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Re: The End
« Reply #1100 on: October 13, 2008, 11:36:52 PM »

Arc brings up a good point.  We could maybe hold our ground in the hallway with the shotgun, but we'd be putting ourselves in danger if we don't nail it on our first shot.  And it might be just fine with waiting us out.

It's a hunter.  Running is probably a bad idea.  It's faster than us, just like Nicole said.

But there might be something in the Master Bathroom or even Bedroom that Jacob overlooked.  Closing ourselves in might trap us with something just as bad as Spot, or worse.

I think closing the door and waiting behind it with a shotgun is a good plan, but David should sweep the room and bathroom.  The idea would be to shoot the dog as it tries to bust in, assuming it takes the bait.  If it can really lie in wait for a significant amount of time, we'll at least still be alive to try something else.  Thoughts?
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Re: The End
« Reply #1101 on: October 13, 2008, 11:49:22 PM »

I'm not totally convinced that trying to take this thing on in a narrow space is a better idea than getting it out in the open and blasting it. This thing may look like a dog but it could very easily burst into a hallway-filling rapetangle at a moment's notice. Sure, we'll never be able to outrun it, but outside we'd at least be able to see it coming. As long as we're trapped in here it has the advantage, not us.
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Re: The End
« Reply #1102 on: October 13, 2008, 11:56:07 PM »

It ran off though, it's waiting for us to try to escape.  It's luring us out.  If it had the advantage in the hallway, why didn't it just leap our throat already?
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Re: The End
« Reply #1103 on: October 14, 2008, 12:03:01 AM »

You are so high right now.

1. Tell your friends how high you are right now.

2. ssssssssssssssss

3. sssssssssssssssssssssss

4. sssssssssssss

Oh, this is NorCal!

You know what, fuck waiting it out. Like the man said, me in front, kids and physicians in the middle, dude with the long range weapon in the back. Fuck this place. Looking forward to the diary.

I'm kind of counting on basic observational skills, here. You know, covering doorways like anyone who ever played rainbow six, etc. Given that the alternative is hanging out in a bedroom for the next forever it seems kind of preferable.

Tentacles aren't great, but we have, you know, guns. Get to the choppa car.
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Re: The End
« Reply #1104 on: October 14, 2008, 12:05:35 AM »

I agree with Sharkey that mobility would be the wisest choice, but that dog is totally baiting. Go the exact opposite way it went.
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Re: The End
« Reply #1105 on: October 14, 2008, 12:07:19 AM »

It ran off though, it's waiting for us to try to escape.  It's luring us out.  If it had the advantage in the hallway, why didn't it just leap our throat already?

Probably because we had a shotgun aimed right at it. I don't think it's luring us outside at all. It knows the house, I'm sure it knows how to get us wherever we hide. If it has the advantage outdoors why did it wait for us to come inside before attacking in the first place?

I think we ought to get out into the clear and then split up. David, Jacob and Nicole can head for the minivan or the car, whichever is closer, while we try and get into a position where we can cover them and hope that between David and ourself one of us can drop it before it finishes deciding who looks tastier.
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Re: The End
« Reply #1106 on: October 14, 2008, 12:08:21 AM »

Given the distance, I'd say our best bet is to risk this kind of close range affair. First off... Jacob needs our pistol. Second, if it's going towards the front door and it's as intelligent as our red-vine THEY was, it's going to wait to decide it's mode of attack. if it thinks we're going to be attempting egress through that window, it will go there and eat us. Or if it's feeling impatient I suppose it could haul itself up through it with its vines. If it thinks we're going to go out it will let us go out and then eat us. If it thinks we're going to hole up in a place it can't get in, it'll summon a swarm to wait us out and eat us.

David is going to face back, we're going to face forward, and we're going to advance through the hallway. We can explore this place at a better pace a bit later. After we deal with the "hunter". There's a reason we's king of the jungle.
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Re: The End
« Reply #1107 on: October 14, 2008, 12:14:22 AM »

Adopting the modification of the plan: Give Jacob the pistol. He's the only unarmed adult here. In a way I'm tempted to give it to kiddo on the off chance she'll pull some Summer Glau shit, but she hasn't previously demonstrated magical gun powers yet. Throw him a piece, then get the fuck out of the house in a reasonably organized fashion. We already walked through this shit and have a pretty good idea which windows zombie dogs might feel like jumping through, unless we're actually retarded (yes, I'm still bitter about the "shoot the unarmed guy we might have saved" bit. Also, the not doing a bit more chitter chatter with American Gothic bit. Somewhat less our failure to just shoot fucking locks at the proper downward angle. We were pretty good up to and including that bit of cleverness. Things might have gone more than a little bit to shit since then.)

Also, just to be clear, I'm feeling more than a little Fuck-You about the Window-From-The-Master-Bath thing. I'm more game for the direct route.
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Re: The End
« Reply #1108 on: October 14, 2008, 12:17:52 AM »

Having a huge tattooed biker backing us up might have made this encounter somewhat easier. Oh well, live and learn!

Or don't...
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Re: The End
« Reply #1109 on: October 14, 2008, 12:50:20 AM »

The master bath window seems like a great doggie door for tarzan's dog. I think we can all agree that it's a point of entry for a threat and not a reasonable means of egress.

the not doing a bit more chitter chatter with American Gothic bit
Also, I'm not sure who you're talking about here, because there have been about a million conversations I would have liked to have had.
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Re: The End
« Reply #1110 on: October 14, 2008, 12:50:50 AM »

Also, beyond the current situation, some points to consider:
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"You approach her and hug her. She looks up at you. "Wolfy, this place is death and decay. There is nothing for us here. Let us move on."

You cock your head at her. Her eyes seem normal, but her speech is still monotone and lacking childish inflection."

Cute that we repeat that ourselves pretty much verbatim.

I'd have chalked that up to bad, unnatural goddamn writing. Hell, that's practically Strindberg and Helium. At least, without the second paragraph. It gains quite a fucking lot in light of that. None of which sounds very nice. Again, good job, Frykid, if that was intentional.

And I still don't think the kid is an asshole. Manipulative and probably possessed, sure, but absolutely correct for the most part. And the only person present who hasn't obviously fucked anyone over (Jakey: Malpractice).

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"David leans in close after glancing at Nicole in the backseat. "Listen, this is our chance. Jacob is gone. We can just leave him. Trust me, if he's what I think he is, we don't want him near us, or the little girl," he whispers."

Alright, David is either really, seriously paranoid, or he's a grade A #1 class motherfucker. Or both. Or, you know, nobody involved in that exchange is human and Jacob is. That'd be cute.

In either case, it puts me pretty much on the side of "fuck that guy" in damn near anything relating to David.

P.S.
Give me a break from the biblical names. They're hard to keep track of. Especially those two. No, the symbolism wasn't lost. Even if it was pure coincidence I'm feeling kind of beaten around the neck and shoulders with it.

P.P.S.
If those are the lengths you're going to I can only wonder what you had in mind for the people we've already abandoned or killed. Either there was nothing there at all, or we went and capped Tom Joad.

P.P.P.S.
Can we please, please make it obvious to ourselves and our allies that if you have to shoot some sonofabitch, shoot him in the fucking chest? Seriously, we let that go without a vote? Not even a followup scattershot in the heart? It's a pretty strong strike on the "we're a fucking idiot" side of things.
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Re: The End
« Reply #1111 on: October 14, 2008, 02:43:43 AM »

Also, when this is all over with, I would love to see a review of our voting records, and an assessment of exactly what kind of motherfucker we would each be in an incomprehesible-lovecraftian-california-apocalypse type dealeo. I'm all kinds of vain in that regard, and also curious about the types of shitheads I've been indirectly associating myself with.
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Re: The End
« Reply #1112 on: October 14, 2008, 07:20:50 AM »

Has anyone ever contemplated that perhaps a some kind of watergun loaded with alcohol might work better against them, rather than a gun? Mouthwash in the bathroom cabinet, maybe?
Probably not such a good idea against "hunter"-type them, though.
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Re: The End
« Reply #1113 on: October 14, 2008, 07:34:29 AM »

Seconding "Stick together, Wolfy in front, David in back, Jacob with handgun, and Nicole between. B Line to the car."


P.P.P.S.
Can we please, please make it obvious to ourselves and our allies that if you have to shoot some sonofabitch, shoot him in the fucking chest? Seriously, we let that go without a vote? Not even a followup scattershot in the heart? It's a pretty strong strike on the "we're a fucking idiot" side of things.

Yeah, what the hell was David doing shooting Snake-Arms in the head? That could still make for a cute surprise back at the car.
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Re: The End
« Reply #1114 on: October 14, 2008, 08:09:57 AM »

Also, when this is all over with, I would love to see a review of our voting records, and an assessment of exactly what kind of motherfucker we would each be in an incomprehesible-lovecraftian-california-apocalypse type dealeo. I'm all kinds of vain in that regard, and also curious about the types of shitheads I've been indirectly associating myself with.

If I'm right about how the game works, that's not nearly as relevant as you might think.
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Re: The End
« Reply #1115 on: October 14, 2008, 09:33:25 AM »

Thirding "Stick together, Wolfy in front, David in back, Jacob with handgun, and Nicole between. B Line to the car."

Also basically everything you said. I don't know why, but we generate a lot more consensus on these open-option dealies.
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Re: The End
« Reply #1116 on: October 14, 2008, 10:05:58 AM »

Fourthing "Stick together, Wolfy in front, David in back, Jacob with handgun, and Nicole between. B Line to the car."

I'm on the edge of my damn seat here. Please don't die k?
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Re: The End
« Reply #1117 on: October 14, 2008, 10:07:50 AM »

2 bits says nicole is the real target...
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Re: The End
« Reply #1118 on: October 14, 2008, 10:57:11 AM »

Re: Friday
I've just lurked here for a month or so and found the place when looking for Werewolf variants. I also vaguely remember the forum when I went to Sharkey's website occasionally, but I never posted so it doesn't count.

I'd've posted elsewhere but I am behind on videogames and nothing has triggered political RAGE.

PERSONAL EXPOSITION ASIDE

Fifthing "Stick together, Wolfy in front, David in back, Jacob with handgun, and Nicole between. B Line to the car."

It's curious that the dog never shrieked, which would imply no reinforcements.

Also, how the hell does infection even work? Something about getting into your head through your eyes. Do they just rip it out or something? It seems contact based since it only occurred when people were in proximity i.e. trying to help.

This is vaguely more important now because we have 2 (probably) uninfected humans and losing one of them to a dog bite would be so stupid.

Of course infection status also comes with increased healing factor, so maybe we'll learn something.

As for infected saving criteria in light of recent information, they must not:
Be begging for death.
Trying to kill us for selfish intent.

Let's see how effective it is!


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Re: The End
« Reply #1119 on: October 14, 2008, 12:55:40 PM »

Stick together, Wolfy in front, David in back, Jacob with handgun, and Nicole between. B Line to the car.

You shut the door and turn around.

"Alright. Here's the deal. We need to get out of here, and we need to do it right now. David, you take the rear. I'll go up front. Jacob, Nicole, you two stay in the middle. We go straight out to the car. No messing around with windows. It shouldn't take us more than fifteen seconds to get out."

"What about Spot?" asks David.

"If you see him, you blast him," you reply. You take out your 9mm from your pocket, and hold it out to Jacob. "Here, take it."

He shakes his head. "I'd only end up shooting one of you, or myself."

"Come on. It's a gun. Nothing easier to use in the world. We need you armed."

Jacob wipes away his tears. He crumples the piece of paper he was reading earlier and sticks it in his pocket. "Alright. I'll try. But only if I have to."

"I'm not asking anything else," you say.

Nicole looks up at you. She's trembling. When she speaks, it's back to girlish tones. "Wolfy..."

"Don't worry, kid. We're gonna be alright," you say to her, then turn to the others. "You ready?"

Jacob nods. David runs a hand through his hair and adjusts his glasses.

You turn to the door. "Here goes nothing," you say, and kick it open.

Empty hallway. You move.

Nicole follows, then Jacob, and David.

You step into the living room, sweeping your shotgun toward the front door, then the other way. Nothing. The sliding glass door is shattered inward. Shards of glass mix with the garbage on the floor.

You start toward the front door. It's shut, just like you left it. Where the hell did the dog go?

There is a scrabbling noise above you. Footsteps.

"He's on the roof!" hisses David, pointing his rifle upward.

"No," you whisper back. "Don't shoot..."

The footsteps above you seem to stop. A low growling sound is heard. The noise is right on top of you.

You motion the others to wait. Gingerly, you step toward the door and push it open. Facing backwards, you step out the door, shotgun tilted up.

The edge of the roof comes into view. You take a few more steps. A single vine slithers over the edge. You pause for a second, then take another step back.

The dog's head suddenly comes into view. The vines writhe and hiss/growl at you.

You blast them.

There is a horrible yelping and angry hissing noise. Chunks of vine and gore rain down. The head withdraws.

"Now, go!" you yell, pumping your shotgun.

Jacob runs for the car, carrying Nicole. David comes out back first, rifle pointed up. There's a scrambling noise along the far side of the roof, then a thud on the other side of the house.

"He's on the ground on the other side," you say. "Now is our chance. Get in the car."

David wordlessly follows your orders. You run for the driver's side as he circles around to the passenger side.

The dog comes around the side of the house. David quickly aims and fires a shot, but seems to miss. You level your shotgun, and the dog retreats to the corner of the house. You fire.

Scattershot slams into the edge of the garage and the ground. Some of it hits the dog, but only in the front area. Some vines hang limp from the head. The dog again yelps, but doesn't vanish entirely around the corner.

Jacob steps out of the car and starts firing the 9mm at it. His shots are wild.

"No, get back in the car! It's just trying to bait us into wasting --"

There is a low growl from behind you.

You turn, and a golden retriever hiss/growls, and lunges.

But not for you.

Before you can move or react, it grabs Jacob in it's frontal head vines from behind and bears him down to the ground right next to David.

"Jacob!" you yell. But the only answer you get is his screams.

The retriever bounds away to join the other one. Jacob twists in his tentacled jaws. His face flashes toward you for one brief second.

David curses and fires at the retreating dogs. This time, they do actually vanish around the side of the house.

There are horrible ripping, shredding sounds. Jacob's screams go silent.

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1. Charge around the side of the house.

2. Leave.

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