Event. Close Quarters Part 3: Close the door.

[pinesmods]

The town continues to be overrun by mysterious animals, and without any real means to keep them in check, the police are at their wits end. Authorities are advising everyone to remain indoors while they come up with a plan--unfortunately, those authorities seem pretty clueless. Out of desperation some of the townsfolk are catching on that light helps, but these are normal civilians and they don't stand a chance against invading monsters.

Meanwhile, some progress is being made by the outsiders. Player characters are starting to work on strongholds, and with the creatures getting more aggressive, this is the time to practice that teamwork. Leave questions concerning the event and new information in a comment on the questions thread below, and feel free to use this post to plot OOCly with new developments.

Rick Schoenbrun has a supply run log up in the Town Square and there is a general event log open here as well, available for any scenario players want to use it for.

Current projects:

The Motel. Hank Pym is working on keeping the lights on at the motel, which can provide shelter and a good place to start stockpiling some weapons or get groups together.

Rose Run. The power is still dead at the old prison, but large bonfires are enough to deter attacks, and the solid concrete floors allow for this. Bellamy and Clarke have been doing a lot of outside wandering and this is a potential site if enough light can be brought in.

All-Mart. Tony's working on maintaining power here, hopefully to keep supplies going for a while. Keeping the power on is an ongoing thing that is only so reliable, but it might help for necessities.

On the other hand, going out into darkness at all now will result in an immediate attack. Large packs of the monsters are roaming everywhere, so at least having a flashlight to chase them back is essential. There is no moon and it remains pitch black at all hours with no sign of improvement.

Additional notes:
A few points for the players of specific characters. This information is ICly only available to the noted characters until they decide to share it with others.

Bellamy Blake and Clarke Griffin. Whether they stay or not, their visit to Rose Run reveals a notable increase in the monster population. Even with attacks occurring throughout town, the number of monsters in and around the prison is exceptionally high. More information will be available if characters decide to investigate.

Rick Schoenbrun. Interviews and general rumor circulating as things get worse have kicked up some noteworthy points. The number of monsters does appear to lessen as you get to the edge of town. Attacks around the diner, the police station, and the new housing development to the north by the Wilderness seem less frequent and severe. Perhaps because of the stronger street lights and police force, perhaps not. Chet Horne, a young, local fix-it man, mentions to Rick that it's been one thing after another. First all the trouble with rats nesting in everyone's basements and then the wiring. Now these wild dogs. They can't seem to catch a break.

Carol Danvers. An overhead survey shows that the darkness seems to end a few miles out of town on all sides. Reaching that line isn't possible as it extends beyond town boundaries and for some reason will always seem too far to get to, but it is visible as she nears the edge of the perimeter.

Comments

Questions here!

[pinesmods]

[bellicosely]

So what happens if Bellamy and Clarke do try to investigate where the monsters run off to or where they're coming from?

Because they'd probably think to check that out. For science.

[pinesmods]

If they investigate the area further they will find that the monsters seem to be coming from inside the prison. They will need a lot more light to keep going since the building has no power and gets even darker the more they go in, and the numbers of monsters will get overwhelming. But they can follow the groups back to a far corner of the jail to an old hole in the wall where they seem to be coming in. It will take a lot of firepower to go further, but they will be able to tell it is a tunnel.

Plotting!

[higherfurtherfaster]

Dante is out with Rick, and no doubt about to get into trouble. He's probably going to be out hunting down creatures most of the time, and probably getting in over his head at some point.

Carol is rescuing Soeki (and heading for the lobby of the motel?) and later attempting to help the space kids (without much success, paranoid urchins that they are). She's going to make a recon flight at some point (with Tony?) so she can report back on the darkness, and she'll also drop off a dead creature for Hank to poke at. Generally she'll be out patrolling, trying to help people.

If anyone wants one of my characters somewhere, let me know! I'm open to any suggestions.

[definingfuture]

Since a lot of people seem to be in the motel, maybe they can band together and keep the power going there? Kind of make that a safe haven?

[higherfurtherfaster]

Makes sense to me. They can fortify the lobby and some nearby rooms? Tony and Carol can make resupply flights to the All Mart if needed.

[definingfuture]

Tony is currently working on keeping the All-Mart wired. Most likely it'll be taking attacks, he goes to fix it, and then the power goes out again with more attacks. He's not camping out in the store, so he'll be there on and off just to keep it stable. Meanwhile, anyone want to team up to start a base? :D

He's also going on a recon flight with Carol and potentially helping repair wiring with anyone else who wants him. Ideas and/or takers for plotting a raid or building a light fort?

[exteroception]

depending on how our thread goes he could join the raid?

i assume it'd be helpful to have someone who'd be able to point out where all the monsters are hiding

[definingfuture]

Tony might end up dragging Matt along just because he wants to get to the bottom of things. He recognizes at least that he can't afford to throw away any advantages, so Matt can be radar for them?

The Bellamy & Clarke Show!

[bellicosely]

ALL RIGHT, GANG, who wants to investigate this monster epidemic at Rose Run with a couple of squatters? :'D

As as you might have read, monsters are swarming all over Bellamy and Clarke's house and popping out of a mysterious tunnel, and they're sick of it. X(! That might have something to do with having no electricity and dwindling supplies, herp derp... Because they don't have access to modern light sources besides what they've been able to snatch and grab around town, they know they're in a bad way, so Clarke is going to be making a journal post asking for help shortly.

That's where you guys come in! Jade and I are interested in getting more light in Rose Run and investigating the tunnel, and in the mean time getting the two some place safer like the motel for a while before they're overrun. If you guys want to join forces with a couple of squirrelly space kids, maybe they can plot something out if they're coaxed into joining people at the motel? Or work out a tag team over the journals? We're both flexible, but it'd be A+ if there was a hot shower and some monster ass-kicking involved.

[crowedthedead]

SOEKI WOULD BE IN ON THIS. I mean he's shit for... making lights... but he has candles at least? HALPING.

...If they're coming out of the prison Soeki could help with tracking down a source, I think. If someone else (TONY GET IN HERE) could rig up a night vision camera they could strap it to Soeki's zombie!grue and send it in, have it report back to camp :V (SEE CAROL HE ISN'T JUST CREEPING AROUND WITH CORPSES)

[bellicosely]

Soeki, yessss. I think I can speak for Clarke when I say she could use another Jasper-esque type to adopt, CLEARLY THEY NEED TO DO MORE THINGS TOGETHER.

But what the fuck, dude, why do you have a dead monster. DX I would love Bellamy to catch wind of this zombie!grue so he can think this very thing and give Soeki the mother of all side eyes. WHY IS IT DEAD. WHY IS IT STILL MOVING. THIS IS THE WEIRDEST RECON PLAN I'VE EVER BEEN A PART OF. If we could make this happen, I'd be all for the men being productive and thinking each of them is insane.

[higherfurtherfaster]

Either Carol or Dante would be willing to check out the tunnel. Are the space kids going to go to the motel first, and then get up a posse to head back to Rose Run?

[bellicosely]

Yes, depending on how sending an SOS goes, I think that's the option they'll go with! :3 We're going to have monster attacks chase them out, so regrouping somewhere with some light is a priority.

If there's enough interest, maybe if they want to work together we can throw up a EXPLORE THE SOURCE OF THE GRUES log?

[definingfuture]

Volunteering to join the party late but yes. :V I would like to do things too! Tony could help them with the light issues at least. And thinking they should stay at the motel too.

[crowedthedead]

Tony you wanna help rig up a night vision camera for zombie!grue scouting? I kind of really want to do this because it makes me laugh :'D

[bellicosely]

TONY IS TOTALLY INVITED. Considering how few characters we actually have, hell, we have room on this bus for everyone, AND I'LL SELL MY FIRSTBORN FOR SOME MORE OF THIS CR.

Since they're hopefully headed to the motel, maybe they can talk there? Bellamy is all for tag teaming these fucking monsters. HE'LL EVEN TAKE YOUR HELP, TONY. Sacrifices must be made...

[formicidae]

So I apparently have a tendency to be late to these things. Hank is currently at the. Motel trying to keep things sorted in regards to power and general safety with everyone involved. When he isn't doing generator and other electrical repairs, he will definitely love to examine and study any and all weird shit you bring in.

Rick is, indeed, doing a supply run and it's about to turn hairy. I'd love to have some people assist him and Dante. He'd also like to interview you because he's building profiles on any person of interest in town.

[exteroception]

hank, please keep matt alive and stop him from walking into the dark just because he doesn't need it

[formicidae]

does he need to put a leash on you because he will put a leash on you. or christmas tree lights.

[higherfurtherfaster]

Carol has a slightly crispy critter for you to dissect, Hank.

[formicidae]

Kentucky Fried or original recipe?

[exteroception]

even later but matt is kind of flailing around by himself because he hasn't made that connection with light yet. but i'm thinking of having him attempt a journal post because he actually can tell you what the monsters roughly look like.

and he could be useful by telling you which areas are infested and how many. go super senses

[definingfuture]

Yes, a post would be good. Communication is a plus! One day they'll get Matt a better system. One day.

[formicidae]

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