The Newest Kind of Warfare

"This is all terribly embarrasing mind you Mr. Lorentino if I knew who you were I would never have allowed my men to capture you at the port." The man in charge of the camp I was at looked more businessman than soldier. He was wearing an impeccably neat suit for the kind of dirty camp he was living in. He had ordered me be set free of my bindings and the gag mercifull removed.

"Well these are troubled times." I was confused to say the least, but not confused enough to let them free Nidget, I told them its best to leave him where he is for the time being, because I'm a dick. He had a very nice breakfast brought in with fresh coffee, it ws very delicious, though it concerned me again considering how awful his war camp looked, how or where the food was prepared and what I was actually eating.

"Lets get down to business shall we?"

"Please."

"I'll be blunt Mr. Lorentino the war effort is not going well, our initial supplies are depleted and the guard is in fairly entrenched positions, with good central leadership, our group is scattered around the map and seemingly working independent of each other." It was interesting he was willing to just share all of his troubles with someone who like myself who is not known for loyalty. But again things were bad and I'm sure it wasn't hidden info to begin with.

"Well I'll have to check my store, if its still standing, might be able to get you like six maybe seven pistols, couple of rifles, some other random junk." He laughed took a drink of coffee and flashed me a smile that was more sinister than happy.

"I don't need your stock, I need your supplier."

"Hanlon."

"Yes, Mr. Hanlon has assisted other revolutions and we feel our cause is just, if you could only convince him to lend us a hand." This came as a bit of a surprise that he already wasn't helping them, I figured from all of their firepower at the start of the conflict this was Hanlon's handy work.

"Well I can't simply conjure him out of thin air." Except when it appears I can do exactly that, but its never been something I brought about.

"Naturally Mr. Lorentino, I can provide you resources to seek out Mr. Hanlon and entreat him to aid us in this unpleasant business. I'm sure my offer will to say the least get him interested." He opened a nearby chest and it was full of gold and other expensive things. Hanlon never struck me as the type to care about a paycheck, but I do love money, so I didn't want to let that little nugget of info drop.

"I'll get right on that."

"No no finish your breakfast first." I had no way of finding Hanlon, or even knowing what I would say when I did, but I did have a chest full of gold which I could claim some responsibility for. So my day wasn't totally shot!