ICC- Zombie Apocalypse- At the Truck Stop

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OCC- Sorry, this is a short one. Editted post to take into account Handy's post.

In the diner-
(OCC- everyone in the diner should roll sanity)

Bud has a moment of reflection as he sees the first of the creatures come over the diner wall. In that moment, he remembers his days in the service, when he was in the jungle and his platoon was trapped in a firefight against overwhelming numbers of NVA regulars. Despite his own disguest at the creatures that seem to be overwhelming the small band of surivivors., he finds remarkable fortitude and courage in this moment.

He gives Beth a picture and says, "That girl is around here somewhere. Try to save her if you can."

Then he fires his pistol three times at the nearest ghouls, hitting on twice in the head. Then he runs towards the front of the diner towards Bob.

"What are you doing? That man has our only real intelligence about the PMS compound. He's been involved in kidnappings and murder. You can't let him go!" Says Bud as he watches Flip, who seems to have a moment of indecision.

Azadeh readies her AR-15 for the next zombie to come through, even as she backtracks towards the exit. She hears them banging on the door, their mournful groans, even as she begins to retreat back to the ladder and liquor closet. "You better go." She says to Beth.

"Don't wait too long to follow me." Says Beth as she begins to back track firing her .38, dropping two more of the ghouls.


In the Parking lot.

Buzz says something to the skinhead with the M-16 who nods and runs towards the helicopter and the satchel charge under it. The two skinheads with the shotgun begin to withdraw.

One yells to Buzz, "We got to go, man. They're way to many of them things."
 
re moves

On top of the diner:
Alice saw the that the zombies were pressing in on the diner and were about to get inside. Stepping to the edge of the roof, she pointed her rifle at the head of the leader and fired.
She managed to hit the zombie in the head and she smiled and yes even cackled. She then saw the zombie fall as his head exploded all over several other zombies in the area

In the office
Jim Kerr entered the office behind Gary and David. He held in his left hand a .44 Magnum and in his right hand a crowbar. He started to walk to the corridor trying to decide if he wanted to go into the shelter or climb the ladder to the roof. However, he happened to glance outside the window and saw the zombies.
He simply shrugged his sholders and moved toward the corridor

In the Shelter
Buddy saw Mitchell open the case and saw that there were several weapons. However since he was a dog he could not do anything about them. He woofed quietly then padded his way in further to find Max and maybe play with him.
 
OCC - I can only say Bob is heading up, Luke stays up and Dave stays down (making ready to barricade the liquorcloset). I don't have controle over the other npcs, so I wouldn't presume making a choice for them.


On the T-Bone's rooftop -

Luke starts to laugh bitterly at the offer and shoots a zombie that had been trying to open the backdoor. *splat goes the zombie's head*

"Are you actually suggesting I'd give YOU my backup piece?" Luke snaps at "With a broken arm, you're going to shoot a .357 magnum. One handed. And then you're going to reload it one handed. Sorry, aint going to happen. I don't have ammo to waste and I'm not giving up my backup."

"No 'Custer'-remarks will change my mind either, Wounded Knee... So lay off." Luke says to Charlie expecting a crude remark.


In the Diner -

Bob beats a retreat and double taps at a zombie's head that comes too close. The double tap downs the zombie and Bob continues his retreat towards the ladder as he keeps his cool.
 
OCC- Just a quick post here. No time passes yet. Two more zombies have fallen, leaving exactly 100.

IC-
On the T-Bone's rooftop-
Dr. Hausmann says , " I can handle that with one arm. Of course, you knew that and you were just testing me."

"I can reload for you," said Mrs. Foo. "I not doing anything else."

"Ah, I never properly thanked you for saving my life earlier so, thank you. Now, I'll be right beside you the whole time. The instant you want your pistol back, I give it right back. And I won't waste ammo - I'm a good shot. That said, it's your gun, but it won't do any of us any good sitting in your holster."
 
OCC- little slow as we are rolling sanity points.
Note that the zombies are coming in through the hallway, and that ten zombies have entered the diner itself, although Azadeh has killed one. They are crawling over the booths towards the players now and will be upon you in two rounds.

In the Hallway-

The thought of those creatures, whatever they are, coming into the diner to feed on them…. The one that nearly grabbed her foot….. to become like Hammond and Earl… the thoughts are too much for Rita who races for the ladder, pushing past Jimmy and Samantha, and nearly pushing Randall off the ladder. Despite her fear and rash behavior, she’s able to smoothly climb up the ladder.

As Rita brushes past, Jimmy is knocked out of the way. He is able to keep his cool despite the banging on the back door as the creatures besiege the diner.

Samantha whispers, “bitch.” Then looks at the door and then back at the office. She still has her composure and looks to see how Randall is doing.

Randall nods and smiles, showing Samantha that he’s still in control of his fear. “Let’s get below and get some guns.”

They don’t have to tell Jimmy who darts past Dave and is running down below. Samantha follows a moment later just as…

In the Office-

David, the trucker is running into the hallway from the office.

Despite his fears through the day, David also still seemingly unfazed. “Come on Rita, “ He yells, “Get your ass on the roof.”

In the office, the boards that have been nailed to the window begin to splinter and break as hands begin to reach through and pound the window. Gary hears the crack of wood as he’s nearing the exit of the office and holds up. He has to as Dave gets ready to climb. Gary looks to Jim Kerr, his eyes clear and calm despite the madness outside. “Them things are about to come through the window and if they do, ain’t no way anyone inside is going to escape.”

In the Diner-

But the sight of the zombies banging against the windows, breaking the glass, coming inside, is too too much for Beth who raises to the ladder in fright. “They’re getting inside, they’re getting inside!” She yells at David, trying to hurry him up, pushing him to the side.

Azadeh hears Beth’s cry but is able to keep her cool and fires the AR-15 at the nearest ghoul as it crawls over the window sill. The shot explodes the creatures skull and it falls over into one of the booths. But there are others, many others, at least 9 more of the creatures crawling through the broken window mindless of the pain, falling over themselves as they crawl over the booths and then rising up from the floor. “We need to get out of here now.” She yells as she backs into the hallway.

Bud sees the creatures coming into the room, but he is undaunted. He calls out to Flip, “Get your ass back in here you punk bastard or’ I’ll shoot ya where ya stand.”

In the Fallout shelter-

OCC- Handy, can you post for Mitchell’s discovery. I can’t access my files at the moment.

Down below, Robert and Duke look at Lynne as they open the gate and proceed around a corner. “Not so hard after all.” Smiles Lynne.

“I could marry you.” Says Duke.

Lynne winks suggestively.

Somewhere ahead the sounds of a woman screaming can clearly be heard. The sounds sends a shiver down the spines of each of the trio. But each remains steadfast.

“Maybe this is a bad idea.” Says Lynne.

“Or we should get the others?” Says Duke. “Maybe just to tell them that we can retreat further below.”

Robert has the shotgun ready but he doesn’t quite know how to use it. “Alright. You two go up and bring me back a rifle when you can. I don’t know shit about shotguns. I’ll stay here and keep this area clear. If there is someone down here who needs our help, we better get to it fast.”


In the parking lot-

The two skinheads with shotguns are retreating towards the truck while the one with the M-16/203 has grabbed the satchel charge. Buzz points at the diner, and the skinhead nods. He then sneaks up towards the diner and throws the satchel charge under the cars closest to the entrance, landing under a big pick-up truck (Luke’s). Then he retreats back.

Flip remains undecided just outside the entrance of the diner.

Buzz looks at him curiously. “What’s it going to be Flip.” He yells. “You coming with us or you plan to survive over here.”

In the back of the truck the skinhead who looked wounded begins to go into convulsions.

“Buzz.” Says one of the skinheads with a shotgun, “Guzzman is looking like shit. I think he’s goin.”


At Brownson Airfield.

Michael, Joe Barring and Baldwin are able to move the can of gas close to the still moving blades of the helicopter as Erica Spears prepares to pump the gas from the can to the helicopter.

Kimberly has retreated back towards the truck near where Wallace has gone down and fires at the creature which is only 20 yards away. The shot hits the creature's head, tearing off most of its face, and for a moment throwing the creature to the ground. But then it is up again and approaching, though now at a stumbling pace.

Two of zombies are now 40 yards away and will arrive in two rounds.

“Jesus.” Says Kimberly. “They’re almost upon us.”

On the Hotel roof.

Ellen Cody is still unsure whether she should climb despite Stephanie's urgings.

Stephanie looks up, down the highway to the West, towards Dix, Potter and then Kimball and somewhere Cheyenne. What is going on at Warren right now?

It is then that she spots something moving in the high grass. It's moving fast.

There are more of them.
And they are coming fast.
This time they are coming from the West.
And they are very close now.
 
OCC- Azadeh killed one of the zombies inside the diner, leaving 9 in the front area. Bo killed a zombie that would have entered the front of the diner next round. Two more people on the roof each killed a zombie in the rear of the diner, leaving 96 total (87 outside). Zombies will get in both through the front and the office windows next round. Two of the zombies behind the diner have taken 9 damage to the head - one more hit to either of them will finish them off.

IC-
On the motel's rooftop-
"Oh my God!" said Stephanie when she saw the creatures coming from the west. "Ellen, get up here now! They're coming from the west, too - fast. Don't look back, just climb! I'll cover you." Stephanie drew Mr. Foo's pistol and made her way to the west side of the roof. The sleek little 10mm automatic reminded her of the Colt 10mm pistol from her favorite computer game, Fallout. She sighted along the barrel at the closest running corpse. "Jenny, hold the ladder and once Ellen is up, you two pull the ladder up and lower it at the south side - or the east if the skinheads have left. That'll help Mr. Foo get up faster."

Stephanie marvelled at how fast the things were moving. It was hard to believe these things were actually corpses. She had never fired at anything other than targets at a shooting range before, and was relieved that these targets were already dead. It would have been hard for her to shoot at someone who was alive and merely infected with some disease. She knew she was no action hero, though she had sometimes fantasized about being one. Now she had no choice but to become one.

"Pretty spry for a dead guy," she remarked, taking careful aim at the thing's head. It closed to about thirty yards, the nearest range she felt comfortable with. She fired, only to see her shot go wide.

On the T-Bone's roof
Sally fired again, getting another excellent hit. The zombie crumpled, its brains splattered. "I'm in the zone!" she said.

Charlie took another shot at a zombie trying to climb in the window. He wasn't used to shooting at such close range, but at least it made it easier to hit. The ghoul's head exploded in a cloud of blood, and it fell.

Father McCormick blasted another zombie in the head. It tottered, but stayed on its feet.

Bo moved to the south side of the roof, since few people were covering that end. He leaned over the edge and shot one of the zombies in the head before it could climb through the front windows. The top half of its head was blown off, and it dropped.

Ashley slid over to Willie and Tisha, kneeling and facing the other woman. "Hang in there," she said, patting Tisha on the shoulder. "We're safe up here." The reporter seemed like she was starting to calm down a little, but was still too shaken up to respond.

Dr. Hausmann and Mrs. Foo looked expectantly at Luke. The Chinese woman frowned, knowing that every second that passed was a second that the doctor could have used to shoot. "I help hold you steady, too," she said to Hausmann.

In the Fallout shelter-
Mitchell pried open the second of the three crates with ease. The contents were even more impressive. There were two M-16A2 assault rifles as well as two M4 carbines, with 14 30-round magazines of 5.56mm ammo. There was a pair of semi-automatic 12-gauge shotguns and 400 shells for them. Finally, Mitchell found two M3A1 Grease guns with 7 30-round clips of .45 ammo.

"All right!" he said, claiming one of the shotguns and a box of shells. Then he moved on to the last crate.

Max the dog ran past Duke and Lynne on their way back to the storage room and soon reached Robert. He stopped, panting, at Robert's feet and looked up at him as if asking what he should do. Then he sniffed the air and noticed an unusual smell down a corridor. He pointed a forepaw in that direction and said: "Woof!"

Buddy arrived and caught up with Max.

On the motel's balcony-
Mr. Foo watched with alarm as the skinhead tossed the satchel charge under the truck near the diner's front door. If that went off, the whole place could burn down, and he could not allow that to happen. If he waited any longer, Buzz could set off the explosives or get behind cover or to the truck. Firing was risky, with all the parked cars and the gas pumps nearby, but not firing was riskier. Having confidence in his abilities, Mr. Foo squeezed off a burst of 10 rounds from his MP-5 while Buzz was distracted and looking towards the man in the truck, striking the surprised skinhead with three of them. Fortunately, the other seven harmlessly struck pavement.

The shots that did hit Buzz were on the mark and devastating. They stitched a line across his back and arm. Buzz was killed instantly and slammed onto the asphalt, convulsing in a pool of his own blood. The detonator fell from his lifeless hand, clattering on the parking lot. Fortunately, the switch was not flipped by the impact.

Mr. Foo ducked around the corner of the motel along the balcony to the west, hugging the wall, but again he was not as stealthy as he had been in his youth. He could not be sure he hadn't been seen.

In the parking lot-
Flip watched in horror as Buzz was slain right in front of him, and he knew that Bud had a gun trained on his back. Some of the zombies swarming around the front of the diner shuffled in his direction. They would be on him very soon. Whatever he was going to do, he had little time.

(OCC- Flip, roll Sanity!)
 
On the motel's rooftop -

"You facking whiners... I do hope you realise the kickback will go through your entire body, woman. That arm of yours will put you in conciderable pain." Luke says as he hands his pistol to the doc "Now get off my fucking back."

"Keep 18 spare bullets aside and if you drop the gun over the ledge, I'm sending you right after it. Comprende?" he adds pissed off.

It's another zombie at the backdoor that pays for his rage. *splat goes the zombie's head*


In the Liquor Closet -

Dave keeps lugging stuff close to the door, preparing to seal it.


In the Diner -

OCC - does Bob see the skinhead go down and did he see the satchel charge?

Still in slow retreat, Bob doubletaps at a zombie that tries to enter the diner. One shot barely grazes the zombies head, but the other hits it square between the eyes and the zombie crumbles to the ground.
 
On the roof:
Buddy ran up to Max and put his forepaws on him in play. Hearing him woof and point down the hall he turned and he to smelled something funny in the air and he barked to get someone's attention.

In the office:
Jim Kerr continued to move through the office and then into the hallway where he paused at the ladder and stopped to listen to the noise around him thinking he heard the dogs barking.

On the roof of the diner:
Alice stepped to the edge of the roof and fired once more at a zombie below hitting it in the head. She watched as the zombie fell with a thud and grinned loving every minute of this, even though she knew that she would soon be dead too.
 
Parkinglot.

He watched in horror, as buzz was slain before him. He found that he couldn't move; losing his ability to function, he could just watch. the undead swarming infront of the diner. with the absence of mind at-hand, on the precipess of loosing his mind; he began to back-pettle twards the sound of bud's voice.

Brownson Airport

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OCC- Just a quick update. No time passes, and it's still the same round. One more zombie down in this post, leaving 91 at the diner (7 inside). One of the zombies behind the diner has taken 9 damage so far. Also, I just saw Stompie's post as I was about to submit this. That roll by Wallace is actually a hit, since he's using precision aim and there is no range penalty, just -5% for a headshot. Go ahead and roll damage, Stompie. Also, Flip's Sanity roll of 43 is a failure, as he only started with 40 and he even lost 6 when Horst got killed. Flip should lose 1d10 Sanity, judging by what the other people in the diner have lost when they failed their rolls.

IC-
On the motel's rooftop-
Stephanie's second shot struck the lumbering cadaver directly in the eye and practically took its head off! The rest of the body took a step forward, then fell motionless. "Whoa!" she said. "Didn't know I had it in me." Perhaps she had the makings of an action hero after all.

"I see them too!" called Jenny. "Hurry, Ellen! Why aren't you climbing?"

"I'm afraid of heights," said the maid.

"Be more afraid of those things! They're almost here!"

"I don't know..." Ellen paused at the bottom of the ladder, still unconvinced. Then they all heard the automatic gunfire on the other side of the motel. "That must be Mr. Foo. What's keeping him?"

On the T-Bone's rooftop-
"Danke," said Dr. Hausmann, taking the .357 Magnum in her right hand while Mrs. Foo collected the ammo. The older woman helped the doctor steady herself as she took aim at one of the creatures below. She fired, hitting the zombie Charlie had wounded earlier in the head and finishing it off. The kick was powerful, but she was a stronger than average woman. She made an effort not to wince. The pain was only a dull throb, but when the drugs wore off she knew she would pay.

In the Fallout shelter-
Max greeted Buddy with a series of yips and barks.
 
Quick post here-
@Handy, I think everyone has moved so we can call the round over. We can't have people moving too much and not allowing time to take its toll as well. ALso note PM about SKinheads. Sorry I did not get the info to you earlier. Will also email

@Stompie- please roll damage for Wallace.

In the Parking lot-

Flip has stepped out into the lot. Behind him he hears Bud say, "Get back in here scumbag or I'm taking you down."

In front of him he is amazed to see Buzz has fallen. the torn shirt reveals that Buzz had one a bullet proof vest, but apparently it wasn't enough to save him. One of the bullets had shattered the arms and seemed to have ruptured an artery. He lies unconscious on the ground as blood spills out from his wound.

The skinhead with the M-16/M203 sees Buzz fall and fires the 203 at Mr. Foo. Mr. Foo hears the weapon go off even as he's turning the corner. It explodes and he is thrown down, he feels his back wet and a stinging in his back. However, having moved out of the way, and the angle of the hit, Mr. Foo has escaped most of the damage.

(OCC- Handy, I will give you that Foo was moving around a corner when the shell went off and from an elevated position. Damn good shot by the skinhead though and he only needs to get within two yards to hit. I am going to cut the damage by 50%- so Foo takes three points of damage.)

The skinhead with the M-16 calls to one of the others, "Get the detonator and check Buzz."

The one skinhead closest to the truck looks at Guzzman. "We've lost Guzzman. Fuck."

"Let's go, let's go" yells the skinhead in the truck.

At the Motel-

Everyone hears the grenade explode and they see Mr. Foo lieing on the balcony of the Motel.

Ellen looks up at Jenny. "I'll go check on him. Try to keep them things off us will ya?"

In the Fallout shelter-

Lynne and Duke return to the store room where Mitchell has found the guns and is breaking open the last of the cases.

"We got 'em" says Mitchell.

Lynne and Duke run over to Mitchell and begin taking weapons.

"We also got the lock open down below. SOmeone is screaming down there but Robert is watching the gateway. It's a better spot to retreat to than here. I think from that gate we can hold off them things indefinitely." Says Duke. "Only thing is, there might be more of them things down there."

Lynne grabs one of the M3 Grease guns and one of the Colt 45s while Luke grabs one of the M-4's and a M-14.

Above, Randall and Samantha help out Dave in preparing to block the closet door. "We need to keep this open to the last minute so the others can get out. " Says Randall.

Samantha nods. "Yes, otherwise there is no way they are all going to get out of there."

Rita climbes to the top of the stairs as Beth pushes David. But David isn't having it, and pushes Beth aside and begins to climb up. Frustrated but still on her feet Beth bolts through the door for the fallout shelter, and is quickly past Samantha, Randall and Dave, and heading down for the warehouse.

Jimmy, the runaway, reaches the warehouse level at full sprint. "They're comin in!"

In the office-

Another board breaks and then one of the table that had been placed on the window comes off. Jim Kerr and Garry can see the first of the ghouls crawling through the window into the office.


In the Hallway-

Azadeh has managed to retreat back into the hallway and fires the Ar-15 and hits and drops another of the creatures that has entered the diner as she steps back.

A glance back at the ladder reveals that David is already going up. Most of the people have cleared but she can hear the breaking of glass and wood coming from the office. Judging that the ladder will take more time to climb then just rushing for the shelter, she decides she will go down.

In the Diner itself

Bud has his .38 pointed at Flip's back. Meanwhile the creatures that had come in are climbing back to their feet and beginning to stumble across the room, bumping into tables and tripping over chairs as they reach for Bud and Bob.

Bob looks at the Diner as he nears the hallway and sees another seven of the ghoulish creatures coming inside. There are even more behind them.

At Brownson Airfield-

Meanwhile, the three men are able to get the gas tank near Erica and Baldwin quickly gets the cap open so Erica can get the pump ready. "Now we got to hold them off for about 20 minutes." She says.

KImberly fires her shotgun at one of the ghouls from 40 yards, but the shot goes long
 
In the office:
Jim Kerr was waiting to get into the hallway because of all the people and listning to the dog barking which only he could hear for some reason. Suddenly he heard the window boards breaking and turning he saw a creature trying to get inside. Pulling his pistol he fired but the bullet went wild. "Must have been the cowboy pull" Jim said to anyone who was listning. He quickly tried to think what to do now.

In the fallout shelter:
Buddy agreed with Max about getting the people down there but of course no one else understood doginese and so he barked louder and tried to guide the people down the hallway away from the weird smell.

On the roof of the diner:
Alice aimed and fired at another zombie below her. She smiled as she saw the bullet hit the zombie and sink deep into its head. She saw the zombie fall flat as its head exploded into gore.
 
OCC- I'll go ahead and roll Flip's Sanity loss of 1d10 below. Also, Stompie had originally said that Flip would head back into the diner, but after I mentioned that the Sanity check failed he edited it to have him stand motionless. I had pointed out that he can still run into the diner in a panic, but he hasn't edited it back yet. I'll have Flip run back into the diner in the post below, and he'll get in there ahead of the seven zombies that enter this round. He'll still have to avoid the ones already inside, though.

Jim Kerr couldn't have heard the dogs barking from this distance, especially with all the gunfire going off. I did say that his Listen roll meant that he heard the burst from Mr. Foo's MP-5, and its approximate direction. Everyone heard the grenade from the M203.

Alice actually did a lot more damage than was listed, though 10 is enough for a kill. The rifle does 2d6+4 damage, but the roll was good enough for an impale, meaning it would have done 4d6+8. Needless to say, the zombie is quite dead.

The latest kill tally at the diner: The zombie McCormick wounded earlier is still up; it has actually taken 8 damage rather than 9, since the rifle does 2d6+3 and not 2d6+4. He just wounded another one for 7. Since the last total, Azadeh killed one inside, Alice killed one outside, four other people on the roof each killed one outside, and Bud killed one inside. Let me know if I missed any. That leaves 84 in all, with 5 inside the diner from the first wave and 7 inside from the second (maybe this should be 6, since Bo killed one out front last round). There is also now one in the office.

By the way, Welsh, you accidentally referred to Duke as "Luke' once in your last post above.

IC-
In the parking lot-
Seeing Buzz getting gunned down and the undead closing in him was too much for Flip. He ran through the diner's broken entrance in a blind panic.

One of the shotgun-toting skinheads ran back towards Buzz, while the other headed for the truck.

At the motel-
Jenny smiled up at Stephanie. "I think that won't be a problem," she told Ellen. "Stephanie rocks! You should have seen her take that thing down."

Ellen darted up the stairs to the balcony and ran around it towards Mr. Foo.

"Beginner's luck," said Stephanie, looking out over the grass. Five more of them were loping towards the motel. Two of them were quite close. Stephanie took aim at one of their heads and squeezed off two rounds. Both of them hit, but it kept coming, albeit at a slower pace.

"Just keep it coming," said Jenny. She watched Stephanie's shooting with obvious awe. "Yeah, that's what I'm talking about!"

"Man, they're tough," said Stephanie. She adjusted her aim to the other creature, since it was still coming full tilt.

On the balcony, Mr. Foo lay in shock, the shrapnel in his back painful. In spite of his injuries and the imminent danger, he felt more exhilarated than he had in decades. Just like old times, he thought. He found it rather ironic that he felt the most alive when he was killing other people and they were trying to kill him back. He was now behind the motel's wall and out of the line of fire, the blast having pushed him away and knocked him flat. He knew he should be dead, but he had been in such situations before and survived. He never ceased to marvel at his incredible luck.

Ellen rounded the southwest corner and gasped when she saw him. "Oh no!" she cried. "Mr. Foo!" He was unable to move or speak yet, but he managed to wink at her to let her know it wasn't as bad as she thought.

In the Fallout shelter-
"Quick, grab a weapon," Mitchell told Jimmy as he pried open the final crate. Within it he found an M79 grenade launcher with 20 rounds, as well as 20 hand grenades. "Awesome! Check it out!"

(OCC- Mitchell doesn't have the Throw skill listed on his character sheet, but since he's into baseball I think it would make sense for him to have it at higher than the default of 25. If so, he might find the grenades useful later.)

"I'll take a few of those," said Jimmy, running in, "and a shotgun."

"Good choice," said Mitchell. "There's another in that crate there." He pointed it out.

Further in, Robert listened to the dogs yapping. "I know, fellas," he said. "I heard the screaming too, but we need some backup before we can go exploring, and I'm no good with a shotgun. The others will be back with more guns soon."

At this, Max stopped barking and stood still, trying to be alert to his surroundings.

On the T-Bone's roof-
Sally did a double tap at another zombie's head, hitting with both shots. The first one was excellent, and the thing was already toast even before the second hit it.

Charlie Moon fired again and scored another hit. It wasn't the best shot, but it was good enough. The zombie bit the dust.

Roger McCormick lined up another shot and struck home again, but again the thing would not go down.

Bo fired his shotgun at another zombie trying to climb in through the shattered front windows, connecting and obliterating its head.

"It grabbed me," sobbed Tisha, shuddering, "and another one tore off that poor boy's head right next to me..."

"Then why don't you get a gun and pay some of them back?" said Ashley. They're all around us."

With that, Tisha finally came to her senses. "You're right." She stood up, her fear turning to fury.

Dr. Hausmann took another shot and hit again, dropping the creature with one hit. The recoil was even stronger this time, and she gritted her teeth.

Tisha went up to her. "Here, let me do that," she said. "You're hurt pretty bad. I'm good with a pistol too, and I've got a score to settle with those things."

In the office-
Gary fired the Marlin at the zombie climbing in the window, but he was unused to the powerful rifle and the shot went wide. The ghoul finished climbing in, plopped onto the floor and began to crawl towards him and Jim Kerr. Another one started trying to get in right behind it. "We gotta get out of here, man!" he said.

In the diner-
"Smart move, punk," said Bud, as Flip rushed towards the corridor. Unfortunately, he didn't see a zombie crawling across the floor as he rounded a booth. As it rose up and tried to grab him, Bud fired two shots at its head, hitting both times. The first shot struck its forehead, and the second hit it in the neck and snapped its head off. "You can thank me later for saving your ass," said Bud. He turned to Bob. "Make sure he stays alive and gets to safety. I'll cover ya."

At Brownson Airfield-
"We've got some road flares in my rig," Baldwin said. "Maybe they can keep those things away from the chopper."

"I've got some in my cruiser, too," said Joe Barring.

Wallace had downed one of the two distant ghouls with his shot, but two more were closing in fast. The one Kimberly had wounded earlier was now just ten yards off, and the other one closed to twenty yards. Both would be on them soon, and there was just enough time for them each to fire once more. Luckily, the other five nearby zombies were still a little ways off.

"We could sure use some backup, fast!" called Kimberly.
 
In the fallout shelter:
As Max stopped barking Buddy did also. He then stopped to smell again and although it was faint still smelled something He began to whine to get someone's attention

In the office:
Jim saw the creature advancing toward him and fired point blank at the zombie hitting him in the head. He saw the zombie fall dead to the office floor and sighed loudly.

On the roof of the diner:
Alice saw that the battle was going against them but fired once more at the creatures below. She hit the zombie with a almost perfect shot! Alice cheered loudly as the zombie's head exploded into messy little bits.

OCC-rerolled and edited to clear up some matters brought to my attention
 
On the T-Bone's roof-

Luke hears the grenade goes of and immediately assumes something is wrong. If the skinheads wanted to help, they'd have shot the grenade in the other direction. He leaves his post and sprints towards the front of the building.

OCC - i suppose he doesn't get there fast enough to get a shot off?


In the diner-

Bob sees the satchel charge being dropped as well as the skinhead go down. Whatever happens, no skinhead must reach the remote detonator.

He double taps at the skinhead going for remote, hitting the runner's right arm and left leg ((damage 1d10=9, 1d10=2)).

OCC - mistyped description on dmg roll @ invis castle, but 1d8 = location, 1d10 = the beretta's dmg rolls.


The liquor closet-

Dave continues his preparations.
 
OCC- Big update here. A lot of interesting things are happening...

Don't thank me yet, Stompie. Things don't look so good for Flip.

Yes, Luke won't be able to fire until this round, and the skinheads got to go first. Steve, don't forget that Alice has already used up her next action to kill a zombie, so she doesn't get to do anything else this round. Very bad news for Bud, Bob, and Flip, I'm afraid. The IC description says the skinhead fired the M203, but since he had just fired it he had to use a hand grenade instead (the M203 has a RoF of 1/3 or 1/4). The roll is still a hit, unfortunately, and the damage rolls were high. A round from the M203 would have done less damage and over a smaller radius. Bud and Flip are not dead yet, but they will die without prompt treatment. I allowed all three of them a Dodge roll to take cover before the grenade went off and only take half damage, but only Bob made his roll (he takes 8 damage, but he passed out from shock because he failed his Con check). At least the zombies got hit too, and it will take them a round to recover so the ones that survived will not get to act just yet.

EDIT: Corrected description of skinhead's wounds. Bob did 9 damage to the leg and 2 to the arm. He would have fallen regardless of Dex. Instead the Dex roll was to try to hold onto the shotgun, which he failed.

IC-
In the parking lot-
"Where the hell is Flip?" asked the skinhead running towards Buzz, right before Bob shot him twice just yards from his destination. His left leg was shattered, and a bullet lodged itself in his right upper arm. The shotgun slipped from his grasp, and he lost his balance and fell to the asphalt, gashing his knee. But he was still conscious.

The skinhead with the M-16/M203 turned back and lobbed a hand grenade through the diner's broken front window in the direction from which the shots had come.

In the diner-
The grenade landed not far from where Bob was standing. Flip could not get out of the way in time, and neither could Bud, but Bob managed to dive behind the counter and was spared the worst of it. It sprayed deadly shrapnel all around the room. Bob, Bud, and Flip were horribly wounded, and all three of them were flung back, bleeding profusely. Bob had a gaping hole in his midsection, while Bud and Flip both had their right arms blown off and passed out. Bob struggled to stay conscious, but in vain. The zombies closest to them were also badly damaged, One was slain outright, shrapnel shearing off most of its head, but the other four were still moving. Six other zombies inside the diner were also maimed, slaying two more. The remaining zombies were all knocked off of their feet and flung across the room. A fire also started in the central area of the diner.

On the T-Bone's rooftop-
Everyone on the roof could hear and feel the grenade going off in the diner below. Rita screamed in alarm and sat huddled on the roof, hugging her knees.

Sally fired two shots at a zombie's head just as the grenade was going off, hitting with both of them and dropping it.

Charlie Moon uttered a curse in Sioux and ran towards the west side of the roof, Luke was not far behind him, heading for the southwest corner.

Father McCormick remained at his position and fired again, hitting and slaying another ghoul.

"Damn!" said Bo. He was already at the south end of the roof, so he turned and fired his shotgun at the skinhead with the M-16 from ten yards away. The blast hit him in the chest, knocking him onto his back. But the skinhead still lived, and didn't seem as badly hurt as he should have. Beneath his shredded shirt, Bo could see a kevlar vest not unlike his own. "He's got a vest!" called the trooper.

Ashley ran to Rita's side and tried to console her. "Come on!" she pleaded. "Are you going to let these sleazeballs tear your diner apart, or are you going to do something about it?"

Rita rose up, anger and determination in her eyes. "I'm gonna do something about it!" She gripped her late husband's .357 Magnum tightly and handed her own .38 to Ashley. "Come on!"

"Here," said Dr. Hausmann to Tisha, offering her Luke's .357 Magnum while Mrs. Foo handed her the ammo. "Stay with him and give those back to him the moment he asks. I'm going over to the hatch. I have a feeling there are people coming up who will need my medical expertise." Tisha took them, nodded, and followed Luke, while Mrs. Foo and the doctor went towards the hatch.

After emerging from the hatch, David drew his 9mm pistol and hurried after Tisha. "Those assholes better stay away from my truck!" he said.

In the hallway-
Azadeh and Gary were just about to leave when the explosion rocked the diner. They turned and saw the three men go down. "Hurry!" said Azadeh to Gary and Jim Kerr. "They need our help, now!" Gary was right behind her. Azadeh reached Flip and checked his pulse. "He's alive, but barely." She tried to bandage his wounds, but this kind of damage was beyond her skill. "I'm losing him!"

Gary reached Bud and tried to help him, but there was nothing he could do. "Most of those things are still moving. We can probably only save one of these guys before they reach us, and it'll take two of us to move any of them. I think these two are too far gone. Bob still has a chance."

As he spoke, eight more zombies climbed in through the broken front windows.

In the office-
As Jim Kerr backed through the door to the corridor, he saw another ghoul climb through the shattered window and land on the floor of the office.

In the Fallout shelter-
Samantha and Randall looked at each other and at Dave as they prepared to barricade the liquor closet. "What should we do?" asked Randall.

Far below, in the warehouse, Jimmy grabbed two hand grenades, the remaining shotgun, and a box of shells. Mitchell had opened his own box of shells and was hastily loading his shotgun, leaving the crowbar resting against a crate. "What the hell was that?"

"Something blew up," said Lynne. "I hope it was those horrible creatures."

"We'd better get back to Robert," said Duke. He and Lynne stuffed their pockets with several clips and hoisted their chosen weapons. "We heard a woman screaming for help ahead. Hold this room as long as you can, then fall back to the gate." The two of them ran back through the gate and soon reached Robert and the dogs. "I got one for each of us. Take your pick."

Beth ran into the warehouse, her eyes wide in fright. She showed no sign of stopping.

At Brownson Airfield-
Kimberly fired again at the head of the zombie she had wounded earlier, but the blast just missed. The thing reached her and lunged at her, but grabbed only air. The other wounded zombie was heading for Wallace, now just ten yards away. He would only have one more shot before it arrived. To make matters worse, the other five zombies were now only fifty yards away.

Baldwin and Joe Barring reached the truck, their weapons ready. Michael helped Erica Spears hook up the fuel pump to the open barrel, and they began pumping fuel into the chopper's tank.

At the motel-
"They're so hard to see in that grass until they're right on top of you," said Jenny. "If they'd gotten here a few minutes earlier, they'd have caught us down there..." She trembled.

Stephanie fired off a quick pair of shots at the running zombie's head, but both shots missed. "No, no, no..." she cried. The creature was now just ten yards away, and the one she had wounded was 20 yards off now - and two more were now just 40 yards away. "I can't stop them all! Some of them will get by!"

"One down, one wounded, three more real close and another behind them!" Jenny called down to the balcony. "Hang in there, Stephanie. You can do it!"

Ellen reached Mr. Foo's side, tore off the sleeves from her blouse, and used them to try to bandage him. However, the stress was too much and she couldn't focus on the task at hand.

In the parking lot-
The skinhead with the shotgun was almost at the truck when the man in the back began to stir. His eyes flew open, both of them bright red. "Guzzman's turned!" shouted the skinhead, raising his shotgun and firing at the creature's head. scoring a powerful hit that put him down for good. "Got him!"

"Come on!" shouted the driver.

Closer to the diner, the wounded skinhead forced himself to stay awake and with his good arm started to drag himself closer to his fallen comrade. He looked towards where Buzz lay face-down, the detonator on his left side, the heavy pistol on his right, and the grenade launcher strapped to his back. It looked like Buzz was also starting to move.
 
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In the Office/corridar:
As Jim slowly backed out of the office he wondered if he should run over to see what he could do to help out but since he did not know First Aid really well he decided that he would be not be much help. Instead standing in the doorway he took aim and fired at the monster walking toward him. Since it was point blank range he hit and saw the zombie go down with a head wound. After that he turned and began to run out of the office and down the hall as fast as he could go.

In the Fallout Shelter:
Buddy gave up trying to get someone's attention and instead stopped to listen to see if he heard whatever it was that he smelled. He indeed heard something. Buddy turned and barked this news to Max so he knew about it too.
 
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