{"id":271,"date":"2023-04-01T07:10:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T13:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:09:21","slug":"downtime-20-23-july-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Downtime (20-22 July 2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After taking down the GRU convoy, the team pulls back to Ponikla for a few days of maintenance and agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Red and Leks drive back down to Opoczno with some of the team&#8217;s stash of gold bars, as well as one of Leks&#8217; vacuum-sealed bags of cacao beans.  They spend the day haggling with the local merchants and itinerant traders and return with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>10 doses of antipsychotic meds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>an industrial-size cylinder of compressed nitrogen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8 toothbrushes and 27 tubes of toothpaste, all in unopened original packaging<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7 20kg sacks of locally-milled flour<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4 barn cats, one of whom accosted Magda quite loudly on the team&#8217;s previous visit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>an Uzi with 4 full magazines (Minka thinks she can adapt the magazines to also work in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colt_9mm_SMG\">Colt 635<\/a> that the team captured from the GRU troops)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a damaged M16A2 (Reliability 1\/5) with 2 full magazines (acquired as a parts gun and extra ammo for Red&#8217;s problematic M4A1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>60 rounds of 5.56mm ammo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6 belts of 7.62x51mm ammo (Leks&#8217; #1 priority by far, as he was getting dangerously low on MG3 food)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Pettimore heads out across the river in the newly-acquired Chevy S10 technical.  He takes Stanisalw Jablonski, the one kid in Ponikla who hasn&#8217;t experienced a disappearance\/missing time episode.  Stanislaw was the village&#8217;s foremost hunter before Pettimore arrived and he reminds Pettimore a lot of his younger brother back in West Virginia, so the Marine sniper has taken the 15-year-old Polish orphan under his wing.  They&#8217;re gone a couple of days on a trapping expedition, returning with two pregnant sows to add to the village&#8217;s livestock.  They also make a stop by the highway maintenance garage to pick up the hydraulic log splitter that&#8217;s been sitting there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the rest of the team, it&#8217;s fuel brewing, harvesting (cherries, potatoes, and winter barley are coming in), and weapon and vehicle repair.  Minka, Zenobia, and Arkadi combine forces to get the captured deuce-and-a-half back to full operating capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After taking down the GRU convoy, the team pulls back to Ponikla for a few days of maintenance and agriculture. Red and Leks drive back down to Opoczno with some of the team&#8217;s stash of gold bars, as well as one of Leks&#8217; vacuum-sealed bags of cacao beans. They spend the day haggling with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaserne-on-the-borderlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}