Dying Light - Tennessee Gays Edition 1

The campus map remains spread across the entrance desk, now layered with downtown targets, retreat routes, vehicle notes, and materials lists. Refuge traffic flows around the briefing.

Grant circles the uncertain road in red. The hardware store offers concentrated materials, while the construction yard promises heavier resources but less reliable information and more exposed approaches.

Thomas immediately turns the campus map into a posted mission notice, listing downtown reconnaissance, construction supplies, vehicle scouting, route documentation, and strict return protocols.

Thomas raises his voice through the entrance hall and sends the same request over the refuge radio. Work pauses as survivors gather around the desk.

Maya volunteers medical oversight, while Andre and Rosa add security and repair experience. With six field members confirmed, Thomas records the team and leaves space for one final volunteer.

Grant looks from the downtown routes to the crowded entrance hall, weighing the exposed mission against the settlement’s growing need for organized defense.

Grant adds his name to the support roster and moves beside the campus map, marking temporary observation posts and the roads he will monitor during the mission.

Daniel meets Charlie’s gaze without bravado. Around them, the posted mission notice lists hardware stores, construction yards, exposed roads, and unknown infected activity beyond Belmont’s familiar routes.

Daniel adds his name to the field roster. The mission shifts from a volunteer call into preparation: charged lamps, layered protection, marked routes, medical supplies, recovery gear, and defined abort conditions.

Charlie nods and leads Daniel, Evan Cole, Andre, and Rosa into the training workshop. Tables fill with straight branches, cordage, scrap leather, flexible tubing, cloth, and smooth stones.

Charlie selects springy wood for simple bows, shapes matching arrows, and adds blunt practice tips alongside sharpened field points. He checks every limb, knot, and string under tension.

Using scrap tubing and sturdy frames, Charlie finishes several slingshots, then braids compact rock slings from cord and leather. A crate of sorted stones completes the kit.

By afternoon, the field team has serviceable bows, arrows, slingshots, and rock slings. Charlie labels each set, assigns practice rotations, and stores the ammunition beside the charged lamps.

Charlie selects a broad machete blank, steel stock, leather strips, and a short hardened spike. He fits a crossguard, then tests the balance before securing each piece.

The guard locks firmly beneath the blade, while layered leather and rubber create a non-slip handle. Charlie anchors the pointed extension to the pommel for controlled stabbing attacks.

The final tightening slips against a metal edge and cuts Charlie’s thumb. Maya immediately cleans the shallow wound and wraps it, costing one small dressing.

Daniel tests the machete against a hanging tire, using controlled chops and careful thrusts. The guard protects his hand, and the pointed extension remains aligned.

Charlie labels the weapon for Daniel and stores it beside the bows and charged lamps. The machete is field-ready, though the workshop’s metal scrape has left his thumb freshly bandaged.

Charlie lays recovered steel, pipe, lumber, leather, bolts, and rubber across the workshop, measuring each design to its user before reinforcing every joint and grip.

For Evan Cole, he builds a balanced spear with a hardened point, braced shaft, and wrapped grip. Evan Cole tests its reach along the marked training lane.

Charlie fits Andre’s spiked mace around a reinforced steel core, then secures Rosa’s long blade with a guarded hilt and durable sheath. Both weapons withstand controlled strikes.

For Thomas, Charlie completes a reinforced tactical tomahawk with a braced handle, compact steel head, sharpened edge, and rear spike. Thomas tests its balance beside the charged lamps, and the finished weapon joins the mission loadout.

Charlie clears a section of the workshop table and lays out a battery, insulated wiring, a trigger switch, and two metal electrodes. He mounts the assembly beneath the reinforced hammer’s grip.

He routes the wiring through protective tubing, anchors the electrodes into the hammerhead, and insulates every exposed connection. The trigger sits beneath his thumb, reachable without changing his grip.

Charlie places the hammerhead against a secured metal test plate and presses the trigger. A sharp crack snaps across the workshop as blue-white sparks jump between the electrodes.

Charlie labels the modified hammer, secures its battery housing, and adds a spare cell to the mission loadout. The weapon now delivers a controlled electric shock through its head while remaining usable as a reinforced striking tool.

Charlie sorts scrap steel, leather, bolts, and short lengths of pipe across the workshop table. He measures matching blanks for Thomas, Daniel, Evan, Andre, and Rosa, keeping each pair compact and easy to conceal.

He grinds the edges, fits wrapped handles, and adds simple sheaths from leather and tubing. Each teammate receives two small knives, balanced for controlled silent takedowns rather than heavy fighting.

The final handle wrap slips against a freshly sharpened edge, reopening a shallow cut across Charlie’s bandaged thumb. Maya cleans it and spends one small dressing while the completed knives remain secured.