OOC:
OK, it's been tough for me to come up with something that is solely sneaky - the system is really making me stretch my creativity! Here's what I'm thinking - you make suggestions/corrections if there's anything that needs to be modified.
Matt pretends to be terrified and defeated (which is not difficult), slumping against the pole after Clawhammer binds his wrists behind him. Shotgun relaxes a bit, and smirks at Matt.
"You came to the wrong place, boy!" Shotgun sneers, but then the sound of the approaching zombies catches Shotgun's attention. He tells Clawhammer:
"Watch him for a minnit; I gotta make sure I closed the door up tight. Don't start without me!" Then Shotgun leaves up the stairs.
Matt has been busy in the meantime. He's seen where the light switches are, and figured out how many steps it'll take him to reach them, while using the wire cutters to snip the wire. He calls Clawhammer over to mask the noise.
"Hey, man, what are you gonna do to me? Please don't hurt me!" He didn't count on this attracting the goon, but it does. The man approaches, grinning wickedly. As soon as he hears Shotgun rattle the door upstairs, Matt figures that he has a few seconds. He looks terrified, but then looks shocked at something over Clawhammer's shoulder. When Clawhammer turns to see what it is, Matt has brought his arms down, grabbed the edge of his coat, and brought it up and over his head, shrugging out of it as he places it over Clawhammer's face.
"Gotcha!" he mutters loud enough for Clawhammer to hear, and then drops down as Clawhammer inevitably swings the hammer at him. Clawhammer hits the pole instead with a loud clang. Matt lunges across the room and switches off the lights, plunging the basement into darkness.
"See you, sucker! I'm leaving up these stairs!" Matt calls loudly from the stairway, and he hears Shotgun upstairs saying
"What the hell?".
Matt then slips to the side in the darkness as Clawhammer tears the jacket off of his face. Clawhammer only sees the stairway, partially lit from above, and runs to it. But as he starts up the stairs, Matt yells from the darkness behind him:
"Stop him!" Shotgun sees a dark form starting up the stairs and shoots Clawhammer with both barrels. Clawhammer falls back into the darkness, badly wounded, and Matt grabs the hammer from the floor. He can hear Shotgun reloading above, so he calls out
"Oh, shit, you got me, bad!" and then immediately steps to the side. Shotgun fires down the stairwell, blasting Clawhammer again, who is pretty certainly dead by now. Matt steps silently up to Clawhammer's body while Shotgun reloads again, his feet squishing in the spreading pool of blood. :::
Damn, he's still got ammo!::: Matt thinks, then walks quickly along the hallway opposite the stairs, feeling the wall with his hand. He can feel that he's leaving wet, sticky footprints on the carpet as he goes.
Shotgun calls from upstairs:
"Gubba, are you OK? Did I get him?" When he reaches the first door, Matt walks in and feels along the wall, hoping that it's a bedroom. He finds the light switch, squints, and flicks on the switch. There's a lamp on a desk and a bed.
"Gubba, is that you?" Shotgun calls from upstairs, momentarily seeing light in the distance downstairs, dimly lighting the body at the bottom of the stairs, half covered by Matt's jacket. Matt flicks off the light again, sneaks over and unplugs the lamp. Shotgun calls again
"Gubba, answer me!" Matt locks the handle on the door but doesn't close it, slips off his bloody shoes and says
"He killed his friend but he won't find me here!" as if he's talking to himself, but loud enough for Shotgun to hear some of it. Then Matt throws his shoes in the corner, which makes a faint thump noise. Then Matt moves quickly and silently back into the basement along the opposite wall from the one he just followed (so he doesn't step in his bloody footprints). Shotgun says
"You bastard! I'm gonna kill you! You think I can't just turn the light on??"
Matt arrives at the sofa and jumps behind it just as Shotgun reaches the bottom of the stairs and turns on the light. There is a very tense long moment which is actually less than a second while Matt waits behind the sofa to hear what Shotgun is going to do. But Shotgun takes the bait, following the bloody footprints down the hall and to the door of the bedroom.
"I'm gonna blow your head off, you little piece of..." Meanwhile, Matt has run up behind him and Shotgun's sentence is cut off as Matt smacks him in the back of the head with the hammer, reeling him. Matt shoves Shotgun into the room and slams the door. He dodges out of the way as the first shot hits the door, and is already running back to shut off the basement light again. He can hear Shotgun screaming obscenities and crying in the dark, knocking stuff over as he tries to find his way to the door in total blackness, his head still spinning from being hit with a hammer. Matt reaches the top of the stairs and looks for a weapon, but all he can find is a big bottle of olive oil in the kitchen - somebody has taken the knives and hidden them someplace else. Matt takes the oil and just has time to pour it on the top three stairs when he hears the basement bedroom door slam open again.
"Hahaha! You dumbass! I think I'll just let the zombies in to eat you!" Matt taunts from the top of the stairs.
"Are you crazy??!" Shotgun yells, sounding frightened for the first time. Matt waits until he can just see movement at the bottom of the dark stairs and he steps to the side toward the door. He hears frantic footsteps on the stairs.
"Don't you dare open that door, you bas-" then there's a loud thump, a crunch, the shotgun fires, and Matt hears the man's body tumble all the way down the basement stairs.
After waiting a few moments and hearing nothing further from downstairs, Matt rubs his wrists and looks to see if there are ways he can barricade this house better. All that noise is sure to have attracted the attention of some zombies...
Last edited February 26, 2016 9:28 am