As strange as it may seem, you're kind of glad for the company believe it or not, so you'd rather just let this play out and see where it leads. You can always kill them all later.

Meanwhile Jim is pointing his gun at Clyde's head in an overly dramatic manner.

"Alright Clyde you knew the risks. No begging or pleadin' now."
"Come on Jim! Don't do this! I can still ride…I'll…"
"Goddamn it, get a fuckin' hold of yourself you fuckin' sissy! Fuck, I was givin' you a chance to go out like a man! Guess you fucked that up. Die bitch!"

Jim blows Clyde's brains out, and turns his attention back to you.

"Can't say I didn't give him a fair chance."
"Yes…so what do you have planned now?" you ask, forming an idea in your mind.
"Planned? Ha ha! We don't do a whole lotta planning, we just kinda roam from place to place causing meaningless violence! I think there's a town around in this area somewhere…"
"You probably should look for a more reliable fuel source, if you're going to continue with this line of work."
"Yeah, well we'll be good after Ramon here sucks out the remaining gas from this vehicle graveyard you got here. I trust YOU won't have a problem with that right?"
"I'm sucking what?!" Ramon says with a surprised look on his face.
"No, I don't have a problem with it, but what happens when that runs out? Are you going hope you find some more in your travels?"
"It's worked so far…what the hell are you getting at?"
"Instead of spreading meaningless violence on a small scale, how about spreading meaningful violence on a grand scale for a change?"

You explain how you've been reading in the survivalist books about how to create a still, except not being a drinker; you never felt the need to create one. However that same cheap hooch could probably work as a substitute for real gas, if certain modifications were made to the vehicles. Basically the vehicles would be running on "garbage" given that's what the booze is made out of. It would smell horrible, but you get the impression that Jim and his boys wouldn't know the difference anyway. You begin to explain even more technical aspects as well, but you soon realize it's too much to process for them, so you stop before their heads explode.


They do realize you seem to be a lot smarter than the rest of them though, so they agree to your "grand" plan. You tell one of them that they should drive to the nearest town by themselves, try to get a feel of the place, to scout the entire place out, find out what the defenses are and all of that.

Ultimately Dan is chosen for this task since he can actually come off as being a nice guy. You give him some canned food and some bottled water you have. You explain that he should use the stuff as something to barter with, so it looks like he's just a wandering traveler.

While Dan goes and does some scouting, you get to work on the still and Jim and Ramon, work on their altering their bikes (At least they know how to do that) a few days pass and you all generally start getting along. Unsurprisingly Jim and the rest of his gang were criminals even before the bombs dropped. You lie and say you were in the life of crime as well, nothing too specific though and just common and vague enough for Jim to believe. Of course all the people you killed after the bombs, you don't need to lie about at all.

When Dan comes back, he does so with some interesting news. He mentions the closest town is Cinderville. He mentions it's not a completely harmonious town and it does have its rougher elements, but the local law enforcement is still in control of the place and relies on a vigilante mindset of some of the townspeople. Apparently they're trying to keep the resemblance of the "old world". He mentions there's another gang that hangs around the outskirts of it which attempts raids every now and then, but they're poorly lead. Finally he states they have a small farming area with animals like cows and pigs. Not all for eating, but to mainly produce shit for biofuel to run the law enforcement vehicles.

Originally you were just thinking you could strike hard and fast and get out, every few months to break up the monotony, with the still to keep your vehicle running so you could engage in this behavior. But with this new information, of other gangs in the area and bad elements in the actual little oasis of civilization, you wonder if you couldn't actually take over the town, at the very least you could destabilize it. The biofuel center wouldn't be a bad acquisition either. You're confident you can pull this off, you just need more help.

You approach the raiders

Entering the town again, wouldn't be a good idea. From the sound of it, the town is suspicious of outsiders, if Dan showed up again with the lot of you; they'd know something was up. Not to mention he was the most "presentable" of all of you. You figure the raiders might be a better choice. If they're poorly led, then maybe just taking care of the leader will make the rest fall in line.

"Alright Dan, you know where the raiders hang out?" you ask.
"Um, not exactly, but its somewhere in the hills near Cinderville."
"Okay let's go there. We can probably kick the leader's ass and…"

Jim all of sudden stops you in mid-sentence.


"Hold up, brain boy. I know you got all these great ideas, and you seem to be a pretty ruthless sonofabitch, and I respect that, but let's keep in mind that I'M running this fuckin' gang. Don't presume you can just order us all around about what we're going to do." He tells you in an authoritative voice and implies bodily harm if you disagree with him.

(Sigh) You had a feeling this was going to happen.

You kill Jim

"Y'know what, you're right Jim, you shouldn't have to take orders from me."
"Good, I'm glad we understand each other."
"That's why you won't be around to do it any longer!"

Before anyone can do anything, you draw your pistol and shoot Jim three times in the chest before he falls dead. Ramon and Dan look like they want to react, but don't.

"Good. Glad to see you guys are smarter than you appear. Now Dan, lead us to the raiders."

After taking some supplies you think you'll need and re-trapping your home, you all set off to leave. (You take your van)

In about a day, you arrive around in the area that Dan was talking about, in fact you don't need to look for the raiders; they instantly approach you when they see you coming. It would appear some of them have a few vehicles as well, you just hope you can pull this off.

You get out of your van and your two new lackeys stop their bikes, they don't like the looks of this, especially since you're greatly outnumbered.

"Hey, uh…maybe this isn't such a good idea…" Ramon says.
"Yeah, when I was in Cinderville, I heard these guys could get pretty crazy." Dan adds.
"Pfft, these types always fall in line when you display sufficient strength. All I gotta do is challenge the leader to hand to hand combat or some shit. Hell, you fuckers were in prison, you know how this works." You arrogantly reply.
"Yeah, but even in prison there were rules! I mean there ain't no rules at all out here! Who says they're going to accept your challenge?"

With Dan's last statement, you figure you'll soon find out when the raiders arrive and stop their own vehicles. The leader steps out of his beat up car, and steps forward. He looks mean enough, like he's been living in the wasteland from day one.

"So, you got any last words, before we fuck you and eat you?" he asks.
"Yeah, I heard you're the lame cocksucker, who can't even handle a few pigs and some wannabe vigilantes in Cinderville." You reply.

The raider leader's expression gets even meaner looking if such a thing is possible.

"Oh? And I suppose YOU can do a better job?" he sneers.
"Sure the fuck can, all I need is more people. In fact I'd say yours would do just fine, so are you going to step down from your inept leadership, or am I gonna have to beat the shit outta you and take it?"

After looking at you up and down, he speaks again.

"Shit, I doubt if you could even last five minutes. Fuck this; I'm not wasting my time. Kill these assholes."

As soon as he says those words, you immediately turn to run, ducking and trying to get into your van, but in the shooting, the raiders hit the van's front tires by the time you make it inside. Dan and Ramon speed off, with some of the raiders in pursuit, while you attempt to drive in reverse and turn around on flat tires.

The raider leader rams your van with his own car, which has been fitted with extra plating. Eventually in the mayhem of the ramming, shooting and swerving around on flat tires on an incline, you roll the van over and over down the hill. It's amazing that you don't get killed and the van didn't blow up.

You however aren't in such great shape. You barely manage to crawl from your wrecked van, and when you do, the raider leader arrives in his own car just in time to finish you off.

He finds you crawling on the ground, when he opens up his door to point a sawed off shotgun in your face and pull the trigger.