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10-27-2018, 02:37 AM
> LOOT CAR
The torrent of water rushing through the streets has engulfed the car, leaving only the roof safe. If you break into the car, it'd flood... unless you went through the roof rather than the doors or windows. Hopefully your metal legs can beat through rusted car roof.
You get a good grip on the wall of the building so you don't slip, and begin stamping your feet down. The roof creaks and buckles, and eventually you smash a hole into the roof. The inside of the car is still intact, and luckily the water hasn't gotten in yet. You can't exactly squeeze your whole body into the new sunroof, but you can get your upper body through.
There's nothing under or on the seats, except for a bit of dried blood. The glove box has... a knife! You turn it over in your hands and examine it: a textured grip, a ring on the guard (you're not sure for what), and a long blade. The back edge of the blade is somewhat serrated.
You search around in any of the other compartments you can reach, but can't find anything. Just blood. Sure is a lot of dried blood around here.
> FLANK SNIPER
Maybe now you can get the drop on the shooter. There are enough cars clogging the road that you can hop from roof to roof, heading in the direction of the sniper's building. You make sure you don't come into view of the sniper's window. Despite the dark and the rain, you remember which direction the building was in.
As you traverse the road, various pieces of debris are carried downstream. Most of it is trash, but you see small shiny objects floating among the garbage. You get a good grip on the roof of the car, reach out, and grab one. Holding it close to your light, you can see it's an empty bullet shell. You drop the empty shell into the water and continue your journey.
The sniper's building is about the same height as the one you were just in, same material as well. The fire escape is intact on this building, at least. The ladder goes to the second floor but the third floor ladder is missing too many rungs to be climbed effectively. The fire escape window is cracked open slightly, and you open it to enter. After clambering through, you close the window behind you. It's still very dark.
You shine your flashlight across the area. Through the dim green and the dust dancing through the light, you see what looks like a trashed apartment complex. There's bullet holes on the walls, blood stains on the wood floor, and there's trash strewn everywhere. You're in a hall, or what's left of it. With your flashlight you can see four apartments on this floor, all battered and with holes blasted through the walls. There's a slight smell of mildew rising from the first floor.
Other than the pervasive smell of mildew and the signs of battle, you can't see anything that might kill you yet. Each of the rooms is full of more blood, bullet casings, smashed walls, and tons of trash. There's a blood mark that looks like a congealed pool and a smear on a wall, as though someone had fell against it and bled to death.
But so far, you can't find a single body.
Lightning flashes. At the end of the hall, you can see a sign above a stairwell marked "Floor 2".
The torrent of water rushing through the streets has engulfed the car, leaving only the roof safe. If you break into the car, it'd flood... unless you went through the roof rather than the doors or windows. Hopefully your metal legs can beat through rusted car roof.
You get a good grip on the wall of the building so you don't slip, and begin stamping your feet down. The roof creaks and buckles, and eventually you smash a hole into the roof. The inside of the car is still intact, and luckily the water hasn't gotten in yet. You can't exactly squeeze your whole body into the new sunroof, but you can get your upper body through.
There's nothing under or on the seats, except for a bit of dried blood. The glove box has... a knife! You turn it over in your hands and examine it: a textured grip, a ring on the guard (you're not sure for what), and a long blade. The back edge of the blade is somewhat serrated.
You search around in any of the other compartments you can reach, but can't find anything. Just blood. Sure is a lot of dried blood around here.
> FLANK SNIPER
Maybe now you can get the drop on the shooter. There are enough cars clogging the road that you can hop from roof to roof, heading in the direction of the sniper's building. You make sure you don't come into view of the sniper's window. Despite the dark and the rain, you remember which direction the building was in.
As you traverse the road, various pieces of debris are carried downstream. Most of it is trash, but you see small shiny objects floating among the garbage. You get a good grip on the roof of the car, reach out, and grab one. Holding it close to your light, you can see it's an empty bullet shell. You drop the empty shell into the water and continue your journey.
The sniper's building is about the same height as the one you were just in, same material as well. The fire escape is intact on this building, at least. The ladder goes to the second floor but the third floor ladder is missing too many rungs to be climbed effectively. The fire escape window is cracked open slightly, and you open it to enter. After clambering through, you close the window behind you. It's still very dark.
You shine your flashlight across the area. Through the dim green and the dust dancing through the light, you see what looks like a trashed apartment complex. There's bullet holes on the walls, blood stains on the wood floor, and there's trash strewn everywhere. You're in a hall, or what's left of it. With your flashlight you can see four apartments on this floor, all battered and with holes blasted through the walls. There's a slight smell of mildew rising from the first floor.
Other than the pervasive smell of mildew and the signs of battle, you can't see anything that might kill you yet. Each of the rooms is full of more blood, bullet casings, smashed walls, and tons of trash. There's a blood mark that looks like a congealed pool and a smear on a wall, as though someone had fell against it and bled to death.
But so far, you can't find a single body.
Lightning flashes. At the end of the hall, you can see a sign above a stairwell marked "Floor 2".
Can anyone curse a REAL sword?