IC-THRU-Enter the Rough Riders(Rough Riders/Others)

As the afternoon gets underway, the survivors from the T-Bone have been split up. The helicopter group must land at an airfield halfway to Omaha for refueling. Those still on the surface try desperately to defend the motel, while those trapped underground fight for their lives as they search for a way out.

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Z-Day - 12:16 PM Mountain Time - 1 mile south of I-80:
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The Rough Riders' convoy cruised north over the flat Nebraska plains. The biker group had gotten together and organized early this morning, before most other people were aware anything was going on. After fueling up their Harley Davidson motorcycles and their pickup trucks during the early stages of the chaos that had struck Sidney, they had headed to Cabela's to pick up guns, ammo, and other useful survival supplies. The building had already been hit by the time they got there, and had still been crawling with the infected. The people in the building had either joined their ranks, fled, or been trapped on the roof - with the exception of Melinda Christie. They had gotten there just in time to save her life, but they couldn't stick around long. They had just enough time to grab some stuff and then get out, using their mobility to their advantage.

A horde had pursued them as they fled from the now burning city. Their ability to go off-road had been key to their escape. Still, their pursuers were tireless and some moved very fast indeed. By moving a good distance away and then taking out the faster ones with their rifles before moving onwards, they managed to keep ahead of them and pick up a few more people on their way south. Once they had left what was left of civlization behind, they picked up their speed as fast as they could. Then they diverted wide to the west to ditch the ghouls hunting them before turning around and heading north. They were now just a mile south of I-80.

Clarence Deeds led the pack, side by side with his older son Bill Black. His first name was really Lawrence, but nobody called him that unless he wanted a split lip or a bloody nose. Instead he went by his middle name of William, or by his nickname Tsuba. Lisa Crow rode on the back of Black's bike, her arms wrapped around him. They rode matching Harleys and, like the rest of their group, wore leather jackets. Behind them, Clarence's younger son Keith Deeds followed in a blue Ford F150 with Melinda in the passenger seat, and on his right Colin Lewis drove a maroon Dodge Ram. In the middle, Clarence's wife Amanda rode beside Colin's friend and comrade Joe Soarez on another pair of Harleys. Behind them, Dr. Dale Owens drove a white SUV, his son Adrian napping in the seat beside him, and Ernest Granger drove a gray pickup truck, this one with a horse trailer attached to the back. Bringing up the rear were Lewie and Sue Newton on two more Harley Davidsons.

Clarence slowed to a halt. The old man raised his arm to signal the others to stop, then turned to Bill, who rode on his right hand. As the sound of the vehicles died down, everyone could make out gunshots in the distance to the north. "We're nearly at the T-Bone," he said. "There will be fuel there, and maybe supplies. They also have a fallout shelter just in case some asshat pushes the button, but I'd rather we keep on the move if we can. Those gunshots are both good and bad. Good since it means there's still someone alive there and not trying to eat people, but bad since there's no guarantee they'll be friendly or willing to share. I know the people who run the place - did some contracting work for them way back when. They're not very nice people, and Earl has got to be the meanest, orneriest skinflint that ever drew breath, but we might be able to trade with them. Of course, there's always the possiblity that they're dead and someone else has taken over the place. In that case, it all depends on who it is. Before we get any closer, we'd better take a gander at what we're dealing with." He indicated the binoculars hanging around Bill's neck. "My eyes are too old to see real far. Tsuba, why don't you give it a go?"

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Lewie unslings his scoped rifle and puts it to his eye, aimed towards what he figures is the sound of the gunshots.



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-God, i'm so tired! I was thinking we would never escape those things!-says Melinda
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Ernest draws to a halt along with the rest of the group. Hearing the gunfire in the distance he takes his rifle from the seat next to him and scans the horizon for signs of the disturbance.
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(Andrew, I'm still waiting for you to post for Black and make a Spot Hidden roll.)

Keith smiled at Melinda. "You're gonna be okay now, sweetheart," he said. "I won't let anything happen to you. If we stay on the move and avoid the cities, they can't catch up to us."

Lewie Newton and Ernest Granger both pointed their rifles north and looked through the scopes. About a mile to the north they could see the narrow ribbon of asphalt that was Interstate 80, and just north of that they saw two structures. The one on the right was in the process of violently collapsing, a vast cloud of dust rising up and blocking their view of its surroundings. A small part of the structure on the west did remain standing. A dirt road halfway between the two buildings led further north, and a tractor trailer was stopped in the middle of it. The building on the left was two stories high, and there was a huge satellite dish on its roof. They couldn't see any people or movement.
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OOC: Spot Hidden 45% (1d100=3) Sorry about the delay, been a real busy last few days, I had even ignored the game I'm running on my site.

Tsuba nodded and indicated to Lisa to move, he then swung his leg over the seat and walked a few paces away and brought the binoculars up to see what was out there. It didn't take him long to spot what the scene was like. While looking he started to whistle, Blue Oyster Cult's, 'The Reaper'.

In many ways this event that had struck the Earth reminded Tsuba of the war, you had those close to rely on but other than that the world outside the base was a hostile one and if you didn't protect the man on your right well... there'd be no one to protect you.
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(Don't worry about it, real life comes first as Welsh and I said. Funny you mentioned "Don't Fear the Reaper" - Erica Spears had a CD play the exact same song during the helicopter ride late in Chapter 2.)

Lisa climbed off the bike and followed Tsuba, putting an arm around him as he peered through the binoculars. He was able to see the buildings that Lewie and Ernest did, but he could make out many more details. The building on the right had been the truck stop, and the part that was still standing was the garage. There was a man with a rifle lying on the roof and shooting at something to the east. There was also a small section of the collapsed building that remained intact.

Beyond the stopped truck on the dirt road to the north, he could make out a huge black man with a rifle slung on his back. He had a gaping wound in his stomach and was staggering to the north.

The building on the left was a motel. He could see two men with rifles on the roof in what appeared to be military fatigues. A pair of ladders leaned against the east wall of the motel, one that went all the way up to the roof and a shorter one that only went halfway up, to the balcony. There was also a figure in an orange biohazard suit who began climbing down the taller ladder. On the balcony itself he could make out a black man in a similar uniform limping away from the ladders towards the southeast corner, and there were more people gathered on the southwest corner that were shooting at something on the balcony, but the wall of the motel blocked his view of it.

Finally, off to the northwest, he caught sight of a military helicopter flying low and heading towards the motel. All of a sudden, it entered a steep dive.

(Tsuba, roll Know to identify the type of helicopter.)
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OOC: Know 90% (1d100=20)

Tsuba wrapped an arm around Lisa's waist as well as he peered out, as he viewed everything he could, he narrated the scene to Lisa, his father and all that were around.
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The helicopter was a Huey. More specifically, it was a UH-1N Iroquois.

Clarence nodded. "You've got good eyes, son," he said. "If that chopper's going down, they're gonna need help. Let's move out!" He revved his engine and began rolling north across the open ground, waving his arm for the rest of the pack to follow. Lisa hurried back to Tsuba's bike and waited for him to join her.
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Ernest got back into his pickup and started the engine. He wasn't sure about heading straight into the middle of whatever was going on over there but he certainly wasn't going to hang around in the middle of the desert on his own either.

As the group moves forward Ernest hangs at the back, taking it east so as not to scare the horses in trailer he towed.
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Tsuba nodded to his father and hopped back on his fatboy, when Lisa was settled he roared the bike to life and headed on out.
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The convoy sped north across the open, flat plains. Before long, I-80 became visible. Two signs stood in the middle of the east-west road, one to the west of the motel and another to the east of the destroyed diner. Each of them had a large biohazard symbol on it, along with lettering that was too small to make out from this distance. At this point everyone could see what Tsuba had described to them earlier, though the wounded black man was now slowly making his way back to the south along the dirt road towards the stopped truck. He had a massive, gaping hole in his belly from which his intestines dangled. The black man in uniform and the orange-suited person moved around the south side of the balcony to the southwest corner. Only the man on the roof of the garage was still shooting.

Just as Clarence and Tsuba were approaching the highway from the south, the Huey crashed into the field of tall grass northwest of the motel at about a 45 degree angle with a tremendous noise of rending metal and shattering glass.
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Edgar was furious when he saw the chopper go down, that could have been his ticket out of this nightmare. Still, those people could use his help...

'Shit, who am I kidding' Edgar thought too himself.

He didn't care much for picking up more survivors, especially not military types, but there sure as hell would be salvageable supplies amongst the wreckage.

Edgar pressed down on the accelerator, catching up with the rest of the pack. He honked the horn of his pickup and waved frantically to the convoy, pointing towards the crash sight.

After attracting everyone's attention he turned off the road, heading towards the ruined helicopter, being careful to slow down again so as not to upset the horses on the bumpy ground.
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Lewie watches the helicopter go down with a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach.

"More dead and dying, just what the world needs right now." He mutters to himself, turning the bike towards the copter following Edgars lead.

Raising his voice slightly so Sue could hear him:

"Come on dear, let's see if we can pick up the pieces."
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(The farmhand's name is actually Ernest Granger, not Edgar.)

The entire pack roared off to the northwest, with Clarence and his older son leading the way. Keith and Colin followed close behind in their pickup trucks, with Amanda and Joe Soarez right behind them. Ernest Granger raced forward side by side with Dr. Owens, and the Newtons brought up the rear.

"Hang on tight," Keith said to Melinda as they made a wide turn to the left.

"I'm right beside you, honey!" Sue shouted to Lewie over the noise of the motorcycles.

The lead bikes reached I-80 just west of the motel, not far from the sign. Smoke was starting to rise above the tall grass in the field, about fifty yards northwest of the motel. The grass ended abruptly thirty yards from the motel, at the edge of an asphalt parking lot. One man was climbing down a rope ladder dangling from the motel balcony's southwest corner, and the stairways they could see on the exterior of the motel were all thoroughly barricaded.

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40 or less Spot Hidden (1d100=79)

Listen 35 or less (1d100=99)

Lewie looks out into the tall grass nervously, but doesn't see anything unusual. He pricks up his ears, but hears only the roar of the vehicles around him.
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-Ok-says Melinda to Keith.
"At least i'm still safe, and it's better than being trapped in a building with those creeps who almost let me died"-thinks Melinda
She is scared and look to the grass for any sign of the creatures, and try to listen any sound :


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As Keith's truck drove onto I-80 west of the motel, Melinda could see the wreckage of the helicopter through the grass. A man in an Air Force uniform lay facedown and unmoving in the grass a short distance south of the helicopter, and smoke rose from the chopper's engine. It billowed around the entrance, preventing her from seeing inside. She could also hear a woman screaming hysterically inside the helicopter. Over the screams, she just managed to hear a man say "Hang in there, Amy." Another man shouted "No!" just before two pistol shots rang out from inside the ruined helicopter.

(If anyone actually wants to drive into the grass, you'll need to make a Drive roll. If you failed your Spot Hidden roll, this roll is at a -10 penalty. If you're on a motorcycle, roll Drive Motorcycle. If you're driving one of the trucks, roll Drive Auto. If you fail your roll, roll Luck. You can drive up to the far end of the parking area west of the motel, about twenty yards from the crash site, without making a roll. If you're a passenger like Melinda, you don't need to roll anything.)
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Lewie heads into the parking lot, parks, and draws his rifle to cover the helicopter.
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Not wanting to drive through the long grass with horses in tow, Ernest follows Lewie's lead and follows him into the parking lot. Jumping out of his pickup, rifle slung over his shoulder, Ernest climbs onto the top of his horse box to get a better view of the downed helicopter through his rifles scope.

OOC: Oops, sorry about the name mix-up. I wrote the post pretty late at night.
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