"Whatever you say, crazy! We gotta get in here, guys, there's no way around it! Back me up, here!"
As a radroach began to crawl around the door frame, Harper squeaked and jerked her baton toward it. Though she couldn't hit the pest herself, she appeared to deter its forward motion, setting up an ideal strike for Bloom. The greyhound snapped at the monster of an insect in perfect sync with Harper's swing.
Now that Tom has cried 'Havok', it was time for Aeryicka to let loose the dog of war. Namely, her new friend Canis Rex, or Rex for short. Nodding mentally to herself, she released the hold she had on him, and he took off, barreling at one of the radroaches on the wall next to the doorway. His muzzle lashed out, teeth snapping as he attempted to kill the crawler that is trying to kill his pack.
Aeryicka's pit chomps the radroach down, as Thomas splatters another. Two radroaches remain.
Edit - also, maps updated.
I'm able to post during the day, I just haven't much for Estelle to do at the moment.
The two roaches leap, one off the wall, one from the ground, in a wild attack at Thomas, due to him being the largest target by them.
Total 17 (pretty sure that's a raise at least)
vs. Toughness 5 = Raise (soooo close to two raises)
= 18 vs Toughness 5 = Hit and Three raises. (This could be bad)
It's free to try a Smarts trick to make an opponent -2 to parry. In theory you could tell the radroach his shoe is untied. :p (I don't -see- anything about needing to speak a common language... :p)
Kristophe barges into the room, right past Thomas who seems to have taken the worst of the Radroach swarm
RAAGH FF*!&ING BUGS!DIE!DIE!
Hit with...1 raise.
Kristophe swings his baton down onto a radroach and it splatters all over the wall.
F!#+ YEAH! GET SOME YOU BUG BASTARDS! Kristophe is still screaming obscenities
DID YOU SEE THAT BLOOM! YOU SEE THAT! SPLATTERED HIS F@@@ING BRAINS ON THE WALL YEAH! RAAAGH
The roach formerly on the wall goes ker-splat with Kristophe's relentless assault.
Badger throws his knife at the last roach.
Fighting:
Damage:
"Yeah? Check this out, killer!", Badger shouts, throwing his knife spinning end over end at the roach on the floor.
The knife, not designed for throwing flips end over end and jabs into the last radroach, which lays there twitching, but not dead (Shaken).
Kristophe sits down suddenly a little woozy.
I need a cigarette... he mumbles. After a few moments of panting Kristophe gets up and walks over to the radroach and kicks it.
Stupid f!@+ing bug. he mumbles
and then he walks over to the dead body, which is the first time he has seen one.
Woah. Check this out
As the fighting dies down, Estelle rushes up to Thomas. "You're lucky you're not dead. The hell were you thinking?" She mutters as she begins checking his wounds. She's pleased to find that they're shallower than they looked. She puts the medkit aside, pleased to not have had to actually use it yet. The supplies wouldn't last forever. She sighs, wondering how they're going to get through this.
When you search the dead body you find it has a .32 pistol, 43 bullets, a leather jacket, a backpack, bedroll, two bottles purified water, a hatchet, three cooked Brahmin steaks (possibly the smell of which drew the dogs to the school in the first place), and a small trashcan lid being improvised as a shield (see small shields). Seems he was trying to get to a first aid kit on the wall with two stimpaks in it and another 10-use healing kit when he was ambushed.
Kristophe grabs the trashcan lid and hatchet, as well as the gun and a handful of bullets .
Best I keep these. You people wouldn't know what to do with any of it.
Badger rolls his eyes, then rolls the dead guy over to get his jacket off and check the state of his other clothing. If it's in good shape and the dead guy didn't make a mess, he'll change out of his vault suit and into the dead man's clothes.
"I'll take the jacket and the backpack- we'll share the water and the food. Hey, uh, Harper, Aeryicka- either of you want to take that bedroll? I don't mind roughing it. We should talk about stimpak distribution, too. I got one and a radaway, so we can divide these up."
Standing up in the dead man's outfit he tugs on the jacket and pauses for a moment, a shiver going up his spine.
"Yup. Feels like dead guy. Sorry, man, but, uh, don't haunt me for this okay? This is a survival situation."
Estelle's eyes light up as she sees the first aid kit on the wall, and finds it to actually be somewhat stocked. "Aces." She says, taking it off the wall. "May be even more to find in here. That things like this are still untouched and there are so many locked doors speaks well to the possibility. I'd sure love to find a set of keys, start opening some more doors." She cocks her head at Badger and Thomas. "Reckon we might be safe in here for a few days if we find somewhere the Roaches haven't gotten to?"
The corpse was wearing some plain wastelander besides the jacket. Nothing fancy, ratty duds.
He cain't haunt you. He's dead Bloom. Geez.
Kristophe paces around a little before saying
Someone needs to make a light. It's dark over there. I bet we'll find some cool s&~&. Hey. You. Kristophe points at Harper Ain't you got some candle or something. Light that thing. We gots some more roaches to stomp. Right Bloom?
"Hey, you never know... it wouldn't hurt to see if there are any other clothes around. We don't know how people take folks from the Vault around here..."
Notice:
Badger looks dristracted for a second, scratching his thigh.
"Wait a sec-"
He goes into a stall.
"Ah ha! Aces is right! Man, my nethers are really coming in handy today..."
With his pants (fortunately) back on, Badger returns holding a few small things in hand. He's ogling a small cardboard matchbook with a grin. Turning it around, it's got a sexy lady on it with a pirate hat. "Tampa Buck-Naked-A-Neers" written across it.
"Got some matches, so's we can light up a candle or two. Couple more bobby pins and some money too."
He glances between Kristophe and Estelle.
"Yeah, we clear out the rest of the place we can spend a couple nights here if we need to. But I wouldn't want to stay too long- there's got to be other cool pre-war places out there, and other people. But in the meantime, maybe I can get some o' these locked doors open- or maybe there's some liquor in the teacher's lounge."
"You're pretty good with computer stuff, right Estelle? Maybe we should check out that computer by the principal's office, maybe it's got something about the electronic lock on that confiscated property closet."
Liquor? Yeah. Let's do that. C'mon Bloom, don't be a sissy. Hurry up. Kristophe turns to leave and then notices blood dripping from the radroach bite. Ah. Jeez, stupid bugs. I'm bleeding all over my suit. You. Kristophe points at Estelle Gimme one of them Stimpacks.
If Estelle complies, Kristophe grunts and jacks himself up with it.
If she does not he growls Yer gonna wish you hadn't done that. Who's gonna watch yer back now? before spinning on his heel and heading towards the Teacher's Lounge
Damn, C'mon Bloom. There might be liquor over here.
Kristophe heads down the hall towards the lounge and finds the door unlocked.
When he heads inside it is dark, but again, a flickering florescent light gives him the ability to see at intermittent points. There is broken glass all over the place (difficult terrain, 1/2 movement in the lounge). A few ratty looking couches lie upturned, except one in the corner. There's a liquor cabinet that seems to have had a lock busted off.
(The target number for the below Notice check is or , whichever is higher)
= 11 total needed to read the first spoiler
There are at least five radroaches moving around in the cushions of and under the couch in the corner.
Estelle frowns, refusing to give Kristophe one of the stimpacks, replying "Mr. Kristophson, I will gladly tend your wounds, but we mustn't waste the stimpacks on cuts and bruises. There is no telling when we may need them."
Shaking her head, as he storms off, she turns towards Badger. "Foolish man. Yes, I may well be able to do something with the computer. Shall we?"
Before the teacher's lounge:
Badger sighs.
"Why don't you and Tom take a look at the computer and I'll make sure Kristophe doesn't do anything too crazy. I'll holler if we hit some trouble."
Badger heads to the teacher's lounge with Kristophe.
Man, I hope he makes good on his promise to walk once we get to a town. Only so much more of this crap I can take.
Notice:
Ace:
It's too damned dark in here. Bloom! Bloom! Where the heck are you. You hiding?
"Yeah, I'm here. Look-"
Badger scoops up some stuff under the upturned couches and cushions. A bottle of vodka and five packs of cigarettes. He gives the bottle and three packs of cigarettes to Kristophe.
"Here. Something to hold you over, all right? Just do me a favor and don't drink it all until we know this place is cleared out."
Estelle nods to Badger, and motions to Tom. "Let's go, I'm curious what we can find on the computers as it is."
Walking into the office with Tom, she spots the computer and pushes a pile of papers off the chair in front of it. Sittings down at the desk, she realises how good it feels to be off her feet for a few minutes. They hadn't really stopped moving since getting off the truck.
"Alright, let's see." She says, pressing a few buttons. Reaching a prompt that she can actually do something with, her fingers begin to move faster. After a few seconds, she looks up at Thomas with a grin. "While I am loath to reinforce what you've seen on TV about how easy it is to hack something, I do believe that I am in."
Estelle, having gotten a raise, not only manages to unlock the principal's office door, but finds out the password to the janitorial storage upstairs, and that a memo was sent out before the bombs dropped by the principal to the teachers with the password to the confiscated goods closet. Still, she can't seem to get a copy of the memo...must have been below the secretary's pay grade.
Estelle relays the information to Tom. "Could be the principal's office itself has a copy of the memo, so let's keep an eye out."
She crouches down to the girls. "Could be there's some more bugs in the principal's office, so Mr. Roland and I are going to look real quick. You guys watch our backs, okay? You see or hear anything, just give a shout."
As Badger and Kristophe are searching out the Lounge, as they get closer to the couch in the corner, radroaches start climing out from beneath the couch and from behind it.
Despite the surprise, none of the attacks seem to connect.
Harper, unsure as to what she was supposed to be doing, followed the greyhound as it tore across the room and barreled into the pitbull. It looked to be as shocked at how quickly its feet flew across the floor as Harper did. The lithe dog shook its head, snorted, and circled around the pitbull, tail wagging in a downwards arc and tongue lolling.
Harper briskly walked after the greyhound. As she reached the two dogs near the door to the principal's office, she looked in amazement to see that Estelle had cracked the door's code.
She tentatively looked over Estelle's shoulder to see what the mysterious metal door hid in the darkness beyond the doorway, ready to spring to Estelle's defense at a moment's notice.