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just curious at this point but I will roll and see what comes up.
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Set 1 if I can complete this by the due date. I think if I fleshed this out it would be wanderer with Gleeman as my eventual out. The 18 in Charisma.
What if the different ranks in proficiency capped your straight level bonus? That way it becomes important to become proficient in skills in order to unlock further bonuses as you level. You don't automatically get unceasingly better at everything only what you gain proficiency in.
Ferrous is just going ahead enough to peer around the corner. Hopefully seeing the source of the chanting.
well confirmed all my material is lost I apologies to you both but this is the end of this story. Thank you for your patience.
well s@~*. Mythweavers had a massive data loss for all their sheets. That would be every NPC I developed for this game. Several varieties of diseased. I am super discouraged and I think this is the final nail in the coffin of this campaign. I am waiting to see what actually gets recovered but not looking good.
Richard what pen and paper do you play? Marcus sorry to hear your dog is still not healthy. Hoping she gets better soon.
am I making this too sandbox style for your liking or is everyone just busy?
Marcus made 3 Spears the size of javelins as the paddles were not long enough to make any type of reach weapon. Greg at least would like a life vest armor gives a +2 bonus or +3 if you have light armor proficiency. Does Richard want one as well? Consider the life vests spent in creation of 3 sets of armor. There are still a bunch of paddles so more javelin could be made. As for cars there are a few in the parking lot. Did you both arrive by bus?
Wishing the best for your furry family member. Hoping that you have indeed rounded the corner with this disease.
Situation Review.: Water: 12 Liters (4 days supply) Richard the chemical genius constructed a makeshift water distillation device (1 hour of boiling produces 1 liter of water) Requires venting of smoke for wood-burning. (+2 to notice checks) or could use generator to run on electrical heat (+1 Listen check) Food: Roger found 1 days rations in the Backwoods office. Group leaning towards search of Studio North Dance and Fitness Center. Weapons: What you started the game with. Also if you had anything stored in your vehicle you can access it now it is parked outside.
Fuel: What remains in your gas tank if you had a vehicle and about 5 gallons for the generator. Parts:
Survivors: 3 Morale: SNAFU - No modifiers Location: Backwoods office Known NPCs:
ResearchAttempt21:
Marcus searches through the GBs of data that his web crawler pulled down through his SAT phone. He begins by trying to find out some information on the outbreak but his keyword filters seem to have pulled a vast amount of red herrings with vast amounts of the data pertaining to pop culture Zombie books, movies, and TV shows. He also noticed when looking at the results for "Real Life Zombies" the voodoo practice showed up again not what he was really desiring. Discouraged he switches his approach to reading about his results for the power plant searches. He discovered the ip address domain for both the Monticello and Prairie Island Nuclear Plants. He also gathers a list of non-nuclear power plants Sherburne County; Clay Boswell; Mankato Energy Center; High Bridge; and Black Dog were the largest. The closest of those being Clay Boswell and still that was over 100 miles away. Definitely something for a different day or maybe even week but good to know. Marcus has the IP addresses of these places but the chance that they are up and running and still on the internet is anybody's guess. Encouraged by these findings Marcus decides to start weeding his searches for Zombie information with a city such as Zombie and St. Paul. This weeds out alot of the garbage but he still needs to sift through St. Paul Zombie Bar Crawls and the like before deciding to add the word Doctor to his search query. This trims down the results a great deal and an online journal article catches his eye. "Current Crisis from a Medical Perspective." By Dr. Horace Boderick. Marcus spends the next 30 minutes reading an article published online July 5th. The tone is frantic but scientific. In the article it describes an outbreak of illness occurring across America and possibly the world. It seems that tracer back vectors the illness started in the Midwest around the Great Lakes chiefly centered around the Northern parts of Illinois and Southern Wisconsin. Those that fell ill seemed to develop high fevers before eventually becoming uncontrollably violent and even cannibalistic. Further more patients at this stage are nonverbal only able to utter growls or moans. The Dr goes one further to state that he and several others in the Medical community have called for an immediate stop to air travel until the situation is contained. He references several attacks that have been on the news. He mentions that currently there seems to be no cure for the illness and patients are unresponsive to antibiotic treatment. Further testing is required but it appears at this time that some form a virus is at the root cause. He also states that due to the outbreak centering around the great lakes that people consider their water source very carefully. He ends with a note of hope reminding the reader that America has several professional people working on this new virus and he has the upmost faith that a vaccine will be developed shortly. Research16: When Marcus once again sits down with his computer to see what he can discover he references Dr. Horace Boderick and outbreak. This produces a few more recent articles that last of which was published July 11th. "The virus continues to spread across America. We have news from overseas that several other countries are now dealing with their own crisis and can not offer US aid at this time. It is now estimated that about 20% of the population have contracted the Virus now being termed CMD Cannibalistic Mobility Disease. The medical community remains hopeful even after the devastating news about the CDC falling to the outbreak. It seems the issue is the long latency period of the virus. No effects are seen for at least 12 hours after exposure. The fever seems to last another 8-12 hours before the carrier finally loses the power of speech and higher brain function. At this point the carrier develops the cannibalistic nature of the disease and is able to spread the disease through a bite."
Marcus using his SAT phone to connect his laptop computer and some very gray area web tools is able to access what remains of the internet. He seems to have food a server station that is still active located in New Mexico. This server station utilized wind power and was one of the last Eco-Friendly constructions during the Trump presidency. Marcus can only assume that someone smartly disconnected the server's power system from the grid while remaining connected to the internet and serving up massive amounts of data. Some headlines of articles that flash on the screen follow. 8 ways you can survive the coming Zombie Apocalypse. Virus vs Bacteria what is likely to cause a Zombie Apocalypse. Chicagoland Pharmaceutical company denies connection to recent illness.
Looking through the canoe paddles Richard looked for tools, any kind of tools, glue and maybe, hidden behind some documents alcohol or medical drugs, like asprin or tylanol. Also any kind of batteries or other emergancy equipment. SearchMechanicsAndRolls:
So Richard's search is what is covered in D20 Apocalypse ruleset as scavenging. A DC 15 is not that great of a result
In a quick 10 minute search Richard discovered Electrical parts Mechanical parts and servings of food. Another searches of the office are possible but the office is now considered very lightly scavenged and has a +5 modifier as opposed to the previous +15 modifier. You can take a 20 on a search roll but it would then take 3 hours and 20 minutes to do the check and do this 5 times and the status of the building would go to heavily scavenged immediately giving a -15 to future searches. Otherwise after 2 more searches it will be consider lightly scavenged (+0) and after 5 more searches it will be moderately scavenged (-5). If you want to thoroughly search the place the most efficient would be to make the 11 remaining search checks now.
2 with a +5 modifier 3 with a +0 modifier 1 with a -5 modifier 5 taking 20 with a -5 Modifier. Each roll above would take 10 minutes and the taking 20 would take 3 hours and 20 minutes. So total time involved in the above is 17 hours and 50 minutes. I would consider this to be done already if it the time that you had at this office. Richard has also spent 3 hours constructing the water distillation system. Richard in his first 10 minutes of searching uncovered some spare batteries and some electrical components some spare bolts and driver and a handful of snack bars.
Escape route to Roof: Yes Richard search for supplies: Yes results of his search coming soon.Richard design and construction of Water distillation system: Yes Spears: Not yet no Craft Mechanical Roll made (takes 1 hour per spear) Life Vests: Not yet no Craft Mechanical Roll made (takes 1 hour per spear) Hacking/Researching: Complex skill check combining Computer Use and Research. Significant DC modifiers to computer use as most servers have lost power and are down a successful Computer Use skill would allow the research check. Then using what remains of the internet would be a research check that takes 1d4 hours. We can do this two ways one way would be you roll and tell me generally what you are looking for. Based on the roll result you would get information about that detailed based on the result. The other RAW way is you specify what information you want as specific you want it and then I set a DC and you roll. This way I think is bad for PbP. So we will use the first way. Often means you don't know the DC though. Food:yeah you need some of that.
Richard begins setting up a water purification system. With his chemistry knowledge and a few pieces of equipment laying around the Backwoods office he has devised a means to distill water using heat to boil the water and condense and collect it and funnel it through a filtered system. Running the distillation for a hour under medium heat would produce 1/2 Gal of distilled completely pure water. This would require burning some source of heat for an hour and a means of ventilating the smoke. Richard has constructed a ventilation to the outdoors. The side effect is that when running the still a small smoke plume is put out from the Backwoods office.
No worries I realized after editing time passed that my tone might have been rougher than intended typed it right after getting a lousy work email. I unfortunately researched if the filter would work first before seeing if it was on your character sheet. Doh! Thing to realize is that whatever filtration system you employ it needs to beat the municipal filtration system. The college guys got sick off of the tap water which in the town is a fresh water filtration system not well water.
I will be posting with a quicker response time. The weekends still might be a bit slow but otherwise I should have a response within 24 hours. The question is what is your next course of action. Richard did a thorough search of the place (results pending a roll) Marcus and Greg spent some time fortifying the store front windows and escape route through the roof.
Richard looked for tools, any kind of tools, glue and maybe, hidden behind some documents alcohol or medical drugs, like asprin or tylanol. Also any kind of batteries or other emergancy equipment.
Then he runs tap water through his 13,000 gallon Katadyn Pocket (portable) water filter to clean out the toxins.
Marcus notices several tools in the shop that might be useful in converting some paddles into javelins. The paddles are a sturdy fiberglass based plastic. The shop has an electrical grinder and sander. Problem is electrical service seems to be extremely shoddy and unreliable. The electrical grids only source is currently wind and solar power plants as the coal plants have no one running them and the nuclear plants basically went into emergency shutdown. Greg shares that the Backwoods office does have a gas powered generator and there is enough gasoline for about 24 hours of medium electrical (~4kW) output. Not trained in this so can only aid and applying a -4 modifier for not having tools.With Greg's help Marcus cuts into a 3' diameter hole in the ceiling and the two secure a rope ladder to the ceiling and hang it down through the hole. They cover the hole with a blue tarp from the warehouse and secure the tarp with a square of paddles duct taped together. When climbing out one simply pushes the paddle square off the tarp to one side. Situation Review.: Water: Unless Marcus can show a prior post where claiming the water filter there is a serious water shortage. You currently have about 6 liters of bottled water remaining. Food: Currently none but maybe Roger found some on his search of Backwoods. Weapons: What you started the game with. Also if you had anything stored in your vehicle you can access it now it is parked outside. Marcus suggested sharpening some paddles into javelins. This would function as Javelins per RAW modified based on the craft mechanical check.
Fuel: What remains in your gas tank if you had a vehicle and about 5 gallons for the generator. Survivors: 3 Morale: SNAFU - No modifiers Location: Backwoods office
...... It had been 3 days since the morning of the Canterbury betrayal. Things had gone from a horrible mystery to a confirmed nightmare. The dead were indeed walking around again as in every zombie trope every. The tour group of outdoor enthusiasts have dwindled down. Edwin was the first to go as he was surrounded by the Zombies outside the Civic center that first morning. Yael was last seen that same morning she fired several shots into the group tearing into Edwin before she was seen running off in the opposite direction. She hasn't been seen since. The Civic center door was locked but wasted no time in trying to pick and kicked the glass portion in and reached in and opened it from inside. The group managed to make it in and close the door behind them. But with the shattered glass in the door allowing Edwin's screams to still reach them there was very little relief.
Ok relaunch planned for new year. We have Richard the German Med student and Marcus the American Doomsday Prep-er. If I don't hear from someone by NYE then I consider their character fair game to kill off or make disappear.
I've pm'd Marcus is anyone else still lurking?
Still waiting to hear from Edwin. I will make some form of post over the weekend but I expect the pace to be slow until the new year as work is DEMANDING right now.
yes work is crazy should settle down by the end of this week. It was JoJo turn but not sure who is still here. So roll call time. Please post if you are still around. End of the week I should be freed up from work stuff for a bit.
sorry massive work project. No time for posting at this moment and probably need about another two weeks before I can pick it up.
You can if you beat it's opposed grapple check and aren't grappled. [ooc]You do so Withdraw away[/dice]
Beginning Round 2
Dice:
requires an AoO from Edwin requires an AoO from Yael Zombie Splat!!! Edwin double moved but no charge Yael charage grab but failed. Edwin double moved but no charge Grab but failed to hold. Brian carried JoJo another 45 feet away from the snarling dead behind them. Greg lumbered forward with a final retch he shook his head as he finally felt his stomach return to normal. The zombies lurched and then broke into a run for the survivors. Yael managed to defend herself admirable by striking the first zombie to reach her with the butt of her pistol before calmly putting two rounds into its face. She managed to break away from a second zombie who managed to grab her momentarily. Edwin was in trouble a zombie had reached out for him to grab a hold and he was quickly surrounded by other zombies as well.
Round 2 Initiative Order
In other words go ahead and post your actions in any order now. Doubt I will be able to post again today though.
Edwin will book it, hoping to dodge whatever attack the zom dishes out. He will use next round to also distance himself.
As Edwin turns his back on the sicko to make a break for the civic center the dead woman rakes his back with elongated fingernails. It felt like being mauled by a bear as his shirt was ripped through and the flesh from his back was torn away. Bright red streaks were quickly visible where the zombie claw had formed deep gouges in the skin. Edwin bit down hard on the pain and moved his feet with determination. Real End of Round 1
Schmitty looks down at the shotgun that Greg handed him. It had been a long time since he fired any weapon. He was so close to the poor sickos right now he couldn't possible miss could he.
Schmitty let out a yelp as the gun went off and then surprise over came his face as he saw his target head get pulverized by the shutgun shell. The sicko dropped to the ground as Schmitty turned and ran 30' feet towards the civic center. END OF ROUND 1.
Geoffrey continues to stagger away, looking for shelter from the mob.
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