November 1, the day after Halloween. Many of the students have a sugar hang over. The teachers are dreading the Monday back from the Sunday holiday this year. Everything seems like a normal day. Even in this prestigious school there are many normal simple days.
The bell rings to remind everyone to get back to their home rooms.
The snobby Student Body President comes on the intercom to greet everyone and the normal announcements commence.
If all are in their homerooms:
Quinn Crowe
Devin Cerrone
Kimura Maki
Electra Felictas von Tannhausen
Lizzette 'Lizzy' Dwerambore
She enjoys the limo today riding up to the front gate. Once there her minions greet her with smiles and adoration. She walks in like she owns the school with two minions on either side and some lackeys following behind with their bags. They stop in the cafeteria to mock some students then go up to her private lounge next door to her homeroom until the bell rings. Then her minions and lackeys disperse, leaving Lizzy with only Mino. In her homeroom she sits down on the sofa she had brought in at the beginning of the school year. She looked at the slightly sun bleached leather on the arm closest to the windows and sneered. "Mino make a reminder that we need to reapolster this dingy sofa. Perhaps a cat print and fur this time." She pulls out her I pad and begins looking at the listing of who is "hot or not" at school.
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If you approach her within 5 feet, she looks up and frowns. The smell of coffee wafts out of the thermos, mixing with the morning air. "Vhat?" she lifts an eyebrow, expecting a question. If you stay at least 10 feet away, she doesn't look up and ignores you.
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When the school bell rings, Quinn tightly screws on the lid of her thermos and neatly packs it and her Country Gardens magazine into her backpack. Quinn has to remove the bundle of arrows from her backpack momentarily to rearrange items.
She slings her backpack over her shoulder before picking up her bow and heading inside the school building. Quinn switches her shoes at her locker (like the rest of her peers) before heading up to 3-C, her homeroom.
Quinn sits at her desk near the back by a window. Her bow is leaning on the back wall of the classroom behind her. Quinn isn’t the first person in the classroom but she isn’t the last either. She cups her chin in her palm and sighs, looking out the window. She wished school was over already so she could go to her favorite extracurricular activity: Archery club.
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The bell rang again signaling the start of homeroom. Quinn draws her gaze from the window to observe Sensei. Sensei Madoka finishes writing on the board while the two class leaders of 3-C take attendance and make announcements. Quinn zones out through most of it. The student taking attendance calls Quinn’s name. ”Ves,” Quinn’s response is curt and uninterested.
Usually the most popular and smart students got elected as class representatives and Quinn didn’t fit the mold. Quinn doodles in her notebook. Her left hand holds her pen while her right hand is threaded through her hair, right elbow propped on her desk. From this position, Quinn could avoid any eye contact with the other students.
Suddenly, Quinn hears an announcement through the ceiling speakers:
"This announcement is for all students, an emergency situation is happening in the school right now. All students are to follow their teacher's instructions and remain in your classroom. I repeat an emergency situation is happening in the school right now... Euughhha!... Aaaaah.... .... Aaaaahhh... Help, Help!.... ...."
Quinn looks out the window into the courtyard for anything unusual.
If she sees unusual behavior outside:
Quinn stands up, her sudden movement knocking over her chair. Instinctively she swings her backpack over her shoulder and reaches for her bow. Quinn assesses the situation. The classroom has 3 exits: the sliding front doors, the sliding rear doors, and the windows. The windows were the least preferable of the three because the classroom was on the second level. In addition, the windows were closed because of the cool Fall air.
While Quinn was identifying possible threats out the window, her Sensei and some of her classmates had begun barricading the doors with desks and chairs. The front sliding doors already had Sensei's desk and 2 student desks on it. The sliding doors at the back of the classroom looked less protected.
Sensei Madoka gives out instructions while some students carry over desks. Other students seem frozen in a mixture of fear and panic.
"Get up or you'll be late for school," Devin heard his mother say from down the hall, "I'll be working late tonight so you are on your own for dinner, breakfast is on the table, be safe on that death trap you ride around on, and I love you."
"Love you too," he replied just before he heard the door shut. Devin quickly ate his breakfast and was out the door. For some reason traffic was awful today but being on a motorcycle made things easier. Arriving at the school just before the gates closed, the parking lot was empty of people. Devin parked his bike and walked through the doors just to hear student body president Dorky McDingus finish his announcements.
About 15 minutes into Homeroom another Announcement comes on, the man seems likely one of the teachers but his breath is ragged and stressed, "This announcement is for all students, an emergency situation is happening in the school right now. All students are to follow their teacher's instructions and remain in your classroom. I repeat an emergency situation is happening in the school right now... Euughhha!... Aaaaah.... .... Aaaaahhh... Help, Help!.... ...."
A few of the teachers have sense enough to take control of their classrooms like Sensei Madoka and keep the students calm and begin to barricade their room as if a shooter were to come onto the school property.
Though most were not so sensible after hearing what they thought was a teacher being killed, and not with a gun but something much worse. Then the groans didn't help either. Sheer panic takes over most of the school and students begin mobbing to get out. Many students are trampled to death and many more are hurt. The halls are full of moving bodies. Some with more malevolent intent.
Better late than Dead
He woke up to his alarm and looked at the time in surprise. Yelling to himself, "I'M LATE!!! I'M LATE!!!"
He had stayed up late last night playing a new release role playing game on his computer but now he was paying for it in more ways than he ever could imagine. A quick shower, microwave a quick breakfast, as the water got warm, throw on his uniform and gulp, chew, chew, gulp, the breakfast sandwich was gone and he was out the door and on his bike. Pedaling as fast as he could he was surprised to find the streets nearly deserted. He know that the gates would be closed so he would have to cut through the woods behind the school. He had done it several times and it had cut minutes off his travel time.
The woods seemed even more eerie than normal but he didn't know why. He got to the run down temple that acted as a go between the woods and the school and he dismounted his bike. Locking it to the bike rack and running into school.
Sliding to a stop he shook his head thinking, 'Am I dreaming? Did I play that zombie game too much?' He pinches himself and it hurts and sees the walking bloody wounded bodies. There was holes in these people's bodies that should have them dead and bled out on the ground. He started to take a few steps back away from the scene but then realized that the temple was filled with the walking corpses too. He ran, and ran, and ran. Avoiding the grasping hands until he was inside.
Then he began to assess holding his briefcase in front of him. Blood smeared the floor and walls but no bodies were around, dead or walking. He stopped to open a cracked door and quickly slammed it shut for a mob of them were within. He ran to the end found a locked door and simply knocked. If no reply he continues heading towards the morgue...
Maki is 20 minutes early to class and is one of the first students to be seated. Her spot, about midway in the homeroom near the window, is kept immaculately clean.
About 15 minutes into Homeroom another Announcement comes on, the man seems likely one of the teachers but his breath is ragged and stressed, "This announcement is for all students, an emergency situation is happening in the school right now. All students are to follow their teacher's instructions and remain in your classroom. I repeat an emergency situation is happening in the school right now... Euughhha!... Aaaaah.... .... Aaaaahhh... Help, Help!.... ...."
When the announcement comes through the speakers, Maki's hand comes to her chest as she looks up at the speaker, almost as if by staring through it, she could see the scene as it played out on the microphone. When Sensei Madoka starts giving orders, she leaps to follow them, being one of the first to get desks propped up into the barricade. When the barricade fails and falls to the panicking crowd, Maki tries to shout a few of the students into sticking together and moving in a coordinated fashion.
She hasn't seen the bloody tableau below, but is trying to apply her self-learned military know-how to getting her classmates to stick together and move in a coordinated fashion.
"No! We need to stick together! Just running around now will create more chaos!" She clenches her fists in frustration, and dashes over to the classroom's cleaning closet to grab any brooms and mops. She'll shove them into the hands of any students that look composed and at least partially competent. "Here. We may need these to hold back students."
Between Sensei Madoka, brother of the other Sensei Madoka in 3-C, and Maki, let alone other cool headed students in the room, the barricade actually does hold up initially. Taking the supplies from the closet to arm students helps the classroom's morale and they seem ready to keep others out that much more.
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Quinn curses aloud in German, ”Scheisse!” Teachers are covered in blood and students are running scared outside. Quinn can’t assess whether it’s safer inside or outside. The sheer noise inside the school makes her head hurt and Quinn finds it difficult to think with all the commotion.
When Sensei Madoka starts giving orders, she leaps to follow them, being one of the first to get desks propped up into the barricade. When the barricade fails and falls to the panicking crowd, Maki tries to shout a few of the students into sticking together and moving in a coordinated fashion.
Quinn predicts that the desks won’t be enough to stop a determined intruder so she slips out the back sliding door of 3-C with her bow and backpack. “I am not zaying here to die,” Quinn grits to her classmates. Quinn’s German accent is more pronounced as she calls over her shoulder. ”If you are smart get ze vuck out too.” Some of her words are clearly pronounced while others are hard to understand.
Quinn slips out of the classroom and into the panicked crowd.
Quinn’s destination is the gym locker room for her tennis shoes. Her school shoes wouldn’t get her far if she had to run. Being 8-something in the morning during what normally was Homeroom, Quinn deduced that the girls' locker room should be fairly untouched. If it's a gunman he'll have no reason to go into the locker rooms.
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If Quinn makes it to the girls' locker room:
Quinn attempts to act stealthily inside the locker room. Her goal is to get her shoes and get out of the hectic school. Maybe go hide somewhere quiet. With snacks. Oh yes, lots of snack and peace and quiet.
Hopefully with all the uproar, Quinn will go largely unnoticed while her louder peers distract whatever assailant(s) are inside the building. After retrieving her tennis shoes and gym outfit, Quinn ties on her gym shoes and stuffs her ugly school shoes and gym outfit into her backpack. Quinn thinks standing up to access her locker again might attract unwanted attention.
Crouching and with her bow in hand, Quinn takes a look around the girl’s locker room for anything she may not have spotted upon first entering.
It’s probably too risky to go out the front so I’ll have to leave out the back way.
Devin was nearing his classroom as the second announcement came overhead.
About 15 minutes into Homeroom another Announcement comes on, the man seems likely one of the teachers but his breath is ragged and stressed, "This announcement is for all students, an emergency situation is happening in the school right now. All students are to follow their teacher's instructions and remain in your classroom. I repeat an emergency situation is happening in the school right now... Euughhha!... Aaaaah.... .... Aaaaahhh... Help, Help!.... ...."
Briefly frozen while he listened to the screams for help. Students began to pour out of their rooms and turn into a stampede once panic set in. A girl was pushed to the ground with a sickening thud. This all snapped Devin back to reality, he shoved a few students out of his way and grab the girl and pushed his way into the closest classroom 2-A.
Quinn was lucky that she was quietly moving around the locker room and even more that she stayed crouched. Looking over the locker she can see a blood smeared girl walking around. You likely feel the impulse to go help her out but a second later she turns and you can see half of her face is missing. No living creature would be walking with such severe wounds... it likely dawns on Quinn that this is something really bad.
Getting to the outside door will require you to leave the locker room, either into the gym or out into the hallways. But there only seems to be one threat at the moment.
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Devin the girl likely has several broken bones in one of her arms and a head wound that just won't stop bleeding. The teacher in 2-A is in shock and no use to help anyone, she just sobs at her desk. To Devin's shock he sees Lizzy in control of the room. The door slams shut behind you as two students that were behind the door put their shoulders into it. Other students are moving desks to secure the doorways under Lizzy's direction from her sofa. Mino standing attentively beside the sofa.
In room 2-A, the teacher is worthless and she steps up to the plate to command.
Devin and the girl with him are the last to enter her domain without her consent and continues with her shouting tirade to whip these fools into proper vessels, "Who here has some medical training, Seisko. Yes, you help Devin bring that girl over to the corner and do what you can. Good job boys, keep piling those desks, the more we have as an obstacle the better for whatever may be out there or what may want to get in. Yes, good think you had your multitool Sven. Keep taking the legs off the desks, those do seem to be great clubs. We have two brooms, best to keep those as deflectors of intruders, who here is the strongest? It would be best that they have the brooms. Yes okay you two and stay near the door to aggravate anything else that comes through that door." She continues to praise those doing jobs and instructing the rest that likely have no clue what to do right now. She is now standing and directing with her cane. Her sofa next to the window but she is in the middle of the room watching every movement. Mino standing next to her like a servant waiting for an order.
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Quinn nearly gasps out loud when she sees a girl who should be dead from her head injury, walking around alive. Is she… a zombie? This can’t be happening. Oh god… is she a fast of a slow zombie? Quinn has seen a handful of zombie films but the zombies differ from film to film.
She looks around but only detects one threat: the creepy girl.
Quinn removes two arrows from her backpack. She holds one arrow in her mouth and nocks the other in her bow. She aims for the girl's eyesocket. At the right angle, the arrow could pierce her brain. At minimum, hinder her sight, Quinn reasons.
(Piercing damage)
It was a regular morning. Alarmclock, shower, breakfast, mail to daddy, check if all was fine for school, it was always and go to school. Saying hallo to Matsu-san. Arriving at class 2-A, sitting at her table, reading a small yellow book, it was a classical play from camus, la pest, she was waiting for the class to begin.
Then the loudspeaker began to give his announcement and hell brought loose.
Within seconds, the drill came back. Every kid at the embassy had taken it by heart. Quite. Pack your stuff. Check that you ready. Leave uneccessary items behind that could slow you down.
Call the detail. Be ready to run. No heroics.
Silent she took care all important items were in her backpack and books and other items out. That her backpack was perfectly aligned on her back. Then she started to text hee father, than Ludwig, the 40 something head of the detail. Gruff sometimes, with a ridiculous beard, but her father had once remarked that he used to be in the Sondereinsatztruppen, before going to the police.
Removing her spit shined shoes for her sports shoes, Electra looked around what the other kids were doing.
Suddenly Lizzy and Devin jumped into the room. At least one person she knew a tad better.
Quinn acts in surprise round and puts an arrow in the zombies brain The arrow punctures and sticks out the other side of the zombie's head. It takes a few breathes from Quinn before it drops to the ground.
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Right after Electra hit send to message her father and error code popped up, "Error the number you are trying to reach cannot be reached at this time. 13650 Suncrest Ave. 8:00 p.m."
He just could not shake this feeling, like this had to be a dream or something. He got to the morgue and began preparing himself. But first he needed to secure the morgue. He went around to make sure all the bolts were in place, the shutters to any of the few windows in the underground room were down and locked, lastly he collected chairs and secured them under the door handles to help with leverage from someone charging into the door.
Then he began to search for items starting with what kind of protection he could find. The thick blood resistant apron would be a start, then duct tape to secure it to his clothing. He then found the plastic helmet that had the plastic face guard which would protect him from some things but a few hits and it would be gone as well. Ditching his briefcase he found a simple backpack in one of the lockers emptying it and filling it with essential items. Duct tape, super glue, first aid kit, a scalpel set, rubbing alcohol, more duct tape, belts, and the list continued... He made a hoop out of duct tape to attach the biggest knife's holder to his belt. Taking the second biggest knife and attaching it to the end of a broom handle.
Lastly he turned on the computers and see if he could get into the security system to see what the webcams were capturing. With little luck he resorts to finding login information first,
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Quinn looks around the locker room. Is the locker room just a rectangular room with lockers and a few benches?
Quinn figures the hallways are still hectic. Quinn checks the time using her wristwatch and mentally notes the time. She deadbolts the door leading to the hallway before moving to the gym door.
Quinn carefully cracks open the door connected to the gym and peaks out.
After assessing people and objects in the gym, Quinn closes the door as quietly as she had opened it before twisting the deadbolt.
Quinn takes 15 minutes to loot the room, favoring silence over speed. She looks for a blade of some sort to sever the girl zombie’s head. If she finds a blade, Quinn will sever the head. If there is no blade, Quinn with improvise.
Quinn also looks for protein bars (any food) and an empty duffel bag. If Quinn finds a duffel bag, she gently empties the contents onto the floor. If it’s anything like the movies, I’ll be looting convenience stores and homes.
Maki will look to her sensei for direction until he runs out of orders or it seems obvious he's no longer going to be helpful. While the barricade holds, she will go to the window and look outside, taking stock of the situation.
What's going on out there? Is it a terrorist attack?
She will realize that things are far worse than that. Something has happened downstairs and it was spreading up fast. She tries to think of someplace that had a tactical advantage.
"This is not a defensible position. The army would secure a chokepoint, but also secure a means of retreat..." She leans on the window, looking down and muttering. "They'd also know what they're fighting!"
If there's little option, we can try to make it to the field trip bus. That's in the parking lot though... Ugh! This is far harder than the tv makes it seem! Calm down! She takes a steadying breath. You're just a student. Not the military. You need to worry about saving your life, and the students around you if you can.
She turns to the room. "Did anyone see what's going on out there? Who's attacking?"
Devin sets the girl down as gently as he can along the wall. Peering out the window and witnessed the carnage happening outside. Placing his hands on the window and notices they are covered in that poor girl's blood. We're F'ed in the A. Turning to the room he senses panick is starting to set in, and the teacher whimpering behind her desk isn't helping.
Pulling his baseball bat from his bag he empties the remaining contents on to the ground, books, papers and pencils spill out, not much use at the moment.
Lizzy looks to be in full blown megalomaniacal euphoria. Mino stands by waiting to be ordered about. Electra seems to be setting calmly using her phone. Approaching Electra first, getting her attention he puts his finger to his lips as a sign to be quite the gestures to the window. He then does the same with Mino and Lizzy.
Nodding to Devlin she switches to german. "Was genau ist los? Aber wenn die Korridore von Angreifern kontrolliert werden, sollten wir alternativen wählen."
"Flure sind nutzlos, wenn wir nicht wissen, wohin wir gehen"
Nodding Electra frantically tries to get un updated area map.
"Weg von der Straße, ich wohne um die Ecke, vielleicht können wir dort uns verstecken für eine Weile. Ich brauche Ruhe um rauszufinden was los ist. Aber lass uns wieder Japanisch reden, die anderen schauen wie Moped"
"Well here are my thoughts,
1. We can stay in this tiny room, with no water, food, or toilet, and wait for help. Devin shakes his head slightly before continuing.
2. Attempt to secure the whole school from top to bottom. That may expand our resources a bit.
3. Seek out shelter elsewhere.
No matter what we should do some scouting outside.
Second Phase, The Cry For Help!
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Quinn, yes things in the gym were just getting heated.
About 10 minutes into your looting you find a pocket knife and use it for the grisly deed, you also find four water bottles, about 6 meals worth of food, many backpacks, three duffel bags, lots of school supplies and notebooks, lots of extra clothes, hair brushes, makeup, tampons, and such items.
At that time you hear beating on the door to the gym and a girl crying hysterically, "Let me in, let me in, HELP!!!"
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At Maki's question one of the students who was rocking themselves snaps out of it and says in a monotone voice, "Zombies, or something like it. The students below were eating each other." At this utterance most of the class stops what they are doing and look out the windows to see the grisly scene below. Several of them gag at the sight and a few throw up. There is about a dozen students still in the class with Maki and the Sensei. They look to you for direction. Several of the students point out other students they know down in the 'fight' and even a few teachers.
The Sensei shrugs and says, "This can't be happening there must be a chemical attack of some kind making them go crazy like that. We stay here where we know it is safe. The police will be here soon. Going out there in the chaos would just get us hurt or worse."
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No students try to get into your room but there is still quite a few of students out running around. After about 8 minutes the girl in the corner comes to her senses and is wrapped up with half of one of the boy's shirt. The first aid kit bandages were expended quickly and they tore extra strips to secure them.
Once there seems to be no more jobs and the hallway begins to be rather empty you hear some strange moaning noises. Then a guy running and screaming, "Help! Help! Anyone help me!" The group of 20 students look to Lizzy.
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At the main door to the morgue, the place where the few bodies are stored for the students aspiring to be doctors are kept frozen, there are rapid knocks and urgent cries for help.
Lizzy nods and Mino goes to stand next to Devin, waiting to understand what they are talking about. Lizzy continues to control the room, making sure students are busy and no one is panicking.
At the call of the boy in the hallway, Lizzy takes one look at the frozen sheep and throws up one finger. She then turns and asks in German, "I would let him get killed, but that would be bad for morale. Devin you up for saving another person today? Once the threat is dealt with we can send out scouts." She waits for a response before addressing the class.
Every student now has a desk leg as a club. Two of the burliest, besides Devin, boys in class hold the brooms at the pile of desks ready to push back any interlopers. The teacher was moved under her desk to minimize her hysteria's effect on the students.
Maki sighs. "We need to secure a more defensible position. The gym and locker rooms would be easily secured, and there we could find baseball bats and other things to defend ourselves with. Spare uniforms for bandages, and beyond it should be the back parking lot. The bus is there."
She looks over the group. "Now we will need to move together, and work as a unit, to survive. Sensei, can you drive a bus?."
She will open her desk and take a roll of cloth tape out. She points to the students armed with brooms and mops. "I will take point... That means be up front. You three, watch our rear and you two, stay on either side of me."
With practiced motions she begins wrapping her hands and delicate fingers with the tape.
"Our job is to keep sensei and the rest of the students safe. Everyone else? Stick with us."
She will mentally plot the shortest route to the gym that has the least open ground. She hopes that there weren't a lot of students there, so there would be less infected to deal with.
Before the doors are opened, she takes her Hello Kitty hair scrunchy from her bag and ties her hair back. "Ready." she declares, her face taking on the concentration it does during sports matches.
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After Quinn severs the head with the pocket knife, she wipes the blood and guts onto a nearby pink shirt. That’s an improvement. Quinn smiles to herself, pocketing the knife (school jacket.)
Finding 3 duffel bags, Quinn folds 2 (empty) neatly into her backpack, removing her arrows momentarily to ensure that the arrows are still easily accessible. Quinn takes the darkest colored duffel bag and fills it with the items she determines worth taking: the four water bottles, 6 meals worth of food, 2 hairbrushes, and ALL the tampons and feminine hygiene pads. I don't care if this is a zombie apocalypse. I refuse to wear blood-stained panties. In a last minute decision, Quinn stuffs a black sweatshirt in the duffel. She fills the bag as she searches. The water bottles are probably the heaviest objects in the duffel bag but water was precious at a time like this. Quinn zips up the bag.
"Let me in, let me in, HELP!!!"
Quinn looks up, realizing she was still holding an arrow in her mouth. She runs over to the gym door, listening as she runs:
If the person yelling for help sounds like they are currently being attacked by something, Quinn does not open the door. End of post. If Quinn is unsure if there is something currently attacking or if Quinn determines the girl is not currently being assaulted, Quinn will unlock and open the door.
Quinn wants to make sure the person she is letting inside isn’t a zombie. If the girl looks undead or seriously injured, Quinn will attempt to shut the door in the girl’s face. (Sorry not sorry.) If the girl looks normal, Quinn will wait for her to enter before closing and locking the door.
If the girl is currently being attacked or if she’s a zombie, Quinn will attempt to shut the door in her face.
If the girl looks okay (no visible bite marks and no zombie on her back) Quinn will beckon her inside with a head tilt. After the girl enters, Quinn deftly locks the door again before turning to the girl. Quinn removes the arrow from her mouth and asks “Who are you?” About 5 seconds have passed since Quinn locked the door. I'm taking a big risk by saving her ass. She probably drew attention to herself screaming like that... but I need to find a way out of this school.
Maki's Story
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"It shouldn't be any harder than my car, I think." he says confidently.
The boys and girls follow. Down the stairs and then you start seeing blood. Blood on the walls, on the floor, broken windows, doors and misc. furniture. Getting to the first floor you see three students that are just stumbling around, covered in blood and have many bite marks on them. The boy on Maki's right, Reo, recognizes one of the girls, "Akari, come here quick we are getting out of here." The other boy, Haruto, holds his broom out in front of him but looks very nervous but slowly raises the broom ready for a strike. Sensei moves to the right since four of you can be abreast in the hall. The students behind take a step back and they begin holding their breaths. Reo quickly steps forward and grabs Akari's arm and pulls her to the side. No recognition are in those dead eyes as Akari's body starts to bite Reo.
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Quinn's Story
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Quinn opens the door, seeing the hysterical girl is only a little bloody lets her into the locker room. She holds a baseball bat in one hand and a badmitten racket in the other but quickly enters without using them. You can see about a dozen zombies slowly shambling towards another girl on the ground 10 feet from her. You also notice that a boy is out cold next to the door. The girl behind you urgently says, "Quickly shut the door, we can't help them." There are another dozen or so bodies around the gym many of them mutilated.
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Quinn shuts and locks the door as quietly as she can. She removes the arrow from her mouth to speak: "Are you okay?" Quinn keeps her eyes on the girl after locking the door.
Why was that dude out cold?
"I'm Quinn, sophomore. What about you?" Quinn waits for a response.
"We should make an effort to wire a car and drive somewhere safer. I don't like being cooped up in here. Thoughts?" Quinn gestures around the locker room, eyes on the girl.
The two boys and girl come in the room glistening with sweat and smeared in blood. "Thank you, thank you, thank you." The girl says before the three of them take a few steps backwards taken aback from Matthew's appearance. He stepped into the light and they all visibly relaxed. Sincerely Matthew says, "Sorry for the scare, I have been preparing, do I look menacing?" The three nod their heads before just lying flat on the ground.
Matthew goes and gets some cups and fills them with water and brings them to the three. As he hands them each a cup he visually inspects them for cuts, bites, or any wounds. One of the boys has a nasty cut on his shin, likely from hitting a corner of a wall. The other one has a bite mark on his arm. Matthew shakes his head but does not jump to conclusions yet, asking a few questions, "what do you know? Is it really zombies? Are they slow or fast? What happens to those who get bitten?"
They don't have a chance to answer when the door starts getting slammed on by something big. Dents were forming on the door!
Matthew quickly and urgently asks, "What is that?!?"
The three just shook their heads and the bitten boy finally says, "One of the boys was bitten and he just kept growing, he has been after us for a while now."
Matthew gives his bladed broom to one of them, grabs a few more knives from the tray and gives them to the others before grabbing the bone saw and turning it on, bravely saying, "Get back here and when it comes through let it get to me, then stab it as much as you can."
The banging just got worse. Then the Thing came through as the door slammed to the ground. The fool with the broom charged it since it was down, he got several good jabs in before the Thing got up and punched him, slamming the boy into the cabinets and down to the floor he went. It got up fully and charged the other two moving back a little behind Matthew.
Reason had left this poor souls mind and it charged blindly into the 200 mile per hour bone saw and lost a hand within seconds. The three of them were covered in blood and the others attack with their knives. Matthew was able to cut off another arm but the other two were slammed away as well. He checked each of them out but with broken bones there was little he could do.
Back at the door he shook his head at the door that could not be fixed, the mangled bodies around him and the shambling corpses coming towards him. He gave the boy closest to the bone saw the instrument and a quick lesson on how to use it. Another cup of water and a wish of luck for him. His backpack on his back now and the bloodied bladed broom in hand he thought he was ready. Grabbing one of the portable trays he took it out of the morgue and secured it outside the door. He didn't know if it would help or not.
He walked on avoiding the shambling corpses knowing full well he likely could not bring even one of these without a mechanical device.
"Air gun, nail gun, carpentry room?" He thought to himself avoiding another corpse walking as quietly as he could.
Quinn's Story
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"Yes, I think I am okay..." She says breathlessly.
Finally catching her breath she stands straight and introduces herself, "I am Elly, a freshman. Is this place secure? We tried to get to the parking lot, no good. There are at least 50 zombies there. Hopefully we can find more able bodies and then try again. That A$$hole said we could do it with just the five of us, he was crazy!"
She is bloody but there appears to me no wounds on her and no bite marks.
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Quinn nods. Quinn hates A$$holes.
You hear a sharp metal on metal rap, two quick then three more. It came from the hallway.
Quinn whispers: ”Did you hear that? Quinn's eyes are still on Elly. The arrow she removed from her mouth is in her hand and her bow is on her person. The duffel sits in front of her on a bench, separating Quinn and Elly.
Elly nods, "I think it came from the other side of the locker room. We know we won't be going out there any time soon, shall we see what that was?"
With baseball bat and badmitton racket in her hands she quietly steps around the locker room and stops at the girl corpse, "Wow did you do that? Its head is clear off!"
Once that gets cleared up or not, she leads the way to the other locker room door.
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"Wow did you do that? Its head is clear off!"
Quinn nods solemnly. We probably shouldn't be talking if there are zombies in the hallway.
Quinn nocks her bow, prepared to shoot a possible zombie on the other side of the door. She motions her head to the door while looking at Elly, signalling that she's ready. "Carefully," Quinn whispers.
"Well I'm batting a thousand so far," Devin says with his baseball bat resting on his shoulder. "Let's be quick about this."
Quinn's Story
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Elly unlocks the door quietly and slowly opens the door.
"You'll never believe this, check it out," She whispers after she sticks out her head into the hallway.
A someone has strapped an apron of some kind and a plastic helmet to themself with duct tape and he/she is covered in blood. In his hand is a broom handle with a blade attached. A full backpack and other knives are in his/her pockets.
"Its like he prepared for this or something, where did he get all the knives? Should I go get him?" Elly whispers.
There are a few walkers about 20 feet on the left and 40 feet on the right. The bloody apron wearer has its back to you and at the next door it raps two times quickly and then three, after trying the door and it doesn't open.
"Okay folks, we are going to get him. If you want some payback for them freaking us out here it is. If not pull back the desks so we can let the others go out. Shawn and Ookie you two stay there just in case, I want a back up plan. Work people get those clubs ready, pull the desks, go! go! go!" Lizzy says in her commanding voice and tries to inspire Devin to better fighting.
Mino looks thrilled that Devin is being so brave and Lizzy is working so well with the group, and Devin.
Trio Story
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The desks fall and are pulled back so that there is a path. Four male students are ready to go out and wait on Devin. It looks like another four will soon follow if needed. They all hold their desk legs and hold the end with cloth as a handle.
Round 1
The frantic boy is slipping and sliding on water in the hallway. It seems that the bathroom has been overflowing and making a big mess. He is 40 feet from you and 20 feet of that is difficult terrain Zombies have piled up behind him in the water as most of them just fall. Though the closest zombie is crawling and 15 feet behind the boy.
Map:
X X Z Z D D D D D D D D D X X X X X
X X Z Z Z D D D B D D D D X X X X Y
X is open square, Z is a zombie pile, D is difficult terrain, Y is your door and B is the frantic boy.
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"Should I go get him?"
Quinn looks a little flabbergasted over Elly's statement. She feels walking around, past zombies? This chick has some big balls. They didn't have has much chaos to distract the zombies. Now they had to rely on their stealth.
"Let me see," Quinn whispers. "Prepare to fight if they notice us."
Quinn tries her best to stealthily position herself so that she’s inside the door frame while still at the correct angle to shoot one of the zombies 20 feet away.
Quinn attempts to hit one of the zombies in their eye socket – whichever one looks like the easier shot - about 20 feet away.
(Surprise Round)
(Piercing damage)
Quinn's Story
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The zombie drops and the other three zombies are beyond the guy in the apron. You look around and see several zombies that have been slashed in their heads, no other bodies are around.
The person in the apron takes a few stealthy steps and then tries the next door. No luck, and then taps two times then three times again.
Maki's Story
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"It shouldn't be any harder than my car, I think." he says confidently.[ dice=Charisma check to inspire morale, DC 15]1d20+1
The boys and girls follow. Down the stairs and then you start seeing blood. Blood on the walls, on the floor, broken windows, doors and misc. furniture. Getting to the first floor you see three students that are just stumbling around, covered in blood and have many bite marks on them. The boy on Maki's right, Reo, recognizes one of the girls, "Akari, come here quick we are getting out of here." The other boy, Haruto, holds his broom out in front of him but looks very nervous but slowly raises the broom ready for a strike. Sensei moves to the right since four of you can be abreast in the hall. The students behind take a step back and they begin holding their breaths. Reo quickly steps forward and grabs Akari's arm and pulls her to the side. No recognition are in those dead eyes as Akari's body starts to bite Reo.
[ dice=Zombie girls init]3d20
[ dice=classmate broom holder init]2d20 +2
[ dice=Maki's init]1d20+3Quinn's Story
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Quinn opens the door, seeing the hysterical girl is only a little bloody lets her into the locker room. She holds a baseball bat in one hand and a badmitten racket in the other but quickly enters without using them. You can see about a dozen zombies slowly shambling towards another girl on the ground 10 feet from her. You also notice that a boy is out cold next to the door. The girl behind you urgently says, "Quickly shut the door, we can't help them." There are another dozen or so bodies around the gym many of them mutilated.
Maki recognizes that Akari's not okay, and a thought flashes through her head. Pretend it's just like your matches. You need to win.
She still cannot get past the initial hesitation to strike another person with the intent to kill, and her punch lacks substance.
"Hey! Hold her off!" she cries out.
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The zombie drops and the other three zombies are beyond the guy in the apron. You look around and see several zombies that have been slashed in their heads, no other bodies are around.
The person in the apron takes a few stealthy steps and then tries the next door. No luck, and then taps two times then three times again.
One down, three more to go. From the mysterious apron-wearing person's actions, Quinn theorizes that they are human. What zombie would go around methodically knocking on doors?
Quinn carefully pulls two arrows from her backpack. She puts one in her mouth and nocks the other one, aiming for the next closest zombie.
(Surprise Round)
If the arrow falls short and to the ground, Quinn flinches anticipating the noise. She looks around the hallway. Did anybody - anything - notice?
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"Let's do it boys" Devin ventures out into the hallway. He spots the boy in the hallway slipping around in the water. Moving to the edge of the water . "One of you use the broom to try and assist him if you can and the other watch our backside"
Devin represented by Bold
Map:
X X Z Z D D D D D D D D D X X X X X
X X Z Z Z D D D B D D D D X X X X Y
Maki's Story
The zombie Akira bites and latches onto Reo. He screams in pain and the other two zombies turn towards the group advancing slowly, now adjacent and ready to strike. Haruto swings the broom down with enough force to knock the zombie back but not much damage done. Sensei grabs onto Akira trying to pull her off of Reo but to no avail, he still tries though.
Round 2
Reo with the help of Sensei gets Akira off of him but then drops the broom before dropping to the ground himself. Dead at the end of the round.
Quinn's Story
The arrow hits the zombie but falls to the ground. The zombies continue to stumble around with no indication they heard, saw, or felt anything. The apron wearing person saw it, turned and quietly walks back. One hand holding the bloody bladed broom and the other open palmed towards you.
Trio Story
One of the bruisers moves down the other end of the hallway as the other matches Devin down the hallway. The boy continues to cry trying to get further from the zombies. He gets up and falls only progressing 5 feet but the zombies crawl 10. You hear an exclamation down the other end and see zombies shambling towards you, 60 feet away now. The four woth improvised clubs follow on Devin's heel. The hallway is 20 feet wide.
Map:
X X Z Z Z Z D D D D D D D E A X X X X X X X X X X X X Z Z
X X Z Z Z Z Z D D B D D D A A X X Y X X A X X X X X X Z Z
E = Devin A=Ally
Round 2
The crawling zombies continue to advance as the other zombies stumble faster towards you, getting up to the bruiser and he swings knocking the first one down. But it begins to stand again.
Map:
X X Z D Z D Z Z D D D D D E A X X X X X X Z Z X X X X X X
X X Z D D D Z Z Z B D D D A A X X Y X X A Z Z X X X X X X
E = Devin A=Ally
Quinn's Story
He whispers through his bloody plastic visor, "Good, I was looking for other survivors." If you dont let him in he lifts the visor so you can see his face otherwise he follows you into the locker room.
Once in he loudly sighs and sits down then whispers, "I didnt realize how heavy this would be. Hi, I am Matthew, Quinn and Elly right? I have a great memory, are either of you hurt or bitten?"
Standing at the door Electra tries to record everything with her smartphone for later x-reference.
Maki's kick catches the zombie on sensei in the chest without any effect. She starts to wonder if she could even do anything to these abominations!
"Sensei! Don't let her bite you!" she shouts.
Maki's Story
Round 2
The zombie goes after Haruto and misses as does the other nameless zombie going after Maki, the third zombie Akira grabs onto Sensei her mouth chomping air not able to make contact yet. Haruto hits the zombie in the head doing minimal damage. Most of the students behind you scatter up the stairs.
Round 3
The three zombies flail at you two but you are both able to deflect their arms. Sensei gets bit on the arm as he was not able to push her away. Sensei tries again but he can't get the right leverage. Reo begins to shake and writhe. Hakaru takes a step back, plants his feet and with all his strength swings again but misses, first getting the broom to hit a hanging light then down to the floor.
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Quinn stands firm until Matthew lifts up his visor, revealing his face. Quinn lifts one side of her mouth in a smile and nods, making room for Matthew to enter into the girl’s locker room. Once Matthew is inside, Quinn gives one last peak around outside in the hallway before quietly closing the door and turning the deadbolt.
Quinn whispers, ”Do mind checking Elly, Matthew? She’s a real badass. She tried escaping the school through the parking lot.” Quinn wait for Matthew to agree to the search or for Elly to resist Matthew’s offer.
Quinn whispers, looking at Elly: ”Speaking of which, Elly, who was that guy unconscious outside the gym door? Did you knock him out?”