J13 & K13 flop to the floor.
Just Sarge.
<Move to I15. Attack H16. Draw sword on move.>
ROUND 3: Order
Zombies
Mike: INIT +3, PER +3, AC 19, HP 22, CMD 15, Will +4, ACTION 5
Sam: INIT +3, PER +3, AC 17/18 (MELEE 18), HP 27 (-9), CMD 18, WILL +1, ACTION 25
Dave: INIT +3, PER +7, AC 19, HP 33 (-10), WILL +1, ACTION 15
The two remaining shamblers try to grab Sarge.
And fail.
Walker zombie flicks at Sarge's psyche.
Creepy thing at K12 runs away.
<Grunts and throws the heavy IED about the size of a small frozen turkey onto the landing between 4th and 5th.>
<Screams at Judd and Jonnie: "NORTH STAIRS. EXIT STAGE LEFT DUDES!"
<Runs like hell>
Shiny:
Johnnie, Sam, Dave, Sarge, Cord, NPCs.
Patrick swings at one of the grappling zombies
Sam: INIT +3, PER +3, AC 17/18 (MELEE 18), HP 27 (-9), CMD 18, WILL +1, ACTION 25
Her PER should be +4 and her AC should be 19/20 (MELEE 20). Sorry.
I also added that thing we discussed and let you know what it does in her GM Info section.
Sam moves forward into the smoke cloud and takes aim at the closest Z.
Shoot at closest Zombie (G15?) with Beowulf:
Damage:
** spoiler omitted **
Sam moves forward into the smoke cloud and takes aim at the closest Z.
Shoot at closest Zombie (G15?) with Beowulf: 15
Damage: 5
Patrick swings at one of the grappling zombies
15; 9
Sam moves in, dodging a grab and vaporizing a zombie head at point blank. Sarge hacks H16 to the ground. The last two shamblers collapse, only walker z, Texas ranger lives.
"Let's get out of here!!!!"
"Let's go up!!!!"
Johnny runs back into the mouth of madness.
** spoiler omitted **
<Screaming into the radio: "NORTH STAIRWELL NORTH STAIRWELL."
"Let's get out of here!!!!"
Johnnie, just barely keeping control of his mind and his bladder, starts running one way, then cuts back in the other.
Dave, Cord, NPCs
Cord looks around at the unfolding chaos and wonders for a moment about taking a gun and blowing his brains out, it only last a second, but it makes him shudder, dropping his eyes from the crawling bug. In that second he loses sight of the bug. Hot air, dust and bits of zombie sail through the air from behind him and his nerve breaks, he grabs hold of Aunt Terrie's arm and sets off after Mike, dragging her behind him.
Creepy thing at K12 runs away.
... he grabs hold of Aunt Terrie's arm and sets off after Mike, dragging her behind him.
Double move takes you around the elevator. Looks clear.
Dave stands watching the shadows on the stair below, gun raised, ready for the first Z to show its head ... when Mike’s bomb sails past him and lands with a thud on the landing below.
“Oh f*ck that!” He can hear screaming and gunshots over the sound of the fire alarm behind him. Hopefully it means that our side is winning. He runs back into level 5.
“Is that one of those old men? Kill it! Johnnie, what did you see upstairs?”
Perception - (+0 wis, +4 ranks, +3 CS) = +7
Perception - (+0 wis, +4 ranks, +3 CS) = +7 1d20+7
Cord:
Round 4:
Walker Z
Johnnie: INIT +6, PER +9, AC 16, HP 42, WILL +6, ACTION 24
Mike: INIT +3, PER +3, AC 19, HP 22, CMD 15, Will +4, ACTION 5
Sam: INIT +3, PER +4, 19/20 (MELEE 20), HP 27 (-9), CMD 18, WILL +1, ACTION 25
Dave: INIT +3, PER +7, AC 19, HP 33 (-10), WILL +1, ACTION 15
Sarge: INIT +2, PER +1, AC 16, HP 32, WILL 0
It's mouth eyeball staring at you blankly, vein roped tentacles lash out of the shrapnel slashed old man's robes with unexpected speed and strength. It raises them up, reaching--spaced out around itself like an idol of the Goddess Shiva-- and most unexpectedly creates a green bubble of light the surrounds the old man and his walker on all sides.
While none of militia D9 can see anything behind now, the din of zombies on the main stairwell is growing... they're very near.
Group's go.
“Cherry! Anna! Get away from the stair!” yells the Australian over the din of the alarm, then turns to look through the clearing smoke ahead.
“Gawd, what now?” Dave doesn’t know what the green sh*t is, but figures it can’t be good. Loathe as he is to get too close to the disgusting and creepy tentacled old man (or step amongst the hideous bits of corpses strewn about the floor), he steps forward and raises the Commando. “Let’s see if this bursts your bubble!”
"F*ck! F*ck! Stupid f*cking usless gun!"
The bullet decelerates and drops to the floor just inside the green barrier.
Cherry and Anna follow Cord and Terri around the corner.
Flashback:
Judd's foot scrapes on bullet shells on the floor. Sarge casts his light down for a glance. Everyone follows his light.
But the shells are not shells, they're bullets. Strangely they're not at all deformed, so someone must have yanked them out of the shells. But this begs the question: where are the shells and the gunpowder?
"Bullets?" Cord bends down to examine one of the bullets, "What can be so soft and squidgy that it would not deform a bullet?"
Cord waits for the others to get round the corner, keeping an eye on the two crawlers, his axe ready for any sudden movements. "watch the doors as you pass them," he hisses.
Zombies move through the smoke, still blinded but moving toward you nonetheless--guided by something.
On the stairs below, zombies are boiling up. A few look like they're almost at level 4.
Fire alarm, smoke, gunfire, zombies, Cthonian psykers, alien parasites. Chaos.
** spoiler omitted **
<To H18. Fires at Walker Z.>
<To H18. Fires at Walker Z.>
1d20
The shotgun shot decelerates in an instant, falling just inside the green barrier.
1d20+6
Johnnie:
As for what you've now seen from a biologist's perspective :
From the perspective of a person with a background in the life sciences, at least another 500 years and the combined investment of every biochemical research company in the world for the whole duration would be needed before you could come anywhere close to producing an organism this complex.
Two rational explanations exist. One, this is some kind of organism or bioweapon not from this earth. The latter seems more likely because it seems to be custom made to fnck with the human race. Possibility two: someone opened up the gates of hell and this is what came out.
<Trying another approach, Sarge to H16, power attack on walker z, thrusting Charlene into its evil f$~+ing mouth eyeball.>
Charlene creaks as she slides into the green sphere, and slows... but Sarge puts his hand on the pommel, bearing forward, putting all his weight into her.
Frost advances up the blade from the where it penetrates the green, the grip cools and bites at Sarge's hand as he forces Charlene into walker Zs mouth, popping the weird eyeball and pushing her out the back of its neck.
The green bubble disappears and walker z slumps to the floor.