Reese's Minutemen

Reese's Minutemen are a unit of Minutemen $$

Background
Reese's Minutemen are lead by a Minuteman Scout named Reese, described as a jolly young man with round, rosy cheeks. The unit's responsibility is to eliminate any threats coming in through Boston Harbor, and keep a watch for any incoming ships. Prior to the beginning of A New Eden, Reese's Minutemen defended the USS Germination from a raider attack, being rewarded crates of flesh fruit by the crew as a reward.

When first encountered by the player characters, the unit are not yet affected by the fruit, and busy roasting some of their flesh fruit on a fire. The unit is accommodating to the characters, warning them of an incoming blizzard and offering to share some of their fruit with them in exchange for tales of combat, or travel stories. It is only after 12-to-24 hours after the player characters leave that the fruit begins to affect them.

Once the fruit started to take it's effect, Reese's Minutemen sent out one of the last healthy members among them, Susan Hailey, to track down the player characters and plead them to return to the campsite at Boston Harbor in order to help. When the player characters return, the unit are shown to be afflicted by Famished Fever; becoming bloated and smelling strongly of rot, as well as developing purple splotches, a faint purple glow, and yellow puss weeping from the eyes. Upon the characters speaking with him, Reese's voice proves to have also warped, becoming raspy and monstrous. He tells the player characters that the group plans to attack the USS Germination, however the players can also learn that before the symptoms took effect, the unit traded some of the fruit to a nearby settlement.

The unit played an important part towards the end of the quest, providing fire support once the Last Son of Atom's soldiers began to attack the USS Germination. Reese's Minutemen spoke up against the forces, refusing to stand down, and were able to fully protect the top deck of the ship singlehandedly, leaving the lower decks to the player characters. In the aftermath of the battle, and providing that the player characters treat the ship's supplies of flesh fruit to make it safe to eat, the unit will offer to aid in delivering the fruit to settlements in need.

Appearences
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