Parthen's Location:m<a class="postlink" href="https://www.google.com/maps/preview/place/71+Franklin+St,+New+York,+NY+10013/@40.7183977,-74.0027076,18z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c25a2068a533b7:0x281ab192500d5e50">https://www.google.com/maps/preview/pla ... 92500d5e50</a>m<br/><br/>Right up Franklin Street, just past where the road intersected with Church Street, a situation was forming. While the basic infrastructure of most of the street's buildings were intact, four members of the White Snakes were trying their best to ruin everything else. Just last night they snuck into the territory, barely passing the outskirt patrols on Canal Street. And while this was obviously dangerous, in heavy gang territories, there were few or no zombies. So, once the preparation group was in, everything else was a breeze.<br/><br/>This morning, while it was still all quiet, they set up in the Steven Allen Annex. Machine guns were mounted, flame throwers prepped, exits barricaded, and communications established. They were the forerunners of this week's invasion, a massive attempt at taking back this ground. It  was common knowledge that the Blackies (a derogatory name for the Black Rats) had long since seized the New York Stock Exchange as headquarters, but that was obvious way too hard a push in one sweep. Long term they were obviously after the entire tip of the island, everything south of Canal Street, but the initial plan was to take the territory in fourths, starting with Canal Street down to where the Brooklyn Bridge would intersect with West street, if it continued that far. With the temporary headquarters discreetly set up on Franklin Street, two large and heavily armed groups would split up the piece up, coming down Broadway and Bowery. The team coming down Bowery was to go first and detonate the many bombs that'd been set up through the eastern half, blocking many off the main roads and forcing confusion. Then they were to leave and set up a perimeter that guarded from the eastern side. Right after that, team down Broadway would sweep through to the west, backs guarded by the Bowery infiltrators, and take that entire section. The temporary head quarters would be used to communicate attacks, as they had equipment to operate a makeshift radio station, broadcasting on a secure channel.<br/><br/>If the attack went well, it would relieve the White Snakes from the southern side, as they held the middle of Manhattan, and let them focus on buffering their defense against the northern gangs.<br/><br/>In the later afternoon, the explosions went off.<br/><br/>(Just a note, to mark themselves, all members of the White Snakes mark the ends of their gas masks with white paint and they wear white bands on their upper arms.)