Chapter 1 - The City

As it stands Kel was by the downed Zombie, and seeing that Andrew has stopped this thing he passes Tim, who was running away from the street, and runs back out of the alley towards the raccoons. He won't be able to get close enough for a point blank shot, but he still catches one of them with a blast from his shotgun. The shot catches one of the raccoons square and kills it.

[ GM: The raccoons were still a ways out in the street and haven't been able to make it to the alley yet, so you wouldn't be able to get close enough for point blank shot, which removes the last roll in your dice pool. So you still take one physical stress from the action, but you do also take one of them out. The shotgun adds +4 damage if you hit with it though, so you did a total of 5 damage, minus one for zombie racoon armor still kills one. Only one raccoon remains. ]

Healthbars:
Racoon 2: 1[X][X][X] 2[X][ ][ ]

The remaining raccoon is closing on the party? Does it get another action before it's the players' turn? How far are we from the cars?

The coons started about 70 feet away down the road. A creature, or enemy, or person in the game can move up to 20 feet on their turn, unless they dedicate a vitality test to sprinting. So since they have just moved they are now about 50 feet away from the alley still. One has been taken down by Kel who is probably the closest to them. You are all either in this alley or in the entrance to it. The cars are right on the other side of the street because I believe you wanted a bit of distance to the building when you pulled up, so maybe just 10-15 feet from most of you now.

The zombies moved for their turn so they don't get another. It is the players turn now. Kel did something first this round, and killed one of the raccoons. Tim was the last of your group to go and he ran further into the alley way looking pretty skittish. Trying to find a way out, or just away from the creatures and gunfire.

As the rest of the crew is getting to and in the cars they hear a blood curdling scream from the alley. As you look back you see Tim, he is on the ground and has small black things crawling all over his legs. What had originally looked like a large black garbage bag disintegrates into these small shapes. You finally realize what it is. Rats.

He is on the ground and the mass of them surges forward consuming half of his body underneath them. He struggles to knock them away but they just claw and clamp onto his arms as he swats. Tim's screams are almost drowned out by this horrible chittering sound coming from the swarm of these rats.

The rat frenzy lasts only about 40 seconds before Tim's screams die out, though for some it felt like an eternity. Where he once laid on the ground there is only now a mass of writhing rats, all the while making that horrible chittering sound. Annette is burying her face in Howard's back trying to hide the sight.

Most of you are in and around the cars and the zombie raccoon is still staggering his way towards you. Though this is the roadkill one so it's back half is just dragging along. It's progress is rather slow.

As you pull away the raccoon continues it's chase but is soon left behind in the dust. As you head another 3 blocks east, and 2 south to get to the P & G you come across more people. These ones are all looting the P & G. There is just a crowd that is in a frenzy in front of the store, all the front windows are smashed out. There is an overturned car further out in the parking lot that is completely engulfed in fire.