--- tags: DnD --- # Watchtower - Dead Reign Session 1 - 05/12/2020 ------------------------ The game starts in Port Townsend. Theo starts in a hair saloon undercover as a detective, closing up and collecting tips. She dips down an alleyway and takes a smoke. She is looking at a gas station with a shop and remembers there are 3 guys that work there at a time. Apparently a cashier came to her since they were terminated for asking about sketchy activity in the area. Nothing is really seen, and the mechanic shop at the station seems to be open still, past 5:15pm currently. Theo decides to head to the station and grab a sub. As she walks in there is 3x the cameras of a typical business. Everything seems to be laid out so everything is visible from the counter, so you can see all, with extra cameras. Someone familiar waves to Theo as she goes to her VW Bus in the lot, and he starts to approach. He approaches the window and knocks, so she shrugs and rolls it down a finger to hear through. The man asks if she went to **Palomar College**, and she says no, but a she says she may have known a man who goes there. She looks familiar to him, and the man says he works at an auto parts store nearby. As she talks, her passenger door opens, and she starts driving. Suddenly a flashbang goes off at her feet, and she's blind and deaf. She crosses the street and hits a barrier at the gas station. Dean closes the vets at 5pm and leaves at 6pm. At 9pm he returns and opens the clinic. Klaus gets a message calling him to the clinic. Dean gets a call asking if the clinic is open, he's not happy about getting a call. A tweaker and a beat up man from a street fight come in. The tweaker is small and mostly babysitting and was also the caller. Klaus resets the man's fingers and staples his scalp back together. He places two pens into his nostrils and straightens it back out as well, not his best work. It takes around 2 hours to patch the man up. Another buzzer is heard and Dean asks who the fuck is at his back door and pops it open. As the door opens a bit, the door is jerked open and Dean is stunned with a stick as he gets hit. He immediately drops to the ground like a rock as 3 people enter. The tweaker immediately hears this and starts asking what is going on loudly as the dogs start going nuts. Charlie runs out of the Kennel and follows the scent of blood, finding the tweaker and jumping on him. Klaus grabs the stapler and goes and sits on a stool (something harder to be tied to). The boxer gets up and starts to kick at Charlie, connecting with his doggy-ribs, leading to a strong yelp. Suddenly the dog gets hit with a stun-stick and the man continues down the hall. The other comes to the doorway with the boxer. The man is in a suit with a stunstick and wearing some Gargoyle sunglasses. Klaus sees the boxer start in on the man and saw the stun, so he pulls a pill from his coat, takes it by chewing on it, and then near immediately passes out. Voodoo is in the garage, and waits for everyone to leave. He closes the shutter to the convenience store to close it out. He notices 3 guys enter the shop in suits, 2 bolt towards him, and 1 stays by the door. The man is trying to kidnap him, thinks Voodoo. He tries to punch the man, but the man dodges. Voodoo pulls a 1911 out of his overalls and makes a hole in his nearest attacker. He parries the next attack and puts another hole in the man's suit, but it seems to be just burning the shirt. With a bzzzt, Voodoo takes a stun, but he dodges the other attacker. He runs for the back door, tries to open it, and finds it slammed closed on him. A man in black runs in and gets another stun in knocking Voodoo out. Everyone awakes to some bright light. Each awakes in their own tube/pod. There are six pods here and two of them have black streaks on them as in something scratched them. There is a small asian lady and a black man, both dead for at least a week. Everyone is in a diaper. A congratulations is given and a stay is mentioned. There are items at the feet and there's an assistant here apparently. Some intercom gives details. Clothing is in the boxes, and Voodoo asks Klaus to pull out his needles. Klaus rips off the sensor pads. Theo pulls out a cable and asks who everyone is abruptly and is confused why everyone knows eachother. Voodoo steals the clothing from the dead and Dean takes the shoelaces. It appears the others died of some panic attack while trying to claw their way out. With frantic energy, Theo runs around trying all the buttons on the keypad. The clothing looks completely cleaned and is empty. A 5'8" lady, with blonde hair and blue eyes waits outside the door. The clothes are fading and starting to thin out on here. It seems she has been here a while. Tina introduces herself saying she's taking us to the supervisor. She walks like a robot and she starts to move. She stops and move at 45deg angles. Voodoo points out that Klaus was right, it is a robot. The place looks in disrepair. Dean starts tapping doors and they seem shut. Theo is confused that the robot didn't mention the dead people. Tina keeps going in rights, and we are going in a circle. She then gestures to a door, and it seems to be where we came from. It is not where we came from, it's a 15'x15' office, wood panel everywhere. Klaus touches the robot and it appears to be skin. Steve Harvey is behind the desk, but there's no nameplate. There's a square cystal glass and bottle with no cap. And there's a pistol cartridge on the desk, with Steve Harvey shot in the head. He sits up and and notes that a few are missing and asks for us to take a seat. The man introduces himself as **Zachariah Farmer**. He is there to lead us to the "next stage". There's a "self replication clause" of the contract since the two die. The man has no legs and he starts walking on his hands. Cyberton HQ is where we are at. It's called **The Tower**. It seems impossible space is possible here. The doors are locked for most, but we get an extra 2 doors open that will escape the tower. We just need to open it and leave. The doors lead to possibly completely different outcomes. Zach apparently discharged a prismatic lazer weapon into his face. He says "it tingled". Left is chosen, as Zach starts shufflin' again, and we make that 360deg square again. It seems to be back at his office. He points to one on each side of the hallway. They argue about contracts and then Theo kicks the man over twice. The party decides on Left, with Theo arguing against it. Eventually they just give up and take the right. There is another door, 3 folding tables with gear, and the door behind closes when we enter. Each's wallet is here, and there are a keyring each, with 3 keys the same on all sets. 7-9 keys each on the ring. A small plastic envelope that holds a CCP license for Washington, a holster, their weapon, a phone. In Dean's box is a set of pocket binoculars, a 42-channel secure walky-talkie, and a dog-collar that is spiked. Voodoo has a Walky-Talkie and a roll of duct-tape. Theo has a Walky-Talkie, some pocket Binoculars, a small flashlight, and a pocket mirror. The door says **Event: 3 Days** and the party heads through it. The party is in the kitchen of a closed restaurant. It appears someone was knifed in the corner and something is stuck on the ceiling and dried. There is a layer of dust and filth on the counters. This is a fairly classic diner style pizza joint, with a door. **Tower Pizzeria** is the name of the place as we exit. There is a vehicle for each. Voodoo files a ridgeline and finds it empty. Klaus finds a Volvo X90, and Theo a different Van and not her Bus. The party exchanges numbers, and parts ways. Voodoo goes to his house, but it seems different somehow. There are kids toys on the lawn, a Kia in the drive, a Alien themed truck. The phones say it's the same day everyone was abducted. Voodoo comes to the shop and finds his old helper, but the man seems to not know him, so he takes off. Dean and Klaus go to the vet clinic in Dean's car and park around back. None of Dean's keys work. Dean smashes in and goes to the OR with the alarms going off, his dog isn't in that room. Charlie is missing. Sirens are going off down the road so Dean and Klaus load up to go to his apartment. His keys don't work nor does his code to get into the lot. Theo tries to log into her social media, but nothing works. It's like none of her accounts existed. She looks up people she used to know, but nothing seems special. Theo calls her Brother's phone number, and it goes to voicemail saying she was kidnapped by the government or robots, and mentions things are weird. She asks for a call back on the phone number. She calls Voodoo on his phone, while he waits in a parking lot. They plan to meet up before his heist. She then calls Dean and Klaus and they will meet for dinner. Voodoo has a cop that rolled up on his parked car, and he shows license and registration to the cop and says he's waiting on family to pick him up. He starts just rambling to the cop about his past and family, and his handed back his info and is told to have a nice evening. The squad of three go to Denny's. Klaus orders the cheapest item on the value menu, Dean orders some waffles, and Theo gets a full meal with a salad. They get 3 oatmeal on the house, but Dean and Theo refuse to eat it, so Klaus eats all three. Voodoo goes to the convenience store and browses the drinks, talking to the guy running the place who finds him familiar but doesn't know him. Theo takes to the restroom as Dean and Klaus continue to chat. Voodoo asks if "Hair Lady" wants to learn how to kick a door in and blow someone's brains out. She says she already knows how. Theo asks questions, but Voodoo shuts it down. She tells the others, and they say no way to going. Dean drops $25 in the tip jar and they take off. Voodoo calls Klaus, who puts the phone on speaker and he talks about killing people. As Dean and Klaus leave a cop shows up and starts accosting them. Klaus shows his concealed carry card, but Dean refuses. Dean continues to not give his ID, so the cop tases him 3 times, and takes his ID, tossing it to his partner who has Klaus against the car. Voodoo and Theo meet up and he says that they need to wait for the Doctor and Dog-man to arrive. Later in the day, Klaus and Dean are released, and pointed to a window to pickup our guns tomorrow morning, with a ticket. Klaus checks for any tracking devices and asks to go back to his car to retrieve his gun. Dean takes him back and readies his rifle. Voodoo notices that the address on his license is different after his sleep, and they head to his address. In the new house he finds a folder on the counter. In the garage is a Uhaul trailer, filled with his drones. Dean checks this house, and finds 3 runs with dogs and his supplies. None are his dogs by their actions, but upon sniffing him they are fine. With a toss of a big box, Voodoo's drone takes off. He comes back with an iPad stuck to his arm. --- EXP (Personal): 125 Skills 25 Drugging Klaus 100 Showing the CCP 50 Playing in Character 300 total --- Session 2 - 02/01/2020 - (HallowsEevee Late) ---------------------------------------------- Four people are around a table and a large Steve Harvey walks in asking for a report on their assets (this maybe Zachariah, as he says he was busy waiting for something). Apparently "something appears to have gone wrong". Steve Harvey orders him "eaten" by security, and then calls for a new "VBR operator". There's something of an invasion and a basement level, with dogs not being able to do it. --- Snap back to reality, the party is in the house. It's apparently a Saturday. The house is fully stocked, but no money is found in the house. The black folder is opened and a hologram pops up. It's a man dressed in a suit saying "VBR incorporated". It's some vacation rental experience. There's a black envelope in the folder with $9,500 in it, all 'small face' bills as $50s and $20s. A rental for the building is there and the owner is VBR LTD, no reference to the leasee, and it's been redacted with a black line. **Purchases** Looking around there is a 10KW Generator. $1,500 spent on groceries and hygiene. $455 for 100 rounds of .44 and 50 rounds of 12ga buck. $280 on 500 rounds of 9mm $40 on crossbow Bolts. $568 on 400 rounds of 308, 200 rounds of 45, 10 crossbow bolts. $831.50 for Voodoo goods. $3674.50 spent so far, $5825.50 left. Klaus tries looking to score some drugs. In the second hood he buys $1000 in street drugs. $1000 on medical supplies and first aid. $3825.50 left. $500 Voodoo buys all the drone kits. The last $3325.50 is spent on home improvement and reinforcement. They ask about the apocalypse of the hologram and it says "similar to zombie movies". Our party's contract won't tell us what starts the apocalypse, but says it will spread from zombie to human. The vacation package is worth around 3.7million per individual. These are rented bodies. Theo finds nothing in her room hidden after 3 hours. She searches the kitchen and finds nothing as well. Klaus heads to nap the second they get back as the party reinforces the house. Theo knocks an opening through her closet to the entry closet. At 3:30am the emergency alerts go off to shelter in place on everyone's phones. The woman on the TV is screaming saying Seatle is a warzone with special forces firing into crowds. The rioters are being him by what appears to be tear gas but the crowd doesn't dispurse (special crews rapelling down the building). As the teams hit the ground, they start firing arm mounted shotguns into the crowd. Suddenly it cuts back to the studio and they say peaceful protests were broken up by special forces. 2 News helis down, 24 dead, fires caught. Voodoo things they team was VBR and setting off the apocalypse. Joint Base Lewis–McChord's general comes on saying none were from there and the equipment isn't from the United States Military. The reporters look pale and say "Apparently word hit that 17 explosions have occured at major military installations across the country". A few hours later they report multiple ANFO truck bombs using UHauls to get to installations. Theo heads back to sleep hearing 58 miles of roads between us and Seatle. Voodoo dozes a bit but gets back up eventually. Dean places a crowbar in the door so if it opens he hears it drop. Klaus does some whippits and relaxes. Voodoo's Mama is a 6'4" Samoan man who taught him everything he knows. He doesn't know how to prenounce his actual name. Before Voodoo naps, he launches his drones and gives the tablet to Klaus. Sunday passes as the party fortifies more. Massive body counts start happening in areas with attacks. People are turning on eachother. More fortification happens on Monday as well. Smoke is spotted in the far distance by Theo. In the neighborhood, it looks like the properties were evacuated or lazily fortified. Voodoo starts working on the XC90 to reinforce it and Dean starts framing in the porch out back. Klaus wanders around with a tie around his eyes while getting high. Another fire is spotted Tuesday. Wednesday is spent checking on people around the neighborhood by Theo. To the right, they are at their yaht. To the left, they haven't posted in 3 weeks. The fire spreads and traffic appears despite the stay at home order. Theo tells the party about the Neighbors so they decide to raid the ones on the Yaht. Voodoo tries to cut the power to their house and fails. He eventually cuts his way in and pulls the power meter off the wall as Klaus waves to their security cameras. Klaus knocks, then starts tapping the door with his hatchet. Eventually Voodoo comes over and kicks the door in. The alaram panel is dead and quiet. The party starts scrounging. A zombie is in the kitchen. Voodoo shoots, Klaus backs up and draws, and Dean kick the former housemaid. Dean is immediately slammed into by the female Zombie and his chest armor is badly damaged. Another shot hits from Voodoo and the Zombie hits the ground, but keeps moving. Klaus rearranges to hit and misses the zombie, but also misses Dean luckily. As Dean gets hit again, Voodoo walks up to the zombie, puts the barrel to her head, and pulls the trigger, killing it. The combat ends, but Voodoo does a doubletap. Moaning is heard and the party readies for trouble and sets to leave. Dean notices a small body crawling across the living room coming for Klaus. He pushes Klaus away and takes a shot. This is a 7-8 year old child, and everyone starts shooting but missing. Theo grabs a large knife from the knife block and she tries to catch the child with a chair to hold it back. Dean's borrowed 45 from Voodoo knocks the head cleanly from the child, and he doubletaps it. --- EXP: 100 for the zombies, 50 for skills, 50 for drug-finding, 50 for not wearing armor, 50 saying alarm could have a cell backup 300 total. --- Session 3 - 09/01/2020 - (Smash Joins) ---------------------------------------- Back in the office, a nerdy looking man says there's a problem. Apparently VBR is off track. The head of the company was replaced, but "the assets are off target and they are attempting a revamp". Steve Harvey sends him to the basement to find Payter. Suddenly everybody wakes up, back to right where the corpses are. Montana awakes hearing Voodoo yelling out about contact on the basement stairs, he asks "who's there", and heads into the kitchen. Montana looks like a strongman and Dean tackles him, and is instantly knocked aside. Someone is heard calling for "Yonda" from the basement. Jeffery was locked into the basement by "Yonda". He's apparently hiding in the basement because she was angry. His Nanna and Pappa left him with Yoda, the basement is Jeffery's room, Petey was the child. Theo motions to hide the bodies. Dean starts to throw them under a rug, as Klaus says, "That's his problem if he sees. That's how I get customers!". 5'4" Late 20s or Early 30s. His arms are up like a T-Rex, and his one leg is limping at the foot and the sock is covered in blood. Apparently "Yonda is broken". The party asks Klaus to get him to sit on a chair. He apparently didn't get bitten or scratched. He can't tell us where the blood came from. Montana drinks from the faucet in the kitchen. The parents have been at the farm for 2 years. There is glass embedded in Jeffery's heel and there appears to have been more glass in there. Theo looks and finds some first aid supplies and hands them to Klaus as he works. The rest except Voodoo chat to find out what happened with the new meathead. Voodoo checks his drone footage, and there is just a snap from dark to light, like time skipped. Montana says that he was running from people on the street. They tell him that he needs to strip so as this is a zombie apocalypse. While Dean turns away Theo strips and checks Montana and he was not bitten. Montana is forced to sit with Jeffery who is given some cereal. Klaus stays at the top of the stairs as the rest go in the basement. Jeffery has a small room at the bottom of the house. Except for the bloody footprints, there isn't debris but everything looks made a cleaned, and vaccuumed. Dean calls out, and nobody down there responds. Theo finds a computer, but it's locked and she doesn't have any notes nearby to help. Eventually Voodoo gets in and Theo plugs in some random USB she had found before and it just is filled with porn. Theo finds a playroom with stuff smashed in it. She then goes to the master bedroom and searches for hidden items. --- Room Searching Loot - $7 in change -- **Taken By:** Theo - $45 in small bills -- **Taken By:** Theo - A nice pen set with a pencil and pen -- **Taken By:** Theo - 6 Coins -- **Taken By:** Theo - Set of Car Keys -- **Taken By:** Theo - Set of Car Keys -- **Taken By:** - 50 inch Flatscreen TV - Disposible Kodak Camera - Metal Baseball Bat -- **Taken By:** - Wooden Baseball Bat -- **Taken By:** - 2 Left-handed Baseball Gloves - 1 Right-handed Baseball Glove - 1 Catcher's Mitt - 12 Gauge Shotgun Security Model, 30 rounds slug -- **Taken By:** Theo - US Army Branded Decorated Kabar Knife - House Keys - Car Keys - Small TV - Desktop Computer - Laptop w/ charger and case -- **Taken By:** Theo - Flashlight -- **Taken By:** Theo - Metal Baseball Bat -- **Taken By:** Klaus - One Baseball Glove - One Baseball - Box of photographs - Small Safe - Green Lamp - Photo Album - 3 Flagged red and white flags with numbers on them - Assorted Files - Green Cashier Notebooks - Nine Boxes of Black Skillcraft click pens -- **Taken By:** Klaus - Yellow notepads - House Keys -- **Taken By:** Theo - Car Keys -- **Taken By:** Theo - Digital Camera -- **Taken By:** Theo - Disposisble Camera -- **Taken By:** Theo - Small Flashlight (300 lumen, fist sized) -- **Taken By:** Theo - US Army Kabar Knife -- **Taken By:** Theo - First Aid Kit - Bloodborne Pathogens Kit - 4x Pairs of Mud boots - 3x Pairs of gloves - 3x Knit caps - Bucket - Mop - Vaccuum Cleaner - 2x Sets of Keys - Flashlight SAFE: - 2x 1oz Silver bars -- **Taken By:** Montana - 1911 Officer's Edition -- **Taken By:** Dean - 50x .45 -- **Taken By:** Dean - $3,000 cash. -- **Taken By:** Montana - Superglue -- **Taken By:** Klaus - GM Toolset on the wall - Push broom - Sweep broom - Broom with sticks - Snow shovel - Leaf Rake - Digging Shovel - Tench Shovel - Bucket - Mop - 1gal Kerosene - 2-in1 grill - 2x bags of charcoal brickettes - 3gal gasoline - 6x bottles of bleach - 5x styrofoam peanuts bags -- **Taken By:** Klaus - 4 rolls of 250ft paracord. - 8x Heavy Garbage bags. - Taurus .38 loaded with 15 rounds loose. - --- Montana finds a liquor cabinet broken into with a missing glass and grabs some booze. He calls out Jeffery who says it's a secret and they agree to both let it slide. No broadcast is on the TV as Theo tosses everything. The shed has a lot of flies in it, so Theo closes it and leaves. She gets a broom and pokes it. The shed was empty before the time jump! The object in here is furry and it's apparently dead dog. It's the corpse of a 90lb german shepherd. Dean scrambles its brains with a knife. From the eyes in the sky, the roads all seem empty. There are 21 other properties nearby and 7 have signs of life. 2 Makeshift roadblocks exist, and 1 jersey barrier roadblock exists, hence the low traffic here. No people are spotted in the streets, no vehicles moving. The party tries to decide what to do with Jeffery. Eventually they take him back to the house with his lego castle. Montana cannot log into any of his The news is reporting violent assaults in the streets nation wide. People have rumoured cadavers walking. Russia issued ultimatums to the UN, WHO, and NATO about "planted insurrectionists". Major social media has been shut down as it can't be moderated with the rate of filth posted. Voodoo shares his belief that this is a simulation with the rest of the group. Theo searches around for what neighbors would be home or not. The hologram is missing from the folder now, Montana sees a quarter on the floor and Theo finds that a coin sized object is missing. This quarter looks like a quarter but the stamp is wrong. Theo places it back in the envelope. --- EXP: 50 for skills, 50 for secret secret, 25 for skills well, 150 for saving Jeffery. Total: 275 --- > **Laminis_Tigris:** In the darkest night, at the eve of a wipe, one of you will look up in your wounded state and see a figure riding a gallant steed. You hear the sound of jingling as though a bag of legos is being swung. As the figure closes the gap, you see a mace filled with legos swing and clear the zombies one by one with poise and grace - Jeffery has come and saved the day. Session 4 - IDEK - (Smash and ITGH Missing) -------------------------------------------- They put a speaker on a drone to rescue people and got the neighbours killed. Voodoo made a gattling gun named **Bertha**. The neighbours are creepy and had a radio tossed at them to keep in communication. Session 5 - 20/02/2021 ------------------------ Cut back to an office with a large Steve Harvey lookin' Motherfucker in a Banana Yellow Zoot-Suit. There is a middleaged black haired fella in a suit and bowtie chatting with him. The man's name is Payter. They are arguing about something, and Steve Harvey is saying he will eat the other's master. They both seem to be self-proporting to be powerful. Something about servants and "the family". A failure of a Bastard boy is offered to watch some people and send them to help via Payter. Poof and it's all over in smoke. Rockachaws was looking for Jeffery to ask if he needs food. He hears muffled speaking from Theo's room. She sees him heading and follows. On the dresser is the gold coin, the hologram is popped out of it again. It appears to be dying or near dead and flickers, making slow noises. Rockachaws finds the lego has been stacked up into a large castle, but Jeffery is missing. He asks Klaus, who doesn't know. Theo starts bitching that they were to babysit. Klaus says he was really high and the last time he saw him he was 10ft tall with Horns. They think he may be at the neighbours, so they eat first and then plan to track him down. After the meal she made, Theo checks Jeffery's room to see what she can find and if he took anything with him. Dean and Theo decide to join together and pick the dog up. They leave Voodoo, Montana, Klaus and Bertha at the house and go on their manhunt. As Voodoo works in the shed, he hears a blip from his drone's download. Dean's dog tracks the scent and searches the backyard. It suddenly bolts towards the treeline and they follow for a while. They find a sheer drop and Jeffery's body 20ft down the drop. He is very dead when they find him. Theo cannot figure out how he died when investigating. It looks like he fell down the hill, but she cannot tell if he was dead first. Eventually she looks at the top of the hill and finds there wasn't a struggle and he fell. His neck appears to at an odd angle. Dean looks and it seems like he is both covered and dirt and he has a broken neck. While he does this, Theo walks over the stab Jeffery with a knife but she is stopped by Dean, who turns his head and looses a bolt into the corpse's head. Jeffery is looted by Theo. She finds a leatherman and some black lega pieces. Dean corrects where Theo is heading and they head back to the house without incident. While they were out Klaus did the dishes, and Voodoo has been watching his drone footage. As they return, Voodoo relays the footage from the big chonker of a drone that was going NE to the island of Ebey's Landing and turning to Coupeville. In Coupeville, the High School is on fire, there have been explosions at medical centres and neighborhoods have been torched. The drone kept on to through Oak Harbour. There is a tent city in the farmland and the Harbour itself appears to be cratered. All of the schools have been demolished as well as the large buildings in the city. It then went to Stanwood, and the complexes and schools are blown as well. Through to Tulalip more groups of people are found. Some neighborhoods on fire, but not much else. Langley has the dock shoved through by a boat and it's set on fire. Dean and Theo give the bad news and ask Montana to haul out the lego (he appears to pick something up first from the castle, before he does). Theo goes to try and make a zombie disguise in her room. **DM:** "It's 9pm and Theo's in her bedroom playing with herself." Voodoo lays on the couch, watching the door. Montana tours the outside of the house in a loop. Theo speaks up, trying to sound like a zombie. She's very close. As Voodoo kicks in the door, she yells "practicing". He leaves the room, heads back with a screwdriver, and barely fixes the door. It's up but it doesn't lock. Everyone awakes at 6am, including a new person. Voodoo notices the couch moving, so he aims a 45 at the bump, cocking the hammer on the pistol. Greg asks if Voodoo has a cigarette. Theo hears this, and the coin stuttering again. She leaves her room, but can't see anything. Montana runs out armed and ready as Theo yells out "We've got company". Greg slowly moves his hands up as Voodoo says he has no cigarettes. He makes finger guns, and then pretends to shoot them. Voodoo asks Theo to check the lease agreement. There's a big section that is blacked out completely. Chitchat happens, Klaus comes up with a fork to threaten to eat the man. Things go well. Apparently Greg raced a bomb disposal robot into a lake and got suspended. Theo puts a cigarette out on Greg's knee after telling him about the zombies and him cracking wise. Dean makes a bowl of cereal, and Voodoo eats it with his hands. Dean says it was his bowl, so the Dronemaster spits it back in the bowl. **Dean:** "You can keep that." He then goes to make another bowl. Voodoo shows Greg the zombie horde through his drone view. Greg "doesn't recognize that movie" so he is shown up onto the roof of the garage for a peak. Theo radios the neighbours asking if they can hear her. She gets a response in 2 mins, asking if they are the survivors she handed the radio to. They say "I dunno, who's this?". Eventually she gets to the bitchy woman and her family, who doesn't seem too interested in anything other than what the plan is. Theo starts getting snippy. The old lady is not mobile, and they won't say how many they are. They don't seem that interested, so they will talk it over. Eventually they ask Greg his name, and he says he is called Greg by most. An hour later, the radio goes off. Theo stumbles around on the radio and Voodoo cuts in speaking on why the woman is mobile or not. The injured has a broken pelvis. The paramedic is there working as an in-home for the issue. They ask about the neighbours across the road. He tells them about them being on vacation and Jeffery, but say he hasn't found him yet. Voodoo tells about the Zombie Nurse and her kid, and talks about not letting Jeffery see it and him wandering off with a previously injured foot. Dean and Montana head into the forest to check for stragglers in the woods. Voodoo calls for the other group again, and mentions securing the rear and attacking across the street to their neighbour's house. He asks instead for how many supplies they have and what they might need. He also tells them about the drones watching the streets, so they can watch the house. As they reach the house, a zimzombabo grunts and hops onto Voodoo as he breeches. The Mama's boy jumps forward and attacks the creature with a crowbar. It appears to be a zombie torso. The party goes on a pinata smackdown, flattning the little creep more and more with each blood. Klaus says, "Good evening ma'am, have you heard of our lord and savior, Jesus Christ?" then moves aside to shoot the zombie with his Crossbow. He misses both it and Theo, unfortunately... fortunately? I'm not sure. Eventually it can't attack so they just beat it down until it stops moving. This appears to be the only zombie in this house. Checking all the rooms, nothing else is found that is hostile. They toss the house, drag the loot back, and call the other group to let them know. It appears that Voodoo's antics lead the mobile zombies out after the neighbours. --- EXP: - 25 for crawler kill - 50 for playing in character --- Session 6 - 13/03/2021 ------------------------ Creatures riding spiders attacking a tower. Getting fought by locals. Pan back to a party of 7 in a hallway lined with pipes and odd symbols. Each stop and exit through a door with blue light coming from it. A vampire feeds on a woman in a red dress on another floor. A few floors down, 9ft tall Steve Harvey is back in his office. A man sits in front of him in rough handmade leathers, and they are having a discussion. This is Payter. Payter says he hasn't been to this level before and he asks why this man thinks he can handle "management". Apparently there is some peace treaty. Payter is 6'10" and he smells someone approaching. He notices the camera view and attacks, yelling "spies". Suddenly the party wakes up in their rooms. Theo heads to make breakfast, and Greg takes a peak outside the house, finding no threats. The neighbors ring the walky-talkie, there are people moving in further south with Utility trucks, on the peninsula. These appear to be rented vehicles though. Voodoo launches his big drone to head over there and check it out. It's 2 box trucks, 2 utility vans, and 4 pickup trucks that seem to have weapon placements on them. They appear to have biker leathers under old military surplus gear. There is a man in each truck bed. The info is relayed back. Voodoo invites them over to view the Y'all Qaeda footage. The drones report the neighborhood is still clear. A woman comes across and views the video on the tablet. The vehicles are playing the loudest airhorn noises and similar noises as loud as they can as they are parked in an intersection. No weapons are being fired, and there is some music. The zombie moans start and they chain back and more and more zombies start moaning. The zombiesget to the vehicles and they surround at 50-40ft away and stop. They load the zombies into the utility trucks. The convoy halves, the filled trucks heading back and the rest heading further up the 20. The heavy vehicles push stopped cars out of the way. At intersections they take some zombies and use them to move additional cars. This convoy ends up at the **Jefferson Healthcare Medical Centre**. The southbound continues out of town, so Voodoo's large drone looks for it. Suddenly the hologram pops up and it says that reinforcements are in place and talks about winning this stage and that our actions are being watched and judged. The neighbor lady freaks out at the sight. They want to destroy the hologram, so Klaus says to throw it in the microwave if they don't want it getting reception. A plan is hatched to head to the Indian Island and to blow the bridge, so Voodoo starts mapping it out and checking for slowdowns and where might be an issue. Theo tapes some spikes and camo netting to her van. The party sets out and eventually makes it to the bridge. Klaus checks on the neighbors. They say the grandma passed 2 days ago and they left the corpse in the house. The neighbor's stump is hurting her as she's not taken care of it well during the last few days. She has a minor infection going on, but Klaus does some topical treatment to the wound. Greg designs some charges that could be used to drop the bridge. Klaus organizes moving some of the cars with tow ropes to block the bridge but still allow foot traffic. There is a recruitment office across the way, with a fence inbetween. Theo and Greg hurt themselves climbing over the razor-wire, but Dean does it flawlessly. Dean and Greg spot a body in the checkpoint. With his crowbar, Greg pops out a four-foot square of plexi and Theo sneaks in with her knife and immediately stabs the dead solider in the head. Eventually Theo works her magic, and the gate opens. A smaller building with a metal door has 2 people inside. Theo knocks and the one jerks up and wakes the other who gets up with a rifle and asks what they want. The neighbor (Heusevelt, the MP Dog Handler -- Army SSG) stops Theo from antagonizing the soldiers and calls out the solider by name (Staff Sergeant Hernandez), asking where his NCO is. She tells them what's been going on at the office, and says we came here because it looks defensible. There's apparently a pregnant lady who may be going into labour, one gunshot wound and 2 stabs. 23 people are inside this office, 2 people who seem to be supervisors and the rest are their minions. 16 are armed with rifles, 9 armed with pistols. Only 9 sets of body armour between them. They haven't heard anything from the base in 2 days and are low on food and water. They seem to be forgotten. The Eastern portion of the island seems to have the enemies since it was more populated. Klaus, Dean and the Paramedic help the shot man with some rough surgery. Dean and the Paramedic delivery the baby. Klaus patches up the 2 stab wounds, but one not very well. --- EXP: +25 - Microwave +250 - Skill Rolls +300 - The Big Move --- Session 7 - 27/03/2021 ------------------------ Voodoo eventually wakes up and sees where the party has parked. Eventually Voodoo heads inside and talks to a Seaman, telling to to stand watch. Apparently our prosthetic wearing neighbour has told him to stay here and he points Voodoo to him. They argue around for a bit and eventually he leaves. Voodoo runs into Dean who says hi and he walks and bitches. He reaches the Staff Sgt. neighbour and introduces himself officially and then complains about her posting that E3. Dean finds a Petty Officer Second Class who explains the radios went down 14 hours ago and he doesn't know what to do. Voodoo eventually says he can get them in contact, but they all might be dead. Greg enters the building and gets welcomed, then enters the conference room. Here is about 15 people, plus the party, sans Theo, who is dragging the corpse out of the other building. There are apparently only 5 enlisted here. 2 In the guard stand, one on the roof, one in the hall, then an E4 that appears to have disappeared. The hallway guy, Greg and Dean, all leave with Voodoo to check on the other guys. Theo seems suspicious as Greg asks her to move the van and she keeps saying "I'm just smoking". Greg talks about the guy they killed, but Theo feigns ignorance. They power on the drones and put them out. The two guards talk about how Theo dragged a body out to the woods. He has them guard his weird computer. Voodoo pulls out his military ID and shows it to the man, who notices some special forces cards. Voodoo angrily walks over to Theo and waves her away from Dean and Greg. He asks why she carried a body off into the woods. She denies killing the person. Theo claims it was for health reasons. Eventually he concludes to just leave the zombies lie. This one didn't look much like a zombie though... Nurse says she'll call for Klaus if needed, and he picks up a bottle of rubbing alcohol, starts to drink it, and walks out. The man from yesterday who got patched is bleed again, looks like Klaus didn't do a good job. He eventually gets patched up again, seemingly successfully. Voodoo tries to convince the 2 that Theo moved the dead because of the fear of sanitation around bodies. Apparently the man screamed until they shot him, and that's what Theo plugged in her head in her knife (but strangely we never noticed bullet holes or blood pre-Theo, so OOC, it was probably a different guy). Theo scrounges for some forced entry tools to get through a door. Klaus joins Voodoo and tries to help him. He operates the drone laptop and holds a flashlight. 10 minutes later, Voodoo manages to get Bertha moving too. She drives down to the foot of the bridge and parks there, ready for anyone who attacks. One small drone watches the bridge between the islands, the other goes to the mainland side of the bridge. The third drone goes to the base to look for surivors. Dean asks if they should blow the bridge, and Voodoo looks at the Seaman and asks if there are explosives here on the island. He is told "probably", but not much. Apparently this E3 is a cook, and Voodoo says "he's joining the infantry". At the base, there seems to be signs of life, so Voodoo takes the E3, his laptop, and Klaus, back to SSGT. Heusevelt. Voodoo asks everyone to come back in via the E3 and everyone heads in the building. The post doesn't seem to have power, but they seem alive. There are some humvees and MRAPs down the road that we can grab. The party heads out to get the vehicles and gear. Dean starts using his dog to clear the cars, and his dog spots something in the car, so he calls over Greg as he hears it moan. The fight starts and Crossbow bolts and 44 rounds hit the zombie. Voodoo, Klaus, and Theo all hop back in the truck, joined by Dean. They back up 100ft and take pot-shots as the zombies run up. Klaus misses, Theo hits, and the zombies keep coming ever closer, 6 make it while sprinting. Voodoo keeps backing up as the party keeps shooting. After we just have crawlers on the field, they are crushed with the tires. The party collects all four vehicles, grabs the equipment, and puts in back in trucks. Greg drives the MRAP as he is the best at handling APCs. --- Loot: - m16 x 3 - m16 w/ 203 x 1 - m2 on veh x 3 - m19 on veh x 1 - 4 x 2 case mre - 4 x 4 bottled water - 5 x 1 day assault packs. --- Theo takes a photo of the zombies to bring back. Eventually the party makes it back to the outpost and find one guard asleep, one awake. Voodoo kicks the sleeping man, who gets up, shoulders his rifle, and shoots near Voodoo's head. The second one goes to grab Voodoo, who flips the man to the ground. Klaus moves into the m2 turret and starts to swing it towards the pillboxes. There is a voice yelling from inside the building. 2 People barrel out of the building, one male running, and a woman with a cane yelling about what's happening outside the guard shack. She asks Voodoo to explain herself. She calls Voodoo an idiot for kicking the man as there was two and one needed to sleep. They argue a bit and she tells Voodoo to shut up or fuck off. Klaus thinks he loaded the m2. The vehicles are arranged and people start to bed down in them. Voodoo and Dean go to check on Bertha and they spot two flashes on the Horizon, and Voodoo whispers "Nukes". The rest of the party just sees some bright flashes in the sky. --- EXP: - 720 - Combat - 50 - Skill Rolls - 50 - IC BB --- Session 8 - 24/04/2021 ------------------------ Theo tries to use her Walkie-Talkie and it just screeches in her ear, so she drops it. Her cellphone gets no service, and her laptop has just turned off. Greg calls out to Voodoo, who shrugs and said "ehhhh, we aint dead". Voodoo runs as quick as possible to get some plastic. Dean runs into the office, and people are freaking out and tell him to get in and get down. He starts asking about containers for water and people are scrambling for stuff to collect some from the river. The vehicles are moved under the inspection station and the sides are covered in plastic. An hour and a half later some rain starts falling, and everyone hunkers down. Theo tries to pick locks in her spare time. Klaus collects all then drain cleaner. Voodoo gets pulled in with SSGT. Heusevelt asking what to do. He says to wait out the rain, move North, and find housing. The main base apparently has armed guards so he wants to go there. Theo brings her laptop and radio to Voodoo, and he manages to fix the radio. Voodoo collects the electronics of the people there with Theo convincing them by starting with hers. The rain starts to clear and people start to pack up. Klaus starts playing "Here Comes the Sun" that was saved on his phone. Everyone readies and then takes a nap until dawn to leave. At first light, Voodoo dispatches a drone. The drone with a radio catches a soldier and lets them know we are coming. The soldier says not to approach, but to wait for higher to come in. Eventually a "who is this" is heard. Voodoo explains himself and that it's not safe here and they need his footage. He also says he will bring the vehicles we recovered. "Any sign of hostile maneuvering will cause engagement". The convoy starts moving. The send 2 vehicles to meet and take the convoy up. Lt. Sanders gets everyone sorted. There's a Lt. Colonel he can bring it up to. Voodoo plays a 5min video of the zombie truck incidents. IDs are collected and Klaus gives a free coffee punchcard, while Dean provides a dog photo. Theo shows her PI license, and Voodoo hands over his veteran card. Voodoo thinks people went AWOL at the vehicle recovery scene as the bodies weren't there. Where the nukes went off "is classified". Theo asks for Lt. Sanders's ID, but doesn't let Theo inspect it. They setup bunks for us, and let Dean take his dogs to the back yard. Voodoo heads out and launches the Beeg Drone. The nukes were in Seatle at a military reserve and downtown (https://i.imgur.com/JadzET5.png). Chow is had, mostly rehydrated stuff for breakfast. The MP's husband stays in the office with Lt. Sanders. Theo tries to get Voodoo to spy on the military, but she says no. Voodoo loads his footage to an External given to him, excluding their atrocities and any houses being broken into. Dean and Voodoo setup a doggie cover and Theo looks around suspiciously at everyone. We are taken into a large conference room. The MP's husband is here and says his wife is sleeping. **Lt. Commander Halie** introduces himself and explains that none of us seem to exist any any system they have access to. He asks what brought the party here. Klaus asks how much do they want to know, and then says "a lot of mushrooms and a lot of mafia". Voodoo explains he likes the rain and he worked at a muffler shop so he could work with his hands. Theo shoots him a glance, finally realizing he worked in the shop she was surveilling. Dean gives the vet office info, Theo gives her saloon address, and Klaus says "most of my stuff was on pornhub". Lt. Commander Halie says they lost contact with most of the long range stuff and Voodoo brings up Join Base Lewis–McChord being nuked. Voodoo thinks the Lt. Commander knows who nuked what. Klaus asks if they knew about the dead collectors in the trucks and is told they haven't. Halie knew the MP's husband from JB Lewis–McChord. Theo asks a bunch of questions. They are trying to figure out if the dead rose or if diseases caused this in the living that died. Apparently there are "diseases" and there was a large infection that caused an agressive response in those who got it. Klaus says "super-soldiers spread the diseases then raised the dead using alien technology, probably". Everywhere is fucked, not just the USA. Lt. Commander Halie says they are missing something from their Marine Response Unit. They want to setup a training camp to the east at Fort Flagler. There were 25 people at Fort Flagler when it got locked down. They think 30-50 on the northern part of Marrowstone Island due to the State Park. The party plus eight would get sent over, clear it out, then 3-4 weeks of training trainers, then 8-12weeks per class of as many as possible to train up Navy and Civs (that we round up). Klaus asks if this mission will get a cool name. Klaus suggests "Operation Panty-Soaker" and the party votes for it. --- We get all of these skills: https://i.imgur.com/3f5rO9i.png Choose an MOS: https://i.imgur.com/JKAzewm.png https://i.imgur.com/uP1PdlA.png No Spec-OPs No Bonuses. Or choose a pack of 8 skills that re-enforce eachother. --- EXP: 300 + 10 (Here comes the Sun) --- Session 9 - 08/05/2021 ----------------------- A few hours of driving and boating, then walking, and the party plus 8 navy setup for basic training at the buildings at Fort Flagler. 10 WEEKS OF TRAINING of 20 HOUR DAYS. Voodoo spends time cleaning up the base and teaching some others. --- +1 PS +1 PE +6 Speed +3 SDC +5 Military Etiquette +2 Skills that Require Attention to Detail + W.P. Rifle + W.P. Handgun + W.P. Shotgun + W.P. Bayonet Fighting (+1 Strike/+1 Parry) +5 Recognize Weapon Quality Voodoo, Dean, Theo: +1 Parry +1 Disarm +1 Entangle +1 Pull Punch +1 Roll with Impact/Punch + Knows Kick (1d8) + First Aid 25% + Land Navigation 33% + Navigation 33% Voodoo: +5 Radio Basic Voodoo, Theo: +5 Rapelling, or Use Rope 25% Klaus: Pistol 1/1 hit Rifle 3/4 hit Shotgun 1/2 hit First Aid 3/5 Navigation 2/5 Radio: Basic 1/4 Trapfinding (Mine): 2/10, 1 mine found (from 2,**8**,9,10) Rappel: 1/3 How to detect Nuclear materials, use dispensers, cleanse yourself, donning safety equipment (9sec mask+hood). --- Dean and Theo face off in Pugil sticks (1d6+P.S. Mod). Theo disarms Dean, and they are reset. Dean disarms Theo and they are reset again, but he scores a strong critical hit on her. Theo manages to disarm Dean again. Eventually Dean hits a small woman until she is bruised and goes to sleep. Voodoo hops in to beat up on Dean. They hit hard but parry well, and lock up for a while, seemingly playing with eachother. Voodoo does a powerful overhead strike, but Dean is crazy swift and get's his stick up in time. The former soldier doesn't seem to be all that into the fight and stands on the edge, not really posturing. Nobody even hits eachother in the first round. In the second round, Dean loses his stick so a reset happens. They both trade a hit each, leaving some welts. Hand to hand is readied and they say there is no surgical facility here so no crippling, or lethal hits. Theo throws an elbow, and Voodoo readies to take it and uses a simultaneous strike to use his Karate and he attacks with both his hands, knocking her out of the combat. Voodoo points to Dean, calling him over as the next combatant as Klaus runs over and treats the woozy and battered Theo. As Dean enters, Voodoo grabs and throws Dean, who rolls to the ground, missing some of the damage. Voodoo tries to kick Dean on the ground, and he doesn't dodge and takes it. Dean sweeps Voodoo legs, but the man falls near him and punches his head on the way down. --- EXP from Training: Voodoo : 1400 Klaus: 850 Theo: 1050 Dean: 1000 EXP: 850 (From Training) + ((4+5+2+5+5+4+10+3)*25=950) = 1800 --- Session 10 - 05/06/2021 ------------------------- There are now more boats and a 200 person tent-city in the park, made up of civilian tents. There's a boat with no sail, windows, or propulsion run aground. We hop on a boat and head to the main island. Halie the base commander and Whoosevelt are sitting there. They say there is an issue. They have gotten downloads from the National Constitution Coordinator (Civilian control over the military). The current N3C is Frank Galloway (The secretary of Defense for the Military Arms, number 126 in line). We don't appear in any databases now that they have further access. Because we don't exist, we cannot enter the main portion of the base. They claim we are useful be we cannot be used. Voodoo says "have a good day" and then leaves. We can operate as a contractor. There is a small rescue group in the Atlantic, getting survivors and supplies in boats. They are calling themselves **The Flying Circus** (lead by Wolf). Theo laughs at hearing the name. The N3C allows a 3 day rest and relaxation stand-down and then they integrate workers into the society here. Greg says the party will meet and decide what to do. Voodoo turns off all surveillance access to his drone systems and data. They head back and Greg starts watching to see who's stalking us as we pack up. The legless Drill Sergeant asks if we are leaving since getting called to the HQ. Greg lies about checking the inventory, and she says "I already know". She seems unconcerned about the decision. There's nobody in the bays out here, everyone seems to be gone other than the Drill Sergeant... As everyone packs up, Theo walks around yelling "Hello" and "Where is everyone". Greg inspects the truck offered to get to the boats and make sure it isn't trapped. Theo starts shooting into the air, and then gets shot at. The Drill Sergeant has no firearm. She threatens the Drill Sergeant with her gun, asking where everyone is and what's going on. Theo takes a cane of the neck from the Drill Sergeant. Greg yells "Doc" and then rushes towards the Drill Sergeant and tries to calm it down and pull Theo away. Klaus massages her Throat and she stops choking as much, she doesn't appear to be dying. The Drill Sergeant tells Klaus to get her to the truck and Klaus and Greg drag her in. As the dock is reached, the Drill Sergeant yells to get their shit and get out. Shortly after a boat arrives, and the Party is dropped on the main island to a pickup and back to our cars. A HUMMV is there to escort the party out. The gunner says "thanks for the help, this was shitty" as they go to leave. Voodoo lets him know we are recruiting as he leaves and he shakes their hands. After a lot of debating, they decide to work as contractors, but keep independance. He essentially asks as advanced payment for a loaned boat. Full payment will be ammo (needs to be approved by some higher up). The group decides on "**AlphaZulu**" as a name. The Party is brought back on the base and a mission is discussed. There's a survivor group that needs to be evacuated. It's on a Carnival Cruise ship called "Freedom". Theo laughs at hearing this, holding her sore throat. This ship is 12 decks, there are 2 surviving safety vessels that washed ashore. 26 emergency vessels were released from the ship, so there should be 1033 individuals on the boat. Boats will be around the ship. --- EXP: - Klaus 100 + 50 (2x skill roll) --- Session 11 - 26/06/2021 ------------------------ The party approaches the cruiseship on a boat and Voodoo launches his drones for an aerial view. There are naked people roaming and playing on the sun deck in the water (It looks like 15 zombies up top). No visible smoke, and only the emergency lights seem to be running. Lots of sharks are roaming around in the water (Mako Sharks). Voodoo starts making noise from the drone over the loudspeaker, and a zombie tries to leap for the drone, plummeting a deck down. Another 2 follow. Some others approach and moan at the drone while pushing eachother. They don't seem to be the same as the zombies we fought before. These zombies don't look dead. A line is run to the boat 7 decks up and Dean makes it up easily. Voodoo tries and has some difficulty, followed by Klaus who slides all the way down and hurts himself hitting the boat. Theo also has a lot of trouble, hitting the boat as well. Two zombies fall off the edge as Voodoo and Dean fight up top, while Klaus is climbing. One lands next to Theo and she tries to kick it. Dean gets jumped by a zombie and Voodoo swings a crowbar to kill it. These "Zombies" are not dead. They are living and breathing still. Dean finishes off his zombie as the Sailors drop the one on the boat with shotguns. Klaus shambles up and then the party pulls Theo up as well. As the party gets inside, they notice the suite is trashed and everything smells. Theo tries to find contraband. In the next room, there's a guy in the bed. Voodoo pokes a man and he moans. Klaus finds he is malnourished and dehydrated. He's been bottling his piss in the bathroom. Voodoo tries to give him some water, but he seems to be completely out. After a call back to the boat, a ladder is hauled up to this room to serve as some forward base. A bottle of some mixed booze is picked up by Theo, but then Klaus points out the washroom and Dean warns her that it should have piss. Eventually the medical team come up, IV the man, and take him back down. Dean cannot open the next door so he calls Voodoo who does everything he can to not damage the door, but ends up having to torch it to get inside and open it. The torcher checks and thinks it will lock properly still. The floor is slowly cleared, the zombies lead after a drone. They are lead to the top, with part of the horde lead off the boat. Some of the sailors use the zombies as some target practice. Bertha is hauled up and used to lead the rest around and clear them up. A few hours pass as this happens. It looks like 250 or so zombies were cleared off. After this, Bertha is left with 800 rounds and a badly damaged barrel. Traversal is made to Deck 5. **(Map of the Boat: https://imgur.com/a/ZI8R5VB)** Some security room is what we are looking for as the dog (Charlie) starts getting anxious. Theo forces the door and Voodoo kicks it open to see six zimzombambos. All the zombies are naked as the crew starts shooting. After a round the first zomboy goes down from a cockshot. Eventually all the zombies are funneled with Charlie the dog and Voodoo getting jumped on a bit. --- EXP: Moiders = 75xp Skills = 400xp GamerBoy Bathwater = 25xp Saving the man = 50xp --- Session 13 - 07/08/2021 ------------------------- A vision of both towers is seen. Dark on the left in the dirt and bedrock, with no plants. Ivory on the right, in a field of wild-flowers. There are creatures of varying origins here but nothing but shadow near The party awakes in beds, everything neat and trimmed. It's an office drop ceiling look and this appears to be a bunker. Some track in sand is on the floor. A vacuum cleans up the sand. Two new people wake up in a room with 3 beds. They introduce themselves. Sarge is a tatooed 300lb bodybuilder. Roger is a 6'4" dark skinned muscular and lean 240-250 man with some military tattoos. Voodoo has a small drone on his footlocker. Sarge seems to have some sheriff's office clothing as the pair readies to leave. The third bed not occupied. They walk out and Voodoo spots them in the hall and calls them "new people". Roger seems to know about the zombies. After some discussion, they give Roger and Sarge as names. Eventually they decide to head out. Roger talks about a Hydra and some Furries in fighting formations with swords. Eventually they leave and outside they find vehicles and a pontoon boat. One of the vehicles is Roger's jeep with a mounted mg. An observation point is found and Roger gives his military ID to the guard. Voodoo passes out 2 cans of dip. Roger realizes that it's been 5 months since his last memory. He was escorting people in Georgia December 25th of 2020. 2 checkpoints have passed and trees have been clear-cut, with temporary 50-man buildings and many people here. The cruiseliner is here as well. Eventually they are lead to Lt. Commander Halie who apparently has been waiting for her return. Roger is introduced and asked if his ID is active, and Roger says he thinks it is. The party has a boat and 1200rnd of buckshot. It's been 4 weeks apparently, not 2. It's Sun, Thurs, and Monday all at once on and multiple Months on Voodoo's tablet. The 78th day is listed though. Roger tells his tale of Hydra and dog-man. The party decides to sit there for 6 days to prep gear before launching. The boat: https://i.imgur.com/5kQYTQV.png (**Is called the Czech Mate**). There is a civilian council that will be running the Cruiseliner as a city when it reaches 3/4 capacity. Roger learns about this navy and city situation. Sarge looks around the area and patrols for any potential threats. Klaus walks around looking for Drugs in return for medical services. 13 people show up in 6 days, with drugs or liquor as payment. 3 patients don't get the best service. One misdiagnosed, two mistreated. Day 7, headaches for each of the party but they are behind the eyes for Theo and Klaus. Voodoo accosts Klaus for some motrin, of which he has none. Sarge out a FAK and provide a pill. Klaus passes Theo a pill as she didn't seem to care what of or the effects. Voodoo's motrin doesn't help, and Theo tosses the pill into a water bottle, then sips at it. It appears that Voodoo has created some crazy suit of heavy armour. As Theo drives the van seems erratically driven and speeds up and slows down quite a bit. The guys who controls zombies are explained to Roger and Sarge. Roger says these guys are probably cultists and they don't get attacked by zombies and can command them. One of Dean's dogs points, and then pisses everywhere. Theo manages to keep the car on the road despite being high. Theo tells Dean to take care of it and leaves the van after the party stops. Sarge spots a crouched person with his M14. There are also 2 dogs who look attentive, spotted by Dean. With his loudspeaker Sarge tries to introduce himself. As Sarge heads over, the man stands to full height in homemade buckskin clothing with a tomahawk. The man gestures for the party to leave and he claps for Dean's dogs. One of the Dean's dogs is wimpering and trying to run to the man, so Dean grabs it and puts it in the car. The party decides to leave quickly. Voodoo doesn't think this was a wizard, so it might be a werewolf or a shaman. Dean realizes that Theo is very high so he forces Klaus to drive. They make entry into a building, and Theo turns on a flashlight under her chin, then the headache reminds her and some sorrys are said. Dean trades Theo chocolate for the flashlight. Voodoo moves up and makes noise while flashing a light. Eventually a growl is heard and Sarge spots half a human with no lower jaw and lacking flesh. A morningstar drops on the zombie from Sarge, beating some of the little flesh left on this thing off. Eventually the head is destroyed and it stops moving. Two more zombies follow and Klaus stands in the back, chugging a bottle of alcohol. Theo isn't too high to notice Roger reading to fight. She pulls a pistol and moves up, with Dean telling her not to shoot. As he walks forward, Dean fires his crossbow accurately at the head of one of the zombies. With a quick charge forward, Voodoo bashes the hell out of a walking dead man with a Large Crowbar. Theo talks to Dean saying there are things to shoot. He wants to see her gun but she doesn't comply and heads back. Dean tries this again, and Theo is convinced, but doesn't notice as he unloads it and hands it back. Dean forgets to unload the chamber. With a pair of swings of his Falcion, flesh is separated by Roger. Klaus walks up and offers Dean a swig. Theo walks forward and readies to fire. She almost hits Roger as her Desert Eagle fires it's only shot. The kevlar under-armour of Voodoo's contraption takes a strong hit. Dean tosses the magazine back to Theo and tries to toss a shopping cart through the window, but it only cracks it. The moaning from inside gets louder, seemingly calling out to more zombies. Roger and Sarge do more work on the rotting flesh-bags. Klaus moves into a corner so zombies coming from outside don't get him and offers Theo a drink. She says "not now" and manages to reload and then fumble with a chocolate bar. Dean keeps cracking at the window, but it still holds. Theo warns him not to make too much noise ironically. With him detecting the vicious battle with the window, Klaus hatchets at the glass, almost breaking through. Theo fires and hits a zombie as Dean finally gets through the window with his cart. More shots are done, Klaus takes his finally. The combat continues, with more Doc shots, Theo shots and melee weapons. Sarge is knocked down and Voodoo is pinned and knocked down. The zombies seem to be getting the upperhand. One of the zombies shoots at Theo. As Theo gets increasingly confused that a zombie is shooting, Klaus finally kills it. As Voodoo is pinned, he uses his Vambrace Blade to gut the zombie on him. --- EXP: - Combat: 550 - Skills: 26 = 650 - Getting the D: 25 - Not camping unsafe: 50 - Not fighting werewolf: 100 Current EXP: 6505 --- Session 14 - 04/09/2021 ------------------------ Sarge asks about the big hole where the window used to be, and is given shrugs. Theo hunts for a bathroom as Sarge starts blocking the window. The bathroom is spotless but has no water but there are 3 cases of water on the shelves. Sarge and Klaus move all the items from the storefront to a single pile in the light. Voodoo sneaks up the stairs and finds some sort of classroom, but doesn't open the door. The others start to load the vehicles with loot and radio across where Theo hears about the second floor and starts to head there. As Sarge loads the vehicles he sees four figures coming from the back of the mechanics shop. Theo is told to lay down but waits on Voodoo to get her a life-jacket and just sits on the floor. The party readies for an attack and Klaus spots something coming, and starts to point. It seems like the zombies are filing in the door. They move in and then stop as if waiting. There's a armour clad zombie in the middle who says "you've killed my customers" then "Timmy, get the girl, I can milk her!". Sarge and Voodoo charge in, with Voodoo dropping his rifle and leaving the sling to catch it. With his hands free Voodoo punches his vambrace blade into a zombie. With a bearhug, Voodoo is picked up ribs crushed, and then held. Theo is pounced on and takes off running to Bertha. Klaus follows but is tackled by a zombie and pinned. Voodoo punches his vambrace blades into the body of the zombie holding him and then takes a 12-gauge round of buckshot to the body from the half-dead zombie, falling into a coma. As she fiddles with the hand controls, Theo manages to fire at the zombie on top of Klaus. With the distraction, Klaus is able to slip out and run behind Theo riding Bertha. Smokeless powder reaches out to the nostrils of the party as Theo starts a long burst of shots with Bertha into the Juggernaut zombie running at her, dropping it instantly. Another zombie approaches outside, so Klaus runs up the hood of the jeep and gets in the turret ready to fire. Seeing a zombie on his compatriot, Sarge drops his shotgun and swings his morningstar, crushing the head of the Zombie as Voodoo continues to spurt blood. The outdoor zombie hops at Theo, misses, and lands up against the wall. Bertha and Theo get rid of the zombie that lept over her. Klaus fires the turret into the zombie on Theo, cutting it in half. As the half-dead runs from Sarge and past Theo, Bertha is fired to kill another. Over the shelving blocking the window Sarge goes as Klaus runs outside to sneak around to the bleeding out Voodoo. The boss zimzombabo runs clear out of the area and Theo goes to the car to get ready to run him down. With Voodoo still bleeding and comatose, Klaus plugs his holes as Theo loses the zombie to the trees. Klaus and Theo are not feeling well with the headache worse and joints sore. The others aren't doing well either. After an hour Voodoo is back on his feet, barely alive. The party leaves and heads back to the boat. Voodoo and Klaus head to the hospital to patch Voodoo back up. Another day passes and Klaus and Theo are now in serious pain (-20 skill, -1 attack, -5 attack related rolls). The rest have serious pain behind their eyes and their joints are tingling. Theo wants an X-Ray and is told to get in line. Apparently there are 35 people with the same types of pain as Klaus, Voodoo and Theo. Nothing suspicious or unusual is on the X-Rays. Theo stays with Voodoo and Klaus works at the Hospital. Three days into the hospital rest everyone is feeling like shit up until now. Suddenly the aches and pains are gone. The stars are out, no sun, and no moon but the tides are normal. Sarge notices that Dean's dogs are crying in agony and making all kinds of noise. It appears there are werewolves here. There are soldiers falling back towards the docks to head to the base. Pulling out his radio, Sarge scans around looking for any reporting on what's going on. He hears about guys bursting into flames, werewolves, and more. At the hospital some patients are gained mass, grown horns, or started to levitate. Sarge stashes weapons and starts to head to the hospital. Voodoo is wheeled over to the window to see how dark it is by Theo. Hitching a ride to the hospital with the Navy, Sarge makes it into the hospital without being searched and hits Voodoo's room. Eventually Voodoo gets his tablet and then gets up and gets dressed. Theo looks out the very dark window and seems to still figure out where she is looking. The PA says to prepare for incoming and that the gate was assaulted. People in the halls are preparing to patients to be delivered. The party commandeers a humvee to get to the docks and release the drones. Voodoo's drones spot 5 giant green humanoids across the bridge to the mainland that has been dropped. They look 10-14ft tall and have "hercules clubs" made of wood, and one is highly polished and ornate (https://i.imgur.com/ds4ubyv.png). These giants appear to be beating on a humvee when Voodoo flies his drone next to the Giant, and detonates. The big explosion seems to barely phase it. The Lt. Commander is attempted to be hailed by Voodoo asking for a visual on the mainland, they won't put the Lt. Commander on so the party heads back. Heusevelt is there and the video is shown of the bomb having no effect by Voodoo. There may be something in storage to attack these says Heusevelt. There aren't destroyers here. Voodoo asks for 10 mechanics and some Carl Gustav Recoilless Rifles. He wants to mount the rocket launchers on his humvee drone. They have AT-4 here. Theo seems to be fighting urges to kill everyone on the base. On the tablet 14 7ft tall creatures walking in formation come up the bridge (https://i.imgur.com/5KojZwV.png). They start walking up and fighting the green giants. A drone is sent to Port Townsend to see if zombies even exist anymore. There are humanoids with chainmail, spears, and swords spotted in town by the golf club. They seem to be in small squads and there are several hundred of them. More of the dark creatures from the Bridge are spotted too, but only 35-40 of them. Voodoo spots some flying creatures of theirs as well (https://i.imgur.com/fQK025n.png). The need for anti-air is passed on to to Heusevelt. --- EXP: - Combat: 450 - Skils: 50 - Hospital: 75 - Sarcastic Tylenol: 5 - Playing Alignment: 75 Total: 655 --- Session 15 - 25/09/2021 ------------------------ Klaus has been distilling Methylated Spirits to Ethanol to get drunk, reading supplies for travel with the party, and helping with minor medical issues. Voodoo has been locked in his trailer working making Roger armour and special helmets. The rest of the party have been doing odd jobs around the camp mainly. During the Day of Darkness (24 hours) people went a little violent, so the Party fell back on the island and took some downtime. There is a new makeshift bridge to the main island. Weird things are happening, but the Navy doesn't seem to be talking to anybody. Coyote asks what the rollout time is as the Party is going to some Pizza place. He is told 20mins and is offered acces to Theo's slightly stinky ex-dog-piss van. Roger returns from a run, and then says he has good time. He takes off at 47mph to show off strangely. As they mount up Coyote takes the gun of Roger's Jeep instead. He mentions the weird van smell to Roger and thanks him for the excuse. There are navy checkpoints except the first one on the island, and it's some militia with relations to the Navy. The last checkpoint out notes a lot of hogs in the forest and some dying hog squeals. There are rumors of demons but none seen. Voodoo's drones take a radius around the convo and spot things out around. Theo starts randomly singing over the radios and Voodoo hotmics his radio to not hear her. Vehicles have been dragged from the road after previously being setup as a blockade. Some were pushed, some were rolled. A second blockade is hit, so the convoy slows 300m from it for Theo and Roger to investigate, the decides not to. Eventually the party chalks this up to either the were-wolf or the half-dead. As they head in, Voodoo calls out to Roger there are a lot of zimzombambos massing. They stop at a quarry and scope things out. Roger spots some thin whisps of smoke off in the distance to the North-East. These could be campfires with wet wood, so Voodoo sends a drone that way to scope it out. This quarry seems to have no enemies. THe fires are two fires, with 2 wooden lean-tos. It appears these are massive one you wouldn't need to duck to walk in, the other nearly 15ft tall. Voodoo takes the m249 and attaches it to Bertha and readies an ammo can on it. Theo tries to make some weird totems and hang them up so Klaus sizes up if this is some native sacred land, but it is not. Roger doesn't think there's a water source nearby and Voodoo's thermal finds they are or have been in use. South-West is Chimacum where there are zombies on the road and some unoccupied box trucks. (It's morning). The zombies here have tattered clothing and are missing limbs. People emerge from the house in biker leather style gear. They do a spin, face the road and some of the zombies come to them and they walk to the gas station. They have ARs and are drinking a morning coffee unpreturbed. At the campside, 2 giants come from the large lean to and 2 smaller ones from the smaller one. A House in the wilderneess is found and the party heads to clear it. The house is dark as Theo doesn't check the door then picks the lock. Roger leads the assault while Voodoo waits outside on the hood of a car with Klaus, who pops a pill. Theo notes a sense of 17 supernatural beings as they enter, hearing moans from around a corner. A big zimzombabo rams Theo, hurting her. Roger throws Theo back through the door and moves in. Coyote moves in, rifle ready, followed my Scout shifting into his form (nick-named Gary by the party) but it takes a long while. Theo says "close your eyes and put your head down" and then some Blinding Flash appears, nearly blinding Scout in his Gary formed As Scout continues to be attacked and grappled, Roger shoots an arm off this big guy. Theo follows on the other one. As the zombie's head is rendered to mush by Coyote's SCAR-H. Scout finally goes all Gary with High-Elf ears, in armour, with open bleeding wounds on his chest and wrists. They head out, forgetting Roger's sword in the foyer. Three more zombies come moving through the entrance, these Sloucher zombies are stopped in the entrance as the others attack them. Eventually all three are handled, but there is a mass of clawing and scratching noises from inside the house. A crawler and 3 more Slouchers and another zombie start making their way in. The crawler is tossed back and eventually finds it's way through a door around the side and claws at Theo badly before the party finishes it off. Theo goes and steals a cigarette from Voodoo and complains about being bit by the zombie that hit her like a spider monkey. Before the party tries again, Theo intuits how many are left with her magical senses and thinks 3-6 are still in there and Roger offers to check. While doing that, Voodoo snuck in and looked all around the building, clearing it. **The Party Captures a this "Ranger Station" recreation centre.** --3 days will be held in downtime.-- --- EXP: - Combat: 50 - Skills: 25 Howie EXP: - 25 - 25 - 50 - 100 ---