Going with 1 due to inaction, time, and the fact no other options have received any votes.
1. No, it's too unstable. It'd be very easy for you to slip and fall, or something to give way, and then you'd be dead. You'll take what you've found so far, load it in your car, and find a different way.
Taking one last look over at the other side of the ruined bridge, you see nothing but the smoking remains of vehicles and a few burnt and bleeding bodies. You seriously doubt anyone is alive over there.
Turning, you head back to the intact car and begin unloading the supplies you found from it back into your car you took from Spanish Gardens. Your leg aches and you suddenly remember your wound. You roll up your pant leg and inspect it as best you can, sitting out the driver's side of your car, pointing the flashlight at it.
The wound is ugly, but doesn't seem to be very deep. Something catches your eye and you reach into the slash, gasping slightly at the pain. Your fingers come away bloody, but pinching what seems to be a small thorn.
Holding it up close to your face, you inspect it in the light of the car. It's very small. Although you hadn't actually seen thorns like this on the vines, you have no doubt this was broken off (or deliberately left behind) by the fleshy appendage that snaked under that door.
Your previous wound from a vine from that first Faceless didn't show anything like this. Although you just might not have seen it, you suspect this thorn, or whatever it is, is something the Halfheads are capable of.
Inspecting the thorn further, you notice a little ball on the blunt end. It's very tiny, but as you bring it close to your eye, you notice that it is transparent. There seems to be a small drop of liquid inside.
Glancing around, you find a plastic cub with lid and drop the thorn inside, before replacing the cup in the holder.
You use the first aid kit to clean and bandage the wound as best you can. The alcohol stings like a bitch, and the smell actually makes you vomit a little. You inspect your leg for any additional thorns, but find none. Though you suspect with the recent sudden spike in your "infection" that some have already burrowed into your bloodstream and released whatever they held into you.
"Note to self," you say. "Don't let yourself get grabbed by the freakish tentacle monsters. Especially if they're the chatty versions."
You finish the unloading and loading job, and check the flaregun to make sure it's still there. The weight of it in your palm is some small comfort. You place it back in your pocket, and start the car.
Now that you're not being chased by horrors or turning into one yourself, you have time to check the gas. Slightly less than a third. Great. Nobody keeps their cars full.
You do a U-turn and head away from the carnage behind you, leaving it for... well, whatever finds it.
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Perhaps ten minutes have passed when you come upon a small dirt road breaking off the main highway and heading down. It's going the right way, and may be another way across the gorge, probably along the bottom of it.
On the other hand, it's dark, and you seriously doubt there's any alcohol down there.
Do you even want to be headed toward Limestone anymore, anyway? At this point, whatever plan you may have had with Jacob and David and Nicole seems pretty well scrapped.
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1. Take the dirt road. You suspect David and Nicole went to Limestone, and you need to find them.
2. Keep heading down the highway. You're not going off into the woods alone, in the dark. And who says Nicole and David are that way anyway?
3. Actually, it's stupid to be driving around at night anyway, and you're tired. Pull off the highway down the road a bit, and go to sleep. You can worry about everything else tomorrow.
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Location: Northern California, Highway to Limestone
Health: Leg wounded, bandaged and cleaned
Infection: sssssss |
Weapons: Flaregun, 2 flares
Assets: Flashlight, backpack of about three days worth of food/water, car (third of a tank), First aid Kit w/rubbing alcohol, bandages, scissors, peroxide, q-tips, aspirin, a sling, some stitching wire + needle; two sleeping bags, extra can of gasoline, tent.
Skills: None
"They" encountered:
"Faceless"
Form: Humanoid
Attacks: Vines
Resilience: Medium, can be killed by massive damage to torso
Speed: Low
Special/Notes: Central nervous system does not seem to be present in the head
"Flesh Worm"
Form: Worm
Attacks: Mouth, Unknown
Resilience: Unknown
Speed: Unknown
Special/Notes: Unknown
"No-Face"
Form: Humanoid
Attacks: Unknown, seemed to summon other faceless. Changed a bird into a Crawler. Killed "Jacob".
Resilience: Unknown
Speed: Unknown
Special/Notes: Can suddenly vanish, or turn invisible. May be all in your head.
"Crawler"
Form: Vermin
Attacks: Long Vines
Resilience: Low
Speed: High
Special/Notes: Can climb and stick to walls, ceilings.
"Cavine"
Form: Canine
Attacks: Vines
Resilience: Medium
Speed: High
Special/Notes: Unknown
"Halfhead"
Form: Humanoid
Attacks: Vines
Resilience: Unknown
Speed: Medium
Special/Notes: Can speak. Seems somewhat stronger than a normal Faceless. Infecting thorns on vines.
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