Trespass - Part 1

With nearly a full load of ammo and vengeance on my mind following the loss of Jester, the next goal is to locate and capture a communications trailer owned by the North Koreans.



The trailer was close to where Jester was laid to rest as noted in my last post. Capturing the communications trailer was pretty much effortless and we ended up splitting up again. Looks like I will be Lone Wolf for a while - which isn't a bad thing for me. In fact, it is something that has followed my military career these last several years.

I just received word that a hostage situation has emerged not too far from where I am currently located. Headquarters believes that the hostage may be one or more of the American scientists that we're here to rescue!

My objectives were updated on the Heads-Up Display and I began to walk in the direction of the marker.

Just as I rounded the corner, I ran into a group of Korean soldiers in a hummer. Taking some cover, I was able to eliminate the soldiers and keep the Hummer in tact this time - which I might need down the road. Lesson learned from earlier - try to salvage the enemy's heavy equipment.

I nearly got picked off by a sniper in the trees. So instead of staying on the main path, I decided to sneak through the trees until I located my sniper friend. I had hoped to seize his sniper rifle after elimination, but I could never locate the weapon. Not sure if it fell off the cliff or what happened, but I am still using my SCAR and the FY71 I seized shortly after my crash landing on the island.

Next, an objective was added that I needed to access the NK tactical network. Perhaps this would provide me with the additional information regarding the hostage situation. The network access point was on the top of the hill where I found the sniper - plus about three of his closest friends.

At the bottom of the hill, I located a road block complete with 4 -5 North Korean soldiers. After slowly taking them out of the picture, I was able to seize a rocket launcher, which I plan to use in my next round of battles.



After getting up the hill, I was able to get past the resistance and download data from the NK tactical network. As I expected, more information was available regarding the hostage situation. Turns out the hostage is located in an abandoned school house in the middle of the village. My heads up display was further updated.

The drawback from using the rocket launcher to get this information, is that a group of soldiers were heading my way up the hill - ready to talk with me about my intentions on the island. This time, I decided I would let technology help with the battle now.



I enabled the clock feature of my Nanosuit and was able to sit on the rocks while the soldiers looked around for me - no longer knowing my actual location. Once they were in range, I used a couple of grenades to knock them out.

At the top of the hill again, I dropped my SCAR and picked up a sniper rifle - complete with eight bullets. Man, I wish I would have located the other sniper rifle, because I might have ended up with 16 bullets now.

I was able to take out about four soldiers with the sniper rifle because their constant movement made for a tough shot. Next, I decided to use the rocket launcher. I noticed what appeared to be a gas station in the village. Surely, there is still enough gas in those pumps to make a big explosion.



So, I took aim for the pumps and launched a rocket toward outer edge of the village. Within an instant, the gas station burst into flames. A few seconds later, another explosion occurred as a second gas line must have been hit.

Next, I launched a rocket toward one of the large machine guns. The two rockets managed to eliminate a few more soldiers, but I still had a lot of work ahead of me.



My next goal will be to get into that village and hopefully rescue the one or more hostages located in the old school building. Before heading down there, I decided to retrieve my SCAR and leave the sniper rifle behind ... for now.

More later.

Nomad ... signing out.

Trespass - Part 2

Using the rocket launcher to clear a path in the village seemed like a cool idea at the time, but now the enemy knows that I am up here.

As I dropped the rocket launcher, the village can be seen in the image below.



I don't expect to run into any enemies from here to the bottom of the hill, but once I get to the village, I am certain it will be another story.

The school house appears to be heavily guarded. The image below shows one gunner stationed along the water and four machine guns are mounted on each corner on the top of the school building.



Getting to the school building is really going to be a challenge in and of itself. Mine fields line the land around the water and the only way into the village from here will be across the bridge from where I blew up the gas station. The same bridge that has no less than 8 guards on duty - who knows how many are in hiding too.

I back tracked and picked up the Hummer I preserved and took it up and down the hill where I accessed the NK tactical network. Remember, the outer road was blocked from thru traffic. The run back to the Hummer was not a quick one, as I expect it was a good couple of miles away. I used my Speed function on the Nanosuit to get there quicker than normal.

Nothing like coming to the battle with the guns blazing. My teammate Psycho would be proud as I loaded and fired the guns on the Hummer as I approached the bridge into the village. I was doing really well, until the Hummer was blown off the ground and I was sent sailing. When I realized what happened, I noticed a lone soldier throwing grenades at me - which wasn't really nice! After all, I am supposed to be the good guy, right?

I took out the lone soldier and realized my Hummer was now 100% destroyed. So I ran up to the road block and grabbed this huge truck. The truck had a big old gun mounted on the roof too - so I used it in the same fashion.

After I eliminated the first round of soldiers, I was able to make my way across the bridge. I loaded up on some FY71 ammo and ended up needing 90% of it, as wave after wave of North Korean troops came to greet me at the bridge.

I believe my count passed 100 at this point of the adventure and I finally was able to move into the village. I am doing okay with ammo at this point, but can't afford another experience like I met at the bridge. At least, my aim is picking up on their movements, which has helped get past each checkpoint.

I reached the school and met a couple of soldiers at the door. I moved quickly to each floor and then to the roof in order to take out any soldiers elevated from me. Once on top of the roof, I used the mounted machine guns to further take out soldiers coming from the other side of the village. With all the soldiers now gone, I had to find that hostage. So I began to inspect the school.

I found a nice weapons cache and was able to reload on all weapons and grenades. It felt good to be fully loaded again, especially in the middle of enemy territory.

I still could not locate the hostage. That is, until my buddy Psycho showed up and we found a door that was nailed shut. We burst the door open and found the hostage.



She was one of the American scientists ... she was still alive and she warned us about the strange things happening on the island. She was a bit frazzled, but I think I would be too - if I were in her sandles. She mentioned a statue that was woke up and caused a dead civilization to come to life. Whatever it was wanted us either dead or gone ... most likely the former.

Just as she began to explain more, word came that three North Korean tanks were heading our way. Psycho took the hostage and I was on my own to deal with the three tanks. Lone Wolf, again.

I was able to knock out two of the tanks from the roof of the school, with ease, I might add. The last tank required me to seek it out.



I rounded the corner and found the tank facing the other direction, as if it was expecting me to come from another route. Another two rocket blasts later and the third tank was history. Before I realized it, I was ambushed by more troops. How many North Koreans were in this village, any way?

After taking out the other troops, I found another building full of communications gear. On the wall, I saw a picture similar to what I noted in an earlier post.



This must be where that dead civilization was located that the American scientist mentioned. From what I could tell from the picture and from my map, this area is not too far from where I am located.

So, I am going to load up my weapons again and head toward the direction of what appears to be the same location on the map in my Heads-Up Display.

Wish me luck, because if there were this many troops protecting one hostage, I can't imagine how many troops are setup around whatever is at the center of this map!

Nomad ... signing out.