Chapter One: ‘And the dead shall walk the earth’

[Priest]

Deck 3, starboard side, Marcello.
As you begin to climb into the lifeboat...
OOC: Please roll: 1d10 + 3 target 5. The more successes the better.

[kabukiman]

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[Mr. Handy]

Pedro has no difficulty figuring out how things work. "Whose bright idea was this?" he wonders aloud. "You need a keycard from the bridge to properly launch the lifeboat?! What if there's an emergency and you have to launch right away, and you can't get to the bridge? Kind of like this emergency."

OOC,Don't forget the rule of 10. You may get to add to that roll further.

[Mr. Pear]

"Keycard? Bridge? But it's full of..."
Luke doesn't care finishing his sentence and instinctively turns around to looks at the bridge.
OOC: don't know if a per+notice roll is required, but for the sake of it:

Spoiler:

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[Priest]

Kabukiman,As you rolled 10 on your roll the rule of 10 applies.On a roll of 10, roll again, subtract 5, and add the result (if higher than 0) to 10. So, if the second roll is 6, 7, 8 or 9, the final result is 11, 12, 13 or 14, respectively. If the second roll is 5 or less, nothing is added and the final roll remains 10. If another 10 is rolled, add 5 to the roll (for a total of 15), and roll again. If a player rolls a string of 10s, she keeps adding 5 to the result and rolling again.

[Priest]

Deck 3, starboard, Marcello.
As you climb into the lifeboat, something in the water below catches you eye. You peer downward to see a black painted boat drawn alongside the Pinnacle. There is something old about it, something that reminds you of old war films.
Slightly to the rear of you, you think if you could lower the lifeboat you could easily get aboard the craft.


Deck 3, starboard, Pedro.
Even through your anger at the stupidity of the security crap, you notice movement somewhere towards the bows, a bird perhaps, a scrap of wind blown cloth even…


Deck 3, starboard, Luke.
As you glance up toward the bridge, movement catches your eye. Something or someone is up there moving around. You snort derisively of course there’s movement up there, it’s full of infected. Yet there was something…

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On the bridge, Jonathan
Despite a predilection to ignore instruction booklets, your quick flick through shows you that the keycard you have is a master card to be used in the event of loss of designated personnel with their security keycards, there then follows a long list of card carrying personnel, names that include Kirkman, Romero and Forthington. Further the booklet advises you that without use of one of the security keycards operation of the lifeboats can only be administered from the bridge, via the ships computers.
Luckily for you the keycard you have just found will allow you use of the lifeboat in which Mary awaits, unluckily for those at the other lifeboats without the key they cannot use them to escape.

[kabukiman]

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[Mr. Handy]

Pedro climbs back onto the deck. "I saw movement over there," he whispers, gesturing. He readies the MP5 and creeps towards it to get a closer look, as if he were inching towards second base in the hopes of stealing it.

[Mr. Pear]

"Over where?"
Luke presses the MP5 against his shoulder and looks in the direction Pedro is pointing.

[DrPeterson]

Jonathan safely puts the card in his pocket and wants to get to his daughter's life boat, but he can't move. Looking out the window he sees Pedro and Luke gesticulating towards the bow, while the others are clambering aboard the life boat, that is so tragically out of range of the key card.

He tries a few buttons on the bridge console, a futile attempt to release the survivors' dinghy. When that doesn't seem to work, he sighs deeply and shakes his head as he moves closer to the window, takes a deep breath and as he shouts down, he marvels at his regained lung capacity.

"There"s an immense herd of the things headed your way! Get the fuck out of there and come to the other side of the ship! Don't go through the bridge!"

[Priest]

Deck 3, Starboard side:
Pedro:
Creeping closer to the bows using the shadows as cover, you see a large gathering of infected silently and slowly moving along the deck towards you. You see some dressed in the remains of crew uniforms, once white now stained various colours, others in the camouflage of the paramilitaries you had met below, but many more in the various attire of the passengers, all moving at varying speeds due to horrendous wounds, butwith one purpose…

Luke:
Easing the safety off the MP5 you look to where Pedro had gestured before slipping away into the shadows. At the far range of your vision you can see people moving in your direction.
You turn, white faced to warn the others, and notice that Marcello seems intent on something in the water below…

Everyone:
Suddenly the night is broken by a enormous warning cry from above on the bridge. A warning that sounds like someone you had given up for lost on deck 5.

[kabukiman]

-Hey, there is a boat coming near! Is there any way to lower the lifeboats? This way we can escape!

[Mr. Handy]

Pedro quickly retreats from the oncoming horde, looking around for a way to reach the port side of the ship without going through them or the bridge. "We need a stupid keycard," he tells the others. "There should be one on the bridge, but we can't get up there. Jonathan is still alive somehow, and that's where he is now."

[kabukiman]

Marcello is looking with stupid face to Pedro until he realizes what that means. He then jump and leave the lifeboat and joins Pedro.

[Priest]

Deck 3, starboard side.
One of the recent addition to your ranks, the child from the restaraunt, pipes up, although you can hear the fear in her voice, "There is a way through the restaraunt", she looks up at her mother, "No?"

[Mr. Handy]

"Sounds good to me," says Pedro. He calls up to Jonathan. "Find the keycard, we'll meet you on the other side!"

[Mr. Pear]

"Ok, let's go through the restaurant then. It should be empty by now. But we need to be extra cautious. Everyone with guns, walk up front and in the back. The woman and the child, as well as Katie stay in the middle. Anyone carrying any source of light, bring it up!"
He steps forth into the restaurant with his MP5 protruding as he goes.
"Someone give me some light here before we step in!"

[Priest]

Deck 3, starboard side.
Without waiting for acknowledgement from the bridge you begin moving towards the broken windows of the restaurant, Luke in the lead MP5 cocked and ready.
Once inside the ship the ominous creaking rises in volume, matched by the growing steepness of the starboard list. It doesn’t take a genius to work out the Pinnacle is sinking.
The restaurant is, as Luke remembers it, apart from its state of destruction. Everywhere the signs of violent struggle are apparent. Mixed with the debris of smashed furniture and glass are pieces of human limbs, pools of blood and matter, yet no bodies. Overall the darkness of the interior is a blessing for it shields the eyes of the youngsters from the full horror that awaits.
Following the lead of the woman and the child, you find a trapdoor set in a small stage area. From the evidence this area had seen the final moments of the uninfected passengers locked within by the paramilitaries.
Gabriella bringing up the rear with Marcello whispers urgently, “Whatever we are going to do, I suggest we do it – quickly” her voice quivers with fear and she is looking back towards the windows…

[DrPeterson]

Jonathan flashes the keycard at the people on the deck and then turns away from the window, heading down the stairs towards the port deck.
He closes the door, expecting the infected to quickly change their direction once the party comes this way and heads back to Mary's lifeboat to check on the girl and the working of the mechanism.

[Priest]

Deck 3, port side.
Jonathan: You doubt those below had seen the card in the darkness and Pedro’s shout confirmed it. The last thing you had hear as you left the bridge was an increase in noise from the bottom of the starboard stairs where the infected pushed ineffectually at the door, from the sound some of those were attempting to climb back up to the bridge, probably in response to your shout, however the stairs and the increasing starboard list of the ship are uniting to slow any progress.

Returning to the lifeboat, you find that Mary is fine and there is no sign of infected coming from either the bow area or the passageway of deck 3’s interior itself. However the increasing list of the ship to the starboard is rendering the likelihood of launching the lifeboats from this side unlikely.