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Mission Failed
Search and Recovery Team Lost
Day 15: Another cabin. Looks like it was built when things still grew around here. Before everything went completely to shit. Sometime between the War and the Burnout. No challenge. Heat detectors said nobody inside. Zara and I agreed to check externals before going in.
Somebody had some decent gear. There’s an Artesian well that might still work with a few repairs. It obviously produced enough water to irrigate a couple fields, though we couldn’t tell what they were growing in them. No animal pens, but a lot of people went vegan back then. There’s a windmill for power, as well as two old-style solar panels on the roof. I’ve marked the map for the Salvage Teams.
NOTE: We found a lean-to with about twenty jerry-cans. We opened one, it had gasoline in it. They were all full. We put a seal and a Toxic Substance Warning on the lean-to. NACSRA will need to send a Disposal Team.
The cabin itself was all locked up. Which is unusual, because most of the empty ones we find are left open. I picked the lock, but still couldn’t open the door. We didn’t want to blow it in case we damaged anything salvageable, so we checked the windows. They were boarded up from the inside, which neither Zara nor I had ever seen before. We decided to sleep in the tent and break in tomorrow.
