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I apologize for being absent for a while. I had to force-disconnect myself from the internet for a while and it made doing play-by-post games difficult.
However, that is part of the reason for this post. I've realized that I've been putting way too much time into play by posts, and have signed into WAY too many games for me to reasonably handle with my current workload and changes to my life situation. I needed to cut down the number of games I am in, and this one is one of them. I am sorry. I was having fun, but these games were getting to be one of my causes of stress, and that was what tipped things for me. Thank you for the opportunity to play with you all, and I am sorry for the inconvenience.

stealth: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
sorry my internets down so my posts will be curt.

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Maki will respond to the last message from her dad with a simple Roger that. Love you.

She turns to the group after bagging the supplies she could find. "My dad's a police officer. He says I should get to the edge of the city and find a safe place." She sniffs. "I can try to meet him at the Takao Junior High on Friday, hopefully. He says not to go through town. Too many... threats." She still has a hard time disassociating the zombies from the people they used to be, but distancing herself with those words were helping. Threats. That works for her.

I should be okay with my kicking/punching from now on. Also, storage capacity upgrade complete! :p (You can carry surprisingly little in just a skirt and shirt, you know?)

Maki returns with a small (fanny pack) pack and a few of her sparring pads. She quickly straps the shin and forearm guards onto her limbs, so that she runs less of a chance getting them bitten while fighting with them. Putting on her Kendo Pads armor She also holds out one of two protein drinks, the kind she takes when she's gearing up for a martial arts match or sports competition.

"Here Dominique. If you're hungry later on, this might take the edge off." she says. She tucks the other one into her pack, which also holds her keys, her cell phone (which she did try to operate) a full roll of the boxing tape she used earlier, and two granola bars.

When they search the men's locker room, she looks around methodically. The menial tasks are helping her find her mental center again.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

was I able to get to my locker?

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Maki stands up straight, leaping up into the air to give her extra power as she kicks her leg up. She hangs in midair for a split second before she drops and brings her heel down on the zombies head in a full-body powered heel strike. Her shoe crashes down into the zombie's nose with devastating effect.

Unarmed: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19 Been forgetting my feat addition to attack rolls! Derp!
damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
If only the damage roll backed up the good attack!

Unarmed strike: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14 damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Maki will rush up to the zombie on Dom, sliding onto her knees and driving a tight, controlled knuckle strike to the temple of the zombie.

initiative: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

Maki has been watching the more assertive work, and is finding herself daunted by the situation, but starts psyching herself up to fight if it happens.

Once in the locker room, though, an opportunity comes to mind. "I need to get into my locker." she says. "I have some equipment for kendo there."

Maki moves quietly, trying to avoid further entanglements with her former classmates.

stealth: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Maki twists away from the zombified sensei, and only Quinn would really see from her perspective that if she hadn't shot him, the student's other hand was pulled into a perfect form palm strike. Now deceased again, the zombie is unable to prevent her from pulling her hand free.

Trembling, she flexes her hand and rubs her fingers. Fortunately, she had wrapped her hands and fingers in grip tape, protecting them from any real harm. Quinn'd notice there's marks on the knuckles like she'd been doing a lot of fighting.

"This is so unbelievable." Maki says at first. "But... I just saw my teacher turn into some kind of monster." She'll turn to Dominique, as he's just awoken. "He's not one of them. He saved me out in the hallway a little while ago. We can untie him."

She shakes her head when Elly's story is mentioned. "Rescuing him is only going to help if he can do more than get people killed. Besides, he's going to resent you locking him up, wouldn't he?"

She raises a hand. "I vote everyone here sticks together and goes through the locker room. I don't know how busy the cafeteria would be, but we should do that."

Maki sighs when he goes still, saddened, but when he starts trying to bite her, and she cries out as his grip on her hand is hurting her. "Let go!" she cries out, panicking.

Maki will take Sensei's hand, unsure what else to do. "Sensei? I'm here." she says quietly, patting his hand. Restrained, he wasn't much danger, but she was twitchy, overloading from this colossal right-turn that life went.

Maki flinches too. "Hitomi! Please be quiet!" she whispers harshly.

She turns to Elektra and frowns at her appearance, but saya "Autism. I think."

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"Kimura Maki. Sophomore... Type O-?" she replies. "Sensei and Dominique were bitten about ten minutes ago, I think. I couldn't stop the... things fast enough."

I'm going to point out that Maki has never seen a SINGLE zombie movie or engaged in any zombie pop-culture.

Maki will help sensei and the rest make it to the nurses room. She's feeling high strung, listening and looking out for the slightest sign of danger, whether from zombies or her own allies turning.

Maki, is it that you feel you are not sure what he might do as an Autistic person? I can understand that, even after working with some I still get that feeling.

Pretty much. Autism is not able to handle changes well, and I dunno, just feels wrong to me to put someone through that. There's also the chance that I might end up abandoning him because I'm already heavily discouraged and everyone I know is dying and this person is just going to suffer.

We're going to be heading to the clinic as soon as I figure out how to convince an autistic person to fight zombies with me... Now that's a sentence I never expected to say.

Maki wants to believe that people don't just turn into zombies from being bitten. She wants things to go back to normal. There's too much blood for the second, and the first is starting to seem like a pipedream too. She will look at Dominique and Sensei and turns to face the teacher.

"... What should I do?" she asks, her voice shaken and worried. "If it's true, then you and Dominique will... change soon."

I am going to go on record and say that hitomi's character makes me feel uncomfortable.

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Maki shakes her head when Dominique suggests the options. "No. I think he's autistic." She looks worried. "They're not easy to work with, my dad's shown me some reports."

She'll also look at sensei and Dominique. "How are you feeling?" she asks. "Sensei's got the shakes. We need to find medical supplies. The nurses office?"

Maki hears his talking and something clicks in her head. She'd seen a few people like that, and realized that this person needed some kind of help.

She will kneel down in front of his desk. Looking down at his papers, she quickly reads his name off the corner. "Hitomi Tanaka?" she asks. "Hey, buddy, I know there are scary things going on around here. Can you hear me?"

Maki follows Dominique into the classroom and sees Hitomi. "Are you okay?" she asks after looking around the room, and at him for any bite-like injuries. "You're just sitting there."

She will look around for something she can tear up to help the other survivors bandage up their injuries.

I had responded, but it looks like it had been overlooked. Sorry about that. -_-

Maki stares at her, confused. "Wait... we can't just leave them?" she falters, the situation changing too quickly for her to mentally keep up. "We need to stick together!"

I DID reply!

... I miss existing.

Maki stares at her, confused. "Wait... we can't just leave them?" she falters, the situation changing too quickly for her to mentally keep up. "We need to stick together!"

Maki starts feeling desperate. With her target flanked, she tries to take out at least one zombie.

Unarmed strike: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 4 + 2 = 23
damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
Well finally!

"Sensei!? Are you okay?" she cries out.

Round 5

Maki listens to the new guy, though she doesn't understand how he knows about all this. She performs a snap kick to the last zombies head. She tries to keep it quiet, but is starting to panic with how Reo's thrashing around is freaking her out.
Unarmed: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
I swear to god, RNG...
damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

My bad. I'll do that from now on.

Lets see if this round is as doomed to failure as the last.

"No! Dont run! Shit!" Maki shouts,. She nods her head in thanks at the goth kid who moved to help her, lining up an uppercut that would knock another man's head off and delivering it to the nearest zombie.

Unarmed: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14
damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

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Maki stumbles back, watching everything fall apart immediately after it started.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
OMG. The RNG hates me today... :/

"S-someone help me!"she shouts, She tries to hit the zombie on Haruto and finish it off so they can work together and save Sensei.

Unarmed: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
... #*%%^()!#$^%*)!

1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
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!

Goodbye, goodbye... Well, I think I might need a rescue by the 3-A team. :/

"Sensei! Don't let her bite you!" she shouts.

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. He is completely open to her and without intercession will take a bite attack or worse. Maki's turn.

[ dice=Zombie girls init]3d20
[ dice=classmate broom holder init]2d20 +2
[ dice=Maki's init]1d20+3

Quinn's Story
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Yes Nylon duffel bags.

Scenario 3 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.
Unarmed strike: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10 damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

"Hey! Hold her off!" she cries out.

I'm sorry, but after that I think Reo's just doomed.

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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I'm studying German on my own time, but I'm just one of those americans. :/

Maki, an inadvertent nationalist, speaks only Japanese. And maybe snippets of bad English.

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.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11
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.

K:Tactics: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27
"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?"

Sounds good to me. I put up a post in the gameplay thread, I hope that I did all right!

*bows* Please take care of me!

Yeah that's correct!

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."

Okay Maki is all updated with consolidated skills and suggested changes. My Vital Stats should be up to date now. I believe I'm all done, unless someone sees something I missed.

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