HF - Lionel and Agnes

[Mr. Handy]

Lionel stands between Brianna and the door to protect her in case of danger. His hand rests instinctively on the grip of the taser. At the same time, he realizes that this might just be a normal person opening the door. "Remain calm, everyone," he says, quietly as he looks at the opening doorway to see what's on the other side.

[trixie]

Brianna knows what 'remain calm everyone' REALLY means by now.

It means something bad is going to happen. She moves behind Ronald and cowers, peeking through her fingers placed over both eyes every few seconds to see what's coming through the door.

[Laraqua]

+1 to dodge, history, listen & fast talk for Ronald.

+1 to dodge, history, spot hidden & psychology for Brianna.

[DSIGFUSS]

"Snuff out that light," says the sister, coming over to wrench the torch from Ronald's hands. She doesn't seem to have noticed the air raid warden's odd behaviour or his rifle or perhaps she simply doesn't care.

ooc - flashlight is already off.


Sanity check : fail

Ronald shakes Lionel's hand and introduces himself staring at all the hurt WWII characters as if he were dreaming. He knew he was out of time but it was still better than the hell he had come from. He thought for sure he and the kid were gonners.

Name's Ronald. How long you been here Lionel?

ooc - history checks

Ronald doesn't recognize any of the uniforms but the 40's is still the 40's. Everyone looks like they are suppose to with the exception of Ronald Brianna and Lionel.

[Laraqua]

The door creaks open wider and a charred monstrosity of a teenaged man kneels on the floor, clutching at the door handle. His neck pops as he tilts his head to one side and surveys the surroundings. He is lit up by the hooded torch in Daniel's hands. OOC: Lionel makes his sanity check. 0 sanity lost.

The hospital sister panics and staggers back. "Wh-what? He's dead!"

A few patients scream, several faint, a few others try to mount the walls. Most just watch, deathly afraid and confused.

Jennifer's rifle pops off a shot but in Daniel's confused hands the bullet goes wide, missing its mark by several feet. Anna's shot fares no better.

[Mr. Handy]

"Quickly, get back!" shouts Lionel. He ushers Brianna and Ronald away from the approaching monstrosity. "Daniel, pass me the rifle! I'm a good shot!" He holds onto the machete with his left hand and the taser with his right to draw them if Daniel doesn't comply.

[DSIGFUSS]

Oh Crap-erjacks! It's Jason! He followed us through Brianna.

Ronald grabs Brianna's hand and turns his flashlight back on. He stands behind the others and waits to see what Lionel does. He's ready to bolt if Jason looks like he's going to get past the others.

[trixie]

Brianna tugs at Ronald's hand, trying to make a run for it.

She moans softly, eyes fixated on what was Jason, and pulling at Ronald's hand in terror.

Finally, if Ronald doesn't run too, she covers her eyes with her other hand, and peeks through her fingers every so often to make sure he's not gaining on her.

[kabukiman]

Agnes look amazed to the body. But she reacts and try to find something to use as a weapon.

[DSIGFUSS]

Ronald takes another few steps away from the crowd and Jason in an attempt to ease Brianna's fear.

Crowds are good. This palce has a tendency to get away from you.

Don't look luv!

Ronald eyes Lionel.

A good shot? Don't look at me mate. I play with puppets!

[Mr. Handy]

[OOC: Just looked through the new character sheets. There is no single Firearms skill, but rather five different skills for different types of guns. They are, with their base skills in parentheses: Handgun (20), Machine Gun (15), Rifle (25), Shotgun (30), and Submachine Gun (15). Agnes also has a total of 10 HP (Con+Siz divided by 2, with halves rounded up). Also, the base skill for History is 20%, so Ronald should have it at 21 rather than 11.

Is there enough time for Lionel to attack Jason before he gets to attack someone?]



"Then take Miss Brianna and run!" says Lionel. "We'll catch up to you!" He draws the machete with his left hand and the taser with his right, then hands the machete to Agnes. "Hang onto this, and get those two to safety." I'm not sure how effective the taser will be, he thinks, but this thing was human once, so it might still disrupt its central nervous system. I'll worry about explaining it later; first this thing has to be stopped!

[trixie]

There was no need to tell Brianna twice. She turns around and runs the other way, finding the nearest door and ducking inside.

[Laraqua]

Jason throws himself at the floor and comes charging towards the nearer pair, Daniel and Anna in a disgusting crawl of snapping limbs and bleeding slime. Daniel lets out a girlish shriek and tosses the gun to Lionel. Anna snaps off a shot but it thuds into the linoleum a few feet away. Brianna finds herself out in the corridor. To the left is the Accident & Emergency area. To the right is a series of rooms, operating theatres and finally the stairs. It's too dark to see properly but if Mercy Cross hasn't been renovated much, she could probably find her way.


OOC: Lionel acted by giving orders and requesting a gun. It's a new round now.

[Mr. Handy]

[OOC: Okay, thanks. I think you mean Brianna, not Dahlia. Am I within 8 feet (and thus at point blank range based on my Dex?). I'd guess I'm standing near Daniel for him to toss me the rifle, and Jason is rushing right at him so he can hold his fire until it's within point blank range. If it is point blank range, I hit, otherwise I miss badly. Let me know so I can roll damage.]



Lionel catches the rifle, slipping the taser into his pocket and raising the gun to his shoulder. He takes aim at the creature and fires.

[Laraqua]

The distance is too great and Lionel fumbles with the high-tech weapon, causing the shot to go wide. It hits the steel leg of a bed and rebounds.

[trixie]

Brianna bolts into the first door on the right.

[O.C. I would assume Ronald is hot on her tail considering he was holding her hand a moment ago, and the doc told him to take Brianna and run, but if not then clearly she dropped his hand and ran...dsigfuss won't be on tonight to know for sure though]

[DSIGFUSS]

Ronald calls after Brianna but can't take his eyes off Jason and the sick noises coming from his body as he pops and twists.

Brianna wait!

ooc - Ronald makes sure there are at least three people between himself and Jason. If at any point Jason seems to be interested in Ronald, Ronald will rabbit after Brianna.

[kabukiman]

Agnes try to go behind Jason and use the machete against his neck; maybe she can cut his head with that?

[Laraqua]

Agnes' raises the machete up and brings it down from her full height to his crawling height. attack strikes so close she removes a flap of skin that had been perilously close to dropping off anyway. Jason, however, merely scampers straight for Ronald who turns and promptly runs away.

OOC: Dodge roll, Ronnie!

[kabukiman]

Ok, so i run away and go after Brianna.