[gilga]

The old dwarf "Just walk the streets at night, they will find you, most people try to hide from them you really cannot miss them. "

[Mercy Merchant]

Athos laughs again then looks at his companion.  "Are you ready to go kill some undead?"  He nods to the halfer and leaves the room, going back out to the street.  The darkness has closed in, the overcast sky lending an eerie atmosphere to the dimly lit streets.  Almost the only sign of life in this area was the fortified building they had just left.  Athos nudges man next to him.  "Come on.  Let's get this done so we can talk to your bomber."

Saying that, Athos removes his huge handgun from its holster and spins the cylinder.  The familiar noise is comforting as he steps off into the street, looking for zombies.

[Jack_Spade]

"Always ready to shoot." Kynos said. "Just the alive part is irritating. That and that whole get a chemsuit. Those things are freaking expensive.
I'll rely on my normal armor and it's chemical protection. Just give me a minute to change into gear."

Kynos took out his own gun, made sure it was loaded with normal ammo and took a look at his taser. One for fun one for work.
"You got a car? Otherwise, I've got my bike here and I can follow you."

[gilga]

Once the night drops and Darkness envelops the almost completely dark neighborhood, you are surprised how little electricity there really is in there. It is not difficult to spot the 'zombies' as they are very loud and you can quickly discover a group that broke the door of a squat and are drugging a squatter toward the sewer entrance. You heard them breaking the door, it was impossible to miss.


Roll perception, and stealth if you want to be stealthy.

[Jack_Spade]

Perception: 9d6t5 2
with vision enhancement

Stealth:Stealth Check: 12d6t5 3[12d6t5=2, 4, 5, 3, 6, 5, 1, 4, 1, 1, 3, 2]
Going near them to 150m

Readying AR, loading GEL, aiming for two actions, fire:
AGI 7 + Automatics (AR) 8 + 2 Smartlink + 2 Aim  (Hawk Eye negates first range increment, Low Light vision and Thermographic active) -4 Vitals shot
Stealth Check: 15d6t5 6

13S AP -1 +6 successes on the likely surprised target.

Ini: Ini: 15+2d6 27
Oh, yeah!

When they start to run towards us, I'll start suppressive fire:
Suppressive Fire: 17d6t5 8
If they are real zombies they probably will continue to run towards us and catch some GEL rounds every ini phase.



Kynos only moved until his smartlink laser told him they were within 150m of their targets while changing magazines in his rifle. He kept a hand up to indicate to Athos to stop.
He aimed for a second and shot one very precise shot of GEL ammunition on the head of the last zombie.
When he was sure he had their attention he stood up and began to shoot in a measured and precise way, showering the other Z's with gel.

[Mercy Merchant]

Athos shakes his head.  "My car got trashed as part of what went down last night so I am on foot until I can replace it.  But I do not think we will need to go far."

He walks in silence, enjoying the hunt.  When they spot the group of zombies, he readies his pistol but is content to stand back as Kynos does his thing.  It gives Athos a chance to observe the man in action and his own weapon is not very useful at this range.  He is content to provide backup in case this group proves resistant to Kynos' efforts.

[Shaman_Yuri]

"I...think so," I answer in response to Strawberry's doppelganger.  "It's really hard now that I have to face it.  I get only one chance.  What it I mess it up?"  I don't even try to hide how anxious I suddenly feel about what I'm about to face.  "If Nagisa is hurt because of me, I don't know what I'd do..."

Nagisa is my first and best friend.  The one who has stood with me ever since I came to Seattle.  I would never have survived until now without her.  To lose her...I don't want to imagine it. 

"I'm so scared."

[gilga]

Strawberry tell you "You have to be strong for her, you are giving her a gift. A gift that can keep her strong for many days to pass, the knowledge that you are safe. Imagine how much you could endure if you had the same knowledge yourself. How strong you could be"

[Shaman_Yuri]

"Maybe.  But still..."  I close my eyes and take a deep breath to try and center myself like Mouse taught me.  I then let it out slowly and face the older and wiser woman again.  "I'll do my best, Strawberry, but what if my best isn't enough?"

[gilga]

Strawberry tells you "You will survive and find a way to carry on, life are interesting and they are worth living. I wasn't always called Strawberry I had a real name even a family name, a real family, friends and even a loved one.  But a real person could not survive what life had in store for me. I had to leave everything that I was behind and become strong. I now have no name, no past and no history. I am just Strawberry - and to be precise I am not even Strawberry because Strawberry is my ally spirit and closest friend in this entire world. 

She was crafted from my personality before I changed myself and is now more similar to who I was than myself.  She constantly reminds me what I lost over the years and is more human than I am. You are strong Yulia and you have not survived until now just to give up. One way or another you will survive - even if what you become is something completely different than what you could never imagine."

[gilga]

@Kynos and Athos
Kynos shot knocks one of the Zombies down, the rest cry a horrible cry. They are ignoring the bullets and seem to slowly approach you. You feel the immense fear growing in your mind, as if something horrible is going to happen. Perhaps it is the fact that they do not seem to mind that Kynos just sent one of them to sleep.

Fear!: 12d6t5 5
You have to roll logic and willpower and get 5 hits in order not to run away.
I am not sure what to do with Kynos - I guess he oddly he is not effected because he cannot sense fear. Tough I have to think in what essence dead emotion 'fear' is a negative quality.

[Shaman_Yuri]

I listen to the words, striving to see past her melodious voice to the content beneath.  It's hard, but with my skills I manage not to be reassured by the sound but rather really absorb the meaning.

"Maybe...maybe you're right.  It's just so hard right now."  I clench and then unclench my fists.  "But things need doing and I'm lucky to have even this chance to get through to her.  I can't say I'm ready, but let's do this before I lose my nerve."

[gilga]

@Minnie After dinner, the two Strawberry’s take you into a room full of blankets and pillows. It is almost tempting to sleep there and it seem to be equipped for perhaps ten people. Strawberry guides you to a nice big pillow and asks you to close your eyes and sit on it. She say, “When you stop hearing us and instead you hear the heartbeats of your friend, you can open your eyes.”

The couple then start chanting, it does not seem like a spell but a well known lullaby and you feel how their voices begin to envelop you with warmth and rob you of your senses. You are completely at their mercy and quickly become unaware to anything but their voice. Your perception of time also changes as you seem to feel eternity in a single word. You feel as if you have all the time and the world and the melody envelops you and awakens some deep and very primal memories.

Your mind is carried away to some far away land. At first you can smell Nagisa’s hair. She washed it with her new shampoo, the one you really like. As time passes the melody seems more and more distant and Nagisa seem more and more present, you can feel the warmth of her body. Even touch her. Instinctively you start embracing her, and your touch seem to calm her body. You feel how her sleep becomes deeper and her mind is open to you.

But you get closer than physical tough, you feel as if you enter her own body, the two of you are now so close that you share the same space. You do not know how to feel, the intimacy it is unlike anything you ever experienced, you can feel her thinking dreaming touch her emotions and shape them. You are inside her mind, inside her body and you can hear her heart beats.

You open your eyes, and there you are in your room at Athos' apartment. Nagisa is lying next to you and she is as real as if she really was there. You can barely hear the chanting, and cannot sense anything of the room you know you really are in. You both are intimate, in some private moment you had together. Some moment that is very dear to you. 

Nagisa looks at you and embraces you, she brushes your body with her hands, and you feel the urge to speak to her, to comfort her. You know that this is your chance to say something but you are not sure what you are going to say until you start talking.

[Mercy Merchant]

Athos feels something he has not faced in a number of years.  Fear.  The sensation starts in the pit of the stomach and moves outward, affecting all emotions and motor senses.  He marshals what he can and tries to hold firm against the almost crushing sensation.

Roll against Fear.  3d6 + edge 6d6: 9d6t5 2  Second Chance to stop fear: 7d6t5 2  Second edge to reroll misses: 5d6t5 2

Athos draws from his reserves to stand his ground and raises his handgun to the advancing group.  He waits patiently for them to shamble into range, using the time to aim at one of the lead figures.

[gilga]

The zombies size you up, for a little bit before they decent to the sewer carrying their victim. They completely ignore the massive fire by Kynos as if bullets simple are not part of their concern. The unconscious body remains as a testimony to what just happened.


Mercy you only get one reroll - so that you are terrified (4 hits vs 5 of the fear) and cannot attack the Zombies for 2 combat rounds. (Afterwards you'll have negatives) Feel free to act on this fear the way you want to.  You do not have to drop your gun and run around town like crazy waving your hands and screaming for help. You can just be paralyzed, a bit shaken and there are many less awkward manifestations of fear I'll leave it up to you. The only mechanical effect is that you cannot engage the Zombies for two combat rounds.