The opening fusillade is followed by a thunderous discharge of guns, like the whole First UCAS Marine had just opened up. That’s followed by a bang and a boom that could be from any one of a number of offensive or defensive explosives, possibly grenades. More bangs, thumps, wumps, and clatterings follow. Brian risks lifting a hand to flip down the sun visor on the passenger side, just to show his orange florescent Department of Water & Wastewater Management Official-Use-Only permit, allowing him to park anywhere in direct violation of law. That’s to show he’s a noncombatant. Just a guy with the D.W.W.M. The "Water" Department. He doesn’t bother anybody, nobody bothers him. Most of the time, anyway.