Bait and explosives would go a long way, but complete extermination isn't usually possible.

any area with a walmart has the means to kill a massive number of zombies. Ever seen the explosion of a 5 gallon tank of propane?

I think the point I'm making is you have a solider drive out in a jeep. How much ammo is it reasonable for him to take? 10 Clips, 25?

How many does massive mean here? 20? And if it would kill 100 people then we'd be very lucky to destroy a tenth of that in zoms. They don't feel pain, they have lethal soak, and fire doesn't do aggravated damage.

About the only way I could see "massive" numbers of the undead being killed is via a dead fall. Say you set up a 10 story drop on to pavement where the front row members get pushed off by the next row. Say you lead a hoard to a broken bridge and somehow get to the other side of the gap.

sanitizing a large area is impossible
sanitizing something like a base is doable, though it would not be easy

True, but the military is going to have plenty of bullets to wipe out a population, plus gunstores also have the supplies needed for reloading and making your own bullets. One this is for sure, given our situation we would definitely be saving our spent casings whenever possible for reloading.

Carrying that amount of ammo is not feasible though. If we set out to sanitize an area we could do it. I don't have any doubt of that, but it wouldn't be a quick or easy task. The way I think of it is that when we go out on a normal mission we tend to thin the zom population a bit around our specific objectives.

Ch 1 thread looks like it's at a good stopping point. Feel free to post Ch 2 whenever you want Alex.

Question: Can Empathic Manip be used to locate people? It's range is extensive, 20m x (Q+D) or twice that with a +2 Diff... and zombies don't have emotions.

Joani and I have been looking for other reasons to bring V along.

I would say yes, but it is really Alex's call.

I was just going through my stuff again and realized that V already used Emp. Manip. as means of locating people. The book does not state that a line of sight is necessary, which would be reasonable since Emp. Manip. can also be used to stir up emotions of a crowd and you don't have to see every single one in the crowd to affect them all, they just need to be within range.

V would be of some use then and would volunteer to join you guys - that'll give me the chance to participate more in the main thread. I hope there are no objections?

Even if it can't be used for actual pin-point "location" just knowing some unknown person is around here and feeling fear/pain/whatever would be pretty important in a world where humans are rare and zombies don't register.

It might even be possible to do this without spending juice. Most of the "detection" effects of the suite powers don't require juice. I.e. Magnetic manip, Temporal Manip (and I'd suggest house ruling in Elemental Mastery/Anima to those).

On the other hand Telepathy requires juice... but telepathy is also using an insane range too. The Suite detection powers have a range that matches Emotion Manip.

Empathic Manipulation is not a 'tracking power'; that's not what it's for. But I don't think sensing the emotions of those you can't find is out of line. So, you know somebody's in the area, but you don't know where exactly.

I'm going to hold off posting in the main thread until Alex updates. OOC I'm halfway expecting someone to start shooting at us, but James has no military experience and isn't.

Yeah, ditto. I'm waiting for something to establish itself as an antagonist before I introduce Preston. I'm not a fan of the idea of being dubbed antagonist myself. that would be bad.

What Powers does Preston have Hyo?

I am currently catching up on the reading of the game (since I stopped reading when I decided not to play). When I have caught up I will hopefully be able to bring in a new character. I was unsatisfied with the execution of Black Tom even though I like the idea of it. So far excellent storytelling and characters all around....

Hello guys and gals,

I had an idea I'd like to propose but I wanted to check with you and Alex first. I was thinking about adding an own thread which would be labeled "Violet's Nightclub" - there I could describe how the club looks like and what you can expect to get there and what not.

On top of that the thread could be used for sidetracking stories during downtime or a timejump (i.e. like meetings of two characters or when we get some time for personal leisure in between days - you know hang out at the bar and stuff)

Any objections, ideas? Bueller?

I like it. The only concern is if we go through a Stargate we might never get back to the base.

But for this Chapter at least that seems unlikely.

I'm almost afraid to ask how many style dice Rhonda has.

I got a PM from Priest - App - 5, Style - 3 and Sexy Merit

We have a new #2 then. That's one more than JoAnna.

hence Violets reaction ;p

Power wise, he's a teleporter w/ mega-perception, wits, dex. His thing is that he's got a reputation

I wonder how she'd feel about joining a harem?

Bump.

bounce

I was wondering if Alex is still around - does anyone know his aliases on the site?

He popped into chat a few days back and said he was really busy. He was scheduled to come back around Saturday. He's just kinda missing now.

The Zombies Got 'Im!!!

Damn zombies! Will the tragedy never end!?!

He shall be avenged....

Small RL-Update - I'm going to move to a new appartment on Sat. 17th. My online presence will be greatly reduced from today till then since I got several things to do in preparation for the move.

I try to be around at least once a day before I go to bed and keep myself updated. But posting will be scarce/just once per day probably. After the weekend I hope to resume my usual online presence on the boards. Thank you for your patience.

Just curious, but is Alex unavailable again? Haven't had an update in a couple weeks.

I PM'ed him and got a response.

Any new mature posts in the subforum, let's put an OOC title of mature at the beginning of, then some blank lines, so as not to shock the wigs off old ladies interested in some innocent zombie fun. Thanks.

oh, I thought we already did that?

Thank you Alex

My apologizes Alex. You updated without me seeing that you'd done so. Hate it when that happens.

Ahh. No problemo.

It's just a little bit discouraging when the smutty side-story gets more posts than the main storyline. What's wrong, people? Post. You need more details or what?

yeah. Morgan is pretty much flying a circle around the group because he doesn't have details as to other possible threats or anything.

I really am not sure what I'm supposed to post. I need for the peripheral action to wind up before my extended action is completed.