[PLOT] That's no ordinary rabbit

[northrend]

Date & Time: All day Friday, December 14th and onward.
Location: Initiate Hold
Characters: All
Summary: The plague has taken hold and there are rampant, angry undead critters running around! Better get rid of them quick, before you attract the Scourge Horde.
Warnings: Undead attacks, localized around cute woodland critters.

[The death tolls of all the woodland animals had come around the same time. Some lasted longer than others, but for the most part, it appeared that most of the sickly animals had passed sometime in the middle of the night. The next morning, transports would awaken to find their furry friends looking...well, less than furry. Their eyes glow a sickly yellow, patches of fur fall off their body, and they continuously cry for help.

Help from whom? You?

Or the group of rampaging ghouls charging toward you?]


[ooc: Original plot post is here!. If you would like me to NPC ghoul attacks in your thread, please mark your subject line with three asterisks. (***) Otherwise, feel free to do it amongst yourselves! Please note that I won't be able to NPC threads until tomorrow afternoon.]

Comments

[strategic_guile]

"There are noise suppressors." Or you could just be so far away it doesn't matter if someone hears it. The person is dead and anyone nearby has no idea what happened. "Most guns aren't for sneaking around."

Blaine gave a slight shrug of one shoulder. "Explosives take care of some of those. Armor piercing bullets are another. We don't have force fields quite like these, so other than cutting it off from its power source I can't say much about it. I do understand having no idea what to expect. This is in my future as well, but when we go into the past it's a totally different thing as well. I guess I'm just better equipped to deal with changes like that, since the technology isn't so far off for me. It's at least familiar in some way."

[ofthegrey]

"How well do they work?" He found it hard to imagine anything could get one of those things completely silent. He nodded. They weren't for sneaking around, which made them less useful to him than they might be to others.

"Yes. Precisely, and it is so for many who are here it seems." He didn't particularly sound resentful. It was just one more puzzle piece to work out. He finished with his dagger and shoved it back into its sheath. Only then did he attempt to clean more of the gore from the rest of him, and that was a more cursory wiping.

[strategic_guile]

"Pretty well. Especially on smaller calibers." He had a few at home that were specially made, but for his .45 and .38 there was definitely more to be desired on the noise reduction part. "I may see what they have in stock here. It's the future, so maybe it's even better than at home."

Blaine started loading the magazines up with bullets as he sat there. Most were full because he had found a safe-ish spot to stop and reload, but he'd gone through two after finding Duncan. The longer he sat the more he thought better of going back out there. If he was going to do more clean up, it would be on the other side of a scope. His rifle was upstairs, so either way he was going to have to go back to his room. "You can always ask me questions. Lord knows I pepper you with plenty of them."

[ofthegrey]

"I'll look into that when I become comfortable enough to carry one more regularly." He thought that for him it made more sense than a bow. He had never been particularly good with them. In close fighting was easier.

"I appreciate the offer. When we're not up to our necks in undead, I'll probably take you up on it." He was getting antsy again. There were still people he knew unaccounted for, and he wanted to find them.

"I believe I'm heading back out again," he said, tossing the soiled towels aside in a hamper.

[strategic_guile]

There's a slight grin. "A double threat. Or is it triple?" Blaine didn't know all of what Duncan could do. That was something he was going to have to fix later on. "We always seem to be ass deep in something whenever we talk."

Blaine lifted his chin. "Be safe. I'm in for the night." He still had his issues with darkness and closed-in spaces and he wasn't going to risk it.

[ofthegrey]

"Whatever I need to be," he said. Expanding his battle repertoire could only help. "This is true. I've used most of my down time to learn the layout of the city and some of the ruins beyond."

He nodded. "You as well." He didn't linger, never one for good-byes or see you laters when that wasn't a given.