Computer Room Meeting
(19) King Zultan manages to locate a classic rock as well as a hipster synthwave radio station on the SUV radio. Then he hears something quite different, "Hello is anyone out there? This is Jim Higs, last weatherman on earth. If anyone can hear this, please respond. Silence for about thirty seconds. "Well, in case anyone is out there, lets go to the weather. It's still a rather nice day, all things considered. Expect spotty cloud coverage as we move into the late afternoon. Minor showers and zombie attacks throughout the night. This has been Jim Higs, fulfilling the weatherman's duty as long as I can. The radio station goes back to static and you head into the meeting. Oddly enough, you think you hear the car drive away as you go down the elevator.
The three of you gather around the computer and try to collect as much info as you can. (10, 14, 17, 20, 8, 2) Glass shows everyone the schematics for the soul pods, but none of you look at them for too long once you start getting nose bleeds. You get enough of the information to be able to take them apart and put them back together, but they're still pretty big even when deconstructed. You could fit one, maybe two, in the back of the SUV if you deconstructed them, put them in a crate and put them in the back. If you put the back seats down, you could fit the four of them in, but then you'd only be able to fit two people in the car.
Next you move on to weapon files. You find that basically the entire weapon schematic database is corrupted, but with a bit of searching and a few logical leaps to fill in the gaps, you come up with a few schematics. The first is a Makeshift Field Rifle, or MsFr-1. Salvaging different pieces of information from legitimate gun schematics, you manage to paste them together into something that looks like it won't blow up in your hands. Using about 20 mechanical components, 5 electrical component, and one computing component, you can jerry rig together a working rifle. It's got reasonable accuracy, and power for a few hundred feet, but you're not going to be sniping anything with this. The second weapon is a taser baton. Using an empty pipe and a dozen electrical components, as well a a bit of wood and mechanical bits, you can put together what amounts to a pretty damaging shock. It requires recharging every few hits though. Lastly, you come to the conclusion that you could probably make some sort of laser rifle. You're quite a bit less sure about this one, but with enough experimentation, you have enough of a starting point to work something out here.
After going through whats left of the schematics by hand, you finally remove the tablet element of the computer. It looks a lot like an I-Pad, but about twice as thick and three times as bulletproof. It seems to have pretty much unlimited data storage capacity, and has already been uploaded with all the programs and files from the computer.
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You continue sneaking, it's been hours at this point, but man does it pay off. King Zultan heads inside and you're left alone with perhaps the only working car in the whole universe. You jump in that bad boy and rev the engine, pulling onto the road and heading towards the gas station. Its only a few minutes drive, and you watch basically every angle you can as you drive down the road. This thing isn't exceptionally quiet. (14) You pull up to the gas station without anything attacking you on the road. (13) And nothing bursts out of the gas station at you either. Maybe you got lucky, or maybe this apocalypse isn't all that bad. You grab your trusty crowbar and head to the door. The gas station is a pretty small one, probably locally owned, not one of those big name brand chain gas stations. A real mom-and-pop kinda joint. You go up to the door, and it's locked. You look at the door, then you look at the crowbar, then you look at the door, then you look at the crowbar, and then you pop that door open with one swift motion. Looking inside it seems as though this place has been quickly picked over. Lots of foodstuffs and cigarette packs on the ground, some of the canned foods are gone. Looks like someone grabbed what they could and locked the door behind them. Scratch that, as you look around the place, you see a dead body in isle two. Looks to be an older guy, he has leathery skin and steel toed boots, flannel shirt, and blue jeans. Classic Americana right there. What kinda ruins the whole classic Americana look he has going on, is the plant growing out of his gaping mouth and roots sticking out of his ears. The room is pretty dim, no way a normal plant could grow in here or inside of someone's skull for that matter.
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