In media res - INCURSION (All players in Team Bravo)

[Iggy_Pop]

C.L. looks at Larsen before volunteering himself to stay behind. "I think myself and a couple of others should stay behind with the girl, find out what she knows and try get primary objective two out of the way."

[ImpInTraining]

"It could be time consuming ... she looks like she might have been slightly affected, which means we don't know what the state of her mind is. She's obviously not readily responsive. Splitting our group up might be a bad idea at this point," Collins counters looking at C.L. Turning to face Larsen, he further responds "I mean, no one wants to help this poor girl more than me, but we have an obligation to get the job done in a timely manner."

With a shrug, he looks back to the team leader and says "Whatever the case, if we do split up I need to be with the group looking for the directors so I can evaluate their state of health to make sure they're stable and ready for recovery."

[Dave Syrinx]

Nohman looks at C.L. and Collins, "No time for a checkup. Just do what´s needed for her to be good to go. Enough to keep our pace."

ImpInTraining:

Spoiler:

Collins looks at the girl. She has undergone a major nosebleed and has vomited, but seems to have withstanded the neurotoxin that has killed the other people. You can see that she has a fever, she is pale and disoriented. This may be side effects of the toxin along with the shock of being suddenly surrounded by hundreds of bodies, and an armed assault team. To know what happened here she may need to undergo a series of tests, but you realize that you do not have time for that. Between the shock, confusion there's not much you can say, at least for now.
But what she needs is to stay awake and physically able to accompany you. In the military medicine bag, a a couple of solutions mixed together will lower any fever and make her feel better along with a mild amphetamine, that will clear up and take away any dizziness. That will allow her to be in good physical condition, for a while. The solution is easily applied to a speed-syringe, ready for use. Collins expects it to take effect within thirty seconds.

"Crawford! Help him out!" "Hale! Keep that position of Dr. Sanchez open." "Larsen! You come with me and Collins and Hale!" "Collins, do you have something C.L. can give that girl to get her moving?" Nohman starts down the left escalator to get to the room where Dr. Sanchez is at according to the scanner. He quickly passes the girl at the right escalator. Hale moves the scanner around in all directions. Weiss having been given no directions keeps his .50 aimed at the wet floor with both hands and looks straight forward for a threat, close on the heels of the team leader.

Nohman turns and shouts at C.L. "You escort the girl. If you are unable to continue at our pace ... Well, you know you have to do ..."

*******

C.L. puts his gun away and approaches the girl down the right escalator. Crawford joins him to watch his back. Getting close to the girl, C.L. stands in front of the girl, takes her by the arm and says:
"Hey, are you alright?, You have nothing to fear, pretty. We´re here to save you. What is your name?"

Crawford stands a few steps to the side of C.L. and the girl, aiming her rifle at the girl.

"Heather ... my name is Heather ... " The girl replies and tries to take in her surroundings. She holds on tight to C.L.´s arm and looks into his eyes. "I ..." Heather whispers weakly. "Do not know what happened ... I was looking for something in one of the shops ..." She tries to focus her eyes "... and soon people began to faint all around ..." You understand that the girl was one of many visitors to the center who has only been lucky to survive. She has not even yet realized that the people around you are dead.

[Dave Syrinx]

The current position of Bravo Team is between rooms 101 and 103, in and in front of a double set of escalators. Behind these escalators are elevators with access to the parking garage below. There are also another set of elevators where the mall curves to the left. Twenty meters behind the escalators are a similar set of double doors leading to the stairs you left on the upper floor. These are closed. (As are all store fronts...)
Dr, Sanchez´position is indicated to be in the grey corner between areas 116 and 128.

[Mr. Handy]

Larsen follows Nohman, using his laptop to try to get a look at where Sanchez is supposed to be on his laptop as he moves.

[ImpInTraining]

Collins nods without a moment's hesitation and prepares a concoction to give the girl in the speed applicator and hands it to C.L. "This should wake her up and get her moving," he says with a wink.

[shanaz]

Crawford holds her rifle, wondering about what she got herself into, but trying to stay alert for any drastic actions the girl may take.

[Dave Syrinx]

Time: 115

C.L. accepts the injector and applies it to the girl called Heather. She looks at her arm where the injector pumps the drug into her system. Her eyes grows more focused and she touches her arm next to the syringe mark. She looks around the mall, barely taking in her new companions.

Larsen looks at the plans, noting at the location of the target is marked. From the legend its´s some kind of maintenance area. An exit to the floors below is indicated at the center of the grey area. At the same time Collin´s scanner shows that the vital signs of Dr. Sanchez are getting weaker, but the subject is not moving.

Something which is moving, Larsen sees, as one of the mall´s cameras pop up on the grid, is the grey suit with gas mask is approaching from an emergency exit hallway, he´s now between areas 146 and 142.

While watching the girl, Crawford directs her attention towards Nohman for a brief moment, her attention drawn to the fact that he´s trying to gauge which spot is the furthest away from any corpses on the floor. He settles for a point he is satisfied with, and keeps his eyes on the floor. Not at the Heather girl, not in the direction of the area where the doctor is hiding at. Just the wet floor. Weiss on the other hand advances about five meters ahead of the others. He keeps his aim at the intersection ahead, where the mall bends left and where the main entrance lie to the right.
Collins is finished with his scan.

[Mr. Handy]

"I'm picking up some movement," reports Larsen. "It's that guy in the gas mask. He's on this floor, coming up from the emergency exit hall. He's a little further ahead and around the corner to the left from there."

[ImpInTraining]

Collins looks at his equipment, and then sharply upward. "We got a problem," he announces. "Dr. Sanchez... he's fading fast. We need to get to him quick!"

Without wasting any time, Collins started heading toward where Dr. Sanchez' last reported position, weapon up and at the ready.

[Dave Syrinx]

Heather collects herself. It appears that the shots have already made their impact and the girl seems clear. Still, she looks a bit confused.

Nohman, still cranky. "Are you finished with the girl?" He blurts out to C.L.

Crawford trots towards the position of where dr Sanchez
supposedly is in need of help at. She reaches the left turn of the mall and faces a double door in grey. Staff only
A red light shines next to a key pad to the right of the doors. It changes to green as she comes within five feet of the doors.
Weiss and Hale are right at Crawford´s tail.

"Can we go now?!" Nohman bursts.

By the escalator, Heather points at the people on the ground.
"They are waking up."
You turn around to discover that Heather is right.

The people around you rise ...

As if having suffered from a sleeping drug, more wake up, most seem to be suffering some sort of seizure. Some bodies shake, others move without coordination, like learning to walk again, but the point is that slowly and surely, the people rise. They shouldn´t as they showed to signs of life a minute ago. You had made sure of that when you walked into the mall.
Many emit drowned moans, others are waking up in silence. Their eyes look without seeing, as if they are drunk. However, those close to you look straight at you.

The moans increase in volume, eclipsing the music. Their appearance, much alike the way Heather looks but it lacks her ability to focus. Now they begin to focus, but it seems that they don´t actually see but go by another sense. It is as if they are searching for something, as if they needed something desperately vital to them. Their moans and expression of infinite pain and suffering in their faces are results of them not finding it. Imagine the terror when finding out you have no air to breathe when drowning. Or when you face yourself exhausted and starting to sink after a few hours in the ocean.

This discription fits to those not close to your group. They who are close by are directed towards you, as if they had found exactly what they want. They have found their salvation. First they looked as confused as Heather when you found her. Now they move with intent as if close to the finish line.

"No ..." Nohman´s hoarse voice can be heard. "Please God, not again ..."

OOC:

Spoiler:

The amount of awakened people close to your respective group is determined by 1d10. Larsen, Crawford, C.L. either of you may roll for your group. Collins, Weiss, Hale, roll 1d10, whichever of you reads this first. Nohman will roll as the situation is clear with you guys.

[Iggy_Pop]

C.L looks around, startled by the sheer number of people rising from the ground.

He re-equips his .50 pistol and aims for a kill shot on the nearest awakened person and commands "Stop or I will shoot!"

[ImpInTraining]

"Wait... they were dead," Collins says confused as he sees 3 people start to rise around them. He pulls up his weapon and asks, "What the hell is going on? We supposed to save these guys?" He continues his path toward where Dr. Sanchez was located, but will open fire on any of these late risers if they lunge for him.

[Mr. Handy]

Larsen hastily puts his laptop away and unslings his MP5. He isn't a very good shot, but burst fire can make up for a lack of accuracy by spraying more lead around. "They can't possibly be alive!" he says. "The neurotoxin must have killed them!"

[Dave Syrinx]

Collins reach the doors to the area only to find himself facing one awakened customer - in the corner where the alcove ends. It´s a black balled guy wearing shirt and jeans. His face is completely limp, his jaw is dropped, his mouth open and dripping saliva and blood. Like Heather he has also suffered a heavy nosebleed. The two other awakened stumble towards Weiss. Hale moves her sight between the awakened reaching for Collins and the ones moving at Weiss, deciding that old friends die hardest, keeping her sight trained at the black guy. If Collins needs it Hale will cover his ass. The team needs a medic more than yet another troubleshooter. "What do you mean - again?!" Weiss screams at Nohman.


Situation map Collins & CO:

Spoiler:

Further down the corridor, Nohman watches two customers awaken around him.

C.L., Larsen, Crawford and Heather are trapped by the escalator. C.L. is almost unaware of the awakened who just rises behind him on the last step of the escalator. He is barely able to get his .50 up and finish his warning before the awakened leans in and attempt to bite him. His newest infatuation is a teenage girl with a silver piercing in the shape of a cross dangling from her belly button. The top she has on is lime green and she looks almost as she is about to hug him. Besides the fact that her eyes are milky hazed. Like the eyes of a dead fish. C.L. sees a red gash at the side of her head where her blonde hair is tussled in a mess of blood and flesh.
However, being prepared for the worst, C.L. manages to shoot before getting assaulted by the reanimated shopper.
Situation map C.L. & CO:

Spoiler:

Heather moves up the free escalator, escaping from the crazed awakened. Heading up towards the safety of the second floor. Larsen sees that the two awakened in front of the escalator move towards Crawford who now has three targets, the girl hugging at C.L. but the large demolitions guy is blocking her line of sight and the side of the escalator is in the way. The closest threat is the one to the right. She sees that Larsen has one coming at him from below the escalator. She also realizes that the awakened to the left of the escalator is coming her way, it must be her good looks...

OOC:

Spoiler:

At this stage there is no need to roll for initiative. Just roll your attack and your target/-s. I´ll grant the characters with an awakened closest to them to go first as that would be appropriate, then the support fire should come from people close by. -5 % for aiming at the head as Nohman did earlier. Double attack on all targets right now. Add 5% per round. Good luck!

Nohman releases a short burst at the head of the customer gaining at him and the suited sales rep for a computer company is stopped in his track as the burst paint the wall behind him red. The suit slumps down on the damp floor as the newly coloured wall drip with a new red tag.
"We gotta get outta here!" Shouts Nohman, eyes full of terror. He turns at the one coming from the other side and starts in the direction of C.L. and the others by the escalator.

Alarmed by the shooting, Heather turns around. In doing that she fails to see the six cheer leaders turning up to greet her at the top of the escalator. Larsen sees them as he targets the customer coming from below the escalator. The cheer leaders rise from both sides of the side to the escalator and the red and white dresses swarm to get down to where the team stand.

[ImpInTraining]

Syrinx,Hey...[b] Collins[/b] is a guy. Don't confuse me any more than I already am. :) I'm guessing the guy right next to [b]Collins[/b] ("x1") is a point blank shot for him. Not sure if I did damage right, so you might want to check that and let me know.

Collins lifted an eyebrow with the sound of gunfire in the distance and shrugged, "Sorry to do this, buddy..."

He brought his weapon up and pulled the trigger sending three rounds of fury at the black man's head. The result was relocating much of the man's brain matter from his skull, to the corner behind him.

He continues for the corridor hoping to have a more defensible spot for his team within.

[Dave Syrinx]

Imp:

Spoiler:

Sorry, he has got his balls back. The damage should have been 3d10 but that´s OK. I guess the result should have been about the same. If Collins had shot the .50 he´d not been able to use burst fire.

Collins goes for the unlocked "Staff only" doors or the way ahead through the mall that is turning left just ahead? He can see the main entrance to the right ahead. He can also see about fifty other awakened coming from that direction.

[ImpInTraining]

Collins runs through the "staff only" door, checks inside for more of those things, ready to blast them away as well.

[Mr. Handy]

"Heather, look out!" calls Larsen as he raises his MP5 to fire at the customer heading for him. "You're heading right for six more of them! Get back down!" He squeezes off an accurate three round burst that blows his attacker's head to bits.

[Dave Syrinx]

Weiss flips the rifle to full auto and squeezes off ten rounds at the closest customer, hoping to move both the closest and the one further away down. He hits the closest man midsection, spraying the bullets from left to right. Three of the bullets thud into the man behind the first target. The closest falls down where he stands, splashing water at Weiss.
The second target staggers a little but continues forward. As does the closest. Drenched in a mix of blood and water, the customer at Weiss´ feet reaches one arm at his legs trying to grab him. Weiss virtually made the reanimated customer get shredded in half. Still it craved contact with him.

Hale turns in the direction of the long burst and takes aim at the customer below Weiss. The shot hits the wounded man in the head. The wounds to the midesction paired with the head shot, put the customer to rest.

"Go for the head, Fritz!" She comments as she lays aim at the second target. Weiss is already heading after Collins. The second shot goes high. Hale backs up towards the doors and shouts at the others. "We´ve got the door opened!"

Collins:

Spoiler:

Collins moves quickly but carefully through the private area of the first floor. The corridor is fairly wide, two people can walk next to each other without any problem. In here it´s bright and clear, the light work. To both sides of the corridor are storage rooms, offices and changing rooms. Three doors lead to the adjacent stores. (They have magnetic locks.) The second door to the right is ajar. Collins close in on that door covering all angles. Both the door and the wall have multiple gunshot marks, apparently have been made from inside the room. There are also blood on the wall of the corridor. Judging from the splash its evident that someone who was at the entrance of the room was at least shot once. There is a trail of blood following the corridor away from the room. Collins is aware of Weiss coming after him and by the sound of it he´s at the double doors.