With 3 votes and a significant amount of time passed, I am going to go with option 1 since I am heading to work all this afternoon/evening when people are most active to vote and wish to have a fresh choice ready.
1. Roll down your window, stick your head out. "Hello? Mister, are you OK?"
Struggling a bit with the manual window (it's an older car, before power windows were fairly standard) you poke your head outside.
"Hello? Mister? Are you OK?"
The figure's head jerks sideways. The shoulders freeze. One eye, in profile, fixes on you.
Nicole's voice, soft, from the side. "...He sees you..."
A moment passes. Blue jacket continues to stare at you with one eye.
"Um... are you..." the words slowly fall out of your mouth, which suddenly has no saliva in it.
The man suddenly turns to face you. His other eye is nothing but a gaping, bleeding hole.
He opens his mouth, and there is a small pop as his jaw dislocates. A blast of hot air washes over your face.
"SCREEEEEEEEEE!
The jacket begins to dance in jerky movements around his torso. His arms come up to hug his chest as he begins to violently shudder. Small... vines? burst out of his jacket, shredding it and sending small piles of fluff floating gently to the ground. More and more of these, small, fleshy vines continue to emerge until finally his jacket just falls off him, revealing a torn shirt and bloody torso beneath. The vines are wrapping around his chest and arms, tighter and tighter, until his arms are completely pinned to his sides and upper body.
His face implodes.
His legs bow out under him.
Another roar, another blast of hot air. You can only assume it is coming from the hole that used to be his head. His jawbone has dropped to the ground.
He takes a single step forward.
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Warning: From this point on, poor choices may result in the main character's death, and therefore game over.
1. Holy goddamn Jesus shit. Throw the car into reverse, back away as best you can. You don't know what this... thing... is capable of.
2. Floor it.
3. Get out of the car, try to lead it away from Nicole. From there, you might be able to pick it off with gunfire or your pipe or simply circle back around to the car, where you'll have more breathing room to maneuver your vehicle.
4. Maybe... maybe he's still human underneath? Talk to him, try to reason with him.
5. Grab your gun, fire a warning shot into the air out your window.
6. Fire a shot at him out your window. (Low chance of hitting due to odd angle and zero skill with firearms.)
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Location: Northern California, ruins of your hometown (Blasted Road)
Health: Poor (Possible unknown internal injuries) Left eye destroyed
Assets: Lead Pipe, change of clothes, contents of wallet, Nice watch (Showing 6:37), Revolver (5 bullets) Swiss Army Knife, Roughly one day's worth of food and water (Snack food, but granola and beef jerky, that kind of shit) Car, roughly half a tank of gas
Skills: None that would be useful spring to mind. Damn the school system!
Members in party: Nicole
Nicole:
Health: ???? Assets: Clothes (Strangely, they do not appear damaged) Skills: ????
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