It took one day for Ashley to get the amount of metal together to actually form something workable.

There had to be a better way.

It took her some trial and error to find the cars that actually had metal. She was intensely happy at whatever deceased resident of NYC had kept a fleet of older cars in one of the parking garages that the adventurers guild had raided.

Older cars were excellent for excessive amount of metal for safety reasons. They were also hundreds of buildings in Manhattan that were now unoccupied. Mostly that had been commercial buildings. So many of those could have instruction of their metals if they had figured out how to do that well and that was definitely on her list of things to do. But another option had come up and The monuments that had been on the lawn of the United Nations. We're now there for the taking and most of them were metals that she could just borrow.

"So the amount for this machine gun used to be some part of a lawn ornament on the United Nations lawn?" Kate said.

"Look, do you want to take Staten Island or not?"

"Honestly I think we just let it float off. Islands do that right? They just float away?"

"I'm not even going to give you a response because that was just so idiotic," Ashley said. "And you know how I feel about you being an idiot sandwich."

"I can be a muscle mommy and an idiot sandwich so long as you eat me," Kate said, letting her tongue out. "But also I can see what the rest of the guild doesn't want to sit next to us while we're talking."

"They're watching for the bats. Having you be the captain of a ferry is like one of the hottest things and I never thought that I'd want someone to dress a dress up is one of the sailor Moon girls, but I think that we can do that later if you're into that?"

"Kate, I'm not saying not but you gotta help me find the costume, And I know you're going to bust one out here that you already have, so let's just say that we can play dress up later tonight."

Kate let out a little squeal. "Alright!"

Above them, they could hear the machine guns going off.

This time, instead of luring them to the ferry, they were taking shots at the fats that were still floating around in the air. They had a poison effect if they got close enough and land a hit and nobody wanted to have to live through that, despite everyone having brought an antidote card.

Half of the crew had slotted it in their decks. The other half had just held on to it. It was not easy to change your deck. It took about thirty seconds when you were out of combat and you couldn't do it at all while you were in combat.

There was some that they hadn't considered though. With enough machine gun park at the same time, it had subtly altered the trajectory of the ferry. They'd placed the machine guns on one of the sides because they could get the ferry to go back and forth and now that they had done that, Ashley had kind of regretted not putting them on the corners.

Of course there was somebody who had said something about overlapping Fields of fire which was why why they had ended up with a single machine gun on one side of the ferry and four on the other sides. Had it taken a considerable amount of resources to get the machine gun set up and even more to get a appropriate amount of ammunition which, knowing how she had been brought up was nowhere near the amount that they needed.

Ashley was not certain that they were going to make a dent in the mob population on Staten Island but they sure as hell we're going to try. And at the Miles book punched up the way they had before because they were dumb then that was on them not on her.

With some practice, the trip now took a lot less finagling. In fact, it only took them half an hour to get from point to point. Ashley, I wanted herself to thank for that. Janet too had absorbed an sop and spit it out so perfectly that she was able to let someone like Khaleesi pilot the ferry.

From a practical standpoint, at least he couldn't pilot the ferry because her parents would have killed Ashley and Kate. But the Brazilian teenager was in charge of their drone operations, so it was only fair to give her an opportunity to gain experience points and potentially a poison or darkness themed deck.

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The gunfire stopped briefly.

"You know, I thought that when you piled up all these boxes of ammunition before that it was going to be too much. But now? Now I think that we need a few more pallets of it. If we're going to make a dent. How many spawn points do you think that Staten Island has with this amount of mob build up?" Kate half today box of ammunition over to Ashley where the two of them unpeeled the cartridges and set them up on the chain

" Look we saw the engineering problems so they're not overheating every 5 seconds and now you expect us to just be able to solve these supply chain issues? How many mother fuckers do you think? Just have boxes of ammunition laying around in the middle of midtown Manhattan?"

Ashley handed off a line of ammunition to one of the guild numbers. There was a pause as they reloaded. For a brief moment, Ashley consider taking off large hearing protection.

When the the firing began up again in Earnest, she couldn't help but adjust the sides of it. It was similar to a DJ's headphones as it unveiled both her ears and anyone else who had chosen to wear them in addition to the headphones. Several the people that had signed up to become machine gunners had all brought safety goggles and gloves.

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Most of them also had life jackets on.

It looked like an OSHA party, if OSHA took people out into the East River to shoot machine guns.

"We need a around bubble. Maybe there's a summon that will let us do that."

It was harder time there discussions to in between when the weapons are popping off, but Kate was determined to continue talking. Ashley wanted to listen as much as he could that wasn't going to be as easy as it could be.

"That's a really stupid use case. But I understand what you're talking about. We just have to make sure that we have our spotters here."

Two people on the other side of the ferry far away from the machine. Guns with decks that future flying minions were patrolling the skies. One person on their side had a deck full of flying summons. They were continually rotating through summons.

For once the skies were not full of bats. That made Ashley suspicious, as if they were planning on something. But the reports from all over the place kept saying that mobs were not intelligent and for the most part, followed video game logic.

I have to focus on the adventurers guildees running the machine guns. She wasn't going to tell them what to do. But damn did she like that smell. The combined smell of the east river, the Hudson river and the machine guns fire was enough to make a grown woman blush.

The ferry closed, nearby the area that they were intending to land.

"They said the national lighthouse museum, right?" Ashley yelled during a lull in the firing.

Kate popped her binoculars over to Ashley. "It's looking good. Now we just need to clear out enough space for Todd to lay down his claim."

The rules of the were-house meant that whoever had it could anchor it and buy from wherever. It was their best chance to get a safe spot to expand from.

It was a foolproof plan. There was only one problem.

"Guys, they're really sure that we had to do this because I think that I'll be just fine if I just stay here."

"Todd, don't be a dick. You agreed to this, remember? Volunteers only? The mayor wanted somebody to do this?" Ashley said.

"Do you really think the mayor is going to give me an award for this?"

"Do not make me leave your ass in the middle of occupied Staten Island. Because I will if I have to."

Todd scratched his neck beard then threw up his hands. "I guess."

"Fucking Todd. Get on the damn possum dragon."

Todd gulped but did as he was told.

"Covering fire people!" Kate shouted.

The machine guns hummed to life as they moved down dozens of human shaped shade mobs. They had finally seen the end of the line of mobs, though it had taken half an hour of continuous assault. The fact of the mobs disappeared after being destroyed. Meant that where they would normally be bodies or blood. There was just empty space. There wasn't that much there.

Todd carefully mounted the possum dragon which was just big enough to carry him without dropping. This was one of his.

To make sure that you had a way back out what they were going to do would be to call another Dragon possum after a minute and then send out just about every summon that could get to back him up. Normally, mobs would pick and choose who they were going to fight next. Summons would do the same thing unless giving clear instructions by their their deck bearers.

"Woo hoo!" Todd yelled as the possum dragon moved him roughly one hundred meters within ten seconds. He looked like he was holding on for dear life and Ashley was not jealous at all. Every mascot that had been patrolling the skies save one was in hot pursuit clearing a circle and Todd frantically cycled through his deck.

Ashley wish that she had a sniper rifle. That would be the next purchase. Or at least the next thing that she would put through the forge if she was going to do that but it wasn't looking like that kind of specific need would help them at all.

There wasn't that a number of mobs that was too many for them to take on. It was with mounting horror that she realized that Todd had not landed yet. She checked her watch.

Todd played another possum dragon, giving him potentially another five minutes to get back onto the Ferry.

For this mission, Ashley brought her bullhorn because of course it made sense to have it.

"If you can't land come back!"

Ashley was adamant that he was going to need to land in order to secured a building. The National lighthouse museum was at the edge of a dock and it looked like no one had broken into it. So all he had to do was land on it and perhaps touch it. Bagel can remember how he had done his and they were not. Any reports readily available about people taking this up.

The best thing that they had was that they could secure the long dock that led up to the lighthouse building and then he could potentially run off of it and then get it snatched up by a flying mascot. Either that at one of the technical monsters that flew around. But everyone agreed that it was much more preferable to be scooped up by a mascot.

"If you can't do it, don't risk your life. We need you alive!" Ashley's voice was clear over the bullhorn.

It looks like Todd was cursing, but from the distance they were at, was the amount of sound they're hearing? They couldn't really hear sure. He was gesticulating wildly with one arm while he barely held on with the other, but who didn't when they were riding a dragon? It was half of the fun.

Ashley sent her swarm down the ferrys side, over to the docks to try and pull as much aggro as possible. A human had to be irresistible to mobs.

Otherwise why would they spend so much effort trying to reach him rather than anything else. They were still looking at every one of the ferry but the slitted eyes of the shades were something else.

Have one that had summons. Shade had said that it wasn't a bit unsettling to actually use them in combat or ever. They were effective and they could be almost human and how they interacted with the world. But they were shades and they were dark poisonous clouds over everyone that they didn't like or wanted to kill. Just being able to summon them meant that you had to kind of deal with that.

I actually hadn't used her perk points for darkness or poison so she was not going to be using one herself. But they didn't stop her from making one of her swarm creatures from it. Her swarm shade was grey and nearly formless. It flew and for some reason it didn't get the poison aspect but that was alright.

Her shade was doing everything that the other shades we're doing but she could see it. She checked the air again, finding herself hoping that it would look free. Save for the ridiculousness that was the ramped at the ferry, there wasn't much around. Oh there was a lot around. There were so many buildings. It was still New York City but no one was flying above them that they didn't know.

Ashley saw him moving back. She held her breath. A crowd of shade mobs we're trying to converge on him but enough swarm mobs were stopping them that Todd had no issues getting back up into the air.

His face was jubilant.

Ashley allowed for the possibility that he might have completed the mission within parameters. If so, they would finally be able to make a safe zone that they could stick around in. That felt like it was months away despite her own eyes showing her that they could make a perimeter. Even if every spawn point was selective, there was limit to how many they could spawn per day and they definitely mowed over a thousand mobs down.

There had been a lot of theorizing on the deck build of Builder forums. About how many mobs spawned in relation to how many people were there. Someone had compared a small City to a small suburb to a rural town and tried to work on the numbers.

The raw numbers hadn't painted a picture

It hadn't been clear up until recently that absent anything else, Mobs would start spawning.

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