This is probably going to be a short one due to how tired I currently am writing this. I’ll try to do more than what I feel like I’m capable of but writing this by hand does really on my hand and hamper my ability to stay up.

A day or two after my talk with Dorian, I decided to take up his offer on being a patrol-men. As it turns out, they had officially been renamed Rangers. After my more pressing runs, I found some time in between deliveries to visit the side building next to the police offices. From what I understand, that side building is actually part of the police station that is being used as an interim building for the Rangers until they get an actual building on the outer skirts of town. Not too many people there and from what I could tell, most of the rangers are town highway patrol man basically having some more knowledge of the outdoors than the average officer. There seemeded to be a couple actual career hunters there and from what answers I got, there were actually quite a few hunters in the Rangers office but that half of them are currently out in the field due to the recent event making the Mayor want some more frequent reports and the other half training the few recruits have actually signed up to be rangers.

I actually learned a bit about about to that too. While I thought it would be bit a different, turns out that a not lot of people didn’t no people want to sign up to be out in the wilderness where we’ve now heard about some major monsters coming from. I probably should have thought about that before signing up but it’s too late now. Honestly, even writing this, almost a week after they told me about it, I still don’t really care about it so much as it can help the town.

Sure, I’m definitely scared meof of what is out there, seeing as the two things we’ve seen come out of the forest was a digging land-shark and a small pack of angry green ape-men, but that fear seems pretty muted now that I’ve seen the damages of them. This probably doesn’t make sense as I’m writing this but I feel like it’s the ‘give up on giving up give up giving up’ mentality. These things exist already and there isn’t a way to really avoid them so I might as well try and help others do better than me.

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I don’t know. I’m tired. This is probably as stupid as it sounds to me exhaustion-addled head.

After signing up, I had to schedule out some time to get into training since I was still messenger for the town until the whole talkie-talkie system was finalized and working properly. It wasn’t hard since after explaining to Mrs Margeret (I’m pretty sure I mentioned her, she was the mayor secretary), I was able to set up some times for my initial training to be a Ranger. My basic schedule for the rest of that week was spending the first fourth of my day delivering messages between key points of the town, the next fourth doing less intensive ranger training which consists of practice for tracking, study of animal habits and more basic map-reading and survivalist things, then I go back to deliver for another fourth of the day and finally the more active parts of range training which was practical skills and firearms training.

It’s actually weird that because we don’t actually use firearms yet. Most of the firearms training we’ve been doing so far is only airsoft stuff. I asked about this and the instructors have basically said that due to the relative uncertainty of ammo supplies for the near future (still need to make a count), anyone trying with firearms are going to train with airsoft imitations for a time before they can be trusted with actual ammunition since those aren’t going too handed out so freely. When I ask about how effective that way, the trainer admitted that this was more of way to gauge who would be more trust worthy in actually handling firearms and frugal use of ammunition and not about actual training. As it is, this is introductory boot camp for the rangers is meant more to determine if you’re capable of the rest of the training. You’d think that due to demand, they accept everyone but it’s one of those catch-22s; you have need for more people in the division but letting everyone is means you accept a bunch of fat alongside any good you get, so making a basics camps makes it easier to cull out the ones who were always going to be fat and nothing else. I don’t want to toot my own horn considering what I know is coming but I did pretty good at those basic training courses.