In New Hampshire: Splotched in the Woods

Charles Gaines, the head gunman, gave a brief demonstration of how to drink beer through a camouflage head net. Then, raising the net to expose his face, he told his congregation of thugs that the day's shootings would be conducted according to the honor system. Zapped personnel were to assume that death was instantaneous. They were to expire without comment, and of course without any post-mortem cannoneering at the enemy. Judges would be available to settle torts among defunct contestants, but we who were about to play the National Survival Game, he said...

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