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Paul H
United Kingdom
Bristol
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Hi All,
I did a D20 Modern Zombie one-off a few years back and wrote up the session report in a way that entertained myself (but probably no-one else). The system was core D20 Modern with a few house rules (critical hits let you "add flavour or do cool things" and so for critical fumbles).
This session report is being saved here before I install Windows 7 and probably lose all my documents (I would back them up but they aren't that important).
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Cast:-
Brian (The ex-military tough) - PC
Johnny (The geeky weak type) - PC
Cherry (The fat dumpy one) - PC
Steve (A friendly all round nice guy) - NPC
Introduction:-
Brian and Johnny are brothers with a great sister (Vanessa), The five of them (Brian, Johnny, Cherry, Steve (Vanessa's Boyfriend) and Vanessa) have met up every Friday for ever, to have drinks and general merriment. Until 2 months ago, Vanessa took a job transfer to Zimbabwe, since then she still phoned each of the duo of duo's every week and life was okay. Until 2 weeks ago! no contact?, same last week, everyone has tried emails/phone/fax/snail mail etc etc but no response.
Yesterday one of Brian's old school military contacts passes him some info "Get her out, get her out now!!, the place is going to be cleansed".
So we start on a plane to Zimbabwe one hour from landing.
Scenario Start:-
Steve is asleep in a chair being a pleasant nice chap, Cherry is looking at Steve with lustful eyes, Brian is thinking about blowing things up and looking at the local Zimbabwean chickens in the cage next to him, Johnny is talking to the German stewardess and is trying to extract important local information from the generic character and just getting general bumph.
The fantastic four sit back, relax and enjoy the rest of the flight, a uneventful landing in Gweru (about 100 miles up river from the groups destination point)
The landing is in a uneventful small airport, dusty and not commercialized, Brian picks up his "stuff" which (thanks to his contacts) he had arranged to be dropped at the location with them.
The League of Extraordinary gentlemen decide a boat is the best way to save the world, and so walk 100 yards down towards the river start, where a wooden port is constructed by a local town with stereotypical cannon fodder locals, milling around. Several boat sheds are spotted, as are a few fishing boats tied to the pier. No one seams particular interested in the outsiders and so Brian nips around a few sheds and spots one containing a speed boat (Old, a bit battered but still a speed boat). Brian hot wires the boat and the red hand gang jump in, just at the time a few locals seam to be taking a passing interest in the band of suspicious humanoids.
Vrooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, splaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaashhhhhhhhhh, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, the boat zooms along the calm river beds spurting out water and noise as they go, alerting all the hidden guards along the embankment to their presence.
Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmm, after a few hours the famous five (-1) reach a point in the river where the sides start to ascend and looking down the way grow up into cliffs on either side of the river bank, this is the spot to stop and is close to their hit point. Johnny and Brian tie up the boat and remove key items to prevent it being acquired by other adventuring parties.
The rebel alliance climb the embankment with Brian as point, until eventually Brian stops the group, the start of a valley is in front of them and on moving closer and seeing into the valley, a 2 story building is located in the valley, with a 20 seater car park and a high wire fence around it, no life can be spotted from here.
Brian whips out his trusty climbing gear, picks a mostly covered alcove and absails down the valley edge, on reaching the bottom Brian notices that this is a no go direction, a 30ft electrified fence is now looming down on him. Brian scales back up the rope and discusses tactics with the rest of Blake's seven (-3).
Steve volunteers to help (as he's a real nice guy and everyone loves him (especially Cherry)) and so Brian and Steve decided to walk down parallel to the construction to a point 100 yards down the road from the entrance to the compound.
Brian and Steve wait at this point, time passes, Steve informs Brian "How great he is, and how he is grateful for Brian's friendship". more time passes...
Darkness is approaching and so Brian and Steve skip up to the other party members, a discussion starts while Steve brushes down everyone and makes sure everyone is happy and comfortable (Steve is such a great guy, a real plus to society)
A walk in via the main entrance to the car park is decided as the best strategy and so back down the embankment and around the valley inner rim the group wander, being not very silent or very stealth (except for Steve who is great and loved by everyone), the group come up to a security entry box (unoccupied) and Brian motions for the group to halt while he checks out the carpark. The group notice a loan solitary figure some 100 yards away stood by an old cavalier, she seams to be just stood there swaying every so slightly.
Brian in his paranoid ex-military persona lunges to the floor and shimmy's across the carpark ground, weaving in and out of vehicles and being "oh so quiet", he closes in on the helpless non aggressive peaceful figure and then LEAPS up grabbing the poor scared female roughly round the neck!.
A struggle ensues and the poor helpless female turns to face her attacker, Brian gets a bit of a shock as she is a bit "mank", he notices a funny odour and the fact she has a hole in her face and some skin hanging off her arm, plus what looks like her small intestines hanging out from her abdomen, she isn't happy about being propositioned by a stranger in this manner and so is about to ask politely to be left alone, when Steve viciously and unprovoked smashes her skull in with his swift kung foo action..
The innocent (slightly manky) female drops to the floor and the 3 bystanders approach, Brian warns them of the bad make-up job on her but still Johnny gets a bit queasy.
Cherry pipes up that she looks a bit odd and why is bits of her body missing, Steve explains maybe it's just sun burn or maybe she was born with a slight disfigurement, Johnny and Brian mention "Zombies", everyone laughs as we all know Zombies only exist in movies and not in the real world!!, while the group is giggling they examine the females lifeless body and retrieve an identity security card.
Anyway, after Cherry calms her self down and stops moaning about flesh eating diseases etc etc (She's probably got her period) the group approach the main entrance to be met by closed double glass doors, Brian's inspection reveal these aren't typical Ikea glass doors and a slight tap on them isn't going to make them open, Johnny feels this is the opportunity to prove he isn't just a weakling geek and so whips out his trusty ultralight laptop, hooks up a unidirectionally xon/xoff RJ45 crossover/under cable to the entry panel and subsequently does not much else, Johnny sulks a bit in the corner as he contemplates why he played "Doom (tm)" to much, instead of learning to hack secure military installations.
Cherry pipes up and remembers she noticed a 3 foot metal box protruding from the roof of this building, could it possibly be a very badly designed, not possible, not correct, air conditioning inlet/outlet?
Brian whips out his trusting climbing gear and scales the front of the building, he gently helps the others up and while Steve is the last one coming up, teases and pretends to drop the rope a few times, Steve is scared and worried about this as he's always been nothing but pleasant to "Big Bully Brian".
Anyway to the groups amazement (especially Johnny's) there is indeed a metal 3 foot square venting box on top the building which goes straight in, what a god damn stupid and incorrect design of air conditioning!, the architect must have been drunk!. Anyway Brian drops in a chemical light and descends into a small cool room, the rest of the group following in behind Brian's lead.
The justice league enter the building and promptly rip through the admin floor, pulling out files, smashing open drawers and putting bits of duct tape randomly on the walls. Johnny spends a small time examining the documentation which is mainly about delivery of stationary products and he thinks its all encoded in some manner but he would need hours and some high powered analysis software to crack the code (if the documentation even is encoded).
So the group scope out the top floor and eventually come to a lift and staircase down, Brian wedges the lift door open and the group scout downstairs to find not much else of interest. Brian does bring a few chairs and a desk over to the front door (which has no visible means of opening) for his "quick escape plan". The group see these floors as superfluous to their goal and examine the lift, they notice it has buttons "2", "1" and then five blank ones, Johnny examines the panel and buttons in more detail and determines the third button down (directly below "1") is the most used and hence they prepare themselves and press the button, nothing happens, Johnny swipes the earlier found ID card and presses the button and down into the depths of hell the tasty fleshy humans go.
The lift doors open into a very brightly lit large white washed research lab, from their vantage point the group can see 6 or so very large cylinders and various desks, research equipment etc scattered around in a non-uniform manner. Also the group notice movement down the far end of the room.
The group gasp and prepare to become dinner as 9 slow moving, moaning, decaying bodies shuffle towards the tasty morsels.
Combat ensues, Brian,Cherry and Steve pick a few of the ramblers off while they still keep closing, seamanly impervious to the huge chunks of flesh that are shoot out from the groups armaments. The remain 5 or so zombies are very close and while Johnny is examining the documentation and chemicals he determines he hasn't really got time to do much now and so promptly jumps into a corner and throws up, Cherry shoots a zombie, the bullet misses and ricochets off one of the cylinders, she then runs over to check on vomiting Johnny while Brian and Steve carry on the "shooting fish in a barrel" exercise.
Brian decides the zombies are closing in to much and retreats over to Johnny and Cherry with friendly helpful nice guy Steve following.
Cherry panics a bit and accidentally fumbles her gun shooting Steve in the back!!!, this distracts Steve some (funny that) and he fumbles his gun accidentally shooting Brian clean in the lower back also!, Steve apologizes and ensures Brian his insurance will cover it and he's really sorry and will be in Brian's life long debt for this terrible "ACCIDENT".
The group are feeling a bit vulnerable as the shambling molds still approach in various states of decay and with semi functioning limbs, Johnny decides enough is enough, wipes the mashed carrot from around his lips, kisses Cherry and runs back to the lift, the group start to make a strategic withdraw. Steve, the last one to start retreating, who is busy holding the horde off and is busy protecting the group from certain death gets a bit of a shock, as Brian "The Bastard" raises his Desert Eagle and promptly shoots Steve's head clean in half!!!. Steve's lifeless body drops to the floor in a pool of blood, Cherry screams "Noooooooooo, Steve I love you!!", but situations are desperate and the group retreat back to the lift and promptly up to the 1st floor.
Calmness enters and all seam to forget that Brian has just shot and killed lovely friendly nice guy Steve in the head leaving his dieing breathes to be taken by man eating zombies, while everyone forgets this fact Johnny and Cherry manage to remove the small non lethal hardly any damage bullet from Brian's side and patch him up as best they can.
The group contemplate their actions and decide to venture into the lions den once again, they descend, the lift doors open and see Steve's half a head body come lunging towards them!, Brian prompt takes out the other half of his head while Johnny creeps round and picks up Steve's gun, the group have a good laugh picking off the innocent, just trying to get out, decaying corpses. After the room is clear the group check the area to find 2 locked doors on either side and without much more exploration decide to descend, via the lift, to lower depths. Brian check's Steve body and finds a key and unspecified security card, the group enter the lift and swipe Steve's card while pressing the lowest button and by pure luck the lift door closes and descends.
The doors open into what appears to be a underground train station platform, an essential and key plot point door is located to the groups right, which they promptly ignore and jump down onto the tracks.
The group calculate their bearings and estimate that going right down the track will lead towards the river and so break out a new chemical light and gallivant down the tracks, holding hands and singing songs of joy.
After an hour or so the group stop and spot something a tad odd in the distance!, A giant rat (6ft long) is bounding towards them (in a friendly, throw me a stick, dog sort of way), the group are not animal friendly and so promptly whip out there huge shinny weapons and take pot shots at the friendly animal, the animal takes a few puncture wounds and closes on Brian with puppy eyes, the friendly bullet filled animal attempts to lick old Brian's arm in an act of kindness, Cherry sees this as threaten behavior and promptly jumps forward, sticks her Pistol in the animals mouth and blows his good damn head off!!.
The group laugh at the chaos and unjust carnage they are causing but head on down the dark underground tracks.
After about another hour the end of the track is reached at a similarly unimportant platform with a lift door.
Brian tries to force the doors and manages to open the shaft seeing the elevator some 3 floors above them, Johnny promptly does his magic and jury rigs the panel to bring the elevator down.
The group enter into the elevator of death and promptly press the top of only 2 buttons, ascending to reveal a platform leading out into the open air, contained within a cave entrance above the river.
The platform is slightly rusty and has seen better days, but five very large humming apparatii can be seen sitting in the river, assumedly providing some sort of hydroelectric power for the zombie death pit.
The group scout the area for not much information except for an old rust door leading back towards the 18-30 zombie holiday camp, The door is opened (from a key Steve had (what a spooky coincidence)) and a dusty dry corridor lunges out in the distance.
The group crack another chemical light and take the long journey back to do their mission (Rescue Vanessa, remember!!), a 2 hour non eventful walk (GM something was going to happen but for time sakes was lifted)
The group reach a similar old rusty door and promptly open it to find themselves at presumably the other end of the white gleaming research lab, but at this end 2 more helpless rambling beings can be seen, as can a 10ft humanoid covered in bandages, The humanoid starts to speak "Help me, I've been hurt" but non of the group hear this and promptly pull out there old trusties and open fire!, The 10ft friendly dives at Brian trying to escape the ricocheting bullets but Brian steps out the way leaving the 10ft friendly sprayed across the floor in a very unflattering manner, before the 10ft friendly can say "Help me please, I'm a good guy" Cherry decides she doesn't need this Molotov cocktail any more and promptly aims it at the 10ft friendly, just missing but the resulting splash of flames catching the leg of the poor friendly who is now screaming in pain "Why!?, Why!? do you do this too me, help me please, I'm unarmed and prone".
The group laugh and snigger at the begging 10ft innocent and promptly fill him full of holes before picking off the other nice friendly innocents in the distance.
The group manage to open a door to the side and enter a similar large whitewashed room, but this one containing 6 or so large 20ft metal containers each with individual doors and steps leading to them. On closer inspection these containers are very heavy duty and are to keep something nasty in or possible something nasty out, the group feel they need XP and want to find some big nasties to hurt and so promptly manage to bypass the security on the first door, guns ready, eyes squinting they see......
Vanessa!!!, The group rejoice as Vanessa explains she locked herself in her for safety when the research went terribly wrong, Vanessa asks where her soon to be husband and father of her unborn child is, i.e. Steve. The group look sheepish and say they'll explain later.
The group circumvent the rooms and into the lift, ascend back to the 1st floor thinking their journeys are over, the double glass doors are promptly sent a large desk, curtsy of Brian, glass shatters and the group step up to the opening, ...Ping... a bullet whizzes past the groups head and a situation arises.
3 Military attired personal can be seen positioned at the carpark entrance, Brian swiftly jumps forward, unpins a grenade and throws it at the most heavily armored intruder, blowing the ranger and 5 foot of ground into particles of blood/guts and mud.
Vanessa and Johnny advance, taking a few shots at the military, Cherry decides the odds are too much in their favor and promptly shots Vanessa in the left leg while shouting "Die you cow, just because your breasts are bigger than mine, doesn't mean I can't shoot you". Vanessa fulls to the floor holding her aching stump of a leg.
Brian/Johnny and Cherry breeze over the military guys and pick them off with little problem (GM sulks).
The group get back to the boat, up to the plane and escape without any more mishap.
A successful ending (or is it!!!?)
Bits missed out..
Brian caved the face in on a zombie
Steve touched Cherry up
Johnny was sick a few more times
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