PCs:
Debbie: A young woman who worked in marketing, from Arizona, accomplished with a knife
Courtney: A wealthy New York business man
Tyrone: An IT professional with a startling propensity for violence
Agent Ahab: Secret Service agent. Very very angry.
Jake: Of Jake's Gun World
NPCs of note:
The group mooched about Dalesbury. Debbie spent the day in the B&B being domestic. Tyrone stalked the streets harassing people and apparently indicating that the groups arrival was a very bad thing for the town. O'Neal found work in the local mechanic shop. Peter made friends, influenced people, completely failed to watch Debbie taking a bath and followed up on his suspicions regarding the mayor. d'Artagnan took his pills and had a good long nap. And Jake was put to work in the mayor's gunnery.
The people of Dalesbury voted and decided the group could stay. Everyone had another nights uninterrupted sleep and woke the next day to discover that one of Hauser's men had vanished. An investigation revealed that he had left the doctor's office, claiming to feel better and then headed out of town. Tyrone, O'Neal and Jake joined up with a town patrol to search for him but found nothing. An annoying droning noise that Jake was complaining about turned out to be a column of troops and five Humvees.
The time is 10am, 31st of January.
PCs:
Debbie: A young woman who worked in marketing, from Arizona, accomplished with a knife
Courtney: A wealthy New York business man
Tyrone: An IT professional with a startling propensity for violence
Agent Ahab: Secret Service agent. Very very angry.
Jake: Of Jake's Gun World
NPCs of note:
The group check out the warehouse surrounded by zombies and Courtney insists on a multi-stage plan. The group talk it through and O'Neal comes up with the idea of using a firetruck to extract the civilians from the roof of the warehouse and a container truck to remove them from the scene. Jake knows the area well and easily finds both a fire station and a trucking company. The group loots the fire station taking clothes, axes, radios, batteries, water and a truck. Leaving the trucking company, Peter drives the container truck and Jake has a little trouble with the fire truck. Arriving back at the warehouse d'Artagnan suggets covering up the windows of the trucks with chainlink but then hears gunshots from the warehouse. The group then notices the zombie horde surging forward seemingly into the warehouse. The group enact their plan.
Peter drives the firetruck into the horde, running over dozens and getting into position. Jake parks the container truck just behind. Courtney guides the ladder up to the roof and d'Artagnan and O'Neal swarm up. Looking down into the warehouse they see a bloodbath - hundreds of zombies are devouring anyone they can find. Ahab has Samantha over his shoulder and is making his way up the ladder while three soldiers and Timothy guard the base. Eleven more civilians make it to the top and are directed down to the trucks. d'Artagnan checks to see that that is all that is coming and sees more people inside trapped on warehouse shelving. O'Neal, d'Artagnan and one of the soldiers break through the roof and rescue nine more civilians.
Peter and Jake manage to reverse the trucks and everyone gets the hell out of Jacksonville. Forty minutes later on a westbound highway an Apache helicopter crashes onto the highway in front of the trucks. The resulting crash leaves fourteen people in the back of the container truck dead and the fire truck stuck in a ditch. As the group try and deal with the injured and dead they are approached by another horde. Suddenly, six utes arrive each carrying armed men. They dispatch the zombies and approach the group. A man introduces himself as John Lewis and invites the group back to his town: Dalesbury.
In Dalesbury all the injured are seen to by the town doctor, Jacob Lewis and everyone is checked for zombie bite. Doc Lewis is concerned about Hauser and O'Neal and orders them to report to him daily for checks. He declares that Samantha does indeed have the flu and treats her accordingly. He speaks to d'Artagnan about his medication and takes his shopping bag full of anti-psychotics away. While O'Neal and d'Artagnan wash off some of the gore, Courtney talks to John Lewis. John tells him that Jacob used to work for the government and foresaw the current apocalypse. When no-one believed him he moved to Dalesbury with his brother. When the apocalypse came the brothers reacted quickly and secured the town. John indicates that if the group has useful skills they'll be invited to join the town. The group are then taken to a B&B, where they are each given their own rooms and sleep.
The time is midnight 29th of January.
PCs:Debbie: A young woman who worked in marketing, from Arizona, accomplished with a knifeCourtney: A wealthy New York business manTyrone: An IT professional with a startling propensity for violence
Agent Ahab: Secret Service agent. Very very angry.Jake: Of Jake's Gun World
NPCs of note:
While completing their looting of the Costco, the group were attacked by armed raiders. Though the raiders were fought off with ease dozens of sprinters were attracted to the noise and almost overran the group. Hauser managed to secure a ute and extract everyone.
Travelling back to the warehouse the group found it surrounded by hundreds of zombies...
PCs:
Debbie: A young woman who worked in marketing, from Arizona, accomplished with a knife
Courtney: A wealthy New York business man
Tyrone: An IT professional with a startling propensity for violence
Matool: A ranch worker, a talent with the blade
O'Neal: A ship's engineer, dangerous with a wrench
Peter: A Russian with a lot of tattoos, ghostlike in the forest
d'Artagnan: Musketeer and hero. Died at the Siege of Maastricht in 1673
Agent Ahab: Secret Service agent. Very very angry.
NPCs of note:
Tyrone and Peter take the rescued civilians back to the warehouse. The group rescue another civilian (Elizabeth Blake, 34) trapped in a car. During a gunfight with an enemy they can't see, Debbie is hit and badly wounded. When they finally arrive the group finds the supermarket thoroughly looted and awash with zombies. During the fight to clean out the supermarket Matool is bitten. He turns not much later and is dispatched by O'Neal. Upon searching the market the group finds the anti-virals they were after and some food. While loading this into the truck Hauser is shot from behind.
The time is 12.30pm 29th of January.
PCs:Debbie: A young woman who worked in marketing, from Arizona, accomplished with a knifeCourtney: A wealthy New York business manTyrone: An IT professional with a startling propensity for violenceMatool: A ranch worker, a talent with the bladeO'Neal: A ship's engineer, dangerous with a wrenchPeter: A Russian with a lot of tattoos, ghostlike in the forestd'Artagnan: Musketeer and hero. Died at the Siege of Maastricht in 1673
Agent Ahab: Secret Service agent. Very very angry.
NPCs of note:
The group move further into Jacksonville in search of anti-virals. They manage to rescue Kate (35) and Ben (4) Chambers from a car surrounded by zombies and Jake, of Jake's Gun World.
The time is 11am 29th of January.
PCs:
Debbie: A young woman who worked in marketing, from Arizona, accomplished with a knife
Courtney: A wealthy New York business man
Tyrone: An IT professional with a startling propensity for violence
Matool: A ranch worker, a talent with the blade
O'Neal: A ship's engineer, dangerous with a wrench
Peter: A Russian with a lot of tattoos, ghostlike in the forest
d'Artagnan: Musketeer and hero. Died at the Siege of Maastricht in 1673
Agent Ahab: Secret Service agent. Very very angry.
NPCs of note:
The group spoke with Corporal Hauser. He had been in charge of 800 military staff around Jacksonville, including the safety camp and city control. He was no longer in contact with anyone higher up in the chain of command and had three men remaining. He informed the group of what he knew of the situation and asked them about their own adventures. The only thing that seemed to shock him was the information regarding the zombie baby.
Exhausted the group then went to sleep, except for Matool who investigated the roof, helped calm the mob of civilians, found some fruit juice and smoothed tensions between Hauser and Timothy. Hauser decided that the only way to be sure about Samantha's condition was to get her some anti-viral medication. Matool agreed and promised the groups help before finally getting some sleep.
Upon waking the rest of the group seemed significantly more difficult to convince than Matool. Hauser finally managed to procure the groups help by promising loot and indicating that something needed to be done about the number of zombies outside.
From the roof the group saw that there were less zombies around the back of the warehouse, near the loading dock. O'Neal came up with a plan to distract the zombies with the forklift, with the added bonus of blowing up the gas tank and taking a few zombies out. Courtney opened the loading dock door and the others took care of the few zombies hanging around as quietly as they could. The fork lift then successfully distracted some zombies and just as successfully blew some up.
Hauser and the group made their way into the city. They soon came across three soldiers trapped in the back of an army truck. Though the soldiers were surrounded by 30 zombies the group tried to help, distracting some of the zombies and finally finishing them off. Though all the soldiers were lost, the group scored themselves an army truck and four kevlar vests.
The time is 9am 29th of January.
PCs:
Debbie: A young woman who worked in marketing, from Arizona, accomplished with a knife
Courtney: A wealthy New York business man
Tyrone: An IT professional with a startling propensity for violence
Matool: A ranch worker, a talent with the blade
O'Neal: A ship's engineer, dangerous with a wrench
Peter: A Russian with a lot of tattoos, ghostlike in the forest
d'Artagnan: Musketeer and hero. Died at the Siege of Maastricht in 1673
Agent Ahab: Secret Service agent. Very very angry.
NPCs of note:
Tommy Vikarios: A teenager with a bad attitude
Baby Tommy: Baby found in Fairport
Michael Bennet: A mechanic
Zachary Hutchence: A farmhand
David, Gregory and Peter Brooks: A father and two young sons, have just lost their wife/motherJoseph Recht: An old man.
Mary-Lou Phillips: NASCAR driver. Has been in shock since the cruise has only just now come out of it.
The RV is filled to capacity and after some tension between David and Timothy and some obstructions on the road, everyone makes it to the Rescue Centre. Unfortunately, Jacksonville is lost and the rescue centre has been overrun. Michael tries to reverse the RV but they are soon caught by fleeing civilians. Hundreds of people, desperate to escape, try to get aboard. Soon six soldiers drive people away from the RV with gunfire and get aboard themselves. They immediately demand that everyone drop their weapons and tell Michael to keep reversing. When he refuses they put a gun to his head. Everyone feels the RV occasionally run over civilians and Michael weeps.
Samantha suddenly appears from the rear bedroom and the soldiers, assuming she is a zombie, move to deal with her. Because of the crush of people in the RV only one soldier gets close and Peter executes him with a kitchen knife. Just before all hell breaks loose the RV is rammed by another vehicle and tips over.
Everyone hears the approach of faster moving zombies and the terror of the civilians outside. The group breaks and runs. O'Neal carries an unconscious Courtney. In their desperate flight Tommy and the baby he's carrying, Michael, Zachary, David and his sons and Joe Recht are all lost.
Tyrone makes his way to the safety of a nearby warehouse and shoots his way inside. The others follow. Numerous other civilians make their own way inside and hide. Hundreds of zombies moan and try to beat their way inside. The group checks the perimeter and Mary Lou gets a forklift to try and start barricading doors with pallets of food. While checking the other doors O'Neal and d'Artagnan meet another group of soldiers lead by Corporal Hauser.
The time is 3am 29th of January.
