We are missing a member of our team.
Our sortie missions had been developed so well. We use the Prius and Volbeat to
lure out the majority of the zoms from town. Sorties teams use their five man
formations when they are searching but we still use vehicles to maneuver around
town. Pick-ups offer a chance for those sortie teams to both bail out and pile
in quickly. And our most recent addition was to have scouts out patrolling on
something fast and maneuverable – like 3-wheelers, four-wheelers, or
motorcycles.
Our two best scouts are Kanen and
Dillon. Both of those guys had those dirt bikes long before the apocalypse.
With his family house here in town, Kanen’s bike and all of his “body armor”
was one of the first things he grabbed from the barn once we made it out to
loot.
Well, the crew came back from their
sortie run early this morning and Dillon is not with them. We established rules
very quickly with sortie teams. There would be no rescue team. In one of my
favorite sci-fi movies there is a line: “There’s gonna be one speed. Mine. If
you can’t keep up, don’t step up. You’ll just die.”
Especially after the loss of Audrey,
everyone was clear on the rules. If you break ranks, we are not coming for you.
If you fall behind, we are not coming for you. Now, I don’t want to consider us
cold or heartless. It was not like teams were purposefully moving at high rates
of speed to weed out all non-hackers. But the rules were clear. If you go crazy
and leave the protection of the group, do not expect us to put others in harm’s
way to come rescue your dumb ass.
Dillon was a scout. His motorcycle
made him fast and maneuverable. We have no way of contacting him outside of the
small CB radios but the range on these things is pretty crappy. They were
mainly intended just for use around the store. And Dillon and Kanen were really
good at scouting the perimeter while the sweeper teams went to work looting
what was needed for that day’s mission.
No one knows how or when Dillon got
separated. It is possible that he could have come across a nest of zoms and he
high tailed it down the highway. It is possible he zipped into Adair and is
making his way back to us by heading on a circular route. I don’t see him as
the type to just say, “I’m out of here” without saying goodbye to everyone or
taking supplies.
It is possible that he could be holed
up in a house somewhere but while Langley is a small town, performing a house
to house search is just not within our manpower. Kanen is pretty upset. He
doesn’t want to write Dillon off. We will give him some time to make it back to
us but I am not hopeful.
I
am considering voicing that we stop the sortie sweeper missions for a while. I
think we have quite a bit of stuff to survive. Everything else would just be
luxuries. Losing Audrey and potentially Dillon is way too much for luxuries.
(POTENITALLY) LOST MEMBER: Dillon
Hernden – Ketchum, OK
