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[Friday]

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.

Your tires screech and the smell of burnt rubber hits your nostrils as you slam the gearshift into reverse and press the gas all the way down.

You may be a bit... out of sorts, judging from how violently you're shaking in your seat.

But you put some distance between you and the thing in front of you. Luckily, you had rolled down your bloodstained window beforehand, so you can use the driver's mirror to aid you in backing up. Had you not done so, you probably would have hit another wrecked car.

The thing is still walking toward you, in a kind of odd, disjointed gait. It's not particularly fast, but not particularly slow, either. Perhaps a tad slower than a man walking normally. The wreckage on the road behind you now is too cluttered to navigate backwards without significant risk. The creature is about sixty to seventy yards away, now, and closing.

Nicole lets out a giggle, sending goosebumps up your flesh. You look over and she's grinning, teeth bared grotesquely.

Movement in your mirror.

Jesus. Another one. Behind you. This one is female, but similar otherwise. She's got the bowed legs and she's closing. Dirty blonde hair hangs over the ruin of her face.

"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear."

Shit. Ten yards? Twenty?

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1. Floor it. Run over the male.

2. Back up at maximum speed, trying to avoid the wreckage and hit the female.

3. Get out of your car. Gun and pipe at the ready. You'll take these things out on foot.

4. You've got a clear spot. If you do a quick three-point turn, you might be able to turn the car around before the female gets close, assuming she doesn't accelerate. Then run her down and navigate safely through the wreckage, leaving the male in your wake. Fuck investigating this crater, you've seen enough and it's time to go.

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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 6:38), 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: ????

"They" encountered:

"Faceless"

Form: Humanoid
Attacks: Unknown
Resilience: Unknown
Speed: Low?
Special/Notes: Unknown

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[Detonator]

Though Ideally I don't want mutant juice on my car, getting out of the car seems like a much worse idea.

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[Beat Bandit]

3

Circle strafe that bastard.

[Arc]

1

Let's get messy.

[Brentai]

Hey Nicole, what time is it?

   CLOBBERIN' TIME!!!

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[Royal☭]

1

[Romosome]

1.  No time to chance anything else.  Getting out of the car is a bad idea, and if these things can be run over at all it makes the most sense to hit the one we've already got lined up and a good deal of distance on.

(oops look like my vote doesn't matter oh well)

[Friday]

1. Floor it. Run over the male.

Throwing the gearshift back into drive, you again slam your foot down on the gas. Nicole puts her hands up above the glove compartment.

The male continues to walk forward at a steady pace as you bear down on him.

Thirty yards.

Twenty.

Ten.

"Nicole, shut your eye--"

Thunk.

Blood sprays onto your hood, your windshield.

The thing flies backward about ten yards as you slam into it, your hands tightening on the steering wheel. It's down, and you couldn't not run over it even if you wanted to stop. The car passes over the downed male in an instant, thumping up and then down. No sickening crunch, no popping sounds. But you have certainly just ran him the fuck over.

A quick check in the mirror reveals the female now about seventy yards behind you, still heading toward you, but receding as you continue to drive. You can't see the male anywhere, but it's hard at this angle with just mirrors.

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1. Keep driving. You've got a crater to tour.

2. Stop the car, get out (Pipe and Gun at the ready, of course), look for the male back on the road. You want to see if it's dead or not.

3. You know what? You've got plenty of room to turn around and get the fuck out of here, now. Do a U-Turn and head north, either to that Vet's, or somewhere else. Just not here, with the faceless vine zombies.

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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 6:39), 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: ????

"They" encountered:

"Faceless"

Form: Humanoid
Attacks: Unknown
Resilience: Unknown
Speed: Low?
Special/Notes: Unknown

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[Arc]

1

The Casey Bat resides in the crater.

[Detonator]

3, while noticing my surprisingly keen depth perception.

[McFrugal]

3.

The male has most likely attached to the rear of the car, or the underside of the car.  Getting out is not a very good idea now, and we're not equipped to deal with the source of this crap.  A lead pipe and 5 bullets against who knows how many Faceless?  We don't even know how resilient they are.  Hopefully the male will fall off the car and we can see how hurt it is.

[Classic]

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Two bits says that thing is clinging to the undercarriage with its frightening vines and whatnot, time to hope either we or Nicole is a serious badass and can clean that thing up.
It's a gamble, but I'm more afraid of a stuck zombie getting us mid-drive than a zombie closing 200 feet in the time it takes to solve the problem.

[Brentai]

Time out.  Let's assess the situation.

You just found a vine-parasite-zombie-RE4 motherfucker who was conspicuously missing one eye.  You also have one missing eye, undefinable internal injuries, and a warning not to let them into your head.

Well guess what?  You let them into your head.  Good job, by the way.

Now we don't know exactly what's keeping you alive right now.  My best guess is that your proximity to ineffable psychic Nicole at the time of infection has shut down the parasite's ability to control you for the time being.  OR... you might simply be in the middle of the damn thing's gestation period, and you might explode if you fuck around sightseeing too long.  It's probably not a good thing to be wrong about that one.

SO, here are your current priorities:
1) Whatever you do, keep an... your eye on Nicole.  If she is the only thing keeping you from turning into a monster, then it's game over the moment you get too far away from her.
2) Avoid human contact.  Even if the human in question isn't about to burst into tentacles, they will most likely think you are if they're keeping track of the situation, and will probably attempt to destroy your brain.
3) Find a way to neutralize and preferably remove the parasite before your D-Counter reaches 100% and you turn into a dragon forever.
4) Heal any other ailments you may have, inc. lingering damage from the parasite having your guts for breakfast.  It would be best to have a professional do this, but that may be tricky due to point #2.  See below.
5) Attempt some cosmetic coverup for your missing eye in order to talk to people somewhat normally.  Best bet is just to find a pair of wraparound sunglasses and never take them off.  If anybody asks you can say they're to keep the god damned vines out of your eyes, which is true.
6) Gather some useful party members, esp. a doctor, nurse or medic.
7) Get an actual physical examination from an actual physical examiner.  Have yourself fixed up as best as possible.
8/9) Gather survivors, attempt to reestablish order.
8/9) Eliminate the parasite threat.

So I was going to strongly suggest you jet on over to the vet and start cutting yourself open to let the pain out, but on second thought that's kind of a stupid idea.  I mean you have zero medical expertise and the thing is probably coupled with your brain anyway.  You'd just end up pulling your own guts out and dying, or dousing yourself with radiation hoping to kill the thing.  IF Nicole is the lynchpin to everything, then she may or may not be connected to the crater.  It's a big gamble, but there's always the possibility that there's some other sort of Power Cosmic down there that'll let you even the odds.  And if there's just monsters, well, hightail it out of there and go find someplace to get radiated, I guess.

So...

1.

[Classic]

I wonder if our missing eye is a bleeding mess. Also, does our companion have two eyes?
Also, betting she's some kind of "overseer" for whatever project this is if the parasite possesses some sort of guiding sophisticated intelligence(s).

[patito]

Well, Nicole just helped you by telling you to shut you eye, so chances are she's on your side. i'd consider the vet idea, but as Brentai pointed out, that won't do much good. so 1 it is.

[Detonator]

Well, Nicole just helped you by telling you to shut you eye, so chances are she's on your side.

Read it again, that was you talking to her.

[Friday]

Also, does our companion have two eyes?

Yeah. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with her. Apart from, well, you know.

that was you talking to her.

Indeed. The "Eye--" part was just a coincidence, it was supposed to imply that you were cut off near the end of the sentence as you hit the Faceless. You were going to say "Eyes."

[Romosome]

3.  We've risked enough exposure so far, and for all I know I could fall over dead at any moment.  I may not be able to perform full surgery or whip up a miracle cure at the vet, but it'll at least have some more food, water, and will be a good starting place for supplies in general.

If the time I have left is so short I can't go there and back to the crater anyway, well, it doesn't matter much either way.  Stake my chance on survival.

[Niku]

1. I wanna see the crater.

[Royal☭]

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