Johnny - The great outdoors (Kabukiman only)

[Dave Syrinx]

After fighting the stench, Johnny advances through the doors. He gets into a corridor leading to the main store walkway. It´s lit up by emergency light lining the corner where the walls meet the floor. From somewhere inside the mall a voice can be heard over the muzak, "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?" After a brief apprehension comes more, "You escort the girl. If you are unable to continue at our pace ... Well, you know what to do ..." From the sound of it, someone very angry, with military background is shouting orders, from anywhere in the mall. This guy is screaming quite loudly.


Johnny´s position is at the second "emergency label" (near room 180) from the left side of the map. (A stairwell leading outside, in this case the parking garage)

[kabukiman]

"Nice. Militaries. At least this group has someone who don't belong to their group and haven't shoot at her for now. Maybe I'l follow them".

[Dave Syrinx]

Moving up to the main hallway, where the mall proper begins, Johnny hears that the military are to the right. He picks up voices and footsteps in the puddles. Not close, more in the end of the right wing of the mall. The store to the left (146) is a Guns and Ammo store. Metal blinds down and locked. A card reader is placed by the metal curtain to the left on the wall.

The store to the right (142) is a H&M clothes store.

[Dave Syrinx]

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. 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 yourself. They who are close by are directed towards you, as if they had found exactly what they want. They have found their salvation. Now they move with intent as if close to the finish line.

ooc:

Spoiler:

Johnny, roll 1d10 to see how many awakened people are close by. (Within reach...)

[kabukiman]

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-Men, this can't be good...
Johnny starts running in direction of the voices he heard before.

[Dave Syrinx]

Clarification of the situation:

Spoiler:

directions and distances Theses first two are rerolls from the first set.

Seeing the awakened people just on his heels makes his head race. To get to the soldiers he would have to run straight ahead and turn right, then he sees he´d have to zig zag his way through the mall. But through the hall hundreds of people get to their feet. It´s like getting to the hot dog stand at half time on a soccer game. The closest at one o'clock, a man in his forties wearing a Pepsi T-shirt and who is all drenched in water and vomit grasp at Johnny as if the man was drowning and grabbing for a railing to get out of the water. These guys are not well by any standard, he thinks to himself.

Getting past these guys without getting caught he would have to have some luck on his side. To go back where he came from, would be easier...
Only one awakened comes lurching from the exit doors he just came from. It would be easy to pass that guy, a man of sixty years or more wearing a checkered suit and a walking cane. The old man walks aimlessly as he hasn´t seen or observed Johnny yet.

Kabukiman:

Spoiler:

To make a run for the soldiers you need to roll luck to pass the first encounters. Failing that roll will give the closest one a chance to grab at Johnny. Then to reach the soldiers, a luck roll is needed for every ten meters run. It´s 50 meters to the turn to the right wing. A failed luck roll gives 1d3 awakened an opportunity to assault Johnny

Should you let him head back, it´s a natural success. Trying the corporate card in the card reader to Guns & Ammo is one opportunity. Maybe his card will get the shutters to open? Should it work, he´d still have to try to fend off the closest awakened - not to get affected by whatever their condition is.

[kabukiman]

Ok, so Johnny plays safe and return and try to go to the Guns & and Ammo.

[Dave Syrinx]

Johnny eyes the man with the cane and bolts to the card reader by the guns and ammo store. He puts a couple of meters between himself and the Pepsi guy. He pulls his card from his jacket pocket and waits...
A light starts blinking red on the top of the reader. Then it turns green and the blinds start to rise.

OOC:

Spoiler:

To slip in under the curtain before it´s raised further and get out of the way before the Pepsi man cometh, you must roll below Johnny´s dex on a d20. Should that fail, he won´t have time this round to get inside. Then he must fend off the customer with a shove or try to dodge him. Shove will use the fist attack but will be directed to make the guy to fall backwards or take a few steps back - without injuring knuckles as when hitting someone. He can move away from the rising curtain and move towards the exit. Then if he wants to get to the Guns and Ammo store he would have to roll against luck to pass the four customers in the area.

[kabukiman]

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Johnny slips quickly under the curtain.
-Go find a girlfriend elswere your F*** pervert!

OOC: What weapons he has acess?

[Dave Syrinx]

Not missing a beat, Johnny is inside the armoury. He quickly gets to one knee and slips the card in an identical reader on the other side of the wall. The curtain goes downwards again as the Pepsi man thumps into the folded steel curtain. The red light from the card reader is the only illumination source inside the gun shop. Before the curtain is closed the little emergency light from the mall outside is enough to make out the surroundings in Raccoon´s Guns & Ammo.

As for weapons on the glassed shelves, Johnny can find all types of handguns, automatic and revolvers. There are also many hunting type rifles as well as scopes.
Shotguns are at display on a wall behind a counter furthest in the shop. Ammunition and shells are stored in a back room as precautionary measures, a sign says laminated to the counter´s front. The door is visible and open. Before the curtain goes down all the way, Johnny catches a glimpse of knives and machetes in a glass display just inside the front entrance. The glass doors to the blades are locked.

ooc:

Spoiler:

Bear in mind that no gun shops, in malls, sell automatic weapons, so there are no sub-machine guns or large calibre machine guns. Of course, he can' t find explosives or grenades either.

[kabukiman]

Is there anyone inside? Anyway, Johnny grabs as quick as possible a revolver and the ammo to load it. Then if the place is safe, he will look for other material: a bag, a machete, a rifle (and plenty of ammo for the revolver and the rifle); no point of having more weapons, he hasn't a truck to transport it.

[Dave Syrinx]

In the darkness of the guns store, the only light is the small red LED by the card reader. Remembering where the revolvers are at, Johnny feels his way over and grabs one. Then he realizes he must go past the counter and in to the back room to get ammunition. Hesitating to whether that is wise, he turns and looks at the glass display with machetes. Then a definite sound comes from the back room. The same moaning he heard out in the mall comes from the back room. Certainly the customers and shop clerks within the stores when everyone fell to sleep are still here. The steel blinds just went down to secure the place making sure no one escaped.
Johnny is sure there are at least two different sources of noise from the back room. And that is not all he hears. Three fast burst of automatic fire comes from outside the shop. The bursts are followed by a long burst and two single shots. He also hears screams but can´t make out anything from them.
There are more thuds on the metal blinds as the lonely Pepsi man is accompanied by the four other customers. He can hear them banging on the steel blinds.

Only shades of black and grey can be seen in the store. The small red light source is enough to see a reflection in the glass display. He now can hear that at least one of the customers inside the back room has come out to the counter as the customer bumps into the counter. It´s ten meters to the counter from Johnny´s position between the revolver shelves and the glass display with the blades.

ooc:

Spoiler:

Does Johnny have anything to light up the store with, in his pockets maybe? Or will he try to make the place darker? No need to roll Sanity yet as this situation is what Johnny would expect as he is aware of numerous projects the directors have going. And still he´s not in real imminent danger. At least that is what he tells himself... Should things turn sideways, I´ll call on a roll. But not yet.

[kabukiman]

OOC,Maybe a celphone with ligth?

Johnny will take any object he find and throw to the oposite corner where he is to make noise to attract the attention of the freaks (he doesn't knew their zombies I think).
Is there any fireweapon he can grab quickly with ammo? He won't be very picky with some weirdos near him...

[Dave Syrinx]

Johnny activates his flashlight beam on his Motorola and slides it over the floor to the other side of the store. The phone comes to a stop and lights its beam up at the ceiling. The reflected light illuminates the rack of guns so he can see something at least. No luck in finding any weapons with bullets in them.

On the counter is a box of shotgun shells. Evidently the last customer was in the process of making a purchase. There are shotguns close to where Johnny stands. A shotgun would suit fine as a blunt force trauma weapon, should he not have time to get to the shells.

But, he now also can see the two rabies infected people who came out of the back room. Could it be that the Umbrella Corporation spread a rabies virus making people frantic about water? The two move to the left of the counter.

Kabukiman:

Spoiler:

Roll luck, twice to see if the two infected go for the light or for Johnny. If you´re lucky on both accounts, Johnny may take the shotgun and get to the shells, load and be ready for the next round. If either of the rolls fail, he must try to dodge the oncoming infected. If that fails, he may attack with the shotgun as a blunt weapon. (25% 1d8 damage 1d20+7 Hit Location.) He may also try to hide (50%)... Roll and stay still behind the glass display....

[kabukiman]

"Dammit! One of those things is coming here! I really should have accepted that job in New York, less pay but saffer".

Johnny had already understood that those creatures weren't very bright. So he dodged avoiding the creature giving him some time.

"How does this creature die? Piercing it's heart? No, that's vampires. Silver bullets? Not, those are werewolf. Should have seen less romantic movies with those chicks I use to date and more terror movies!"

Johnny tried to hit the creature, but he was so nervous that he missed the target.

-Sorry mate, I hope you won't be mad with me...

[Dave Syrinx]

In the gloom light, Johnny´s close miss sent him staggering past the shambling monster. This is the result of the company´s research? Turning innocent people into mindless fools??? The assailant, evidently the store keeper wearing a checkered shirt, attacks Johnny and bites him in the shoulder. Luckily Johnny gets the but of the shotgun to connect with the teeth of the store keeper, escaping the bite. Moving past the attacker, Johnny reaches the box of ammunition for the shotgun.

Hearing the commotion, the second monster in the store turns around and walks towards the counter where Johnny rushes past. outside the store, he can hear shots fire rapidly again, accompanied by the banging on the metal blinds to the store.

[kabukiman]

Johnny will load as quick as possible the weapon and shoot at blank range (no need to take risks of failing!).

[Dave Syrinx]

Johnny brings the barrel up to his waist and waits for the store keeper to get almost too close. He takes one step backwards to have some leeway if he misses, but he can´t really. Can he?

The cell phone in the far corner of the shop illuminates the room so Johnny can see that the second deranged man in the store is not far behind the store keeper. Johnny will have time to pump another shell in the chamber before he reaches him, though.


ooc:

Spoiler:

Base to hit is 30% point blank 60%. If it´s a hit roll 4d6 for damage. If it is a miss Johnny may jump inside the back room before the store keeper can attack. If you want him to.. You decide what he´ll do.

[Dave Syrinx]

As things has been turning out, Johnny starts to wonder if he hadn´t been better off staying at the offices back in the Hive. Maybe there´s a chance to get back there? This place is a death trap. He has seen a handful of deranged people. And there are hundreds of stores in the mall.. And the police outside didn´t make the situation easier. .

[kabukiman]

Johnny was nervous, if he failed it could be his end. He waited until the creature was almost grabing him and he triger the gun.
-Eat this your m***** f****!

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The shot made an incredible sound and Johnny saw the creature being hit makin a lot of damage: it basically opened a hole. That should be enouth to kill. Or wasn't?