Fallout Play-By-Post

[Songbird]

Robin

Robin lets out a quiet gasp, waving her free hand wildly in the air for a moment to signal the danger to the others. She does the only sensible thing someone in her position could: She puts as much distance between her and the bodies she can without drawing the attention of whatever the hell is it. To her great distaste that means glancing over her shoulder and away from the bodies for a moment to avoid colliding with the others so she can position herself safely behind them, out of their way and aims.

[amaranthineamusement]

Robin

Robin blinks, suddenly feeling very stupid. Charlie is right. Nothing in the recording revealed the nature of what had killed them, and in doctor's place Robin would likely let out the same question when attacked. She rubs the back of her neck and reads the generator entry.

Two months at best if it comes to the auxiliary power. The prospect doesn't appeal to Robin, but she doesn't feel the need to voice it out. It's an open-and-shut case: She's ready to try anything and everything else first whether the others are or not. "Do you think we'll ever figure where this Dr. Ryan came from?" she asks absentmindedly instead. "I kinda like him. Doesn't sound like an asshole."

"Maybe we'll find his body. We can check it for a wallet."

"Stay back" Faust says, protectively pushing Charlie and Jay behind him. A kid, a civilian. Behind him.
Bodies shouldn't be moving.
Bodies moving is bad. Very bad.
Figuring out what it means and how it happened can wait until later, there were potentially hostile... stuff... ahead.

He begins to regret he didn't take one of the two guns. He can see Grey knows his way around weapons, but the way he's holding that gun is still... undeniably awkward.


Robin shouldn't have been sent to the front.

Jay makes an irritated noise and pulls out his hammer, moving out of Faust's reach. Come on. What does he think Jay is, a sapling?

"I could try and throw the hammer in to attract some of the electricity. Seems like the metallic object we'd be most willing to part with right now."

Robin

Robin lets out a quiet gasp, waving her free hand wildly in the air for a moment to signal the danger to the others. She does the only sensible thing someone in her position could: She puts as much distance between her and the bodies she can without drawing the attention of whatever the hell is it. To her great distaste that means glancing over her shoulder and away from the bodies for a moment to avoid colliding with the others so she can position herself safely behind them, out of their way and aims.

At the signal, Jay backs up, staying quiet so Robin can focus but trying to see what she sees.

[Ragnarok]

The bodies continue to twitch, then some horrible squelching sounds are heard and the hazmat suits rip open as four roaches the size of large cats pull themselves free of the corpses.



The roaches immediately start scuttling towards the humans.

[Kitty]

"Jesus DUCK someone shoot them!" Faust shots. Robin's in the back now, he sends her behind him too.

[thegreyarea]

Nine

"Bugs! I hate bugs!" Nine says, no longer trying to keep his voice down. He observes as all the others fall back behind him and Arthur as the bugs start to move.

"F***, these are big!" He is tempted to fire, but they are low on ammo... "Faust! Can I borrow that wrench?" Nine says, extending an open hand to him.
 
"BTW, we no longer have to find the sentry bot. It's between the generators."

[Kitty]

Nine

"Bugs! I hate bugs!" Nine says, no longer trying to keep his voice down. He observes as all the others fall back behind him and Arthur as the bugs start to move.

"F***, these are big!" He is tempted to fire, but they are low on ammo... "Faust! Can I borrow that wrench?" Nine says, extending an open hand to him.
 
"BTW, we no longer have to find the sentry bot. It's between the generators."

Faust extends the wrench and an empty hand. "Gun."

[R.M.S.N.P]

The bodies continue to twitch, then some horrible squelching sounds are heard and the hazmat suits rip open as four roaches the size of large cats pull themselves free of the corpses.



The roaches immediately start scuttling towards the humans.

Arthur, seemingly unfazed by the horrifying creature, waits for it to get to get within a yard of him, before brining the heel of his boot swiftly down on the radroach's neck
12+3=15
5-2=3
The Radroach's shell buckles beneath his boot, snapping it's neck and spraying and arc of viscera across the floor in front of it, including over Arthur's other boot, which he scrapes off against the wall.


Turning back to the others, he says, with a bit more life and enthusiasm than they've heard previously, "Well, lets hope it's just the cockroaches that have got ideas above their station while we've been out cold. "

[thegreyarea]

Nine

Nine gives Faust the gun. "Here, cover us"  He takes the wrench and attacks the second bug

[Mirasol]

Robin

Robin shrugs and says to the back of his head as he leaves, "Dr. Ryan must be dead. The place from where he came from might not." She looks at Charlie. "Can you eject the holotape and give it to Jay? Keep it in the bag, I think we'll want to give it a listen again." She was glad Jay was hanging safely behind in the line, for she'd like to take a closer look at him when they had the chance. The man looked in a bit of shock and she couldn't to tell whether it was from the situation or a lingering side-effect from the cryosleep.

Charlie nods and fidgets a bit with the terminal until she finds an "eject"-button on the keyboard.

By the time she holds the Holotape in her hands the others have left the room already. She quickly follows, arriving in the hallway when the bodies start twitching. She clutches her wrench.

Arthur, seemingly unfazed by the horrifying creature, waits for it to get to get within a yard of him, before brining the heel of his boot swiftly down on the radroach's neck
12+3=15
5-2=3
The Radroach's shell buckles beneath his boot, snapping it's neck and spraying and arc of viscera across the floor in front of it, including over Arthur's other boot, which he scrapes off against the wall.


Turning back to the others, he says, with a bit more life and enthusiasm than they've heard previously, "Well, lets hope it's just the cockroaches that have got ideas above their station while we've been out cold. "

'Just the cockroaches'... Now that´s gotta be the understatement of the century... Charlie thinks while looking at the cat-sized insects with disgust.

They better don´t come any closer. I´ll guarantee for nothing. She raises the wrench as if to warn the critters, even though she´s standing way too far away from them to do anything, plus Faust stands in front of her.

[Ragnarok]

Arthur, seemingly unfazed by the horrifying creature, waits for it to get to get within a yard of him, before brining the heel of his boot swiftly down on the radroach's neck
12+3=15
5-2=3
The Radroach's shell buckles beneath his boot, snapping it's neck and spraying and arc of viscera across the floor in front of it, including over Arthur's other boot, which he scrapes off against the wall.


Turning back to the others, he says, with a bit more life and enthusiasm than they've heard previously, "Well, lets hope it's just the cockroaches that have got ideas above their station while we've been out cold. "

The three remaining roaches focus on Arthur. While he manages to dodge two, the third gets lucky and latches on to his boot with its tiny jaws. Due to said jaws being tiny, and the boot Arthur is wearing being tough leather, it doesn't accomplish much beyond said latching on.

Nine

Nine gives Faust the gun. "Here, cover us"  He takes the wrench and attacks the second bug

Another radroach goes to radroach heaven as Nine's wrench breaks open its shell.

[thegreyarea]

Nine

Nine goes for the bug that's grabbing Arthur, but they are moving so he fails to graze the shell, hitting just the floor.

1d20+3-3=2; 1d6=4

[amaranthineamusement]

Jay goes for the nearest roach with the hammer.

[ smashy the radroach: 1d10+4 12 ]

He manages to hit, trying to avoid any spray of guts. "Someone needs to get out the bug spray."

[Kitty]

Nine

Nine gives Faust the gun. "Here, cover us"  He takes the wrench and attacks the second bug

Faust takes the gun, makes a quick check of it, takes the safety off and fires a shot at the nearest roach he sees, but the ugly thing seems to be as fast as its normal cousin. He misses.

Gun loud.
He regrets not visiting the shooting range more often, he could've lifted the protective headphones.

...he wouldn't have it right now anyway.

[Mirasol]

Through a combination of coincidences, namely Faust stepping to the side when shooting and Arthur and the roach on his boot moving around trying to get away from each other, said roach is suddenly directly in front of Charlie´s feet.

Instinctively (and completely forgetting about her wrench) she steps on it as hard as she can.

1d20+2+5=10
1d6+2=4

Even though she could have hit it better, it does the trick. The shell cracks with a nasty sound and roach-goo splashes everywhere. When she´s sure the thing stopped moving, Charlie slowly raises her goo-covered boot out of the critter´s corpse.

"Yuck..."

She attemps to get rid of the stuff by shaking her foot with less success than she would have liked. Well, at least it´s just the boot. Following Arthur´s example from earlier, she starts scraping the rest off against the wall. Charlie looks around, breathing out in relief. All of the attackers are dead now. 

[Songbird]

Robin

"Why are they so big?" Robin whispers in astonishment. Having allowed Faust to step in front of her, she's now the last person in the line—as if they still resembled anything close to a line. She doesn't do as much as to even pretend to lunge at the creatures, she just holds a protective arm in front of her torso and the baton in the other hand, staring as the bugs get killed in a quick succession. "That's not right. They should be small. Have more legs!" She seems personally affronted by their failure to meet her expectations of what radiation-induced mutations looked like.

The squashing death of the last radroach cues her into action. Robin twists and turns her as she walks swiftly past the others to reach Arthur, trying to ignore the ringing in her ears due the close quarters shot. Like if the alarm wasn't bad enough already. She crouches and pokes his boot with the baton tip. The leather wasn't broken by the bite. "Good." She stands, looking back at them. "Is everyone okay? No injuries? They may be radioactive."

Without daring to directly touch them, she turns and tugs at the bodies with a foot, shifting them with the baton.