Kadavro
Supernova
- Joined
- Apr 16, 2012
'Finally got it.' It had taken years, but he was closer to getting everything he needed to stay where he could be safe. He had Scraped, studied, crawled up the corporate ladder... And had a job where he could now work from home. Where ever that was. It wouldn't be here, that's for certain. Grant Tanner was out of there! "You sure you can afford this?" The teen at the counter of the military surplus store gave him a wary look. Even for someone who worked at a place filled with rifles he no doubt saw more than his fair share of crazies. And the smile on Grant's face and the gleam in his eye ranked him as one of the more unsettling kinds, the guns he had come to pick up not helping the image. "Yah, just pack the the field rations in the trailer and the propane tanks with the sacks of fertilizer." He had already began to effortlessly pick up a spare generator under a thick, corded arm while he counted out the payment from the large wad of cash he had with him.
While he prefered gold, the paper had it's own security. But it got too tempting and he sold a fair bit of the gold he had picked up in the decade before gold skyrocketed and now had a fair bit of cash to invest. Companies would be too risky as he wouldn't be able to check up on them often enough. But land... He got a fair bit of land now. Lumber, mines, hunting, cattle... He had been lucky to have had the money around when the government and the oil magnates had sold off their holdings in the Kaarniy mountain range. Maybe the fools thought it haunted. Whatever happened though, he was off to his new home, even if just for the summer.
And so he drove. He would have prefered to have his own sustainable source of food at the cabin but it would take time to get trees felled and a garden and some animal pens set up. He instead had supplies delivered over the past month to an old lodge from some railroad tycoon from the last century. Supposed to be a good place, though it sounded a bit large for just him. Probably had the doors broken or was impossible to keep warm. Along the weeklong trip into the mountains he picked up whatever the slowly shrinking cities, towns, then gasstations had that he might crave later. A load of preserved fruits, saltwater taffy, and books later and he was back on the road, now at the border of his property. And then... He arrived. Stepping out of the truck he looked over his cabin, proud at his acquisition for a moment before starting to unload.
While he prefered gold, the paper had it's own security. But it got too tempting and he sold a fair bit of the gold he had picked up in the decade before gold skyrocketed and now had a fair bit of cash to invest. Companies would be too risky as he wouldn't be able to check up on them often enough. But land... He got a fair bit of land now. Lumber, mines, hunting, cattle... He had been lucky to have had the money around when the government and the oil magnates had sold off their holdings in the Kaarniy mountain range. Maybe the fools thought it haunted. Whatever happened though, he was off to his new home, even if just for the summer.
And so he drove. He would have prefered to have his own sustainable source of food at the cabin but it would take time to get trees felled and a garden and some animal pens set up. He instead had supplies delivered over the past month to an old lodge from some railroad tycoon from the last century. Supposed to be a good place, though it sounded a bit large for just him. Probably had the doors broken or was impossible to keep warm. Along the weeklong trip into the mountains he picked up whatever the slowly shrinking cities, towns, then gasstations had that he might crave later. A load of preserved fruits, saltwater taffy, and books later and he was back on the road, now at the border of his property. And then... He arrived. Stepping out of the truck he looked over his cabin, proud at his acquisition for a moment before starting to unload.