TAKSHAKA

[soulping]

[ The Traveler appears before you as you board your train, which appears to be a team-themed, sparse, and incredibly modern, like the inside of a commuter train. ]

Today's dream is the dream of a conductor, who, despite the worst befalling his world, endeavoured to make sure his train still ran on time. Death ravaged the land, the bloodied bodies of the fallen rising to claim the living as their prey. Decisions had to be made. He had rivals.

Did he save poor lost souls that were not on his schedule? Did he utterly crush his enemies, to assure supremacy and secure his own life? It doesn't matter. He died, in the end, along with his world.

And so to, shall you. Do you wish to attempt to avert the course of history? The story of the Undead Assault Upon The Locomotive Enthusiasts of The Year Two Thousand and Twelve is now yours, and yours alone.

Buckle up.

[ ALSO THIS BULLSHIT IS NOW BLARING OVER THE INTERCOMS ]

Comments

[soulping]

The object of this game is to either keep as much of your team alive as possible or rescue the most passengers!

- Every round, you will have to make a choice or perform a task in order to save a given amount of passengers from DEADLY ZOMBIES.
- You might get infected, depending on choices! If this happens, you will die two rounds later, but may choose a team to attack when you rise from the dead, either infecting one of their members, or killing some of their passengers.
- You have one penny! You may use this at any time to derail one of the other teams trains, resulting in them gaining no passengers for the next round, and having to sacrifice either one of their teammates or give up half of their passengers.
- Most passengers and least deaths wins!

ROUND 1

[soulping]

[ chugga chugga chugga

First stop is fairly uneventful! The horde has not yet caught up to you but...it's approaching. Fast. You can save up to 20 passengers, but only if you risk the horde reaching you! Saving at least ten carries absolutely no risks, but any more than that will increase the chances you are attacked. ]

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSSION

[pchaaair]

Um.

We should save all of the passengers.

Re: DISCUSSION

[experiencepoints]

[Once she hears the rules, sitting down in the comfiest train chair she can find and thinking.]

We save ten this round.

TURN-IN

[soulping]

Re: TURN-IN

[experiencepoints]

Save 20 (with provision of running away abandoning whoever's left if the zombies get too close if that's possible, if not then 20.)

ROUND 2

[soulping]

[ There is a family of five, a mother, father, two small children, and a baby running alongside your train, crying for help! You could break to stop for them...

But then you'd be off-schedule, and that horde is still chasing you. There's not even a gaurantee you'd be able to stop the train and get them on in time. ]

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSSION

[pchaaair]

We're going to get them.

[probably the most forceful he's ever said anything?]

Re: DISCUSSION

[barrette]

Could we pull them in through the windows? Or open the doors and pull them on without stopping?

Re: DISCUSSION

[experiencepoints]

... If they're keeping up with the train, why don't we just open the doors without slowing down to bring them in?

TURN-IN

[soulping]

Re: TURN-IN

[barrette]

Attempting to rescue them all without stopping, with Sparrow and Wren throwing out a caperope to try and help them get to the door. If that's even possible.

ROUND 3

[soulping]

[ At your second stop, there are fifteen passengers! This choice is much the same as the first one, except there are two groups that demand you let them on.

One is the military, who can surely supply you with medical supplies and possibly weapons who want on because they are clearly the only ones who can fight this menace, and the other is just a group of ordinary civilians who are trying to survive. ]

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSSION

[pchaaair]

All of them. Somehow.

TURN-IN

[soulping]

ROUND 4

[soulping]

[ You pass through a crowd of zombies. Because you were off-schedule, everyone has died, here. There's not much to do but tend to any wounded you may have and relax that at least now you don't have to make a choice.

Swan is missing an arm.

Sparrow is infected. Horrible pain wracks her body, and her hair begins to fall out.

Wren is infected. His limbs begin to blacken and shrivel. ]

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

TURN-IN

[soulping]

DERAILED

[soulping]

[ Fortunately, you made it back away from the horde before this happened.

Unfortunately, all of a sudden, your train has gone OFF THE RAILS. There's a sudden jarring as you're all slammed and thrown around, until you come to a grinding halt just shy of the tracks.

The family is crushed beneath your locomotive.

Fortunately, you feel like you can just push the train back into place! But...it'd take one of your team, or half of your passengers.

The bandages applied to Sparrow have cured her infection. You have one use of bandages left.

Swan is missing an arm.

Wren is infected. ]

FINAL ROUND

[soulping]

[ Your train grinds to a stop. It's the end of the line. Did you really think you could run forever?

Here's your final choice: get together all of your teammates and passengers, and decides who stays to fight and die, and who escapes this night alive. ]

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

TURN-IN

[soulping]