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[Flying Dice]

I was bored and decided to run a Cataclysm LP. Here we go!
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Teresa Al Coholic was a freelance photographer before the apocalypse. She wasn't very perceptive, and had run into quite a bit of trouble. Thankfully, long years of experience running away from angry people had helped her become quite Fleet Footed. On several occasions, speed had not been enough, and she had had to fight off angry people who felt that candid photographs of their various activities were not suitable for publication. As a result, she had developed substantial strength and dexterity. However, her lifestyle had left her with some mental instability, which manifested as Schizophrenia. She had the unconscious feeling that being around automatic weapons would make her a bit Trigger Happy. In addition, her often rather unusual working hours had left her with permanent Insomnia. Despite all of this, she still remained a rather Optimistic person. She was also something of a collector, developing the ability to fit possessions into remarkably small spaces.



Several days after the outbreak, she was hiding in a house, wondering what to do next. On the wall beside her was a map of the surrounding area.



On the floor of the room she was in, there were several items:
-Bandana
-Purse
-Self Esteem For Dummies

In the chest of drawers there were:
-Flashlight x2
-Dress x2
-Sweater
-Polo Shirt x2
-Dress Shirt
-Jeans
-Leather Jacket
-Tank Top
-Leather Pants
-Hoodie x2


What will Teresa do?

a) Explore the house for supplies
b) Venture out into the world
c) Look to her own budding insanity (read: You) for a different decision

[DeKaFu]

c) Read Self Esteem for Dummies. Because you need it.

[Urist Imiknorris]

C then A.

EDIT: Also, acquire flashlights and hoodie.

[Anvilfolk]

Immediately put on the bandana. No way you're surviving a zombie apocalypse without a bandana!

[Xanatos Jr.]

C

Immediately put on the bandana. No way you're surviving a zombie apocalypse without a bandana!

Then A.

[Flying Dice]

Teresa feels an irresistable compulsion to put on the bandana she found; after doing so, she feels about 20% cooler. Shortly thereafter, she pulls a threadbare hoodie out of a drawer and puts it on. It smells of smoke. Before leaving the room, she picks up the copy of "Self-Esteem for Dummies", although she can't imagine what it could be useful for. In the next room over, she finds a skirt, and obeys another compulsion, dropping her jeans on the spot and putting on the skirt. She feels... swifter, somehow.

After searching the rest of the house, she crams what she can into the pockets of her hoodie:
-a first aid kit
-a roll of bandages
-a bottle of aspirin
-a can of soup (cold, but edible)
-a can of SPAM (cold, hard, inedible. It'll make a good weapon.)
-a baggie of marijuana magic fairy plant.

On the way out, she grabs a steak knife and a rag.

Once outside, she tries to decide where to go.

a) Clothing store, southeast
b) Hardware store, southwest
c) Pharmacy, east, for delicious "candy"
d) Somewhere else

[Urist Imiknorris]

Is that two hardware stores to the southwest or a hardware and a sporting good store?

[Flying Dice]

2 hardware stores.

[Urist Imiknorris]

What about the one SW of them?

B.

[Flying Dice]

Another hardware to the south, a sporting goods futher to the southwest next to the gun shop. Any more votes, or does our heroine go for the hardware stores?

[areyoua]

This really makes me feel bad for updating so rarely my own LP.

What are you going to carry all this stuff with? To the Clothing Shop!

A

[Flying Dice]

As Teresa approaches the clothing store, two zombies appear behind her. She runs for the store, hoping to hide inside. Three zombies are across the street. She opens the door, darts inside, and slams it shut. Suddenly, she feels clammy hands grasping at her from behind! There were two more zombies already in the store! She stabs each to death with her steak knife, but sustains serious injuries. As she is patching herself up with the first aid kit, she hears glass break to the northeast. The other zombies have reached the store, and they brought friends. A total of twelve zombies are visible. Teresa throws her cans of food, flashlight, and shoes at them, before rushing forward, steak knife held high. She kills four of them before succuming to her wounds.

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Teresa falls out of bed in her house... A dream, only a dream. Sadly, the zombie plague is not a dream. She collects herself, and decides that she needs to do something besides continue to sleep. Looking around her room, she sees:
-Glasses
-Cigarettes
-A copy of "How to Succeed in Business" (how did that get there?)
-A messenger bag
-Several useless articles of clothing



A map of her small hometown is on the floor next to her bed.




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Yeah, got mobbed by zombies right at the end of the safety period with nothing but a steak knife as a weapon, so we're going to play it like this. It was a dream, yeah, just a dream. 
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Does Teresa...
a) Explore her house for useful items
b) Venture out into the world
c) Go back to sleep
d) Listen to the voices in her head

[Urist Imiknorris]

Messenger bag get, then to the gun store with a stop at the pharmacy on the way.

[Flying Dice]

Small town? Guns. Get guns so you can empty its zombie population if it's possible.

Maybe hit the clothing store first.

It is possible, IIRC, and is much easier in small towns. We might consider trying to clear this one completely to use it as a base of operations, depending on how far it is from other towns. Next turn will be up soon.

[Flying Dice]

Teresa grabs her messenger bag, and heads for the door. She stops, recalling her dream. After a brief detour to the kitchen, she grabs a steak knife, and then breaks down the door to her bathroom, before carving a piece of wood from it into a crude spear. She remembers that she has a substantial stockpile of food in her basement; that might come in handy if she has to travel cross-country. Finally, she takes her mp3 player and a pair of rags from the living room. Gotta have a bitchin' soundtrack in postapocalyptia, after all.

She makes it to the first pharmacy without incident, but finds it mostly empty. She takes a few items, and crosses the street to the other pharmacy. It has substantially more medicine still in stock. She takes a number of things, including a bottle of Thorazine, to treat her Schizophrenia. Continuing on to the gun shop, she encounters nothing more threatening than a few squirrels. She throws rocks at them. After arriving at the store, Teresa takes stock of what it contains. She doesn't know much about guns beyond what they look like when some angry person of note is pointing one at her, but takes her best guess, grabbing a large, heavy rifle and the largest bullets she can find, as well as a silencer (she can recognize that much; she has seen James Bond movies, after all), as well as a cardboard box labelled "Sniper Conversion Kit: Includes 'Assassinations for Dummies' picture guide!" Although she hasn't the faintest idea of how to attach either to her new boomstick, she decides to keep them both.



Offscreen are:
-lighter
-mp3 player
-sniper conversion
-rag x2


Does she...
a) Go somewhere else in town
b) Leave town
c) Kill squirrels
d) Do something else