IC-The Hunter Hunted(Luke only)

[Mr. Handy]

9:36 AM
On the back roads-
Luke turned the corner and passed the railroad tracks again. Soon the road curved around to the right. He remembered this part. He was only a few miles southwest of Potter now.

[DSIGFUSS]

Luke couldn't explain it but he found himself a little anxious to get back to the station. He found his boots getting heavier and heavier on the gas pedal.

[Mr. Handy]

9:37 AM
On the back roads-
Luke followed the road around the curves and soon reached a T-intersection. The paved road, which led back the way he came, curved around to the right, while a dirt road led left. He was only a couple of miles from Potter now.

[Mr. Handy]

9:38 AM
On the back roads-
Luke turned right and soon reached another intersection. The paved road curved around to the left, while dirt roads went ahead, to the right, and at an angle between them. He was able to see that crazy woman again about a mile away, the way he had originally come to the north, on his left. She was running toward him. The dirt road straight ahead went to the east, so he might be able to get back to the truck stop that way, though he wasn't familiar with the local roads.

OOC,[b]Luke[/b]'s Spot Hidden roll (55% skill) on the back roads: [dice]0[/dice]

[DSIGFUSS]

Luke needed to take a closer look.

He drove slowly towards the woman running full tilt ahead. His free hand reached into his backpack and slowly massaged the fabric of the opened toed heel, sending a shiver of delight down his spine.

His hand then moved to the grip of his shotgun and he made sure it was loaded. It was. He already checked it 5 times.



Alright you bitch. Let's take a closer look.

[Mr. Handy]

9:38:48 AM
On the back roads-
Luke drove north for nearly a mile, and the crazy woman ran straight toward him. He was now close enough to see the red of her one remaining eye. The socket where the other eye used to be was bloody, and more blood was dripping from her mouth.

OOC,[b]Luke[/b], if you want to keep going this way, whether you want to try to go around her or run her down, you will need to roll Drive Auto. The base skill is 20%. If you wish to turn around and head back toward the intersection, there is no need to roll. You don't need to roll Sanity, as you saw her before on your way here.

[DSIGFUSS]

Luke is determined to figure out just what in the name of fuck is going on here. He continues to drive beside the one eyed crazy woman one hand on the wheel the other on his shotgun.

ooc,drive auto [dice=total]0[/dice]

[Mr. Handy]

9:39 AM
On the back roads-
Luke tried to veer around the woman, who to his surprise ran right out in front of his truck! She went down, badly hurt, doing a little damage to his pickup truck's grill in the process. As Luke reached a curve in the road that bent around to the right, he saw that she actually got right back up and began to run after him at high speed, her arms outstretched. To his alarm, smoke began to come out of the engine block, and the truck started losing speed.

OOC,Damage to zombie: [dice]0[/dice] Damage to pickup truck: [dice]1[/dice] Trouble Table roll: [dice]2[/dice] [b]Luke[/b], please roll Luck. The effects of this roll may become known later, so please continue to act as you wish without waiting to see what happens as a result.

[Mr. Handy]

9:40 AM
On the highway-
Luke kept driving north, but the pickup kept losing speed. He made it back to the intersection with I-80 when the engine finally conked out and the truck coasted to a stop. Another red-eyed fiend was staggering toward him from the north, coming from Potter, but at least this one was moving more slowly. At its current pace, it would arrive in a minute. It was over a hundred yards away.

OOC,[b]Luke[/b]'s Luck roll (90% stat) south of Potter: [dice]0[/dice] [b]Luke[/b], please roll Spot Hidden. Also, please roll Sanity for seeing the new zombie. Sanity loss is 1/1D8, so you lose one Sanity if you succeed or 1D8 if you fail. You've already lost 3 Sanity for seeing zombies, so you can lose at most 5 more. Any loss of more than 5 counts as 5 instead. If you lose 5 Sanity, you must roll Idea. If you succeed at the Idea roll, you go temporarily insane. Otherwise, you may act freely.

[DSIGFUSS]

ooc,spot hidden check [dice=total]1[/dice] 98 - Fail

ooc,sanity check [dice=total]0[/dice] - pass lose 1 sanity.

ooc,quick sanity question. How many times does a PC have to roll sanity before a monster becomes common to them and no sanity roll is required. Not exactly sure how it works. It well help me role-play as well how Luke would react to zombies. Thinking them as humans until he is used to the idea. Or maybe you never get used to it. Not sure is all.

Luke winces when he runs over the crazy lady and considers driving back over the bitch when she gets back up but decides its best to put some distance between em. Figure shit out so to speak.....

When the truck finally dies, Luke begins to pack up his bag cussing under his breath. Luke is very careful not to leave anything behind. He looks in his rear view mirror to make sure nothing is approaching him from behind and then glances forward to see how much time he has before this new shambling motherfucker gets the drop on him.

Luke then roils down the back driver's side window just a a few inches . Enough to just squeeze a head through if need be.

ooc,Luke would lie to roll down the window enough that if this asshole behaves as mindlessly as the rest, he just might put his head through the crack in the window long enough for Luke to get a good look into his eyes then blow his head off.

[Mr. Handy]

9:40:48 AM
On the highway-
Luke rolled down the rear window on his side just enough to fit a human head and waited, watching as the red-eyed figure staggered slowly closer. It was a middle-aged man with a gaping chest wound, but that didn't seem to stop him, though maybe it was slowing him down. He would reach the truck soon.

OOC,[b]Luke[/b], please roll Listen. You get used to a specific cause of Sanity loss when you've lost the maximum you can possibly lose from a single exposure. For zombies, this is 8 Sanity. You might possibly have to see eight different zombies or zombie groups before you hit the limit, or you could lose all 8 the first time you see a zombie. Once you've lost 8 Sanity for seeing zombies (and you've lost 4 so far), you cannot lose any more for a while. In this game, it will be until the end of the chapter. If you survive to Chapter 2, you'll once again be susceptible to losing Sanity from zombies, so you'll never completely get used to them.

[DSIGFUSS]

What the mother lovin'.....


Luke called out to the man with the gaping chest wound half in horror and half in jest. '

You need a lift to the hospital buddy?

As the man amoves closer to the window, Luke walks his shotgun at head level along with him.

ooc,[dice=total]0[/dice] - Fail

[Mr. Handy]

9:41 AM
On the highway-
Luke was so intent on watching the approaching man that he didn't even notice the woman he had run over earlier until she smashed his window and reached out for him, moaning. She had somehow gotten back up and run after him until she had caught up to the stopped truck. The man was about to reach him too.

OOC,[b]Luke[/b], you may act now before you are attacked. If you fire, you are at point blank range, but you still need to roll in case of a Malfunction, an impale, or a critical hit. There is no time to aim at a specific body part. If you hit, please roll 1D20 for the hit location as well as damage. However, if you do attack, you will not be able to attempt to roll Dodge against any attack on you this round.

[DSIGFUSS]

shot gun to old lady,[dice=total]0[/dice] - HIT!!

Luke quickly turns and fires at the old lady hoping for a face shot.

ooc,( I think that may have been a critical)

[Mr. Handy]

9:41:12 AM
On the highway-
Luke blew the crazy lady's head clean off with the shotgun blast. She crumpled to the asphalt. Before he had a chance to pump the next shell into the chamber, the slower zombie stepped on the headless body and reached the shattered window and reached through it, fumbling for Luke. Fortunately, he could not get a grip.

OOC,It sure is a critical hit, and a crit on a zombie is an automatic head hit. Well done! Of course, there's still that other zombie... Damage to female zombie's head from 12-gauge 00 buckshot: [dice]0[/dice] Male zombie's Grapple attack (25% chance) on [b]Luke[/b]: [dice]1[/dice] Male zombie's Bite attack (30% chance) on [b]Luke[/b]: [dice]2[/dice]

[DSIGFUSS]

Luke is surprised and deeply satisfied at the immediate finality of the shotgun blast to woman's face. He had never killed a person before, but Luke wasn't even sure she was a person anymore.

He pumped his shotgun and let another slug fly hoping to put this poor bastard out of his misery.

ooc,[dice=total]0[/dice]

Shotgun. Hit.

[Mr. Handy]

9:41:24 AM
On the highway-
Luke blew the man's head off just as easily as he had done to the woman. The headless corpse fell right on top of her, and he was now alone. However, he was still three miles west of the truck stop, and his pickup truck had engine trouble.

OOC,Hit location: [dice]0[/dice] Damage to zombie from 12-gauge 00 buckshot: [dice]1[/dice]

[DSIGFUSS]

Luke takes a few minutes if he can and gets out of his truck to inspect the bodies. He takes a long look around for any sign of any more of these things running. He couldn't understand how the old man was still moving. He had a few theories mainly based off some old comic books he had read growing up but this was truly F.O.B.

Luke takes out a knife and cuts away at the man's clothing to get a better look at the extent of injuries prior to his decapitation.

[Mr. Handy]

9:43 AM
On the highway-
Luke was no doctor, but he was a hunter. Even so, there was little he could tell by examining the corpse. He had no idea which of the man's injuries had killed him. Blowing his head off with the shotgun would certainly have done it if the man had still been alive at that point. The bullet wound in his chest looked like it should have been fatal too. The bites on his arm didn't look lethal, though they couldn't have helped him. As far as he knew, a dead man couldn't walk anyway, but what he had just witnessed gave him doubts about that.

Luke could see no movement in any direction, but his vision was still a little impaired from the sun glare.

OOC,[b]Luke[/b]'s Natural History roll (30% skill) examining the body: [dice]0[/dice]

[DSIGFUSS]

Luke takes a few minutes to clean the inside of his truck. Making sure to pick up as much glass from the blown out window as he could manage.

He then gets back in and puts his seat belt on, starts it up and peels out towards the truck stop. He was surprisingly calm with all this killing going on. Luke smiles and loads two more shells into the shotgun now on his lap. Maybe this was Luke's time to shine.