Furious, Thorpe ordered an attack on the Summersville Dam, where he used mini nukes stolen by the Blackwater Bandits from the Brotherhood to blow up the dam and flood Charleston on Christmas Eve. Placed in custody and interrogated, Jeffries could not contact Thorpe and was believed dead. The rising star of the Responders was almost extinguished when Rosalynn Jeffries, second-in-command of the Cutthroats and lover of their leader, David Thorpe, was captured in a brutal clash south of the city. By 2082, their sporadic clashes and tepid expansion into the Forest brought them into conflict with Responders in Charleston. The raiders preyed primarily on unaffiliated traders and travelers, traveling through the Savage Divide, and cautiously stealing items they could not obtain by force, for example, from the Appalachian Brotherhood of Steel. They split into five gangs: Cutthroats, Trappers, Diehards, Blackwater Bandits, and the Gourmands. Under his leadership, the raiders slowly organized into one of the largest organized factions in Appalachia. They took what they wanted by force and killed anyone that stood in their way. After ensuring Harland was out of the way, Thorpe shaped those people into something terrible. When the McClintocks tried to hold a trial and exile him for killing two survivors who came to help, they were already in a losing position. David Thorpe offered a way forward that Harland did not, even if it meant stepping on necks to get what they wanted. When the Responders finally sent up an expedition up into the mountains in August 2078, they discovered what was left of the survivors, which terrified even those who witnessed the immediate aftermath of the Great War. Blocked by snowfall and radiation, the food supplies dwindled until they almost completely disappeared and the survivors turned on each other. However, what really twisted the arrogant rich into atrocious raiders was the winter of 2078. The failure to gather meaningful supplies weakened Harland McClintock, the leader of the survivors elected by popular vote. Overwhelmed with the influx of refugees from all the areas west of the Rockies, the city's leaders had to turn them away. The survivors tried to connect with the Responders at Charleston in November, to ask for help and supplies. In response, the tourists started to form salvage parties, to gather supplies while awaiting rescue, placing their belongings under the care of the resort staff. At first, the rich and the staff tried to rationally respond, awaiting rescue by government forces, however, within a week the supplies at the resort started to run dry - they were reliant on regular deliveries, after all. The earliest raider groups were formed in the Savage Divide by the wealthy tourists who were trapped at the ski lodges there by the Great War. Their brutality and ruthlessness was a function of their background. They turned out to be expert scavengers, ingenious when it came to salvaging old-world technology. The raider groups of Appalachia were bloodthirsty psychopaths who terrorized the other survivors, taking whatever they wanted from them. 5 Interactions with the player character.
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