The Teddy Bear's Picnic


 * 200 years ago, all 8 dams between Coeur d’Alene and Spokane were targeted by bombs; toxic heavy metals from upriver smelters were stirred up by a flash flood; flood plugged up at Spokane Falls downtown, where mud sprayed outward and buried city
 * I-90 is the only path through the mud in Spokane; above Spokane is Davenfort; at the juncture of Fort’s bridge and I-90 is Kantown
 * Davenfort under control of Cobras, attack anyone out of visual range of Davenfort, take taxes from Kantown for protection
 * Park Miss Daisy at Doradango saloon, go to McCarthy’s
 * Attacked at McCarthy’s by bounty hunters who came looking for Mac 6 days ago and took Robert McCarthy as leverage; boss Bouncin’ Betty escapes
 * Scray, clerk taken prisoner by bounty hunters; originally from Montana
 * Bob possibly taken to Muddites, a community living under mud north of Davenfort, by bounty hunter Ghostgear
 * Rico, owner of Doradango, identifies bounty hunters as Category 5; never saw Betty
 * Contact Muddites underground, who reveal that Ghostgear hired young Muddites for unknown task beyond Muddite borders
 * Track Ghostgear to train moving through mud tunnels, rescue Robert, and send Muddites home
 * Ghostgear is an elaborately modified cyborg