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Journal entry #5. Here's a summary of everything you've learned and gained over the course of the adventure so far.

ATRRIBUTES
Str +2
Dex +3

LEARNED
Basic Kay'at Design
Secondary Geography
Secondary Crafting
Secondary Botany

STAT
Fire Resist 1
Infection Resist 1

INVENTORY 23/50kg
Toolkit (Contains hammer, saw, electric drill, utility knife, wrench)
Knife
Cane root x 2
Spiky Plant leaf x 4
H&K VP9 - 25 rounds
Figurine
12 x Purple beans
>8x Silver Fern
>3x Purple Beans
>4x Red Mushrooms
>1x Red Fruit
>8x Blue Fruit
Strut x 3
Tarp

Max health 35
Current health 35

Area:
>A square, in the southern district of the city.


PLANTS:
Red Fruit = Posionous
Spiky Plants = Medicine, edible fruit
Lake Cane = Edible root, strong, VERY USEFUL
Fuzzy Red Fruit = Edible, unpleasant
Purple Beans = Edible, slightly hallucenogenic
Red Mushrooms = Slightly poisonous, but stimulates massive adrenal gland function for a short amount of time
Silver Fern = Can be eaten when boiled, and can be used when crushed to heal cuts and bruises
Blue Fruit = Edible, pleasant

Thread bump. No Amerifriends around at this time?

Bread bump the second. Really no takers?

>>41548065
>>41550543
>Fuck that, run!

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>>41550725
Finally!

>Fuck that, run!

You retreat back the way you came, as the clawing becomes louder and you hear animalistic clicks and grunts of exertion. Re-entering the foyer you draw your knife, and weigh up your options.

>Get back to the Square
>Try the dark corridor, without a light
>Get up on the balcony

>>41550954
Sitting on my ass for registration, so i have time to kill.

>balcony

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>Balcony

You can hear the door giving way, so you quickly climb up the less-broken stairwell to the balcony. However, in your haste you cut your leg on an exposed wood splinter, which sticks in your calf. (Health reduced by 3, was 35, now 32). Cursing your luck, you pull it out, but with no time to bandage it you look around for a hiding place. You spot a stack of book boxes in a corner, and after emptying a few you hide under them best you can.

Your heavy breathing subsides after a few minutes, and you realise that there are no longer scratching noises coming from the right hallway. Damn it! That either means that whatever it was has given up, or is waiting or looking for you. You peek downstairs, but see nothing. After waiting five more minutes you finally gather the courage to take a better look, and lift off your boxes.

Peering over the balustrade, you look down into the foyer. Nothing seems to have been disturbed, but there are a couple of patches of blood that you aren't sure were there before. However, the coast seems clear so you climb down and, noting the door to the right hallway is now open, decide how to proceed.

>Investigate the right hallway
>Investigate the dark hallway

>>41551281
Do we have a coin or some thing from our wallet? Throw one down the dark hall to make noise before going to the other hall. Observing whatever comes around is optional.

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>>41551450

Let me see, the closest thing you have to a coin would be a bullet from your handgun. That would create a similar effect.

>>41551497
Thats a little bit too valuable. Seriously, even the wallet that is kept right beside your legs was lost?

If we cant throw a spare bamboo thing, dont bother and just go to the righ hallway

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>>41551585

You've only got what's specifically listed in your inventory. However, the lake cane could work, if you threw it hard enough...

>Write in

You take a paticularly hard piece of cane from your pack, and throw it down the dark corridor. You think for a moment it didn't have any effect, but after a second you hear a loud metallic clang, confirming its connection with a pipe of some kind (1x cane removed). You head down the right corridor.

The door's been torn open, which means that whatever it was either gave up or is behind you. Either option is dangerous, so you keep your knife drawn. Entering the new room, you see a dentist's chair, several metal benches with miscellaneous medical equipment on them, and a locked cupboard. You also grab a few scalpel and wire like objects, which you think you could probably use for some kind of lockpicking, just like you learned from your father. (Added: Lockpick kit).

>Try and loot the cabinet
>Search the benches for anything useful (loud)
>Inspect the chair

>>41551793>>41551793
Chair then cabinet

Hydraulics or a motor would be pretty useful, if they werent so heavy or we weren't alone.

>>41551793
>Try and loot the cabinet

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>Loot the cabinet

You check out the cabinet. It's locked with a simple padlock, and with some luck you think you could probably pick it open.

>1d100 +3 for Dexterity

Rolled 20 + 3 (1d100 + 3)

>>41552326
Target everything with a -illin if we find medicine

Rolled 94 + 3 (1d100 + 3)

>>41552326

Rolled 42 + 3 (1d100 + 3)

>>41552326

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>avg. roll 55, DC 35

You manage to jimmy the lock open without too much effort, and open up the cupboard. The inside has all the hallmarks of an undereuqipped general hospital; a few packets off pills, bandages and a suture kit. However, all of the above are still useful, and you throw everything you find into your pack.

Learned:
Basic Lockpicking

Added:
>Painkillers x 7
>Bandage x 5
>Suture kit
>Antibacterial Pills x2

With that done, you hear glass breaking from the foyer. Worried that the creature could be getting closer, you prepare to move on. To your left is a door leading to another dark corridor. To your right, a stairwell leading up. In front of you, a corridor that appears to lead past a large group of rooms.

>>41552708
Might have more loot in the floors above. head to the right and up.

>>41552859
This. But get the gun out as well

>>41552859
I agree. But be cautious. Have our gun at the ready to defend our loot.

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>Take the stairs

You want to put as much distance between you and the creature as possible, so you move up the stairs as they wind towards another floor. However, the sounds below of breaking glass have spooked you, so you draw your handgun and load a magazine of 15 rounds.

The next floor appears, strangely, more intact than the first. You've walked into a staffroom, which is full of coloured couches and several vending machines. Sensing an oppurtunity to fill your food compartment, you check out the drawers.

>Search all the drawers (HIGH loot chance, will take time)
>Break into the vending machines (MEDIUM loot, will make noise)
>Move on

>>41552939
>>41553012
It's unlikely we'll find one here, but we need to find a better melee weapon than out knife. I remember seeing someone welding/attaching cerculer saw blades to the business of an aluminum baseball bat. that would be awesome to have or make.

>>41553051
>Search all the drawers (HIGH loot chance, will take time)
>Other.
Can we block the door to delay the creature?

>>41553051
>Search all the drawers (HIGH loot chance, will take time)

>>41553093

I'll say no to the doorway, but you could probably move the vending machines or couches to block the stairwell.

>>41553122
Sorry, The stairway I meant. My bad.

>>41553051
>Search all the drawers (HIGH loot chance, will take time)
>>41553064
You're thinking of the dead island DLC weapon called "the ripper". Here's a pic.

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>>41553146
Forgot pic. Fuck me.

>>41553146
Now that I think about it, I first saw it on the Fallout 4 E3 presentation actually.

>>41553175
That can work too.

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>>41553210
Here's a in-game shot.

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>>41553093
>>41553119
>>41553146

You rifle through the drawers and look for anything that could potentially help you. It takes you about 10 minutes to search everything, but you come out with a good supply of items and food.

Added:
1 x Coffee bag
3 x Cutlery
8 x Packaged meal
1 x Glass cup
4 x Paper
1 x Staff Key
2 x Strong wire
1 x Scissors

(Inventory 38/50kg)

You look outside, and are suprised to find that it's nearing the end of the afternoon already. However, you see something else that could explain the creature in the hospital.

Animals. Great herds of them, walking through the wrecked streets of the city. You think you see about a hundred deer appearing from the Jungle on East street and walking through the Square. A little way ahead you can see a pack of wild dogs chasing a young stag that has been separated from his pack. The yaps and calls of the animals fill the air, and for the first time in a while you are reminded of home. As the sun begins its descent, you lapse into a daydream.

(TBC)

>>41553328
Question time!!!!!
>what does the cutlery consist of?
>what is the wire made of?
>what kind of scissors?
>distance from heard and stag in trouble?
Thanks for running!

>>41553328
What kind of paper did we find? A Staff key? Can that open the Vending Machines or lock the doors to keep out the creature as we look around here?

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It's a memory that you had forgotten until now, of you and your dad at the Wellington Zoo back home. You would have only been about nine at the time, and you're riding on his shoulders and looking at the giraffes in their savannah enclosure. Your dad is explaining something about Giraffe mating behaiviour, which in retrospect appears to be a strange thing to talk to a nine-year-old about, but that was always your father's way.

He takes you all around the Zoo, seeing your favourites like the otters and the red pandas, but come three oclock you're tired and the two of you decide to head home. You haven't been to the Zoo since your mother left, and your dad used to make an effort to take you every second weekend after school. On the way back, your father's phone rings.

"What? The Chileans... they shouldn't be there, the treaty... Yeah, yeah I know. What does the Admiral say? What?! What the hell do you mean, tomorrow? George- Goddamnit George I have Matt with me, you know that. No I can't leave him with Mary! I'm not missing out on my own child growing up because our dumbass government can't keep their warships in their pants! Tell the CO that if I go this time I'm done. What? No! He can consider this my resignation. Yeah, I'm sorry, mate. I'll talk to the Admiral tonight. Gotta go. The Zone? No, they wouldn't deploy us there...

You can't remember any more, as you were too young to understand and fell asleep quickly. All you knew is that the next day your dad left with George to fight in the Australi-Chilean war, and you spend two years with your aunt Mary. When your dad returned, he would never speak to you about his years in the Zone.

You sigh and turn back from the window. As soon as you turn you sense something wrong, and some animal survival instict kicks in as the beast lunges at you. You step to the side, and face a large, growling spotted cheetah.

>Holy shit, fire! (1d100)
>Jump out the window
>Improvised attack (Write in, 1d100 +Attribute bonus)

>>41553402
>Knife, Fork, Spoon
>A conductive form of ferrite
>Sharp ones
>500m, bird's eye

>>41553592

Wrapping paper. The staff key is designed to open doors and other staff-restricted locks.

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>41553642
Holy shit kill it with guns!

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>41553642
>Holy shit, fire!

>>41553803
>>41553816
74x2
A 1 in 10,000 chance. Cool.

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>Fire (avg. roll 74 (kek), DC 65)

You flick off the safety and fire four rounds into the creature. Two connect, but it just hisses and jumps on you. The impact knocks the wind out of you and drop your Vp9, but you knife is always at your side and you draw it and wrestle with the cheetah.

>10 health lost, was 32, now 22. You are now WOUNDED
>4 rounds removed


>Punch (1d100 +2)
>Stab (1d100 +3)

Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>41553909
>Stab
Kick it off of us!

Rolled 90 + 3 (1d100 + 3)

>>41553909
>Stab

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>41553909
Stab. Go for a gutting stab.

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>41553909
>Stab (1d100 +3)

Well, we forgot to add the +3. Is that alright ZoneQM?

>>41553909
Get a hand on its head. Grip it bythe skull and eye sockets, keepiny it away. Other hand then stabs at either the neck or between the jawbone

>>41554015
No. You're banned from my Quest forever. Pack your knives. Get out of my kitchen.

>Stab (avg. roll 60, DC 60)

You plunge your knife into the side of the cheetah, which twists violently and jumps back. However, as it does this it claws your face. Mercifully missing your eyes, it rips a chunk out of your nose and slices your cheeks with its claws. You scream in pain and tear out your knife, holding it away by pressing your hand into its eyes. The cheetah bolts off, trampling you as it jumps out the window and up a fire escape.

>Health reduced by 18, 1 from WOUNDED bleedout. Health now 3, was 22. You are now CRITICAL. If you reach 0 Health, you will have to make a Death roll.

Your vision blurs, and the pain in your face and upper torso feels like fire rippling across your skin. Blood gets in your eyes, and your lips feel torn as well. Your nose bleeds freely. You are close to death, and you crawl to your pack.

>Emergency CCE (Craft, Cook, Experiment for newfriends. Compulsory write-in.)

>>41554140

Also, >>41554015 it's okay! i can do math.

I'll need a majority of anons to decide on a course of action for the CCE write-in. Vote for write-ins you like.

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>41554140
Find a room to barricade yourself in. Use one with a minimum of broken windows, and if they are broken they're away from anything something can use to climb in or the broken window is small. Rest, bandage with the medicine and boil some silver leaves. Loot the room as well.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>41554181
Use all of the new medical supplies; and the silver ferns and shit; I guess we have to do our best to patch up here if we are literally "crawling to our pack"

Rolled 87 (1d100)

>>41554140
Holly shit.. Apply generous amounts of bandages, OD on painkillers, get an antibacterial inside and if everything fails take a chance with the suture kit

Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>41554140
Med kit now! First aid ourselves to stop the blood loss.

>>41554140
Eat a red mushroom now

Grind down the spiky plants, pack them onto our wounds with a bandage.

>>41554140
Food in mouth, tarp over self for warmth. Pressure and meds over nose, then if we havent fallen unconcious, start rooting through the medical supplies

>>41554209
>>41554243
>>41554249
>>41554260
>>41554265

All good suggestions. However, I have to ask you to agree on one. If you guys can't in a couple of minutes, I'll pick the one with the most votes. To help you out, the current inventory is this: (TBC because comment too long)

>>41554325

ATRRIBUTES
Str +2
Dex +3

LEARNED
Basic Kay'at Design
Secondary Geography
Secondary Crafting
Secondary Botany
Basic Lockpicking

STAT
Fire Resist 1
Infection Resist 1

INVENTORY 38/50kg
Toolkit (Contains hammer, saw, electric drill, utility knife, wrench)
Knife
Cane root x 1
Spiky Plant leaf x 4
H&K VP9 - 21 9mm rounds (11 per mag)
Figurine
12 x Purple beans
>8x Silver Fern
>3x Purple Beans
>4x Red Mushrooms
>1x Red Fruit
>8x Blue Fruit
Strut x 3
Tarp
Lockpick Kit
>Painkillers x 7
>Bandage x 5
>Suture kit
>Antibacterial Pills x2
Max health 35
Current health 3

>>41554325
Just use everything that makes us better. Any combo of plant-modern medicine works right now. We gotta stop that bleeding and make sure no complications appear. They will but why not be optimistic

>>41554352

Also,

PLANTS:
Red Fruit = Posionous
Spiky Plants = Medicine, edible fruit
Lake Cane = Edible root, strong, VERY USEFUL
Fuzzy Red Fruit = Edible, unpleasant
Purple Beans = Edible, slightly hallucenogenic (Cooking reduces this effect)
Red Mushrooms = Slightly poisonous, but stimulates massive adrenal gland function for a short amount of time
Silver Fern = Can be eaten when boiled, and can be used when crushed to heal cuts and bruises
Blue Fruit = Edible, pleasant

>>41554209
Going with this anon. What if the thing comes back with friends?

>>41554352
Keep head elevated using pack/wall

>>41554394
Cheetas hunts in packs, if this is all that attacks us, it doesn't have friends.

>>41554209

Okay, I'm short on time so I'll go with this one. You crawl out of the staffroom and into the next room, an office, leaving a blood trail along the floor. You bite down on painkillers as you crawl, but you begin to feel faint as you close the door behind you and push a desk to block it. You rifle through your pack and bite down on anything that seems vaugely medical, both drugs and plants. You manage to cover three of your major cuts before passing out but your nose is still bleeding freely, and you fall into feverish uncouciousness.

When you wake it feels like your head is on fire. Your clothes are covered in dried blood, and it's night outside. Thankfully, the bleeding has stopped but you're afraid of moving as it could upset your injuries. (You are now STABLE, and you will eventually recover. Until you complete three long rests, your maximum health will be 10, and all attribute bonuses are temporarily lost.)

You look around the office and notice your bag, its contents strewn across the floor. You reach for your handgun to defend yourself but realise with a jolt that nearly knocks you out again that you've left it in the other room.

>Sleep (Will end the session, as I have to go to a doctor's appointment any minute now, sorry!)
>Retrieve the weapons (And prepare ZoneQm for some fast typing)

>>41554561
Wat?... Seriously? You guys never watch NatGeo?

>>41554588
Take a good rest. No one's gonna steal our shit. RIGHT?

>>41554588
>Retrieve the weapons (And prepare ZoneQm for some fast typing)
We're fucked if we don't have them and something gets us like this. It's only a matter of time before something's knocks on our door.

>>41554588
>Retrieve the weapons
Only if it does not make us bleed out again.

We got two good shots on that cat, it will likely bleed out from those wounds too.

Zone, go to your doc already. If this thread is still here when you get back, continue it. Other wise, start a new thread and save this one.

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>>41554741
Will do man, cheers. I started this thread too early and didn't allow enough time to finish it. Ill try for another weekend session and start at your guys' peak time, which seems to be my 1:30pm.

>TYPEFAST

You brace yourself and stand up. It hurts, and you feel some clotted wounds open on your chest but you stay in more or less one piece. You stagger into the hallway and look down. It's dark, and your vision is still blurry so you can't see much, but you figure that you're doing well if no yellow and black spotted felines have ripped your face in two yet.

You peer around the door of the staffroom and find a strange sight. A yellow haze envelops the room. You step inside, and gasp.

On the floor are the bodies of three cheetahs, including the one that attacked you. They appear to have been literally ripped to pieces, as two are missing limbs. Around them, arranged in a five-pointed circle, are the Kay'at figurines you've seen before. In the centre is the one that you found in the hut with your father's uniform. It must have fallen out of your pack when you wrestled with the cheetah!

This time, you can't discount the mystery of the Kay'at figurines. Every time you've been in danger, or near death, they've been there, in some way. It's like there's something watching and following you, always there when you need it most. You pick up your figurine, leaving the others, and put the gun and knife into your pockets.

You feel safer in the mist, and you lie down on a coach to rest. You doubt that anything else will come in here, and you can spend the night here before returning to the Square. Within minutes you're asleep, and for once you do not dream.


Thanks for running with me today, everyone, sorry I've had to cut it short. I'll put up volume 6 when I get home, and hopefully I'll see some of you this evening. In the meantime, I'll try not to take too long, I realise it's nearing the US night time, and midweek.

Hopefully see you all this evening!

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>>41555009
We bout to look snazzy as fuck

>>41555107
actually I was thinking that maybe some sort of armor would be usefull... considering this is what, the second or 3rd time we get mauled by something?

>>41555158
Yes, we can cobble together make shift armor from things around us. If we can find cars or trucks, we can cut the tires to make armor from them. Sporting goods have good chance to have armor too. Police stations will have flack vests and riot gear. other wise we can wear leather jackets and wear extra layers of cloths in a pinch.

>>41555555
AHHHH check em m8y

>>41555621
It will likely not stop a bullet (other than the Bullet proof vest and riot gear) but will be far better than nothing when we run into more wild animals.

>>41555708
When's the last time we actually saw someone?
>>41555621
Also, checked

>>41555971
It's been a long time. Oh yea. The wild Animals might not be afraid of us, But they will be afraid of fire. A spray can and a pocket lighter can work well during the day or carry a torch with us at night.

Um, someone save this thread.

>>41556121
If we find flares we're set for our short life

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Hey, everyone. Turns out it's stress-related breathing difficulties! Anyway, if there's still interest I'm ready to continue the bread. Is anyone still here?

>>41557484
Yaaaas

>>41557484
I'm here some how.

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>>41557539
>>41557542

Great. What time is it for you guys? Also, how long have you been lurking in the Zone? Have you looked at previous volumes, because its quite plot-intensive.

>bread resume

You wake up. For all the drama of last night, waking up seems like a banal and mundane experience. You sit up on the couch. The three cheetah corpses are still there, but the yellow mist is gone and the figurines have all fallen over. It appears that whatever power they had has been spent, and for now they're just lifeless terracotta miniatures.

Learned:
Secondary Kay'at Design
Basic Firearm Operation
Tertiary Crafting

>Health returns to 10

Removed:
Bandage x 2
Painkillers x 1
Spiky Plant Leaf x 1

You feel capable of performing basic tasks, but you should probably focus on some less dangerous ventures. For example, you notice that your clothes are torn and crusted with blood. The only things still intact are your trusty sweatshirt, still in your bag, and your shoes. You'll need some more pants and a shirt, though. Your food supplies should last you a while, but it never hurts to have more. Also, you could use some other, more modern equipment that could be found around this city. However, though you're keen to improve your inventory, you remember not to put too much strain on your body for the next few days, as you're pretty messed up.

>Return to the Square
>CCE
>Write in

>>41557687
It's 2:17am. I'm too much of a night owl. I'll try to say as long as i can.
>>41557687
>write in
Finish looting this old hospital and exploring it.

It's 7 am here
>>41557687
Cut up the cheetah carcasses. Aquire meat and hide. and explore the hospital more thoroughly

>>41557761
I'm awake for like 3 days straight so if I just stop being here I probably passed out. But I'll try my best

>>41557761
>>41557687
Fuck yes acquire cheetah parts; remember the teeth and claws

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>Skin Cheetah
>Explore

You decide to try and get some meat off these cheetahs. You know how to do it in theory, but when you draw your knife and start cutting through skin and gristle it's very different. You end up only cutting a few kilograms from the flanks of the lean animals, as the smell is making you naseous. (Added: Meat x 4. Tooth x 3)

You exit the staffroom with your gear and draw your gun. Last time it saved your life, so you're keeping it drawn from now on. You move down the corridor through what seems to be an admisistration area, and come to an old elevator chute. To your left and right there are different hallways, both dark but the left corridor seems to let in patchy sunlight, and the elevator shoot only leads down.

>Left
>Right
>Down

>>41557687
Fashion a cheetah loin cloth if only for the sake of modesty

>>41557845
Left for now

>>41557845
left
And please remember to save the thread.

Oh yes, keep the safety on the gun until we need to use it. Don't want to accidentally fire off any shots while we explore.

>>41557845
That reminds me, yes we can eat cheeta meat, but it would likely taste rather gamey. We should eat some of it fresh while we can, and then we get to a safe enough place to do so, make a camp fire that we can dry out and smoke the rest so we can turn it into jerky so the meat can keep. One the meat is directly over the heat and smoke, it will take hours or over night to cure like that.

>>41558068
We could stand to rest while the meat smokes as well

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Hey, I don't know if everyone had it or if it just me, but 4chan just crashed for about an hour so I'll wrap up the thread here. I'll put it up again at my 1:30pm NZT, which is exactly 18 hours from now. Hopefully I see you all there, and thanks for playing!

>>41558706
I had problems posting last night, so I packed it in.So it might be better to use this point to start a new thread with a good rest and cheetah jerky.