IC-Survival(various)

[Mr. Handy]

9:55 AM
Outside the motel-
Gary heard nothing through the door, and there was still no response to his knock. Mitchell, Samantha, Jenny, Kimberly, and the dogs arrived.

OOC,Everyone else outside the motel may also roll Listen. Also, everyone, please roll Spot Hidden. The base skill is 25%.

In the parking lot-
Jimmy remained where he was and stood watch.

OOC,[b]Jimmy[/b], please roll Listen and Spot Hidden.

In the diner-
Dave hesitated in the main area of the diner. There was no movement. The blood trail leading to the kitchen lay on the floor ominously, but did he dare follow it?

OOC,[b]Dave[/b], please roll Listen.

[aine]

"Quiet, boys." Samantha tells the dogs. She listens and looks around.

Listen and spot hidden,(base, 40)[dice]0[/dice][dice]1[/dice]

[dustakr]

Dave slightly gets annoyed by the look of a diner, little relieved by not seeing any deadbodies moving around... but gets startles back by the blood on the floor, he looks around cautiously trying to find bigger weapon if lying around.

Spoiler:

Listen,

[dice]0[/dice]

[Mr. Handy]

Outside the motel-

Samantha,Looking back to the east, [b]Samantha[/b] barely saw a truck approaching in the distance on the highway.

[Starspawn338]

Since no one responded to his knock, Gary will try to open the door.

OOC,Spot Hidden 50 [dice]0[/dice] Listen 25 [dice]1[/dice]

[Starspawn338]

Mitchell will look for a fire escape up to the second floor rooms.

OOC,Spot Hidden 85 [dice]0[/dice] Listen 25 [dice]1[/dice]

[Leonulf]

Jenny

Spot Hidden,[dice]0[/dice]

Listen,[dice]1[/dice]

[Leonulf]

Jimmy edges closer to the door, still with the readied firearm.

Spot Hidden,[dice]0[/dice]

Listen,[dice]1[/dice]

[aine]

"There's someone else coming; right out there." Samantha points out where the road disappears in the East.

[Mr. Handy]

Outside the motel-
The front door was firmly locked. Any attempt to enter through it would require either force or picking the lock. There were two staircases visible leading up to the balcony that encircled the motel and gave access to the upstairs rooms, one near the southeast corner and one near the northeast corner.

Mitchell/Jimmy,Looking back to the east, [b]Mitchell[/b] and [b]Jimmy[/b] saw a truck approaching in the distance on the highway.

Gary,Looking back to the east, [b]Gary[/b] saw a truck approaching in the distance on the highway. He recognized it as [b]Baldwin[/b]'s truck.

Jenny Cooper,[b]Jenny[/b] could hear voices talking inside the motel somewhere, but she couldn't make out what they were saying.

Jimmy,[b]Jimmy[/b] could hear someone inside the garage.

[Leonulf]

Jimmy turns to the road to see a truck approaching "Hey guys, it looks like we are about to have guests - and whoever is inside is talking about stockpiling supplies. I don't think we want to risk all the supplies getting taken, but it might not be just whoever is on the inside we need to worry about - I will keep watching the door, can someone keep an eye on that truck I think trouble might be about to start.".

[aine]

Samantha goes to the nearest support, rests her rifle on it aiming at the truck and looks through the sights.
"Can dead people drive? If so, this one's driving like a pro." She says.

[Mr. Handy]

9:56 AM
On the highway-
Wallace drove Baldwin's truck toward the truck stop from the east. "What the hell is Hammond doing with my tanker?" snarled Wallace. Outside the garage, he and his passengers could see Hammond attaching a lengthy hose to the tanker. "Bastard's stealing my gas!" He headed for the off ramp leading into the truck stop.

Outside the motel-
Everyone could now see the truck approaching the off ramp to the truck stop, and Mitchell and Gary could see that Jim Kerr and State Trooper Bo Richards were in the cab of the truck with him, Bo riding shotgun.

In the parking lot-
Jimmy saw Baldwin's truck about to enter the parking lot, and he too could see who was in it.

OOC,Oops, sorry! :oops: I'd thought [b]Jimmy[/b] was in front of the motel, but he's here. There's no way he could hear what was going on inside the motel from where he is, but he does hear something else. I've edited the spoiler button in the above post.

Jimmy,[b]Jimmy[/b] could hear running footsteps outside the garage around the corner, as well as someone fiddling with a hose and cackling. It sounded like [b]Hammond[/b]'s voice.

In the diner-
There were no guns, though he saw a few spent shell casings. The only things that might be usable as weapons that he could see would be the legs of chairs, if he could break them off, but they wouldn't be any better than his wrench.

[Starspawn338]

Mitchell will head up the southeast stairs to the balcony and begin checking doors to see if any are unlocked.

OOC,Is this a motel that has no interior doors to a common area. In other words, are the exterior balcony doors the only entrance/exit?

[Starspawn338]

As the truck pulls into the parking lot, Gary will hail them with a wave.
"How's the roads? Is there anywhere safe we can go from here?

[Leonulf]

Jenny moves to get behind Samantha "No offense but as your well armed I am just going to wait back here a little. But you know - trouble comes in threes, and we have already had skinheads, zombies and some kind of death bugs - this might be someone helpful coming..." . She speaks with a tone that suggests she was trying to convince herself more than she was trying convince Samantha.

[dustakr]

Dave lookout for any other incident inside diner other than blood trail leading to the kitchen, then he turns to the kitchen and speaks in a loud voice, "Boss, is that you in there, are you hurt? anyone else with you in there, boss?" he waits for a response for a while.

Spoiler:

OOC,
If no response then Dave likes to know if he can go ahead and find diner back door without going inside the kitchen,
If yes then he moves towards backdoor to the diner.
If no way around the kitchen to reach the back door, then he will move cautiously towards the kitchen working his way up to the back door.

[aine]

"I think you could be right." Samantha says to Jenny as she squints down the eyepiece watching the proceedings. "The over-tattooed grunt (meaning Gary) doesn't seem alarmed. But we can stay here until we are sure. There's still no answer from inside the motel? That doesn't bode well."

[Mr. Handy]

9:57 AM
In the parking lot-
Wallace waved back as he turned off of the highway, but he either didn't hear what Gary said or didn't bother responding. He drove past Jimmy, heading for the garage.

Outside the motel-
"Maybe they just didn't hear us," said Kimberly. "I can't really blame them for hunkering them down considering what's happened."

On the balcony-
Mitchell ascended the concrete stairs and was on the balcony. The east side of the motel had eleven doors at regular intervals, each leading to a room. The ones near him were locked when he tried them. The balcony also went around corners at the north and south ends of the motel, where it went around the back. He didn't spend much time at the motel, but he knew that the only way to access the motel rooms was from outside, either on ground level or on the balcony. There was no way to get to the common areas of the motel except through the front and back doors at ground level, but at least he'd get a better view from up here and would be in less danger.

In the diner-
There was no response. Dave knew that there was a back door in the kitchen, but that wasn't the only one. To the left, a hallway led from the back of the diner past Hammond and Earl's office to a back door. He made his way there and pushed open the fire door, where he could look outside. In most directions nothing was visible, but to the right, he could see Hammond running from the far corner toward the back door to the kitchen, which was propped open slightly. He had a revolver in his belt, and he was unwinding a hose behind him.

[dustakr]

Dave steps back and takes a cover, not sure if boss Hammond saw him or not, Dave does not see Earl around.