illinois ♔ and the message coming from my eyes

[spellfile]

WHO || Andrew, Zero, Han, Rocket, Klaus
WHAT || The Knights investigate some strange events  around a farmhouse in Illinois
WHERE || Metropolis Kansas
WHEN || April 20th, 2015
HOW || Actionspam

The route to the Moore residence is a secluded, gavel-topped county road that meanders through fields and farmland.  The roiling stormclouds and lack of city lights make the countryside seem unusually dark and forbidding.  A battered mailbox on the right side of the road indicates the Moore farm, and a pothole-filled drive leads up to the farmhouse.  On the right side of the long driveway, nestled among the snow, lies what appears to be a small family graveyard.

Beside the dilapidated house, stands a large German Shepard tethered on a leash, barking furiously as they pull up.  An older man stands on the porch looking highly displeased.  The man says something to the dog, but the barking continues unabated.

"You can just turn right around and head back the way you came," he yells from the porch.

Comments

[parsecs]

[Somehow Han's demolitions check of 7 probably won't do it. He's not used to your Earth chemicals I guess.]

And doesn't really scream "guy's gonna turn into a zombie."

[badexample]

[lmfao well Andrew got a nat 20 on the fertilizer check.]

Holy shit. This fucker was making a bomb. [He looks up at Zero.] To blow up the zombies?

[spellfile]

Well, that's... unconventional, but I guess they can get blown up good as anybody.

We should check upstairs. In case there's anybody left alive. Or unalive, as the case might be.

[parsecs]

Good, here I was hoping we'd get more undead guys. [But Han's okay taking point, gun held in front of him as he listens and watches for... idk not much at all apparently (spot 9 listen crit fail).]

[asuma]

And what of our furry friend?

[Rocket's still out there, y'all. Not that Klaus is actually ... concerned. But he doesn't want to be where the zombies are if they are going to make that much of a mess every time he slams his fists into one.]

[spellfile]

Why don't you and I head out and try to find him?

[asuma]

I thought you'd never ask.

[Bye, bitches. Klaus ain't even waiting around for whatever is upstairs to come down and greet them have fun.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ as han and andrew approach the stairs, they would both notice a trail of slime leading up them. ]

[parsecs]

Well, that's promising. [And yet, here Han is, still following it. He misses the day when he wouldn't do this without something in it for him. Those were good days. That actually lived through.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ upstairs are three doors - what look like two bedrooms, one on either side of the stairs, and a bathroom door straight ahead ]

[badexample]

[JUST KIDDING. Andrew instead goes upstairs and doesn't make a snide comment because I'm too slow. Instead he just hangs back and lets Hans go first.]

What if we just don't go in any of them? I mean that's an option...

[parsecs]

[Han glances back at Andrew and raises an eyebrow.] You did come this far.

[He could have left with the wimp squad he wanted to.] Keep your gun trained on the other doors. Just in case. [And because he'd rather Andrew starts shooting in a direction that isn't Han if he gets spooked. He starts with the first door--the one to the left of the stairs, holding his blaster up in his right hand as he tries the knob.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ two horrible, bloated, humanoids with oozing flesh are pawing something on the far side of what looks like the master bedroom. \o/ ]

[parsecs]

Look at that, got zombies on the first try. I've always been lucky like that. [He punctuates his words by shooting off a blast of laser light at one of the zombies (atk 16, dmg 15 if it hits).]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ that hits! goo goes flying out of the thing but it's across the room, luckily. but not for long. they both shamble towards han, and try to slam him (atk 7, atk 16) but both miss boooo ]

[badexample]

[Andrew lets out a weird yelping sound, but manages to get his gun out!! He fires his gun at the one Han hit (attack 15, damage 8). And then I remember he has heroic surge so he does it again!! (attack 20, damage 9).]

[parsecs]

[Han takes a few steps back because yuck, zombies, he doesn't want to get their goo on him, then shoots another blast at the second zombie (atk 26, dmg 10).]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ andrew's first shot explodes one of them, and they both blast the second, horrible ooze flying everywhere, but it keeps coming, again, far too slow to be a real threat (atk 11) ]

[badexample]

[Andrew continues to be stunned any time that he successfully manages to shoot a thing. First person shooters aren't really his thing but apparently he is getting better at this whole actual gun handling business... maybe. With one gross oozy zombie left, twists up his face in uncertainty and fires (attack 15, and dear god I hope that hits because he rolled 20 damage with penetration)

[behindcloseddoors]

[ IT DOES! Zombie guts fly everywhere, coating the room in sickening ooze :')

/init ]

[parsecs]

Well, that didn't get anymore pleasant. [And Han isn't putting his blaster down as he goes to search the room and see what it was they were pawing at (search 18).]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ doesn't seem to be anything worth finding in this room tbh ]

[parsecs]

Nothing here. [He goes to open the door to the next room. UNLESS THERE ARE ZOMBIES COMING TO EAT HIS FACE AGAIN he got a search 11.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ about that.

two horrible, oozing zombies are hunched over the partially dismembered corpse of a young man. they appear to be eating his entrails. a revolver limply dangles from the victim's mauled and bloody hand.

they immediately lunge forward with a burbling cry. ]

[parsecs]

[Han's blaster is up immediately and he shoots at the first zombie (atk 18, dmg 18 with penetration B)).] How many of these things are there? [And what the hell he'll shoot the other one too with heroic surge since I just remembered he has it (atk 25, dmg 26 with penetration again).]