Had a day there where I didn't do an update, so I'll do a second update today. Plus the last one was a bit short so it hardly counts. Right? Right.
Total at the start of working on this update is one vote spend the rest of the day resting, one vote gather survivors, and one vote to go to the nearest mission and then rest the remainder of the day. I'm going to mash the votes together and do a survivor mission (Which is fairly close in travel time to the nearest mission (Which is food)) and then rest the remainder of the day. I don't know if resting with more time left on the clock gives you more health or not, but at the very least it minimizes your risk of taking MORE damage.
Since no one specified any desire one way or the other on survivors, I'll leave the two old dudes as they are. Though I'll move Arthur to working on the other barricade. Since he got about 60% done on one barricade in one day, seems more efficient to put him on the other since we might be able to finish the partially built one with whoever we rescue. I'll take Rowan on the mission and give him the revolver.
Mission progress so far, taking out a few shamblers with no complications and running inside a house to head toward the objective. But OH GOD A COP ZOMBIE ON THE STREET OUTSIDE. Things escalate when he spots Rowan and starts firing on the house, attracting other zombies who start smashing on the door. Fortunately the cop moves closer to the house and I'm able to pop him in the head with the Beretta from the window, and club the rest of the zombies with the crowbar.
A quick search of all the junk on the lawn turns up a roll of duct tape and a car battery. I head across the street to the walled off park. A jeep and a few army tents are inside. As well as...
OH MY GOD SHE HAS AN M16 (Which uses 5.56 ammo, of which she has 25 of 30 shots in the gun and no extras). No combat skills, but excellent lockpick and sneak and pretty good scout. She's also an aunt of Rowan's!
OH MY GOD SHE'S 7 AND HAS A DRIVER'S LICENSE (Rowan was listed as library card at least) AND APPEARS TO BE MOSTLY USELESS.
A search of the area turns up a gas can and some Granolog bars (10 food)
While running to the exit, I discover Lucia decides she can attack at extremely long range since she has a rifle, and starts firing bursts at zombies minding their own business in a nearby house. Make that 13/30 ammo.
Safe at base! I put the misc junk in the pile, as well as the M16. We've got one box of 25 rounds of 5.56, so firing a burst rifle with so little ammo seems silly.
Lucia Dunsany's story:
"I haven't slept a solid night since Lookout Mountain. Every time I close my eyes, I still see the look on my friend Niobe's face... She was just 18 years old. We'd never seen what could happen when soldiers started dying of the Rot--no one warned us to watch for the ones that tried to walk out of the field hospital. First sign we had of how bad things would get was when our CO got up out of his sick bed, put his uniform back on, and managed to get his hands on a gun.
He killed six people before they put him down, and Niobe was one of them. She died with a hole the size of a grapefruit in her back, shot with the .303 that should have been on our side. Within a week, the civilians were running away or hiding when they saw us coming--so many soldiers had turned that they were terrified of anyone in uniform. We couldn't save anyone. Including ourselves."
Christine Chambers' story:
"Mrs. Stewart was whispering very soft. She said that we had to have a Quiet Mouse Fire Drill, and we would all pretend to be mice. So we got in a line and we all pretended to be Quiet Mice and we tip-toed out to the playground. Then she took us to her big car and said we all had to try to fit inside. It was a Quiet Sardine Fire Drill! So all of us squished into the seats and sat on top of each other and we were real quiet, except for Billy and Monica, and they complained because Jimmy Patterson was sitting on them and he was so fat.
Mrs. Stewart drove to her house and we all went inside to be Hiding Mice. She gave us some cookies and juice. We were real scared. Mrs. Stewart was scared too. She was even more scared when she looked out the window and saw the monsters coming. She told us to go down to the basement and hide, and be very quiet, quiet mice. And then she went outside. I know I wasn't supposed to, but I stayed at the window and saw her waving her arms at them and even jumping up and down. She was shouting "Over here! Over here!" so they would chase her. And then she ran away to make them follow.
That's why the monsters didn't get us. They ate Mrs. Stewart instead."
And as promised, we settle in for a rest. I assign Christine and Lucia to work on the partially finished barricade. Though they have no carpentry skill they may be able to finish it.
Journal entries:
The first barricade was finished, and the second reached 67%
Skill improvements:
Algernon reached 25 in first aid
Arthur reached 17 in carpentry
Christine reached 22 in scout and 34 in sneak
Ben (PC) reached 5 in Beretta, 36 in clubs, 27 in interaction, 4 in scout, 13 in sneak, and 33 in spot
Lucia has reached 2 in M-16 and 30 in scout
Rowan has reached 2 in Colt detective, 37 in interaction, 3 in scout, and 7 in sneak
Morale:
Saving Christine Chambers improves morale by 1
We managed to finish a barricade today, which has lifted everyone's spirits. Morale increases by 1.
Reputation increases by 5
Yep, apparently you get morale for saving kids but not adults.
Our missions for the day. The supplies mission is "Supplies", two survivor missions, and a possible weapons and ammo cache that it says we hope is still there. We're at 32 food consumed a day and have 102 in storage.
What now? I honestly don't remember if supplies missions that say supplies instead of food will give food or misc junk for traps and shit like nails and duct tape. Or weapons. Been at least a year since I last played Fort Zombie. More survivors would probably be useful, but also increases our food concerns. Weapons and ammo also might be nice since the revolver is slowly creeping through the piles of ammo available for it, as is the Beretta even though I've been using it as little as I've dared. Ben's getting quite good at zombie crowbarring.
Also what you want to do with the survivors. Could probably work on barricading the lobby more if so desired, or put Lucia and Christine finishing the barricade and take the old dude with great blades skill and give him the axe. Or just keep Rowan. CODEEEEEEEEEEX!
Also alarming to get another super fast and easy update. Things went suspiciously well.