Bulldrek v3.0

I really like the limitation that you can't post again until the GM and at least one other person have posted: that leads to situations like this, where Will has noticed something, but he can't tell anyone about it until after someone else has taken an action that might be dangerous! I'm definitely interested in trying a game like this.

That's odd. I remember saying that Will thought he could go along the road to where it gets close to the creek and get in the creek from there.

Yeah, mad whack. And there's no edit tag to suggest it was a bad edit. I'll keep my eyes open to the rest of the board and make sure we're not having some obscure problem, but typically anything messed up enough to blast bits of posts would be so bad it'd be readily noticeable elsewhere. Weird.

Anyhow, other players, that seems like the reasonable course, per Will: move along the road to where it gets close to the creek and get into the creekbed there.

Does that seem to be what Jon's doing?

Jon's just moving up along the other side of the road, hopefully getting to a point where he's parallel to the shooter. He hasn't seen a creek or anything like that.

Are you going east or west? If you go west a couple hundred feet, you get to a point where the dry creek bed (or whatever that channel is) comes within 80 feet of the road on the south side.

West, I think. Whichever side the shooter is on. I thought that was west.

I screwed up the first time. He's south east.

You've gotten far enough east that there is a thin line of trees running between you and the shooter's location. He might see you coming if he's looking that way and if you aren't slow and careful but the odds of hitting you from a glimpse is small.

Above is my understand of the scene. Scene is looking south so it's upside down from the top-view maps.

Shooter had been upper left, Will glimpsed him moving across the scene and now he's due west on the far right. Jon has moved along the road to opposite the original position. I believe that everyone else is behind the bus.

Don't forget that you can add to your character's abilities on the fly. No outright super powers are allowed but they don't have to obey the laws science.

3278 wrote:I really like the limitation that you can't post again until the GM and at least one other person have posted: that leads to situations like this, where Will has noticed something, but he can't tell anyone about it until after someone else has taken an action that might be dangerous! I'm definitely interested in trying a game like this.

That said, sometimes, it's just agony!

I don't know where everyone went. Go ahead and post - I've already posted twice since then. I'm gonna start shooting someone every couple of days if things don't pick up.

Just as an aside, my kid brother had to fly out to Italy on an emergency. I doubt he'll be posting for a few days. I'm sure he'd appreciate it if you wouldn't shoot his character.

As long as someone is posting, he's safe...

Here's hoping his Italian emergency resolves satisfactorily. I'll keep an eye out for any lead headed his way.

I really, really like Will.

Same here.
Okay, so I haven't checked this in a couple of days, and now I'm kind of disoriented. Where is Benjamin, and where is the shooter now?

Ben is next to the underside of the bus and the shooter is a ways off in front of the bus. See the pic above - you're where it says passengers and he's where it says Now.

I'm gonna be inconsistent this week: working double shifts, and mind is fried due to low sleep. I just wanted to say this, and I'm going to go to bed now.

Heh heh heh. You said, "boobs."

I'm going to wait wait for Bone and Nice to respond.

How far away is he from us now?

Can Will see what kind of rifle it is? Bolt action? Is he firing from clips, or does is he reloading a single-shot from a bandoleer or something?

He's ~200 feet away, with a bolt action rifle. He's jogging at a good clip and not taking time to aim.

i'l ltry to post IC tomorrow when i'm sober. But the general idea is to wait until effective pisto lrange(50yds or so) and then start shootin. I might tell Ben to shoot too, to draw fire. Who knows?

Ok, I need rolls from Bone and Tiny Deev for returning fire.
1d4-1d4 + 3 for Kelly
1d4 - 1d4 +1 for Ben

3278, I need a roll for Will
1d4-1d4 + 3

1d4-1d4 + 1 → [3,-4,1] = (0)

balls.

[url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3182722/I hate computers[/url]

Is it a nature-y sound, or a grenade-rolling-to-a-stop sound? I can roll my National Geographic photographer, if that would help.

It was like the sound of a large insect trying to speak. Or, perhaps, a person trying to speak the language of an insect.

Nicephorus wrote:A shot rings out and Gary the salesman jerks as a bullet rips through his torso. .

RIPS THROUGH!?

Nicephorus wrote:en pulls Gary out of the way. He sees that the bullet passed through but never went deep

passed clean through his torso, man! How is he the one thats helping me?

I am confused.

It's but a flesh wound, along the surface. You know how tough traveling salesmen are.

Man, here I was thinking he had like, a sucking chestwound.

Alright, I'll just have Ben be a bit of a ninny.

Like you!

Zing!

Yeah, yeah like me.

So, does Benjamin know where we are? He knows quite a bit about travelling, so he might know where to go for a town.

I'm waiting for the contents of the notebook before I do anything significant.

I finally got off my ass and scanned in the journal

You can download it here:
https://slashtmp.iu.edu/files/download? ... 5428EfHf43
password is tangerine

It's a 2 mb zip with 18 jpegs, named journal01 to journal18, best read in order. Some of the pages came out overexposed but hopefully it's readable.

Nice.

Are 2 and 3 supposed to be identical, or are we missing one?

crap, page 3 is missing. That's what happens when I'm rushed but not caffeinated.

Here's the whole thing again with the actual page 3.

https://slashtmp.iu.edu/files/download? ... 4013fuCXWU
password tangerine

Right, we want to look at the map it seems. Should we roll?

Sorry, works been busy - I'll figure out the town name in the journal, which should help. And I'll post some thing in the IC.

If you want to compare the map to landmarks, go ahead and make a roll. You're surrounded by hills though so you can't see super far.

That's going to be Will's next thought. Presuming he's got some experience standing around in unfamiliar places with maps, there's two things he'd do: just walk east until we hit a major thoroughfare, or try to figure out how far west we've come by seeking higher ground and trying to match features to the map. If he were by himself, maybe he'd just walk, but there are other men, and women, and wounded, so...

That said, getting atop the hill only makes sense if you can see from it. Nicephorus, we're kind of sitting in a notch, as I recall, between two peaks. How thick is the foliage on these peaks? Are the trees bare there, too?

Like Will said, we're with three people. Maybe we can 'synergy' that shit?

Tell me what to roll and I will.

Who _does_ have a gun, now? I've lost track.

I've got two, Ben has one, Old lady has one.

I'm gonna be out of town. Taking my laptop, but not sure if wi-fi is likely: Kelly will stay with whatever group doesn't go off scouting.

Sorry, I'm back,

The police badge is from Sanford Maine.

It seems like it's north to the resort, or south to Waterboro, each about as close as the other. The resort's more in the direction we're heading, but the town seems guaranteed to have people, and some means of communication. Will would probably suggest the resort, but that's not because it's a better choice.

Uh-huh, but what do other people think we should do?

Ya'll are back from the Reconnaisaince mission? I'd say go for the town.

3278 wrote:Uh-huh, but what do other people think we should do?

Jon would rather go to the town.

Excellent! Then unless Tiny Deev has an objection, Nicephorus, we're going to town.