Topic: The End (Read 57579 times)

Friday · « **Reply #80 on:** September 17, 2008, 10:59:31 AM »

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

With the female behind you, you continue driving south , looking for a good place to pick your way over to the lip of the crater.

You didn't see the male behind you at all as you sped off, though... and something occurs to you.

"Ah, this is some cape fear shit," you say.

Well, you might as well pull over and check. You don't want this thing somehow disabling the car from underneath or somethi--

Something brushes your arm.

You turn and look, and fleshy vines are coming in through your open window from below. Before you can react, one wraps around your left arm, and pulls tight, cutting into your flesh. You can see tiny barbs or thorns protruding from the vine this close.

You slam on the brakes. More vines are snaking up over the lip of your rolled down window. You attempt to pull your arm away, but the vine is incredibly strong. It's pulling your arm toward the window.

"Motherfucker!" you yell, and reach into your pocket with your right hand. Your knife comes out and cuts away the vine just in time before more reach your arm. There is no blood from the cut, and the cut vine quickly withdraws.

"Nicole, get out of the car!"

She opens her door and begins to slide out. You attempt to follow but forget the seat belt you had on. Your hand goes to free the clasp as the vines hover mere inches from you.

The males head comes up.

SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEE

The blast of hot air washes over you. You finally release the mechanism and the belt goes limp around your waist and chest.

The head is coming in, neck and torso following.

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1. Your knife is out and at the ready. Knife to the... face?

2. Your gun is just over on the dash. Grab it and fire a shot into his head.

3. You might be able to scramble out the other side of the car before the vines or head reach you. It'll be close.

4. Grab the gun and unload all five chambers into his head.

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Location: Northern California, ruins of your hometown (Blasted Road)
Health: Poor (Possible unknown internal injuries) Left eye destroyed, left arm cut
Assets: Lead Pipe, change of clothes, contents of wallet, Nice watch (Showing 6:42), 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: Vines
Resilience: Survived being hit by car and run over
Speed: Low?
Special/Notes: Unknown

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Romosome · « **Reply #81 on:** September 17, 2008, 11:03:01 AM »

Arc · « **Reply #82 on:** September 17, 2008, 11:17:30 AM »

Classic · « **Reply #83 on:** September 17, 2008, 11:21:06 AM »

Having not fired a gun, I wouldn't trust MY ability to get someone's vine-face at point blank. Entering into the kind of close quarters melee that defeating it with a blade would take is insane, but trying to flee those vines or taking a gamble on our accuracy with the pistol seems even worse.
Maybe an unexpectedly aggressive maneuver will unbalance it and give us the opportunity to engage the monster on more favorable terms next turn.

Though I do kind of like the idea of grabbing the pistol with our left and jamming it right into it's face...
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The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji · « **Reply #84 on:** September 17, 2008, 11:54:37 AM »

Quote from: Friday on September 17, 2008, 10:59:31 AM

3. You might be able to scramble out the other side of the car before the vines or head reach you. It'll be close.

Quote from: Friday on September 16, 2008, 01:38:22 PM

Warning: From this point on, poor choices may result in the main character's death, and therefore game over.

I think "close" might be a codeword for "deadly" here.

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Burrito Al Pastor · « **Reply #85 on:** September 17, 2008, 11:56:53 AM »

1. At the very least, it might distract it long enough to give a better chance to get the gun.

Brentai · « **Reply #86 on:** September 17, 2008, 12:09:04 PM »

3. Now is not exactly the best time to be trying to figure out what it's weak point is.

(Oh dear God did I just do that? May Lucifer brand an apostrophe on my forehead in Hell.)

Royal☭ · « **Reply #87 on:** September 17, 2008, 12:28:58 PM »

2 I'm mounting this one on the trophy wall.

Arc · « **Reply #88 on:** September 17, 2008, 12:57:00 PM »

Considering it was just hit directly by a car, I'm not counting on a knife or gunshot to put the sucker down. Better to exit the car, and slam the door shut to trap the vines.

LaserBeing · « **Reply #89 on:** September 17, 2008, 01:05:24 PM »

3.

Any of these choices are going to be "close". I'm just hoping this one is the least "suicidal".

Friday · « **Reply #90 on:** September 17, 2008, 01:40:55 PM »

3. You might be able to scramble out the other side of the car before the vines or head reach you. It'll be close.

Screaming, you push against the seat with one hand while grabbing at the opposite door.

The thing's breath is hot on your back and side as you begin to gain momentum. You feel a vine brush against your neck.

Then you're away, out of the car. Nicole is standing there, looking at you, eyes wide with fear. The first expected reaction you've seen out of her, actually.

Shit. The gun was on the dash.

The look back inside. The Faceless is continuing to make its way into your car through the window. Vines reach toward you.

Fuck it. You plunge one arm and shoulder in, snatching the gun off the passenger's dashboard before you have a chance to think about it, and lose your moment to actually do what you just did.

You slam the passenger door, cutting off the vines. A few press against the glass, but seem unable to break it. For now, at least.

"Nicole, stay back."

You circle around the car, unwilling to give up your supplies and transportation at this point. The Faceless is pulling himself out of the car, now. As you watch, the vines press backward and the entire body falls to the ground. Vines extract themselves from the undercarriage, begin to press up, and the Faceless rises and turns to face you.

He starts to stagger toward you. The legs seem bent. A bone protrudes from it's left leg. He seems a bit slower than before.

You've got your knife and gun, but the pipe is resting in the backseat. You don't want to get close enough for knife-work unless you absolutely have to. At this range, you should be able to shoot it fairly easily.

You raise your weapon and aim...

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1. For the head. That always works in the movies against zombies, right?

2. At the torso.

3. At the leg. Maybe you don't have to kill this thing, just disable it.

4. Eh. Why waste ammo? There's plenty of rocks, broken chunks of concrete, and the like around here. Chuck some shit at it, pull it away from the car, maybe you could circle back around it, get the pipe, or just drive away.

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Location: Northern California, ruins of your hometown (Blasted Road)
Health: Poor (Possible unknown internal injuries) Left eye destroyed, left arm cut
Assets: Lead Pipe, change of clothes, contents of wallet, Nice watch (Showing 6:43), 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: Vines
Resilience: Survived being hit by car and run over
Speed: Low?
Special/Notes: Unknown

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Arc · « **Reply #91 on:** September 17, 2008, 01:47:56 PM »

Quote from: Friday on September 17, 2008, 01:40:55 PM

The legs seem bent. A bone protrudes from it's left leg. He seems a bit slower than before.

3.

LaserBeing · « **Reply #92 on:** September 17, 2008, 01:55:45 PM »

Having never fired a gun before, it's probably best not to try and get fancy right off the bat. Now that we've got some breathing room, let's make sure we can hit the damn thing before we start trying to shoot the fucker's Stetson off.

2.

Now, how does Clint do it? Pull the hammer back, point it at the bad guy, and...

Classic · « **Reply #93 on:** September 17, 2008, 02:05:12 PM »

A headshot/suicide seemed to do the trick of halting the change, but it may be too far now. I think the object for now is to try and draw it out for now to make the disabling shot actually help our escape. To be honest, I don't suspect the kind of muscle damage that we'd be able to do with a pistol mattering as compared to a fucking COMPOUND FRACTURE.
Having never had one I can't say for sure but, I'm not sure if it's even possible to walk unaided and untreated with one of those. So trying to disable it with something that should at best tear its musculature, or maybe finish blowing that leg off if we're really lucky.

Friday, are all of the vines coming from the head/face? Also, what kind of revolver is this? Is it a snub-nose? One of those insane magnum revolvers?

patito · « **Reply #94 on:** September 17, 2008, 02:39:44 PM »

Classic, I don't think the main character would know what kind of revolver it is.

Brentai · « **Reply #95 on:** September 17, 2008, 02:42:09 PM »

Shooting it in the torso will likely do nothing. Shooting it in the leg will also likely do nothing, seeing as how it's not entirely bothered by the damage it already has. Moving away from the car seems like a bad idea in general.

1. Hope for the best.

Niku · « **Reply #96 on:** September 17, 2008, 02:43:34 PM »

Burrito Al Pastor · « **Reply #97 on:** September 17, 2008, 02:44:56 PM »

2. Target center mass.

patito · « **Reply #98 on:** September 17, 2008, 02:48:30 PM »

Niku just wants to get us killed, so 1, boom headshot.

Niku · « **Reply #99 on:** September 17, 2008, 03:06:30 PM »

head might not be weakspot

Torso sure as hell isn't

Don't wanna try running away from schoolgirlsbane

Cap the fucking ambulation

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