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03-06-2010, 07:53 AM
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Resident Precureologist
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(Play Report) Left 4 Dead: The Waltpocalypse.
What happens when you take the happiest place on earth, and fill it with zombies? This campaign.
Here’s the basics of the campaign.
1) This is a cinematic wild talents game with a 250 point total
2) Miracles are limited to Zombie Plague Immunity(all) Zombie Attraction(Princess Tamara) Repel Zombies(Tawny, the Pooh mascot) and the Fonzie Touch(Corporal Drake)
3) Hard and Wiggle Dice are allowed.
4) In every encounter, I roll 2d10. The number that comes up is the numbers of zombies in the horde.
5) Every third turn, I roll1d10 for Special Infected. It breaks down as such:
1. Hunter. Miracles 3D Pounce, 2HD Wallclimb, 4D Claws
2. Tank. 7D Hyperbody, 2D Invulnerability.
3. Witch. 2HD Claws.
4. Smoker. 4D+1wd Tongue Pull, 3D Claws
5. Jockey Pounce 4D+1wd Claws 2d+1wd
6. Spitter.Acid Spit Bomb 4d+1wd Claws 3d
7.Charger. 5D Hyperbody, 3D Hyperathletics
8. Blaster. 2D +2wd Zombie Suicide Bombs
9.Glutton. 2d+ 2wd Zombie Voodoo Dolls
10 is no special infected.
6) Each Player is given two “Luck Dice” to use in any given encounter. However, if they use these dice, those dice are added to the Special Infected roll, as seen by my players when one of them used both luck dice in one, then had to deal with Glutton, Smoker and Tank.
7) In Horde situations, a 2x3 is a shot to the leg, while a 3x3 is a shot to one zombie’s leg and another zombie’s leg. Anything over 2x10 is a headshot, and multiple 10’s are multiple headshots.
8) Pistols have unlimited ammo. Main weapons have limited clips that must be reloaded when they run dry. Player reloading must declare a reload and roll 1d10. If it comes up even, it’s a successful reload. If it comes up odd, it’s a fumble. Melee Weapons break after three uses, unless they are the weapons the character has a profiency in(or in the case of one, if it’s a machine)
So we have four survivors trying to get out of Disney World. But who are they?
Marine Lieutenant Jessica Lance. Callsign: Virgil
Stats and Skills:
Body 3D Athletics3D Block1D Brawling2D Melee Weapon(Golf Club)2D Endurance 3D
Coordination:3D Dodge2D Stealth2D Driving:4D Ranged Weapon(P90)4D
Sense: 2D Empathy 2D Perception 3D Scrutiny 3D
Mind 5D First Aid 3D Knowledge(Demolitions):3D Medicine:2D Navigation:2D Survival 3D Tactics 3D
Charm3D Lie 1D Performance(Singing)1D, Persuasion 3D
Command 5D Interrogation 3D Intimidation 1D 1WD Leadership 1WD Stability 3D
Miracles
Zombie Plague Immunity 2HD
Base Will: 8 Willpower: 3 Loyalty: Survivors Passion: The world as it was
Backstory: The daughter of a golf pro, Jessica was moderately good in the game, but her heart was elsewhere. In the Corps, she served as an emergency medic for an IED team. She earned her callsign from having a copy of the Aenid in her bag when she entered basic training. When the infection began, she was forced to put down three of her squadmates. She has vowed on this mission to save as many people as possible.
Marine Corporal Edwin Drake Callsign: Fonz
Stats and Skills:
Body2D Athletics2D Block2D Brawling 1D Melee Weapon(Wrench)3D Endurance 3D
Coordination: 2D Dodge: 1D Stealth:1D Driving(Jeep):2D Ranged Weapon(Shotgun)3D+1wd
Sense: 3D Empathy N/A Perception 2D Scrutiny
Mind 4D Language N/A First Aid 1D Knowledge(Machines) 3D 1WD Navigation 2D Security Systems 2D Survival 2D Tactics 2D
Charm 1D Lie 1D Performance N/A Persuasion 2D
Command 3D Interrogation 1D Intimidation 4D Leadership 2D Stability 2D
Miracles
Zombie Plague Immunity 2HD
The Fonzie Touch(Can make any malfunctioning machine work by hitting it) 2D+1WD
Base Will: 4 Willpower 27 Loyalty: Marines Passion: Machines
Backstory: One of the surliest marines you’d ever meet, “Fonz” didn’t get along well with anyone in his unit. They would have asked for his transfer, but he had the touch. Jeeps, jammed guns, radar arrays, if he hit them, they worked. He’s been selected for this mission because someone has to keep the weapons working in an apocalypse.
Princess Tamara Scudder, called Princess by the other survivors.
Stats and Skills:
Body 2D Athletics 2D Block 3D Brawling 1D Melee Weapon(Baseball Bat) 2D Endurance 1D
Coordination: 3D Dodge: 3D Stealth 2D Driving: N/A Ranged Weapon(Barrett .50 Cal)
Sense:5D Empathy:1D Perception: 1D 2WD Scrutiny 4D
Mind 3D Language(Spanish) 1D First Aid 1D Knowledge(General) 3D Navigation N/A Survival 1D
Charm 4D Lie 4D Performance(Ballet) 2D, Persuasion 2D+1WD
Command 2D Interrogation N/A Intimidation1D Leadership 2D Stability 1D
Miracles
Zombie Plague Immunity 2Hd
Magically Delicious(Attract Special Infected) 2HD
Base Will 6 Willpower 25 Loyalty Rescue Party Passion Disney Characters
Backstory: Princess Tamara came from some small european nation with a lot of consonants in the name. For her 14th birthday she came to Disney, just as the world went to hell.. She hates the zombie apocalypse, not because all her bodyguards turned, but because every superzombie wants to eat her.
She doesn’t know why somebody put a sniper rifle in the presidential suite, but in the four days she’s been here, she’s put it to good use.
Tawny Silver, Callsign:HunnyDread
Stats and Skills:
Body 2D Athletics 4D Block3D Brawling4D Melee Weapon(Chainsaw)5D Endurance 3D
Coordination: 2D Dodge 3D Stealth N/A Driving(Tour Bus) 2D Ranged Weapon(Vector SMG) 2D
Sense:3D Empathy: 3D Perception 3D Scrutiny 3D (Caveat: All are reduced to 1D if the suit is fully on)
Mind: 2D Language(Spanish) 1D First Aid 3D Knowledge(Disney Zombies) 4D Navigation 2HD Survival 4D
Charm 3D Lie 3D Performance(Mascot) 4D Persuasion 5D
Command 3D Interrogation 3D Intimidation 3D Leadership N/A Stability 4D
Miracles
Zombie Plague Immunity 2HD
Zombie Repellent Mascot Suit 2HD(If she wears the full suit, then it scares away common infected.)
Base Will 6 Willpower 16 Loyalty: Princess Tamara Passion:Escaping Disney World.
Back Story: A former gardener, Tawny had put in her application for ungrading to the mascot suits four months ago. Three months ago, she had received her Winnie the Pooh costume and trained in its use. Four days ago, the zombie apocalypse happened. Tawny has been stuck in the happiest hellhole on earth for that whole time, her suit protecting her from common infected. She's surprisingly levelheaded about the zombie apocalypse. She will guide these people safely out.
The first adventure is coming soon.
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Claims: Magi Mother Ranger Key, Winch Switch, Sasori Core Medal
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03-06-2010, 08:40 AM
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Wait man, what context is this topic given in? A game in-progress you're having with some friends? I had to google some terms just to know what system it is you're talking about.
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03-06-2010, 09:13 AM
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Resident Precureologist
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Yeah, this is a game in progress. I'm running the game, and four fellow students are playing the characters. We meet once a week, and I run them through the scenarios as they happen.
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03-07-2010, 11:10 AM
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Time: 5PM
Location: Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina
Colonel Marcus Jefferson stands before his troops' barracks. They've been tested, and restested since the world went to hell, and these nine have proven immune to the zombie contagion. He watches through the window, wondering if they're ready.
Hanging around in the back is Edwin "Fonz" Drake trying not to make eye contact with the other marines. If it weren't for his sort of magical touch when it comes to machines, he wouldn't have lasted long.
Jessica "Virgil" Lance is in the front of the group. Colonel Jefferson knows that she is damn good at her job, though she often develops tunnel vision. The other seven seem anxious for battle. Taking a moment to straighten his beret, Colonel Jefferson steps into the barracks.
"At ease. Listen up Marines, due to yours and my immunity to the bites of the infected, we have been selected for a rescue and mop-up mission. The Army tried to clear this place, but failed. And now, they're up in Yonkers for a dog and pony show." Most of the marines knew about the Yonkers strategy, and they're none too thrilled about it.
"We have received HAM radio transmissions from a group of survivors, and we're going in to rescue them.They've been holed up for the last four days, trying to hold off the infected before their food supply runs out. These transmissions are coming from Disney World. Gear up, we fly in an hour."
Four Hours later, the chopper hovers over the Lake Buena Vista Palace Hotel. This is a sound that Princess Tamara has been waiting to here since her bodyguards were turned. She rushes into the presidential suite, and waits to be rescued. Once again, she passes by the barrett 50 cal sniper rifle that some disgruntled employee put here before the zombie apocalypse. When she realized what it was, she stuffed the would-be users body in a closet and put the silencer on the barrel. This gun has kept her alive for the last four days. Hopefully, she will not need it anymore.
On the ground, the sound of an approaching helicopter has called 91 zombies. The Marines aren't worried about this. Each one grabs a weapon, and Fonz sits at the mounted machine gun, raining hot metal on the zombies below. As the numbers dwindle, the Marines start to celebrate.
The celebration is cut short as the pilot is removed through the windshield by the tongue of a Smoker.
The marines try to right the chopper, but it still crashes between the tennis court and the swimming pool. Three marines are flung from the wreckage.
Up on the fourth floor, the princess can't believe her eyes. There was hope for a moment, and it was snatched away. But wait, is that movement? She can see three bodies pulling themselves out of the rubble.
Colonel Jefferson, Corporal Drake and Lieutenant Lance have survived the crash. The chopper landed in such a way that the weapons lockers spilled out, but the mounted machine gun still works.
Colonel Jefferson tosses a satchel of claymores to Lieutenant Lance. "Go set these up in the pool then get back here. Every zombie around here is going to come after us."
Jessica runs, and sets up three claymores inside the pool.(Rolling 3x3 on Mind+Knowledge(Demoltion) She grabs a P90 from the weapons pile and rejoins her fellow marines.
Round 1, Fonz opens fire with the mounted machine gun, taking out three zombies at the legs,and two in headshots (3x3, 2x10). Virgil kneels behind the wreckage of the chopper and opens fire, doing 4x6 for four zombies falling by torso shots. Colonel Jefferson is using an AK-47, and he takes out five zombies at the arms(5x8).
High above the carnage, Princess Tamara wants to help her would be-rescuers. She looks around the sniper nest( 4x5 on Sense+Scrutiny thanks to wiggle dice) and finds the minibar. Kicking it open, she finds four bottles of vodka and three frag grenades that her unwilling benefactor left behind when the zombies ate him. She rolls just her Mind dice, and with a 2x3, manages to make two of the vodka bottles into molotov cocktails. She throws one grenade out the window, but with no matches, meaning she forgot to pull the pin. Resolving not to make that mistake again, she takes her position at the sniper rifle and waits.
Round 2: Fonz continues spinning up the Heavy Machine Gun, taking out five more zombies across the legs. Virgil kills three zombies, but one gets close enough to scratch her. However, thanks to a 3x4 on dodge, she judo tosses the zombie into the tennis court and puts a bullet in its head just make sure. Colonel Jefferson smiles as one of the claymores Virgil planted goes "Click, Boom" taking out fifteen zombies.
Though she's lacking in upper body strength, Princess Tamara manages to drag the body of the would-be sniper to the window and throws him out.(3x2 on Body+Athletics) Where the body falls, it distracts the zombies, who proceed to eat it, unaware that it makes them easier targets for Drake.
Round 3: Suddenly, a Smoker's tongue wraps around Colonel Jefferson, dragging him towards the pool and one of the unexploded claymores. Seeing this happen,Princess Tamara lines up a shot, trying to shoot the claymore before he reaches it. She drops both of her luck dice into the roll,and still comes up with no matches. Her shot goes wide, ricocheting off the surface of the long-since emptied pool. She lines up another shot, but it's too late. Colonel Jefferson is dragged over the claymore. He and the smoker pulling him die in the explosion.
Now furious that another marine died, Fonz leaps from the chopper, grabbing the Colonel's AK-47. He rolls up Four headshots, and calls over to Virgil "Funnel them towards the last claymore! Takeout as many of the bastards as you can!"
Virgil thinks twice about pulling rank in this situation and just runs with it. However, at this moment, they encounter their first Glutton.
This thing is about normal human sized, and sinewy, though not as muscular as the Tank. It stops to eat the eyeballs and fingers of six zombies which were previously killed. They stand up and march in formation around the glutton. The Zombie parade is coming close to the surviving marines.
Princess Tamara has seen this thing before(Mind+Knowledge 3x3) and knows how to beat it. She lines up another shot down the scope, and fires(3x10) Her one 50 caliber round headshots three of the zombies in the glutton's parade. As they fall, the glutton clutches his head, where fresh bullet wounds appear. It staggers towards another group of recently deanimated, and bring two of them back to life. The Princess is not having any of that, and opens fire again (2x3) Those two freshly reanimated zombies fall without their legs and the glutton becomes paralyzed.
By this point, Fonz and Virgil have become aware that there's someone offering them critical support from the hotel. They finish the glutton off before it can get close.
Virgil reloads her P90, and keeps firing. Then she hears Fonz shout "Get back!" A Tank has appeared in the second swimming pool. It throws a chunk of concrete towards the surviving marines. This three ton rock slams into the chopper in the tail section, spinning it around and making the mounted gun useless. Sliding across the ground, the rock looks like it might do some damage to Virgil, but she jumps up as it comes( 2x5) and lands on top of it, sliding backwards with it until it's stopped by the fence of the tennis court.
"Ta-da, you son of a..."
"Well, the woman said Ta-da!" Princess Tamara lights one of her molotovs and hurls it towards the Tank. It hits the tank in the arm and soon he's completely on fire. Even though it's raining, it's not enough to extinguish the blaze. All three survivors open up a can on the tank, who falls into the ruined pool, his body still ablaze.
The zombies at the base of the hotel have been dealt with. Princess Tamara takes the sheets of the king-sized bed and starts waving them out the window to signal the marines below. However, both marines botch the Sense+Perception roll, twice for Fonz and three times for Virgil. The Princess gets angry, and fires her sniper rifle at the wreckage of the chopper(3x3) This finally gets the Marines' attention. They look up at the fourth floor and, after making sure that there's no zombies around to hear, call up to have their helper meet them in the lobby of the hotel.
The Marines enter the hotel, as Tamara makes her way down the stairs to the lobby. Fonz finds an abadoned golf bag, and offers one of the drivers to Virgil. Virgil(3x5) locates a brace of handguns in the security office, takes one and hands one to Fonz. Fonz continues searching(2x4) and finds an AED device behind the main desk and a massive plumber's wrench in the supply closet behind.
Princess Tamara reaches the lobby, having found a sanitary jar containing a nasty green substance and a magnum. She rolls 4x4 on her brains+knowledge, coming up with the fact that the jar is a CDA sample jar of Boomer Bile. She's now really glad she didn't open it.
Finally, the marines meet the princess. She gives them the molotovs and remaining hand grenades. After introductions, Princess Tamara tells them "You're the first real people I've seen in four days. If it's all right with you, I'm going to stick by you until we get out of here. Deal?"
The marines agree, though they are loathe to leave the sniper rifle here. They make one last search around the area, finding an aluminum baseball bat for the princess to carry. Now suitably armed, the three survivors make their way down the boardwalk.
In the lake itself, they can see a crashed seaplane in a near vertical position. They reach the first cluster of palm trees and see a person's body up in the third tree. His cellphone is glowing, and the princess believes that they might be able to call for backup or something.
"Hey, I'm young. I'm limber. I could climb that tree and get the phone." Princess Tamara rolls no matches.
"Who the hell greases a palm tree?" She takes out her pistol and shoots the body until it falls at her feet.
The Princess checks the phone, and it has one new text message. "Get to higher ground, the parks are flooding!" after the message is read, the phone dies.
Virgil meanwhile has found the door to a saferoom in what used to be a mcdonalds. "Everyone Inside."
(GM Note: I'm handling XP gain through a system of Achievements. I hand out achievements at the end of each session, as well as allowing the players to declare that something another player did was awesome enough to earn an Achievement.)
Achievements Unlocked:
Dead Stop: Survive the First Wave of Zombies after the crash(3 points) Fonz and Virgil
I See You Score a headshot through a scoped rifle(3 points) Princess Tamara
Starvation Kill a Glutton before he can do any damage to the party(2 points) All
Towering Inferno Light a tank on fire with a molotov cocktail(2 points) Princess Tamara.
Next Time: A Very Particular Bear
(GM Note: the player who was going to be the Pooh mascot didn't show, but will be there next week.)
Other Quotes:
GM(OOC): Downtown Disney is the place for nightclubs, entertainment and hotels. You've got the Electrical Parade, Disney Quest, which is probably the biggest video arcade in the country and the Cirque Du Soleil.
Princess Tamara: (OOC) Yeah thanks. Now I'm going to have nightmares about Cirque Zombies.
Virgil(OOC): No matter how bad your nightmares about it are, when we get there he'll probably make it worse.
Virgil(OOC): So pistols have unlimited ammo? Where does it all come from?
Fonz(OOC): The same place Legolas got all those arrows.
Tamara(OOC): Wait, why are the parks flooding?
GM(OOC): Because it's raining heavily and the drains are clogged by human bodies.
Tamara(OOC): *shivers*
Fonz(OOC): *after the bit about Yonkers* Did you just tie Left 4 Dead and World War Z together? Hell yeah!
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03-11-2010, 07:39 PM
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Resident Precureologist
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Chapter 2: A Very Particular Bear
The survivors have reached their first saferoom. Inside, the marines and the princess find two first aid kits and a few spare clips for Virgil’s P90.
On the front wall they see the following graffiti:
“Zombie Apocaylpse? I’d rather fight a shark.” “I read in a book you can punch them in eye.” “Sharks aren’t the problem, zombies are.” “If you go to Typhoon Lagoon, you’ll both get your wish.”
On the left wall, near the exit are inscribed these words:
“RIP Mark Lunsford 1981, 2010.” “I’m still alive, damn it.” “Way to go Mark”
Lastly, on the wall next to the door they just entered
“I heard there’s still someone alive at the Cirque.” “How long can that last? Have you seen the infected at the Cirque? They’re worse than those Gluttons.” “Just kill the ‘Ringmaster’ and don’t let them touch you and they’ll be fine”
Finding nothing else of value, Virgil offers to scout ahead. This scouting operation draws the attention of 30 zombies. Virgil rolls 3x3 on Coordination+Stealth and hides under the boardwalk. The zombies pass over her. As she plans to take them out, she hears the unmistakable crying of a Witch, under the boardwalk with her.
Once again, she gets an awesome roll on Stealth, sneaking past the witch with a 3x7. Then she decides to blow it big time. Taking out her one hand grenade she pulls the pin, rolling it under the boardwalk, hoping to kill the witch.
The Witch rolls a 2x7 which gobbles the 2x5 of the grenade. The witch is now painfully aware that someone tried to kill her and she attacks the aggressor.
Virgil gets scratched across the head for two shock damage, but before the Witch can pin her, she blows the head off with her P90.
The others have come out in time to see the 30 zombies rush at Virgil. Though they fire, each one only takes out one zombie.
Virgil rolls 2x8 to find a ruined neon sign still drawing power off the grid. She positions it between herself and the oncoming zombies, and shoots it. Sparks and mercury fly from the sign, lighting ten zombies on fire.
As if sensing that fire has been employed, The Blaster makes an appearance. Selecting two zombies, he turns them into unliving bombs that rush towards Virgil. Virgil first rolls 2x5 on a Sense+Perception roll to see that the Blaster is still controlling the zombies, then a 3x10 headshot on the Blaster with her golfclub. The bomb zombies drop even deader without detonating.
More zombies approach, raising the number from 26 to 46. The others get into the action, but unfortunately, Fonz drops his hand grenade, and it turns out to be a dud. And that’s one thing he’s not going to give his touch to. The princess lays down some cover fire, taking out five zombie legs.
Once again, Virgil falls back, investigating the area for more items. She rolls up a 3x4, and finds a disused, yet still functional golf cart. Tapping into that part of brain that says “Don’t think, do.” She puts a brick on the accelerator, letting the golf cart take out four zombies before driving off into the water.
“With all due respect, you’re a moron!” Princess Tamara shouts at Virgil. “We could have used that.”
“Gotta agree with the princess there.” Fonz responds.
However, after this brief bout of stupidity, the party, which has only moved three hundred feet down the boardwalk, is suddenly separated by Spitter Goo.
Virgil notices that she’s running low, but the smell of the Spitter goo does something to her head, and she bobbles the clip. The Spitter moves in close, scratching Virgil across the arm. A shot from behind distracts the spitter and it moves to fight Fonz.
Virgil notes the clip, and prepares for the most awesome and weird thing she’s ever done. Setting up her empty gun vertically, she strikes it with her golf club(2x8) sending it flying into the Spitter’s arm. Before the spitter can react to its now broken arm, Virgil dives for the falling gun( rolling a luck die, 3x2), locks in a fresh clip(success), does a half-twist(3x4), as she sails past the spitter and fires three shots into the head(4x10) before landing in a roll on the other side(3x4) and shouting “Ta-da!”
The other two survivors are stunned to say the least.
“She’s got moves.” Says Fonz as he shotguns two zombies.
“Damn right she does.” Princess tamara agrees as she takes a swing at three zombies’ legs.
Virgil doesn’t have much time to celebrate, as she gets grabbed by an incoming charger and slammed against the wall for two shock to the torso.
The others are surrounded by zombies and can’t get to her, until what sounds like the theme song for Winnie the Pooh plays. From a nightclub emerges Tawny, the Pooh-st-apocalyptic mascot from the hundred acre woods. She has a chainsaw in one hand and a pink vector in the other. Tapping the pause button on her mounted ipod, she rushes to the rescue, bringing the chainsaw down through the Charger’s arm. Virgil is freed by the bear and the charger dies.
At the sight of the bear, the common infected bolt into the water, drowning themselves.
Tawny introduces herself to the marines and the princess, saying that she knows where most of the survivors are. She’s also had frequent encounters with the other mascot zombies, so if they want to survive, they should bring her with them.
A few straggling zombies arrive, numbering ten, and Tawny flips her pooh helmet up to apply a killing touch with her chainsaw. Soon she’s even more covered in zombie gore, but judging from her smile, she’s ok with it. The other survivors keep their distance around her.
A Hunter attempts to pounce the Princess, who dodges. Hunter spins back around and pounces on Tawny. Here the luck die Virgil rolled comes into play, and another blaster shows up from down by the water. The hunter that pounces Tawny becomes an undead bomb.
Virgil attempts to shoot the Blaster, but rolls no successes. The Hunter explodes, shredding the mascot suit, but doing no damage to Tawny. Fonz shoots the blaster between the eyes(3x10) and now they’re finally able to catch their breath. They enter the lobby of another hotel, slamming the door behind them.
Achievements Unlocked:
Tawny: Got your Back: Perform a dramatic rescue of a fellow survivor 5 points.
Fonz: None
Tamara: None
Virgil: Double-U Tee Eff: Perform an absolutely crazy stunt that works, 5 points.
Virgil spent eight of her earned XP to put a wiggle die in her ranged weapon skill, so that she’d be guaranteed to hit on every roll.
Quotes of the Session:
(After Virgil explains her plan)
Fonz(OOC): There’s no way in hell that will work.
Virgil(After the stunt works): Hell called. They want a written apology.
Tawny(IC): Stuffed with Fluff, my foot!
Fonz(OOC): Can’t believe I didn’t spot this sooner. You inverted the normal roles of the game, didn’t you?
GM: Not sure I follow.
Fonz: Left 4 Dead, three guys and a girl. This game, Three girls and a guy.
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03-29-2010, 08:23 PM
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I forgot Boomer in the list of zombies. This has been recitfied. He is #10 with a 4D vomit attack
The Bear, the Princess and the marines make their way into a new saferoom. This is what they see
   
After collecting some new weaponry, they make their way outside. What remains between them and the outside of Downtown Disney is Disney Quest and the Cirque du Soleil.
High up in the third floor of Disney Quest, another survivor waits for his pickup. His name is Morgan Bane, part of a paramilitary paranoid conspiracy theory group called Reaper. Reaper always knew that a zombie apocalypse was coming, but obviously nobody listened. When the apocalypse occured, Reaper agents caught a Boomer and reverse engineered its puke. All reaper agents were now able to kill common infected with impugnity. The chemical cocktail they created made them invisible to common infected.
Sadly, however, most of Reaper died because their spray doesn't work as well in driving rain. Morgan Bane survived this long because he had the idea of mixing the then-liquid spray in with a waterproof sunblock. That's the good news. The bad news is he's probably got only one more days worth of his mixture.
However, this is less important than the fact that he can see survivors, and a pooh. And 55 zombies.
First Round: Bane wins initiative, and fires a projectile from his grenade launcher. The blast takes out five zombies.
Next up is Virgil, who opens fire into the zombies. 3 headshots, 3 dead zombies.
The Pooh Mascot goes for the chainsaw, cutting apart two torsos and two arms.
Drake attacks next, taking out three zombies.
Princess wades in, taking off two zombie heads with her baseball bat.
There's a loud rumbling of stomach, and a boomer appears to attack Virgil. Though she attempts to shield herself with a zombie's body, she still gets covered in bile.
Knowing what bile does, Bane lines up a shot down his sniper rifle, taking out the boomer and two zombies rushing past it. Meanwhile, Virgil scrapes some of the slime off into a glass bottle on the ground, planning to save it for later.
Seventeen more zombies fall to the weapons of the combined survivors, but at this moment, a tank emerges.
Virgil had been waiting for this. She throws the bile bottle towards the head of the tank, and shoots it in the air. It sprays the tank and three zombies around the zombie with the green ooze.
Good news: There's no more common infected around the tank. He killed them all. Bad news, there's still a tank.
After five rounds, wherein Virgil nimbly dodges another chunk of concrete thrown by the tank, Pooh takes damage from thrown zombies, and Bane discovers that a headshot with his sniper rifle won't kill the tank, they finally defeat it, in exactly the same way they beat their first tank. Molotov from on high. Bane has four more, and he might need them soon. Once the danger from the tank passes, Bane joins the other survivors.
They don't get far. A red Spade can be seen on the wall of another hotel. The people are trapped below and running out of food. Bane notices a jackhammer nearby. Calling to the survivors to get closer to the air vent on the other side.
Crescendo Event: Thirty Minutes of Straight Pounding(Guest Starring N. Yuendo)
The plan is this:
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The Survivors will trade off duties. One will be hammering away at the concrete rolling Body+Endurance against the jackhammer, while the other four gun down any approaching zombies. Every three turns, they'll alternate.
Morgan is first on the hammer. Because he min-maxed his character sheet(Body+ Endurance together is wiggle+hard) He doesn't even need to roll. As predicted, the noise wakes up any infected around. The first wave is 47, twelve of which are taken out between Pooh and Drake.
Virgil pickpockets a bottle of vodka from Bane while he works.
"If you're gonna take it, take the lighter as well." Bane gets back to hammering.
Virgil takes another bottle of booze from nearby, throwing it in a high arc. It's a 3x4 roll for the throw, so he declares that it drenches a group on the other side of the alley. She throws the other molotov, this one lit, cutting off the straight route, Zombies start coming in from the rooftops.
After the jackhammer is passed to Pooh, more zombies get gunned down. And yet they still come. Bane takes a look around the alley and sees something that might make more noise in proximity. It's an old style bell type fire alarm. Judging by the emergency light beneath it, it's stil ldrawing power. Bane lines up a shot. With 4X10, he hits the alarm, further distracting the normal zombies. But this doesn't distract the Smoker, who pulls Virgil off the ground and twenty stories up.
Everybody seems to get one true WTF in this game, and Bane is no exception. Seeing his new ally getting pulled off the ground, he fires two shots with his grenade launcher. One at the smoker, and one at the tree near the alleyway. His reasoning is that the explosion of the tree will cushion Virgil's fall. Despite the mythbusters having disproven such a thing, he argues "It's a zombie apocalypse. Mythbusters physics is already out the window." 4x7 and he pulls it off, blasting the smoker and saving Virgil.
With more zombies coming in, Virgil decides to play dead. This trick works, surprisingly and she manages to club off a few heads of approaching zombies.
Another few turns pass, and more zombies get busted. Virgil's next on the jackhammer and rolls a full botch. The jackhammer overheats, and is useless for one round.
While Bane is hidden from common infected, he's not invisible to Spitters. One shows up, and he takes acid damage to the legs. After a decent enough roll on Body+Athletics, he jumps from the acid, grabbing hold of a fire escape. Using one hand, he swings from the fire escape to a safe spot and keeps shooting the zombies as they approach.
Once again, the roles are switched, and Pooh switches to her chainsaw. In an act of gory brutality that would make the cast of mortal kombat say "Damn." She cuts off two heads, through two torso and through two legs, felling six zombies in one stroke.
"Hell yeah, I am the War Machine!"
"After that, Rabbit would be a fool to not give you Hunny."
Soon, however, the concrete is broken through. The first person to poke her head out of the shelter is the only combat capable person in the group. Her name is Daiyu Fang, and the whole party takes a step back when she reveals her melee weapon of choice. It's a fully functional, razor sharp Guan Do.
The other people in the bunker are Congressman John Malone, Talk show host Greg Bernard, a disney chef named Peter and a prowrestling fan with the words "Rabidbob" written on his shirt.
They're going to have to guard these people as they head for the scariest place of all in Downtown Disney, the Cirque du Soleil. Along the way, they encounter probably the best stocked saferoom of all.
Bane discards his grenade launcher and sniper rifle, looking for other weapons. He finds a note on the ground. "Take this gun, but you'll need this to fire it." The gun in question is a Desert Eagle. The other item, according to the knowledgable Virgil, is a modified falconer's glove. Bane asks why he's going to need such a thing for this gun.
"You'll see."
Bane now starts work on an improvised weapon for himself and Virgil. Using backmounted weedkiller sprayers and a pair of zippo lighters, he creates makeshift flamethrowers.
Before leaving this saferoom for the threat of the Cirque, they make one last check. They find a small stockpile of three tear gas grenades, a box of roman candles, ammunition, a new shotgun for Daiyu and a Freddy Kruger glove that's seen better days. Bane takes the roman candles, gives five of them to Pooh, four to Virgil, two to drake and keeps the remaining nine for himself. He also takes the glove and tear gas, though he's not sure how effective it will be against the undead in the cirque.
With the treasure hunt done, it's time to take stock of their injuries. Virgil is the most beaten up, having to get medical attention. Fortunately, between Daiyu and Bane, she gets healed up in no time. They also heal Pooh and patch up her suit. Though she looks like Frankenbear, the effect still holds. With a deep breath, this group leaves the saferoom, headed for the cirque.
It's not as frightening as they thought. The zombies in here dance in rythmic patterns. However, if they touch a person, as Virgil finds out, it causes hallucinations. For virgil, it was
Fortunately, a Command+Stability roll breaks the trip.
Pooh rolls on Sense+Perception, picking up that one of the zombies seems to be controlling the motions for all twenty dancing zombies. Pooh and Bane take it out, as another group of cirque zombies approaches.
Daiyu utterly shakes off the effect of the zombie's contact high, even causing damage to the cirque zombie that touched her. The other watch as the zombie that touched Daiyu, without any further action on her part, drops to the ground.
"Explain,please." Bane asks, taking a few steps back from her, just in case.
"I'm poison to the zombies. All of them."
"Sweet."
It's not that sweet for long, as a Smoker's tongue wraps around Pooh, dragging her down two flights of stairs. After firing off two of his roman candles to burn the dancing zombies, Bane rushes to help. Standing at the top of the stairs, Bane plugs a teargas canister onto the front of a roman candle and lets it fly at the smoker.
"Bastard! You're lucky I had my helmet on." The group gathers around their charges, leading them to get out of the cirque ASAP. But that doesn't seem likely.
A mutated Mickey Mouse Mascot with bloodshot eyes and what look like dozens of bullet holes stalks towards them. There's a combat knife buried in his face, and the arm that swung the knife is still being munched on.
Winning the initiative, Virgil rushes at the Mad Mouse, brandishing her golf club. Mickey catches it in midswing, twisting the driver into a tight loop around Virgil's neck. With a meaty paw it shoves her back, sending her crashing into a railing. Only a decent roll on Body +Athletics keeps her from going over.
"Eat 50 cal, Mouse bastard!" Bane takes a shot with his desert eagle, The massive round blasts the entire right side of the zombie mouse's face is caved in by the blast. Any celebration iscut short as the monster's face regenerates from the gaping hole. Now the entire right side of the Mouse's face is reformed, ala the terminator, from the shrapnel of the bullet.
(Mickey has two Miracles: 4D+1WD in "Bullet Regeneration", which allows him to regenerate damage if he's shot, and a Sonic Cry at 3D+2WD)
By this point, Virgil has removed her now useless golf club from around her neck. The others gather round Mickey, all taking a great deal of damage from its sonic cry. However, Bane jumps in with his katana, ramming it through the mouse's voicebox. With a roll of 4x9, the Mouse is silenced.
After this, everyone gathers around to stab and slash the mouse.Finally, after everyone has lost one limb to damage dealt by Mickey's claws, they manage to defeat it.
Down in the parking garage, they find a unique vehicle. A Duckboat. Twelve feet off the ground, 35 passenger capacity, with massive tires for driving over traffic. Loading their people aboard the vehicle, they clear out of downtown disney, heading for Typoon Lagoon. On their way there. they see a roadsign for the lagoon, spraypainted with the warning "Ariel Lives."
New Characters(sheets updated as of end of game)
Morgan Bane, Agent of Reaper
Body 1WD Athletics 2D+1HD Block 1HD Brawling Melee Weapon(Katana) 4D+1HD Endurance
Coordination 1WD+1HD Dodge Stealth 1D+1WD Ranged Weapon(Grenade Launcher)
1D +1HD+ 2WD
Sense 1WD Empathy Perception1D+2WD+1HD Scrutiny
Mind 1WD Language First Aid 1WD+1HD Knowledge Medicine1HD Navigation Research Security Systems 1HD Streetwise Survival 1HD Tactics
Charm 1D Lie Perfom Persuasion
Command 1HD Interrogation Leadership Intimidation Stability1D+1WD
Miracles
Zombie Plague Immunity 2HD
Invisibility(Common Infected) 1D+1WD
Willpower 20 Base Will 3
Daiyu Fang
Body 4D Athletics 3D Block 2D Brawling 1D Endurance 3D Melee Weapon(Guan Do)1D 1WD
Coordination 3D Dodge 3D Driving(Motorcycle) 2D Stealth 1D Ranged Weapon(Shotgun) 4D
Sense 4D Empathy 2D Perception 3D Scrutiny 3D
Mind 3D First Aid 2D Knowledge 3D Language(Greek) 2D Medicine 2D Navigation 2D Survival 2D Tactics 3D
Charm 2D Lie 2D Performance 1D Persuasion 2D
Command 2D Interrogation 1D Intimidation 2D Leadership 3D Stability 5D
Miracles
Zombie Plague Immunity 2HD
Toxic to Zomies 2HD
Base Will 4 Willpower 6.
Achievements Unlocked:
Bane: I See You(3), Shoot a zombie through a scoped rifle Towering Inferno(3), light a tank on fire WTF(4) Concoct a crazy plan that works.
Virgil: Dead Pause(3) Confuse Zombies, Short Trip(2) Break out of a Zombie's hallucinogenic trip in one turn.
Pooh: TIMBER!(3) Cut through at least four zombies with a chainsaw.
All but Daiyu: 30 Minutes of Pounding(10) Survived the first Crescendo Event
All Including Daiyu: M-I-C...(5), Defeated the Mickey Mouse Mascot, Going Uptown(5) Escaped Downtown Disney.
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I've heard they're actually making a campaign (An ACTUAL Left 4 Dead 2 campaign) set in Disney World.
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Only one I know about is The Passing, which brings together the eight survivors from both games for two new modes of play.
And there is a fan mod with the Disney haunted House as a mission.
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As the heroes drive down the highway in their stolen duckboat. they pick up a radio transmission from Typhoon Lagoon. Three survivors are holed up in the castaway falls ride,and request aid. Before the heroes agree to help out, the rescuees tell them that the shark reef exhibit broke open, and the sharks are in the pools.
The Heroes enter the park, and encounter 15 zombies, who promptly run away from shrieking something in the wave pool. That's not an issue at the moment, as they need to find a new chain for Pooh's chainsaw. They make their way into a giftshop, where Virgil encounters a Keyblade. While swinging it around, it cuts through a curtain. In addition, they find an extra quart of oil for the chainsaw and a spare blade. Laying aside the question of why such things are in the gift shop, they head deeper into the park.
There's a rush of wind, and a crackle of Ozone in the air. A new special infected, called the Strider, is running over the water, laying an electric trail towards them. In a roll of 5x4, Pooh spins around, catching the strider before it can do damage to her. Her chainsaw cleaves the speedster zombie in twain.
In a fight with a spitter, Pooh dodges out of the acid pool, after taking two damage to both legs. Virgil does not. Three turns later when the acid dissipates, she's taken six damage to both legs. Despite having ten dice in mind+first aid, she only rolls 2x2, patching minor damage to the right leg. Unfortunately for her, Pooh is also less adept at first aid and medicine, and only manages to
Unfairly to Virgil, the others decide to leap from raft to raft on the lazy river to get to the survivors at the back of the park. Pooh and the others make great rolls, while Virgil fails repeatedly. Then Virgil sees a shark fin approaching. She had thought the loose sharks was just a bit of fearmongering, but no longer.
Fortunately, her gun skills are unhampered by her acid burned legs, and she kills a possibly infected shark with one shot.
Pooh and the others make it to the back of the park, but Virgil's still six raft lengths behind them, Her flashlight shines in the eyes of a witch that attempts to attack her, and promptly drowns in the knee-depth water.
"That was... kind of sad, really." Virgil floats downriver, finally rejoining with the others, and staggers to the base of the waterslides. Some kind-of sane individual atop the slide destroyed the wooden stairs leading up. Fortunately, Pooh rolls high enough on persuasion that they agree to climb down.
From Drake, they get the yelled message of "Incoming Horde!" The group hides in alcoves near the waterslides, geting ready to obliterate oodles of undead. 74 Zombies run, guns flare, and after 3 turns, the group has deanimated half of them. Then the madness begins.
A Blaster has snuck into the group of approaching zombies and makes five bombs from his unliving companions. Most of the team dodges. Virgil does not. Up to this point, Virgil had been soldiering on, trying to make herself useful. But now, the wounds she had sealed up just barely break open again.
With the rest of the team covering, Pooh throws back her hood, trying to save her friend. Three Mind+First Aid rolls are needed. Pooh gets 3x3 on the first roll, 2x10 on the second and no matches on the third. Jessica "Virgil" Lance bleeds out, but before she dies, she makes two requests.
"Give my gear to the Princess" and "Burn my body." Somberly, they carry out this duty, after finishing off the zombies.
(From this point, Jessica's player takes over as Daiyu Fang.)
With four rescued souls that they need to take back to their ZRV/Duckboat, they head back towards the entrance. Then,  rises from the wave pool, with the loud shriek.
Bullets are unloaded into Ariel, but the water heals her. Seeing this, Daiyu notes a nearby generator. She takes the cords in hand, forming a lasso with them. This electric lasso is thrown neatly around the neck of Ariel. As the electricity courses through her, Daiyu runs off in search of the control room for the wave pool.
Though she fails the first time, the second time she drains the pool. Taking her spear back to the location, she leaps high in the air, cleaving Ariel in twain.
The death of Ariel brings a new horde to town. Fortunately, one vial of boomer bile, a roman candle and a five minute discussion on whether boomer bile is flammable(The dice say yes.) led to their defeat.
The group is almost clear. However, there's a roar from the front of the park. A giant mutated Beast mascot appears. The survivors can't be sure, but somewhere in the guttural rumblings of this mascot, they think they hear the word "Belle." I don't know what possessed them to attempt this, but the players started acting like Belle to get the Beast's attention.
Princess fails with six dice in Charm+Peform. She dodges out of the way of the Beast's charge and he rounds on Daiyu who with three dice rolls 2x10 on the same stat and skill. Beast is mollified, and takes orders from everyone in the party. They use him to clear the stalled vehicles on the freeway to their next location, Wide World of Sports.
Once here, they find a tent with items left by past survivors. Their arsenal increases by: Six-bolted crossbow, Fiiive roman candles, Four First Aid Kits, Three Adrenaline Shots, Two magnum Pistols and a pipebomb from L4D.
Achievements Unlocked:
Pooh: Breaking Stride(3) Stopped a Strider before it could do damage, Silver Tongue(1) Convince a group of survivors to come with you.
Virgil: What the Hell..(2) Find something that shouldn't exist. Epic Fail(1) Roll only one match with ten dice.
Daiyu: Think on the Fly(2)Remove a zombie's source of power, Advent "Beast"(3) Persuade a monster to work for you.
All, save Virgil: Not a Part of your World(5) Destroyed Ariel, All Wet(4) Survived Typhoon Lagoon.
Advancement:
Pooh: 2D+1WD in First Aid
Quotes of the Session:
GM: "With a slight gurgle, and the ripping of blades, you cut through the speedster zombie before it can touch you."
Pooh: "What's making the gurgle? Oooh..."
Survivors on Water Slide: "Give us three good reasons why we should come down!"
Pooh: "I'm human, immune, and I speak in complete sentences." (Rolls 3x3)
Survivors: "Good enough for us."
Bane: "We sure will remember old what's her name..."
Pooh: "This was the only outcome that could have happened. She'd have slowed us down"
Bane: "Are you really that callous?"
The Player FKA Virgil "So she's cold-blooded in addition to being stuffed with fluff? How does that work?"
After the Beast is soothed:
Daiyu "Holy Mutants, Batman. It actually worked. And on three dice!"
Princess "Quick, command it to take orders from all of us."
Daiyu "Umm.. Beast, sweetie. I'd really like you to do as they say(rolls 5x5 on Charm+Persuasion)
GM: "Beast snorts, and looks at the others, waiting for your orders."
Princess: "Umm, Eat the zombies?"
GM: "Beast does so, shoving four common infected down his gullet in one fell swoop. He then belches. Apparently, zombies give him gas."
Daiyu "We're going to have to work on his manners."
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Location: Wide World of Sports Complex, Disney World
Time 7:30 PM.
The Zombie Rescue Vehicle(AKA duckboat) is safely parked, with all the nonimmune survivors squirreled away inside. Our team of intrepid adventurers enters the park, guns at the ready.
After a brief fight with 20 zombies, they hear a single gunshot coming from the cafe.
First on the scene is Daiyu, followed by Fonz, Pooh, Princess and Bane.
They're confronted by a chilling sight. A man with a revolver has just shot another man. Behind the gunman is apparently defending a blonde teenager who has a fresh bite mark in her shoulder. Across the restaurant, a man with a bullet wound in his shoulder and fresh blood dripping from his mouth.
Lesser men and women would fail their command+stability rolls. But not this group. They keep their cool, and each one in turn rolls Sense+Scrutiny to observe the following details
Detail One, as noticed by Pooh: The wounded man is still coherent. Still talking.
Detail Two, as noticed by Bane: There's a vile smelling syringe, freshly used, resting on the table next to the gunman.
Detail Three, as noticed by Daiyu: Amidst the blood dripping from the man's mouth is the same color chemical in the syringe.
The man takes a moment to spit out his foul mouthful, and tells the heroes what they suspected. The girl had been poisoned and the man had been trying to suck the poison from the wound (Indeed, Pooh slipped me a note asking "Is it poison?")
The gunman goes off on a diatribe about how one needs to die so the others can survive. He just pumped her full of boomer bile so they could... *BLAM* In one instant, Pooh dives for the girl, bringing her to the ground, while Daiyu blasts the gunman with her shotgun.
Daiyu reloads as Pooh leads the survivors out. THe mighty mascot slaps her hood down, engaging the fear effect on common infected.
The normal infected keep away. however, a smoker grabs at one of the survivors. As pooh fumbles to flip up the hood, the group hears the report of a rifle coming from the first bleachers. This one bullet perforates the smoker's head, allowing Pooh to get her batch of survivors back to the ZRV.
(GM Note: It's at this point I heard the most glorious sound a GM can hear. "Can we play?" Two new players sat in, one of them taking up the role of Fonz, and one taking a new character, Vernon Wolfe. And they made it awesome!)
Back together, the group calls down their benefactor from the bleachers, They check to see if this new guy, Vernon Wolfe, is immune. He is, and then some. With a loud hum, Vernon tells them that they're about to meet 45 zombies, and some special infected. Seems Vernon has some kind of zombie radar that goes through buildings.
True to the prediction, 45 zombies come around. Pooh takes a few slashes, ribboning the mascot suit around her legs. Her response has become a call and response for the group. "The chainsaw is god!" "No, it's civilization!" She hacks off four zombie heads, and Bane does his part as well.
Fonz looks around, spotting the announce booth. "Hold out a bit longer, guys. I've got a plan." Rolling 3x5 on Coordination+Stealth, he ghosts past the zombies, rolls 3x3 on navigation to get past the wreckage, and finally makes his way to the booth where he opens up a can of awesome. Before he left, he took the princess' sniper rifle, trading guns with her. He sets up a sniper's nest in the announce booth. Once the gun is in position, he uses his Fonzie touch to reactivate the security cameras, and his mind+knowledge rolls to strip the wires from the sound equipment, and rewire the door to create an electric trap for any zombies dumb enough to come up the stairs.
Down on the ground, Daiyu sees a distant thumbs up from Fonz in the booth. She tries to follow in his footsteps, but due to a botch on Mind+Navigation, falls down into a basement of the ballfield.
Here however, she prepares the biggest boom they've ever seen. One roman candle+one pipebomb+ one bile jar. With a 3x6(ominous, no?) roll, she takes some superglue from the basement and creates the boom.
The party is wasting the common infected, when a Charger, Hunter and Jockey join the fray. Hunter attempts to pounce the princess, but is batted away by the now broken blade of pooh's chainsaw. Pooh stops the engine of the chainsaw, strips the blade off and puts on a fresh one one-handed. Why onehanded? Because she also stuffed the broken chain down the Jockey's throat as it tried to pounce her.
The Charger rushes down the stairs to smash Daiyu against the wall. She pulls out her hidden prize, an extra bile jar. She douses the charger, who now has to contend with the remaining hordes swarming it.
Pause for Effect. Daiyu stands at the top of the stairs, waiting for a massive amount of undead to cluster around the biled Charger. "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" All the others, not really knowing what's going on, get behind cover. Up in the sniper's nest, Fonz sees an object leave Daiyu's hand and ducks for cover himself.
30 zombies are eliminated by the superbomb. Back at the ZRV, the survivors all start. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?"
Now, the path is clear. While everyone else moves deeper into the park, Fonz goes off to do his own thing, disarming his electric trap. Here's the path of questioning that follows:
Fonz:"Can I find any huge sacks of flour?"
GM:"Roll for it."
Fonz: "Damn, 2 3's. Is that good?"
GM: "You find one five pound sack of flour."
Fonz: "Drat. Was hoping for a restaurant sized one. Next question, where's the tennis court in relation to me?" I show him on the map. He then rolls 3x3 for another stealth roll to get there.
Fonz:"So what's this tennis area like?"
GM:"Two each of clay, brick and turf courts, enclosed."
Fonz:"Is there an automatic ball launcher? And does it have a gasoline engine?"
GM:"Roll for it."
Fonz:"3 4's."
GM:"You find one exactly like that. it still has half a tank."
Fonz:"Now, these restaurants around here, they'd have those long barbecue stick lighters for when the pilot doesn't light, right?"
GM(Starting to twig to what's going on): "Y-yes."
Fonz: "And booze too, right?"
GM(Eyes wide. By this point all the other players have wide eyes as well.): "Roll for it."
Fonz: "3 7's"
GM "Yup, you find a case of ten bottles of jack daniels in the restaurant."
Fonz: "One more question. Are there computers around here that track ball speed for these things? Both on serve and return?" By this point, he has already picked up his Sense+Scrutiny dice, rolling 4 4's.
GM: "That would be a yes."
Fonz: "Excellent. So, you've probably figured what I'm going to build..."
GM: "A fireball shooting turret?"
Fonz: "An autotracking fireball turret. I rolled 4 5's out of 7 dice for Mind+Knowledge and I set my Knowledge wiggle to 5 for 5 5's"
GM: "Let me check the Rule of Cool." *pulls out a copy of Wild Talents and pretends to read it* Common sense says this is badwrongfun. But the Rule of Cool is down with it. Rule of Cool wins."
Fonz gets a chance to test out his new weapon in the next field, as the others have run across a zombie tandem. One is a tank, who has with him a Pelota(named by Pooh). The Pelota zombie is like an armadillo. It can roll up into a ball, covered by bony armor plates. The tank throws the pelota, and as it spins, it gains speed.
Daiyu and Pooh both roll to find the weak spot, because they reason it has to have one, right? Their rolls are good enough to locate that there's no armor over the left leg. This proves to be harder than they think, and everyone takes some damage as the Pelota. 2 for each leg for pooh, 2 for Bane on the left arm, and 1 for Daiyu.
They finally get enough bullets into the Pelota's leg, dropping dice for called shots each time. Meanwhile, Fonz homes in his Fireball Launcher on the tank, setting it ablaze with twenty-five burning tennis balls and doing enough damage to kill it.
With the Tank and Pelota killed, the real boss of Wide World approaches. Goofy. His ears dig into fallen zombies, dessicating their husks. For every zombie he consumes, his muscle mass grows larger.
The fireball turret opens up on goofy, who bats the balls away. Then the party gets down to business, temporarily deactivated the turret. Guns blaze, and Goofy gets closer. With one big fist, he manages to drive Pooh and Bane backwards down the field. They take no damage, but they land over each other ,dazing them temporarily. Goofy attempts to lash at Daiyu and Fonz, who both backflip out of the way.
The bullets just seem to bounce off Goofy, and even the chainsaw of civilization doesn't seem to cut. Daiyu has an idea.
"I'm going to whistle real loud."
"Why?"
"Beast is still in the park somewhere, right?"
"Um, yes he is."
"What kind of roll would it be to summon our monstrous friend?"
"Charm+Persuasion, I guess."
"Cool, 3 3's."
"Beast leaps down from the bleachers, grappling with goofy." *rolls for Beast's attack and Goofy's Defense* Umm, holy crap. He just performed a Mortal Kombat Fatality. Beast just ripped out Goofy's spine!"
All the players: "AWESOME!"
In the last announce booth is another group of survivors. It takes a concerted effort, but our heroes manage to convince them to let their pet zombie bring them down.
I pass a note to Vernon's player.
"Guys. Beast is not a zombie. That weird zombie radar thing I got going, remember that? He's just showing up as black space. He's not a zombie."
Everyone stops to look at Beast, who looks like he's trying to form words. It takes a few rolls of Mind+Language, but they finally get this out of Beast "Was here. Red Rain. Made into this."
With this shocking bit of news, they finish clearing out the park of survivors. On the way back, Fonz scavenges three four packs of walkie talkies. One for everyone to stay in touch, one for backups, and the last one he reworks, turning into a remote signal device to tell his turret who is friend and foe. The rest of the team finds him some extra booze and ammunition, and they finally clear out.
Now, with Beast pushing cars off the highway, they're presented with a choice. They could go to Animal Kingdom, Blizzard Beach, or MGM. They choose MGM.
Character Sheet for Vernon Wolfe:
Body 3d Athletics 2D Block1D Brawling 3D Endurance2D Melee Weapon(Quarterstaff) 1D +1WD
Coordination 3D Dodge 2D Driving 2D Stealth 1D Ranged Weapon(M1 Garand) 1D+1WD
Sense Empathy 3D Perception 2D Scrutiny 3D
Mind 2D First Aid 2D Knowledge(Zombies) 2D Language(Japanese) 2D Medicine 2D Navigation 3D Security Systems 1D Survival 4D Tactics 3D
Charm 2D Lie 2D Perform 1D Persuasion 3D
Command 1D Interrogation 2D Intimidation 2D Leadership 1D Stability 2D
Miracles
2HD Zombie Plague Immunity
2D+1WD: Zombie Radar
Base Will3 Willpower33 LoyaltySurvivors Passion Hunting
Achievements Unlocked:
Fonz: WTF (4), Ninja (1) Stealthed past zombies twice in one session. Devious(1) Laid a trap for zombies.
Daiyu More Dakka(1) Created a big boom.
Vernon: Dramatic Entrance(1) Made your presence known in a dramatic way.
All: Poisoned? (3) Solved the moral quandry. Duh-huh-hoh-hooey(2) Survived the encounter with goofy. Touchdown (2) Escaped Wide World of Sports.
Quotes of the Session:
After Fonz outlines his plan;
GM: Where have you been the last few sessions?
Fonz: Just waiting for things to get interesting before I jumped in.
Pooh: So if I stuff this chainsaw chain down the jockey's throat, will that choke him out?
GM: Yes. Yes it will.
Daiyu: I throw my superbomb, shouting "fire in the hole."
Fonz: That's a hell lot more than just fire.
Daiyu: "Alas, what light through yonder bleachers breaks? It is..."
GM "The Beast, and there is no sun."
Daiyu: Darn it. Took my line.
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Claims: Magi Mother Ranger Key, Winch Switch, Sasori Core Medal
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