2052
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A lot of the roads leading into and away from the major towns on the Continent of Evan have hazards on some parts of their roads... I can think of NONE that have tire-shredding, car disabling or ganger killing places to avoid like the Smokey Hills run. Lets take the tire shredding problem first. If you waver even a few feet to the left or right of the roadway at ANY speed over 40 mph you will incur tire damage. The slower you are the less damage you get. The WHOLE road is like this!  Image by Lord Foul Lets take car damage next. If you get up to a decent speed and can keep the tires on the road AND your car stays there, you have other hazards that will KILL you and your car! At slower, non-tire-shredding speeds, you may not notice the bumps on the road.... Oh, but believe me, they are there! IF you get up to speeds above 50 or 60, your car will be jumping around like a high-school cheerleader on speed especially when you need to make the many turns encountered here.! In memory of `Rodrigo Macri`.  David Dougherty of The Cosmic Kids died at Gates of Elmsfield. Dorothy Tellez of rebelfishes died at The Pit. `The Duchess` Han Ice of Guns Gears Getaway died at Salt Flats Canyon. Julius `Julius` Julius of The Groove Champions died at Road to Gateway Truck Stop. James Ruiz of thebills died at Gates of Somerset. Lydia Rose of Monarchs died at Road to Somerset. James Borg of Monarchs died at Road to Somerset. Ricky Coon of Monarchs died at Road to Somerset. Willie Shake of HELL AND THE HANDBASKETS died at Double Down Arena. Donald `The Dragon` Chou of Street Pizza died at The Pits. Stanley `The Rock` Goodspeed of Street Pizza died at The Pits. Sonia Blake of Paladins died at Road to Somerset. Frank Salazar of headXplode died at Somerset Rally Circuit. Chester Swanson of Garage Boyz died at Northern Farm Land. Janice Maiorano of BD And Sons died at Acid Land. Herbert `hippy` Sirmans of Dryfuss Dragoons died at Gates of Sarsfield. Marcus Macleod of Paladins died at Blown With the Wind. Harold Weiss of rebelfishes died at Highway to Hell. Richard Yu of rebelfishes died at Highway to Hell. `Big` Richard Smith of GovermantResistance died at Road to Somerset. Lucius Sizer of GovermantResistance died at Road to Somerset. Humberto Bailey of Bastille the Raging Scavenger died at Gateway, The Trench. Patrick Jones of MADHAT died at Road to Somerset. Hung `Gunny` Hogan of Fish Lovers died at Sandy. Terry Bradshaw of Fish Lovers died at Sandy. Paige Waid of Rolling Blunder died at Road to Somerset. Doretha Holmes of Nightmares Revenge died at Somerset Arena. Gregory Wright of Blackbeards died at The Pit. `Deputy` Annie Deputy of Riotous Assembly died at Somerset Rally Circuit. Linda Caruthers of Road Debris died at Interstate Mythos. Sarah `Weekly` Dailey of Riotous Assembly died at Somerset Arena. Brittany Rockwell of Triumph died at Gates of Elmsfield. Gerald `Six-Pack` Beer of Luna Sea died at Northern Desert Circuit. Eric Thomas of Collision Force died at Forever Yellow Skies. Kerry `Elizabeth` Smith of The Dionysian Dozen died at Once Upon a Town. Donna `Big Rig` Swisher of Comstar died at Northern Farm Land. Eric `Eyes Of The` Hauck of The Bytten Squad died at Road to Somerset. Randall `Trotter` Davis of Shattered-n-Bloody died at Northern Farm Land. Sheldon `Boss` Hogg of Road Lords died at Northern Foothills Racetrack (at night). Jose `Pitfighter` Driskill of Ultra Catharsis died at Maure Dore. Vickie Festa of Ultra Catharsis died at Maure Dore. Raymond `74` Rawls of BD And Sons died at Gates of Somerset. Walter `Get Jacked` Jackson of Renshai died at Interstate Mythos. Hai Munoz of Triple S died at Scattered Hills. Timothy `Bossman` Tiedeman of Bohemians died at Somerset Arena. Christopher `Zip` Bracewell of Bastille the Raging Scavenger died at Somerset Rally Circuit. Chi Scott of MADHAT died at Road to Somerset. Andrew Allen of MADHAT died at Road to Somerset. Arie Stark of Lords Of Steel died at Somerset Arena. Tina `The Wrench` Beck of Street Pizza died at Sandy. Wendi `Quiet Killer` Quiles of Street Pizza died at Sandy. James `Clive` Owen of Street Pizza died at Sandy. `Pfat` Billy Pfarr of Street Pizza died at Sandy. Richard `Last Word` White of Bastille the Raging Scavenger died at Sandy. James `Farmer` McFarland of Highway Hellriders died at Gates of Firelight. Elvis Presley of Triumph died at Road to Somerset. Buck Rodgers of Triumph died at Road to Somerset. `Sergeant` Andrew McCown of 11th Recon Company died at Maure Dore. `trusty` Reuben Fredericks of thebills died at Road to Elmsfield. Patricia `Big Guns` Cheney of Evan River Rats died at Northern Farm Land. Daniel Alford of Evan River Rats died at Northern Farm Land. Edward Hines of Load Runners died at Canyon Joust. Jesus `Indian` Summers of East Evan Trading Company died at Gates of Gateway Truckstop. Rudolph `Casket` Castiglione of Shattered-n-Bloody died at Road to Somerset. Michelle `Rockcrusher` Muncie of Comstar died at Somerset Arena. Larry `Rolla` Hay of Shattered-n-Bloody died at Pathway to Darkness. Kathryn Lacy of Zen Omega died at Somerset Arena. Robert McDonald of Nerds on Wheels died at Road to Gateway Truck Stop. Damion Hysell of Garage Boyz died at Road to Gateway Truck Stop. Dale Nicodemus of Garage Boyz died at Road to Gateway Truck Stop. Robert Moore of MADHAT died at Gates of Somerset. Robert `Mr fix it` Stevenson of Port Kar Renagades died at Gates of Somerset. Gabrielle Owens of The 4saken died at The Pits. John Asher of The 4saken died at The Pits. Darlene `Darling` Cameron of 12th Street Bangers died at Gates of Badlands Truckstop. `Desert Rat` Ricky Ross of High Octane Hooligans died at Road to Somerset. Paul `The Sage` Berg of Weak Head Normal Forms died at Under a Bloody Red Sky. James `The Predator` Pasley of CryptKeepers died at Road to Somerset. Lucia `The Rat` Carter of CryptKeepers died at Road to Somerset. Junior `Jumpin Jack` Jackson of Lords Of Steel died at Road to Somerset. `Luscious` Lisha Williams of CryptKeepers died at Road to Somerset. Brenda Warren of CryptKeepers died at Road to Somerset. `Matt` Damon Longwell of Legion of Legends died at Road to Somerset. Robert `Daft Haircut` Smith of The Bytten Squad died at Gates of Elmsfield. Pinkie `Tuscadero` Twitty of Guns Gears Getaway died at The Pit. `Eagle Eye` Irene Ellis of Comstar died at Highway to Hell. Yvette `Ghost` Jorgensen of Comstar died at Highway to Hell. Stephen `Deadeye` Ellison of Comstar died at Highway to Hell. Dale `Fixit` Mitchell of Comstar died at Gates of Gateway Truckstop. Annie Kayser of Street Pizza died at Somerset Arena. Joseph `Lover` Glover of Gearjammers died at Northern Desert Circuit. Shawn Allen of Lesser Demons died at Gates of Badlands Truckstop. Rachel `Peggy` Hayward of The 4saken died at Gates of Somerset. Micheal Ward of Triumph died at Serpentine Road. Mel Gibson of Triumph died at Gates of Elmsfield. Lauren Franz of Mandelbots died at Interstate Mythos. James Lebo of Big C Rollers died at Highway to Hell. Joseph Evans of rebelfishes died at Northern Farm Land. Shawn Faulkner of rebelfishes died at Northern Farm Land. Angel Knapp of Triple S died at Smokey Hills. Geraldo Mort of Lesser Demons died at Double Down Arena. `Shootin`` Elizabeth Milton of Orions Blades died at Telegraph Road. `Draconian` Eula Jordan of Riotous Assembly died at Acid Land. Judith Pederson of MADHAT died at Road to Somerset. Walter Atkins of CryptKeepers died at Road to Elmsfield. Robert Hunt of CryptKeepers died at Road to Elmsfield. Domenica Johns of Triple S died at Maure Dore. Edgar `GORILLA FACE` Frazier of KLINGON GIRL SCOUTS died at Scattered Hills. Henry Holmstrom of BD And Sons died at Northern Farm Land. Alana `Beauty` Wisdom of Whiskey Runners died at Gates of Somerset. Robert Bibb of Big C Rollers died at Northern Foothills Racetrack (at night). It`s said that you don`t remember your early childhood. Memories from so far back just aren`t stored in your head. Sandy `Razzer` Bloom could remember her first steps. She had vivid memories of the puppy her father brought her home for her second birthday. It was a little mutt of dubious lineage, but she loved that mutt right from the start. She remembers knowing in that very second that she was a `dog person.` Cats had never appealed to her. That puppy had grown with her. She`d outlived `Devil` and gotten another. She loved to sit around the fire at night, outside; about the only time when you could sit outside, watching the stars and the sky. That was about the only entertainment there was. The auroras sparkled against the blanket of twinkling lights. The occassional meteor tracing a fiery path across that milieu was a treat enjoyed by all. She could remember all those night sitting outside, in the dark, with her mother and father and, before they passed, her grandparents, listening to stories of the `before` times or snuggling against her father while another adult in their community read from one of the rare books that had survived and found its way into their community. Her favorite story, as a child, was `Horton hears a Who.` Her father was a magnificent story-teller. His low-toned voice was full of fun but could convey many other emotions, making him a one-man entertainment system. Sandy could remember sitting with the other children in the community listening to him read about Horton and his struggles with an intolerant society. Her father said there was a message in that story for all times, including their own. But as a child, she cared little for life lessons. Inside the secure walls of Somerset, she played, lived and loved those around her. She didn`t know her life was one of hardship, because it had always been the same since her birth. They always had food, a safe place to shelter and their society of peoples. What more did you need? Occassionally, she remembered, her parents and the parents of her friends would sit and talk about things that had happened outside the walls. They weren`t always good things. The parents tried their best to shield their children from the bad, but when one of her friends had to go live with another family because of bad things that had happened to their mommy and daddy, well, there was only so much you could protect a child from. This hit home hard, when she was 9 and a friend of hers lost her parents to pirates out in the fields where they had worked, farming the food that kept them all alive. Sandy didn`t mind. As an only child, she`d always wanted a brother or sister; she didn`t care which. She`d gotten a sister and that had suited her fine. Allee had come to live with them and that was that. Sandy had a friend living with her as a sister. They`d grown together. Done everything together and, when they`d hit their teens, had been terrors together. She could remember many a night, sneaking out with Allee to go see boys they knew, or go to parties held in old buildings nobody used anymore. She and her sister had taken their first drinks of alcohol, smoked their first cigarettes [[ yukky to both ]] and done SO much more together. They`d thought they`d been careful and oh so sneaky, but later, her parents would tell her they`d known and even that her father had trailed the pair many times to insure their safety. It had made her love her father even more. When they`d been assigned to jobs at 13 years of age, like every 13 year old before them, they`d jumped at the chance to help their community. She`d been taken under her father`s guidance to learn how to maintain the machines that kept their society viable, able to fight against the world and the things in it. She had a purpose. Allee joined the Militia. There was much discussion around the dinner table and outside, at night, over that matter. She remembered Allee`s adamant stand about joining, and her parent`s equally adamant stand against it. They had never gone so far as to forbid it; they knew better when dealing with Allee. But they had tried their best to talk her out of it. Even so, there were never any prouder parents than hers when they stood in the bleachers watching their daughter graduate from the academy. Allee settled into her position as a combat vehicle operator like she`d been born to it. Sandy wiped grease from her forehead and scrubbed it out from under her fingernails with equally as much dedication. Then one day, after their 18th birthdays, they`d been sitting around a fire, alone together, talking about things teenage girls have talked about since time remembered. This was an especially vivid memory for Sandy. It was the day they`d tossed everything and had started on the path that had brought them to where they were now. Snuggled into Allee`s lap, legs stretched towards the fire, she remembered Allee saying she was leaving the Militia to go out on her own and how she wanted Sandy to go with her. Sandy remembers turning, lieing there between Allee`s legs, to look up at her. `Go?` was all she`d said. `Yes.` Allee had responded. `I want to see the world. I want to DO something. Somerset doesn`t need us. The world does.` She`d gone on to tell Sandy things she`d never heard Allee mention before; long-distance scouts against horrid gangs of mutants and pirates far gone from the normal life Somerset gave them. How she`d seen places that barely eeked out an existence because of the scavvies and the horrors on wheels that, she`d said, seemed to be everywhere. Sandy could remember the raids around Somerset. They were an annoyance and, sometimes, a tragedy, but Somerset had never really been threatened by these marauders. The militia and the dedicated members like her sister had made it so. But now she wanted to go out...there...and continue the fight for what she believed. How could Sandy say no? Allee was her sister. There was no way she`d let her face danger alone. These and many other memories Sandy held in her mind and was able to recall with near crystal clarity and, in the last two seconds, seemed to have done with all her memories. But now she was awake...hazy awake that it was. She could smell burning wiring, oil and the pungent aroma of gasoline. It hurt to turn her head, but she did, to see Allee. She found their hands clasped together but didn`t remember how it had happened. Smoke filled the cabin of their crippled Apache. For a second, it cleared and Sandy screamed. Allee was gone. To her right, she heard a strange noise. When she turned her head, all she saw were the cracked, yellowed teeth that filled her vision. Then pain. But she wouldn`t remember the pain. 1. Cap distributor (Somerset): $3665. |
 As the year progresses, here are the leaders of the major leagues: Evan Race Ladder - Lattes Raiders In addition, the leaders of the minor leagues are: Somerset Pedestrian Combat #2 League - Lattes Raiders Another fine submission from Bytten Submitted by Arganosh |