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  • Rage Virus
    • Part 1 - A police story
    • Part 2 - Attrition
    • Part 3 - Going nowhere
    • Part 4 - Special Weapons and Tactics
    • Part 5 - Tactical retrograde
    • Part 6 - Mission accomplished
    • Part 7 - It's pretty much all downhill from here
    • Part 8 - Hollerton Field
    • Part 9 - Out of the frying-pan
    • Part 10 - How few remain
  • Five Men in Ukraine
    • Five Men in Ukraine: 30 October 1943
    • Five Men in Ukraine: 05 November 1943
    • Five Men in Ukraine: 14 November 1943
    • Five Men in Ukraine: 29 November 1943
    • Five Men in Ukraine: 13 December 1943
  • First Bishops' War
  • DBA
    • Mongols v Georgians
    • Timurids v Georgians
    • Mongols v Il-khanids
    • Mongols v Il-khanids II
    • Pre-feudal Scots v Anglo-Danish
    • Caledonians v Scots-Irish
    • Vikings v Saxons
    • Mongol campaign
    • Ming v Mongols campaign
    • Picts v Strathclyde Britons
    • Mongols v Russians
    • Russians v Swedes
    • Danes v Prussians
    • Kaykhusraw & the Mongols
    • Köse Dağ
    • Mongols in Korea
    • Mongols in Korea II
    • Yuan v Koreans
    • The Danes in Estonia
    • Danes v Estonians
    • Norwegians v Scots 1263
  • SF
    • Sladden >
      • Sladden - chapter 0
      • Sladden - chapter 1
      • Sladden - chapter 2
      • Sladden - interlude I
      • Sladden - chapter 3
      • Sladden - chapter 4
      • Sladden - chapter 5
      • Sladden - interlude II
      • Sladden - chapter 6
    • Dunhold >
      • Dunhold I - the raid
      • Dunhold II - the Guffinsson device
      • Dunhold III - a walk in the country
      • Dunhold IV - assassin's greed
      • Dunhold V - assault on precinct XIII
      • Dunhold VI - hostage & rescue
      • Dunhold VII - the gun
      • Dunhold VIII - tank shock
      • Dunhold IX - raid on Beteneb
      • Dunhold X - firebase Ragnhild
      • Dunhold XI - hit and run
      • Dunhold XII - just-in-time logistics
      • Dunhold XIII - infiltration
      • Dunhold XIV - Applewhite & Nettles
      • Dunhold XV - 'They've got a cave troll!'
      • Dunhold XVI - The bridges at Itrook
    • Dalek Invasion >
      • Dalek invasion - chapter 1
      • Dalek invasion - chapter 2
      • Dalek invasion - chapter 3
      • Dalek invasion - chapter 4
      • Dalek invasion - chapter 5: Bob's story
      • Dalek invasion - chapter 6: Bob's story (2)
      • Dalek invasion - chapter 7: Dalek hunters
      • Dalek invasion - cast
    • Voyage of the USS Minotaur
    • Mutants & Death Ray Guns >
      • From Dust: Introduction >
        • From Dust: Prologue
        • From Dust: Chapter 1 - the Trademaster
        • From Dust: Chapter 2 - the Wretched
        • From Dust: Chapter 3 - the Device
        • From Dust: Chapter 4 - Tucamari
      • Big Dode in the wastelands >
        • 1 - The ordeal
        • 2 - The rats
        • 3 - An ally
        • 4 - Scorpion!
        • 5 - Water! Water!
        • 6 - Cornered rats
        • 7 - The river
        • 8 - R-10-T
        • 9 - The pilgrims
        • 10 Hostile contacts
        • Appendix 1 - Bestiary
      • Don Chimpanzino
      • Therianthropes are go!
      • Against the Wretched >
        • Against the Wretched - 1
        • Against the Wretched - 2
        • Against the Wretched - 3
      • Rangers of the wasteland >
        • RotW scene I
        • RotW scene II
    • Five Parsecs from Home: The Independent Scout part 1
    • Five Parsecs from Home: The Independent Scout part 2
    • Five Parsecs from Home: Squall's Legacy
    • Five Parsecs from Home: Jot the Jawa
    • Five Parsecs from Home - Arcadian Phoenix
    • Schar's World
    • Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Goats, Rats and Pigs >
      • Chapter 1
    • Marines v Aliens
    • Fallout >
      • Fallout - part 1
      • Fallout - part 2
      • Fallout - Resistance part 1
      • Fallout - Resistance part 2
    • England Invaded! >
      • Ottoman airship raiders
      • A sharp action at Fawkham
      • On the road to Canterbury
    • Gangs of New Neasden >
      • Gangs of New Neasden part 2
    • Post-Brexit Gangs of Middlesborough
    • Operation Last Train
    • Silver Thorn
    • Goblin Civil War
  • Dark Ages skirmish
    • Dark Ages skirmish: Chapter 1
    • Dark Ages skirmish: Chapter 2
    • Dark Ages skirmish: Chapter 3
  • Douglas of the 92nd.
    • Douglas of the 92nd. - the supply column
    • Douglas of the 92nd. - the heliograph station
  • The First World War
    • Mesopotamia
    • Trench raiding
    • Panzer Angst September 15th 1916
    • Freikorps
    • Biplane Barmy
    • 1914
    • 1914 - Opening Moves
    • Night falls over Jutland
    • 1919
    • Zeppelin L33 over England
    • Journey's End
  • Horse & Musket
    • Meyvaci Ali and the British invasion
    • Meyvaci Ali and the troublesome dervish
    • Meyvaci Ali and the Albanian raiders
    • Meyvaci Ali and the caravan
    • Meyvaci Ali and the tax collector
    • Meyvaci Ali and the customs-house
    • Meyvaci Ali and the revolting Martolos
    • Meyvaci Ali and the Albanian menace
    • Napoleonic Ottomans
    • Late 17th century >
      • Kirk o Shotts
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      • Auchtermuchty
    • Jacobites
    • O Brien's Farm
    • Turks v Russians
    • Turks v Russians 2
    • The Peninsula
    • Altdorf April 23rd 1813
    • Alcuesta
    • The Old West
  • Samurai
    • Lord Sugiyama and the ten ronin
    • Neshikocho 1618
    • Ikko-ikki
  • Arty farty
    • Aberlemno
    • Acharn
    • Aikey Brae
    • Balgorkar (Castle Fraser)
    • Barra Hill
    • Brandsbutt stone
    • Broomend of Crichie
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    • Dunnideer
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    • Cnoc Freiceadain
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    • Glassel
    • Inveravon
    • Kilmartin Glen
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    • Mulloch
    • Sunhoney
    • Tollohill
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    • Auchindoun
    • Fedderate castle
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    • Slains castle
    • Bullers o Buchan
    • Camster
    • Coire Fraoichidh / Corrichie
    • Cruden Bay
    • Gourdon
    • Kinclaven
    • Loch Eich
    • Nairn beach
    • Newburgh
    • Perwinnes Moss (Scotstown Moor)
    • St. Fillans
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    • Animals
    • Interesting rocks
    • And quiet flows the Dee
    • Enchanted Forest, Pitlochry
    • Strange skies
    • Covid-19 lockdown
    • One tree, one year
    • The trees
  • Fantasy
    • Song of Blades & Heroes >
      • A cautionary tale
      • Song of Arthur & Merlin
      • Succession
      • The short-lived adventures of Yark the kobold
      • Gondor v Orcs
      • Cormyr - introduction >
        • Cormyr - the watchtower
        • Cormyr - the ambush
        • Cormyr - the outpost
      • The adventures of Zou Kov >
        • The palace of Covidius I
        • The palace of Covidius II
        • The palace of Covidius III
        • The palace of Covidius IV
        • The howling
        • The beacon
        • The castle
        • Assassination
        • Run out of town
        • A new start
        • Kobold caves
      • The Dark Company
      • Theophylact the Tendentious
      • Alquin of Barrowdale
      • The Young Kingdoms
      • Zothique
      • Hyperborea
      • Vadagh
    • Lord of the Rings >
      • Mahud & Haradrim v Gondor
      • Hobbits v goblins
      • Rohan v Dunlendings
      • Gondor v Haradrim & Mahud
      • Gondor v Dunlendings
      • Faramir at Osgiliath
    • Five Leagues from the Borderlands
  • Second World War
    • Atlantic Convoy SC41
    • Burma 1943
    • Martelange
    • Dzyatlava
    • Monopoly Blitz
    • Ten minutes on a Burmese afternoon
    • Neil Thomas
    • Manchuria
    • D-Day
    • Bolt Action >
      • Encounter at Villages Pas Vrai
      • Manhunt
      • The secret agent
      • Envelopment
  • Irish independence
  • Who thought this was a good idea?
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  • All Under One Banner
    • All Under One Banner 03 June 2017
    • All Under One Banner 05 May 2018
    • All Under One Banner 04 May 2019
    • All Under One Banner 17 August 2019
    • All Under One Banner 07 October 2019
    • All Under One Banner 11 January 2020
    • All Under One Banner 02 April 2022
  • China 1937
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A graphical representation of the current situation in Barberton City.
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Hollerton Field Urban Redevelopment Area


Hollerton Field was established on the outskirts of Barberton City as an airship base in 1924. It was converted to an pilot training airfield in 1930 and was decommissioned in 1977. In 1984 it was sold to a property company. The neighbouring area of scrub land had in the meantime become the Hollerton industrial estate, but following the financial crash the buildings there were mostly abandoned. By 2010 the area was derelict with many buildings having been demolished pending redevelopment, burnt out by fire-raisers, or made uninhabitable by their owners to prevent occupation by squatters. In 2015 in an attempt to revive the area the city council declared the area, including the old airfield, an urban redevelopment area, and Hollerton Field itself was sold on by its previous owner to another property company who published plans for high-end housing inside a gated estate and installed secure fencing round the field. Since then no work has taken place, although the fencing is well maintained and the grass and scrub within the fence is regularly cut back. The old runways and hard standing remain in place, although they are no longer suitable for fixed wing aircraft operations.


1. Another dumpster fire in the industrial wasteland that was once Barberton City's prosperous Hollerton Field.
2. Well-known Barberton entrepeneur, Wilbur T. Mandelson, and his PA Ms Oldsworthy, make their way towards the Field's secure perimeter protected by four company security guards.
3. One of the Infected rushes towards Security Guard Kowalczyk who is fortunately alerted by the guttural, strangled moans of the creature as it moves to the attack.
4. Under the orders of Section Leader Brettschneider, the security guards' combined fire guns down the Infected while Mandelson and Ms Oldsworthy hurry on.
5. Unfortunately the gunfire attracts more Infected and the first of a group of three comes into sight of the party.
6. The three Infected race towards the party under a hail of fire from the security guards and the leading figure is hit several times.

Initial: On hearing from a source in the Governor's office that martial law was in the process of being introduced, Barberton City entrepreneur Wilbur T. Mandelson decided it was time to leave. His PA, Ms Oldsworthy immediately arranged for his private jet to be fuelled and ready at Schuyler Airport. Schuyler, being at the northern edge of the city, was an hour's drive from the company offices at Mandelson Tower and they both set off accompanied by an escort of company security guards.

However, on the way through the town, reports came in from the northern part that the outbreak had reached the airport and all flights had ceased. Quickly reassessing, Ms Oldsworthy suggested that they switch east to where Mandelson PLC still maintained a heliport facility at Hollerton and where only a moderate level of infection had been reported. Abandoning their SUV in a mile long traffic jam, the party headed on foot towards the now deserted Hollerton Field Industrial Estate while Mandelson called in a company helicopter to the site.

Their progress through the abandoned industrial estate was generally uneventful although gunshots, the screams of the Infected and their hapless victims could be heard in the distance. Their advance towards the helipad was slow owing to a combination of caution on the part of Section Leader Brettschneider's security guards and the constriction of Ms Oldsworthy's 6-inch heeled Jimmy Choos as she teetered along over the broken ground.

Presumably it was her rather noisy progress that attracted the attention of one of the Infected who came out from behind a building at the rear of the party. Seeing the group, it gave vent to a series of strangled moans and sprinted towards the youngest security guard Pyotr Kowalczyk who turned swiftly and  attempted to shoot but whose gun unfortunately jammed.

Brettschneider ordered the rest of the guards to open fire and did so himself. The resultant volley had the effect of causing the Infected to stagger backwards and despite a second unsuccessful attempt by Kowalczyk to clear his gun the remaining three shot the Rager down. As this was taking place Mandelson and Ms Oldsworthy hurried on - only to slow down and move back towards the guards as more cries and howls from a ruined building to their left announced that more Infected had been attracted by the sounds of shooting.

Not surprisingly, three more Infected ran into view and sped towards the party. The leading Infected was hit three times but this failed to halt his progress and young Kowalczyk broke and ran as the rager came within a few feet of him. Luckily, Brettschneider coolly shot the howling rager and it fell to the ground twitching erratically. The two remaining security guards fired at the following Infected and one was killed outright while the other was knocked to the ground. As it lay there, Kowalczyk, recovering his nerve, ran forward and shot it dead.

The silence that followed was broken a few seconds later by more guttural moans and cries to the right of the party and for a terrible moment they froze expecting another eruption of ragers from the nearby buildings. However, the cries and roars remained at a distance and the party hurried on.

As they reached one of the many dumpster fires littering the ruined estate a fresh chrous broke out also to their right but this too remained at a distance and the party reached the chain link fence surrounding the helipad without further trouble as the helicopter hove into view.

As they climbed aboard the helicopter, the ragers behind the building charged forward, attracted by the engine noises but were, thankfully, too far away to affect their departure.

7. Security Guard Kowalczyk breaks and runs from the leading Infected but the rest of the section fire steadily at their attackers.
8. s the leading attacker is downed the remaining Infected continue forward under fire as the security guards loose off round after round.
9. As the last of the three Infected attackers falls writhing to the ground the sounds of firing attract yet more curious Infected to the Field.
10. Fortunately for the party, the new groups of Infected are not in direct sight of the path to the heliport and, as the firing has now died down, mill about aimlessly near some ruined buildings.
11. Mandelson calls in the helicopter to the landing pad while Ms Oldsworthy looks on and the security team remain alert.
12. Mr Mandelson makes sure he is first one into the helicopter.


The Rage virus outbreak in Barberton City:
http://www.spodilicious.com/rage-virus.html
http://www.spodilicious.com/part-1---a-police-story.html
http://www.spodilicious.com/part-2---attrition.html
http://www.spodilicious.com/part-3---going-nowhere.html
http://www.spodilicious.com/part-4---special-weapons-and-tactics.html
http://www.spodilicious.com/part-5---tactical-retrograde.html
http://www.spodilicious.com/part-6---mission-accomplished.html
http://www.spodilicious.com/part-7---its-pretty-much-all-downhill-from-here.html
http://www.spodilicious.com/part-8---hollerton-field.html
http://www.spodilicious.com/part-9---out-of-the-frying-pan.html
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