Chapter 1 - The City

OOC: Andrew is driving his car (he would have accepted passengers as necessary) and is also following John.

Howard:
You got the dead officers handgun (12 bullets), taser gun (2 cartridges), handcuffs and keys, baton, flashlight, pepper spray canister. You probably grabbed the belt and holster if you wanted it.

As you pile into your cars John let's Howard lead the way since he doesn't know the way. Looking back on the scene of carnage at this Quicky-Med you see the man who had his throat removed by the female zombie suddenly start to move and jerk on the ground. He rises to his feet as you drive away. As you traverse the few blocks the streets this way are eerily quiet. You are now heading west towards the suburbs.

Most stores are still locked up and closed this late in the night. A few small electronics shops are broken open, one has an alarm blaring as you pass by. Another block or so down you stop in front of a fairly mundane looking apartment building. Plain red brick going up 4 stories. A small alley on either side of the building.

There is a fire-escape up the one side of the building, but the ladder isn't down to reach it. The entrance to the building is normally security controlled, but it looks like the front entrance glass has been shattered through. Blood rims the glass and is splattered around the entrance hall.

Her unit, Howard relays. Is up on the third floor.

You see a face emerge in a window up on the third floor on the front of the building. She opens the window and looks out seeing Howard. "Help. Hurry. Someone's trying to get in!", she screams out the window.

As you get down the alley you see the end of it is blocked. The only exit is the way you came here.

"You want me to WHAT?!", she screams back down, "Howard, why can't you just come up and get me out. I'm not climbing down this rickety thing."

Despite all this noise, so far you don't hear or see anything around. The streets here are eerily quiet. In the distance sirens and shouts have been background noise. You can still see the glow of fires in the sky from further south. A small explosion rings out in the distance. It must have been pretty far, it just sounded like thunder to you.

[ GM: Howard, if you want to pull down the fire escape you need to do a Dexterity test. I would call it 2 positive dice, one negative. The negative is in the event you somehow hurt yourself trying to do this. Also, if you want to convince this girl to get out onto the fire escape that is a Charisma test. It's a test of 4 positive dice, but you need two successes. No negative dice on the charisma test. ]