Chapter 33-3 Red Winter

[cupcakezombie]

Oh and a thought on Michael not having read the journal. Notice that Tanya also didn't seem to have read the report.
Maybe Kimmett grabbed the reports first and had them for a while and when he didn't notice anything out of the ordinary (not noticed though his haze of grief).
And it sounds like the rescue team went to Boulder first, where the body was, so Michaels would have got a lot of the information from radio/sat phone reports, and by the time the reports came in not have thought it was such a priority to read them.
Yes, he should have read them, but this chain of events might make it more likely why he hadn't after 11 days.

[Penguine]

News Report from Boulder, Co... Masssive snow storm knocks out all power to the city, stay tuned for more from Chanel 7 News... Massive Army response from Ft. Irwin arrived this morning to deal with the massive snow storm and restore power, city still secure, stay tuned to Channel 7 News for more at 10pm...

Here we are all thinking/hoping for the worst, and watch it turn out to be anti-climactic. LOL.. That would suck.

[Adventureless_Hero]

I agree with cakes, Michael probably felt he had a good understanding of the situation from what he heard over the phone call. Plus I'm certain Kimmet had him doing other shit in those 11 days. I doubt he was just sitting on his ass playing Gameboy. He was likely on more missions in nearby areas, scavenging, and the like. In my opinion, he probably bumped the written report down on his list of priorities. He and Carl had a little tiff over it because Carl did mention that Robbins was shooting other soldiers that were turning, but the whole phone call was stressed so some details might have been lost. It was a just a miscommunication, but I sensed that Michael was in the wrong and got a little upset and defensive.

Haven't you ever known you are wrong yet you still get upset that someone calls you out on it? Tanya saw through the bullshit and knew it was pointless to argue. She seems to understand Michael pretty well now. I say kudos to Tanya for getting the conversation back on track.

[Adventureless_Hero]

News Report from Boulder, Co... Masssive snow storm knocks out all power to the city, stay tuned for more from Chanel 7 News... Massive Army response from Ft. Irwin arrived this morning to deal with the massive snow storm and restore power, city still secure, stay tuned to Channel 7 News for more at 10pm...

Here we are all thinking/hoping for the worst, and watch it turn out to be anti-climactic. LOL.. That would suck.

massivelyanti-climactic? *snicker*

[Natagora]

Something doesn't smell right to me with regards to the Boulder situation. I find it hard to believe that the last word from them was only two hours prior to them finding out about Griggs.

Not only that but if Griggs had attacked, surely someone, somewhere, would've reported some form of a mayday to Irwin. How can (and I quote) 'all of their systems' be offline after a one-zombie attack; without even one 'emergency code' being sent to Irwin?

Unless I've grossly underestimated zombie Griggs I cannot see how he can wipe out an entire colony without word getting out.

[awkwardalex]

What was the antibiotic given to Saul? Pinstripes was in a hospital... Could have been dumping far too many meds, and created antibiotic resistent strains?

Saul was on a 1000 mg each of Vancomycin and clindomycin to very powerful last resort antiboitics.

[awkwardalex]

I agree with cakes, Michael probably felt he had a good understanding of the situation from what he heard over the phone call. Plus I'm certain Kimmet had him doing other shit in those 11 days. I doubt he was just sitting on his ass playing Gameboy. He was likely on more missions in nearby areas, scavenging, and the like. In my opinion, he probably bumped the written report down on his list of priorities. He and Carl had a little tiff over it because Carl did mention that Robbins was shooting other soldiers that were turning, but the whole phone call was stressed so some details might have been lost. It was a just a miscommunication, but I sensed that Michael was in the wrong and got a little upset and defensive.

Haven't you ever known you are wrong yet you still get upset that someone calls you out on it? Tanya saw through the bullshit and knew it was pointless to argue. She seems to understand Michael pretty well now. I say kudos to Tanya for getting the conversation back on track.

I think that Michael, while having other things on his plate, may have assumed that there was not much to read about and assumed tjat everything carl told him was there.

[Kc]

Hmmmm.... yeah, my suspension of disbelief was really stretched in this epidose... really? He didn't read the report all this time? Really? Griggs Longnails begins his strike at precisely the time of the autopsy / funeral? Hmmmm... a bit too convenient, if you ask me.

Yeah, regrettably even I have to agree with that. There was a structure change near the last minute before recording on the 7th draft and there's now a little hanging chad that I don't like that got left over. I will be doing a small tweak on this before the remaster. The story will be the same. I only mention it because I too agree that it feels a little sloppy.

[Cabbage Patch]

Oh and a thought on Michael not having read the journal. Notice that Tanya also didn't seem to have read the report.
Maybe Kimmett grabbed the reports first and had them for a while and when he didn't notice anything out of the ordinary (not noticed though his haze of grief).
And it sounds like the rescue team went to Boulder first, where the body was, so Michaels would have got a lot of the information from radio/sat phone reports, and by the time the reports came in not have thought it was such a priority to read them.
Yes, he should have read them, but this chain of events might make it more likely why he hadn't after 11 days.

If this was the first flight back from Boulder after the Chinook crash how much do you want to bet that Carl's report came back on the same plane? I can picture Carl getting a sealed courier satchel in Boulder to carry back to Fort Irwin that contains his report, now classified to the point that he doesn't have clearance to read it, let alone know that he's carrying it.

[Kc]

If this was the first flight back from Boulder after the Chinook crash how much do you want to bet that Carl's report came back on the same plane? I can picture Carl getting a sealed courier satchel in Boulder to carry back to Fort Irwin that contains his report, now classified to the point that he doesn't have clearance to read it, let alone know that he's carrying it.

Bingo. And that's not as clear as it should be in the story. It'll be an easy fix.