FFD6 The Dicening, Group 1, Chapter 1, Mission 1 - Page 10

Krylo · 02-03-2011, 06:35 PM

CYBERNETICS RESEARCH
Ark and Raltz

Backing out from the room and into the hallway you quickly realize that this isn't going to be as easy as seemed at first. Corpses are spilling out of the morgue and operating room in droves, mostly heading in your direction. The closest few are still a distance off, and unaugmented, but you can see more beyond them that have strange additions added to their bodies.

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25 corpses. Closest are as follows:

2 unaugmented at medium distance, 1 sword zombie and three unaugmented within two rounds.
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NECROREANIMATION
Elsa, and Arden

Rushing forward, the two make to he door on the otherside of the room, though not quite through it yet, as a few of the corpses take swats at the passing pair, one of them even getting his necrotic hands on Elsa, though they, unsurprisingly, failed to penetrate her armor.

More corpses are awakening with every moment, though.

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Four zombies short range.

Mook Zombie- 0 Damage to Elsa.

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DATA STORAGE
Kole, Jhen, Bello

Kole attempts to pull the wires away, but to no avail. Luckily, the small tarut comes up to the rescue, his blade stabbing down through them, leaving only bits of broken wire to fall to the ground. Unfortunately, the blade also cuts into Kole's arm quite deeply.

As Bello pulls his knife out (probably with apologies?), more five more bundles of wires fall down to the ground about the room, each too far to attack yet, but they quickly begin to slither toward the small group.

Meanwhile, Jhen fires off a lightning spell into the computer banks, overloading and frying the entire system. However, it seems to have no effect on the cybernetic terrors moving in on them.
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Kole fails strength check to remove.

Bello does 1 damage to wires, killing them.

Bello's overflow damage deals 6 damage to Kole.

Jhen- Does infinity +1 damage to computer. Computer is dead.

1 wires in short range of the party, 4 at medium range.

Kole- 17/23 hp

Bard The 5th LW · 02-03-2011, 07:30 PM

Seeing as how the android liked the "run away" idea, Raltz picked up the tentacle he had previously dropped and fled the area with the android and dragon. It would be good to leave with something.

As soon as they left though, Raltz fears were realized. There were certainly more. In fact, Raltz would bet his gil that every corpse in the entire area were going to soon rise up and eat their faces. "Seems we're outnumbered," Raltz noted, pointing towards the larger amount of corpses in the distance.

"Well I made the last decision," Raltz decided, "you're turn robot boy. Make it quick though, they're closing in. Do we run more, hide, or make a sort of last stand? I'm cool with whatever so long as our bodies are easy to identify when its all done with."

IHateMakingNames · 02-03-2011, 08:03 PM

"Thanks." Kole gave insincere, but not sarcastic, gratitude towards Bello. Though the little Tarut had just stabbed him in the arm, probably on purpose, Kole tried to stick with the obligatory politeness when it was due. In case his Tarut teammates were actually his teammates who didn't hate him, he needed it to stay like that.

Any moment of calm the Taruts, but not Kole, may have had was shortly lived when more wires fell from the ceiling. Already expecting it, the blue mage had his katana at the ready in both hands to fight them off. The little bard managed to cut the wires on Kole's arm easily, so it shouldn't be to hard to kill these wires. The issue was that they were outnumbered, and destroying them before they drilled into the less combat oriented little ones.

Kole took the initiative and slashed at the wires that dropped closest to the group.

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Attack short range wires.

Menarker · 02-03-2011, 09:00 PM

"your turn robot boy. Make it quick though, they're closing in. Do we run more, hide, or make a sort of last stand? I'm cool with whatever so long as our bodies are easy to identify when its all done with."

Ark's normal eye suddenly glimmered brightly as his insight as a dragoon melded with the unerring and calculating drive of technology.

ENEMY SCANNED: ...

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Ark scans animated corpses as an instant action. Will decide whether to attack or flee after you tell me its stats and such.

mauve · 02-03-2011, 10:08 PM

"Nice try," Elsa offered to the zombie who was ineffectively trying to claw her arm off. "Not going to work, though." As the corpse relinquished is hold, Elsa readied her scythe.

She winced slightly, hearing movement out in the hallway behind them. It didn't sound like the kind of noise an ally rushing to their aid would make.

"Sounds like our escape route is being cut off," she said. Arden's warnings about death spells surfaced again in her mind. Her armor might protect her from zombie claws, but a wall of death-spell-casting corpses wasn't something she felt confident about.

Well, if she was going to go down, she was going to go down fighting off a horde of zombies with a glorified farming tool, dammit. She raised her scythe and swung at one of the corpses which had moved in front of the door.

"So... do we have any plans aside from hitting things and trying not to die?" she asked.

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Attacks zombie near the door.

phil_ · 02-03-2011, 11:33 PM

Bello dropped down and was about to apologize for stabbing Kole's arm, but the wires dropping from the ceiling proved more pressing. Instead, he pulled out his harmonica in his left hand and played a chord. "DrmmM~?! Blue Mage! Time to run!" At odds with what he just said, Bello started to belt out a tune. "We gotta regroup!"

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Herculean Etude is go!

Teal Mage · 02-03-2011, 11:47 PM

Silver hair swirling around her face, Arden lithely dodged the slow and clumsy strikes of the corpses near her chosen escape route. Landing with cat-like grace before the door, Arden chanced a glance behind herself - Elsa had followed her, good. The Dark Knight effortlessly tore herself free of one of the Undead's clutches. "Nice try," the armored woman breathed, "Not going to work, though." Her Sycthe's blade glittered wickedly in the chilling light of the Necroreanimation Chamber.

"Sounds like our escape route is being cut off," Elsa observed, gaze fixing on the single reanimated corpse blocking one half of the double doors. Her scythe flashed, a wicked arc of dark steel striking toward the enemy in her path.

"We can't get bogged down here then!" Arden called, whirling in place and stepping toward the door in front of her. The white mage's bared arm lashed out, as she threw all her weight against the swinging door before herself, throwing it wide open. Any Undead in the way of that would be sorry. Without wasting a second, Arden leapt into the door-cleared section of the hallway beyond, green eyes wary and alert.

"So... do we have any plans aside from hitting things and trying not to die?" Elsa called after her.

Arden thought telling the Dark Knight that she was just making this stuff up as she went along wasn't a very Captain-like response. She'd get back to Elsa on it later!

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> Improvised Attack using the Door on possible enemies outside of the Necroreanimation Room.

> Arden Moves into the hallway. Possibly using an Escape roll still?

Menarker · 02-04-2011, 01:17 AM

"ENEMY SCANNED: STRENGTH AND STAMINA IS HIGH.
ZOMBIES POSSESSING EXTRA ALTERATIONS AS PRESENT BY EXTRA METAL PLATINGS ARE VIRULENT ZOMBIES. HEURISTICS INDICATE POSSIBILITY OF POISON.
VIRULENT ZOMBIES CONGREGATING FROM THE OR ROOM.
COURSE OF ACTION: DELAY AND THIN CROWD. CREATE RETREAT ROUTE FOR ALLIES. YOU PREPARE ELEVATOR FOR BOTTLENECK SIEGE!"

Ark rushed toward the elevator, waiting for Raltz to get in, as he readied himself to mostly seal the doors, creating an extremely tight bottleneck. Jugan merely watched in disturbed silence from Ark's shoulder.

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Retreat to elevator, expecting Raltz to follow him. Mostly close doors, but leave very tight opening to gradually thin the numbers.

Riin Whitewind · 02-04-2011, 09:33 AM

Still wimpering at the apparently wasted destruction of the computer, Jhen watched more - unaffected! - animatronic wires crawl down from the roof. Bleeding from his arm, Kole took a swing at one of the closer ones, trying to avoid getting grabbed a second time.

She raised her hand into the air, light glinting in sparks off her armlets, preparing to launch another blaze of lightning into her foes. Bello intervened before she wasted any mana - suggesting they retreat for now and regroup with the rest of the party.

Well, he really said it to the Blue Mage, but Jhen was going to give him the benefit of the doubt! He wouldn't leave out the wonderful and helpful and kind and awesome Black Mage, Jhennek Scriven on purpose! It was just the stress, it got to people.

Reaching up on the tips of her toes, Jhen tried to get the only door to the room open, keeping an eye out for more strange wire-things.

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Escape from combat roll to leave the Data Room and move into the hall next to Necroreanimation.

Krylo · 02-04-2011, 01:17 PM

NECROREANIMATION
Arden, Elsa

Elsa's scythe arcs true, slicing the zombie between her and Arden and the exit from shoulder to hip, cleanly in two. Taking no time to take head of this development, Arden charges directly out the door, kicking it open, and charging out to the sound of a sickening crack as the stainless steel door slammed viciously into the skull of a zombie just on the otherside.

Down the hallway, away from the data storage room, he can see a pair of corpses, their bodies a patchwork of flesh and machinery, obviously altered far more than normal. As they see her, they raise their arms, the flesh pulsing and writhing as though something is moving beneath. The sickening display quickening and becoming more grotesque and obvious, appearing as though a colony of large worms are writhing just below the surface--this can't be good.

Meanwhile, the rest of the zombies in the room close in on Elsa, their clumsy hands grabbing at the warrior with deadly, if inept, intent.
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PC Round

Elsa- Fuck you crit damage at Mook Zombie at the door.

Arden- 5 damage at zombie just outside door.

Inside Door Zombie- Reaped.

Outise Door Zombie- Come on dude, that was just embarrassing. You got killed by a door.

2x Virulent Zombie, Medium range from Arden. Door to data storage room, short range.

Elsa- 25/26 hp

ARDEN LEAVES COMBAT!

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NPC Round

Mook Zombie A- 1 Damage Elsa

Mook Zombie B- Miss

Mook Zombie C- Miss

Mook Zombie D, E, F- Moves to Short Range

Sword Zombie A- Moves to Short Range

All others- Move one round closer.

Map- Becomes unreadable because fuck you I'm not redrawing/selecting them all individually.

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DATA STORAGE
Kole, Bello, Jhen

Kole's Katana smashes the small bundle of wires to bits with ease, as Bello begins his song, even as he suggests that the group 'exit stage right'. Listening to his, most likely sagacious advice, Jhenneck moves with surprising speed to the door and swings it open to reveal Arden, with a pair of heavily altered corpses targetting the poor white mage with something that can not be good.

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PC Round

Jhen- Move to/open door

Bello- Herc. Etude

Kole- 13 Damage, Wires A

Wires A- Dead

Wires B, C, D- Move to short range of Kole/Bello.

Virulent Zombie A/B- Begins 'casting' infection

A WILD ARDEN APPEARS! It is short range from Jhen.

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SOUTH HALLWAY
Raltz, Ark

Thinking, or computing, perhaps, quickly, the pair rush into an elevator, forming a choke point. Though they lose sight of most of the undead, they can still hear the shuffling footsteps, and it isn't long until a few come into view.

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PC Round
Raltz/Ark- Enter Elevator.

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NPC Round

Zombies, move closer. Distance between zombies and PCs remains consistent.

02-03-2011, 06:35 PM	#91
Krylo The Straightest Shota Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: It's a secret to everybody. Posts: 17,789	CYBERNETICS RESEARCH Ark and Raltz Backing out from the room and into the hallway you quickly realize that this isn't going to be as easy as seemed at first. Corpses are spilling out of the morgue and operating room in droves, mostly heading in your direction. The closest few are still a distance off, and unaugmented, but you can see more beyond them that have strange additions added to their bodies. ----------- 25 corpses. Closest are as follows: 2 unaugmented at medium distance, 1 sword zombie and three unaugmented within two rounds. ---------- NECROREANIMATION Elsa, and Arden Rushing forward, the two make to he door on the otherside of the room, though not quite through it yet, as a few of the corpses take swats at the passing pair, one of them even getting his necrotic hands on Elsa, though they, unsurprisingly, failed to penetrate her armor. More corpses are awakening with every moment, though. ------------- Four zombies short range. Mook Zombie- 0 Damage to Elsa. ------------- DATA STORAGE Kole, Jhen, Bello Kole attempts to pull the wires away, but to no avail. Luckily, the small tarut comes up to the rescue, his blade stabbing down through them, leaving only bits of broken wire to fall to the ground. Unfortunately, the blade also cuts into Kole's arm quite deeply. As Bello pulls his knife out (probably with apologies?), more five more bundles of wires fall down to the ground about the room, each too far to attack yet, but they quickly begin to slither toward the small group. Meanwhile, Jhen fires off a lightning spell into the computer banks, overloading and frying the entire system. However, it seems to have no effect on the cybernetic terrors moving in on them. ------------- Kole fails strength check to remove. Bello does 1 damage to wires, killing them. Bello's overflow damage deals 6 damage to Kole. Jhen- Does infinity +1 damage to computer. Computer is dead. 1 wires in short range of the party, 4 at medium range. Kole- 17/23 hp __________________ I am very tired. Last edited by Krylo; 02-03-2011 at 07:16 PM.

02-03-2011, 08:03 PM	#93
IHateMakingNames Awwwwh Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 12,119	"Thanks." Kole gave insincere, but not sarcastic, gratitude towards Bello. Though the little Tarut had just stabbed him in the arm, probably on purpose, Kole tried to stick with the obligatory politeness when it was due. In case his Tarut teammates were actually his teammates who didn't hate him, he needed it to stay like that. Any moment of calm the Taruts, but not Kole, may have had was shortly lived when more wires fell from the ceiling. Already expecting it, the blue mage had his katana at the ready in both hands to fight them off. The little bard managed to cut the wires on Kole's arm easily, so it shouldn't be to hard to kill these wires. The issue was that they were outnumbered, and destroying them before they drilled into the less combat oriented little ones. Kole took the initiative and slashed at the wires that dropped closest to the group. ------ Attack short range wires. __________________ "If I'm reincarnated, I want to be Musashi again!" - Musashi, Brave Fencer Musashi Last edited by IHateMakingNames; 02-03-2011 at 08:05 PM.

02-03-2011, 09:00 PM	#94
Menarker OMG! WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW? Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 3,802	"your turn robot boy. Make it quick though, they're closing in. Do we run more, hide, or make a sort of last stand? I'm cool with whatever so long as our bodies are easy to identify when its all done with." Ark's normal eye suddenly glimmered brightly as his insight as a dragoon melded with the unerring and calculating drive of technology. ENEMY SCANNED: ... ------------- Ark scans animated corpses as an instant action. Will decide whether to attack or flee after you tell me its stats and such. __________________ THE BIO OF RENNY TRESSERHORN THE BIOs OF POKEMON UMBRAL!

02-03-2011, 10:08 PM	#95
mauve So Dreamy Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Someplace magical Posts: 6,863	"Nice try," Elsa offered to the zombie who was ineffectively trying to claw her arm off. "Not going to work, though." As the corpse relinquished is hold, Elsa readied her scythe. She winced slightly, hearing movement out in the hallway behind them. It didn't sound like the kind of noise an ally rushing to their aid would make. "Sounds like our escape route is being cut off," she said. Arden's warnings about death spells surfaced again in her mind. Her armor might protect her from zombie claws, but a wall of death-spell-casting corpses wasn't something she felt confident about. Well, if she was going to go down, she was going to go down fighting off a horde of zombies with a glorified farming tool, dammit. She raised her scythe and swung at one of the corpses which had moved in front of the door. "So... do we have any plans aside from hitting things and trying not to die?" she asked. ----------- Attacks zombie near the door. __________________ Yoo Hoo!

02-03-2011, 11:33 PM	#96
phil_ Just sleeping Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: At home, probably in bed. Posts: 6,482	Bello dropped down and was about to apologize for stabbing Kole's arm, but the wires dropping from the ceiling proved more pressing. Instead, he pulled out his harmonica in his left hand and played a chord. "DrmmM~?! Blue Mage! Time to run!" At odds with what he just said, Bello started to belt out a tune. "We gotta regroup!" ----------- Herculean Etude is go! __________________ Be T-Rexcellent to each other, tako.

02-03-2011, 07:30 PM	#92
Bard The 5th LW Feelin' Super! Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 4,191	Seeing as how the android liked the "run away" idea, Raltz picked up the tentacle he had previously dropped and fled the area with the android and dragon. It would be good to leave with something. As soon as they left though, Raltz fears were realized. There were certainly more. In fact, Raltz would bet his gil that every corpse in the entire area were going to soon rise up and eat their faces. "Seems we're outnumbered," Raltz noted, pointing towards the larger amount of corpses in the distance. "Well I made the last decision," Raltz decided, "you're turn robot boy. Make it quick though, they're closing in. Do we run more, hide, or make a sort of last stand? I'm cool with whatever so long as our bodies are easy to identify when its all done with."

02-03-2011, 11:47 PM	#97
Teal Mage Political Studies Student Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Canada! Posts: 1,577	Silver hair swirling around her face, Arden lithely dodged the slow and clumsy strikes of the corpses near her chosen escape route. Landing with cat-like grace before the door, Arden chanced a glance behind herself - Elsa had followed her, good. The Dark Knight effortlessly tore herself free of one of the Undead's clutches. "Nice try," the armored woman breathed, "Not going to work, though." Her Sycthe's blade glittered wickedly in the chilling light of the Necroreanimation Chamber. "Sounds like our escape route is being cut off," Elsa observed, gaze fixing on the single reanimated corpse blocking one half of the double doors. Her scythe flashed, a wicked arc of dark steel striking toward the enemy in her path. "We can't get bogged down here then!" Arden called, whirling in place and stepping toward the door in front of her. The white mage's bared arm lashed out, as she threw all her weight against the swinging door before herself, throwing it wide open. Any Undead in the way of that would be sorry. Without wasting a second, Arden leapt into the door-cleared section of the hallway beyond, green eyes wary and alert. "So... do we have any plans aside from hitting things and trying not to die?" Elsa called after her. Arden thought telling the Dark Knight that she was just making this stuff up as she went along wasn't a very Captain-like response. She'd get back to Elsa on it later! * * * * * * > Improvised Attack using the Door on possible enemies outside of the Necroreanimation Room. > Arden Moves into the hallway. Possibly using an Escape roll still? __________________ I'm always available to chat on AIM and Skype/MSN, so if you've like to speak further with me about anything I say, or just address something to me personally, feel free to add me. I welcome such conversations. Also obligatory signature! Last edited by Teal Mage; 02-04-2011 at 11:54 AM.

02-04-2011, 01:17 AM	#98
Menarker OMG! WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW? Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 3,802	"ENEMY SCANNED: STRENGTH AND STAMINA IS HIGH. ZOMBIES POSSESSING EXTRA ALTERATIONS AS PRESENT BY EXTRA METAL PLATINGS ARE VIRULENT ZOMBIES. HEURISTICS INDICATE POSSIBILITY OF POISON. VIRULENT ZOMBIES CONGREGATING FROM THE OR ROOM. COURSE OF ACTION: DELAY AND THIN CROWD. CREATE RETREAT ROUTE FOR ALLIES. YOU PREPARE ELEVATOR FOR BOTTLENECK SIEGE!" Ark rushed toward the elevator, waiting for Raltz to get in, as he readied himself to mostly seal the doors, creating an extremely tight bottleneck. Jugan merely watched in disturbed silence from Ark's shoulder. -------------------- Retreat to elevator, expecting Raltz to follow him. Mostly close doors, but leave very tight opening to gradually thin the numbers. __________________ THE BIO OF RENNY TRESSERHORN THE BIOs OF POKEMON UMBRAL! Last edited by Menarker; 02-04-2011 at 01:20 AM.

02-04-2011, 09:33 AM	#99
Riin Whitewind Shyguy Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 184	Still wimpering at the apparently wasted destruction of the computer, Jhen watched more - unaffected! - animatronic wires crawl down from the roof. Bleeding from his arm, Kole took a swing at one of the closer ones, trying to avoid getting grabbed a second time. She raised her hand into the air, light glinting in sparks off her armlets, preparing to launch another blaze of lightning into her foes. Bello intervened before she wasted any mana - suggesting they retreat for now and regroup with the rest of the party. Well, he really said it to the Blue Mage, but Jhen was going to give him the benefit of the doubt! He wouldn't leave out the wonderful and helpful and kind and awesome Black Mage, Jhennek Scriven on purpose! It was just the stress, it got to people. Reaching up on the tips of her toes, Jhen tried to get the only door to the room open, keeping an eye out for more strange wire-things. ---- Escape from combat roll to leave the Data Room and move into the hall next to Necroreanimation. __________________ It's such a funny story, really...

02-04-2011, 01:17 PM	#100
Krylo The Straightest Shota Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: It's a secret to everybody. Posts: 17,789	NECROREANIMATION Arden, Elsa Elsa's scythe arcs true, slicing the zombie between her and Arden and the exit from shoulder to hip, cleanly in two. Taking no time to take head of this development, Arden charges directly out the door, kicking it open, and charging out to the sound of a sickening crack as the stainless steel door slammed viciously into the skull of a zombie just on the otherside. Down the hallway, away from the data storage room, he can see a pair of corpses, their bodies a patchwork of flesh and machinery, obviously altered far more than normal. As they see her, they raise their arms, the flesh pulsing and writhing as though something is moving beneath. The sickening display quickening and becoming more grotesque and obvious, appearing as though a colony of large worms are writhing just below the surface--this can't be good. Meanwhile, the rest of the zombies in the room close in on Elsa, their clumsy hands grabbing at the warrior with deadly, if inept, intent. --------- PC Round Elsa- Fuck you crit damage at Mook Zombie at the door. Arden- 5 damage at zombie just outside door. Inside Door Zombie- Reaped. Outise Door Zombie- Come on dude, that was just embarrassing. You got killed by a door. 2x Virulent Zombie, Medium range from Arden. Door to data storage room, short range. Elsa- 25/26 hp ARDEN LEAVES COMBAT! --------- NPC Round Mook Zombie A- 1 Damage Elsa Mook Zombie B- Miss Mook Zombie C- Miss Mook Zombie D, E, F- Moves to Short Range Sword Zombie A- Moves to Short Range All others- Move one round closer. Map- Becomes unreadable because fuck you I'm not redrawing/selecting them all individually. --------- DATA STORAGE Kole, Bello, Jhen Kole's Katana smashes the small bundle of wires to bits with ease, as Bello begins his song, even as he suggests that the group 'exit stage right'. Listening to his, most likely sagacious advice, Jhenneck moves with surprising speed to the door and swings it open to reveal Arden, with a pair of heavily altered corpses targetting the poor white mage with something that can not be good. ---------- PC Round Jhen- Move to/open door Bello- Herc. Etude Kole- 13 Damage, Wires A Wires A- Dead Wires B, C, D- Move to short range of Kole/Bello. Virulent Zombie A/B- Begins 'casting' infection A WILD ARDEN APPEARS! It is short range from Jhen. ----------- SOUTH HALLWAY Raltz, Ark Thinking, or computing, perhaps, quickly, the pair rush into an elevator, forming a choke point. Though they lose sight of most of the undead, they can still hear the shuffling footsteps, and it isn't long until a few come into view. ---------- PC Round Raltz/Ark- Enter Elevator. ---------- NPC Round Zombies, move closer. Distance between zombies and PCs remains consistent. __________________ I am very tired. Last edited by Krylo; 02-04-2011 at 01:28 PM.