it would be an easy in, blast and leave. Cornelus pictured the surgical precision in his mind and it was very satisfying. Quick, too. But reality had other plans.

Brutes moved in on zombies right away to get them out of the picture, clearing the path for the assault proper. Two batches of fire missed, leaving a pair of zombies uncomfortably close to their gangers. This wouldn’t be a problem since Cornelus had a clear shot to the still and the Brutes would be gone before the zombies even had a chance to react. Bullets were unleashed and sparks flew, but the still was much tougher than it had been in Cornelus’ mental dry run.

At this point the Scavvies saw what was going on and tried to defend one of their only functional bits of technology. Two zombies lurched into combat while one got into Cornelus’ path, blocking his line of fire.

The Brutes easily dispatched the undead shamblers in combat but the distraction zombie proved more elusive. A web pistol missed its shot and two more gangsters had to unload on it before bringing it down, opening the lane for Cornelus. Who again did not destroy the still.

This was not how it was supposed to happen. Scavvy reinforcements arrived. Noah and MiGo (the Scaly mutant) marched on and clobbered the two Van Saars who’d cleared the distraction zombie out of the way. Pickman, the three armed man with the archaeotech pistol shot Cornelus down from the tower he’d been shooting from. The Brute heavy had recently managed to find a grav chute so was unhurt by the fall, though he was completely exposed to more fire.

At this point the Brute Squad realized they had to change tactics. Willem and Fried began firing at the still with their bolt pistols, hoping to damage it so they could escape. Another ganger ran to help his friends who were being attacked by the Scaly, but he was too late.

Noah attacked the webpistol ganger, easily taking him out, while the Carcosan himself shot down the juve that was assisting Willem in the still assault. More reinforcements arrived in the form of Derleth and Cassilda and they sprinted after Willem to try and intercept him before the damage would be done. Cornelus lay on the ground getting shot from multiple directions but hanging in there with an inordinate amount of light wounds.

Willem tried again to shoot down the still. He could hear the zombie crawling under a massive pipe for him as well as see the shots being fired from the roof of the building. He’d already been hit twice and didn’t know how long he could hold out. This had all gone so horribly wrong.

Cornelus was finally taken out of action by Pickman, with a lot of support. Derleth and Cassilda charged Willem and with a swing of his new power sword dropped the Van Saar leader to the ground. Decay packed up and moved on, taking only a ganger named Frode. When Frode was quickly ransomed back, he carried a message: “Brom’s Widows’ future is nothing but destruction and Decay.

-KRJ