The Death of the Supreme Commander

This is my final kill report.

The playing field was thinned dramatically between the start of week three and the beginning of Sudden Death. It dwindled from 10 to five during Sudden Death. The stage was set for the final battle with the few that remained.

An eight floor parking structure in LIC. Fucking brilliant. I'm hard pressed to think of a more fitting setting. Maybe an abandoned correctional facility, but that could be the hangover talking.

I arrived at the designated area about 12:00. Not knowing what to expect or who was watching I very carefully made my way up to the top floor.

The next to arrive were The Wholesale Liquidators. Shortly after, with Security in tow, the Supreme Commander himself. They circled the garage for a bit, coming up to our floor and returning to lower floors several times.
The three of us took cover in a stairwell. Outside, there was no cover save for whatever cars were parked there. Very carefully we exited the stairs and began to make our way around the garage. We ducked into another set of stairs and we heard the door below us open. I pulled my pistlero and fired a few shots into whoever it was.

It was Black Lung, an agent of the Shadow Government. He informed us that the game was starting, and that the Commander was beginning his ascent from the third floor.

I'm not sure how much time had passed, but the next half hour or so was filled with taking cover, shoot-outs with Rogue Assassins, and searching for our quarry.

Then I saw him. He had two body guards with him (I later Iearned they were unarmed cameramen) so I proceeded very carefully. He ran for a stairwell about halfway between us. I took my shot and fell short. He had made it to the stairs. He was still dry.

I was pretty sure he was on the seventh floor, I retreated there as well. Seeing it was empty I quickly made my way back to the top level. Then I saw him again. This time though he was on the opposite side of the garage.

I broke into an all out sprint and closed the distance in a few seconds. The entire time I was thinking one of us was going to get wet.

He took cover against the outside of a stairwell, I approached, and we both fired the riot blast from our guns (why did I tell him how to improve its firing range last night? If I didn't I would have had the range on him. But I told him, and his gun was now equal to mine).

There was an awesome hail of water. We thought we both missed and the shoot-out continued. Empty, we had to re prime our weapons. I *should* have realised my reservoir was dry and charged with my pistolero while he was pressurizing. I didn't. I tried to re-arm my gun first. By the time I went at him he was ready for me. We both fired. Mine fell short. His didn't.

However in the aftermath we noticed something...

His back was wet. I hit him with my initial shot.

It was over.

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Special thanks to Ramy for putting up with me during Streetwars, my targets, my assassins, my colleagues at IS 7, Wholesale Liquidators for being totally cool, and the Shadow Government for making it all possible.

Yours in sub-rosa,

Mr. Peter Stevens
Congress Occultus