Wraithstrike
Resident Precureologist
Adventures in MGM Studios
Chapter 1: Rafael, In the tower, at Midnight.
The party is just about to enter MGM when Princess spots a large shed marked with the black bullseye. According to the information they picked up in Downtown Disney, this means a weapons cache. They break the padlock and enter to find a Predator Drone.
"Holy Bleep, who'd leave something like this lying around?" Bane asks. His answer comes into form of cold steel pressed against the back of his neck. There stands Army Lieutenant Rafael Brennon.
"I did. Stand and identify. Are you immune?" Rafael presses the barrel of his rifle harder into Bane's neck. Fonz steps up. "Corporal Edwin Drake, USMC out of Beaufort.I came here on a rescue mission and met these crazy people. As far as I can tell, we're all immune."
"Really? And how many of your rescue party died?" Rafael lowers the gun.
"8 Marines, due to the helicopter crashing. 1 more, Lieutenant Jessica Lance, bled out after taking grievous damage from one of those Spitters." Fonz replies.
"So how were you planning on getting these people out of here?"
"Hell if I know. I'm making this up as I go along."
"And what's that thing there by your vehicle?"
"That's Beast. He's not a zombie. He's some kind of mutant, obviously, we just haven't figured out what.”
Rafeal takes in a few more introductions. "You guys have the benefit of immunity. I was the only one in the Army group who was. They were all slaughtered. I'm the one who's been laying weapon caches around, in hopes that someone would find them. However, the drone is under my control. Anything else is fair game, got it?"
"You're the boss, Lieutenant. But now, we got problems of the undead variety." Vernon speaks up. "I'm picking up 34 Z, including a few special infected. Everyone ready?"
A chainsaw rips to life. Shotguns are brandished. A macguyvered auto turret spins up. Beast pounds his knuckles into his palms.
"Well that was a stupid question."
Battle is joined. Pooh goes first. The Chainsaw of Great Justice cleaves through three zombies in a downward arc. Fonz lets the zombies close in on him before ducking and letting his turret burn them up. 4 zombies go Foosh. Rafeal brandishes his experimental fireball gun, which unfortunately jams. Casting it aside for the moment, Rafael wades into the zombie masses, swinging around a cricket bat. One zombie is killed by a shot to the torso, from another zombie's head being taken clean off.
Princess really begins to despise being so magically delicious, as a Smoker's tongue wraps around her. She is dragged half a football field away from Hollywood Boulevard before Fonz snaps off a shot, killing the Smoker.
It is at this point that Princess gets a devious idea. She's fifty yards out, and still has her sniper rifle. She sets up, and starts taking shots at all the zombies that Beast doesn't make into undead jelly. Two down with one headshot. She reloads and waits for more rotting heads to pass through her crosshairs.
Bane gets knocked away by a charger which is promptly leveled by Daiyu. As his eyes adjust to new light, he finds himself in a giftshop, staring down a zombie Jafar. For whatever reason, Jafar is not trying to eat brains. Bane looks on in horror as Jafar projects the illusion of a pair of cobras in the air. The cobras loop around Bane, and he can feel his energy being drained. He raises his katana for a desperate attack, and stabs Jafar in the heart.
There's an explosion, and Bane is caught in it. As he flies backward, he thinks he can still see that rictus grin Zombie Jafar had, just floating there. But right now, he has bigger concerns. Like the fact that he's on fire. He rolls to a stop near the others. As they help him up, he notes two things: First, his katana has been destroyed. Second, the wounds he just got in the explosion seem to be healing themselves. He doesn't have much time to think about this, as a tank approaches.
Beast engages the Tank at Daiyu's command, and Beast rips off one of the arms of the tank, making it impossible to use its massive rubble toss. However, the tank breaks the grapple momentarily, sending a golf cart hurtling through the air towards Rafael. Using his Aces, Rafael dodges just barely, finding himself in the open space between the golf cart's canopy and engine. He does a double take, looking up at the tank, then down at the golf cart. He just starts laughing.
With one arm missing, the tank is less threatening. The survivors suddenly realize that they could kill this thing with melee weapons alone. Beast backs off, allowing them to guan do, cricket bat, baseball bat and quarterstaff the tank to death.
Now that the area is clear, the group hear moaning. It's not zombie moans. Rafael, Fonz and Pooh head further down, tagging Princess along the way to follow them. All of them make their command+stability rolls when they see a human with the skin freshly flayed off his arms, hanging from a flagpole. He's still alive, but as they get close, Princess calls to them to halt. He's wired to a small block of C4. Someone elsewhere has to be watching and waiting with the detonator. Rafael decides to head in to find who would do such a reprehensible act.
When Rafe finds the two other survivors, he skips right past polite conversation to Fear of God intimidation. With 4 3's he tears them each a new one, and makes them wet their pants in fear.
Outside, Fonz has disabled the device, and pulled the victim down. Here they come up with a slightly sick plan.
Pooh: "Hey, didn't they repair curt schilling's ankle with cadaver skin? Maybe we can save this guy the same way."
Daiyu: "Epic. Let's do it. Bossman, what do we need to roll to make it happen?"
GM: "Sense+Scrutiny to find non-infected skin samples. Mind+Knowledge to know how to do it. Mind+Medicine, four rolls from each of you, to do it and stabilize him."
Princess does the finding, while Daiyu, Pooh and Bane do the actual science. Beast and Fonz keep watch. After four tense hours, at midnight, the team has successfully stabilized their newly rescued friend.
Rafe leads the sickos out of the restaurant, and to the ZRV. Pooh has already been to the ZRV, to tell the other survivors what these guys have done.
“Keep them alive, but feel free to give them some new bruises.” Pooh and Beast help the recovering man into the back seat of a school bus nearby. While Fonz drives the Duckboat, Pooh will drive the schoolbus for more injured people until they reach rescue. Taking the doctor from Wide World into the bus, she has him watch over the patient until they return. Closing the door on the bus, Pooh heads back into MGM with the others.
When Pooh rejoins the others, Fonz is on the walkie talkie, in contact with someone in the park.
“Repeat. How many and where are you?”
“Four of us. Tower of Terror. The ride got stuck halfway up. Can you help us?”
“We’re on our way.”
The group makes their way to the Tower of Terror, and along the way runs into another armed survivor. His name is Ace Jackson, and he’s carrying a sawed-off shotgun and a naginata. He’s not forthcoming on where he got the blade, but the others don’t care at the moment. He joins the group, ready to fight off all the zombies in their way. To their amazement, Ace seems to be harder than diamond. A zombie attempts to bite his arm, and it breaks its teeth on him. He’s not invincible, just has a natural armor of thick skin for some reason.
Fonz enters the Tower of Terror control room. He attempts to lay hands on the machines, but only gets the cameras to work. As was said, four people are trapped halfway up the ride. Fonz will keep an eye on them from the booth. Beast and Pooh take to the safety stairs, while Daiyu and Rafe climb the ladders on the side.
They have an encounter with 20 zombies coming down the stairs. Pooh drops the hood, and the fear effect kicks in. The zombies throw themselves over the railing rather than deal with the Bear and the Beast.
Unfortunately, the effect doesn’t work as well on the Tank. The tank tears a chunk of wall out of the ride, and hurls it at Pooh. Beast moves to intercept, and is driven off the stairs, fifty feet down. He’s broken and barely breathing.
“Not gonna happen! Bane, Brennon, keep me covered!” Fonz moves in and starts setting bones. After four Mind+Medicine rolls, Fonz is able to stabilize Beast. Their mutant comrade is still alive. That’s the good news. The bad news is that he’s in no condition to fight.
The others fight the tank on the narrow landing, fifty feet up. After four rounds of a desperate fight, they finally defeat it, pushing the body over the edge to crush a few extant zombies.
Without many more zombies to deal with, they head to the top of the ride. Rafe finds an arc welder, and pledges to put it to good use. Rafe and Daiyu jump out to the rafters to find the emergency brakes. Using the C4 so generously donated by the idiots in the restaurant, they each roll exceptionally well on Mind+Knowledge, and find the right amount of explosive and the right locations to place it.
Once they get down to the ground, Fonz calls up to the people in the ride to cover their heads and brace. The detonation happens, and the ride falls four stories. Finally, however, the four people inside are saved, and escorted back to the ZRV and ZRB for more medical treatment. Beast goes with them, sitting guard at the bus.
As the adrenaline rush calms down, Rafe brings up a key piece of data. “Some of the army guys left a pretty good stash in the Rockin’ Roller Coaster, let’s head over there and take what we can.”
As he declared, there is some good stuff here. One AK-74, a box of smoke bombs, 4 pounds of C4 and an RPG launcher. This last one is claimed by Ace. “You army guys don’t mess around.” The smoke bombs go to Wolfe, and Fonz claims the carbine. Just to be safe, the explosives are given to Rafe.
Once they get armed, another wave of zombies approaches. 43 according to Wolfe, who drops a smoke bomb. Using this distraction, Ace wades into the smoke(Rolling 4x4 on Coordination plus Stealth.) To all the other guys, all they see is a blade flashing in the smoke. When it finally clears, Ace is leaning on his naginata, with twelve zombies deanimated at his feet.(3 turns worth of actions)
“Bravo. Bravo.”
Smokers prove to be a persistent lot, as Pooh is dragged away. The Smoker only gets her twenty feet before she chainsaws her way out of the tongue. Pooh is safe from the next SI assault, as a boomer nails Ace, Wolfe, and Daiyu.
Fonz thinks quickly. “Take off your shirt and give it to me.” Ace complies, removing his Big Daddy hoodie. Fonz wraps a third of a pound of C4 in the shirt and throws it as far as he can. Once the zombies follow it, he detonates, taking out all but the last few.
These last few are removed from the field by Ace, who shouts at every one to duck. He fires an RPG at the approaching horde, including a Charger. Nothing remains of them.
Ace picks the lock in the locker room, and comes up with a set of scrubs to wear.
They take some time to heal up their wounds at a medical pavilion outside the Fantasmic Stage Show and head up the road to the Animation Plaza.
Stats for Rafael Brennon
Body 3D
Athletics 3D
Block 3D
Brawling 3D
Endurance 3D
Melee(Cricket Bat) 3D
Coordination 2D
Dodge 3D
Driving 0D
Lockpicking 2D
Stealth 1D
Ranged Weapon(AK 47) 2D
Sense 4D
Empathy OD
Perception 2D
Scrutiny 2D
Mind 5D
Security Systems 3D
Survival 5D
Tactics 4D
First Aid 5D
Knowledge 4D
Medicine 0D
Charm 4D
Lie 0D
Perform 0D
Persuasion 2D
Command 3D
Interrogation 0D
Intimidation 2D
Leadership 1D
Stabiliy 3D
Miracles
2HD Zombie Immunity
2D Aces
Loyalty: US Army
Passion: Survival
Base Will 7 Willpower 15
Stats for Ace Jackson
Body 3D
Athletics
Block
Brawling
Endurance
Melee(Naginata)
Coordination 4D
Dodge
Driving
Lockpicking
Stealth
Weapon(Sawed off shotgun)
Sense 3D
Empathy
Perception
Scrutiny
Mind 3D
First Aid
Knowledge
Language(Italian) 2D
Medicine 3D
Navigation 2D
Tactics 3D
Charm 1D
Lie 1D
Perform 2D
Persuasion 3D
Command 2D
Interrogation 0D
Intimidation 5D
Leadership 3D
Stability 2D
Miracles: 2Hd Zombie Immunity 3D Light Armor
Loyalty: True Love
Passion: Finding true Love
Base Will 3 Willpower 8
Achievements:
Ace: Ghost in the Mist(2) roll wide on stealth
All: Tank Burger (3) Defeated a tank with melee weapons
Altitude Sickness(4) Completed the tower of terror scenario.
Medical Drama(3) Prevent a death through medical means
Character Change: Bane’s character traded in five Hard dice for Four dice in Regeneration, with the caveat that he has to be standing perfectly still to use it.
Quotes of the Sessions:
Fonz: “Beast fell? I’ll drive to Magic Kingdom, strip out the circuits from the Country Bear Jamboree, hook them up to beast and make him a cyborg.”
GM: “While I approve of the destruction of Country Bear Jamboree purely on aesthetic grounds, I’m going to vote this down. You don’t have the knowledge to pull this off, you’re too far away from magic kingdom, and the rest of the group would probably kill you for driving off.”
Fonz: “What about the Hall of Presidents?”
GM: “No.”
Rafe: “We arrived just in time. You know what that makes us?”
Daiyu: “Epically Awesome?”
Rafe: “Darn it.”
Wolfe: “What kind of guy leaves C4 in a roller coaster?”
Fonz: “My kind of guy.”
Rafe: “No. I’ll take the C4, since my squad left it here.”
Fonz: “You never let me have any fun.”
GM: “You call an autotracking fireball gun no fun?”
Fonz: “I meant this time.”
Pooh: “A Naginata? Where are these guys getting such silly weapons? Everybody should have a chainsaw.”
Wolfe: “Great. The Hundred Acre Chainsaw Massacre.”
Pooh: “Exactly.”
Bane: “So, did Jafar survive my stabbing him?”
GM: *smiles evilly*
Bane: “That’s not a good sign.”
Chapter 2: Fairest Bones
(GM Note: It was at this point that zombie horror became Superheroes with zombies. I was planning to go that way anyway, but it happened a lot faster than I thought it would.)
At Fantasmic, two completely different survivors are also searching. They are experiments, released from a place called Bifrost Labs, who were working on creating superhumans. These two were the only volunteers who were successes. And so they were sent into the parks to rescue people and fight the undead.
First, we meet Snow White. Dressed as the eponymous character, Snow was an unrivaled success. The researchers at Bifrost had made her into a prime specimen. Even while wearing a princess dress, she was still fast on her feet, able to fire a shotgun with deadly accuracy, and unreasonably strong. She also has an ability that has shut down Smoker tongues, boomer bile and Blaster bombs.
The second of these strange beings is called Project Marrow. Her real name is Robin Graves, and yes, she’s heard all the jokes before. Unlike most everyone else, she is not immune. However, to protect her from the zombies, she has Pinky, Inky, Blinky and Sue. Four bony tendrils that extend outward and around from her spine. Pinky extends from her cervical vertebrae, Inky and Blinky extend from near her ribs and Sue from the last of the lumbar vertebrae. This does hurt, but fortunately, Robin has regenerative abilities.
Right now, they are collecting weapons. Steak knives from the restaurants are attached to the four tendrils with duct tape. She also finds the holder for the knives and puts it on her holster next to the Desert Eagle she was given when Bifrost sent her out.
Snow White has found an electric bass for her melee weapon. She also uncovers a box of roman candles, and a five pound mortar. Robin wants to use it right away but Snow is having none of that.
“This is just a flash mortar. It’s a big flash and a quick burst of heat. It could probably be used for a distraction, but not to fight off zombies.”
“How do you know that stuff?”
“I interned here before Bifrost. Why do you think I kept the costume?”
They keep searching the area, finally finding a boomer bile jar, two first aid kits, a pack of road flares and an adrenaline shot. These items are going to come in handy as 30 zombies descend upon them.
Robin rushes to melee range and lets her four friends get stabby. With the 4d in multiple actions, Robin gets to take out three zombies with her tendrils and blocks an attack from a fourth with Sue.
Snow White holsters her shotgun and goes to work with the guitar. Together, they take out all the zombies at Fantasmic, and head through the rest of the park. First stop, the gift shops. They’re looking for food firstly. Here, they find a few shelves of twinkies and bottled water. Amidst the water bottles is a whiskey flask, immediately claimed by Robin.
However, the flashlight of Snow white falls on an all too familiar sight. A witch jumps up with intent to do grievous harm to the fairest in the land. Or she would if Snow White hadn’t rolled 4 9’s on Body+Athletics. Snow White is off like a rocket, freerunning up the sides of the structure and over the rooftops, leaping to the Wizard’s Hat.
The witch looks on in shock, and goes back to sobbing. Robin moves away from the building and sets off a flare so Snow White can return to her. Once Snow descends from the rooftops, the two Bifrost supersoliders make their way to the next location: Playhouse Disney Live(Yeah, I don’t know why they went there. I had nothing planned, so I winged it)
Here, though they haven’t been sighted yet, they witness something that doesn’t fit in with what they’ve been told about zombies. Rolypoly Olie is a robot, or so the program they find says. But there he is, controlling zombies. They watch as one of Olie’s arms falls off. It instantly reconnects with the rest of the body.
Robin: “I wonder… if we stunned it, could we run in and take its body parts far enough away that it can’t bring the segments back together?”
Snow: “Only one way to find out.” Snow white hurls a nearby propane tank into the cluster of zombies and Robin shoots it in mid-air. The blast takes out all fifteen of the zombies, stunning Olie. All his segmented body parts fall on the stage.
Snow white rushes in to grab the head and torso. Robin takes one of the arms and sets it as a weapon for Sue. They throw the body in the manmade lake, and walk up Animation Alley. Here, they see the Magic of Animation studio is on fire and they can hear people screaming from inside. Grabbing a fire extinguisher, these two rush in, trying to save who they can.
First, however, it’s robin who needs the saving, as pieces of the roof fall down, pinning her legs. However, Snow White is stronger than Captain America, and casually flings the burning debris off her partner.
Inside the courtyard, they encounter an animator trapped under the rubble. Snow white flings the desk off him, and through the roof above. Not even stopping to check for injuries, Snow white puts the man in a fireman’s carry and leaps up out of the building.
“Great, and me with my four friends and a dry extinguisher.” Robin goes deeper in, to find another person. Since she doesn’t want to freak this person out more, she sheathes her weapons and retracts the tendrils. Carefull, and rolling well enough on Mind(sans navigation) she leads the person out safely. With two people in need of medical attention, the two supers see the other survivors approaching, even as the animation studio collapses.
Stats for Robin Graves
Body 4D
Athletics 4D
Block 4D
Brawling 4D
Endurance 2D
Melee Weapon(Random) 4D
Coordination 3D
Dodge 2D
Driving 0D
Lockpicking 0D
Stealth 0D
Ranged Weapon(Handgun) 3D
Sense 3D
Empathy 2D
Perception 2D
Scrutiny 2D
Mind 5D
First Aid 2D
Medicine 2D
Knowledge 2D
Charm 1D
Lie 0D
Perform 0D
Persuasion 0D
Command 4D
Interrogation 1D
Intimidation 4D
Leadership 0D
Stability 2D
Miracles: Inky, Pinky, Winky and Sue(Four bony tendrils) 4D
Regeneration 4D
Multiple Actions 4D
Loyalty: The Human Race
Passion: Science
Base Will:5
Willpower: 7
Stats for Snow White
Body 4D
Athletics 6D
Block 4D
Brawling 0D
Endurance 0D
Melee Weapon(Guitar) 3D
Coordination
Dodge 5D
Driving 0D
Lockpicking 0D
Stealth 4D
Ranged Weapon(Shotgun) 5D
Sense 5
Empathy 0D
Perception 3D
Scrutiny 0D
Mind 2D
First Aid 2D
Knowledge OD
Medicine 2D
Navigation 4D
Charm 4D
Lie 4D
Perform 2D
Persuasion 0D
Command 4D
Interrogation 0D
Intimidation 1D
Leadership 0D
Stability 6D
Miracles:
Zombie Plague Immunity 2HD
Nullify(Zombie Powers) 5D
Loyalty: Bifrost Labs
Passion: Being the Best
Base Will: 8
Willpower: 24
Achievements:
Snow White: Witch Hunt(3) Outran a Witch
Both: Who’s the Boss(3) Defeated a Boss Level Creature without taking damage
Fire Rescue, Scramble!(2) Rescued survivors from a burning building.
Quotes of the Session
Robin: “How the hell does she move that fast in a princess dress?”
*as another player, not involved in the game at that time, attempts to distract them*
Snow White: “What do I roll to give a damn?”
GM: “Sense+Empathy.”
Robin:” No matches. I don’t give a damn.”
Snow White: “Well I got five dice in sense and none in empathy… 2 4’s? Do I give a damn?”
GM: “My ruling is you’d have to get at least three 4’s to give a damn. Shall we continue?”
Snow White: “What the hell is Rolypoly Olie?”
GM: “A robot from early morning Disney broadcast.”
Robin: “And we couldn’t have fought Bear in the Big Blue House because…?”
Robin: “Can I make a Molotov cocktail from the whiskey flask?”
GM: “No. Molotovs are in glass bottles, so that when they break they spread the flames. The flask is metal.”
Robin: “Can I run a current through it?”
GM: “Eh…Not yet.”
To be Continued in Chapter 3: Bullwhips and Lightsabers
Chapter 1: Rafael, In the tower, at Midnight.
The party is just about to enter MGM when Princess spots a large shed marked with the black bullseye. According to the information they picked up in Downtown Disney, this means a weapons cache. They break the padlock and enter to find a Predator Drone.
"Holy Bleep, who'd leave something like this lying around?" Bane asks. His answer comes into form of cold steel pressed against the back of his neck. There stands Army Lieutenant Rafael Brennon.
"I did. Stand and identify. Are you immune?" Rafael presses the barrel of his rifle harder into Bane's neck. Fonz steps up. "Corporal Edwin Drake, USMC out of Beaufort.I came here on a rescue mission and met these crazy people. As far as I can tell, we're all immune."
"Really? And how many of your rescue party died?" Rafael lowers the gun.
"8 Marines, due to the helicopter crashing. 1 more, Lieutenant Jessica Lance, bled out after taking grievous damage from one of those Spitters." Fonz replies.
"So how were you planning on getting these people out of here?"
"Hell if I know. I'm making this up as I go along."
"And what's that thing there by your vehicle?"
"That's Beast. He's not a zombie. He's some kind of mutant, obviously, we just haven't figured out what.”
Rafeal takes in a few more introductions. "You guys have the benefit of immunity. I was the only one in the Army group who was. They were all slaughtered. I'm the one who's been laying weapon caches around, in hopes that someone would find them. However, the drone is under my control. Anything else is fair game, got it?"
"You're the boss, Lieutenant. But now, we got problems of the undead variety." Vernon speaks up. "I'm picking up 34 Z, including a few special infected. Everyone ready?"
A chainsaw rips to life. Shotguns are brandished. A macguyvered auto turret spins up. Beast pounds his knuckles into his palms.
"Well that was a stupid question."
Battle is joined. Pooh goes first. The Chainsaw of Great Justice cleaves through three zombies in a downward arc. Fonz lets the zombies close in on him before ducking and letting his turret burn them up. 4 zombies go Foosh. Rafeal brandishes his experimental fireball gun, which unfortunately jams. Casting it aside for the moment, Rafael wades into the zombie masses, swinging around a cricket bat. One zombie is killed by a shot to the torso, from another zombie's head being taken clean off.
Princess really begins to despise being so magically delicious, as a Smoker's tongue wraps around her. She is dragged half a football field away from Hollywood Boulevard before Fonz snaps off a shot, killing the Smoker.
It is at this point that Princess gets a devious idea. She's fifty yards out, and still has her sniper rifle. She sets up, and starts taking shots at all the zombies that Beast doesn't make into undead jelly. Two down with one headshot. She reloads and waits for more rotting heads to pass through her crosshairs.
Bane gets knocked away by a charger which is promptly leveled by Daiyu. As his eyes adjust to new light, he finds himself in a giftshop, staring down a zombie Jafar. For whatever reason, Jafar is not trying to eat brains. Bane looks on in horror as Jafar projects the illusion of a pair of cobras in the air. The cobras loop around Bane, and he can feel his energy being drained. He raises his katana for a desperate attack, and stabs Jafar in the heart.
There's an explosion, and Bane is caught in it. As he flies backward, he thinks he can still see that rictus grin Zombie Jafar had, just floating there. But right now, he has bigger concerns. Like the fact that he's on fire. He rolls to a stop near the others. As they help him up, he notes two things: First, his katana has been destroyed. Second, the wounds he just got in the explosion seem to be healing themselves. He doesn't have much time to think about this, as a tank approaches.
Beast engages the Tank at Daiyu's command, and Beast rips off one of the arms of the tank, making it impossible to use its massive rubble toss. However, the tank breaks the grapple momentarily, sending a golf cart hurtling through the air towards Rafael. Using his Aces, Rafael dodges just barely, finding himself in the open space between the golf cart's canopy and engine. He does a double take, looking up at the tank, then down at the golf cart. He just starts laughing.
With one arm missing, the tank is less threatening. The survivors suddenly realize that they could kill this thing with melee weapons alone. Beast backs off, allowing them to guan do, cricket bat, baseball bat and quarterstaff the tank to death.
Now that the area is clear, the group hear moaning. It's not zombie moans. Rafael, Fonz and Pooh head further down, tagging Princess along the way to follow them. All of them make their command+stability rolls when they see a human with the skin freshly flayed off his arms, hanging from a flagpole. He's still alive, but as they get close, Princess calls to them to halt. He's wired to a small block of C4. Someone elsewhere has to be watching and waiting with the detonator. Rafael decides to head in to find who would do such a reprehensible act.
When Rafe finds the two other survivors, he skips right past polite conversation to Fear of God intimidation. With 4 3's he tears them each a new one, and makes them wet their pants in fear.
Outside, Fonz has disabled the device, and pulled the victim down. Here they come up with a slightly sick plan.
Pooh: "Hey, didn't they repair curt schilling's ankle with cadaver skin? Maybe we can save this guy the same way."
Daiyu: "Epic. Let's do it. Bossman, what do we need to roll to make it happen?"
GM: "Sense+Scrutiny to find non-infected skin samples. Mind+Knowledge to know how to do it. Mind+Medicine, four rolls from each of you, to do it and stabilize him."
Princess does the finding, while Daiyu, Pooh and Bane do the actual science. Beast and Fonz keep watch. After four tense hours, at midnight, the team has successfully stabilized their newly rescued friend.
Rafe leads the sickos out of the restaurant, and to the ZRV. Pooh has already been to the ZRV, to tell the other survivors what these guys have done.
“Keep them alive, but feel free to give them some new bruises.” Pooh and Beast help the recovering man into the back seat of a school bus nearby. While Fonz drives the Duckboat, Pooh will drive the schoolbus for more injured people until they reach rescue. Taking the doctor from Wide World into the bus, she has him watch over the patient until they return. Closing the door on the bus, Pooh heads back into MGM with the others.
When Pooh rejoins the others, Fonz is on the walkie talkie, in contact with someone in the park.
“Repeat. How many and where are you?”
“Four of us. Tower of Terror. The ride got stuck halfway up. Can you help us?”
“We’re on our way.”
The group makes their way to the Tower of Terror, and along the way runs into another armed survivor. His name is Ace Jackson, and he’s carrying a sawed-off shotgun and a naginata. He’s not forthcoming on where he got the blade, but the others don’t care at the moment. He joins the group, ready to fight off all the zombies in their way. To their amazement, Ace seems to be harder than diamond. A zombie attempts to bite his arm, and it breaks its teeth on him. He’s not invincible, just has a natural armor of thick skin for some reason.
Fonz enters the Tower of Terror control room. He attempts to lay hands on the machines, but only gets the cameras to work. As was said, four people are trapped halfway up the ride. Fonz will keep an eye on them from the booth. Beast and Pooh take to the safety stairs, while Daiyu and Rafe climb the ladders on the side.
They have an encounter with 20 zombies coming down the stairs. Pooh drops the hood, and the fear effect kicks in. The zombies throw themselves over the railing rather than deal with the Bear and the Beast.
Unfortunately, the effect doesn’t work as well on the Tank. The tank tears a chunk of wall out of the ride, and hurls it at Pooh. Beast moves to intercept, and is driven off the stairs, fifty feet down. He’s broken and barely breathing.
“Not gonna happen! Bane, Brennon, keep me covered!” Fonz moves in and starts setting bones. After four Mind+Medicine rolls, Fonz is able to stabilize Beast. Their mutant comrade is still alive. That’s the good news. The bad news is that he’s in no condition to fight.
The others fight the tank on the narrow landing, fifty feet up. After four rounds of a desperate fight, they finally defeat it, pushing the body over the edge to crush a few extant zombies.
Without many more zombies to deal with, they head to the top of the ride. Rafe finds an arc welder, and pledges to put it to good use. Rafe and Daiyu jump out to the rafters to find the emergency brakes. Using the C4 so generously donated by the idiots in the restaurant, they each roll exceptionally well on Mind+Knowledge, and find the right amount of explosive and the right locations to place it.
Once they get down to the ground, Fonz calls up to the people in the ride to cover their heads and brace. The detonation happens, and the ride falls four stories. Finally, however, the four people inside are saved, and escorted back to the ZRV and ZRB for more medical treatment. Beast goes with them, sitting guard at the bus.
As the adrenaline rush calms down, Rafe brings up a key piece of data. “Some of the army guys left a pretty good stash in the Rockin’ Roller Coaster, let’s head over there and take what we can.”
As he declared, there is some good stuff here. One AK-74, a box of smoke bombs, 4 pounds of C4 and an RPG launcher. This last one is claimed by Ace. “You army guys don’t mess around.” The smoke bombs go to Wolfe, and Fonz claims the carbine. Just to be safe, the explosives are given to Rafe.
Once they get armed, another wave of zombies approaches. 43 according to Wolfe, who drops a smoke bomb. Using this distraction, Ace wades into the smoke(Rolling 4x4 on Coordination plus Stealth.) To all the other guys, all they see is a blade flashing in the smoke. When it finally clears, Ace is leaning on his naginata, with twelve zombies deanimated at his feet.(3 turns worth of actions)
“Bravo. Bravo.”
Smokers prove to be a persistent lot, as Pooh is dragged away. The Smoker only gets her twenty feet before she chainsaws her way out of the tongue. Pooh is safe from the next SI assault, as a boomer nails Ace, Wolfe, and Daiyu.
Fonz thinks quickly. “Take off your shirt and give it to me.” Ace complies, removing his Big Daddy hoodie. Fonz wraps a third of a pound of C4 in the shirt and throws it as far as he can. Once the zombies follow it, he detonates, taking out all but the last few.
These last few are removed from the field by Ace, who shouts at every one to duck. He fires an RPG at the approaching horde, including a Charger. Nothing remains of them.
Ace picks the lock in the locker room, and comes up with a set of scrubs to wear.
They take some time to heal up their wounds at a medical pavilion outside the Fantasmic Stage Show and head up the road to the Animation Plaza.
Stats for Rafael Brennon
Body 3D
Athletics 3D
Block 3D
Brawling 3D
Endurance 3D
Melee(Cricket Bat) 3D
Coordination 2D
Dodge 3D
Driving 0D
Lockpicking 2D
Stealth 1D
Ranged Weapon(AK 47) 2D
Sense 4D
Empathy OD
Perception 2D
Scrutiny 2D
Mind 5D
Security Systems 3D
Survival 5D
Tactics 4D
First Aid 5D
Knowledge 4D
Medicine 0D
Charm 4D
Lie 0D
Perform 0D
Persuasion 2D
Command 3D
Interrogation 0D
Intimidation 2D
Leadership 1D
Stabiliy 3D
Miracles
2HD Zombie Immunity
2D Aces
Loyalty: US Army
Passion: Survival
Base Will 7 Willpower 15
Stats for Ace Jackson
Body 3D
Athletics
Block
Brawling
Endurance
Melee(Naginata)
Coordination 4D
Dodge
Driving
Lockpicking
Stealth
Weapon(Sawed off shotgun)
Sense 3D
Empathy
Perception
Scrutiny
Mind 3D
First Aid
Knowledge
Language(Italian) 2D
Medicine 3D
Navigation 2D
Tactics 3D
Charm 1D
Lie 1D
Perform 2D
Persuasion 3D
Command 2D
Interrogation 0D
Intimidation 5D
Leadership 3D
Stability 2D
Miracles: 2Hd Zombie Immunity 3D Light Armor
Loyalty: True Love
Passion: Finding true Love
Base Will 3 Willpower 8
Achievements:
Ace: Ghost in the Mist(2) roll wide on stealth
All: Tank Burger (3) Defeated a tank with melee weapons
Altitude Sickness(4) Completed the tower of terror scenario.
Medical Drama(3) Prevent a death through medical means
Character Change: Bane’s character traded in five Hard dice for Four dice in Regeneration, with the caveat that he has to be standing perfectly still to use it.
Quotes of the Sessions:
Fonz: “Beast fell? I’ll drive to Magic Kingdom, strip out the circuits from the Country Bear Jamboree, hook them up to beast and make him a cyborg.”
GM: “While I approve of the destruction of Country Bear Jamboree purely on aesthetic grounds, I’m going to vote this down. You don’t have the knowledge to pull this off, you’re too far away from magic kingdom, and the rest of the group would probably kill you for driving off.”
Fonz: “What about the Hall of Presidents?”
GM: “No.”
Rafe: “We arrived just in time. You know what that makes us?”
Daiyu: “Epically Awesome?”
Rafe: “Darn it.”
Wolfe: “What kind of guy leaves C4 in a roller coaster?”
Fonz: “My kind of guy.”
Rafe: “No. I’ll take the C4, since my squad left it here.”
Fonz: “You never let me have any fun.”
GM: “You call an autotracking fireball gun no fun?”
Fonz: “I meant this time.”
Pooh: “A Naginata? Where are these guys getting such silly weapons? Everybody should have a chainsaw.”
Wolfe: “Great. The Hundred Acre Chainsaw Massacre.”
Pooh: “Exactly.”
Bane: “So, did Jafar survive my stabbing him?”
GM: *smiles evilly*
Bane: “That’s not a good sign.”
Chapter 2: Fairest Bones
(GM Note: It was at this point that zombie horror became Superheroes with zombies. I was planning to go that way anyway, but it happened a lot faster than I thought it would.)
At Fantasmic, two completely different survivors are also searching. They are experiments, released from a place called Bifrost Labs, who were working on creating superhumans. These two were the only volunteers who were successes. And so they were sent into the parks to rescue people and fight the undead.
First, we meet Snow White. Dressed as the eponymous character, Snow was an unrivaled success. The researchers at Bifrost had made her into a prime specimen. Even while wearing a princess dress, she was still fast on her feet, able to fire a shotgun with deadly accuracy, and unreasonably strong. She also has an ability that has shut down Smoker tongues, boomer bile and Blaster bombs.
The second of these strange beings is called Project Marrow. Her real name is Robin Graves, and yes, she’s heard all the jokes before. Unlike most everyone else, she is not immune. However, to protect her from the zombies, she has Pinky, Inky, Blinky and Sue. Four bony tendrils that extend outward and around from her spine. Pinky extends from her cervical vertebrae, Inky and Blinky extend from near her ribs and Sue from the last of the lumbar vertebrae. This does hurt, but fortunately, Robin has regenerative abilities.
Right now, they are collecting weapons. Steak knives from the restaurants are attached to the four tendrils with duct tape. She also finds the holder for the knives and puts it on her holster next to the Desert Eagle she was given when Bifrost sent her out.
Snow White has found an electric bass for her melee weapon. She also uncovers a box of roman candles, and a five pound mortar. Robin wants to use it right away but Snow is having none of that.
“This is just a flash mortar. It’s a big flash and a quick burst of heat. It could probably be used for a distraction, but not to fight off zombies.”
“How do you know that stuff?”
“I interned here before Bifrost. Why do you think I kept the costume?”
They keep searching the area, finally finding a boomer bile jar, two first aid kits, a pack of road flares and an adrenaline shot. These items are going to come in handy as 30 zombies descend upon them.
Robin rushes to melee range and lets her four friends get stabby. With the 4d in multiple actions, Robin gets to take out three zombies with her tendrils and blocks an attack from a fourth with Sue.
Snow White holsters her shotgun and goes to work with the guitar. Together, they take out all the zombies at Fantasmic, and head through the rest of the park. First stop, the gift shops. They’re looking for food firstly. Here, they find a few shelves of twinkies and bottled water. Amidst the water bottles is a whiskey flask, immediately claimed by Robin.
However, the flashlight of Snow white falls on an all too familiar sight. A witch jumps up with intent to do grievous harm to the fairest in the land. Or she would if Snow White hadn’t rolled 4 9’s on Body+Athletics. Snow White is off like a rocket, freerunning up the sides of the structure and over the rooftops, leaping to the Wizard’s Hat.
The witch looks on in shock, and goes back to sobbing. Robin moves away from the building and sets off a flare so Snow White can return to her. Once Snow descends from the rooftops, the two Bifrost supersoliders make their way to the next location: Playhouse Disney Live(Yeah, I don’t know why they went there. I had nothing planned, so I winged it)
Here, though they haven’t been sighted yet, they witness something that doesn’t fit in with what they’ve been told about zombies. Rolypoly Olie is a robot, or so the program they find says. But there he is, controlling zombies. They watch as one of Olie’s arms falls off. It instantly reconnects with the rest of the body.
Robin: “I wonder… if we stunned it, could we run in and take its body parts far enough away that it can’t bring the segments back together?”
Snow: “Only one way to find out.” Snow white hurls a nearby propane tank into the cluster of zombies and Robin shoots it in mid-air. The blast takes out all fifteen of the zombies, stunning Olie. All his segmented body parts fall on the stage.
Snow white rushes in to grab the head and torso. Robin takes one of the arms and sets it as a weapon for Sue. They throw the body in the manmade lake, and walk up Animation Alley. Here, they see the Magic of Animation studio is on fire and they can hear people screaming from inside. Grabbing a fire extinguisher, these two rush in, trying to save who they can.
First, however, it’s robin who needs the saving, as pieces of the roof fall down, pinning her legs. However, Snow White is stronger than Captain America, and casually flings the burning debris off her partner.
Inside the courtyard, they encounter an animator trapped under the rubble. Snow white flings the desk off him, and through the roof above. Not even stopping to check for injuries, Snow white puts the man in a fireman’s carry and leaps up out of the building.
“Great, and me with my four friends and a dry extinguisher.” Robin goes deeper in, to find another person. Since she doesn’t want to freak this person out more, she sheathes her weapons and retracts the tendrils. Carefull, and rolling well enough on Mind(sans navigation) she leads the person out safely. With two people in need of medical attention, the two supers see the other survivors approaching, even as the animation studio collapses.
Stats for Robin Graves
Body 4D
Athletics 4D
Block 4D
Brawling 4D
Endurance 2D
Melee Weapon(Random) 4D
Coordination 3D
Dodge 2D
Driving 0D
Lockpicking 0D
Stealth 0D
Ranged Weapon(Handgun) 3D
Sense 3D
Empathy 2D
Perception 2D
Scrutiny 2D
Mind 5D
First Aid 2D
Medicine 2D
Knowledge 2D
Charm 1D
Lie 0D
Perform 0D
Persuasion 0D
Command 4D
Interrogation 1D
Intimidation 4D
Leadership 0D
Stability 2D
Miracles: Inky, Pinky, Winky and Sue(Four bony tendrils) 4D
Regeneration 4D
Multiple Actions 4D
Loyalty: The Human Race
Passion: Science
Base Will:5
Willpower: 7
Stats for Snow White
Body 4D
Athletics 6D
Block 4D
Brawling 0D
Endurance 0D
Melee Weapon(Guitar) 3D
Coordination
Dodge 5D
Driving 0D
Lockpicking 0D
Stealth 4D
Ranged Weapon(Shotgun) 5D
Sense 5
Empathy 0D
Perception 3D
Scrutiny 0D
Mind 2D
First Aid 2D
Knowledge OD
Medicine 2D
Navigation 4D
Charm 4D
Lie 4D
Perform 2D
Persuasion 0D
Command 4D
Interrogation 0D
Intimidation 1D
Leadership 0D
Stability 6D
Miracles:
Zombie Plague Immunity 2HD
Nullify(Zombie Powers) 5D
Loyalty: Bifrost Labs
Passion: Being the Best
Base Will: 8
Willpower: 24
Achievements:
Snow White: Witch Hunt(3) Outran a Witch
Both: Who’s the Boss(3) Defeated a Boss Level Creature without taking damage
Fire Rescue, Scramble!(2) Rescued survivors from a burning building.
Quotes of the Session
Robin: “How the hell does she move that fast in a princess dress?”
*as another player, not involved in the game at that time, attempts to distract them*
Snow White: “What do I roll to give a damn?”
GM: “Sense+Empathy.”
Robin:” No matches. I don’t give a damn.”
Snow White: “Well I got five dice in sense and none in empathy… 2 4’s? Do I give a damn?”
GM: “My ruling is you’d have to get at least three 4’s to give a damn. Shall we continue?”
Snow White: “What the hell is Rolypoly Olie?”
GM: “A robot from early morning Disney broadcast.”
Robin: “And we couldn’t have fought Bear in the Big Blue House because…?”
Robin: “Can I make a Molotov cocktail from the whiskey flask?”
GM: “No. Molotovs are in glass bottles, so that when they break they spread the flames. The flask is metal.”
Robin: “Can I run a current through it?”
GM: “Eh…Not yet.”
To be Continued in Chapter 3: Bullwhips and Lightsabers
