CR Cragsand S2E26: New employ

===Chapter 26: New employ===
====Uneasy rest====
Sten waking up, finding that everyone is still alive, not having suffocated in their sleep. The ashes from the volcano have become ever more thicker shadowing Scrap Town in an even darker haze. Wishing McCuldger a good morning, Sten follows him to secure the gate. Standing guard at the gate Reeza tells Wit that they're heading back to the volcano to try and reason with the elemental inside it, if that fails there aren't really many options. 
Shilohs armor repairs are incomplete but Sten hands over them as well as they are to him.
Horizon broadcasts calling for a town meeting outside of the restaurant. There Hadwyn and McCuldger updates everyone of what is known about the events that took place in Savior City, what is known is that there was only a small force that hit, the rest of the aliens are still on their way. Reiterating the password everyone is told to stick in pairs for safety Sten goes to the gate with Mercury.
A group off pillbugs drive up to the gate and are let through but disagreement arise on how to actually check them for "body snatching". After some arguing they're deemed as probably safe, Sten figures that if they were "body snatched" they should have attempted something by now. They have at least one scrap shotgun which McCuldger purchases.
A group heads out in a truck with Ryzy, Reeza, Sheila, Wit, Ima and Ront.
Guarding the gates, Sten spots Anna hovering in the air. Buddying up to avoid getting body snatched they have a chat while on guard. Her flying legs are impressive but they are not powerful enough to fly over the gate. He tells her the key to defeat the fire elementals is to knock out their central cores, the thing that looks like a stone in their center. 
War-Togg having come across some funds asks if Sten can work with Prowler to make a cannon arm to replaces his broken prosthesis. Its gonna take a while. The truck returns, having made a successful short run. Remembering the password correctly they are allowed inside.
====Efficient faster better stronger====
McCuldger, Ima and Sten being the craftsmen in the group get help from Wit, Sheila and Charles to repair the gate from the damage it got yesterday. It is slow going but finding so many able hands hands working together they speed it up.
The gate relatively secure enough to leave his post, Toolbox tells Sten that there is a new synth in town requesting to speak with him. Over at Prowlers shop she was not what he expected. The newcomer is Fee-Bee, an ex-Astral Company with a knack for ore processing. Knowing what she's talking about, her skill is precisely what the town needs after so much was lost in the fire. Turning the remaining slag back into useful metals is tough work. Giving her a tour around town she seems very enthusiastic about starting working right away so Sten offers her a position with free reign over running the forge. Returning later she has already completed 9 crates with 90% recycling efficiently. Commending her for doing a much better job than Torok ever did she insisted on not being compared, that kind of behavior is akin of her "administrator". Asking about her administrator she firmly responds that "he is an asshole" who had her doing menial office tasks being and on a leash from his other superiors in Astral. Finding herself burdened by her astral company overlords Sten tells her to notify if they ever come around giving commands that she may be hesitant to follow through. Already producing material for the gate repairs Sten lends her the last row pistol he has in stock for to defend herself. 
Working on the gate they see some unknown shooting in the distance and eventually Ront with Juno returns safely with a good batch of fruits from the oasis. The shooters eventually reveal themselves to be a gang of raiders riding up to town shooting wildly in the air. To Sten it's clear that they're baiting them to come out to greet them but clearly hadn't anticipated the gate to be repaired already. In the firing Hendersson takes a glancing bullet to the head. He's fine but everyone get quite a scare. Growling at everyone to open fire right away if they come back Henderson shambles off.
====Guarding the rear end====
The radio being down, probably because of interference from ash from the volcano, Sten positions himself at the racetrack back-way with War-Togg for a moment. Seeing as nobody else is doing it and somebody's gotta do it. War-Togg eventually grow impatient and ran off. 
Jeremy hands over a crate with 3 broken Mars corporate pistols as well as a corporate armor he is refurbishing that Sten may find useful and continue working on, extremely generous. Mr. Prowler and Anna leave off scrap from The Row for Fee-Bee to process. Reporting on her progress Sten asks her if she wants pay, and she reacts as if that was the strangest thing. Telling her that he insists on her not working for free, as that wouldn't be fair he suggests paying by the end of the day or a payment plan towards purchasing the pistol she borrowed.
A group of frat guys from The Row start a ruckys. Causing trouble with the bar being closed they don't seem to be that big of a bother after Anna opened it. Instead Sten reflects over how wondrous it is for people to still be happy in these dark times, enough so to even find time to come down to Scrap Town as tourists!
Willie is notified about events and tells of Dagu blowing himself up in The Row, trying to pick apart one of those alien guns, so getting scrap from him wont be a thing for a while. Introducing Willie to their new co-worker her usefulness and and shares a rare mushroom brew from The Row, one of Conk's brewery according to the label. Packing a punch Sten resumes his guard.
Reeza asks for an order for a really sturdy melee weapon and is suggested to order one from Torok once hes back. In the meanwhile she is given a metal bat free of charge and wished the best of luck for her and the other spirit walkers trip to the volcano scheduled tomorrow. Ront shares her plans of fortifying the town and gratefulness towards Korgak the Orc, who was the source of the Mars pistols. Wondering what became of him he is unaccounted for.
Before clocking in for the night Sten gets to introduce both Willie and Torok to their new co-worker Fee-Bee. Unbeknownst to Sten, there is a scrap shotgun missing in the shop, one sneaky Garth Gun snuck in when nobody was watching the door.Twitch VOD: Callous Row RP S2 E26 New employ YouTube
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