The Posse awoke inside their lodgings on the shore of Yellowstone Lake. While the Scabs were busy loading a timber barge for delivery to West Thumb, they arrayed their equipment and plotted their activities for the day. The gang knew the Eighties, a raider gang holed up at Pelican Springs only a few miles to the east, were searching for mercenaries to help run the Khan blockade keeping them from exchanging slaves for precious fuel from the Roughneck microstate up north. Their plan: pretend to work for the raiders, lead them into a killbox, claim the 1,000 caps reward posted by the Great Khans.
