Apologies for the delay. I'm committed to seeing the game through until you're all twisted mutated monstrosities striding continents even if there are sometimes gaps in update schedule.
Henry's CafeLet the others take the lead here. While I’m waiting, look around the area (not like walking around, just observe my surroundings).
[Amoretto rolled 6+3+1wits=10]
Amoretto scans the street while the others greet the woman.
"Hi there," says Dell. "I recognise you. You passed through the Keep before right?"
"That's right," says the woman. "You don't happen to have seen my husband, Sandeep?"
"I don't know any Sandeeps," says Dell.
The woman looks crestfallen.
"Where's everyone else you travelled up with?" asks Frog.
"There was a fight along the road," she says. A look of horror spreads across her face and she talks slowly and deliberately. "This woman went nuts and started... she started eating people."
"Some fled, some died, most of us made it up to here. The rest are over by the pier waiting. I've been watching the road."
Between the gaps in the houses, where Amoretto can briefly glimpse the sea, he sees a 30ft long motorboat cruising into view, pointed to the shore northwest from where he stands.
Thorny Industrial EstateCut some rhubarb stalks with the razor leg, and also collect some rhubarb leaves in a different pocket
then continue NW
El Tigre finishes up his foraging and heads off with Helen northwest...El Tigre gains a bushel of rhubarb stalks.
El Tigre gains a pocketful of rhubarb leaves.
Walt LabThe luchador and the tentacoiler arrive outside the cryogenic lab where El Tigre first awoke. The squat research building rises up before him, covered in vines. The door is ajar.
Twisty StreetsFree the sheep
[Sandra rolled 5+6+1body=12]
The compartment of the blimp is locked, but the latch is old and worn. Sandra is able to plant on foot on the side of the door and yank the whole thing open.
The sheep bleats its appreciation as it scurries out of the compartment and starts roaming off south.
Residential Scyamore Wood"Regarding this revenge idea... I believe that it was Proverb 10:12 that said 'Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs'. We have no less than three pressing issues to attend to right now. What I mean is if we pick a fight before Tuckswood is secure then our enemies will take the fight back to us before we are ready for them."
Issac looks to the Tractor. "On the other hand, we'll never get a better chance to investigate than right now. So I propose that after we find out who is responsible we should head back and report on our findings. Exhibit A: The stolen vehicle. Perhaps our little thief left something behind that they'll regret. And while we're at it we should also retrieve any small objects of value that may still be inside of the tractor before anyone else gets a chance to loot it."
Issac spends some time inspecting the damaged Tractor
[Isaac rolled 3+2-2empathy+1lawyer+1bibleknowledge+0church=7]
[Isaac rolled 5+3+3wits+1assistance=12]
Begrudgingly, the others agree that wandering off in revenge would be reckless. In the course the of the persuasion, Isaac realises he's about exhausted his memory of the book of Proverbs. Never mind, Father Michael should be impressed when he reports back.
The group take some time to investigate the tractor. A lot of it is trashed, including most of the engine and all of the flamethrower. However, they do manage to recover a speedometer, tub of fuel, an air filter, a flywheel ring, and several pockets worth of miscellaneous bolts, nuts, and widgets. They don't have the tools to remove the wheels.Isaac no longer has useful biblical knowledge.
Isaac has looted a whole load of tractor parts.
Isaac has more fuel.
Chemical PlantTry to get my feet off the rhino's back and pull on the tangled fence to make the rhino hit the wall badly, ie, off centre, which should cause more damage, both to the wall and the rhino. Having my feet down should help me control the impact better and hopefully not get any body parts stuck.
"Look, this is just embarassing. What are you even trying to do?"
[Sandeep rolled 5+1+2body+1fence=9]
[Sandeep rolled 3+1+0empathy-3hunter=1]
Sandeep clambers up onto the fence panel as the rhino charges into the wall. Without Sandeep to cushion the blow, it mashes its face straight into the wall. The brickwork crumbles with the blow, opening a way into the chemical plant. Sandeep is struck by the falling brickwork, cutting his head. The blood forces one of his eyes shut, making co-ordination and spotting harder. He again tries to coax an explanation for the dangerous cyberbeast. Instead it stampedes on into the chemical plant. Sandeep loses his footing and lands with a thud on the ground.
He finds himself in a large processing room with numerous huge vats, each with a ladder leading up to the top and complicated arrays of machinery and pipes all around. The cyberrhino is nowhere in sight, having thundered off deeper into the complex.Sandeep gains wound: cut head.
Sandeep gains +1 tally for critical failure.
Cemetery"Wait if you can see what Satellites see, do you know if its like this all over the world, and do you know if there's any police stations between us and the chem plant? Also Were gonna stop here for a second and I'm gonna look for a better weapon than this drawer."
Search the graveyard for a grounds keepers shack and see whats left inside.
[Goldstine rolled 2+1+2wits=5]
Red Cap laughs. "Of course it's like this. Except in the Americas. They shoot down satellites, hunters, everything so who knows what's happening. Cities are dead zones. Nomads do just fine in big places in Africa. Let me see... yes there's a few Norfolk Constabulary branches. Closest is a mile or so due west. The British cops didn't usually have guns on the beat, but I think they keep some at their stations."
As they're chatting, Goldstine and Red Cap walk across a grave. The earth is soft and there are many rabbit holes. As Red Cap walks with his heavy iron boots, suddenly the earth for a dozen feet around caves in. A convoluted network of rabbit warrens fold in on themselves. The pair of them find themselves at the bottom of a deep hole, perhaps ten foot down, with crumbling earth sides. Here and there a tree root or a bit of bone juts out. Red Cap tries to climb up the edge and slides back down.Goldstine gains +1 tally for learning mystery: Everywhere in the world is similarly abandoned, except for the Americas.
Goldstine gains +1 tally for critical failure.
Walt LabsWhoever this is must have something to do with this mutation, so if they believe I can respond...
Hello? Can you hear me? This is Irma.
[Irma rolled 3+2+2weird=7]
Irma locks on to the signal, she feels like it's bouncing off a great height, about five miles due east.
"This is Dr White. I'm a friend. You're in grave danger," a man's voice says. "There's a great many dangerous rogue robots out in the wastes who want to destroy you. They're being controlled through a tower in Postwick, to the east. They've locked onto your radio signal. I can catch signals in your area. You need to get out of where you are, anywhere, they'll all begin converging on your position!"
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