IC-OVER-Tower of Terror(Gardner/Dawkins/Erica/Kathryn)

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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On the stairs-
Gardner grimaced when he heard something on the radio as he descended from the roof, but he didn't hear anyone below him on the stairs.

Kathryn raced across the control room and out the door, onto the fifth floor landing. She noticed that the elevator was still on the floor below and was about to start downstairs and shout her message when Gardner arrived from above a few seconds behind her, dragging Erica with him. He pointed his pistol at Kathryn. "Drop the knife," he hissed, "don't make a sound, and put your hands up - or you're one dead hottie."

(Kathryn, roll Listen again.)
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Kat hears something.
(What´s Kat´s target skill to throw the knife or stab the NG? Don´t want to be handled anymore. So she´ll try to at least hurt him.)
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On the tower stairs-
Kathryn could hear three sets of footsteps coming up from the floor below. They were trying to move stealthily, but not well enough to stop her from hearing them.

(The base chance to attack with a knife is 25%, which is also the base skill for Throw. Either way, Gardner has better Dex than you, and his pistol can shoot twice. That means he'll get both shots off before you even have a chance to attack. You could try to Dodge the first one, but not the second - this would also mean you would be unable to attack this round, though you could still run. If you still want to attack, let me know.)
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Seeing the difficulty in attacking the NG, Kat decides to throw herself into the control room again. Hoping for Gardner to become occupied with the threat from below. She does drop the knife, thus half hearted obeys the officer.
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On the stairs-
"Good girl," whispered Gardner, listening closely. He jabbed the elevator call button with his elbow and then bent down to retrieve the knife, keeping the pistol trained on Kathryn the whole time. By the time he stood back up and stuck it in his pack a few seconds later, the elevator arrived and the doors slid open. He propped the doors open with one foot. "Inside."

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On the stairs-

When Gardner kicks the elevator button Kathrynmakes the plunge. She dives for the cover of the wall shielding off the computer room from the staircase/elevator.
(Now to the actual dodging of bullets...Next roll?)
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(That is what that roll was for, sort of, so there's no need to roll anything else. Only it's not a bullet you're trying to avoid, exactly. You'll see. Just be glad you got that great success!)

On the fifth floor-
Kathryn dived back through the open door to the control room and rolled around the corner with lightning speed, waiting for a shot that never came. Instead, Gardner grinned evilly and took a hand grenade from his belt. He pulled the pin with his teeth and spat it out, then gently rolled the grenade along the landing so that it went down the stairs, right into the path of the people coming up. Then he snagged Erica's waist and yanked her back into the elevator and hit a button. A look of pure terror crossed Erica's face as the doors shut them in and the elevator car began to descend...

(Gardner and Erica Spears are moving to this thread: Abducted. Kathryn remains in the current thread.)

Trooper Rick Brenner raced up the stairs in a panic when he saw the grenade rolling towards him, trying desperately to get clear of the blast radius before it detonated, but he was too slow. Trooper Bo Richards didn't have much luck either, nor did Sergeant Diane Ford. The grenade bounced right amongst them and then exploded! Rick Brenner was slain instantly, his right leg blown off. Bo Richards had his head blown asunder from the blast. Diane Ford's left leg was shredded, and she collapsed, bleeding to death.

The dust settled from the explosion. Kathryn emerged miraculously unscathed, her quick actions shielding her from the sharpnel. While she was free from Gardner's awful clutches, poor Erica was not so lucky...and now three State Troopers who had been on their way to rescue her lay dead or dying a little below the landing.

(Kathryn, roll Sanity. Sanity loss is 1/1d6. Also, roll Listen.

Note that Kathryn does not know that the dead can rise up as zombies. As far as she knows, the zombies are just infected with something.)
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On the fifth floor, control room-

McCoy hurriedly headed for the roof once more. The blast must have taken the people going up. She didn´t think of them, mostly relieved that she was relatively out of harms way (Gardner´s way). The stairs must be shattered...the best option to use the fire escape and see what happened to Dawkins up top. As her thoughts raced it occured to her that she just had to restart the fire alarm to stop the elevator...The downside to this was that Erica would be trapped too. Nah, better to leave that trail of thought. She started hurriedly up the stairs . listening through the smoking stairwell
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On the fifth floor-
When Kathryn left the control room, she could see through the smoke and dust kicked up by the grenade that the stairs were not blocked off. They were made of concrete and, while damaged, were not destroyed. Rick Brenner and Bo Richards were definitely dead, but Diane Ford was alive - though only barely so. Kathryn heard the elevator stop two floors below. Then it started moving back up...

(You may change your mind about your action at this point. If you want to try to save Diane, you'll need to make a First Aid roll. The base skill is 30%, and if you succeed she gets back 1d3 HP. She needs at least 2 HP recovered to survive. If you leave her to her fate, you must make another Sanity roll with a loss of 1/1d4. If you try to save her but fail, there is no Sanity penalty.)
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On the fifth floor-

Kathryn sees the wounded trooper and tries to stabilize her. She uses her blouse to stop the blood flow being unable to aptly aid the woman. "Medic! She´s hurt bad!" Up close and personally with the carnage in the stairway she tries to keep concentrated on the woman´s wounds.
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On the fifth floor-
Try as she might, there was nothing Kathryn could do to save Diane as she bled out on the stairs. She couldn't help but wonder if this might not have happened if she had simply gotten on the elevator in the first place - and then the elevator arrived on the fifth floor and the doors slid open.

(Kathryn is moving to this thread: Abducted. You may read the initial post, but you are not required to do so.)
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