The Arcadia Mall was old, even by 1990s standards, largely unadorned, its parking lot dotted with a few cars but otherwise dark with no lights from the structure or the light-posts. “There’s a Sears,” Josh said, pointing at the sign on one of the mall’s anchor stores. “Do they sell guns?” “This is Texas,” Vera…
Vera drove down the residential streets surrounding the airport, past single-family homes, small parks and baseball fields, and what might have been an elementary school. To be truthful it wasn’t so different from her family’s neighborhood in Belgrade, despite the difference in architectural styles. For Austin, this was probably an older part of the city;…
Since this is a long scenario we’ll take a break now to give our characters some Character Points, assuming they have some time to stop and reflect. Everybody gets 5 cp. So what options do we have for character advancement? Remember, we can only improve skills that our character used during the scenario so far….
“I go visit my sister on my breaks sometimes – the state hospital isn’t far, and we have lunch in the quad. It’s… it was nice.” Toni had calmed down, putting her bat aside, sitting holding the cup of shitty airport vending machine coffee that Vera had grabbed for her. Every so often she’d shoot…
Vera took the lead, through the security doors into the control tower’s base. GURPS: There’s an encounter hook to be heard, here, so everybody gets a Perception check. Vera, Ashly, and Marco succeed, Marco critically. I won’t bother rolling for the NPCs in this instance, but the PCs who hear it have to make –…
After Nick pointed it out, after they’d stopped and their footsteps were silent, the sound of weeping was impossible to miss in the empty terminal. It seemed to be coming not from the gate that Flight 13 was parked in front of, but the one next to it, Gate F. Does the party investigate?5: Yes,…
The cockpit was crowded, with Josh and the woman in the wheelchair at the controls, the flight attendant at their side. The Captain had been laid out on the ground, attended by a nun, with the co-pilot curled up not too far from him – of the flight crew, only the engineer seemed lucid enough…
2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 Previously our protagonists found themselves thrown almost two decades into the past, working in an office building that was very shortly ground zero for a zombie apocalypse. They escaped, but not before losing Vera, one of their own, to the hoards of flesh-eating monsters. Or…
The group moved on, up another few flights, to the sixth, where they spotted a trio of dead office workers milling about. “Call ‘em,” Marcus said. “I got glasses.” “No face,” Vera said. “Blond lady,” Nick said. “I guess… also blond lady,” Ashly said. “No face,” Josh said. Nick stood alongside his friends, pistol firmly…
“Is that all of them?” Marco asked. Vera surveyed the pile of un-moving bodies at their feet, then slunk down along the wall into a squat. “What the fuck, man. What the fuck. How is any of this real?” “I don’t know,” Nick said, adjusting what was left of his shirt. Marco was fumbling shells…