Updating the story of my original campaign as a player
Fourteen
We headed out to Psykowice, going light and only taking the player characters, the Major and two locals who could translate for us, traveling in a LAV-25 and a HMMWV, both alcohol fueled (we didn’t want anyone to know we had real fuel). We arrived there and made contact with the troops there who were loyal to the Baron. After finding who we were carrying, they arranged for safe passage south to Raciborz and fuel for the trip, and provided us an escort of five horsemen.
It took almost two days to get there as we had to detour around the irradiated ruins of Zabrze and Gilwice.
When we arrived there finally we were disarmed and told to wait for the Markgraf with his brother. His brother kept going on and on about how he had failed and the Madonna was lost forever. We were finally taken to the Markgraf who was totally happy to see his brother again but not too happy when we told our story of the Madonna being destroyed by the explosives his brother had set. Still he insisted that we stay and have dinner with him. He told us how he was building a new Poland and that he needed men like us to be part of it. We told him we were honored but that we were going to try to get home instead. We did say if that failed that we would definitely consider joining him in his effort.
When we told him of our ambush of the 129th Motorized Rifle Division he was especially pleased. He had been fighting them for weeks and after our battles with them suddenly they left heading west. He had been able to expand his area of control to Opole because of our victory.
We left the next day to go back to our base, with passes that allowed free travel thru his area, fully refueled vehicles and a reward for bringing his brother back to him – ammunition, grenades, and even some medical supplies.
Eventually we got back to Psykowice and stopped there before we went on. While there we discovered that some 40 5th Division survivors were there, being kept under guard. We tried to go see them, but the guards wouldn’t let us, even with the passes.
We headed back to our camp the next day. It was time to get ready to move on as our people were eating too much of the town’s food to be able to stay there much longer. We were going to Krakow to see if we could make contact with the DIA agents that the Green Berets said would be there. But first we had to make a stop along the way. There was no way I was going to leave our men stranded in Silesia.
By the time we got back we found that the Green Berets had not waited for us and had left for Krakow earlier that day, with the exception of three men they left behind. They said they couldnt wait any longer for us. They left us a small box of obviously hand copied notes, along with a schematic, and said that if something happened to them, that those had to be delivered to the DIA in Krakow.
We took our leave of the Cavalry unit, telling the Captain that if we made it out we would make sure people knew where they were. Some of the men who we had gathered since July 18th stayed with her as well, preferring the safety of being the town's militia, to the risk of going home. During our stay there we had done as much preventative maintenance, taking time to get our vehicles as ready for the trip as possible.
We headed east at first and then turned south at Tarnowskie Gory, arriving at the ruins of Bytom. We then headed west and made camp east of Pyskowice and prepared to do something about those forty men before we headed for Krakow to see if we could catch up with the Berets and find out what was so important about what they were carrying.
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