Play@YSDC

Grabbing Tsuba by the upper arm, Lisa cocks her head toward the stairway and retreats.

Sue retreats. OOC: Can she reload her gun as she retreats?

She reloads and retreats.

On the stairs-
Clarence and Bill followed the women up the stairs. As they ran, everyone heard Keith call from above: "Is that you all coming up the stairs?"

"Yeah, son, it's us!" Clarence shouted back. "We've still got six of them crawling behind us!"

The four of them reached the landing midway to the surface. Glancing back down, they could see that the six zombies had just reached the base of the stairs.

(Each of you may fire at the zombies for one combat round safely, or you may retreat to the surface instead. If you retreat, you may reload at the same time. Sue, you may fire the shotgun once at a single target, and any head hit will be an automatic kill since all of the remaining zombies have taken 8 or 9 damage to the head already. Lisa, you may fire twice at a zombie's head, provided they're both at the same target. You should roll your first shot and then roll damage. If you miss, you should then fire your second shot. If you only cause 1 damage, roll Luck to see if the zombie you hit was badly damaged enough for this to kill it. If the Luck roll fails, you should go ahead with your second shot.)

Clamping her right eye shut and sighting down the length of her left arm, Lisa deftly squeezes off a shot and lobotomizes one more crawling undead.

OOC: If they're clustered at the base of the stairs, what prevents her from targeting another zombie with her remaining shot?

Sue somehow manages to miss again. Even from this range... Her arms are simply trembling too much, sweat rolls down her fingers... She swears, cursing herself, and her eyes begin to fill a little with tears.

On the stairs-
"Hurry up, dad," called Keith from upstairs. "We're close to getting overrun up here."

"We'll be up in just another minute, son!" Clarence shouted back. He fired again, but he missed too. Bill took a shot as well, putting one of the crawling ghouls down. The last four crawled upstairs and were now halfway to the landing.

Just then, the ground shook again. It was more violent this time, but not enough that there was any danger of falling down the stairs.

(If you fire at the zombies this round, any that you fail to kill will get to attack. You may instead retreat the rest of the way upstairs, and you may reload while you do so if you wish.)

Lisa retreats to the top of the stairs before shooting again. Darting a baleful eye at the ineffectual Susan she says acidly: "Sweetie, when you're done making noise with that thing, why don't you give it to someone who can do some good with it?"

Sue considers applying the butt of the gun to Lisa's face as she retreats up the stairs, reloading. She figured that, at the very least, she could always trip the girl if the ghouls got too near. Might keep them busy for a moment.

On the stairs-
Clarence and Bill rushed upstairs as well.

(Everyone is moving to the following thread: The Conqueror Worm)