Chapter 2 - The Suburbs

-- At the Car --

As Howard taps the window suddenly the corpse starts to stir. It rasps out a long low moan as it turns it's head towards Howard. The sockets where eyes had been are empty, tried blood is stained on the cheeks like tears. That bird must have done a number on it. It paws restlessly at the window between Howard and it.

-- At The House --

Kel, lost in his thoughts steps aside. Peter glances in the window after him.

GM. Peter as well will need to roll one white and one black dice. As with Kel there is no true failure to the test, just to see if you take mental stress from the situation. It's a Willpower test. (Let me know if you need help on rolling tests.)

-- At the Car --

Looking in past the zombie it seems the car is still in Park so moving it isn't going to be an easy task. The zombie doesn't seem to have the strength on it's own to break through the car window, it simply keeps pawing helplessly at it. It can't seem to exactly "see" you either as it sort of grasps around blindly in the car.

-- At The House --

As you leave the scene the memory will hang on you, but you manage to hold back the stress of the situation and keep a level head. As you are walking away from the house you see the "person" sitting inside the car by Howard and Jacob. They seem to be trying to figure out what to do about the corpse inside the car.

When Howard taps on the window the zombie turns towards it and tries to bite at it instinctively, but only succeeds in smashing its face against the window. It keeps snapping towards Jacob, but doesn't really actually seem to see him, just knows something made noise in that direction.

When you get around to the other side it is still snapping at the window, but when you open the door wide it swings around and tries to crawl and claw its way towards the sound. Howard is able to get a bit of room so when the zombie gets to the end of the seat it flips out of the car and lands on the ground. It just gropes around trying to find something to bite.

GM: We could use this to start structured time, you guys clearly have the initiative over the zombie team. Howard would probably be first to act, but feel free to act whenever. Just as a recap for CouchLord0510, structured time is the way we do initiative in this game. I just pick a "side" of the conflict that seems would narratively have the initiative. That "team" gets to go first, in whatever order. Once each person has had a turn then the other "team" goes and they all take their turns. It switches back and forth until the combat is over.

In a turn you can do a major action which usually involves a dice roll, a minor action or movement like ducking behind something or steadying yourself to gain an extra positive dice for a ranged attack, and you can generally do small incidental things like say stuff. A combat "turn" roughly equates to 6-8 seconds or so.

"C'mon, they're gonna need help!" Kel says to the stranger as he moves back to the car.

As the paper cutter is brought down this already weakened zombie takes a solid hit to the skull and slumps to the ground dead....again.The car reeks of death and decay, but you can manage to get to the shifter and put the car into neutral. With a group effort you can probably push the car out of the way.