With nearly four dozen refugees looking to come back with you to Castle Refuge (the others were Barbarians staying in the Swamp), even the Mark V is a bit crowded for the return trip. Eventually, you realize the best option is to have some volunteers ride on the trailer that was provided for Sasha (you're provided with ample provisions for the group by the Three Tribes, as they are now refer, and then have Sasha walk alongside the Mark V. Of course, this makes for slow going, but folks are fairly comfortable.
The group of rescuees seems about 50/50 on the subject of the Brodkil traveling with the group. Some of them, having been personally freed by Chok'lat, are fully on-board with treating him like they do the rest of the Legionnaires. Others are clearly more uneasy, staying away from them. A few are visibly hostile, though they lack the means to do anything other than glare balefully at the sub-demon.
A handful of the rescuees stand out. Frankie Charroot, a lithe, androgynous human with short-cropped, spiky black hair, is apparently an experienced settler. He (she?) is quite well-versed in what it takes to keep a group of people moving through the wilderness. The more observant of you might note that she (he?) tends to assign difficult tasks to others in the group, but those jobs do all get done, at least.
Mirek Tandoor, a Trimadore, is an avid botanist, zoologist, xenobiologist, anthropologist and more, apparently. This makes him useful as a source of information while traversing the Swamp, but also makes him a bit of a pain, in that he keeps trying to wander off after some rare flower or exotic butterfly, and has to be reminded that Dinosaur Swamp is, in fact, filled with dinosaurs, and other, bigger threats that would like nothing more than to eat his flesh.
Finally, Alice Greene, a young human woman with long hair and lots of skin ink, stands out simply as the only one in the rescued group to be bearing obvious cyberware (an eye and a hand, at least that's immediately obvious). She mentions having grown up in the 'Burbs, and it eventually becomes clear, through inference, that she left the Chi-Town area due to excessive contact with the security forces. Her use of street-slang makes it tough for anyone other than Echo to fully understand her, but she clearly finds the idea of moving to a new town appealing.
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Amazingly, you get through the Swamp without major incident, and the long road back to Castle Refuge rolls by slowly but surely.As you get into radio range of Castle Refuge (about a hundred miles away), you get pinged, and Corporal Montcrief's voice comes on over Sasha's radio. "Welcome back, Jokers. So what was the situation that called you out there?"
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