Dr, Bonnie MacLean (Mr. Handy)

[Priest]

It would seem your warning is being ignored as the majority of the refugees continue to fight their way onto the fire escape.
Two of the security guards swing towards you as you approach, pistols held casually in front of them, but ready as they eye your pistol. The other two have already climbed into the hellicopter, but also turn their guns towards you.

"Really, well good for you doc. You've got a gun, you defend the roof... We are out of here"

Behind you there is a crash as the door smashes open to admit the first of the pursuing horde...

[Mr. Handy]

"You know full well I can't fight them all by myself!" snaps Bonnie. "It's not even in my job description, but it is in yours. If you're real men, you'll stay and protect the helpless, but if you want to be cowards, it's on your own heads." She rushes over to the maintenance building, waving to the survivors. "Follow me if you want to get down! The fire escape's not safe!"

OOC,Can I roll Persuasion?

[Priest]

OOC:   Normally you could try, but in the situation I think Persuasion might not cut it.

[Mr. Handy]

Bonnie runs for the maintenance building, not wasting time to see how the men react or if the others on the roof are following her.

[Priest]

You make it to the door to the maintenance building, while from behind you hear the increased whine of the choppers rotors indicating its iminent takeoff.

Arriving at the door you find yourself accompanied by two others one a male nurse the other a female patient still wearing her hospital gown and wrist band tag, she wears one slipper, a tacky pink leopard skin pattern with a ridiculous pompom shaped like a leopards head.

She pulls the heavy metal door with its reinforced glass panel open, "This way?"

A horrendous screech of tearing metal shows the fate of the fire escape. Luckily you are out of veiw of the results, and any increased screaming is lost amongst the mayhem further along the roof near the main door, and the lift off of the hellicopter.

With the door open you can see the machinery of the air con and the lift mechanism further in, something worries you but you can't quite place what...

[Mr. Handy]

OOC,Does the power appear to be on, or has it stopped running?

[Priest]

OOC:   Yeah it would seem that for the time being power is still being supplied by the grid. If that fails the hospital has emergency generators that have power for two or three days, depending on usage.

[Mr. Handy]

Bonnie looks around for a way to gain access to the lift shaft or the ventilation ducts.

OOC,Should I roll Notice?

[Priest]

Both ventilator ducts and elevator shafts are easy to see, although closing the door has reduced the light slightly.

OOC:   Please roll notice anyway.

[Mr. Handy]

Bonnie observes her surroundings thoroughly, her eyes adjusting quickly to the dark.

[Priest]

You look around, taking stock of the surroundings. The door, fire door thick with a reinforced glass viewing panel has two large bolts allowing it to be locked from within. Several feet in front of you a platform, surrounded by safety rails is reached by a short flight of iron steps. The area covered by the platform looks like a maze of pipes, ducts etc. Including those you identify as being the ducts giving access to the air con. Small, but negotiable to a squirming person, you would imagine that using them would allow progress through each floor.
To one side of the platform are several elevator doors, with a notice 'Warning - Maintenance Personnel Only'.

A small, but bright, stud light with its protective frame, provides adequate lighting but due to its position, close to the door, creates many shadowed areas, especially amongst the pipes and cylinders of the platform area.

You also notice, at the same time as the male nurse, a sticky residue on the rails that border the stairs. He holds his hand aloft, inspects it, and turns towards you, "Blood?'

[Mr. Handy]

Bonnie quickly locks the bolts, then joins the nurse and examines the sticky liquid. "Could be," she says quietly. "Let's be careful in here." She flicks on her clip-on flashlight in the front pocket of her lab coat, using its light to pierce the gloom. "Climbing the shaft could be risky, so I think we should try the air conditioning ducts."

[Priest]

Both the patient and the nurse nod in answer to your suggestion. Other than the muted hum of machinery, and the heavy clicks as you slamed the bolts home, there seems to be no noise within the room.

For a moment you are reminded of having spent a couple of hours in a church crypt as a child playing hide and seek. You shake your head, that is a comparison you don't want to make.

The nurse, his name badge identifying him as Roger Erikson, points at the narrow airduct opening, "Taking off the grill will take a moment, after that its a long crawl. Now all we need is a screwdriver, there's bound to be some tools in here somewhere"

[Mr. Handy]

"All right, let's look around," says Bonnie, starting a systematic search of the maintenance area, using her light to pierce the shadows and reveal what they hide.

[Priest]

OOC:   Notice roll please TN 4 (because of torch)

[Mr. Handy]

Bonnie searches the room with extreme thoroughness.

OOC,Invisible Castle is out of commission, so I'm using the built-in dice roller. I got a total of 9, so that's one raise. [dice]0[/dice] [dice]1[/dice] [dice]2[/dice] [dice]3[/dice]

[Priest]

With the added light from your torch you quickly locate a toolbox some three feet from where Roger is looking, Its presence being half obscurred by a shadowy junction of pipework.

He reaches into the shadows for the box, "Almost got it, just a little bit further..."

His words are suddenly swamped by a hysterical screaming from the direction wher the slipper clad patient is searching.

Responding immediately you spin and direct your torch towards where she is standing, rooted to the spot, hands raised to her face.

"What the fuck?" Roger withdraws his reaching hand like lightning as he turns also towards the screaming patient.

In the light of your torch you can see the reason for her screams. Some fifteen feet from where she stands a figure dressed in green overalls is crouched above figure. Undisturbed by your initial presence the figure continues merrilly munching on a handfull of blood covered entrails. However the shrill scream, quickly draws its attention to the source of the scream and it turns white dead eyes towards the unmoving, but screaming, female...

[Mr. Handy]

"Duck!" calls Bonnie, raising her pistol and trying to line up a shot at the walking corpse that wouldn't risk accidentally hitting the other woman.

[Priest]

OOC:   You need to roll your shooting d4 plus your d6 wild dice. The TN is 5 (4+1 modifier for the dim lighting). You may choose, as your Glock is a semi automatic pistol, to Double Tap (fire a two shot burst). "Double tapping is a single shooting roll that gives the user a +1 to hit and damage but expends two rounds of ammunition" If you choose this option add the +1 mod to your roll and reduce the number of shots in your magazine by two.

[Mr. Handy]

Bonnie has never fired her pistol before except to practice at the firing range. She never wanted to harm another human being, but she knows that she has to do this to save someone's life, and that the attacker is already dead somehow. Time seems to slow down, and her instincts take over, her aim accurate as she squeezes the trigger twice.

OOC,Invisible Castle is back up. That ends up being a total of 8 (unless the +1 also applies to the bonus roll, in which case it's 9). The magazine holds 17 shots, so it has 15 left.