<div class="floatleft">(http://www.buyingasword.com/content/images/thumbs/0085465_articulated-gauntlets.png)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td> GM POST</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td> A minor road winding through the mountains of Alsace, Fédération des Etats Européens (The Ambush Site)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td> The entire team, plus Tisha Magnessen</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td> A pleasant spring day in what used to be Western France. Setting the scene.</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://www.reciprocityimages.com/archives/var/resizes/France/Rural_Forest_Road_20100604_8700.jpg?m=1308561233)</div>The road wound gently through the Alsatian forest, the surface showing cracks and signs of age in places. The birch trees to either side swayed gently in the light breeze, as the warm spring sunshine filtered through the fresh green leaves.<br/><br/>Something rustled in the undergrowth, a squirrel searching out nuts. A blackbird flew down onto the road surface and hopped silently across to rummage in the dead leaves that lay to either side of the narrow asphalt strip. A rabbit hopped cautiously from the back and paused to sniff the air before nibbling on a green shoot.<br/><br/>It was soon joined by several others, rabbits not being solitary creatures. One of them hopped, imprudently into the middle of the road. It's ears twitching at the strange humming sound coming from around the corner.<br/><br/>The white electrically powered Mercedes van came around the turn, perhaps a little too fast. The rabbit never stood a chance, the occupants of the van feeling nothing more than a slight bump. The other rabbits vanishes as one of them pounded a foot on the ground. The squirrel shot up a tree and the blackbird sailed into the air, it's alarm call ringing through the woodland.<br/><br/>The van drew to a stop, the door slid open and a number of people piled out.  They were all armed, and all but one were wearing chameleon suits that blended in to the surroundings. Following close behind the van was a blue sports car, this one running on bioethanol, seeing as batteries did rather limit you in terms of speed and range. Behind the wheel of the sports car sat a manikin, a dummy, made up to look like a human.<br/><br/>With the people out, the van drove off again, heading North towards Strasbourg airport. The blue car followed, but pulled off the road  a few kilometres away and turned around, parking up in a lay-by to wait.<br/><br/>In the woodland, the people all but vanished.