Profile - Peter Schraenker von dem Bussche
Weaponry - Knife
Clothing - Typically khaki slacks, white button-down shirt, brown deck shoes, white socks, brown belt, black waistcoat,and a blue sports jacket. However, it varies from day to day.
Inventory - counterfeit ration cards, wallet, one hundred-fifty Euros, trick card deck, fake ID (belonging to one Rene de Sade), real ID, key ring with three keys, one American dollar and twenty cents, sunglasses
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The city was quiet, which was unusual for Koblenz, even at eleven o’clock at night. Admittedly, bustling would not be the proper word to describe the populous of the city on a usual night, but it was never as empty as it was now. The restaurants and shops normally filled with tourists were abandoned, and some shops even had their windows boarded over. There was not a single car on the street, and all the busses were quietly parked at the depot. However, if one crossed the highway and looked at the residential district of the city, one would see light shining through the occasional window, demonstrating that there were still people in the city. In fact, though it might not appear to be that way, the city was now filled with more people than ever before. All the houses, hotels, and schools were filled with people, and even more were living in a city of tents set up in the fields around the university.
However, the most important section of the city was now the Electoral Palace. After the new disease began to spread throughout the Bundesrepublik, the German Army Command requisitioned the building for use as an administrative headquarters. The federal agencies that previously used the building had been relocated, and members of the German command staff now spent their days running through the halls organizing the defense of Koblenz from the diseased menace. On the field outside of the palace, the general staff had set up a commissary and a quartermaster’s tent, along with countless tents to be used as temporary housing for the newly created garrison of Koblenz. Altogether, this defense force consisted of some fifteen hundred soldiers and three hundred staff members.
Koblenz did not merely rely on its defense force to defend from the disease, of course. Days after they declared martial law and took control of the city, the German Army Command ordered sections of the three bridges leading into the city to be destroyed using explosives. With the bridges rendered useless to the Diseased, the Rhein and the Moselle became Koblenz’s main defenses. As the two rivers blocked entrance on three sides, the Bundeswehr was able to concentrate its defensive actions on the southern part of the peninsula.
Over four days, the army and the citizens of Koblenz worked furiously to build a wall against the undead. As heavy machinery was extremely limited in the city, teams of citizens armed with shovels, jackhammers, pickaxes, and any other tool available to them were tasked with digging a five foot channel that would connect the Rhine with the Moselle just north of the the Königsbacher Brewery. Trees were knocked down with a bulldozer, and a Caterpillar excavator was used to build up a dirt wall on the Koblenz-side of the channel. Once the bulwarks were completed, the military built up a small wall. This wall, affectionately named “Die Mauer” or “The Wall” by the populace, was a ramshackle thing cobbled together from aluminum sheeting, barbed wire, chain-link fencing, trees, wooden posts, bricks, and anything else upon which the people of Koblenz could lay their hands. With the completion of these defenses, Koblenz was effectively sealed off from the rest of the world.
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Map Legend:
Blue Cross - Safehouse
Red Cross - Former Bridge
Green Zone - Residential Area
Red Zone - Tent City
