Delays, delays and delays. It's basically a giant backlog at the California border here because the State troopers are insisting on doing full inspections of everyone entering and leaving the state and making a record of where they intend to go and where they're coming from.

Apparently a group of folks who really wanted to form up the state of Jefferson have been doing bombings in the Sacramento area.... oddly enough the seat of government isn't there anymore so I don't see what they're accomplishing to be honest.

I do know one thing, the troopers will likely  shit a brick when they inspect our gear and it's going to take some explanation and radio calls to sort out how to get through considering  what we have.

That's about it really.

Axel wandered out here today a few hours after everyone other than Rogan who has decided to remain here in Vegas. Anyway, Axel's been experimenting with runes some more and has found out some significant things.

Generally speaking a person needs to physically in contact with it. For example those tires that Axel painstakingly inscribed with runes? Wasted time and effort. The goggles that I have however that basically clear dust, fox, ash etc from obscuring my vision? No problem.

We tested this by by stabbing a piece of wood with the runs inscribed in it, and then having someone hold the plank and attempt to stab it again. Failed to stab into it while someone was holding it while everyone could easily stab through the plank while it was sitting on a camp table. We're not exactly sure why or how this works.

We're still not going to test the bullet resistance to the clothes he gave us for Christmas though.


Anyway we've headed north, rather than trying to pick our way through the pass, or across death valley we're going to see if we can cut across over west of Reno to Sacramento.

Sitting in one of the campgrounds watching the sky and everything else, practicing some of the stuff I learned what feels like a lifetime ago.


I had another dream with coyote lecturing me. Well I think I was being lectured. The dream was more of the same sitting beside a campfire in a canyon with the spire of basalt visible in the distance and Coyote sitting across from me talking at me in some indecipherable language... At least the last bit I was told I comprehended "you will understand in due time".

I did see something a few campgrounds down the lakeshore there was a flash of green light, when I made my way over I'd found freshly grown grass and some rejuvenated plants, and nothing else. It was like a druid had walked by decided that this spot needed grass and then left.

Doyel and Tahoe wandered out here last night. It seems that the city finally got on their nerves enough that they're ready to head out. Eivan, Leishey and Joeseph (prefers to be called Vae, a nickname he picked up working at Jimmyjohns before joining the army, he's the designated marksman from the other team) will probably make their way here tomorrow, and then we can decide to wait for everyone else or continue west.

Wow it's really been eight days since I last posted. Place is really that chaotic and distracting.

Rogan has decided to stay out here and work security for caravans between here and the east, the rest of us will be headed west into California.


honestly this much civilization is annoying me, there's too much stuff going on. Yeah I know hypocritical of me.

Additionally I've been asked by the Trump folks to not post anymore about the battery I've been messing around with since they want to try and corner the market on that.

...I'll mention if I accidentally cause it to blow up though since some batteries like to do that.


Part of why we're still here is that there was a freak snowstorm buried the main pass into California... though we could take the tunnel into death valley and out that way... Or go north to Reno and see what's going on there. Many options with very little motivation to do so when all the world's vices are available for the right price. I think I'm just going to go camp out at lake mead and wait for everyone else to come to their senses.

We've made it to Las Vegas a couple days ago.  It was an interesting reception, Tump himself was there in greet the pollworkers from SLC and got them set up in the Tower convention center to let the population cycle through and give their opinion.  It seem's he's the defacto power at play here (well he does have a pricate army of security troops with standardized gear that looks surprisingly new) with a few other high ranking corporate folks from before the war making up a governing body. Interestingly enough most of the strip casinos have been converted into low rent housing and a lot of the subdivisions have been tore up to be used for agricultural purposes.

A few of the casino's however are still setup for travellers and gambling, we're at the Golden Nugget off of fremont street.

I finally got some sleep last night.

Apparently there's a group of Californian's here as well courting Vegas to be trade partners. Power from the grid here for ag products at a lower rate than Reno.

Rogan found his wife and kid and is staying with them for now and looking for work.

Wade and Doyel managed to get kicked out of Ceasar's Palace for playing slapjack in the lobby, and possibly stealing a deck of cards to do so.

And that's about everything interesting going on.

This is rather boring. Haven't posted anything because nothing really interesting has happened. We're in Cedar City, just north of Zion national park. Once the poll-workers are done collecting opinions here we're going to be going all the way to Las Vegas, and that's where our contract ends unless we want to re-up and escort them back to SLC.

Not much to report. aside from that I've become nocturnal but that's more to me taking night watch than anything else.

Can't sleep. Testing the tablet's radio and connection to the net.

Additionally I've had it running for the last five days on one of my experimental batteries. Still holding charge and the multimeter show's no drop in voltage, I even rigged up a dummyload testing using a toaster fillament.. though to be honest I am not an electrical engineer, nor do I fully comprehend it... for all I know when it runs dry the batter might go critical and explode in a subatomic fireworks display.


I really hope I'm joking, but well I got to see a cave arcing electricity between veins of reddish half melted copper ore... sooooo....I think a lot of traditional laws of physics may have gone out the window at some point during the last two years.

Anyway we're finally leaving Salt Lake City... as nice as the town (and weird as some of the people are) it's nice to get moving again. We've sat around for too long.. I probably could have walked all the way home. Speaking of, on a whim I tried calling home on the tablet. Lines disconnected. Hopefully that's just because my dad didn't see the point of keeping it connected what with the apocolypse and surviving the fallout being a more pressing concern.