<@Dreol> [Power Sliders Session 10!] <@Dreol> [Last Time on Power Sliders! After discovering that the Master Sword was the item of power from the Zelda world you all made your way to Ganon's palace, and after a confrontation with both Ganon and Xelion, Lex stabbed Ganon with the Master Sword, presumably fulfilling the event requirement and you were off!] <@Dreol> [You now find yourselves in a broken-down, deserted city street that several of you have correctly identified as Raccoon City in the Resident Evil universe. Your clothes that you bought in Zelda have disappeared as, apparently, they were more tied to that world than to you.] <@Dreol> [You are once again in your Earth clothes, and the bracers have now changed into wrist-watches which now display for a brief moment the image of the Master Sword before disappearing.] <@Dreol> [Begin] Okay, shit, zombies, they bite you, you get virus, you become a zombie, not that hard, fuck fuck fuck, why the fuck am I close range? How fast are the ones in this game? Slowish? Are zombies mindless zombies or smart zombies? So we just can't get trapped. I think mostly the former. * Katsuo nods. "Shotguns then!" Yes, both, god, it's like all of them together, and mutants. What mutants? Big mutants. Usually insects. Or dogs. Or freaky tongue things. * Katsuo hmms. "What important item?" Dunno... *looks over at Micah* What's usually the big item in these games? Sample of the virus? I think that was a frog? Er.. Virus sample, the hidden drug, the emblems, oh god the emblems... ...the hidden gun, the er... hrmmm Escape? Helicopter key, train power source, something along those lines? All right, we have lots of possibilities for the object. Where should we go right now? * Cassiopeia shrugs. "Police station?" * Cassiopeia searches the area around them as she ponders. "Police station is usually a place to start..." Police station probably have zombies. Damn it, the first level is always the bloody thing staring in front of you. Though...er... wait is this one of the more puzzley ones? * Henry looks down the road, just in case zombies have started shuffling down it or something. I hope not. I love puzzles but... no imagination. Just a buncha fetch quests and block pushing. Where's the items you find on the first screen that you use on the second-to-last, and only because you happen to figure out the obscure coded pun clue? I mean, really now! * Micah is looking at Cassiopeia like she's grown wings. Capcom always have poor puzzle logic. Never quite understand them. Easy is better for us right now. I don't want to try to get through a hard zombie setting. * Cassiopeia pokes around piles of rubble, abandoned cars, and such, looking for things. * Katsuo walks about, looking for any possible zombie threats in the immediate vicinity. Shit, okay, come on, hospital or police station, you guys pick <@Dreol> [The street looks completely deserted. Furthermore you are flanked by piles of cars and twisted metal that look difficult, but not impossible to climb over. To one side of the street is a storefront that looks abandoned but still accessible. To the other side is the entrance to a large subway station.] * Lex walks over to the storefront and looks cautiously through the windows. * Kyler frowns and looks around. * Micah is on guard just looking around a bit franticly. * Kyler steps up to Lex and peers through as well. "See anything interesting in there?" <@Dreol> [It appears to have been a pharmacy. You can see by the dim moonlight and the flickering streetlamps that the bottles of pills behind the counter have been knocked around haphazardly, and much of the furniture seems to have been broken up to be used as a barrier against the door that was eventually broken. You also see a glint of metal behind the counter but can't quite make out what it is.] <@Dreol> [When Kyler looks through the window he makes out that the glint of metal is a gun of some sort.] ...oh neat. Looks like there's some loot there. Unless it's someone camping out to shoot us. * Kyler looks for the entrance. "But if they were, they probably would've done it already." * Micah suddenly stops, takes a deep breath and lets it out. "Okay if this is anything like last time either the er... boo...er girl or the FBI guy will be running through here soon shooting at things." ...in that case, they're either in here or some cover would be nice. * Kyler gives a cursory knock, waits a couple seconds in case shootings come, and if not, goes in carefully. * Cassiopeia blinks, and goes to follow Kyler. *quietly* "Looting time!" I don't wanta get shot at. * Lex follows Kyler, after pulling out her crossbow and wishing she had something with a better reload time. * Micah will watch them go in and then sigh following. * Kyler puts his hand on his sword as he enters and looks around, his other hand going for his flashlight, which he doesn't turn on yet. * Katsuo takes his gun out and looks around for threats as they enter the store, standing near the door. "Go get supplies, I cover." * Kyler nods and turns on the flashlight after all, playing it over the surfaces in the store. "Thanks." * Micah gulps. "Okay, I'm going to look to see if any of the healing items are around. Okay?" * Henry goes too. "What do they look like?" * Kyler nods and goes for the area where he saw the gun. * Cassiopeia starts sorting through the scattered meds, grabbing things that look useful. "Bandages, clotting factor, topical and oral antibiotics..." Ummm... Herb thingies, Gree, Blue, Yellow, and Red? <@Dreol> [The pharmacy, as mentioned, is a wreck, upon further investigation you find behind the counter is a handgun! Which is attached to uh... the hand of a dead man. He is lying on his stomach in a pool of blood, by his size and the gray hairs on his head you assume he is in his mid-40s; however, you cannot confirm because his face appears to have been mostly gnawed off. It's an extremely repulsive sight.] * Kyler makes an extremely...expressive face. "...h-uh." He edges around the counter and maneuvers the gun out of the dead man's hand and over to non-blood- covered territory with his foot. * Lex glances at the dead man and her face gets very closed. Then she starts carefully moving pieces of rubbish/rubble to see if there's anything useful underneath them. * Henry turns away and covers his mouth. "Uggggh." * Kyler keeps edging it until it's around the other side of the counter and examines it. * Cassiopeia peeks over the counter and frowns, then goes back to collecting various meds. * Micah isn't looking that way. Nope. Not at all. He is instead focusing very hard on finding good meds and healing items. * Henry goes and stands by the windows... in case the zombies come back. * Kyler finds something to wipe it off with and picks it up, checks it for ammo. Hmm, mostly full. Better'n empty. * Kyler holds it out for Micah. "Hey, a non-close range weapon for you." <@Dreol> [After some searching, you find that behind the man's body is a back room, through which is a delivery entrance to the pharmacy. This leads out into an alleyway behind the building.] * Micah blinks and looks at it smiling a bit. "Thanks." Good, an escape route. Well, as long as it's not blocked... * Micah takes it and looks a lot more comfortable with a gun in his hand. * Kyler nods at Micah. "Sure." And goes out back and checks. One way to find out. * Cassiopeia follows Kyler out, closing up her bag and stuffing a few extra bandages into her pockets. <@Dreol> [The alleyway appears blocked on one side by the barrier of twisted metal and wrecked cars that you saw when you showed up. From the other direction it looks clear and exits into a street with almost no active streetlights.] * Henry hurries by the dead guy and tries not to look at him again, failing miserably. * Lex brings the stuff she's found, shoving some of it into her pockets and handing some of it to Cass. * Micah is in standard nerd trying to be a commando mode, pushing his back up against walls, swinging around corners, and in general looking stupid. <@Dreol> [Cass, Kyler and Micah hear a sound coming from the street ahead. It sounds like a sort of dragging sound. Like someone trying to pull a very heavy cardboard box down the street very slowly.] * Kyler waves at the people behind him and speaks quietly. "Someone up ahead." * Cassiopeia waves a hand to get everyone's attention, and points to the street ahead. If I make a "Snaaaaaaaake!" joke, it's a sure sign the virus has me.... Someone or something? I'll make a note of that. Not sure. * Kyler nods at Micah and starts edging down one wall of the alley, gesturing him to take the other. * Henry stops. * Micah takes a deep breath and follows Kyler, edging as far down the alley as he dares. <@Dreol> [The dragging sound gets louder, and is, in fact, accompanied by other dragging sounds now that you are closer.] * Kyler frowns and continues more cautiously, drawing his terrific double-range sword. <@Dreol> [This just in from the intro text. It seems that the GM forgot to mention that Micah will find that he still has a bag of bombs! Apparently they have decided they are quite attached to him.] *whisper* ... we can't be in this alley. We'll get overrun. * Micah is clutching his pistol, frowning heavily, he takes one frighten look back at the rest of the group and then lights up as he apparently feels something, that gun is put away and out comes a blue bomb.... ...point. Close fighters should probably get back to the shop, Katsuo can cover you from this side and Lex from the inside. * Lex nods and starts backing up as quickly and quietly as she can. If you say so. * Henry turns around and goes back. * Cassiopeia frowns, then heads back. "Just hope they don't come down the alley..." * Katsuo looks over at the rest and whispers as he walks closer. "What you find?" * Kyler waits until people are mostly inside, then tries to sneak a peek. * Micah tries to poke his head around the corner to look. * Cassiopeia stays in the alley with Katsuo, and whispers. "Lotsa things walking down the street. We're hopin' they walk by, but get ready to get back inside and head out the front if they do." * Lex moves towards the front of the store, trying to see if anything is moving out there. * Cassiopeia then heads back down the alley a bit, hanging out at the back door of the shop. <@Dreol> [When you look around the corner you see in the dim light several things moving in the distance, as one gets a bit closer you can see that it is a person, or was at one point. He is dressed in a doctor's coat which is covered with blood and has pieces torn off of it. His skin appears to be rotting and falling off and he is moving very slowly and dragging his feet as he does so.] ...yup. Zombies. Shit. * Kyler hefts his sword. <@Dreol> [In the dark you can make out at least 15 other figures, and in the other direction you can see a lit up sign that says "Raccoon City General Hospital"] * Micah backs down away frowning a bit. "Run or what?" He's whispering. * Kyler frowns. "...run where?" * Henry draws his own sword. "They don't have elemental weaknesses here... do they?" They don't and umm,, the hospital... where it seems the first level is. Still need to distract them... Zombie always weak to fire. Burn like everything else. There's...at least 15 or 16 of them. Fine.. ummm.. er... there's a lot of them. * Lex, seeing that another way out is still open, returns to the others. We can still get out through the front of the shop if we need to. Other ideas about what to do before they get here? I can try to start some more fires. * Micah looks at his bomb. "Bowling." * Kyler shrugs. "Can you take out enough of them with that?" * Cassiopeia creeps up front. "Two choices. Hope they pass by, possibly get stuck if they see us. Or go out, take 'em and at least have open ground." I got more. Four more. Hmm. Maybe not a bad idea. Then let's try to fight it out, get to the hospital, and find the plot. I cover and you guys go or team bowling? We're all pretty fast, I think we can do a staggered cover thing. Always be careful when looking for plot, for plot may just find you. * Micah nods and hands a bomb to Kyler. "Who else?" Then we're covered either way. * Lex puts away the crossbow and flexes her fingers. "I can make my own." * Micah nods again. He's at least calming down. So out we go? * Lex nods. * Kyler nods as well. "Guess so." He takes a breath. "We ready?" * Katsuo nods and gets ready to shoot some zombies. * Micah nods. Yup. * Henry nods too. Let's do this. <@Dreol> [Session End]