Something stupid.

Lol

The story has potential, though the details don't make sense.

Like them using stirrups when they are both an eeeeviiiiiiil human invention, and the best way to give birth is to squat.

Right, but the point is that they don't know that.

Wut

How could they not know that stirrups are human inventions?

The squatting thing.

Hippies are retarded and even they do it.

They don't know that. They are not very clever or sophisticated.

Well, not necessarily squating, the main need is to draw your legs back.

I'm telling you, without access to modern medicine, this is what people normally do.

I get that.

Also cults can be extremely good at tech, and anti-tech people like Ted and Timothy are among the most sophisticated, tech-profiecient bombers ever.

None of this makes sense, the more I think about it.

Well they were still in prototype phase when I stopped working on it.

But this has been very educational.

They would not be able to do ANY modifications if they were not technologically sophisticated to an even greater degree than the cult that did the nerve gas attack.

Prototype phase? You'd nearly finished the book.

No

This is from a sequel to the book i finished.

The recrants are only passinly mentioned and not even directly in the first one. Just someone refrencing strange occurances and disappearances.

Morons would not be able to do that and not end up shot or in prison.

Especially in a group.

This community would be WACO'd.

(And WACO weren't even kidnapping and raping women and children.)

It's still good though

MAYBE such a community could exist if it was EXTREMELY sophisticated in its technological and opsec capabilities.

The manage the that kidnapping stuff because they stick to the ruall areas of the coast range, and migrate between two states and three different countries.

The Utopia of California is especially lax in regards to following up on missing citizens.

Wow, crossing international and state boundaries on the reg.

>not taking over an abandonded oil rig to start your sekrit club

It doesn't matter where they are, they'd be fucked.

US troops would storm in, rescue the kidnapped that were still alive, and shoot everyone else.

Their only hope at not being slaughtered(If they want to go round kidnapping and raping people) is perfect secrecy.

They'd have to have resources, sophisticated tech capability and opsec for that.

Part of the point of this story is to convey just how isolated that part of the country is. It is a dense forest, on difficult terrain. Traversing it is one of the few things they're good at.

Doesn't matter in the slightest.

also this was written in like 2005. I didn't anticipate done stuff getting as sophisticated as it has.

This fantasy would end in chemical defoliant, burn-offs, and troops storming the compounds.

Even in 2005 this was stupid.