If you reach 5 tallies, you can cash them in for an upgrade at any point. See the OP.
The CastleSlowly and clearly lay my meterstick on the ground, then put both hands in the air.
“Myself and a couple others just woke up from cryo. We’ve just been searching around trying to get our bearings. I promise you, I have no hostile intentions.
Ah... what year is it, actually?”
"Bit by some mutant cyborg dog thing back in Walt Lab. I'll spare you the details. As I said; a damn good job washing it. I'm going now. Try and stop me if you want to find out if I'm contagious."
[Amoretto rolled 1+3-1empathy=3]
[Isaac rolled 6+5-1empathy=10]
The woman is incredulous. "You think I was born yesterday? Everyone knows cryo is bunk. 'What year is it?' Hah!"
The slim man runs his metal detector up and down Dr Amoretto. It doesn't make a sound.
"Cor blast me," he says. "Yer orright? Yer graft is zackly like a flame."
"Is he clear?" the woman says.
"He's suffen, but thars no one ridden."
The woman steels herself. "I'm Cass. This is Blakely. Welcome to the Keep. Any true men and women can join us here. Or you can bugger off, I don't care. After dark we shoot on sight." She looks up to the sky. "So in about four hours or so. Go ahead and pick up your stick."
Blakely carries on round to where Isaac is standing next to the third person from the Keep. "Hint a clue whar they are, but I shink thar not ridden."
"I don't trust them, Dell," says Cass.
"He says he took on a cyberdog," says Dell, the guard with the rifle and whistle. "That's a tick in my book."
Isaac, sensing that the tension has lifted, starts walking off.
"Dew yew keepa a troshin bor!" shouts Blakely.Amoretto gains +1 tally for critical failure.
Flooded BridgeIf it looks like he can do so, Issac walks off to the Southeast
Isaac slips away, past where Tim Tam hides behind the flowering bushes. He walks downhill towards the river. It had clearly burst its banks at some point and this whole part of the city is heavily flooded. Here and there there rooftops poking out of the water, where they are absent indicates where the old river line had once been.
In the middle of the river rises up a metal arch of a bridge, but the bridge and the land to both sides of it is now thoroughly underwater. It would be possible to walk alongside the river's edge north or southeast, but there doesn't look like there's anywhere to cross nearby. He sees the sun growing lower in the sky.Isaac gains +1 tally for exploration.
Old Town“Is meat of cybear outside rotten? Even so, I found something edible in booth.” If the Cybear meat is still good, make a fire and cook some. If not, share my edible item with the team.
Propose North Movement.
“I will follow you then.” Agree to north Movement.
The 'meat' of the cyberbear is dead flesh interlaced with thousands of tiny wires. It's clearly not edible for anyone with a normal teeth and gut. Agasha has already feasted on the greater part of it. The others don't seem keen on cooking a rat here in the open, so the gang decide to carry on north. The tall buildings fall away as they enter an older part of the city. Timbered buildings still stand, hundreds of years old. There are numerous churches and ever more pubs, their shingles hanging limply. All the buildings look picked over, as if they had been boarded up and then violently opened and boarded again and again. Between the buildings, they can see a burst riverbank to the north and northeast. The rest of the city stretches out in all over directions.
The sun begins to sink. There won't be many hours left of daytime.Keiko and Kateryna: +1 tally for exploration.
Residential Sycamore WoodEl Tigre feints a kick to the bug-brain, and instead performs an elbow drop to the prone insectoid!
[El Tigre rolls 4+2+2body+1luchadore=9]
With panache, El Tigre elbow drops the insectoid. Its metal chassis rings like a bell as he puts a huge dent in it. It scrabbles to its feet quickly and slashes El Tigre with a scissor kick. Normally this would be no problem for El Tigre, but the insectoid's legs are as sharp as scissors. Blood drips down El Tigre's shoulder as he lines up his next attack.El Tigre has gained wound: slashed shoulder.
The Mall"Thank you. I am Theodore, and the rubber man over there is Timmy. What is your name?"
Drink some vodka and scan the area for anything useful or cool-looking.
[Theodore rolls 1+5+1wits=7]
Theodore takes a glug of the vodka. As he does the tentacled man whips out a tentacle and nudges the bottle up, forcing him to drink much more of the strong alcohol.
"ONCE I WAS A BENJAMIN! A CRUEL NAME FOR A MAN WHO NEVER SAW A HUNDRED DOLLARS! THEY CALLED ME BENNY. THEY CALLED ME TERROR. THEY CALLED ME OHGODSTOPPLEASESTOPEATINGME. MY LAST NAME!"
With woozy eyes, Theodore looks around and sees the hardware shop hasn't been completely looted: there's a hammer left on one of the shelves, many nails, some plastic netting, a pile of cracked flowerpots. Benny has a shopping trolley piled up with weapons and booze, bottles of water and cans of beans.
Timmy bounces over and says quietly, "I'm with you 100% but, uh... you sure he'll not just eat us in our sleep?"Theodore is now pretty drunk.
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